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Earlier this month, Responsible Statecraft reported — based on recently obtained documents via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit — that the hawkish DC think tank Foundation for the Defense of Democracies was at the center of an online harassment campaign funded by the State Department that targeted Americans, including journalists, and human rights advocates, because of their opposition to Donald Trump's Middle East policy. Quincy Institute Multimedia Producer Khody Akhavi breaks the story down:

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FIFA 2022

Top image credit: Soccer Football - FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 - Group B - England v Iran - Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar - November 21, 2022 England's Jude Bellingham celebrates scoring their first goal REUTERS/Paul Childs TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY|(Shutterstock/ kovop58)

World Cup shaping up to be proving ground for Trump's Golden Dome

Military Industrial Complex

This summer’s World Cup in the United States could very well be the biggest proving ground for Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” and a showcase for a host of sophisticated new surveillance technologies, including facial recognition — a boon for defense contractors who are jockeying to get a piece of a federal pie that is billions of dollars in the making.

An undertaking akin to multiple Super Bowls in scope, the World Cup will soon draw millions of soccer fans from around the world to the United States. It is only the second time in history that the U.S. has hosted the event.

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European Parliament EU

Top photo credit: Hemicycle during a conference of the group Patriots for Europe (PFE) on the thematic of Iran with the title Dictatorship or Democracy : Iranians Facing Their Destiny in the European Parliament an institution of the European Union in Brussels in Belgium on 1st of July 2025 (Reuters)

EU's far left and right coding obliterated by Iran and Israel votes

The European Parliament Thursday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the “brutal repression against protesters in Iran.”

While the final numbers look impressive — 562 MEPs voted for, 9 against and 57 abstained — scrutiny of voting patterns on individual amendments reveals a more nuanced picture, one of an emerging political realignment across ideological divides not dissimilar to recent developments in the U.S. Congress.

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Gaza UNRWA

Top photo credit: Palestinians at the site of an Israeli airstrike at an United Nations (UNRWA) school in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, on July 15, 2024 (Anes-Mohammed/Shutterstock)

Official US Govt reports contradict Mike Waltz's rants against UNRWA

On a recent podcast, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz leveled incendiary charges against UNRWA — the UN agency which for more than 75 years has provided key social services to registered Palestinian refugees, who now total nearly six million people.

Waltz alleged that UNRWA has been “completely infiltrated by Hamas over the years” and has “radicalized the Palestinian youth through radical educational material and curriculum,” concluding that the agency must be “dismantled.”

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