U.S. strikes back hard against Iran

• IRGC announced: Strait of Hormoz fully closed until US ceases its interference in this region. No vessel will be permitted to pass through. Following this Iranian move, the US is now carrying out on-going attacks throughout southern and southwestern areas of Iran, by firing surface-to-surface HIMARS ballistic missiles from Bahrain & Kuwait. Explosions reported in: Bandar Abbas, Asaluyeh, Bushehr, Sirik, Minab, Ahvaz. Axios reports that in response Iran targeted US bases in Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and Jordan.

• Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth: 'Iran made a poor choice. Now, they will pay.' CENTCOM confirms the US is currently attacking Iran in retaliation for blocking ships from crossing the Strait of Hormuz on Trump’s orders. 
• Iran published images of an intercepted American Tomahawk cruise missile launched from a US navy destroyer in the Gulf of Oman toward Iran. The missile was shot down by the Iranian air defenses in Khorramabad, Lorestan province, yesterday. 

• Iran’s MFA Spokesperson: We did not make any request to negotiate with the US, however, we did not reject a request from one of the regional mediators to visit Iran. This meeting took place in Mashhad, and we conveyed our views to the Qatari side.
• Iranian Ministry of Health: 17 Iranians, including a woman, killed and 115 others injured in US recent attacks.
• Close-up footage of the Israeli strikes on Gaza City. 

• More than 1,100 Israeli military and settler violations were recorded across the occupied West Bank in just one week, according to the Moata Centre. The documented violations include raids, attacks on Palestinian communities, property destruction, assaults on civilians, and other violations carried out across different areas of the occupied territory. 

• Middle East Eye: Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said US envoy Steve Witkoff described Gaza’s entire population as “two million Nazis” during a private meeting last year.  According to Smotrich Witkoff told him: “Bezalel, I will not let two million Nazis live next to your children along the border fence.” Smotrich also quoted Witkoff as saying that “There is only one thing that hurts the enemy: land.” The meeting was also attended by then‑Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer. Smotrich’s remarks came just days before Trump publicly unveiled his plan to “take over” the Gaza Strip and relocate its population. The initiative proposes so‑called “voluntary relocation packages” for Palestinians, offering $5,000 per person. Developed without any Palestinian involvement, the plan effectively formalized a foreign presence in the Gaza Strip. 
• Trump ready for mid-terms: The Donald is trying out his new talking points in time for the November Congressional elections. His two latest are the 'Commies are coming' and 'They want to kill me'. His supporters are now likely arming up for a possible civil war.

• Tens of thousands of children born in Gaza during the genocide have only known war. But even though they’re still living in tents under near-daily bombardment, they still find moments of joy. 

• Israeli occupation forces opened fire on homes in the town of Mansouri, continued to demolish houses in the city of Bint Jbeil, and carried out a bombing operation this morning in Majd al-Zoun, southern Lebanon.
• Zionist settlers have attacked a CNN crew and detained a US congressman. Imagine what they do to Palestinians. California Democratic lawmaker Ro Khanna said he was detained by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit this week that he cast as an unfiltered look at the human toll of Israeli occupation. 

• Black Agenda Report: The war in Sudan between government forces and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) backed Rapid Support Force (RSF) continues, and so does what experts call the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The city of El Obeid is under siege, and there are fears of another massacre, such as in El Fasher.

• Evacuation of Konstantynivka: In a tense environment near the front lines, Russian troops carried out a complex and carefully planned evacuation of civilians from Konstantynivka.  Over three days, combatants from the 4th Independent Mechanized Brigade "South" evacuated several groups of civilians from the city. In total, approximately 20 people, including children, were evacuated. Special and secure routes were developed for the evacuation of the people. During different stages of the evacuation, drones, light and fast all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, and ground robotic systems were used to ensure the safety of the people. "The bad things are already forgotten," said one of the rescued women. [Ukraine has occupied this region generally since 2014 using it as a launch pad for attacks against the Russian-ethnic Donbass population and into Russia itself. Zelensky's Nazi led forces are now on the run.] 

• Sovereignista: "German Embassy suggests we should stop what it called an ‘aggressive war’ and informs us about fuel shortages," says Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova. "We agree it’s time for Berlin to stop waging an aggressive war through the Kiev regime. In the meantime, the concerned German diplomats can take public transport."

• South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham unexpectedly died last night and is now on his way to meet his Devil. Graham was a long-time major promoter of the US-NATO war on Russia using Ukraine as the hammer. He's also a Netanyahu lover and has fought hard to fund Israel's wars against Palestine, Lebanon and now Iran.

Hells Angels Airshow Protest in Brunswick, Maine

On Friday the Navy Blue Angels (Hells Angels) came to Brunswick, Maine and spent half the day flying low, just over our heads, as a way to 'build interest' for the air show that would be held over the weekend at the former naval air base in our community. The short clip above was taken right in front of our apartment.

