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At the moment when ordinary people of the world are struggling to free themselves from the shackles of greedy, corrupt and powerful people, it's important to visualize what future will look like when we succeed. 

Zionists pushing Sunni verses Shia war in Lebanon

• Sovereignista: A reminder. We hear of a new security and defense structure for West Asia. It is noticeable that ALL the countries that are rumored to be part of this bloc, signed up to the Board of Peace. Yes, Pakistan, the ‘Great Negotiator’ is part of the Board of Peace. So is Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, slated to be part of the new security and defense structure. You may also remember that this Board of Peace was not supported by Russia and China at the UNSC. Both were roundly criticized though because they did not veto. Afterwards FM Lavrov explained that there is no trust in this Board of Peace as it is illegal in terms of International Law but the Gulf countries asked them to let this go ahead. They would not give it legal standing with a veto, and stood aside upon request of the Gulf countries. So, here we are. These are internment camps that are in the process of being implemented. 
• Sovereignista: Expect that nothing much will happen in West Asia until the funeral procession of Martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei with his family members who were killed, is over in about six days (if this is not destabilized).  This is going to be one of the biggest mass events that we have ever seen if we count the streams of pilgrims pouring into Iran, as well as many smaller events in more than 100 countries across the world.   Even Dmitry Medvedev will attend:  “Iran’s Embassy in Moscow announced that Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev will attend the funeral of the martyred leader Sayyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran as the special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

• The Israeli army launched a series of aggressive pre-dawn raids across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, arresting five prominent female health committee activists alongside 15 other Palestinians. According to local reports, Israeli occupation forces stormed private residences in Ramallah, Nablus, and Hebron to target the women. The incursions involved aggressive property searches and the blindfolding and handcuffing of the detainees. Abdul Rahman Bader, the husband of 66-year-old activist Etaf Bader, told Middle East Eye that heavily armed soldiers raided their Hebron home, demanded his wife's identification, and immediately placed her under arrest without providing a legal justification.

• Lebanese Sunni scholar Sheikh Hassan Moraib revives Zionist lies claiming Iran's Martyr Sayyed Ali Khamenei was responsible for the death of millions of “Sunni women and children in Syria”. [Pure BS.] He further claims Martyr Khamenei killed more women and children in Syria than Israel did in Gaza. [More BS.] This is a rally of Zionist mercenaries in Lebanon and Syria to transition to a new front. A sectarian front creating a Sunni vs Shia battlefield to move into the finals steps to end Hezbollah once and for all. God please be with with Hezbollah and its Shia supporters who only fight to end Zionist control and occupation of Lebanon.
• Israel will keep its troops in occupied areas of Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria indefinitely, Defense Minister Israel Katz has said, describing the policy as necessary for “defending the borders.” Katz also renewed an earlier warning to Iran, saying it would be struck with “full force” if it retaliated over Israel’s military campaign in Lebanon. The warning echoed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent pledge that Israel’s pursuit of “total victory” over Iran and its allied groups “never ends.”  Tehran has made an end to Israeli military operations in Lebanon one of its key conditions in the ongoing peace talks with the US.

• Economist Michael Hudson: "The Oil War is going to cause cutbacks in spending on non-oil products, because paying more for gasoline, diesel and aircraft fuel, fertilizer, naphtha and sulfur will cut into profits, leading to layoffs. And some time this month, rising energy costs will force up electricity prices. This will limit the ability of IT and AI to meet the optimistic expansionary sales goals that they have set. This will lead many investors to consider the big runup to have reached its limit. And falling profits throughout the economy will be leading to a widespread stock decline."
• The CIA is declassifying a new trove of documents relating to its ‘MKUltra’ program, Representative Anna Paulina Luna (Repub-Florida) said on Tuesday. Nazi scientists (who came to the US after WW2 under Operation Paperclip) were involved in the agency’s mind-control drug experiments.
• RT: Former top Ukrainian General Valery Zaluzhny has told Vladimir Zelensky he will challenge him in the next presidential election, with current polling suggesting he would win in a run-off, Ukrainskaya Pravda reported on Wednesday. Zelensky’s presidential term expired more than two years ago, and he has since been reluctant to hold a new election despite repeated calls from the US.
• Horrific Health and Environmental Crisis in Gaza Amid Israel’s War: Severe Shortage of Safe Drinking Water. Cracked jerrycans and containers many of them visibly contaminated and unfit for human use have become the only available means to carry water. 

• US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, whose agency was responsible for enforcing controversial security measures targeting the Iranian soccer team at the World Cup, has said the job made him dance with joy and he was happy Iran was eliminated.

• Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’: "The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years. The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years. And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?"
• Australia’s Prime Minister admitted three Australian navy personnel were on the US submarine that torpedoed the Iranian warship off Sri Lanka. That means Australia is a co-combatant in a war it never even debated. No parliamentary vote. No public mandate. Just three Australians helping sink a ship that had just sailed in a goodwill naval parade in India.
• A joint investigation finds German conglomerate Bayer is behind the frequent Israeli use of glyphosate and white phosphorus inside Lebanon.

• British anti-terrorism police at Liverpool John Lennon Airport have detained a US human rights attorney and international lawyer, sparking fresh condemnation over the UK’s expanding use of draconian border powers against prominent dissidents, independent journalists, and legal professionals. Dan Kovalik, whose high-profile legal repertoire includes representing Colombian President Gustavo Petro, was subjected to intense interrogation under the country's sweeping counter-terrorism legislation.
• Omar Hamad in Gaza: "I tell myself every day: Don’t die. Don’t get tired. Check on the children. Look for water. Check if there are any holes in the tent so the water doesn’t leak in. Then stand up—don’t die. Don’t you dare die from some silly illness. Resist. Save your tears for a more painful day. Don’t you dare say, 'I’m tired'. Look for food. Don’t be afraid of the bombing. Gather your things and flee. Set up a tent. Flee again—don’t get tired. Write, and then write, and then write. Write your own death with your own hands—don’t let anyone write about you. Live, and don’t die."
• Stars & Stripes: The US Navy was searching Wednesday for a missing crew member after an MH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to USS George H.W. Bush conducted an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea, Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet said. Three of the helicopter’s four crew members have been recovered and are in stable condition aboard George H.W. Bush. 

