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Michael Hudson: War on Iran Is Fight for US Unipolar Control of World
pponents of the war with Iran say that the war is not in American interests, seeing that Iran does not pose any visible threat to the United States. This appeal to reason misses the neoconservative logic that has guided U.S. foreign policy for more than a half century, and which is now threatening to engulf the Middle East in the most violent war since Korea. That logic is so aggressive, so repugnant to most people, so much in violation of the basic principles of international law, the United Nations, and the U.S. Constitution, that there is an understandable shyness in the authors of this strategy to spell out what is at stake. What is at stake is the U.S. attempt to control the Middle East and its oil as a buttress of U.S. economic power, and to prevent other countries from moving to create their own autonomy from the U.S.-centered neoliberal order administered by the IMF, World Bank, and other institutions to reinforce U.S. unipolar power.
Trump threatens to unleash ‘most lethal weapons ever built’ if Iran is supplied nukes
President Donald Trump has threatened to unleash ‘the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built’ if Russia supplies nuclear warheads to Iran. Trump two days after the US carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites brought up a statement from Russia – and issued a warning to the country. ‘Did I hear Former President Medvedev, from Russia, casually throwing around the “N word” (Nuclear!), and saying that he and other Countries would supply Nuclear Warheads to Iran?’ wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform on Monday morning. ‘Did he really say that or, is it just a figment of my imagination? If he did say that, and, if confirmed, please let me know, IMMEDIATELY.’
What Iran achieved during the conflict with Israel
Link: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/what-iran-achieved-during-conflict-israel
Tehran learned lessons about its nuclear and military capabilities, as well as the stability of the Islamic republic itself. After an 11th hour exchange of fire, and a sweary address to reporters from Donald Trump, Israel and Iran have ceased hostilities. The US president announced a “complete and total ceasefire” late on Monday, ending 11 days of clashes. Israel launched attacks on Iran on 13 June, saying that it wanted to remove any chance of Tehran developing nuclear weapons. It attacked Iranian nuclear and military facilities, and assassinated high-profile security, intelligence and military figures, as well as nuclear scientists. Tehran, which denies it seeks a nuclear weapon, retaliated with ballistic missile strikes on Israeli towns and cities. At least 439 Iranians were killed and 28 in Israel. While the assault left Iran undoubtedly damaged, it nonetheless provided lessons about its nuclear and military capabilities, as well as the domestic standing of the Islamic Republic itself.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s first images reveal millions of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile released its first cosmic images, revealing nebulas, galaxies, and thousands of new asteroids using the world’s largest digital camera. The observatory will begin a 10-year survey in July, mapping 20 billion galaxies and studying dark matter, dark energy, and cosmic changes in real time. Initial test images detected 2,104 previously unknown asteroids, far exceeding typical annual discoveries, with millions more expected in the first two years. The project’s open-access data will allow global researchers and citizen scientists to explore the universe without bureaucratic restrictions.
David DuByne elaborates on the escalating global supply chain crisis
Link: https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-06-25-david-dubyne-elaborates-escalating-global-supply-crisis.html
Houthi rebel attacks on cargo ships have forced major shipping companies to halt Red Sea transit, effectively closing the Suez Canal. Delays in food, fertilizer and machinery shipments threaten global supply chains, with reroutes (e.g., Cape of Good Hope) worsening emissions and costs. Modern agriculture's reliance on just-in-time deliveries makes it vulnerable to supply chain breakdowns. Critical delays (20–40 weeks) for tractor parts and fertilizers could cripple farming, leading to shortages and price spikes. Malaysia's ban on Israel-bound cargo may inspire similar blockades (e.g., Malacca Strait), fracturing global trade. U.S. naval overextension and China's rapid military growth raise tensions, particularly around Taiwan and strategic chokepoints.
US intelligence contradicts Trump, says Iran’s nuclear sites intact after attacks
A preliminary US intelligence assessment suggests that the American airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities failed to dismantle the core elements of its nuclear program, contradicting the claims made by President Donald Trump and his aides. The findings, compiled by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Pentagon’s primary intelligence unit, were shared with CNN by four sources familiar with the matter. The assessment report is based on a battle evaluation conducted by US Central Command (CENTCOM) in the aftermath of Sunday morning aggression, according to one of the sources quoted by the American broadcaster. The findings contradict Trump’s repeated assertions that the attacks “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s uranium enrichment capabilities, the report states.
Trump Nukes Democrat Zohran Mamdani After Shock NYC Mayoral Primary Win: ‘100% Communist Lunatic’
President Donald Trump has just responded to the shock results of the New York City mayoral primary. From the halls of NATO in The Hague to the battlefield of American politics, Trump is warning the nation: the radical fringe has officially taken over the Democratic Party. On Wednesday, while returning from a high-level NATO summit, Trump took to Truth Social to blast the shocking rise of Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist. He just defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo and other establishment candidates to become the Democrats’ nominee for mayoral election.
