Washington waging an assault on international law

• The people have taken to the streets in Yemen to express their joy over the bombing of the Saudi regime by Yemen. The Saudi-US war on Yemen has lasted for 12 years with a vicious blockade and starvation of many children during that time. Iran has been one of the few nations to try to help the beleaguered people of Yemen.

• Lindsey Graham's Senate seat will be filled by his younger sister Darline [who has no experience, but will gladly take orders from AIPAC]. 'Democracy' working so well in the USA!  
• Trump's most recent attacks on Iran caused oil prices to jump above $83 per barrel.
• A US air strike targeted an environmental monitoring station in the Hormozgan region of Iran. 

• Trump on the strait of Hormuz: 'We will become the guardian of the strait, and when we do that, we will be reimbursed for it. We guarded the strait for 50 years, and we never got paid for it. We guarded it for nothing, but now we will make money.'
• Brian Berletic: An overview of Saudi-Arabia’s strikes on Yemen and how it fits in with other wars ongoing and planned. Same old, same old if you get the pattern. Saudi Arabia is turning on Iran and on Yemen. So those that told you that the Saudi’s are interested in a regional security initiative had it wrong. They are interested in what suits them at the moment.
• Sovereignista on the Houthis: Calling us 'Houthis' is like calling the Iranian people Khomeinis. Wouldn’t it be better to call us Yemenis instead of Houthis? 'Houthi' is the title of the leader of the Yemeni revolution, Sayyid Abdul-Malik Badr al-Din al-Houthi, while the entire population participated in the September 21, 2014 revolution. Therefore, you should call us by our true name: Yemenis or Ansar Allah (Supporters of God). The name 'Houthis' is used by our enemies to belittle us and deny our existence as a state, government, people, and army. Therefore, [we] hope you will not call us by the name our enemies use for us. 
• Secretary Marco Rubio: 'The International Criminal Court seeks to become the unaccountable arbiter of a new global law — empowered to prosecute and arrest our citizens at will and existentially threaten American sovereignty. We will teach the ICC the full meaning of American resolve.' 

• Activist Ben Norton: The US empire is waging an all-out assault on international law. Why? Because the US knows its hegemony is declining fast, so it plans to wage even more barbaric wars around the world, in a desperate attempt to save its global empire. What the US is doing to Gaza, Cuba, and Iran is what it plans to do across the Global South. And US officials want to make sure that they are never held accountable for their genocidal crimes against humanity.
• Lvov, Nazi Bandera heartlands, in western Ukraine: A woman tried to prevent the issuing of another Zelensky government body snatcher death sentence. Being a coward and degenerate, one body snatcher tried to strangle the woman instead. “Freedom” and “democracy” never stops in Ukraine. Let's have the US-UK-EU give them some more money and weapons? Send NATO troops too?

• Nazi-led Ukrainian troops joined France's Bastille Day parade in Paris for the first time. While two Ukrainian pilots flew French-supplied Mirage fighter jets overhead. 

• Argentina's Jewish president Javier Milei allocated 100,000 hectares of forest land in Patagonia, about 4 times the size of Gaza, to Israel. Following this development, Mel Gibson's claim that "Israel will move to Argentina" has resurfaced.  

• Venezuela Watch: The US Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport. A US amphibious warship is docked at its principal port. MQ-9 Reaper drones and combat helicopters fly reconnaissance over Caracas. Nearly 2,000 US troops are deployed on land, air and sea in and around the country, operating out of two colonies: US-held Puerto Rico and Dutch-held Curaçao. Washington calls this earthquake relief. The deployment’s actual tasks tell the story. After repairing a runway, the US Air Force’s Contingency Response Element took over “airfield management, air traffic coordination, communications, and security” at Simón Bolívar International Airport, according to SOUTHCOM’s own press releases. Control of the airport and the port means control of everything and everyone that enters or leaves Venezuela’s capital region. That is a military objective, and the Pentagon has secured it. An Israeli military delegation also arrived. Brig. Gen. Elad Edri, chief of staff of the Israeli Home Front Command, with “expert teams” for reconstruction. Israel operates in West Asia as a US forward base, and its appearance in Caracas is a deployment of US power by other means — the army that bombed Gaza to rubble now sends officers and engineers to Venezuela as reconstruction experts.

• Center for Constitutional Rights: We condemn Florida’s new anti-terrorism laws. We joined Palestine Legal in writing a statement in solidarity with organizations, movements, activists and communities in Florida impacted by two so-called anti-terrorism laws that went into effect on July 1, 2026, which represent a new state-level tool of authoritarian political repression. HB1471 and HB1473 constitute an unprecedented attempt to extend anti-terrorism authority to a state government by granting a small group of Florida officials the power to designate domestic and foreign groups as "terrorist organizations." This dangerous development in the right's attempt to consolidate its authoritarian project signals an escalation in the attack on Palestine solidarity and social justice movements more widely.

• Center for Protest Law & Litigation: The Trump administration has released its proposal to erect permanent eight- to nine-foot fencing around Lafayette Square, with unilateral authority to seal the park and shut Pennsylvania Avenue at the administration's unbridled discretion. This is a transparent effort to suppress visible dissent in front of the White House in the nation's preeminent public forum, and to eliminate the American people's right to assemble and petition their government at the seat of presidential power. It is an overt attack on participatory democracy. Lafayette Park is not the president's front yard. It belongs to the American people and is the time-honored location to petition the Executive Branch for redress of grievances. It is the single most significant site for protest of presidential policies and actions in the US, where people have assembled to demand justice for more than a century, from the suffragists to the Civil Rights Movement to this day.