All the Writing on the Wall is in Farsi

By David Rovics

While in Massachusetts recently I had the pleasure of spending a very productive day in the studio. 

The result will be the album, Song for Tomorrow, which will drop on streaming platforms on July 15.

How Yorkshire (UK) contributes to the U.S. war with Iran

U.S. warfighting Fylingdales radar system in North Yorkshire

By Dr. Dave Webb

At time of writing, we do not yet know if there is a lasting agreement of any kind between the US and Iran to stop or even pause the war. However, we do know that Keir Starmer has allowed Donald Trump to use British bases to launch his illegal bombing attacks, on the grounds of self-defence but allowing US nuclear-capable bombers to fly from RAF Fairford [near Oxford] to back up an illegal first strike is difficult to justify. And there are other US bases in the UK that have had an important role in the Iran War that we don’t hear so much about, and both are in Yorkshire.

You may or may not have seen a report published in March by The Times that revealed how a UK radar is playing a critical role in helping the US detect Iranian missile launches. The radar involved is at RAF Fylingdales on the North Yorkshire Moors, a few miles from Whitby. Fylingdales has provided tracking data and ballistic missile warning for the US since 1963. In 2003 the US requested that Fylingdales be upgraded to be part of its National Missile Defense system and the upgrade was eventually completed in 2007. Fylingdales is now part of Trump’s Space Force and The Times reported that the radar has been actively involved in Operation Epic Fury from the start. 

The powerful radar beam at Fylingdales can be scanned to cover 360 degrees at an angle of elevation from 3 to 60 degrees - with a stated range of just over 5,500 kms - and so could detect and track mid-range ballistic missiles reaching altitudes of several hundred kms or more above Iran some 4,400 kms or so away. The missile tracking data can then be used to calculate the possible type of missile and their likely impact location. Any friendly troops in the area can then be notified and any possible interception methods maybe initiated.

Information from Fylingdales is transmitted to the Space Delta 2 (responsible for space domain awareness) and Space Delta 4 (missile awareness) wings of US Space Systems Command, an important part of Space Force’s Space Warfighting Architecture.

Fylingdales cannot detect actual missile launches and is notified of these by information supplied by US satellites. The US Space Based Infra-Red System (SBIRS) of satellites detect the heat flashes of rockets during their launch phase and passes on information quickly to other parts of the missile defence network (such as Fylingdales). 

If US Space Command cannot receive information from SBIRS satellites directly, because the satellites are positioned on the other side of the Earth, then communication links with ground-based stations are used to relay the information onward. In 1996 it was announced that Menwith Hill, the US spy base just outside Harrogate in North Yorkshire, had been designated as the European Ground Based Relay Station for SBIRS.

U.S. NSA spy base Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire - note the sheep. So English.

Menwith Hill also plays another role of course - its major function is to intercept electronic communications by mobile phones, emails, etc. for the National Security Agency of the US and to search for possible information that may lead to the targeting of installations, groups or individuals considered to be a threat. A very recent Guardian article published on 30 June reports that the US plans to spend $4 billion on its bases in the UK, $163 million of it will go to Menwith Hill. It did not elaborate on what this sum of money would be funding but the article made a point that Menwith Hill “can capture communications as far away as the Middle East”.

So, US military satellites detect the heat generated by missile launches, transmit the information (via Menwith Hill) to US Space Command and the Fylingdales radar accurately determines their trajectories, helping to determine likely impact zones and providing data for possible interception.

The Times also reported that, before the initial US strikes, space and cyber commands had already attacked and hampered Iran’s ability to communicate and respond. This has become standard in modern warfighting methodology. The report also refers to the growing importance of space-based warfare capabilities. Major General Paul Terence Tedman, until recently commander of UK Space Command, described space as the “central nervous system” of modern military operations, playing crucial roles in communications, targeting, and weapons guidance at rapid speeds. The US military refers to this integrated system as a “kill chain,” a concept being expanded through new initiatives such as a UK “digital targeting web.”

It is worth remembering that Iran’s first response to the US attack was to destroy key US missile defence radar installations at bases in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE. The attacks were mainly by one-way drone systems. Fylingdales and Menwith Hill were too far away to be attacked in this way this time. 

~ Dave Webb is a retired professor who has been active on space issues for many years. He lives in Leeds, England and Chairs the Yorkshire Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He also is the Chair of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. 

U.S. planning to send troops into Lebanon

• Netanyahu on the upcoming elections: "Let me put it this way: I will do everything to win. We didn't leave Lebanon. We have effectively established this security belt—about 10 kilometers inside Lebanon—with the agreement of the Lebanese government. And of course Hezbollah is outraged. The same is true of Iran. 'Voluntary emigration' from Gaza remains on the table."
• Head of the Environmental Protection Organization at the 9th Asia-Pacific Environment and Sustainable Development Meeting: 'The silence of international bodies in the face of attacks on Minab school, Lamerd girls' sports club, oil facilities, water resources, and residential areas is unacceptable. These aggressions have not only targeted Iran, but have also threatened the environment and common heritage of humanity by damaging the Persian Gulf, the Sea of Oman, and biodiversity.' 
• The Pentagon is reportedly preparing to deploy US ground troops to Lebanon to implement the recently signed and controversial US-brokered agreement between Lebanon and Israel, which calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah.
• So, JD Vance said the goal of the MoU is to refill some stocks [oil, weapons…] and then see where we’re going! It's fairly obvious where this is going. It’s going straight to blackmail to sign a nuclear agreement or we’ll bomb you again.!

• US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee: "We would finally and rightfully stand with Israel, where God placed its capital. It's not just that you made that decision. I would say God made that decision 3,800 years ago, and we finally got around to acknowledging what had been determined long before the USA came along. For those of you who don't realize it, 700,000 Americans represent an entire congressional district in the US. When members of Congress come, I always say, Welcome to Israel, the 436th congressional district of the US."

• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says Israel is ready to immediately build three Jewish settlements in northern Gaza if Netanyahu approves. He says Israel should "fully conquer" Gaza. 

• Swedish defense firm Saab has signed a deal to supply 16 Gripen fighter jets to Ukraine, worth around 24.6 billion Swedish crowns ($2.54 billion). Ukrainian President Zelensky said the agreement with Sweden includes aircraft purchases and technical support, with deliveries starting in 2027. However, Saab said the jets are scheduled for delivery in 2029–2030. 

• Ann Wright: As the Trump administration and the US Congress continues to ramp up rhetoric of “China is our enemy,” 2026 is the 30th year that the US has organized the largest naval war practice in the world, called Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). For 37 days from June 24 through July 31, the RIMPAC war “games” will be held in the waters off the state of Hawaii. This year 31 countries have sent naval, air and land military forces to Hawaii for RIMPAC. 50% of the participating countries are members or “partners” of NATO. Invited from its wars in the Middle East, Israel, the US partner in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank, the destruction of southern Lebanon and the war on Iran, will also have a presence in RIMPAC as it continues to weave itself into the fabric of the US military. Although RIMPAC has not specified what the role of the Israeli military delegation is, one can surmise that they will act as liaison officers, planners, observers, or staff officers participating in command-and-control and multinational planning activities and giving lessons-learned in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 

• Germany urgently needs to lift the ban on Russian oil and gas imports to prop up its struggling economy, Alice Weidel, the co-chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has said. She also vowed to restore economic ties between the two countries if her party comes to power. “Cheap energy from Russia was the secret of the success of ‘Made in Germany’. We need it back,” Weidel said in an interview with Reuters. “The loss of this energy has set us back years. Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost. It has made us dependent on the US, which sells us energy at far higher prices.” The AfD has steadily gained support in Germany amid record-low approval ratings for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s policies. Berlin has been actively pouring money into a military buildup, citing the supposed ‘Russian threat’, which Moscow has dismissed as “nonsense.” Merz has also blamed the country’s economic problems on the German people, urging them to “work more,” while announcing plans to slash social spending.
• Water samples show high levels of PFAS at the US Pituffik base in Greenland. Pituffik was the last of the Air Force’s bases around the world to have its environmentally harmful firefighting foam replaced. The US has long turned a blind eye and said, 'There’s a problem, but we don’t care'. It is only in recent times that attention has focused on the legacy left behind by the Americans at some 36 military installations they have operated in Greenland over the years. Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base, is the only one still in operation. There have long been major concerns about radioactivity, abandoned asbestos, and large quantities of American waste. The use of PFAS is a completely unexplored chapter.  

• A record 25.2 million young American adults under 35 have returned to the family nest as the cost of living has become prohibitive. One of the main reasons for Americans opting to live with their parents is the high price of home ownership. The median sales price for a single-family home in the US is about $434,300. Compare that to 1975 when the average price was under $40,000. That demonstrates how much the dollar has shrunk in terms of purchasing power. According to the National Association of Realtors the national median home price is about to hit $1 million by 2050 – at precisely the time when millennials reach the traditional retirement age, Fox Business reported.
• Simplicius: Trump is attempting to manifest his ‘Golden Age’ merely by shouting it from the rooftops. Instead of carrying out real policies of reconstruction and transformation, fixing jobs, inflation, and all the actual underpinnings of a healthy state, he instead chooses to erect presumptive monuments to hopes and wishes and would-be accomplishments. A culture becomes kitschified when it has lost its original vital force, the creative spark which once drove it forward, and has turned into a recursive parody of itself. (Cheap, plastic-looking veneers and distastefully gaudy symbolism.) 

• RT: A six-month-old baby has been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow Region, Governor Andrey Vorobyov has said, adding that three other people were pulled from under the rubble of a residential building. Vorobyov said the drone came down in the town of Yegoryevsk, around 110 km southeast of Moscow. “At night, as a result of a drone crash in Yegoryevsk, a private house caught fire. People were trapped under the rubble." The surviving victims, two adults and one child, have been hospitalized and are receiving assistance. The infant died on the way to the hospital. [During the past year or so Ukraine has largely switched its strategy from taking on Russian troops to acts of terror aimed at the Russian civilian population throughout the country in hopes it would force regime change in Moscow.]
• ZeroHedge: Finland's parliament has moved to reverse its decades-long ban on nuclear weapons. The June 17 vote to lift the ban in effect legally authorizes the Nordic country to receive, transport, and facilitate the movement of nuclear weapons on its territory as part of NATO operations. The most significant source of NATO's nuclear-sharing program is the US. But lately France has expressed a desire to station some of its atomic arsenal in partner countries, and this could include in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and others. "The results of the vote represent unflattering victory of the blind Russophobia of the past few years over what we have always viewed as pragmatic sanity in Finland," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “And let nobody doubt that [response] measures will be taken. In this light, the Finnish people need to think whether this decision made by their elites will actually enhance security in Finland itself,” she added. In response Russia has moved to shutter more rail crossings to NATO states, including Finland - which will severely impact trade.  

