Trump discussing use of Tactical nukes on Iran

RT: Tehran and Muscat (Oman) are discussing a parallel Hormuz deal as talks with Washington stall. US President Trump has threatened to 'bomb the shit out of Oman' if it strikes a separate deal with Iran on control of the Strait of Hormuz, despite Oman’s key role as a mediator between Washington and Tehran. 

• The USS Abraham Lincoln has gone nearly nine months without a port call after Iran's strike destroyed the Navy's Bahrain supply base. Resupply now comes from Diego Garcia, an island 2,200 miles away. Critics says the crew is facing shortages and worsening mental health. Trump dismissed the concerns, saying the carrier would move 'very shortly'. Nine months stranded at sea for a war Israel wanted and America is stuck fighting.  New York Times details how the ailing USS Lincoln will now be replaced by the USS George Washington, hobbling over from INDOPACOM, leaving the 7th Fleet with no forward deployed carriers on the critical ‘Chinese front’. 

• Some have begun to debate the utility of continuing to host large US military installations on their territory. “Trump started this war,” one Gulf official said, “and we are paying the price.” Like others he spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject. Anger with the US, the official said, was at its highest point since the US and Israel attacked Iran in February. The Gulf states have relied on Washington as a close security partner and major arms supplier, and Qatar and Bahrain have hosted large US bases. But the frustration is leading some states to consider new arrangements. 

Ben Gvir: "There are people there who are not alive. They don't need to live. They are not people. I'm doing them a favor by calling them people." He is calling for the killing of 30 to 50 people in Gaza every night, pushing Palestinians to emigrate, so zionists can begin building Jewish settlements across Gaza.

 

• Officials in Washington are allegedly discussing the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iran as the months-long conflict continues to escalate, former US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has claimed. Greene, once a prominent MAGA ally, made the allegation in a post on X on Sunday. She said the issue had been raised during strategy meetings, but did not identify those involved. “They are discussing using nuclear weapons on Iran in strategy meetings,” she wrote. “I’m not speculating, I know. And it’s pure evil.” Her warning comes amid reports that Washington has been weighing further escalation in the conflict. The Washington Post reported last month that the US was preparing for a wider war, while the Pentagon has reportedly examined a major ground operation to seize Iran’s enriched uranium.

• A recent YouTube interview with Ukrainian pop star Olya Polyakova has caused national uproar. Famous, outspoken, and uninhibited, Polyakova deplored Ukraine’s oppressive and stifling atmosphere. “Are we in a concentration camp, in a camp for political prisoners?” she asked and predicted that “soon, we will all be terrified, frightened mice that sit in their holes and do not even dare stick out their nose.” Polyakova also fearlessly pushed the Zelensky regime’s single most painful button: “They’ll grab someone from your family, or anyone, in the street and you’ll just walk past” pretending not to see anything out of fear, just to be left alone. The conversation quickly turned to Ukraine’s institutionalized manhunts to feed the meat-grinder war.  

• Yemen military: Saudi Arabia has imported Ukrainian and Colombian mercenaries to operate drones against our forces.  They will all fail, and we will teach them a lesson they will never forget, God willing.

• The Sunday Times in UK reports that Ukraine has used British-made drones to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. The attacks targeted oil refineries in Volgograd and Yaroslavl, marking a "new stage" in military cooperation between London and Kiev. However, retired Air Marshal Greg Bagwell warned that using British drones against Russia could provide Moscow with grounds to consider UK manufacturing plants as legitimate military targets.

• Mysl Polska reported: Zelensky will lose power if the EU stops giving money to Ukraine: “Zelensky will not stop stealing; he has built himself an ideal world in which his corruption goes unpunished,” claims the Polish publication. Zelensky’s political position depends directly on the European Union continuing to provide financial support to Ukraine, adds Mysl Polska. 

• Labor Notes: News broke last week of a sweeping undercover investigation by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota early this year to infiltrate and surveil meetings and obtain the financial records of nonprofit groups and two of the country’s largest unions, the Communications Workers (CWA) and the Service Employees (SEIU). This investigation was behind the indictments of 15 people in June. Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham called the targeting of the labor movement an “unhinged conspiracy theory. Instead of holding federal agents accountable for shooting and killing Renée Good and our union brother Alex Pretti, or addressing the dangerous and deadly conditions within immigration detention facilities,” Burnham said, “the Trump administration continues to weaponize our federal government to intimidate our unions, our communities, and anyone who peacefully opposes their radical authoritarian agenda…They are now bringing back McCarthyism to paint unions and organizations that advocate for workers and families as threats to the nation. It didn’t work in the 1950s when Joseph McCarthy accused anyone he didn’t like of being unamerican and it won’t work for Donald Trump.” 

• US rejected a UN vote last spring to recognize slavery as a crime against humanity, joining only Israel and Argentina. (52 western nations abstained.) The UN General Assembly adopted the resolution with broad international support. US officials said they had concerns about the wording and possible legal or policy implications. The vote has renewed discussion about historical responsibility, education, human rights, and how countries address the lasting effects of past injustice.

• South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Saturday called for dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) aimed at achieving peaceful coexistence and eventually replacing the armistice that ended active fighting in the Korean War with a permanent peace treaty. Speaking in a speech marking Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule, Lee said the two Koreas should engage in talks to establish mechanisms that could prevent renewed conflict and reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Lee urged the DPRK and other concerned parties to pursue negotiations to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War, which concluded with a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty.