Debt Rattle June 26 2026
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VIncent van Gogh Quay with Men Unloading Sand Barges 1888 • It’s Official: The Democrat Party Is a Socialist Skinsuit (Stephen Green) • The Democratic
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 26 2026](Covered Krainer-Nima and Iran on yesterday’s comments)
Looking back, did the gold, silver, oil, dollar and Dow market accurately predict the Iran war? Unlikely as that seemed at the time?
“Israel’s Suicidal Rupture with the U.S. CH
Sounds good. Who’s the first to go to Mar a Lago and thank Trump personally for all he’s done?
Not that the war is “won”, NATO Chief claims NATO was the one who conquered Iran ackshully. Yup! Europe did this, with a leeeetle bit of help from the U.S. You know all those bases like 7 countries refused to let us land in? Well ACK-Shully, we ran like 4,000 flights from them so really they DID support us, not deny and essentially attack us, mid-flight. Don’t you see, Silly-Billy?
Doing everything to passively aggressively STOP us is actually HELPING us, now we want our share of the loot.
This is like a week after Trump asked if they were ever going to send a warship to open their own strait, the one we don’t need at all and costs us money, and they all said Hahahaahaha! GFY.
Oh, wait: “Rome Rebukes Rutte: Italy Rejects Claim US Flew Iran War Missions From Its Bases
So they can’t even lie about their lying right.
“Obama-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s EO Requiring Proof of Citizenship To Vote
“There is no evidence in this record of widespread ‘illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error’ within American elections, which the Executive Order purports to safeguard against,” Casper wrote.”In other news, Bank robberies are very rare, so I am forbidding policemen from enforcing laws against armed robbery. Likewise murder; Only the most common murders are now enforced. Yes, that’s not the way things work. Trump is saying “Enforce existing law”, which is not actually the case with all Executive Orders. Obama granted citizenship to all humans worldwide for example.
Today:
“Tucker Carlson dismisses the West’s leaders as interchangeable “employees” with no real power of their own.”This is the problem Krainer has, and a lot of us, from being old and going back to the 90s, or JFK. They HAVE all been puppet employees of…somebody. So they just hand wave. Yet that’s not true, is it? Trump is not Obama. They’re NOT employees. They – now completely, thoroughly proven to be the CIA – took out Nixon. Deposed, Coup’d him, — and installed Ford, who ran the JFK Warren commission iirc. They took out Reagan. Seth Rich and Vince Foster had terrible accidents.
So they’re NOT interchangeable are they? When Tucker says that, he says “There is no resistance”. “There are no Good Guys”, Zero. O Rlly? Then who’s stopping these Globalists and why haven’t they won yet? Is Peru the one holding them back? JHC, F—k no. It’s US. OBVIOUSLY there are power blocks worldwide, in France, Germany, but esp the ones we talk about daily: Russia and China…and overwhelming here in the United States. We fight the hell out of them every day for decades, generations. And it’s VERY, VERY clear we fight them tooth and nail for every foot, and with Constitutional Carry in like 25 States now, we also WIN a lot of the time.
Remember “Nineteen Eighty-Four”? (Yes, it’s supposed to be written out) Orwell nailed everything because HE WAS ONE OF THEM, he went to the meetings, but being not a moron and having and ounce of cynicism, he realized where it would go. So why WASN’T it installed by 1984, as planned? A: Because people like Ike, Jack, Nixon, and Reagan fought them. And thousands of other guys, not just here, but worldwide. They are now FORTY YEARS behind schedule.
…Because there is no Resistance, no Opposition at all, Tucker says. Uh-huh. Sure pal.
Stop paying attention to THEM, and start paying attention to US. WE are in charge, WE are ruling things. So claim that power and act.“Fetterman” …Actually the “Dirtbag Left” is something entirely different. Try to use words. There are dirtbags, and they are the Left, but that phrase is taken.
“Donald Trump says he’s spoken to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other top officials about potentially officially pulling out of NATO”He can ask, but this is a Treaty and requires the (Obviously traitorous) Senate. However, it’s very squishy and he can just “allocate” all our defense budget to “Cuba” or wherever, and not Europe. …While technically being in NATO. Why not? That’s what Europe does. Let’s do it back to them. How about 1% of GDP to keep open and few bases with a few men, and all other arms are here in NC?
“• It’s Official: The Democrat Party Is a Socialist Skinsuit (Stephen Green)
So. Weird. And here we’ve been saying that forever, but certainly since Hillary finished that turn to try to grab one election. We were told we were crazy! “There ain’t no Socialists in Democratic Party! Har har you so dum!” Uh-huh. Chalk up another one for being constantly right since 1949 (“There ain’t no communists in Hollywood! They’ll never sexualize your kids! You so Dum! Har Har. What a bunch of squares!”)
Being right for 80 years the next thing I/We say will be shouted down as equally stupid. (“There ain’t no Epstein, Har Har! That’s a Conspiracy Theory and talking point of a ‘vast Right wing Conspiracy’ nor was Clinton ever on any planes, Mr. Gingrich, you so dum!”) Uh-huh.
Yup, what you have to look forward to when you’re a Libertarian/conservative. Objective Reality is always denied for you.
“• The Republican Party’s Dissidents Show Themselves the Door (Ben Shapiro)
Tucker Carlson says he can no longer support the Republican Party. In that regard, he finds himself in familiar company. A growing faction on the populist right — including figures such as Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nick Fuentes — has increasingly positioned itself in opposition to core Republican foreign policy principles.
Someone pointed out that “Isn’t it interesting that every Republican Pundit’s end-point is to vote Democrat?”
Uh, yeah. That looks Sooper-obvious now, doesn’t it? How can that be, actually? Ace said, “So Tucker was a registered Democrat until 2020. He was an Anti-Trumper until the winds blew”. Yup. But let’s take someone else: You didn’t leave the GOP under GEORGE BUSH? Not for Gulf I OR II? You didn’t leave for Romney? Not McCain? No? But you’ll leave now that ANY – and BARELY any – actual Republican planks are being enacted? Now? Really? And concede to Komrade Kamala? And Ilan Omar, who openly says she supports Somalia over the US? Now? Really, Tuck? Really, Ben?
JHC, OF COURSE THEY DO. They were never real to begin with. Never-ever. I mean I was surprised by Tucker, but not Jones, who was clearly “Goldberg” posted resistance from the get go. Or Shapiro and Fuentes who are so dumb it’s unimaginable they’re not paid Goldberg, straight from MI6 Murdoch like Fox News is and always been. But nobody dgaf about them, they only exist in the minds of the OTHER paid, owned media on the Left. CNN and the View. Normal Republicans look at them and shrug, uncaring.
So all of them: YES W. Bush and Iraq war, NO to Trump having borders and rooting Israeli influence out of politics.
“Couldn’t Anthropic have seen this coming? You know, instead of whining to Pocahontas?”
This is how smart AI is. Can’t see that Friday comes after Thursday unless told to.“• US National Security Agency (NSA) Loses Access To Key AI Tool (RT)
Corporations running the governments and bringing the military to heel. This is not new, actually.
““The UK wants back into the EU, but not on the EU’s terms”.
Of course not. Much WORSE terms, as May and Boris showed. Much MUCH worse terms. They 10x immigration AFTER Brexit, UNDER the Tories.