NATO members’ leaders snubbing Zelensky at key summit – Orban
Link: https://www.rt.com/news/620490-nato-leaders-snub-zelensky/
Hungary, the US, Türkiye, Slovakia and others don’t want to formally engage the Ukrainian leader, according to the PM. Several NATO members, including the US, are deliberately avoiding meeting with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky at the bloc’s key summit in The Hague, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed. Speaking prior to the gathering on Wednesday, Orban noted that Zelensky would only attend the informal dinner and “will not participate in the NATO summit in any official form,” indicating that “a clear sign that the previous chapter is over.” The Hungarian prime minister went on to explain that this is a drastic change compared to previous years, stating that “the Americans, the Turks, the Slovaks, and we have made it clear that we do not want to sit at the same table with Zelensky when it comes to NATO.” He further stressed Hungary’s continued opposition to Ukraine joining NATO or the EU. Orban has repeatedly warned that Kiev’s membership in any of the blocs would drag the West into a direct conflict with Russia.
Bank of Russia proposes new deadlines for full-scale introduction of digital ruble
Link: https://tass.com/economy/1981119
The new deadlines were set after discussing the details with market participants as well as ministries and agencies concerned, the regulator said. The Bank of Russia has submitted proposals on the introduction of the digital ruble from September 1, 2026 to the State Duma (lower house of the parliament). In particular, the largest banks will have to enable their clients to conduct transactions with the digital national currency from September 1, 2026, the press service of the regulator reported. "From this date, trade companies that are clients of the largest banks and whose revenue for the previous year exceeds 120 million rubles ($1.9 mln) will have to open their infrastructure for digital rubles and enable payments for goods and services in the digital national currency," the report said.
English Outsider - The 'West' Is A Farce
Link: https://a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2025/06/25/english-outsider-the-west-is#more33086
The outcome of the war with Iran is still unknown. That of the war in Ukraine is set in stone and always has been. There's nothing funny here, though it's true that the Western military and political establishments are now pure farce. Nothing funny because the farce has had lethal consequences. The unrestrained carnage in Gaza will be a reproach to the West for ever. As for Ukraine, "b" summed up, must be two years ago now, what we are putting our proxies in Ukraine through. A "crime", he stated. So it is. Has been since 2014. Worse now, after a million and more deaths and economic and societal ruin for Ukraine to match.
One Nation, One Heart
Link: https://a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2025/06/26/one-nation-one-heart#more33156
How did Israel's aggression unite Iranians more than ever? TEHRAN – Wednesday was a surreal day in Tehran, a day after fighting between Iran and Israel halted. More people came out to attend to their work compared to the previous days, and down in the south, in the Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery, it was the most crowded it had been in years. Several funerals were being held there. There were young, old, male, and female bodies wrapped in the white fabrics Muslims use to bury the dead. The atmosphere was eerie. There were many people crying and weeping, but there were also some who looked firm despite the grief showing on their faces.
Salvadoran Child Rapist on Loose After Open Borders Radicals Thwart ICE Arrest
A convicted child rapist from El Salvador remains on the loose after left-wing radicals helped him evade federal immigration authorities in Colorado. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the latest information on Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a fugitive illegal alien who should have been arrested in Longmont on Friday morning. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was preparing to apprehend Leon-Deras when members of the Colorado Rapid Response Network, a group of open-borders activists “committed” to interfering with immigration enforcement, alerted the Salvadoran about their presence and “facilitated his escape,” according to DHS.
Except for Nuclear Weapons the Digital Revolution is Humanity’s Most Stupid Mistake
Billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving criminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day. https://apnews.com/article/large-login-leak-cybernews-google-apple-meta-2a758a40c398b0a68fb2371a522f70ed The Internet and digital systems are insecure and cannot be made secure. To operate in the digital world becomes increasingly risky by the day and harder to use. The inherent insecurity of all digital systems has led to the requirement for multi-factor authentication. If you forgot to charge your cell phone or your service is down, you can’t reach your accounts because you can’t access the code texted to you necessary for you to access your account. We are already into triple authentication–password, texted code, emailed code. In addition to these authentications, there are occasions when you must also answer questions, such as your mother’s maiden name, the street you lived on, your best friend’s name. Sometimes the questions you have to answer are not even your questions. They are questions that the site when it decided to add another layer of authentication came up with on its own. You then have to have the ordeal of getting in touch with a human and explaining that these are not questions that you supplied and know the answers to.
