Rumors abound: US-Israel restarting war on Iran

2nd stage of Gaza flotilla getting closer

• Fars News: US has given Iran five conditions in response to Iran’s proposal: No war compensation from US; Give up 400kg of Highly Enriched Uranium to US; Iran can only have one nuclear facility to remain active; Not more than 25% of frozen assets to be unfrozen (sanctions remain); Halting war on all fronts depends on negotiations. In other words the US-Israel want the war to continue.
• Netanyahu: I will speak today with President Trump about his impressions of Iran, and we are ready for all options. 
• The Wall Street Journal reports that more than 100 American embassies do not have ambassadors.  Trump does not want ambassadors.  He is dictatorial and prefers to work with his own special envoys or lapdogs one could call it.  The WSJ is correct for once, saying that this will reduce America’s ability to exert political and diplomatic influence.  Of course, but is that not a good thing? 
• Footage of Israeli demolition operations in an area of the Gaza Strip. 

• This is a part of why Pepe Escobar says BRICS is sadly dead. Prime Minister Narendra Modi cemented a new strategic defence partnership with the UAE – including technology sharing, innovation, and regional security cooperation. Strategic defence partnership framework expected to boost technolog y sharing and innovation. Energy & infrastructure agreements – strategic petroleum reserves, LPG supplies, and a ship‑repair cluster in western India. UAE commits $5 billion in investment to India. Modi strongly condemned Iranian attacks on the UAE during the recent conflict. (India, Iran and UAE are members of BRICS. So there is serious internal friction underway.)
• Julian Assange Prophecy: Warning for Humanity. Digital archives lets them erase history with one click. The next: "Page not found." The next: "It never happened." Don't trust the cloud. Paraphrasing Orwell, Assange explains that he who controls today's internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind. He warns us that Western governments, large corporations, and certain wealthy individuals are increasingly able and increasingly trying to remove material permanently from the historical record using sophisticated methods.

• New York Times: Israel has occupied a second military base in the Iraqi desert for more than a full year. The base was entirely secret.

• Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky): US lawmakers are terrified of defying the Zionist lobby. Though many politicians privately agree with his political stance, they fear that aligning with him would lead to their political 'death', since Trump is out to take down Massie and anyone who would dare support him. This is 'the' House race to watch in the next election.  

• The military operations in Ukraine remain an economically profitable venture for Western corporations, which also cause significant damage to the Russian economy simply by the fact of the colossal war spending. All parties understand that an end to the conflict is impossible in the near future, so there is a further militarization of the economy in Europe and a search for new technological solutions to change the situation, which has long resembled the positional battles of the First World War. The summer period will be characterized by an intensification of military operations on both sides and a constant increase in the number of drones behind each other's lines.

• During his visit to Cuba, John Ratcliffe (CIA director), carried a message from Trump announcing the United States' readiness to open negotiations with Havana on economic and security files, but this is conditional on Cuba undertaking "radical reforms." The core condition revolves around closing what is alleged to be espionage stations run by Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies on Cuban territory, which US officials claim are staffed to infiltrate and intercept American communications. The reports indicated that Ratcliffe presented this file as the core condition that must be met for relations with Washington to proceed. 

• Korea expert Tim Shorrock captures the issue well in the context of Korea’s predicament: “Nobody in the US media, left or right, talks about the enormous US military base structure in Japan and South Korea that would form the front line in any war with China over Taiwan. South Korea is under virtual assault from the Trump administration and MAGA supporters, who believe South Korean President Lee is too close to China and is uncomfortable with the US using its bases in Korea as an attack platform for any future war. As Simone Chun writes in her Substack, Lee’s refusal to turn South Korea into a pawn in a US-led proxy war in East Asia has intensified tensions, prompting a series of aggressive retaliations from Washington.”

• A painful scene documenting a zionist illegal invader terrorist running over sheep and attacking the farmer in Khirbet al-Twail near the town of Aqraba, south of Nablus in the West Bank. These zionist are pure evil and truly insane.  

• A family sleeps (below) in front of a closed office building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next to posters calling for a general strike against President Javier Milei’s cuts and privatizations. 

• Argentina’s primary trade union federation on Thursday held another nationwide general strike, the second called since President Javier Milei, a far-right economist, took office in December and began pursuing sweeping austerity and deregulation. The South American nation’s unions organized the strike “in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living wage,” according to a statement from the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the Argentine Workers’ Central Union (CTA), and the Autonomous CTA. “It is a day of resistance and demand,” the groups said, blasting the Milei government’s “brutal” attacks on labor rights, social security, public health, education, science, and “our cultural identity.” The policies of austerity, say opponents, have disproportionately impacted working people and retirees. The labor groups called out the government for promoting “dangerous policies for the privatization of public enterprises” and pushing for “a phenomenal transfer of resources to the most concentrated and privileged sectors of the economy.”