The article is pinheaded retards: these SAME people LOST EVERY EU REFERENDUM. They DID know this was happening, would happen. They were so high on their own farts, they didn’t care. Just cram it in without lube as they later did with the EU “Treaty” (which is arguably illegal).
They Knew, Should have known, had every reason and example to larn them long before Brexit. They didn’t CARE. Now they’re pretending they weren’t lazy, feckless morons who couldn’t be arsed. How? By taking it out on the British people and especially every 12 year old girl there, that’s how. Now DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD. Or the beatings will continue.
…If ONLY it were mere beatings, Rotherham, if only. And IF ONLY it were on the men.
“the British economy will be around 4% smaller than it would have been inside the EU.”
Yes, and that’s ON PURPOSE. May set a deal whereby the EU would GET EVERYTHING. Make up every loss the EU could possibly fabricate, PLUS every fishing ground, PLUS everything else. Then they needed to devalue the Pound to attract manufacturing and investment and specifically stopped that too. On purpose. Hey did you know if you’re run by traitors who want you all dead, things can go pretty bad? Who knew? But it’s not Organic. Britain would be out of trouble by now had they taken the medicine, same as I said in ‘01, ‘08, and now. They refused. A couple rich guys would have been slightly less rich for a few years. Same as 1930. They’d rather spend a generation making everyone suffer…including themselves, actually. They are parasites on a DEAD economy instead of a healthy one.
“Nor has Britain escaped dependence on the rest of Europe.”I mean, Holy Duh, Batman. Who did you THINK they were going to trade with? Deep Space 9? That’s not the point. A low tax, high-production economy would have made them Japan or Vietnam off the coast of France, raking in trade and commerce.
“There is little reason to think Brussels would now offer London the same package again.”
It was never offered to begin with, go look. The deal they offered and May signed, was pure suicide, on purpose. Everyone knew, go read the archives.
“Bessent echoed Trump’s comments that any released Iranian assets are to remain under US Treasury oversight and are restricted to use for food and medicine.”
This is how you know Iran won, because they are dictating terms to us like this.
“Such a dramatic move in rates would normally suggest a weaker dollar, but USD was actually the best-performing G10 currency”The U.S. is so collapsed the USDX spiked to 102, which is actually a problem. This is against our manufacturing exports. We know every nation that is utterly defeated (an Internal emotional state of the fee-fees) and humiliated always has a currency that goes straight up. That’s just common sense. Don’t you remember the Ruble going straight up when the USSR fell? And the Reichmark going straight up when we (Stalin actually) reached Berlin? Yup, Alex3 Nima, Fox News, totally correct on this!
More productively, what does that mean? Unbelievably, IT MEANS WE CAN PRINT EVEN MORE until the USD is .99 again. Yeah, I know.
“I’d enjoy nothing more than to write about something, anything other than how vicious Europe is to its own people, but it just won’t stop being so vicious to its own people.”
Well, this is what they’ve come to since France won’t let them rape those children instead. Ah, Europe!
I know I don’t need to tell you now but 111f is TWENTY DEGREES above “too hot”. Like suppose it’s 30f. Then 50f. Big, big difference, between winter coats and t shirts. This is 20f above 90f, which is “Ungodly, dangerously hot”
Well thank God all their kids can die in service to bureaucrats and Global Warming. …While the bureaucrats sit in air conditioning and drink coffee flown in from Asia.
“I need a new MacBook. Mine is 8 years old. They just added $400+. Great. Volunteers? “
Put Linux on it and use for another 8. Screw these guys.
“• Fauci, The CIA, And The Unanswered Questions of COVID (RealClearWire)The new revelations are just a new system of lies. They backtracked 100 yards, but it’s just as false. That’s not good enough. Also no arrests, so you don’t really care, do you?
“USAID money funded coronavirus research in –China– Wisconsin and North Carolina that killed millions of people”
Just one of the thousand of lies and thousands of arrests that need to be made. Biden can’t be arrested, let’s say, but I guess it was only him? There weren’t hundreds and thousands of people in that system? Nope, they point to Hunter and all the other guys without pardons get off. Magic!
“I covered this a few years ago, sunscreen actually causes cancer, sounds crazy, but the biggest studies shows that.”
I mean, duh. Might look into zinc oxide, but sun is pretty good for and be responsible. Vitamin D deficiency is a major contributor to illness, possibly as much as Type II.
Intelligence Glitches https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/intelligence-glitches
Will militarized AI commit virtual-suicide by destroying global industrial economy this Christmas? (Asking for a friend)
The F-15 that went down over Iran, the pilot and weapons officer later rescued, flew into a “jellyfish” coordinated swarm of drones, such as have decorated night skies in China for holidays with vast moving 3D images of light, but these had explosives. In related news The best AIs can hack into the most secure US government and military communication-netweorks in a few hours, so the military is warning CEOs of big companies that it is their responsibility to protect their company business and the ball’s in their courts. I’m sure banking and credit-card transactions are secure enough, right?Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-25
The big new delta is non-financial: twin M7.2/M7.5 earthquakes flattened northern Venezuela overnight, with USGS models pointing at five-figure casualties while the official count sits at 32. In markets the multi-day stories all resolved violently in the same direction at once: gold under $4,000 and silver under $60, Brent erased its entire February war premium…
..Venezuela hit by a rare doublet quake; USGS models project 10,000–100,000 dead. Two quakes (M7.2 then M7.5, ~39 seconds apart) struck near the coast Wednesday evening, the strongest since 1812…
..Trump said the US “stands ready, willing, and able to help” (KobeissiLetter). Separately, the Earth logged four significant quakes in a day, including a separate M6.9 offshore Japan…
..IRGC Navy threatens vessels using any route but Iran’s, rejecting Oman’s US-backed corridor. Iran says passage is “only possible” via its announced routes, coordination on Channel 16 mandatory, “violator vessels will be dealt with”…
..Gold/silver: the West sells the crash, China accelerates buying and quietly deleverages retail
..The split underneath the screen: China imported 163 tonnes (of silver) in May and ~692 tonnes (up 76% YoY) over five months (GoldSeabridge), and major Chinese banks cut gold-buying fees to 0.2% and dropped entry thresholds to pull the public in…
..Physical-vs-paper divergence stayed loud: 12M ounces tendered against June Comex (PeterLBrandt), and a Japan physical silver premium of +43.1%… ..Oil: war premium fully gone, but the physical hub is running on fumes
US crude inventories drew 6.1M barrels, far above the 3.6M expected, with production at a record 13.8 mb/d (zerohedge). Cushing’s ninth straight weekly draw left it at “tank bottom,” the operational floor where pumps risk drawing air…
..Hormuz & Iran: routes weaponized again, 11,000 crew evacuated, inspections punted…
..On the deal itself: Iran will release frozen funds into US-controlled escrow to buy US crops, which Iran’s own central bank denies agreeing to (shanaka86, zerohedge). Iran’s free-passage window is 60 days only, and fees (environmental, navigation, security) are expected even if “tolls” aren’t (clashreport).
