BN/GER—Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire, with the IPO of his company SpaceX. He is a symbol of how the United States has become an oligarchy, where elections are bought by rich elites and large corporations, and extreme wealth is concentrated in a few hands. Ben Norton explains.

JM—Although I am not aware of any definitive intelligence on force disposition, my sense is that the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked on the USS Tripoli would be assigned to assault Chabahar; the 82nd Airborne would launch from Kuwait, and various special forces units will join with Kurdish allies to launch from Kurdistan.

An attempted seizure of Kharg Island is the stupidest of the three potential objectives, and probably the least likely.

EZ—America’s Richest Ruin: The Fall of Los Angeles | ENDEVR Documentary” is a superb documentary about the reality of Los Angeles, America’s second-largest city after NYC, and it’s shown as being a place where there is enormous spatio-income segregation, and the super-rich are optimistic and the very poor are desperate, and rarely do the two get any real opportunity to intermix.

JE/RS—On May 22, 2021, during the Biden administration, The New York Times reported Ellsberg had released classified documents revealing the Pentagon in 1958 drew up plans to launch a nuclear attack on China amid tensions over the Taiwan Strait. According to the documents, US military leaders supported a first-use nuclear strike even though they believed China’s ally, the Soviet Union, would retaliate and millions of people would perish.

PG—Documental que revive aspectos casi desconocidos de la vida en el GAP y del presidente Salvador Allende. Los relatos van revelando una conexión entre el pasado y el presente. Este documental fue realizado por Fernando Galeas Flores, Productor ejecutivo Isidro García. Roberto Avila Toledo, historiador. Banda sonora original Cristián Orozco, Quilapayún, Escuela de Música Enrique Soro, Esteban Parra, director musical Franco Toro.