• Scheerpost: The lack of heavy machinery in Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes which struck at the weekend has condemned thousands of people to a slow, suffocating death. These deaths may not have come at the tip of an American missile, but they very much came at the bloody hands of sadistic empire. The absence of bulldozers, diggers and excavators is a direct consequence of nearly three decades of crushing American sanctions which have sought to impoverish, demoralize, weaken and ultimately collapse the country in the name of freedom. In this explanation, some might see an anti-imperialist talking point lazily seeking to blame the US for a natural disaster. But it’s just the reality. US sanctions on Venezuela prohibit Americans from having any contact with the Venezuelan government, any state-owned or other companies on the sanctions list (currently 154 entities), or individuals on that list. This amounts to a huge chunk of the Venezuelan economy. And even if a company is not technically sanctioned, they become de facto sanctioned because western banks won’t process Venezuela-related payments. 

July 4: Nothing to celebrate in the USA

 

There will not be much to 

cheer about
on July 4th.

Washington

still running multiple wars.
Civil liberties sinking fast.
Voting rights being erased.
ICE arresting immigrants
of color

and building warehouse 

prison camps.

Social spending being drained
to pay for more weapons production.

Medicare, Medicaid,

food stamps being cut.

800+ U.S. bases

spread around the world.

(Space Force declaring

we need bases 

on the moon too.)

People want the U.S. out,

Yankee go home!

Infrastructure falling apart
(water & sewar systems,

highways, bridges,
schools, hospitals closing).

Post office, Veterans Administration

and national park 

funding being drained,

toward eventual privatization.

Social Security also eyed

by those pushing neo-feudalism.

Zionists taking control 
of social media
to wipe clean those accounts
that criticize Israeli & Washington

genocide.

Even the Lincoln Memorial 
reflecting pool is 

an algae-plagued mess.

Data center building
on steroids,

in virtually every state,
hogging up water
and ensuring that
every thing citizens
say, write

and do will be
stored and used 

in a rigged courtroom.

Blackrock, Palantir

and AIPAC

run this nation!

So much for 
freedom, democracy,
and a fair society.

America has lost
its soul.

Iranian culture is
2,500 years strong.

The U.S. now,

250 years old.

I'd not bet on

this experiment lasting
another 50 years
the way things are going.

Bruce 

U.S.-Israel are leading mafia takeover of Earth

• Israel continues to terrorize Lebanon and unleash destruction. Israel continues to destroy Southern Lebanese villages, villages that are older than their holy books. This is pure terrorism. I can’t believe how normalized this has become. I can’t fathom how this is happening and Israel is not getting ANY slap on the wrist. We can’t just wait for Iran and expect everything from Iran. There are 100+ other countries, 8 billion people. And this shit is happening in front of our eyes. Beautiful people getting killed. We’re talking about people that were born, lived for years, had dreams and loved ones, just wiped out in an instant … and for what? Israeli domination. 

• A senior EU official: Israel will likely enter a direct war against Iran in the coming weeks, and after the World Cup, the United States will join Israel.
• Hebrew Channel Kan: 'Trump's Peace Council' publishes: Arrival of the first vehicles at the Multinational Force (ISF) base, which is supposed to 'operate' in Gaza.

• Yemen Military: "After not allowing the temporary entity [Israel] to build bases on Somaliland, the entity may resort to some naive Arabs to launch airstrikes on Yemen...Any aggression against Yemen means the entire region will be blown up."
• Investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr: Peter Thiel is a believer in transhumanism. When he was interviewed the New York Times’s Ross Douthat, he hesitated for much longer than you’d think possible, when he was asked whether he wanted humanity to survive. Javier Milei’s government in Argentina announced in the pages of the Financial Times that Argentina was inviting AI “to free itself” in Argentina. He was bringing in new legislation that would see Argentina become the first country in the world where an AI could own a company. Peter Thiel, the man who owns Palantir, embedded in the heart of America’s ICE apparatus, its AI war machine and Britain’s NHS, moved his family to Buenos Aires a couple of months ago…but what was he doing there?' 

• It’s not just Argentina where 300,000 Zionists are buying up Patagonia. (And where Israel has bought up the national water system of Argentina.) Now Israeli colonizers have descended on Peru's mountains, where they’re covering trail markers at campgrounds with photos of IOF soldiers, and demanding no one else enter “their” land. This arrogance, now going global, indicates just what they have meant by their slogan 'Greater Israel'. They want control of the entire planet. Israeli's are the storm troopers for the global mafia.
• China is taking a lead in Venezuela. China provided Venezuela with satellite images of the affected areas to support relief and assistance efforts. Chinese companies and associations in Venezuela have donated construction machinery and critical medical supplies for emergencies. They have also formed their own teams to actively support in search and rescue tasks. The Chinese government will deliver, as soon as possible, an additional 100 million yuan ($14.7 million) in emergency material assistance.”  This is on top of previous immediate cash assistance.

Sputnik: NATO is working on advanced weapons systems for Ukraine designed to disable Russian airfields and airbases, including those located deep inside Russian territory. NATO's plans to develop advanced weapons systems in the interests of Kiev are recklessly aggressive, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Monday. Kiev is stepping up its attempts to push NATO into direct armed conflict with Russia, while NATO is gradually losing its remaining rationality, using Ukraine as a "testing ground," Zakharova added.

