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Award-winning investigative journalist | 13x author (PHARMA, CASE CLOSED, MENGELE, GOD’S BANKERS | Pulitzer finalist | “A merciless pit bull of an investigator"

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Trump posted last night a 10-second AI clip of Kharg Island “being blown to smithereens!!!” Even if AI had existed in 1944, I can’t imagine Churchill or Roosevelt posting CGI of Allied forces flattening the Third Reich. They just did it. War isn’t Call of Duty. Stop the trailer. Execute or don’t.

Trump posted last night a 10-second AI clip of Kharg Island “being blown to smithereens!!!” Even if AI had existed in 1944, I can’t imagine Churchill or Roosevelt posting CGI of Allied forces flattening the Third Reich. They just did it. War isn’t Call of Duty. Stop the trailer. Execute or don’t.

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Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

Iran’s foreign minister just handed America a masterclass in diplomatic sleight of hand. The Iranians aren’t chastened — they’re already three moves ahead. Hezbollah is Tehran’s attack dog. Iran can unleash it on Israel anytime, watch Israel respond, then declare the deal dead — citing an “Israeli violation” they engineered. Israel was not even invited to the negotiating table but they are central to a trip wire that Iran has built and holds exclusively.

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President Trump sold the Iran war as making certain Tehran never got a nuclear weapon. Tonight JD Vance told Fox the top goal is to “keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country”—and ensuring no Iranian nuke is goal #2. The reordering took seconds. The statement is already circulating on international media. The message to Tehran is clear: midterm gas prices now rank first. That is leverage the Iranians did not previously possess in quite such explicit form.

President Trump sold the Iran war as making certain Tehran never got a nuclear weapon. Tonight JD Vance told Fox the top goal is to “keep oil and gas cheap for Americans all over our country”—and ensuring no Iranian nuke is goal #2. The reordering took seconds. The statement is already circulating on international media. The message to Tehran is clear: midterm gas prices now rank first. That is leverage the Iranians did not previously possess in quite such explicit form.

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This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death. In the West, we’re used to protest as performance. In Iran, it can be a death sentence. Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this.

This is what dissent looks like when the stakes are life and death. In the West, we’re used to protest as performance. In Iran, it can be a death sentence. Do not underestimate the courage it takes for an uncovered woman, on camera, to do this.

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Five days from the Wisconsin primary and Bernie Sanders will NOT endorse the DSA’s Francesca Hong for governor. “I don’t think so… she seems very, very nice, but again, this is a race I just am not that familiar with.” One of the most obvious sidesteps you’ll see. Bernie has opinions on everything and routinely backs DSA/far-left candidates in state races. Suddenly with Hong it’s “nice” + “not that familiar.” Watch the full dodge.👇

Five days from the Wisconsin primary and Bernie Sanders will NOT endorse the DSA’s Francesca Hong for governor. “I don’t think so… she seems very, very nice, but again, this is a race I just am not that familiar with.” One of the most obvious sidesteps you’ll see. Bernie has opinions on everything and routinely backs DSA/far-left candidates in state races. Suddenly with Hong it’s “nice” + “not that familiar.” Watch the full dodge.👇

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Mamdani clearly missed Trump’s message: Netanyahu should not be arrested if he visits New York. In this answer to a reporter he’s openly pushing to honor an ICC warrant for “international war crimes” — knowing full well that even attempting it would make him a hero in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine movement. But Netanyahu has some of the world’s best personal armed security. A standoff between his team and NYPD would not end well. Maybe that is what Mamdani wants?

Mamdani clearly missed Trump’s message: Netanyahu should not be arrested if he visits New York. In this answer to a reporter he’s openly pushing to honor an ICC warrant for “international war crimes” — knowing full well that even attempting it would make him a hero in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine movement. But Netanyahu has some of the world’s best personal armed security. A standoff between his team and NYPD would not end well. Maybe that is what Mamdani wants?

