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Spoiler: it’s not China. In this episode of Breaking Free of Psyops, I trace North America’s drug crisis from the British Empire’s original opium wars through the CIA’s Air America heroin pipeline, Afghan poppy fields guarded by Western troops, and the Sackler family’s OxyContin empire. We review how Afghan opium production exploded the moment US forces arrived in 2001 and collapsed again the moment the Taliban returned in 2023, a fact the Pentagon’s trillion-dollar budget apparently could not replicate. We also review some of the actual proven players fueling today’s fentanyl crisis: Khalistani organized crime networks in British Columbia, money-laundering…

Marxist streaming personality Hasan Piker expressed frustration at Democrats for failing to sufficiently defend him after he received a subpoena from U.S. federal officials to discuss his recent propaganda trip to Cuba. Piker, an online commentator and the nephew of The Young Turks’s Cenk Uygur, reportedly received a “Request for Information” from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over the weekend. OFAC is reportedly investigating Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and about 40 other American nationals who formed part of the “Nuestra America” convoy, an international gathering of leftist activists and politicians supporting the repressive communist regime in…

Democrats weighing 2028 presidential campaigns are seeking ties with Sen. Elizabeth Warren as she works to shape the party’s next White House primary, according to Axios. Axios reported Monday that Warren, one of the most influential figures in the progressive movement, is being courted publicly and privately by Democrats eyeing 2028 presidential bids, a sign potential candidates are trying to strengthen their standing with the party’s far-left flank. Warren lost her White House bid in 2020, but Axios noted she later played a major role in shaping President Joe Biden’s administration by helping place allies in his administration. Her moves…

Beijing reportedly wants its top tech talent to seek permission before traveling abroad China is restricting overseas travel for leading AI specialists from companies including Alibaba and DeepSeek, as Beijing pushes for greater self-reliance in artificial intelligence, robotics, and semiconductors, Bloomberg has reported.Citing anonymous sources, the outlet claimed on Tuesday that Chinese authorities have begun requiring advanced AI researchers, executives, startup founders, and engineers to obtain approval before traveling abroad.The measures – which Beijing has neither confirmed nor denied – reportedly reflect growing concerns over protecting strategically important technologies. According to Bloomberg’s sources, the government now views top AI talent…

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva started preemptive radiotherapy sessions this week after being diagnosed with early-stage skin cancer in April. President Lula began receiving the first of 15 planned radiotherapy sessions on Monday after doctors removed a basal cell carcinoma from the 80-year-old’s scalp on April 24 in a procedure carried out at the Sírio-Libanês hospital in São Paulo. At the time, Lula’s medical team, led by cardiologist Roberto Kalil, reportedly detailed that the risk of metastasis for the type of cancer found in Lula’s scalp is minimal compared to other forms of skin cancer. The April surgery to remove…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to trigger embattled late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel after blaming him for the “collapse of liberal comedy.” Kennedy shared a satirical thread on social media, describing it as a “Superb dissection of the shocking collapse of liberal comedy.” “This is the best explanation of how we’ve reached the nader [sic] where Late Night host Jimmy Kimmel can say ‘It’s not my job to be funny.’ As this author shows, he was hired as a comedian but he made himself a priest,’” RFK Jr. shared. Instead of addressing or acknowledging this…

When an Ebola-linked flight bound for Detroit got dumped in Montreal, Canada once again showed how reflexive deference to the US still works Know what I’m getting really sick of as a Canadian? Harmful deferentiality towards the US that persists despite all the “elbows up” rhetoric.In the latest example, an Air France fight took off from Paris, heading for Detroit. Do you see anything Canadian in that at all? Canada does!The airline had royally messed up and let a passenger board from the Congo, the current global headquarters of Ebola. American authorities refused to let the plane land in their…

An eight-year-old Israeli boy recently discovered an ancient treasure while visiting the Ramon Crater in the Negev Desert. Dor Wolynitz, who is from Rehovot, was enjoying a family retreat organized by a paratrooper reserve unit when he found a 1,700-year-old Roman statuette fragment, Fox News reported Monday. He told the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) he was searching for things on the ground that he could use for show-and-tell in class and, “Suddenly, I noticed an interesting stone with stripes lying on the ground, and picked it up.” “It seemed like an unusual object to me, so I showed it to Akiva…

The Economic Costs of War Drag Down Consumer Confidence Americans are increasingly gloomy about the U.S. economy. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its index of consumer confidence fell in May. It wasn’t all bad news, however. While views of the present situation fell, the outlook improved slightly. Views of labor market conditions and business conditions six months from now are still pretty dismal, but they improved a bit in May. The year-ahead inflation expectation measure also improved. Last week’s consumer sentiment survey from the University of Michigan delivered a much bleaker picture of consumer views of the economy. Its…

A U.S. Army veteran who owned a President Trump-themed house in Escondido, California, died Sunday after being severely beaten on Wednesday. Sixty-nine-year-old Kerry Sheron was well-known in his neighborhood for the house decorated with American flags and pro-Trump signs, the New York Post reported Monday. The suspect accused of putting Sheron in critical condition was allegedly a Navy veteran identified as 32-year-old Thomas Caleb Butler. Before Sheron’s death, a family friend told the California Post Butler has “severe PTSD,” the outlet reported Thursday. “Butler’s friend even said he ‘liked’ the house, which Butler lived mere blocks away from, and added…