IAEA chief Grossi confirmed inspectors visit bombed sites only after a final deal, contradicting Trump’s “no rush” framing (shanaka86, WarMonitors). NATO’s Rutte publicly named Italy and Romania as war participants (“500 US planes took off from US bases in Italy”), and Iran’s MFA is demanding accountability (Glenn_Diesen, ME_Observer_). The Senate passed a War Powers resolution 50–48 rebuking the policy…
..Russia-Ukraine: Kostyantynivka all but lost, Sumy breakthrough at Ivolzhanske, Moscow refinery offline into 2027…
..Moscow’s main oil refinery, ~30–35% of the capital’s fuel supply, is expected offline into 2027 after Ukrainian drone strikes, with US intelligence reportedly supporting the targeting. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-25Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-06-24
The big new delta is Asia: Korea’s KOSPI cratered ~10% on a memory-chip scare and unrealized-gains-tax panic, dragging Micron, the whole semi complex and US futures down with it — the AI-capex “rubber band” Goldman kept warning about finally twanged. Everything else is continuation with a fresh 24h move: the Iran deal firmed into a $12bn cash release while the IAEA-inspection half fell apart, oil kept bleeding its war premium toward pre-war levels, gold/silver sank further (gold below its 200-day by the most since 2022) even as China and Poland kept stacking, and the dollar broke out to a 13-month high while the yen hit a 40-year low. https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-06-24 European Rearmament Efforts Snuffed By Chinese Control Of Critical Materials
Russia’s war in Ukraine and growing uncertainty over Washington’s security guarantees have pushed governments in Europe to increase military spending and production. But for 17 of the 34 materials classified as critical by the EU, China accounts for at least 70% of global mining or refining, a report published by Teer in May shows. Eight of those 34 materials are subject to Chinese export controls.
“China is in the process of pulling the rug out from under Europe’s rearmament efforts,” said Joris Teer, a policy analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), the bloc’s agency for foreign, security and defense policy analysis.
“By just deploying this weapon, China has already increased its leverage, signaling both its capacity and willingness to squeeze supply at any moment of its choosing,” Teer wrote. https://www.zerohedge.com/military/european-rearmament-efforts-stomped-chinese-control-critical-materials So a ‘Jellyfish’ Drone Swarm Might Have Shot Down Our F-15 Over Iran
“Multiple drones interconnected and moving as one with smaller drones below the bigger drones like legs,” shot down a U.S. Air Force F-15E strike fighter over Iran in April, according to a CNN source familiar with the apparently bizarre shootdown. “Real alien s***,” they called it...
..A second source confirmed the almost unbelievable claim, telling CNN that the downed pilot described witnessing a “minefield of drones” in the air…
..While the pilot’s name still hasn’t been released, he’s believed to be one of the same Eagle pilots accidentally shot down by Kuwait in a friendly fire incident earlier in Operation Epic Fury. According to the Washington Examiner, the unnamed pilot is “believed to be the first fixed-wing Air Force pilot since the Vietnam War era to survive being shot down twice in the same conflict.”…
..”Had he witnessed a mature capability that US intelligence wasn’t aware of?” CNN’s Zachary Cohen and Katie Bo Lillis asked. “A beta test? A mirage in the desert?” …
..If Beijing also possesses some sort of drone-swarm antiaircraft capability, Epic Fury would have been a sweet opportunity to put it to a real-world test… Another option is that Tehran’s homegrown drone technology is already advanced enough to destroy American fighters. If that’s the case, the Pentagon needs to recalibrate how best to handle any future conflict. https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/06/23/so-a-jellyfish-swarm-might-have-shot-down-f15-over-iran-n4954272It should read “breached nearly all”: Anthropic Shuts Down Mythos and Fable AI Models After AI Nearly Breached All NSA Classified Systems in Hours https://www.thedefensenews.com/Anthropic-Shuts-Down-Mythos-and-Fable-AI-Models-After-AI-Nearly-Breached-All-NSA-Classified-Systems-in-Hours/
[I wonder how credit card companies and banks will fare this Christmas.] RT: AI ‘months away’ from taking down governments – intelligence group
Five Eyes cyber agencies have warned that frontier models could soon transform offensive hacking capabilities
The agencies urged organizations to strengthen their digital defenses, update outdated software more quickly, limit access to sensitive systems, and prepare for cyberattacks before they happen. https://web.archive.org/web/20260622183820/https://www.rt.com/news/641979-ai-attack-governments-warning/ An AI Cyber Apocalypse Is ‘Months, Not Years’ Away, Five Eyes Warns
The Five Eyes intelligence group, comprising the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, is warning governments and corporations that AI models capable of launching devastating cyber attacks that could overwhelm their defenses are months, not years away…
From the Five Eyes Statement: Cyber risk can no longer be treated as a purely technical issue. This is a core business risk and leadership responsibility. Boards and executives should ensure cyber resilience is in place and works under pressure. It is not enough to have controls. Leaders must be confident those controls will perform during a real incident. This requires reassessing long-standing trade-offs and using AI deliberately to strengthen defense – not just improve efficiency.
Core principles:
Secure-by-design and secure-by-default must become standard practice – not an aspiration.
Resilience cannot depend on a single solution or technology. Defense in depth remains essential.
As AI systems evolve, new and previously unknown vulnerabilities will emerge, including zero‑day vulnerabilities.
Breaches will occur. Preparedness helps you contain them quickly and prevent escalation into major operational and financial crises. https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2026/06/24/an-ai-cyber-apocalypse-is-months-not-years-away-five-eyes-warns-n4954312“Unlike Anything I’ve Seen In 40 Years”: Explosion In Data-Centers And Memory Costs Fueling Third Inflation Wave https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/explosion-data-centers-fueling-third-wave-inflation
Cargo Vessel Comes Under Apparent Iranian Attack Near Oman, Crude Jumps, After IRGC Warned It Controls Hormuz Strait
A tanker near Oman was reportedly attacked, and several vessels turned back after Iranian warnings, sending oil prices higher.
Tehran seeks billions in transit fees: Iran wants to impose Hormuz passage charges that it says could generate up to $40 billion annually.
Rubio rejects the plan: The U.S. says Gulf states offer “zero support” for Iranian tolls and warns they would undermine freedom of navigation. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/rubio-gulf-says-zero-support-hormuz-tolls-irgc-warns-ships-not-complying-will-be-dealtMonday, Israel sets ‘conditions’ for ending occupation of south Lebanon: Report
Reports say Tel Aviv is mulling a ‘symbolic’ withdrawal from ‘minor areas’ of the south, as Israeli officials vow to continue occupying Lebanon ‘for years’
“Israel has three minimum conditions for withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon: the withdrawal of all Hezbollah terrorists north of the Litani River; the dismantling of Hezbollah … infrastructure south of the Litani; and full Israeli freedom of action to remove threats,” the report said.
At the same time, Israel will continue to insist on maintaining a “defensive strip” in the country, senior officials told the outlet. https://thecradle.co/articles/israel-sets-conditions-for-ending-occupation-of-south-lebanon-report#google_vignette Wednesday, Second day of Israel-Lebanon talks begin in Washington, US official tells ‘Post’
According to the official, the goal of the talks is to “continue to advance a comprehensive peace and security between the two countries.”
One of the main topics of discussion is the pilot program under which the Lebanese Armed Forces would deploy to specific areas in southern Lebanon while the IDF would withdraw from those locations.
