Drug cartels in Mexico are unleashing violent retribution after the government killed a notorious cartel boss, Nemesio Oseguera, known as El Mencho. The cartels caused violent havoc across Mexico on Sunday after the loss of one of their leaders. Schools across Mexico are shuttered today and most businesses are closed. El Mencho was a powerful drug lord and the leader of the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación. But inside parts of Mexico, his reputation was more layered than the American narrative. In many communities, he functioned as a parallel authority, enforcing order, creating employment pipelines, and during COVID lockdowns, distributing aid when the state failed to show up. The Mexican military launched the operation to eliminate him Sunday, reportedly with U.S. intelligence support. Likely more than support. For years, Washington has armed, trained, and funded Mexican security forces under counter-narcotics partnerships, while American drug demand and U.S.-origin weapons fuel the cartel ecosystem itself. American policy is woven into both sides of this conflict, and now the destabilization phase is unfolding in real time. There are circulating reports that cartel elements are considering retaliation beyond Mexico’s borders. If violence were to extend into the United States, the political consequences would be immediate and profound. Is that the point? Is this the excuse the U.S. has been looking for to launch a military operation in Mexico? The post Cartel Retaliation After El Mencho Killing appeared first on Redacted.

Democrats are claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris “lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza.” That is one of the dumbest things I’ve heard in a while because the Biden administration’s “stance” on Gaza was the same as the Trump administration’s “stance” on Gaza. Namely, full support of Israel. President Trump never said that he would stop Israel from its siege on Gaza. He only said that he wanted it “to end,” which is exactly what the Harris/Walz campaign said. Now the former Vice President says that she “should have spoken publicly about our criticism” of how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu executed the war. Criticism and blank check support are two different things and Americans by now should recognize empty condemnation and campaign rhetoric. She may have wanted to criticize the Prime Minister, but the don’t let the Democrats fool you: they were not going to DO anything about that criticism. The Trump administration is now having to contend with criticism from several Middle Eastern countries after the U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told Tucker Carlson that “it would be fine” if Israel took over pretty much the entire region. Arab and Muslim nations sharply condemned these comments over the weekend. Would a Harris administration have made this gaffe? Probably not but would they actually have stopped Israel from violating the ceasefire, moving settlers into the West Bank, ramping up strikes on Lebanon and Syria? Probably not. The point is, do not fall for one party pretending that they would have been different in their support of Israel’s forever wars. They wouldn’t have. When it comes to foreign wars, they are united. The post The Gaza “Difference” Is Political Theater appeared first on Redacted.

The U.S. is deploying a major buildup of air and sea power in the Middle East, assembling the infrastructure for sustained warfare, not merely preparing for symbolic military strikes. There is now the largest force assembled off the coast of Iran since the invasion of Iraq in 2003. While the U.S. continues to participate in nuclear treaty talks with Iran, President Trump indicated that U.S. forces could rely on allied bases, particularly the U.K.’s Diego Garcia, as key strategic infrastructure if military action becomes necessary. The U.S. continues to make demands that Iran have no nuclear weapons or long-range missiles. This is nonsensical. Given that the nuclear weapons claims make no sense, do the online theories explain this warlust any better? Could this war with Iran really be based on the widespread speculation that both Israel and Iran have political kompromat on President Trump? Online speculation is that if President Trump fails to launch a war on Iran, Israel will release compromising intelligence about President Trump from his associations with Jeffrey Epstein. The speculation also says that if President Trump does launch a war on Iran, Iran will also release this intelligence because apparently, they have it too. The Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei indicated on X that Iran has this intelligence. President Trump is mentioned several times in the Epstein files but always by someone claiming to have been his victim. Did the government follow those leads? Is there more to see? We don’t know yet, but it is entirely possible that a foreign government knows. DropSite news reports that Israel installed and maintained security cameras inside of Jeffrey Epstein’s apartment from 2016 on. Of course Epstein and the President weren’t friends in 2016, according to the official story. But does the presence of these cameras suggest that foreign intelligence has far more materials from the Epstein saga than the U.S. government does. Does that prove geopolitical blackmail is driving war decisions? No. But in an era of incomplete disclosures and eroded institutional trust, the fact that such theories gain traction tells its own story. The post The Epstein War appeared first on Redacted.

Iranian officials say that they have a “clear path to peace” but Vice President JD Vance threw cold water on that optimism. Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi told reporters that there was a “clear path” to a deal with the U.S. and that “good progress” was made over talks in Geneva. U.S. VP Vance sounded less enthusiastic, saying “In some ways it went well. They agreed to meet afterward. But in other ways, it was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through.” Israeli press is reporting that “the indirect talks are likely doomed and that US President Donald Trump and his close advisers seek to strike Iran.” Both U.S. and Iranian officials say that they will meet again, but have not said when. The U.S. continues to insist that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon and that they must submit to United Nations weapons inspections. Iran has done that for years, and the U.S. still pretends that they have a secret nuclear stash, ignoring the reality that Israel has a secret nuclear stash. So what is the deal about? Pretense for war? Who really knows. Meanwhile, the Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei took to X to blast the U.S. for its demands and issue this not-so-veiled threat to sink any destroyers the U.S. sends to attack Iran. He seemed to suggest that he knows more about corruption tied to Epstein inside the U.S. “This island of corruption is only one example. There is much more of this. Just as this was not apparent and then became exposed, there are many other things that will soon come to light,” he said. We’re listening! If our own government can’t show us the truth, we’re willing to take a look at what our so-called enemies have from their intelligence. Show us the cards! The post Peace Progress? appeared first on Redacted.

The U.K.’s National Health Service is preparing to test puberty blockers on children, and it plans to pay them to participate. According to The Telegraph, the NHS will recruit more than 200 minors under 16 into a clinical trial of puberty-suppressing drugs and offer vouchers worth up to £500 for completing study requirements, including cognitive testing and brain scans. These drugs are restricted from routine use after a major independent review questioned the strength of the evidence behind them. The NHS said that it would review puberty blockers after more data was available but now they are apparently doctoring that data. If children are incentivized with money and vouchers to take these harmful drugs, won’t they be more likely to continue using them, therefore skewing data? Also, does this make up for the high risk that comes along with these drugs? The government knows that puberty blockers are associated with chronic headaches, hot flashes, fatigue, reduced bone mineral density, low IQ, infertility, and more. And they still want to pay kids to try it out? I’m starting to think they don’t really want to produce real-world data about puberty blockers. The post Paying Kids to Test Puberty Blockers? appeared first on Redacted.