• Sovereignista: The honorable and acceptable process of being in war, and then solving whatever is left by negotiation, should be questioned seriously in our current circumstances.  There is no need for Iran to negotiate with the US. The US is the aggressor and needs to leave. You don’t negotiate with an aggressor that wants to draw blood or oil from you and kill you if you don’t agree. It is similar for countries under the whip of the ‘Donroe’ Doctrine. Negotiation with empire signals weakness. It signals that you need to speak with them in order to continue the life of your country and your citizens. This amounts to asking for permission for being human. Countries need to dispense with the absurd claim that Trump or the US, seeks peace. No, they seek oil and money and primacy. They are barbarians. One invites them into your country for ‘talks’ at your own peril. Bear in mind that we see clear signs of a religious war. This war is against the Shia. Iran is Shia.  Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Sunni. Daniel McAdams, Executive Director of Ron Paul Institute, states that the 'CIA is carrying out a coup in Iraq and opening a new front – encircling Iran'.  Syria is massacring Shia and Alawites.  Just yesterday a complete Shia town was told to pack up their goods and leave.  This is not a one-off event, but happens regularly.  Syria was asked (by Trump) to help fight against Hezbollah. When the few run the world, the many should rise.
• Germany could reinstate conscription as early as late July 2027 because its volunteer-based recruitment system is insufficient to meet Berlin’s military buildup plans, senior lawmaker Thomas Rowekamp has told AFP.

• Estonia will accept Ukrainian drones violating its airspace as long as they cause damage in Russia, Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna has said.
• Ukraine is deepening its cooperation with Mexican drug cartels to profit from the flow of narcotics, including fentanyl, into the EU, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has said. Trump has made combating fentanyl exports to the US one of his priorities, designating it as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’. In a statement on Monday, the SVR said the Ukrainian security agencies are deliberately showing leniency toward the growing flow of drugs from Latin America to Europe, adding that Kiev is facilitating the trade due to its financial crisis.

• The European Union risks entering the coming heating season with its lowest gas reserves in 15 years, potentially driving up energy costs for households and businesses, the Financial Times reported on Monday.  The bloc has faced soaring energy prices since scaling back Russian oil and gas imports following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict four years ago. The shift away from relatively cheap Russian pipeline gas has left Europe increasingly reliant on more expensive liquefied natural gas (LNG), particularly from the US.

Shabtai Secret Society of a zionist sort

JD Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy are both documented members of the Shabtai Society — Yale's secret society with unreported ties to the Epstein network, Israeli intelligence, and the BJP (India) diaspora. This is the connection nobody in mainstream media will map out honestly.

In this episode of The Dossier, I break down the full picture: What the Shabtai Society is and why its membership list matters. JD Vance's Shabtai ties versus his America First branding — what his donor network actually reveals. Vivek Ramaswamy's membership and its connection to BJP and Israeli defense industry networks. The Indian government soft power overlap inside American elite institutions. And how the same Yale ecosystem that produced Shabtai produced the social infrastructure Epstein used to build his influence and blackmail operation.

Senator Cory Booker (Democrat from New Jersey) and presidential primary candidate in the last national election is also part of this group. He sold his soul long ago. 

Tucker Carlson has been pulling on the JD Vance thread. Candace Owens has been asking who's really running the Trump administration. 

Now it's time to connect every dot. The society is real. The memberships are documented. The connections are there. And this conversation isn't going away. 

Iran has lost all trust in the U.S.

• In response to US attacks on 5 points at Iran’s southern coast, the IRGC retaliated with missile & drone attacks. Fars News, quoting a security & military expert: The IRGC targeted 8 US military infrastructures, including strategic and highly populated shelters, the marine control and data processing center, watchtowers, radar and communication systems at US Ali al Salem Air Base, Kuwait and US 5th Fleet Naval support base, Bahrain.

• IRGC also says that from now on violating ships will receive heavier blows if they do not coordinate with Iran. It also warns the US that their attacks violate the first clause of the MoU. US is building up forces & equipment in the region. Violation of Clause 9.  War & occupation in Lebanon and Palestine continue. Violation of Clauses 1 and 13.  None of Iran’s frozen assets have been released yet. Violation of Clause 11.
• According to Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. CENTCOM, there are more than 50,000 American troops currently in the Middle East.
• Omani Foreign Minister: The Sultanate does not support imposing fees on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz in compliance with the rules of international law. [Someone got to Oman and they changed their tune on this issue.] 

• Iranian President, Pezeshkian: Iran’s six billion dollars frozen assets in Qatar, out of the 12 billion will be released soon.
• Israeli media, quoting a senior official in the occupation army: "We are preparing to operate independently in Iran without US assistance. This may happen soon." Defense Minister Yisrael Katz: "I have instructed the IDF to prepare for Operation Blue and White in Iran, and the IDF is eagerly awaiting it."
• Speaking to Al Mayadeen, Professor Mohammad Marandi asserted that Iran never expected the US to implement the memorandum of understanding, stressing that the “Iranians have no trust in the Trump regime.” He also added that “Iran knew that the US would drag its feet as much as possible,” arguing that it had agreed to electronic signatures without a formal ceremony because of that distrust, adding that Iran’s leverage lies in its control of the Strait of Hormuz. Marandi further asserted that “Iran won the war,” and warned that “Iran will continue to use that leverage” until the US fulfills its commitments, saying the future of the agreement depends on whether the US ultimately honors its side of the deal. As for the signed framework agreement between the Lebanese authorities and the Israeli occupation, Professor Marandi said it is an attempt by Washington to violate the US-Iran MoU and an attempt by the US to “undermine the agreement”.

• Max Blumenthal: Sold-out Lebanese authorities have given the green light by Marco Rubio to Israel to extend its invasion of the country’s south, validating its ethnic cleansing of Shia citizens. Rubio, a pet project of the Israel lobby, is delivering a hammer blow to the MOU, and shivving JD Vance. Axios, citing officials: Trump spoke with the Lebanese president and congratulated him on signing the framework agreement with Israel.
• Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem: Linking Israeli withdrawal to disarming the resistance in all of Lebanon is a very dangerous proposal that crosses all red lines and turns Lebanon into a pawn in the hands of the enemy. The agreement reached in Washington is a humiliating, disgraceful, and illegitimate agreement. Instead, the provisions of the Iran–US understanding regarding a ceasefire in Lebanon should be implemented. 