Two officials familiar with the discussions told the Post that no significant progress was made during the first day of talks on Tuesday.
The main disagreement between the two sides centers on where the pilot should start.
Lebanon, with US backing, is pushing for the initiative to begin in areas currently occupied by Israeli forces. Israel, meanwhile, prefers to start in parts of southern Lebanon where the IDF is not currently deployed...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Wednesday that the disputed buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon is “at the core of” US-mediated negotiations between the two countries…
..“The more of that area the Lebanese armed forces is able to secure, the less of it is in Hezbollah’s control, and the less Israel will be in Lebanon,” Rubio said. https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-900415#google_vignette Thursday, Jerusalem and Beirut frustrated with Trump, hampering US plan to phase IDF out of Lebanon
Rubio confirms US using Israel-Lebanon talks to push for Israeli pullback in parts of south Lebanon, but neither side cooperating after DC agreed to deal giving Iran sway in Lebanon ..
..The two sources cited mutual frustration with the Trump administration’s decision to make a ceasefire in Lebanon part of the memorandum of understanding it inked last week with Iran. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-and-beirut-frustrated-with-trump-hampering-us-plan-to-phase-idf-out-of-lebanon/ Tuesday, Moon of Alabama, War On Iran: – Israel, And Trump Himself, Are Hindering Conflict Solution
The talks between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran as agreed upon in their Memorandum of Understanding are veering off course.
There are two major forces who are threatening to derail the agreement.
One is, very predictably, Israel which does its best to sabotage the talks. The MoU empathizes the end of fighting in Lebanon and the retreat of Israeli forces from Lebanese ground.
While Israel, after pressure from the U.S., had stopped fighting over the weekend its officials have stated that there will be no retreat of their forces. Today Israeli troops attacked Lebanese civilians who were clearing a road in Nabatieh. It then attacked the civil defense forces which tried to help those wounded during the first strike.
The U.S., Iran and the Qatari and Pakistani mediators had agreed over the weekend to install an observer group to prevent such incidents. Iran will demand that the U.S. intervene in the case. It will otherwise take its own measures which may end up to again block the Strait of Hormuz.
The second force which is disrupting the talks is the U.S. itself. The first clause of the MoU obligates both sides to refrain from threatening each other. While the talks on Saturday/Sunday were ongoing U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to kill the Iranian negotiators. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/war-on-iran-israel-and-trump-himself-are-hindering-conflict-solution.htmlLebanon’s death toll rises to 4,175 since start of Israeli offensive https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/06/22/365407/
Israel’s continued targeting of civilians in Lebanon renders ceasefire meaningless https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-continued-targeting-of-civilians-in-lebanon-renders-ceasefire-meaningless/
Palestinian children ‘unprotected’ as NGOs forced out of Gaza and West Bank
Israel is pushing humanitarian groups and rights defenders to scale down operations in Palestinian territories. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/22/palestinian-children-unprotected-as-ngos-forced-out-of-gaza-and-west-bankIsrael targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-targeted-gaza-children-resulting-genocide-un-inquiry-says-2026-06-23/
Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/06/israel-continues-commit-genocide-and-other-atrocity-crimes-deliberately Drop Site: A 4-year old girl. A 14-year old girl. A 51-year old mother of six. Al Jazeera photojournalist Ahmed Samir Wishah. 8-year old girl Julia al-Balawi … are among the more than 15 people Israel murdered in Gaza this weekend. https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2068964241139286431
IOF continues land levelling in Jenin to establish a military base overlooking the refugee camp https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/06/22/365404/
Palestinians in Gaza say bank account closures cut off access to vital funds
Palestinians say they have been cut off from salaries, savings and aid after accounts were frozen or closed without warning https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinians-gaza-say-bank-account-closures-cut-access-vital-funds They knew exactly who Mona Khalil was. They knew the bright orange house in Mansouri, south Lebanon. They knew it was not a military site, not a command center, not a battlefield position. It was one of the most recognizable symbols of environmental conservation on Lebanon’s southern coast; a sanctuary dedicated to protecting endangered sea turtles and preserving life.
Mona spent her years defending the most vulnerable creatures of the Mediterranean, teaching generations that every life matters, that nature is not a casualty to be discarded, and that humanity has a duty to protect what cannot protect itself.
Yet the same orange house that stood as a beacon of conservation became a target for terrorist Israel. This was an assault on a woman whose life’s work was devoted to safeguarding life itself. A woman known internationally for her environmental activism, whose name had become synonymous with the protection of Lebanon’s coastline and its endangered sea turtles. The murder of Mona Khalil sends a chilling message: even those whose only weapon is compassion, whose only mission is preservation, are not spared. https://x.com/Marwa__Osman/status/2068300792474239298Trump Privately Told Zelensky To Act ‘More Boldly’ Toward Russia: Ukrainian Media https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-privately-told-zelensky-act-more-boldly-toward-russia-ukrainian-media
Simplicius, Ukrainian Sources Claim Latest Surge in Attacks on Russia Was “Encouraged” by Trump
The Kiev Independent outlet released an interesting ‘bombshell’ claiming a “senior Ukrainian official” revealed to them that Trump had privately given Zelensky the greenlight to act “more boldly” against Russia, which we’re meant to presume has been responsible for the latest round of escalations...
..It’s plausible that Trump believes by exacting heavy “costs” on Russia will create favorable conditions for Putin to negotiate and compromise during whatever next round of attempts that Trump’s stooges (Rubio, Lutnick, Witkoff, etc.) have planned; as the above states, Trump reportedly doesn’t believe Putin will do anything without “pressure”.
But if this is the case, then Trump badly misunderstands the Russian temperament and general change of sentiment that has occurred in the post-Anchorage era, wherein several top Russian officials—from Lavrov to Ushakov—have openly nailed shut the coffin of the so-called ‘Spirit of Anchorage’.
Also, it should be stated that this latest “bombshell” can just as easily be a fake psyop meant to give Ukraine legitimacy in its latest actions—the false impression that the “might” of the US is backing Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/ukrainian-sources-claim-latest-surge Russia claims Ukraine this month ‘sharply’ stepped up attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Rosatom accuses Kyiv of carrying out ‘sophisticated’ attacks on city of Enerhodar, home to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant https://www.aa.com.tr/en/russia-ukraine-war/russia-claims-ukraine-this-month-sharply-stepped-up-attacks-on-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant/3975017 Sheer Madness: UK Tests Long-Range Missile For Ukraine To Bomb Moscow
Aside from covert targeting assistance, the UK is taking things in a more overt direction, having reportedly just tested missiles with a range of 300 miles which is intended to be sent to Ukraine’s military. https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/sheer-madness-uk-tests-long-range-missile-ukraine-bomb-moscow Ukraine signed a contract with Germany for the supply of 600 Patriot missiles.
Zelensky announced … Washington has licensed Berlin to produce these munitions, and German industry has already launched mass production. Zelenskyy praised the agreement. https://en.topwar.ru/285029-ukraina-podpisala-kontrakt-s-frg-na-postavku-600-raket-dlja-patriot.html Russian Sources Claim Ukraine Used New U.S. AGM-188A Rusty Dagger Missile in Voronezh Strike
The Rusty Dagger was designed as a lower-cost alternative to traditional cruise missiles while maintaining long-range precision strike capabilities. Its compatibility with F-16 aircraft and potential for large-scale deployment could enhance Ukraine’s ability to conduct strikes against military and industrial targets deep inside Russia. https://www.thedefensenews.com/Russian-Sources-Claim-Ukraine-Used-New-US-AGM-188A-Rusty-Dagger-Missile-in-Voronezh-Strike/ Alex Krainer was drafted into the Croatian army during the Yugoslavian civil-war: If Russia retaliated…
Before leaving 10 Downing Street, Sir Keir Starmer authorized another large-scale attack on Russia. If we’re not already in a nuclear war, we only have Vladimir Putin’s restraint to thank.
UK’s “one hundred year” ally, conducted one of the largest attacks on Russian territory to date, using air-launched cruise missiles to hit military-related facilities in Voronezh city...
..The Ukrainians allegedly used a version of UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles and/or AGM-188A, “Rusty Dagger” cruise missile, developed under the U.S. Air Force’s Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) program to provide affordable, mass-produced long-range strike weapons for Ukraine…
..President Putin gave a statement accusing the United States and Europe of directly enabling the strikes by providing satellite intelligence, targeting data, and navigation support for the long range attack and warning that such involvement signifies NATO’s direct entry into the war...
..Yesterday’s attacks were part of the same operation. Their significance, which is not lost on the Russian people, is that they were almost certainly a calculated provocation. They were conducted on the 85th anniversary of the launch of Operation Barbarossa when Nazi Germany assembled the largest ever invasion force. Defeating that force ultimately claimed the lives of 16 millions Russians.
All this is increasing the pressure on the President Putin to take the gloves off and strike at NATO targets. He has been careful not to escalate the war in this way…
..One of the most striking experiences in my life was the breakout of war in former Yugoslavia in 1991, and the reason was the almost instant change in collective psychology that took place as soon as the first artillery shells started landing in Croatia. Up until that moment, the vast majority of people – I’d venture to say, well north of 90% – believed that war was unthinkable; that it would never happen. Who could possibly want to fight a war? It seemed impossible; only a small handful of hotheads were advocating for war.
The stories circulating in Western media about the eruption of bottled-up centuries-old hatreds were utter nonsense. The peoples of former Yugoslavia were socially, economically and culturally deeply intertwined. In most cases we didn’t even know who, among our neighbors was a Serb, Croat or a Muslim and many families were mixed. However, once the war actually broke out, it took a life of its own wreaking death and destruction on large scale.
The collective psychology abruptly changed and a war psychology galvanized. It became fashionable to look at events in black and white and to wholly denounce the other side as enemies. Giving the enemy any benefit of the doubt and expressing empathy toward them suddenly became unpatriotic and suspicious...
..If Russia retaliated, if it responded to British or US-orchestrated attacks and struck at a NATO target, we would see this process erupt on short order. The loud little handful in our midst will be shouting for war until they managed to generate the mass-formation psychosis that would make the war not only possible, but probably inevitable and Europe would fully share Ukraine’s tragic fate. Last two World Wars resulted in large-scale devastation and tens of millions of casualties. In today’s terminology, however, they were conventional wars.
Third World War would be nuclear and the scale of destruction and killing could be orders of magnitude greater. This is the danger that today’s “loud little handful” could lead us toward, for their own narrow, selfish reasons. To date, we should be grateful that we’ve been spared these horrors thanks to President Putin’s restraint...
..We must start without delay to build the foundations for peace in our hearts and minds. There can be no justification for us to sleepwalk into another war. In addition to unprecedented scale of destruction and death, the economic, social and psychological damage from such a conflict would be such that it might take many generations to repair. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/if-russia-retaliated Richard Revelstoke on the global capitalist elite power struggles: How to Rule the World and Why Nobody Can
Since the end of the Cold War, strategists have repeatedly produced plans for American primacy. The question behind all of them is the same: what would it actually take to rule the world?
In 2026, the answer is surprisingly simple.
Any contender would need to:
make the chips
clear the money
guard the sea
build the board
Four tasks, on three grand chessboards, two of them are physical geography. The third, the rheopolitical board carries two of the four — make the chips, clear the money — which is why it is the most contested. https://www.themargins.ca/p/how-to-rule-the-world-and-why-nobodyAlan Greenspan oversaw the dismantling ot the Glass Steagal legislation which protected Americans after 1929: Yves Smith, Good Riddance, Alan Greenspan https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/good-riddance-alan-greenspan.html
Former (honest) Parliamentarian, Andrew Bridgen: Interesting article from 2022. Peter Sutherland was a special representative of the UN for Migration.
The replacement of the English people is part of the UN plan for their New World Order. https://x.com/ABridgen/status/2068782356467777884/photo/1 Thanks Eleni: ‘We want a new Albania’: protests against Jared Kushner-backed resort turn anger on government – Opposition to plans for ‘small paradise’ island of Sazan becomes wave of dissent against establishment https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/22/albania-protests-jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-resort-sazan-island-anger-government
The man who tossed toddler to the crocodiles is freed
The 30-year-old male zoo visitor who tossed a UK toddler into a crocodile enclosure was released on bail. The authorities are refusing to disclose the identity of the assailant to avoid anti-immigration protests.
Despite being suspected of attempted murder, the perpetrator was found ‘unfit for interview’ and freed to roam the streets and cities of Britain...
..The three-year-old boy was visiting the crocodile enclosure with his family when the suspect picked up the child and threw him over a four-foot fence and into the enclosure. The screaming boy fell more than 12 feet and landed among the reptiles.
The zoo owner’s wife, Tracey Johnson, leapt in after the child and pulled him out of the enclosure... The toddler was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries and was in critical but stable condition. He suffered suspected fractures to his arm and pelvis after landing on concrete and was also attacked by a crocodile. https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2026/06/21/released-the-man-who-tossed-toddler-to-the-crocodiles-is-freed/ Moon of Alabama, British Powers That Be Change Public Face Of Their Program
Another rotten lettuce – i.e. British prime minister – just left his office. I am not aware of anyone who will be sad about it.
However – Keir Starmer was at least elected as party leader. He had spent time in the opposition and had won a parliament election in 2024.
The clone the powers that be have selected as his replacement has, in comparison, zero democratic legitimacy. He ‘won’ a by-election that was specifically arranged to allow him to step up. The party membership and the general public have had no say in selecting him.
The new guy, one Andy Burnham, is, like Starmer, an authoritarian, sociopathic neo-liberal who will do whatever either Trump, the Zionist lobby or city of London are going to tell him to do. https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/06/british-powers-that-be-change-public-face-of-their-program.htmlStudy Links Ultraprocessed Foods to Cognitive Decline; Processed Meat Shows Strongest Association https://www.naturalnews.com/2026-06-21-study-upfs-cognitive-decline-processed-meat-strongest.html
Judge Blocks SNAP Restrictions On Sugary Drinks, Candy https://www.zerohedge.com/food/judge-blocks-snap-restrictions-sugary-drinks-candy
Meryl Nass MD, Horrible news: Supreme Court rules in favor of Bayer-Monsanto, preempting state lawsuits and the states’ ability to more strictly regulate pesticides.
There are multiple attempts to preempt state authority (as opposed to federal authority over all the states) right now. This is an important step toward moving power from the states to the federal government: centralization of control. Watch for it in other areas. Of course it is unconstitutional, but this is how things have been moving.
The reason why the EPA did not require a label on glyphosate that warned of its cancer-causing effects is because the EPA has delayed what a judge had required it to do years ago after it tried to get away with a bogus review—do an honest review of the data and update the label. EPA, captured by industry and Bayer in particular, resisted this, and to this day has not complied.
Congress, in the farm bill draft, gave the EPA 5 more years to delay before publishing its review of glyphosate and other pesticides. Glyphosate was supposed to have a review in 2026. This is in addition to the refusal of EPA to act and publish a proper review required by the courts.
DOJ filed 2 amicus briefs to the Supreme Court asking it to rule in Bayer’s favor and preempt state authority. https://merylnass.substack.com/p/horrible-news-supreme-court-rules U.S. Funded Biolabs in 30+ Countries — Many Experimented With Highly Contagious Pathogens
According to declassified documents released last week by outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Many are currently or have previously engaged in research using “hazardous and highly contagious pathogens,” according to a statement. About a third are located in Ukraine and are “vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/biolabs-us-funding-over-30-countries-experiments-highly-contagious-pathogens-tulsi-gabbard/ Dr. Luc Montagnier, Nobel Laureate, final interview before being FOUND DEAD 6 days later.
“I am here to expose Fauci’s gain-of-function – COVID was the job of a professional…it’s NOT natural. Sequences like HIV have been added…in order to make a vaccine.” https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/2068484039456035244 John Leake, The Great SARS-CoV-2 Charade: 3 Years Later
Three years after I posted the following exposition, DNI Gabbard acknowledges the crucial role of American scientists, institutions, and companies in creating the virus that causes COVID-19. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/the-great-sars-cov-2-charade-3-years Fauci Reckoning: Declassified Intel, Buried Whistleblowers, and the Congressional Subpoena that Could Change Everything
ODNI docs prove the CIA knew about Wuhan lab infections in 2019. Biden’s DNI killed the complaint. Now Congress is dragging Fauci back — and presidential pardon may not save him https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/fauci-reckoning-declassified-intelNorwegian study shows that 74% of new myocarditis cases were related to COVID-19 vaccination – only 4.2% were related to COVID-19 infection https://jarle.substack.com/p/norwegian-study-shows-that-74-of
Exclusive: Clinical Trial Doctor Published Studies Showing COVID Treatments Worked. Pharma Investors Got The Studies Retracted.
In an exclusive interview with The Defender, Dr. Sabine Hazan detailed her harrowing experiences of being attacked as a scientist for publishing research that showed that early treatments of COVID-19 worked. “The American people deserve transparent, rigorous science,” Hazan said. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sabine-hazan-clinical-trial-doctor-published-studies-covid-treatments-pharma-investors-retracted/ Meryl Nass MD, Federal health agencies have been trying to change autopsy reports that find vaccines caused someone to die for over 25 years
Wondering why you don’t see accurate warnings on vaccine labels? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/federal-health-agencies-have-been The Vigilant Fox, FDA Altered Autopsy Results of Children Who Died After COVID Vaccines
Even the reduced number of deaths was enough to trigger concern among some FDA scientists about the safety of the COVID-19 shots, Johnson’s letter stated.
“Although what drove the decision to change these three cases remains to be seen, what is clear is that these officials appear to have determined that the seven cases warranted warning about the risks,” Johnson wrote. These risks “should have raised serious concerns at HHS and CDC about the mRNA COVID-19 Injections.”
Even after the downgrade, the FDA’s Division of Pharmacovigilance recommended revising the label of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to include a warning about the risk of “myocarditis with fatal outcomes.”
The change was never made, for reasons that are not clear.
Myocarditis is widely associated with the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and, with reports of deaths connected to the vaccines, particularly among teenage and young adult males. https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/fda-altered-autopsy-results-of-children Federal COVID Vaccine Injury Program Pays for Another Death — But Denials Still Hover Above 98%
The Health Resources and Services Administration as of June has compensated just 60 of 7,407 claims via the federal government’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program — while denying 7,298. The latest report shows only the third death claim paid out since the start of the pandemic. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/federal-covid-vaccine-injury-program-pays-for-another-death-denials-still-hover-above-98-percent/ (Scroll down to the wacky picture-tweet) Jessica Rose Ph.D, Pubpeer responsible for the SIDS paper removal based on a tweet – Here’s the paper trail – you decide if this study was justifiably “removed” from publication https://jessicar.substack.com/p/pubpeer-responsible-for-the-sids
Jessica Rose Ph.D, Another published paper (Hooker and Miller) on the chopping block – Pubpeer strikes again with “expression of concern” 6 years after the fact
Why are all of these Editors falling for this ludicrous crap?
Brian Hooker posted a comment on an X post I made recently about my latest article which called out the fact that Neil Miller’s SIDS paper was “removed” based on an emotional tweet from a single individual. You can read that here…
..As you can see from Brian’s comment, he and none other than Neil Miller, also have a paper they co-wrote entitled Analysis of health outcomes in vaccinated and unvaccinated children: Developmental delays, asthma, ear infections and gastrointestinal disorders on the chopping block. It was published in SAGE Open Medicine 6 years ago!
They received an “expression of concern” regarding their published paper on May 18, 2026. https://jessicar.substack.com/p/another-published-paper-hooker-and Merck Ignored Gardasil Safety Warnings From Its Own Trial Investigator, Court Documents Reveal
A Danish physician who led Merck-sponsored Gardasil clinical trials and later ran a government clinic for injured patients concluded the HPV vaccine was the probable cause of POTS and chronic fatigue-like conditions in some recipients. In a report submitted as evidence in a lawsuit against Merck, Dr. Jesper Mehlsen said Merck ignored the safety warnings. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/merck-ignored-gardasil-safety-warnings-clinical-trial-investigator-jesper-mehlsen/Nate Hagens on working imagination into constructive action: A Guide to Staying Human (Part 3): The Default Mode Network and the Metacrisis https://natehagens.substack.com/p/essay-a-guide-to-staying-human-part-e54
Tired of: “What if I tell you…”…..”Hear me out….”
Another YT import into this site to enjoy commercial free while working.
Personal use.@JohnDay
Drop Site: A 4-year old girl. A 14-year old girl. A 51-year old mother of six. Al Jazeera photojournalist Ahmed Samir Wishah. 8-year old girl Julia al-Balawi … are among the more than 15 people Israel murdered in Gaza this weekend. https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2068964241139286431
As bad as that senseless slaughter of innocent people is, it pales in comparison to the fact that our CIVILIZATION is demonstrably unable to stop it. It continues. The Civilization is not stopping it. That is very very bad. It means that our CIVILIZATION, itself, has FAILED. (past tense).
It’s like the police releasing a mad child killer back into the public who were then DELIBERATELY prevented from knowing who that man is or what he will do next. That’s beyond absurd. It is diabolical. Literally.
Ukraine and World Affairs (including Iran/ME): Weekly Update
26th June 2026
Dr. Rob Campbellhttps://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-world-affairs-including-0b6
Peace is coming!