Then on Saturday morning we began lining up just before 8:30 am outside the closed base as legions of vehicles were already crawling toward the air show parking lots. 

Over 30 of us from around the state spent the next three hours in the hot sun with our signs and banners making eye contact with those inching by in the traffic snarl. Most had their windows up but a decent number were reacting positively to the wonderful activist 'Ideal Maine Band' out of Portland that played again (for the 3rd time) during one of our many air show protests over the years. 

We've often heard that Maine is one of the easiest states in the nation where the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines can find eager new recruits due to our depressed economy. Thus lots of air shows have been held in our mid-coast town.

Some years ago a group of us paid to go inside and handed out hundreds of flyers opposing these air shows. We were not surprised by how much of the event was centered on recruitment with big tents for each branch of the military offering fancy video games for the young kids to practice killing 'the bad guys'. After checking out that scene our group on that occasion carried our banner and stood underneath a B-1 bomber. We figured we'd quickly get arrested but they appeared not to want to 'make a scene' by cuffing and dragging us off to jail in front of the enormous crowd. (Click on photo for better view)

Surprisingly yesterday we got a decent amount of waves and peace signs from those entering though we did get many more negatives (middle fingers, thumps down, shouts, and snarls) from Trump's adoring militarist fan club. 

But we were most interested in making eye contact with the kids in the back seats of the cars and many of them rewarded us with curiosity, smiles and waves. Sometimes it is best to take the long term view.

All in all it was a good day. We were able to bring a determined and colorful anti-imperial opposition to another 'USA war mongering event' in our community.

Bruce

• Our next statewide monthly peace protest will be held in Bangor on Saturday, July 25 at 11:00 am at the downtown West Market Square.

~ Photos and videos by MB Sullivan

Sunday song

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.

Updates from the war zones

• Total economic losses for EU countries due to the refusal to buy Russian energy could amount to approximately 3 trillion euros ($3.4 trillion). This has resulted in sharp price hikes, high energy prices, declining living standards, and the closure and relocation of industrial enterprises.
• Five hours before the funeral ceremony started in Qom and Jamkaran, the grand mosque was already packed with mourners. Keep in mind, it was 1:30 am in Iran at that time. 

• Iran’s SNSC Secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, issued a statement: To the delusional President of America, who today threatened 91 million Iranians, I say: Before this, as the president of a rootless country with a 250-year history, you had spoken in similar language about wiping out Iran’s several thousand year old civilization. And the result for you was nothing but defeat, desperation, and a request for negotiations and a ceasefire. The Iranian people are strangers to the language of threats. So speak to the people of Iran with respect, otherwise we will respond to you in another language. 

• As pro-Palestine candidates gain momentum in primary elections across the US, Israel and its zionist lobby in Washington are maneuvering to make American complicity in this genocide permanent. 

• Chaos at Kölnn-Bonn German airport: The Human rights socialist group, which consists of German, Dutch, Turk, Greek and Kurds were both verbally and physically abused/assaulted after being denied to fly towards Iran to attend the funeral ceremony. 
• Jerusalem’s Archbishop tells of the vile abuse he faces from Jewish ultranationalists in the city.

• If this proposal to merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries passes into law, it will be almost impossible to undo.
• Trump’s intervention to revoke the Red Card from the US striker didn’t help. The USA lost to Belgium by a score of 4-1 and were eliminated from the World Cup after a scandal involving the cancellation of their player’s disqualification. The 'top scorer of the Americans', Folarin Balogun, who was saved from disqualification, did not score. The lego movies are taking over the internet. Satire abounds – this is an example: The US has declared war on Belgium citing ‘Belgium is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.' What is Trump gonna do now?

• According to Allianz Trade, climate-related losses could shave between 5% and 7% off the EU's cumulative GDP between 2026 and 2030. France is projected to suffer the biggest hit, with losses of around $240 billion, followed by Italy ($147 billion), Germany ($131 billion) and Spain ($120 billion).
• Trump has pledged $300 million for Venezuela. That amount, in addition to the $500 million provided since January, represents only 10% of what has been stolen since the beginning of the year—an amount ranging from $4,000 million to $22,000 million in Venezuelan assets withheld or seized abroad, depending on the accounting method used, including funds blocked by sanctions.  It has also been reported that Trump sent 900 military personnel, but only 300 of them are rescue workers. Likewise, two warships arrived in Venezuela: the USS Fort Lauderdale and the USS Billings, equipped with significant firepower but lacking any capacity to address natural disasters of the kind that have affected Venezuela. No one has seen the U.S. rescue workers; their only public appearance was to hinder the efforts of those who are actually working, which forced Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello to intervene directly. In reality, the United States’ interventionist action is linked to its effort to seize and control Simón Bolívar Airport and the port of La Guaira.

The Right-Wing Zionist Wave Sweeping Latin America

A decade of left-wing governance has collapsed as right-wing leaders pledge allegiance to Washington and Tel Aviv through the Isaac Accords framework.

By José Alberto Niño

Venezuela suffers catastrophic earthquakes and the IDF moves in. The arrival of an Israeli mission has drawn backlash from the Chavista grassroots. Hindu Anderi, spokesperson for the Platform of Solidarity with the Palestinian cause, slammed the “hypocrisy” of Tel Aviv claiming the mantle of humanitarianism amid its ongoing genocides in Gaza and Lebanon.

“The Zionist regime wants to whitewash its record through rescue teams […] after condemning the Palestinian people to rubble,” she wrote on social media.

Colombia: Abelardo de la Espriella’s razor-thin victory over leftist Iván Cepeda on June 21, 2026 represented the most recent rightward shift in Latin America’s politics. The defense attorney from Barranquilla captured 49.66 percent of the vote against Cepeda’s 48.7 percent—a margin of roughly 250,000 votes in what Al Jazeera called one of Colombia’s closest elections. Within hours, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar called to congratulate him, and de la Espriella posted his response publicly.

“Colombia will restore and strengthen its relationship with the State of Israel like never before. Israel can count on Colombia as a loyal friend and steadfast ally,” de la Espriella declared. Sa’ar called him “a true friend of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,” adding that he looked forward to “revitalizing relations between Israel and Colombia and taking them to their highest level ever” and that he had already invited the incoming president to visit Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered his own congratulations, saying he looked forward to “working with you to strengthen the bond between Israel and Colombia.” De la Espriella has pledged to reverse Petro’s 2024 decision to cut ties with Israel and has promised to relocate the Colombian embassy to Jerusalem.

No figure looms larger in this transformation of Latin American politics than Argentine President Javier Milei. The libertarian economist who took office in December 2023 has positioned himself as Israel’s most devoted ally anywhere on earth.

“I am sincerely proud to be the most Zionist president in the world,” Milei declared at Yeshiva University in March 2026. At the Western Wall in June 2025, he proclaimed that “My support for Israel comes from the heart, because I believe this is a just cause—the cause of the West. I will always stand by your side.”

Milei personally studies Torah with Rabbi Shimon Axel Wahnish from the Moroccan Jewish community in Argentina and has said he intends to convert to Judaism after leaving office. In June 2025, he became the first non-Jewish head of state to receive Israel’s Genesis Prize, known as the “Jewish Nobel,” awarded for his “unequivocal support” of Israel.

He directed his entire $1 million prize toward creating the American Friends of Isaac Accords, the vehicle through which Argentina and Israel formally signed the Isaac Accords on April 19, 2026 in Jerusalem. The framework explicitly mirrors the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states, but targets the Western Hemisphere instead.

The goals are clear. Partner countries should move their embassies to Jerusalem, designate Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations, shift anti-Israel voting patterns at the United Nations, and create frameworks for trade in technology, agriculture, water, health, and cybersecurity.

At least one nation had embraced the embassy mandate well ahead of the Accords. Paraguay’s Santiago Peña reopened his country’s embassy in Jerusalem on December 12, 2024, making Paraguay the sixth country in the world—after the United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Kosovo, and Papua New Guinea—and the first since the October 7 attacks to establish diplomatic presence in the contested city.

“Mr. prime minister, on behalf of all the Paraguayan people, we were with you, we are with you, we will stay with the people of Israel forever,” Peña declared at the ceremony with Netanyahu present. He called the move “a tipping point in our own history” and “a moral obligation that the Paraguayan people have asked us to fulfill.”

Paraguay was not alone in courting Tel Aviv. Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, the banana fortune heir who won re-election in 2025, traveled to Jerusalem in May of that year for meetings with Netanyahu, at which Noboa declared that “Israel and Ecuador have the same enemies” and pledged to fight poverty, terrorism, and suffering “until the end.” Israeli diplomatic sources confirmed to Jewish Insider that both Ecuador and Paraguay are expected to formally join the Isaac Accords framework.

Nowhere did the shift register more dramatically than in Chile. José Antonio Kast’s victory in Chile’s December 2025 election delivered perhaps the most symbolically significant prize. Kast overturned four years of Gabriel Boric’s more pro-Palestinian governance. After Iran’s 2024 drone attack on Israel, Kast had warned that “Iran launches a drone and missile attack on Israel. They could be the same drones that it gifted to Bolivia to monitor our borders. Chile has a serious national security problem.”