Trump DOE Finds Newsom’s Trans Policy Discriminates Against Real Women
President Donald J. Trump‘s Department of Education says the State of California has violated Title IX with its policies allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports. The determination was announced on Wednesday with the conclusion of two investigations launched in February and April into the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) and the California Department of Education (CDE). Under California state law, biological males who claim to be transgender are allowed not only to compete in women’s sports but also to use women’s bathroom and locker facilities. Despite an Executive Order signed by President Trump in February barring men from participating in women’s sports, the CIF has publicly said it would not abide by federal law, choosing to only abide by state law instead.
The Democrats’ Muslim Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Wants to Defund the Police and ‘Abolish’ Prison
Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the “progressive Muslim immigrant” who won the New York mayoral primary for the Democratic Party overnight, wants to “decarcerate” the city’s prisons and jails, arguing that “our prison system relies on dehumanization and brutality, so the goal must be to abolish this exploitative system entirely” in a 2021 social media post.
“KILL IT” – President Trump Calls for “LEFTWING DISASTER” U.S. Funded Broadcaster Voice of America to be Destroyed Following Kari Lake’s Bombshell Testimony in House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/kill-it-president-trump-calls-leftwing-disaster-u/
President Trump released a statement on Wednesday, calling for the complete destruction of “LEFTWING DISASTER” and “Democrat mouthpiece” Voice of America. This comes after White House Senior Advisor to the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Kari Lake testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on her agency’s record of waste, fraud, mismanagement, self-dealing, and national security failures. USAGM oversees several government-funded news media entities, including Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and the Office of Cuba Broadcasting. Kari Lake exposed the agency and its grantees as nothing but a money laundering front for left-wing propaganda and foreign corruption with almost no oversight capabilities. Lake revealed further revealed the waste, fraud, abuse, and rot in the organization, including “$75,000 spent for COVID study on how Mac computers can be used for social distancing, $100,000 in American taxpayer money to actually sponsor a Afghan Cricket team, $400,000 for quid pro quo payments to African VOA affiliates— and they actually wrote quid pro quo next to the budget item— $825,000 for a New York music show, and $6 million contract for consulting advice that was never even implemented.”
“This Place is Rotten. It’s Rotten to the Core” – Kari Lake Exposes Waste, Fraud, and Abuse at USAGM in Opening Statement – Reveals Over 20 spies from a Hostile Nation were Busted, Millions in Improper Payments and “Quid Pro Quo”
Link: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/this-place-is-rotten-its-rotten-core-kari/
President Trump’s US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Senior Advisor, Kari Lake, testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday, where she exposed the massive abuse and national security threats she’s discovered since taking charge of the Agency. Democrats began the hearing with Ranking Member Rep. Greg Meeks (D-NY) attacking the Trump Administration and Lake, accusing her of using “falsehoods to advance an agenda,” and In Lake’s opening statement, she outlined her real mission to root out the bias and disinformation, waste, fraud, abuse, and serious threats to American national security that she’s discovered.
Top Pediatrician Sounds Alarm: Children Are ‘More Likely to Die from Vaccines Than the Disease’
Link: https://slaynews.com/news/top-pediatrician-sound-alarm-children-more-likely-die-vaccines-disease/
A leading pediatrician is sounding the alarm about childhood vaccinations, warning that children “are more likely to die from the vaccine than from the disease itself.” The warning was issued by Dr. Paul Thomas, the author of the number one best-selling book “Vax Facts.” Dr. Thomas is a board-certified fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a diplomat of the American Board of Addiction Medicine. He taught residents and medical students from 1988 to 1993 and has practiced pediatrics for over 30 years. In 2008, he opened Integrative Pediatrics, where he currently serves over 13,000 patients.
Strait of Hormuz Closed. Consequences for Global Economy and Geopolitics
The Iranian parliament's decision to close the Strait of Hormuz came as a bolt from the blue, shaking the global economy and threatening the stability of the entire Middle East region. By taking this radical step, Tehran is challenging the world community, demonstrating its determination to protect its interests in the face of increasing pressure and sanctions. But what are the real reasons for this decision, and what consequences will it lead to?...
Medvedev Reacts: 'Number Of Countries' Now Ready To Supply Iran With 'Their Own Nuclear Warheads'
On Sunday morning Russia's former president and current deputy chairman of the country's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev issued his reaction to the major US overnight strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, giving what's essentially the view of where things stand from the Kremlin. Medvedev in a ten-point list of reactions characterized the attacks as ultimately ineffective, and that it will blow back on America and Israel in a way opposite than intended, especially as Tehran will now only push harder for a nuke, and allied countries might now simply be willing to supply them to the Iranians, he described.