13-18 DAYS: THE PRACTICAL DIESEL BUFFER… Does It Preclude Bombing Iran?
26 June 2026 by Larry C. Johnson 143 Commentshttps://sonar21.com/13-18-days-the-practical-diesel-buffer-does-it-preclude-bombing-iran/
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Two Spikes Coming?
Cushing is below operational minimum. The market hasn’t noticed. It will.
Nick Wade
Jun 25, 2026https://nickwade.substack.com/p/two-spikes-coming
Cushing, Oklahoma is the pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude and the physical hub through which US oil supply flows to refineries across the Midwest and Gulf Coast. As of 25 June, inventories have fallen to 19 million barrels, below the operational minimum (~20mb) that the industry considers the threshold for physical stress. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) has fallen to 331.2 million barrels, the lowest since 1983. According to the IEA, global inventories are at their lowest seasonal point in recorded history.
The market has priced almost none of this.
Two spikes.
Two moments of forced repricing, each preceded by the same premature relief. Brent at $70 tells you the market thinks the crisis is over.
But it isn’t.
Brent at $70 instead tells you the market hasn’t looked at what comes next.700+ Ukrainian Drones Shot Down🎯 Kharkiv Breakthrough: Russians Enter Belyi Kolodiaz⚔️ MS 2026.06.26
@DBS: The “owners” (Carlin) are culling us again. It is that time. They are putting less and less of a fine point on it, as it is behind schedule, already.
Our job in CIVILIZATION is to look the other way and hum a tune while this happens, because we are not supposed to know that it is being intentionally done.
Stay docile until the war starts, then hate really hard, I guess…
;-/@John_Day
Maybe I was being a LITTLE too bleak of forecast.
There’s a silver lining.
Decades of rigorous empirical research in disaster sociology and anthropology have determined that the percentage of a population that “loses it” and goes Mad Max feral during a sudden societal collapse is pretty much zero percent.
The idea that humans revert to Hollywood Big Screen , hyper-violence when the grid goes down is heavily propagated by fiction and media, but it is deeply contradicted by real-world data. Rather than fracturing into a war of all against all, populations in sudden-collapse zones consistently show a massive, spontaneous spike in pro-social behavior, mutual aid, and self-organization.
That just makes common sense, as well. People aren’t going to waste precious time, energy and resources on useless bull shit when the chips are down. I’ve been in the spot three or four times (exciting life) and I bet you’ve seen it, too. When the shit REALLY hits the fan people knock off the petty squabbling and HELP each other. Been there, done that. That’s what ACTUALLY happens.
@DBS: Saving a human life, really saving the life of another human being, Feels REALLY GOOD!
On an unrelated note: Florida’s Burmese Python numbers are suddenly falling. The Pythons are blindish when molting, paralyzed(ish) when digesting a deer or raccoon, and curl up still around an egg clutch, making them extra vulnerable at these moments. They ate all the swamp rats and 98-99% of the coons and possums…
Rangers started finding headless Pythons with the head chewed off.
Guess what smaller animal learned to bite them behind the head where they are blind, and eat their brains. 😉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5FO3q30TIIt reminds me of Frank Zappa’s song about not being able to pull off his tight python-boot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmVu-Wxe-Uw
AI stocks have entered a correction, because China can’t buy Nvidia and is using Chinese chips and doing ok, anyway, and Nvidia-chip and specific memory chip demand is down, and they never had a plan to make actual profits, other than to expand like a gas-giant star in thermal-death.
https://no01.substack.com/p/the-bigger-the-boom-the-harder-the
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c802gvxpyxzo‘Israel picking up the pieces of its deep-seated hubris’
Trump’s Iran deal shatters Israel’s 40-year dream of regime change.Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
The Iran-U.S. de-escalation framework has been signed. As always, getting a framework agreed is one thing, but preserving it from disruptive actors or malicious distortion of the text is quite another. Who knows how long it will survive intact? The MoU nonetheless constitutes an important phase – albeit one leg – in a long journey ahead for Iran. The Agreement however, may also prompt wider geo-economic ‘plate’ shifts.
Iran has succeeded in pushing a reluctant Trump to cross the Rubicon. Danny Citrinowicz, a former senior Israeli Iran military intelligence analyst, says that for Trump, “achieving a deal with Iran and ending the current cycle of escalation is not merely an option but a clear strategic goal … He now envisions a broader vision of U.S.–Iran relations”.
An unquestioned dogma has bitten the dust:
“The long-standing expectation in parts of Jerusalem and Washington has been that sustained pressure could lead to regime change in Tehran … [However] the announced agreement suggests a [new] fundamental reality: The campaign that many hoped would weaken or even destabilise the Islamic Republic will instead conclude with the regime intact, strengthened, and formally engaged by the U.S. … [This] amounts to the collapse of a broader strategic assumption: that coordinated American and Israeli pressure could generate conditions conducive to fundamental political change inside Iran. Instead, the likely outcome is the opposite … [it is] an outcome likely to reinforce confidence amongst [Iran’s] ruling elite rather than weaken it …”.
This moment represents a major strategic achievement for Iran: A heroic image is surging across the globe – whereas Israel’s isolation on the Iran issue, even amongst its Gulf allies, has spiked. On the personal level, Netanyahu’s standing in Israel has plunged catastrophically.
Of course, the ‘Understanding’ may quickly unravel – Trump is prone to sudden changes of mind, and the full force of the U.S. Zionist billionaire class is being unleashed against Trump, compelling him to change course (perhaps through the former working to mobilise opposition in Congress and the Senate).
Both are possible, but the reality of Trump having actually come to agreement – however tentative – with Iran underlines a growing divergence between Trump and Israel. And Netanyahu’s attempt to sever the linkage between the MoU and any ceasefire in Lebanon (by mounting an attack in Dahhiya in Beirut on Sunday) paradoxically achieved the opposite – Trump promptly improved the terms of the MoU for Iran.
And if the Agreement does unravel, Iran has the option simply to close the Hormuz Strait – and potentially the Bab el Mandeb passage too. And what can Trump do? The closer that the U.S. moves towards the ‘economic cliff’ and to the mid-term elections, the less the appeal will be for him to restart the war. In any case, Iran is fully expecting and preparing for a resumption of military strikes.
Aside from the local impacts of Trump prioritising the understanding with Iran over that of Israel’s interest to keep the war in Lebanon burning, the Accord may portend wider geo-political consequences –
Iran, for four decades, has been enveloped in the ever tightening boa-constrictor coils of sanctions, energy strangleholds and dollar exclusion, reflecting the non-stop efforts by Jewish-Israeli supremacists in Israel and America to maintain U.S. dominance over the Middle East.
The U.S. has waged forty years of maximum pressure to break Iran, yet conversely, through its animus, has forged that very adversary (Iran) to now exercise its leverage to gradually prise off the snake’s enveloping coils so that it can begin to breathe more easily.
Iran’s resistance has caught the imagination of much of the world – precisely because it is seen as a moral fight to reassert an Iranian vision for their own future.
In fact, the Iran example rather, has opened eyes around the world to the U.S. project to forcibly coerce states to acquiesce to the U.S. demands that they align with the U.S. imposition of Zionist hegemony across the Middle East.