In May 2026, Kast met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and pledged to return Chile’s ambassador to Israel, ending a lengthy vacancy by naming Gabriel Zaliasnik as ambassador. He promised expanded cooperation in agriculture, health, artificial intelligence, technology, and security.Notably, Kast achieved this while governing a country home to the largest Palestinian diaspora outside the Arab world, estimated at 500,000 people.

The same paradox surfaced again, more sharply still, in Central America. Nasry “Tito” Asfura won Honduras’s late 2025 election with Trump’s endorsement, becoming president on January 27, 2026. Despite his Palestinian Christian ancestry, the conservative former mayor of Tegucigalpa made Israel one of his first international destinations after being elected, traveling there alongside the United States.

“It is a great honor for me to be in Israel again and to strengthen the ties which have been in existence over the last 77 years,” Asfura stated in Jerusalem. “I hope we are entering a new era where we can improve our relations, relations of brotherhood, and prosperity, of investment.” Israeli Foreign Minister Sa’ar told the Jerusalem Post Magazine that Asfura “has a clear worldview that is pro-Western, pro-American, and pro-Israeli,” and characterized the broader regional shift as a “Blue Wave” of right-wing governments aligning with the United States and Israel.

Bolivia’s Rodrigo Paz ended nearly 20 years of socialist MAS party rule by winning the October 2025 election. Within weeks, he restored diplomatic relations with Israel—ties the prior government had severed in 2023. Netanyahu congratulated Paz personally, and the two agreed to “promote cooperation in various fields, with an emphasis on security, and to restore the vibrant tourism of many Israeli travelers to Bolivia’s natural landscapes and rich cultures.”

Not every convert to the cause fits the expected profile. Nayib Bukele represents the most curious figure in this constellation. The Salvadoran president, who has Palestinian ancestry on his father’s side, has become an ardent Israel supporter despite his Palestinian Christian heritage. After October 7, 2023, Bukele posted that “As a Salvadoran with Palestinian ancestry, I’m sure the best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear. Those savage beasts do not represent the Palestinians.” El Salvador voted against the UN General Assembly resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza in December 2023.

To the south, another government moved along the same axis. José Raúl Mulino, Panama’s security-focused former defense minister, won the 2024 elections and tilted the country firmly toward Washington and Jerusalem. In May 2026, Israeli President Herzog made the first official visit by an Israeli head of state to Panama. Mulino issued a joint declaration pledging expanded cooperation in security, commerce, technology, agriculture, and water management. Panama remains the only Latin American country that has never recognized a Palestinian state.

The October 2026 Brazilian presidential election represents the next battleground. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who compared Israel’s actions to the Holocaust and withdrew Brazil’s ambassador in 2024, faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in what polls show as a statistical tie—the BTG/Nexus survey of late March 2026 showed them tied at 46 percent each in a simulated runoff, with the race narrowing from a 12-point Lula lead in December 2025. The first round is scheduled for October 4, 2026, with a runoff on October 25 if no candidate clears 50 percent.

Flávio Bolsonaro, whose father Jair Bolsonaro was imprisoned for the January 8, 2023 coup attempt and barred from office, has positioned himself as the conservative consolidation candidate. A Bolsonaro victory would add the hemisphere’s largest country to the pro-Israel bloc. The Brazil-Israel Parliamentary Caucus signed the Isaac Accords “Declaration of Shared Principles” in April 2026, demonstrating legislative support even while Lula governs.

Behind each of these realignments lay forces larger than any single election. Trump’s return to the presidency in 2025 directly tied American financial and political backing to right-wing candidates. The region’s growing evangelical Christian population, with its theologically driven support for Israel, has provided an important voting base. As the Jerusalem Post observed, Israeli officials have declared 2026 “the year of Latin America.” With more than a dozen countries having restored or strengthened ties with Israel, the Isaac Accords and the broader rightward shift have fundamentally redrawn the hemisphere’s diplomatic map with direct implications for Israel’s global standing, American regional strategy, and the future of Palestinian diplomacy in the Western Hemisphere.

The latest boondoggles in Eurasia—from the Russo-Ukrainian war to the Iran war—have forced the Judeo-American project to seek softer targets. Latin America, with its fractured polities, corrupt elites, and vast resources, is the obvious prize. The so-called right-wing resurgence is not a recovery of national pride but rather a vassalage dressed in conservative robes. Each new president who rushes to Tel Aviv is a tool, not a leader. Pace some naive nationalist minds in the West, Zionism is not nationalist in nature, but rather an expansionist movement with global ambitions. The illusion that it respects sovereignty must be shattered by serious political movements.

A coordinated multi-national resistance is the only force that can stop this hemispheric takeover and other Jewish supremacist endeavors from consolidating across the globe.

~ José Niño is a best-selling investigative journalist covering deep politics and forbidden history. His newsletter, José Niño Unfiltered can be found on Substack.