Coast Guard operations are covered by “excepted” provisions of the federal budget. Service members must continue to perform their duties, even without pay.
Max Blumenthal joins Dialogue Works to expose how the National Endowment for Democracy quietly turned Iran’s June riots into a Pentagon talking point, boasting in open session of deploying 200 covert Starlink terminals and partnering with monarchist networks to inflate the death toll into a pretext for war.
He traces how this “private CIA” infrastructure, combined with crushing U.S. sanctions, trapped Trump into promising “help is on the way,” then green‑lighting a massive carrier buildup that left him effectively subcontracted to Netanyahu and a small clique of Zionist billionaires and fixers like Kushner and Witkoff. From there, Blumenthal walks through the bigger picture: an Iran that has reached near military parity with Israel through indigenous missiles and drones, Pentagon brass quietly warning the war is unwinnable, Arab vassal states jolted by Mike Huckabee’s on‑air Greater Israel fantasies, and a Trump family that now believes it’s at the mercy of the same oligarchic “they” driving the region toward a long,…Open
Mexican officials said 25 members of the National Guard were killed in six separate attacks and at least 73 people died overall, including security forces, suspected cartel members and others.
The department claimed that UCLA failed to act when Jewish professors were assaulted in 2024 while they went to their classes in Royce Hall, and that swastikas were also allegedly graffitied onto buildings.