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“Not a great look for Israel”? No—it’s not a great look for U.S. policy on jihadists. The mullahs in Tehran must be loving American conservative media & VP Vance complaining more about Israel than Hezbollah or Iran.

“Not a great look for Israel”? No—it’s not a great look for U.S. policy on jihadists. The mullahs in Tehran must be loving American conservative media & VP Vance complaining more about Israel than Hezbollah or Iran.

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Why is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — chair of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus — peddling a false narrative about Cuban healthcare being better than the U.S.? From my research on my book PHARMA, I know what she says is WRONG. But she keeps repeating it and I am sure many progressives believe it. No legacy journalist is calling her out so let me do the job. Most recently, she stood at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 1 — flanked by Reps. Delia Ramírez, Jonathan Jackson, and Ro Khanna, under a banner reading "Demanding an End to the Blockade Against Cuba and International Medical Solidarity" — and told the crowd that Cuba, despite all its difficulties, had done admirable work preventing “maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and cancer,”in her words, "areas in which we in the United States are still struggling to make progress." It wasn't an ad-lib. It was a return engagement. In an April interview after her own delegation trip to Havana, Jayapal said Cuba has "the lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality — sort of the opposite of what the United States has." When the reporter mentioned Cuba's higher life expectancy, she agreed with that too. The Washington Post's editorial board flagged it then as a flawed diagnosis. She said it again in front of National Nurses United two months later. So it's worth actually running the numbers, one at a time. Maternal mortality. The U.S. rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, and it fell further to 17.9 in 2024. Cuba's own Ministry of Public Health reported its maternal mortality rate at 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 and rising to 44.1 in 2025 — better than two-and-a-half times the American rate, and climbing. There is no version of the current data where Cuba is "the opposite" of the U.S. on this metric. It's far worse. Neonatal/infant mortality. Cuba's official infant mortality rate did fall to a low of 4.0 per 1,000 live births in 2018 — a genuinely low number, and one Cuba has kept touting. But two things complicate that figure. First, a peer-reviewed study in Health Policy and Planning found evidence that Cuban physicians have been pressured to reclassify early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths (effectively, miscarriages) to hit government mortality targets — a known method of statistical manipulation, flagged by demographers going back to the 1990s. Corrected for that, researchers put Cuba's real infant mortality rate somewhere between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1,000, not the sub-5 figure the government published. Second, and more damning for Jayapal's live claim: Cuba's own current numbers show infant mortality at 9.9 per 1,000 as of the end of 2025 — up 148% from that 2018 low, and now well above the U.S. rate. Havana's maternity wards are reporting sewage leaks in neonatal units and adolescent pregnancy rates spiking past 20% in some provinces. Whatever Cuba was doing right in 2018, it isn't doing now, and the 2018 number itself was likely inflated by data manipulation to begin with. Cancer. This is the claim with the least data behind it and the most against it. The most recent regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean, using 2022 GLOBOCAN figures, found Cuba has the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in the entire region — 136.6 per 100,000 for men, 91.6 per 100,000 for women — ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. There is no dataset I could find, from PAHO, WHO, or IARC, showing Cuban cancer outcomes outperforming the United States. Cuba's president, Díaz-Canel, touring a Havana maternity hospital the same week Jayapal spoke, said the healthcare system currently can't get lifesaving treatment to more than 100,000 cancer patients, including 1,200 children, due to shortages. That's not a system beating American oncology. That's a system in collapse, by the Cuban government's own telling. The bigger problem with the claim. During my reporting for PHARMA I learned that Cuba's low mortality figures have functioned as propaganda for an authoritarian government for over 30 years — repeated uncritically by public health researchers, NGOs, and now members of Congress, because the story fits a preferred narrative about what a "resource-poor" country can accomplish with universal healthcare. But the country producing those numbers has no free press, no independent statistical audit, and a documented history of reclassifying deaths to hit targets. That's not a minor asterisk. It's the whole ballgame if you're going to hold a press conference built on the premise that Cuba is quietly outperforming America. Does Pramila Jayapal know she is selling a disproven story or does she not care so long as it fits her narrative that a communist universal healthcare system is better than the one in America?

Why is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal — chair of the Democratic Party's Progressive Caucus — peddling a false narrative about Cuban healthcare being better than the U.S.? From my research on my book PHARMA, I know what she says is WRONG. But she keeps repeating it and I am sure many progressives believe it. No legacy journalist is calling her out so let me do the job. Most recently, she stood at a Capitol Hill press conference on July 1 — flanked by Reps. Delia Ramírez, Jonathan Jackson, and Ro Khanna, under a banner reading "Demanding an End to the Blockade Against Cuba and International Medical Solidarity" — and told the crowd that Cuba, despite all its difficulties, had done admirable work preventing “maternal mortality, neonatal mortality, and cancer,”in her words, "areas in which we in the United States are still struggling to make progress." It wasn't an ad-lib. It was a return engagement. In an April interview after her own delegation trip to Havana, Jayapal said Cuba has "the lowest infant mortality, maternal mortality — sort of the opposite of what the United States has." When the reporter mentioned Cuba's higher life expectancy, she agreed with that too. The Washington Post's editorial board flagged it then as a flawed diagnosis. She said it again in front of National Nurses United two months later. So it's worth actually running the numbers, one at a time. Maternal mortality. The U.S. rate was 18.6 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2023, and it fell further to 17.9 in 2024. Cuba's own Ministry of Public Health reported its maternal mortality rate at 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 and rising to 44.1 in 2025 — better than two-and-a-half times the American rate, and climbing. There is no version of the current data where Cuba is "the opposite" of the U.S. on this metric. It's far worse. Neonatal/infant mortality. Cuba's official infant mortality rate did fall to a low of 4.0 per 1,000 live births in 2018 — a genuinely low number, and one Cuba has kept touting. But two things complicate that figure. First, a peer-reviewed study in Health Policy and Planning found evidence that Cuban physicians have been pressured to reclassify early neonatal deaths as late fetal deaths (effectively, miscarriages) to hit government mortality targets — a known method of statistical manipulation, flagged by demographers going back to the 1990s. Corrected for that, researchers put Cuba's real infant mortality rate somewhere between 7.45 and 11.16 per 1,000, not the sub-5 figure the government published. Second, and more damning for Jayapal's live claim: Cuba's own current numbers show infant mortality at 9.9 per 1,000 as of the end of 2025 — up 148% from that 2018 low, and now well above the U.S. rate. Havana's maternity wards are reporting sewage leaks in neonatal units and adolescent pregnancy rates spiking past 20% in some provinces. Whatever Cuba was doing right in 2018, it isn't doing now, and the 2018 number itself was likely inflated by data manipulation to begin with. Cancer. This is the claim with the least data behind it and the most against it. The most recent regional analysis of Latin America and the Caribbean, using 2022 GLOBOCAN figures, found Cuba has the highest age-standardized cancer mortality rate in the entire region — 136.6 per 100,000 for men, 91.6 per 100,000 for women — ahead of Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. There is no dataset I could find, from PAHO, WHO, or IARC, showing Cuban cancer outcomes outperforming the United States. Cuba's president, Díaz-Canel, touring a Havana maternity hospital the same week Jayapal spoke, said the healthcare system currently can't get lifesaving treatment to more than 100,000 cancer patients, including 1,200 children, due to shortages. That's not a system beating American oncology. That's a system in collapse, by the Cuban government's own telling. The bigger problem with the claim. During my reporting for PHARMA I learned that Cuba's low mortality figures have functioned as propaganda for an authoritarian government for over 30 years — repeated uncritically by public health researchers, NGOs, and now members of Congress, because the story fits a preferred narrative about what a "resource-poor" country can accomplish with universal healthcare. But the country producing those numbers has no free press, no independent statistical audit, and a documented history of reclassifying deaths to hit targets. That's not a minor asterisk. It's the whole ballgame if you're going to hold a press conference built on the premise that Cuba is quietly outperforming America. Does Pramila Jayapal know she is selling a disproven story or does she not care so long as it fits her narrative that a communist universal healthcare system is better than the one in America?