• Hebrew Channel Kann: The Israeli army has received instructions to begin preparing for the new deployment in accordance with the agreement reached with Lebanon.
• Marwa Osman: It will be written in the margins of history that when the world isolated terrorist Israel. When nations rejected this entity. When even the US could no longer bear the political cost of Netanyahu’s massacres. When the world longed to see Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, and Smotrich held accountable for the crimes they committed against our people. It was the Lebanese authorities who stepped forward to rescue them, to legitimize their occupation and provide cover for their crimes against us, from the killing of the youngest infant to the destruction of entire villages. Shame. But shame will not endure forever. It will be erased only by the heroes of the Resistance in the South, the Beqaa, and Beirut. We will drive out the occupation. We will return to our villages. We will rebuild them. And we will consign this Lebanese government to the dustbin of history. 

• The Iran–US memorandum of understanding (MoU) is not regarded by the US and Israel as a ceasefire agreement; they also have a pattern of violating truces, states Dr. Greg Simons, professor of journalism at Daffodil International University. "They violate the conditions and then blame the opponent," Dr. Greg Simons says. "This is nothing which is unexpected. This is how they behave. The Americans are a declining empire. Their military is melting down. If they have a wider war, that's going to be accelerating the collapse of Pax Americana," Simons concludes.
• Buried in this year's defense bill is House Amendment #319, filed by Representatives Zach Nunn (R-IA) and Don Davis (D-NC). It orders the Secretary of Defense to stand up a Pentagon Defense Innovation Unit office on Israeli soil within 180 days of the bill becoming law. A piece of the Pentagon, relocated to Israel. [Genocidal Israel and US are now joined at the hip with taxpayers covering the bill.]

• Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has ordered Iran’s Judiciary to pursue prosecution of American and Israeli officials for war crimes committed during the 2025 and 2026 attacks on Iran. The Leader cited the Minab school massacre killing 170 students and teachers, and the Lamerd sports hall strike that killed 24 civilians including young volleyball players. He declared these constitute hundreds of legal cases that must be pursued domestically and internationally. The message emphasized that perpetrators’ public admissions amount to acknowledgment of criminal liability under international law.
• Israeli attack targeted tents of displaced people in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip tonight.

• Venezuela despite its current problems is beloved. Mexico was in first, with 5 planes full of equipment and emergency workers. Cuban doctors are on the ground in La Guaira, Venezuela, helping the people affected by the recent earthquake. Yes folks, in the midst of an extreme pressure campaign by the US, against this Cuban program, Cuban doctors continue to do what they do best, save lives and help those in need. Death and injuries rank in the thousands.
• Stars & Stripes: A sailor’s fatal fall in 2023 sparked a Navy probe that uncovered a drug distribution network aboard the Pentagon aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan and led to punishment for 58 sailors.
• Former US State Department advisor James Carden sets the record straight: “The Tomahawk missiles won’t change a thing. No more than the HIMARS, Patriot, or F-16. The war is lost. And it’s Ukraine, not Russia, that’s on the brink of the abyss.” And he adds: “Ukraine has been attacking these Donbass territories since 2014. The Ukrainians aren’t entirely honest. They say they want the eastern lands and the Donbass, but without the ethnic Russians who live there. Over the past 30 years, they’ve done everything to strip these people of their rights.” [This statement destroys years of Western propaganda. The admission of ethnic cleansing of Russian-speaking Ukrainians by Ukrainian Nazis.]

• Professor Yu Dal-seung of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies told Tehran Times that the US-Israeli war on Iran has prompted many South Koreans to question Western narratives. He noted economic disruptions from the conflict encouraged people to examine the war’s real causes. However, Western media still dominate South Korea’s international news, preventing deep change. Younger generations using diverse social media sources show more openness. Yu stressed that lasting perception change requires sustained educational and cultural exchanges, not just digital outreach. He described Iran as his “second homeland” from decades of study.
• The Observer: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is stepping down following a revolt within his own party, is interested in becoming the next secretary general of NATO. Starmer is interested in becoming NATO secretary general once Mark Rutte’s term expires in 2028, unless it is extended.
• Nodutdol is a US based organization of mostly young Koreans and Korean-Americans living in the US. They report: For decades, the media narrative surrounding North Korea has focused on extreme isolation, famine, and economic decay. But recent articles from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reveal a jarring new reality: a booming economy complete with new skylines, Chinese EVs, modern restaurants, and widespread smartphone technology. Earlier this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping made a historic state visit to Pyongyang, marking his first trip to North Korea in seven years. The meeting actually marks an important development in the Beijing-Pyongyang strategic partnership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2KP0jtV3XI

JFK's silent battle with Israel over nukes

JFK experts Wally Rashid and Ken McCarthy share new bombshell research that exposes JFK's silent battle with Israel over nukes, and a discovery that may link the IDF to JFK's assassination. 

And here are the State Department documents Wally gained access to: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uyeB-yQuB4UFw-Bvmo6fUJjPZSqikIbE/edit

00:00 Intro

00:25 JFK’s “sour” relationship with AIPAC

01:50 JFK silent battle with Israel over nuclear weapons

03:30 Israel built fake room at nuclear site to deceive U.S. inspectors

04:53 JFK put forward UN resolution for Palestinian right of return

05:59 CIA’s one man “Israel desk” James Angleton was helping get material for nukes

08:50 Wally’s new discovery: IDF chief was in Dallas day JFK was assassinated

10:58 “Assassination industrial complex” doesn’t want to hear it

Wally Rashid is a Palestinian-American journalist and the host of The Wally Rashid Show. 

