FIFA football (mafia style): Egypt vs Argentina and The Puppeteer Show

Nicole Jenes analizza le controversie arbitrali avvenute durante l'incontro di calcio tra Egitto e Argentina.

the funnies

Trump worried that Iran might kill him

• Meanwhile in Mashad, Iran: Millions were waiting on the streets ahead of the final funeral ceremony for martyr Imam Khamenei and family members. 

• According to official estimates, 41 to 43 million people attended the funeral ceremony in total over 6 days in 5 cities: Tehran, Qom, Najaf, Karbala, and Mashhad. The ceremonies in Tehran lasted 3 days, while in Qom, Najaf-Karbala, and Mashhad, they lasted 1 day each.

• Head of the Public Relations and Media Center of the Iranian Ministry of Health: The American attacks on July 8 and 9 resulted in 14 martyrs and 78 injured. Among the wounded, 47 people are still receiving treatment in hospitals.

• The maritime traffic control tower was damaged at Bushehr, in order to damage Iran’s eye on the Strait of Hormoz. Two explosions were heard on Boo Musa Island, one of Iran’s three strategic islands. The US also bombed the navy base in Chabahar, southeastern Iran.   

• Among the targets of the US in Iran was on the transit bridge and railway line in Aqqala. It’s a railway line that connects Iran with China and Russia via the east corridor. This route was used by Russia to transport its goods since last November, and the volume of freight trains from China had tripled after the naval blockade. [US now moving to isolate Iran from its allies. Time will tell how this aggressive strategy works out.] 

• IRGC statement: "Retaliation completed". Key infrastructure and facilities at four US bases in Kuwait (Arifan and Ali al-Salem) and Bahrain (Jafair and Sheikh Isa) were targeted. 
• USAF aircraft refueling in the Persian Gulf with refuellers taking off from Tel Aviv & Qatar. Israeli media say the Israeli Air Force may have participated in strikes against Iran. Air defense site near Bushehr nuclear plant targeted in US strikes. 

• CNN on the US Navy: We have at least 19 warships near Iran.
• The IRGC says it struck a US-linked command-and-control center at Muwaffaq al Salti US Air Base in Jordan with 10 ballistic missiles. The IRGC says this was the 2nd phase of retaliation for US attacks, and warn that if the US attacks again, other American bases in the region will also be targeted.
• Haaretz Hebrew Newspaper Israeli Analyst: We are now living in a world more like a madhouse, led by the biggest madman, Trump.
• Hebrew Live: A 21-year-old discharged soldier from the Israeli army committed suicide today by shooting himself in the head.
• Professsor Glenn Diesen: The NATO Summit reads like a declaration of war. The Europeans got what they wanted, diplomacy is dead & this is now Trump's war. How to fight and defeat the world's largest nuclear power in a fight for its survival? We will now see massive escalation as we move toward total war.

• Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: “Russia will no longer believe that the West wants negotiated solutions regarding Ukraine.” According to Lavrov, the West was simulating a willingness to negotiate on Ukraine, but is now openly issuing ultimatums to Russia. [US always plays good cop-bad cop but in the end is a fascist war mongering colonial power - and a declining one at that.]

• Responsible Statecraft: Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request show that the Selective Service recently gamed out what a military draft would look like in a future war. It would not resemble the one the nation lived through 55 years ago for the Vietnam War. Instead, those with “special skills” would be conscripted first.  According to the January 2026 military mobilization exercise, the first wave of draftees could include “computer network technicians, electronics technicians, aerospace engineers, divers, welders, gas turbine engine mechanics, electricians, heavy equipment operators, longshoremen, steel workers / pipefitters, radar / communications technicians, fiber optic technicians, mariners, aviation structural mechanics, cyber security specialists, robotics operators and technicians, air traffic controllers, logistics specialists, [and] linguists.”

• Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear weapons tests in French Polynesia, contaminating an estimated 110,000 people —nearly the entire population of the territory at the time.
• CovertAction Magazine: In December 2025, Hawaiian Congressman Ed Case (Democrat) issued a press release announcing his support for the $900 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included $1 billion for military construction projects in Hawai’i. Case gave a speech before Congress last year asserting that Chinese Premier Xi Jinping was cheering on Republicans who voted against funding the Ukraine War because they were supposedly playing into Xi’s ambitions to establish Chinese global domination—enabled by an isolationist US. Case’s use of Sinophobic rhetoric to justify an expansion of the military presence in Hawai’i is matched by Hawai’i’s other Democratic Party congresswoman, Jill Tokuda, who sits on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, a fear-mongering body that has spread alarmist rhetoric and false accusations directed against China reminiscent of the McCarthy era. 
• Former Colombian candidate Cepeda warns about "paramilitary government" in Colombia: "After learning of announcements about the first decrees that he will issue, we have reached a serious conclusion: a paramilitary Government is beginning to take shape in Colombia," said Iván Cepeda in a statement, commenting on the first proposals announced by the elected president of Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella. The senator maintained that this conclusion is based on three initiatives announced by Espriella: the creation of "urban search blocks" and "first lines of security" made up of veterans and reservists, the reestablishment of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad and the construction of private prisons.  
• Simplicius: NATO has apparently decided that Russia can no longer be defeated militarily or even economically. The only way they now deem it’s possible to bring Russia to the negotiating table is by inflicting pain on the civilian population, which they believe will rebound onto the political elite, putting pressure on Putin to end the war. The problem is the Russian population is far more hip to the true contours of global events than the propagandized Western populaces. Russians know they are fighting an existential war led by the West with the goal to destroy Russia completely. As such, Russian people are not being in some way “radicalized” against their own government, at least not in the ways the West thinks. For Ukraine, the battlefield situation continues to worsen, and this campaign to make Russian society “feel the pain” is all that it’s got left. 