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The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. Secretary Kennedy do something

The single fact that most shocked the Oxford Union when I debated there last June was this: Americans are just 5% of the world’s population… …but we pay for 75% of Big Pharma’s entire global profits. That’s why our drug prices are insane. Secretary Kennedy do something

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I think almost everyone agrees that the MOU with Iran is not unconditional surrender. Put aside how you feel about President Trump — that’s not a factual claim, it’s a marketing one. Asked by Axios today why he abandoned his early demand for “unconditional surrender,” he said, “Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender…I think so.” Unconditional surrender looks like Germany and Japan in 1945: occupation, war crimes tribunals, the imposed rebuilding of a democratic society. Iran’s Islamic government is intact. The IRGC is in control. This is Trump’s oldest habit — the successful builder and showman who’s always selling the bigger version of the deal. It served him very well in real estate and reality TV. It doesn’t serve the facts here. Overselling the deal with Iran only sets unrealistic expectations for what will emerge from 60 days of upcoming tough negotiations.

I think almost everyone agrees that the MOU with Iran is not unconditional surrender. Put aside how you feel about President Trump — that’s not a factual claim, it’s a marketing one. Asked by Axios today why he abandoned his early demand for “unconditional surrender,” he said, “Well, it really probably is unconditional surrender…I think so.” Unconditional surrender looks like Germany and Japan in 1945: occupation, war crimes tribunals, the imposed rebuilding of a democratic society. Iran’s Islamic government is intact. The IRGC is in control. This is Trump’s oldest habit — the successful builder and showman who’s always selling the bigger version of the deal. It served him very well in real estate and reality TV. It doesn’t serve the facts here. Overselling the deal with Iran only sets unrealistic expectations for what will emerge from 60 days of upcoming tough negotiations.

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Wow. When I heard Press Sec Karoline Leavitt say that DOGE/OMB had cancelled $50 million in condoms for Gaza, I thought it was just about crazy govt spending. Then I learned in Jerusalem Post that Hamas uses condoms and balloons to make improvised IEDs and flammable aerial bombs

Wow. When I heard Press Sec Karoline Leavitt say that DOGE/OMB had cancelled $50 million in condoms for Gaza, I thought it was just about crazy govt spending. Then I learned in Jerusalem Post that Hamas uses condoms and balloons to make improvised IEDs and flammable aerial bombs

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A possible next Senator from Michigan just compared cutting off children’s sex organs to circumcision, asked Jesse Watters if he was circumcised, and talked about “ding-a-lings” on live TV. In this clip, El-Sayed’s answer on pediatric gender surgery? It’s a private choice between parent, doctor, and kid. The entire interview between Jesse Watters and Abdul El-Sayed was more cable food fight than real debate — both talked over each other, dodges followed a pre-planned script — but a few moments of real substance broke through. El-Sayed defended Sharia law as an expression of his Muslim faith and said restricting it would be no different than restricting Christian canon law — a comparison Watters didn’t push on, though the compatibility of Sharia with Western jurisprudence is exactly the debate worth having. El-Sayed didn’t know the size of the federal budget, notable for someone pushing big-ticket programs like universal healthcare. On reparations, his answer was that “there should be a discussion about it” — a placeholder, not a position. This is a long way from serious political discourse — it’s all gotcha moments now. For El-Sayed’s base, he probably walks away looking like a fighter. That’s the whole game in politics in this era although anyone listening carefully should alarmed that he is capable often of covering his radical politics under the cloak of “affordability.”

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