Ken McCarthy is a JFK researcher and the author of "JFK and RFK's Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence" and "John F. Kennedy Anti-Imperialist: His Character and Intentions Revealed in Five Speeches and One Telegram." 

United States of Palantir

 By Geopolitics Prime (Telegram)

We spent an entire month digging into how Palantir wrapped its tentacles around every lever of the US machine. Everything below — authentic, documented, officially registered deals and programs.

The titles are clickable, so you can follow the links and read more:

🌏 How Palantir merged 75 contracts into a $10B Pentagon lock: now it runs the war machine's backbone

🌏 USDA hands Palantir $300M and a single file on every farmer

🌏 Silent takeover: Palantir became the Air Force's operating system long before anyone noticed

🌏 US Marines under digital control: Project Dynamis puts one-click kill authority into every Marine's hands

🌏 A decade in the shadows: Running missions before contracts existed, now gatekeeping who gets in

🌏Palantir and DHS: Unified platform merges travel data facial scans and immigration records for enforcement

🌏Palantir and the IRS: Tax returns and crypto wallets piped straight to ICE skipping judicial approval

🌏Palantir and ICE: 4 billion records, one app, zero access rules documented

🌏Palantir and HSI: Your phone extracted, your contacts run against student visa databases

🌏Palantir and HHS: Millions of medical records searchable inside a defense contractor's system

🌏Palantir and CDC: Battlefield software now tracks outbreaks and decides who gets vaccines

🌏Palantir and FDA: Formula crisis let them in, now they own the data on everything America eats

Further investigations will cover: Palantir's deepening ties to the FBI, DOJ, CIA, CBP, NASA, and other federal agencies yet to be exposed.

What we already know is just the surface. More contracts, more integrations, and more agencies are being wired into the same private platform.

Sunday song

U.S.-Israel up to old dirty tricks in West Asia

Status of the end-of-war MoU — Day 8

War & occupation in Lebanon and Palestine continue. Violation of Clauses 1 and 13.

• The Strait of Hormoz is open free of charge.

• Iranian ships are passing through the blockade.

• So far, Iran’s frozen funds have not been made available. Violation of Clause 11.

• The suspension of oil sanctions was announced, but it has not yet been implemented.

• Threats against Iranian officials and Iran’s territorial integrity continue. Violation of Clause 3.

• Anti-Iranian statement by the US and its regional partners. Violation of Clauses 1 and 3.

• The communication line between CENTCOM and the IRGC, which had been approved in Switzerland contrary to the content of the MoU, was annulled.

• US attacked targets inside Iranian soil. Violation of the entire MoU. 

• The IRGC issued a statement after US attacked Sirik, southern Iran. 'Following the Zionist regime’s violation of the ceasefire in southern Lebanon, a few hours ago the treaty-breaking American regime also, as always, violated its commitments. Under various pretexts related to the movement of a violating ship through an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormoz, it launched an air attack on the coasts of Iran. In response to this aggression, the IRGC-Navy struck the US military positions in Bahrain. According to Clause 5 of the Islamabad MoU, the arrangements for controlling passage and traffic in the Strait of Hormuz are under the authority of the Islamic Republic of Iran. However, America, by provoking various sides, sought to violate this commitment, and the necessary response was given. From now on, it will be the same. If the aggression is repeated, our response will be broader than this.'

• In a Wall Street Journal report, the extent of the damage inflicted on US Navy’s Fleet base (NSA) in Bahrain following Iranian attacks, carried out between late February and June, was far more severe than what has so far been officially announced. According to the report, repeated attacks caused damage to its command building, at least a dozen other buildings, as well as two satellite communications stations. The cost of rebuilding the Bahrain base alone is estimated at around $400 million. This figure does not include the costs of debris removal, strengthening fortifications, or replacing equipment. The value of each of the two destroyed satellite communications stations is also estimated at around $20 million.
• Hebrew Israeli news website: The agreement between Israel, Lebanon, and the US grants official recognition from the Americans and the Beirut government of the presence of the Israeli army in the security zone, until Hezbollah is disarmed.

• Yedioth Ahronoth: Unlike the agreement concluded in November 2024, this time the agreement will be closely monitored by the US Army, which will also train the Lebanese Army.
• Hezbollah is preparing for possible civil war after the so-called negotiations with Lebanon, Israel and the US, assuring that Israel may stay in Lebanon. What was actually signed? Lebanon commits to fully disarming Hezbollah and every other non-state armed group on its own soil, in exchange for a gradual, “verified” IDF withdrawal carried out in stages through so-called pilot zones, with the US overseeing the whole process. Israel, for its part, signs nothing binding beyond a vague promise to eventually leave once it’s satisfied the disarmament is complete, on its own timeline, by its own verification. People in Lebanon are out on the streets to protest against the US-brokered deal signed between Lebanon and Israel. Footage circulating now shows Beirut’s government Serail surrounded by furious crowds after the Lebanese regime signed the agreement with Israel.

• Protesters have laid siege to the Serail, the seat of the Lebanese government, after news broke that Beirut formally signed the framework with Israel. Popular anger is spreading fast across the capital. The Lebanese western controlled puppet government appears to have deployed the military against protesters. There are reports of troops firing tear gas at crowds on the road to Beirut airport.
• Journalist Patrick Lawrence: I have been preoccupied with what I will call the quality of defeat for some years. By this I mean those benefits a people can derive from accepting loss when it comes to them: They can self-reflect, they can learn, fate has given them an opportunity to begin again. On the other side of this same moon, the darker side, a people or a nation that refuses to acknowledge defeat when they have been vanquished or otherwise turned back are self-condemned to a world of illusion and delusion. In this they lose all connection to the world around them. This question now lies before us once again. The US, led by an incompetent president and the prime minister of a viciously barbaric nation [Israel], a nation I judge to suffer a collective psychosis at this point, started a war with the Islamic Republic and lost it in a matter of a couple of months. Defeat, once again, makes opportunities, providing America is prepared to grasp them.
• Congresswoman casual reading of the Epstein files. 