• @MaryKostakidis: Australia’s use as a US military base is being expanded in preparation for war with China, our biggest trading partner, one that has fueled our nation’s prosperity and poses no military threat to our country (or the US for that matter but that is not what it’s about). 

• The Kiev regime glorifies Nazis and everyone in the EU knows it, but nobody cares as long as Ukrainians keep being used as cannon fodder against Russia. The EU Parliament has approved an amendment that criticised Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision to rename an elite Ukrainian military unit after the World War II Nazi and Holocaust  collaborators Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a move that has sparked a diplomatic dispute with Poland. The move comes only 2 months after Zelesnky started repatriating the bodies of Ukrainian Nazi and Holocaust collaborators to bury them in Ukraine with with all the honours in state funerals. 

BRICS in space?

The new BRICS Space Council enables an unprecedented sanctions by-pass through strategic India-China-Russia cooperation, forever altering the global balance of power.

In June 2026, Bengaluru became the epicenter of a silent revolution. In this video, Think BRICS analyzes how BRICS space cooperation is building a BRICS space economy entirely independent of Western control. 

As the world watches the bloc’s expansion, the creation of the BRICS 'remote sensing satellite constellation' (RSSC) represents the boldest step yet toward a multipolar world. We explore the roles of India, China, and Russia in merging their constellations - Gaofen, Resourcesat, and Kanopus - to create a "virtual constellation" that directly challenges the BRICS vs NASA dynamic.

Why has the geopolitical space race shifted? We examine the case of Iran gaining high-resolution data despite US sanctions and Ethiopia seeking climate sovereignty. We see how space technology is not just science, but a parallel space infrastructure. 

For the latest BRICS news on the global south space collaboration this deep dive is useful. Discover why the US is terrified of BRICS and their new reach into the stars.

While we provide a deep analysis of the BRICS space council  this video does not cover private commercial space missions (such as SpaceX) or deep-space manned missions to Mars unrelated to the bloc's immediate goals. 

The video concentrates on the geopolitical impact of BRICS space technology and its role as a space infrastructure, excluding discussions on space debris management or international treaties regarding space-based weaponry, focusing strictly on the new power architecture of the Global South. 

History lesson: CIA's role in supporting brutal Shah of Iran

In March 1980, the U.S. hostages inside the American Embassy in Iran had been held for four months. 

Iranian students took the Americans hostage because the U.S. allowed the Shah of Iran to get asylum in the U.S. and to take with him much of the wealth of the Iranian nation.

Mike Wallace’s report asked why so many Iranians endorsed their captivity.

The hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979. Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. A total of 52 American diplomats and citizens were held. The hostages were released on January 20, 1981.The total duration of captivity was 444 days.

U.S. Senate race controversy in Maine grows

 

Democrat Party in Maine now silencing the grassroots movement that they built.

This letter of resignation from their party mobilization director indicates the move to insert a corporate candidate in the now open U.S. Senate candidate position due to Graham Platner dropping out of the race due to charges of rape.

The party intends to hold a 600-person meeting to pick the new candidate. They appear to be pushing out the powerful anti-war, anti-corporate base that Platner's campaign successfully built during the past year.

Ben Chin, Graham Platner’s campaign manager writes:

"We’ve said from the very beginning that this campaign was never about Graham but about a movement of working people united to take back power... the Maine Democratic Party said that our movement will 'have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, nor in determining what this process looks like.'

Instead, under their watch and direction, they allowed the DC-based Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to send staffers to plan a potential nominating process behind closed doors. Both the state and national parties cut our team, our volunteers, and our vast networks of supporters out of the conversation completely.

We firmly believe that the supporters and volunteers who built this movement deserve to have a real role in any nomination process. If the Maine Democratic Party hopes to harness our movement, and avoid disillusioning the hundreds of thousands of supporters who came into the fray because of our movement’s policies, it must consult the feedback and proposals of the people who built and sustained this." 