Already states seeing the extent of the chokehold imposed on Iran, are seeking ways to protect themselves from a similar U.S. weaponisation of foreign trade in food, oil, fertiliser – and in just about anything that the U.S. can create a choke point for – to be deployed against them.
Will the signing of the MoU then indeed be something of an inflection point? It is too early to say, but one initial question must be: Has Trump’s volte face dealt an irreversible blow to Israel?
Lazar Berman, military correspondent of the Times of Israel, observes that “total victory” and its illusions are over –
“The post-October 7 wars, which came with expectations and promises of “total victory,” are over – as are their illusions. Palestinians are not going to leave Gaza. Hamas won’t disarm, nor will Hezbollah. Trump is not going to return to war in Iran, which can now threaten to withdraw from a deal to get Trump to stop any major Israeli operation against Hamas or Hezbollah …The Middle East has certainly changed”.
Trump’s goal, it now seems, is to reach an agreement with Iran – he apparently believes too, that the move will also serve Israel’s interests. This may, or may not, be realistic. For, as Aluf Benn writes in Haaretz, “the idea that Israel and Iran are capable of reconciliation after decades of hostility, which culminated in bombings and missile attacks last year, was never even discussed in Israel”.
It was this lacuna that gave rise to hubris and wishful thinking in the Israeli Establishment.
As leading Israeli commentator Nahum Barnea amplifies, it never even occurred to Israel that Iran might survive a U.S.-led onslaught –
“There probably wasn’t anyone from Military Intelligence, the National Security Council or the Mossad who raised at the meetings the possibility that the Iranian regime might survive and emerge stronger. Even if there were a few sceptics in the room, they held their tongue”.
In Israel, the sense of defeat is palpable.
What Trump now is likely angling for is more room for manoeuvre for his vision of peace in the Middle East. His kite-flying about Iran joining the Abraham Accords; that he would like to talk with Hizbullah, and his (even more absurd) comments to the effect that Jolani and Syria should ‘take care’ of Hizbullah in Lebanon, however, do lend support to Citrinowicz’s contention that for now, Trump entertains some (possibly implausible) broader vision of where U.S.-Iran relations might lead.
In this reconfigured Israeli strategic landscape, perhaps even the pusillanimous Europeans might begin some corrective action by insisting on a return to ancient understandings of war – in which de-capitation strikes and multi-assassination campaigns of women and children lie outside of all civilised norms of war, let alone of human morality. Iranian negotiators insisted in the negotiations that any assassinations or killings would kill relations with the U.S. stone-dead.
The other key issue that flows from these events is the question – what will be the effect of the signing of the MoU on the complexion of U.S. polity? Will this prove to be a separate and strategic point of inflection? Will America as a whole start to detach from Israel?
There is a clear segmentation in the U.S. electorate. The demographic layer of the over 55-year olds is broadly sympathetic to Israel; but the young have shifted radically. Even amongst American Jews, 61% have concluded that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza, and 39% regard Israel’s conduct in Gaza as genocide.
Of course, the Israel-Firsters will not change their stance and will insist that Congress toes their line.
But a recent WSJ’s opinion piece – Netanyahu has Lost Middle America – concludes:
“As Israel approaches elections this Fall, I am confident that: If its voters choose to continue the current government despite the deadly mistakes it has made, many Americans will conclude that the Israel they have supported for decades no longer exists”.
Iran’s Drones STRIKE Cargo Ship in Hormuz, Trump in DENIAL
Iran’s Drones STRIKE Cargo Ship in Hormuz, Trump in DENIAL | Patrick Henningsen
Peace is coming!13-18 DAYS: THE PRACTICAL DIESEL BUFFER… Does It Preclude Bombing Iran?
26 June 2026 by Larry C. JohnsonYes — not because anyone suddenly wants peace, but because the U.S. cannot afford war.
Johnson’s recent posts point to a structural constraint:
The U.S. lacks the diesel, the munitions, the industrial base, and the political bandwidth to fight Iran.
A bond‑market revolt doesn’t happen because investors “oppose the war.”
It happens because they believe:The U.S. is taking on more risk than its fiscal, industrial, and political systems can support.
DBS just when Milgram was being discredited we have the current paradigm of political thought.
True that the majority will not go “Mad Max”. However the current path leads to a majority of the population suffering in a fashion unseen since the plagues in European history. The difference is there is not a general agrarian society for self support. The most highly rewarded skills in modern US business leave one completely unprepared for catastrophe. Living in a hurricane region gives practical experience to this reality.
The people may not go “Mad Max” but they will follow a corrupt leader and carryout heinous orders without question. Sadly, choosing authority over a just moral code is still prevalent in a majority of the population.
OR as Dylan phrased it
“You say you lost your faith, but that’s not where it’s at
you had no faith to lose, and you know it” – Positively 4th StreetOrwell hoped to write precautionary information
The Matrix movies gave a warning about a machine world
Niether Orwell or the Wachowski siblings thought they were writing structural blueprints for society.tell me, with a straight face, these Ai boys ain’t building The Matrix
remember Cypher chose the steaknew hard drive cloned and installed.Tthe original disk 1 had reached terminal velocity.
bonus, a new hard drive utility to play with.a report stated that 30% of the Palestinians murdered by Israel and the US have been children. Conservatives used to oppose abortion so children could be raised to maturity before harvested. Now the trend is toward veal.
IRGC Navy strikes US military targets in retaliation for attack on Iranian coastal areas
Friday, 26 June 2026 11:05 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 26 June 2026 11:13 PM ]The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has struck American military targets in the region in retaliation for earlier aggression against Iranian coastal areas.
The force made the remarks in a statement issued on Friday, saying its reprisal “targeted the deployment sites of the US terrorist military in the region.”
It noted that the retaliation came after American forces launched airstrikes against areas lying along the Iranian coastline as part of the United States’ changeless “pattern of breaching its commitments.”
US CENTCOM reports ‘attacking targets in Iran’
US CENTCOM reports ‘attacking targets in Iran’
The United States Central Command reports carrying out attacks against some targets in Iran.
Waging the aggression, Washington used “various pretexts, including the passage of a non-compliant vessel through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz,” the statement added.Earlier, the United States Central Command had reported carrying out attacks against some targets in Iran
CENTCOM that overseas the American forces deployed to the West Asia region, alleged it had staged the aggression in return for, what it described as, a Thursday drone strike against a vessel, which it named as Singapore-flagged cargo vessel MV Ever Lovely. The strike, it claimed, took place as the vessel was departing the Strait of Hormuz along the Omani coast.
The Islamic Republic has, on all occasions, categorically rejected any allegations of targeting non-military objects, while warning about attempts at trying to implicate the country in such attacks by staging “false flag” operations.
The IRGC Navy also noted that the United States sought to violate its commitments under a memorandum of understanding recently signed between the two sides “through various provocations.”
Warning against further provocations
“And it has now received the necessary response,” the statement went on, referring to the force’s retaliation. “The same will apply to any future violations,” it added.
“Should this aggression be repeated, our response will be broader than this.”
The signing of the MoU was preceded by a ceasefire announced on April 7 by US President Donald Trump in the latest bout of unprovoked American-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic.
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