• Politico: NATO expects the biggest disputes at the summit in Ankara, Turkey to be related to Ukraine. It is expected that at the NATO summit in Ankara in July 2026, issues of military aid to Ukraine will become a source of disagreement, with European countries planning a commitment to funding in the amount of €70 billion without US participation. Internal disputes also concern the fair distribution of the financial burden, Donald Trump's demands on Europe, and differences in approaches to the production of long-range weaponry.

• Human Rights Watch denounced Turkey’s arrest of over 200 people ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, saying it showed a “ruthless intolerance” of freedom of speech and assembly. The NATO summit takes place in Ankara on July 7-8. One was shot dead during a confrontation with police about 100 kilometers south of Ankara, security sources told Turkish media. Environmental NGO Tema Foundation also said some of its staff and volunteers had been arrested following a visit to a bird sanctuary, with the Medyascope news website saying the sweep included an unspecified number of birdwatchers in their 60s. On the eve of the raids, the Ankara governor’s office banned all public demonstrations and activities for 13 days from midnight on June 28, putting up large billboards along roads leading to the airport to hide poorer rundown areas from view, an AFP journalist and Turkish media reports said.
• After losing against Iran in 3 months, Trump says he can "finish the job" in Iran in less than a week. 

• The Israeli army kidnapped 4 civilians at the Majidiya-Ain Arab triangle in south Lebanon after they advanced into the area.
• Stars & Stripes: An Army base in southern Germany is investigating whether past firefighting exercises are to blame for toxic chemicals found in fish samples taken from area waterways. US Army Garrison Bavaria suspended fishing in five lakes and streams in the Grafenwoehr Training Area earlier this month after elevated levels of PFAS were discovered in the samples. PFAS, or human-made per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are long-lasting chemicals used to make products resistant to heat, oil, stains, grease and water. They are also found in firefighting foam historically used at US military bases around the world. PFOS and PFOA are two common types. 

• Human Cost of War: Gaza: 1.027 killed since the beginning of Trump's Gaza plan (Palestinian Ministry of Health); at least 3,201 Israeli violations of Trump's Gaza plan (Gaza Government Media Office); 73,008 killed during Israel's genocide (Palestinian Ministry of Health). Iran: 3,468 killed (Iran Ministry of Health). Lebanon: 4,175 killed (Lebanon Ministry of Public Health); 1.1 million displaced (UN).

• Story by Mohamed Ahmed and Abdel Qader Sabbah from Gaza. Eleven-year-old Ahmed Al-Raqab was playing outside his family tent pitched on Gaza’s sandy coastline in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, on Wednesday when an Israeli missile struck, killing him and severely wounding several others. “The children were playing and they fired a missile directly on them,” Ahmed’s father, Sabri Al-Raqab, said, sobbing as he knelt on the floor of Nasser hospital with his arms across his son’s dead body in a final embrace. “He was carrying a watermelon. What was this child’s crime? He picked up a watermelon and they fired at him. Is he a fighter? He’s not a fighter. He’s a child.” The latest Israeli attacks on children came a day after a UN Commission of Inquiry released a report that concluded, “Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip.” The UN inquiry said that during the first two years of the Israeli assault, over 20,000 children were killed and more than 44,000 injured.  https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bombs-gaza-coastline-tents-beach-displaced-palestinians

• Washington Post: Nursing homes, factory owners and immigrants brace for fallout from Supreme Court ruling. The high court’s decision to strip Haitians and Syrians of their protections from deportation had immediate ripple effects for immigrants and their employers.
• Global Ocean Watch: Months of sustained pushback from global environmental activists and Indigenous communities have failed to halt a controversial US deep-sea mining advance. On May 29, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) quietly approved an exploration license for The Metals Company USA, authorizing seabed survey activities within the parcel of the South Pacific’s Clarion–Clipperton Zone. Critically, the targeted exploration area lies in international waters, outside US territorial jurisdiction and beyond the formal oversight of the International Seabed Authority, the UN body mandated to govern deep-sea resource activities on the global commons. The administrative approval represents a calculated geopolitical and economic maneuver by the Trump administration. By invoking “national security” and critical mineral supply chain resilience, Washington has empowered domestic private firms to stake unilateral operational claims in unregulated international maritime territories. The move enables corporations to extract valuable deep-sea mineral resources while bypassing unified global environmental governance and multilateral resource-sharing frameworks. This precedent-setting deep-sea mining signals a broader US strategy to expand privatized resource exploitation beyond Earth’s boundaries, including space and lunar resource initiatives led by SpaceX and Amazon-affiliated aerospace entities.

• A groundbreaking federal lawsuit has been filed against Palantir Technologies, its founder Peter Thiel, and CEO Alex Karp, alleging the company has crossed a constitutional Rubicon. The complaint accuses Palantir of deploying its powerful AI surveillance tools, normally used by the Pentagon, against the American public to monitor citizens, harvest biometric data, and censor speech. Plaintiffs claim the company is developing "synthetic intelligence" to predict human behavior, a pre-crime system that violates "cognitive liberty" by trespassing into the human mind. 

• North Korea refuses to respond to FIFA and broadcasts World Cup matches for free to its people. North Korean media reports: This is a global tournament, and you have no right to charge for watching it. It is worth noting that Pyongyang is broadcasting all World Cup matches live and free of charge, disregarding all other parties.