July 4 protest at NSA spy base in Yorkshire, England

 

Published by The Yorkshire Post, 5 July 2026

Campaigners made their annual Independence Day protest near RAF Menwith Hill at the weekend.

The event was organised by the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign (MHAC) and Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) to draw attention to what they claim is a lack of accountability surrounding activities at the base near Harrogate, a UK military site which is operated by the United States.

Protesters meet outside the site every Tuesday, but plan a more concentrated effort each year for American Independence Day on July 4.

A spokesperson for the organisers said: “Nominally an RAF Base, this United States surveillance facility is closed even to UK Members of Parliament and maintains secrecy about its actions – for example the directing of drone attacks and economic spying.”

Campaigners opposed to the activities of the United States-run intelligence base at RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Credit: Asadour Guzelian.

The event included a talk by CND about the role of the base and the concerns of people about its military operations, and some then visiting the main gate of Menwith Hill, where there was a reading of a “Declaration of Independence from America”, which was originally written by members of Otley Peace Action Group in the 1980s.  

US-Israel war back on full blast

• Palestinians in Gaza wrote on the occupation wall: Seyed Ali Imam Khamenei, ‘O beloved of Palestine, Gaza will never forget you.
• Millions of Iraqis gathered in Najaf, Iraq, for the funeral ceremony of martyr Imam Khamenei. [The US has successfully enflamed the Shia populations throughout the entire region of West Asia. Not particularly smart.]  

• US Central Command announced that its forces carried out a wave of strikes against more than 80 targets in Iran in response to recent Iranian attacks on commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The targets included Iranian air defense systems, command-and-control networks, coastal radar sites, anti-ship missile capabilities, and more than 60 IRGC small boats operating in and around the Strait of Hormuz. [The vessels struck were trying to make a run for it refusing to pay the fees. They are being encouraged by the US to do so.]

• IRGC strikes US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. A US MQ-9 Reaper drone was reportedly intercepted by Iranian air defenses over Khorramshahr in the Bushehr province of southern Iran.  

• Iran-US MoU in tatters: The US Treasury Department has revoked permission for the sale of Iranian oil. A US official cited Iran's activities in the Strait of Hormoz as the reason for this suspension. Crude oil prices rose again after Trump said the MoU is dead. Trump calls Iran a cancer that must be cut out. [He and Israel started this war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine and when they have fought back they are called a cancer. The sickness is with those who created this war.]

• According to Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB): 10 explosions heard in Bandar Abbas area. The area targeted in Sirik is a boat-building area. Six explosions were also heard in a fishing village on Qeshm island. President Pezeshkian left Najaf, Iraq for Tehran earlier than planned. 
• Iranian television announces the martyrdom of 8 Iranian soldiers in Bandar Abbas and Bushehr as a result of recent American attacks. Those injured by shrapnel from the US attacks that hit the commercial pier in Sirik were transferred to Minab hospital. 

• US official told CNN: "These attacks are retaliatory, not proportional, and they will not end anytime soon." 

• Channel 13 Hebrew: Israel fears US approval of Turkey establishing an air defense system in Syria, which would limit the Israeli Air Force's freedom to attack Iran.
• Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Abadi: America's decision to cancel the exemption from sanctions on Iranian oil sales is a blatant violation of Article 10 of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding.
• Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: Negotiations with America will not resume unless the clause related to Lebanon in the memorandum of understanding is implemented. There will be no final agreement with the US unless Israeli troops withdraw from Lebanon.
• The Zionist enemy is dropping incendiary bombs over Jabal Ali Al-Tahir in Lebanon.
• Mustafa Barghouti, interview, @MEEunapologetic: "What we are talking about here is an Israeli establishment that is aiming at extermination of the Palestinian people. In every possible way. Not only in Gaza but in the West Bank."
• Israeli strike killed Mohammed fawaz al-Wahidi, the Public Relations Director for the Egyptian Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, just before the start of the football match of his nation's team against Argentina. 

• Trump misspeaking: “We had a 111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan.” [He seems to be under a lot of stress to make a mistake like this. He knows he is in a losing position but the Epstein class has the goods on him so he must obey the zionist mobsters.]

• Real Japanese people demonstrate against Trump's war on Iran. 

Let Cuba Live!

After more than two decades away, Cuban-American teacher and activist Lavender returned to Cuba, the place her family always considered home. 

Walking through Havana, she reflected on identity, belonging and the complicated relationship many Cuban Americans have with the island.

She spoke about the changes she has witnessed in Cuba, including the evolution of attitudes toward LGBTQ+ people, and why she believes listening to ordinary Cubans is essential.

“I stand proud, and I stand tall because that’s what Cuba taught me,” she said. 

U.S. Voices Against the Blockade is a series featuring U.S. activists who oppose U.S. sanctions on Cuba. Watch Episode 6 to see Lavender’s story and stay tuned to hear other people from the United States speaking out against U.S. sanctions.