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US/Israel Versus Iran – Round One

US/Israel Versus Iran – Round One

by | Jul 8, 2025 |

My summary assessment of the missile war over Israel during the 12-day-long first act of the ongoing war between Israel et alia and Iran et alia: The first Iranian counterstrike against Israel (14 June) began with a few hundred drones and relatively antiquated subsonic cruise missiles, whose primary mission was to soak up air to air and Iron Dome magazine depth. Additionally, the IDF claims the Iranians fired over 200 ballistic missiles on 14 June. I think that is probably an...

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New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers

New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers

by , | Jul 8, 2025 |

Following an AP investigation accusing a US mercenary firm of firing on desperate Gaza aid seekers, the company has released extensive new footage in an attempt at damage control. But the video only further implicates the scandal-plagued operation. On July 2, the Associated Press released an exposé containing short videos which appeared to show American mercenaries associated with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) opening fire on aid-seekers in Gaza during an incident in...

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What Trump Should Tell Netanyahu

What Trump Should Tell Netanyahu

by | Jul 7, 2025 |

A few weeks ago I urged President Trump to make a deal with Iran that would satisfy his stated goal of no nuclear weapons production and would allow Iran to continue its lawful pursuit of civilian nuclear energy. The deal on the table, as described by the Iranian foreign minister himself, was a win-win “update” of Obama’s JCPOA “nuclear deal” that could have avoided a costly and counter-productive war with Iran. Unfortunately, the negotiations were cut short by an Israeli sneak-attack on Iran...

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CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …

CIA: Our Trump-Russiagate Claims Were Corrupt, Our Claims On Iran Are …

by | Jul 5, 2025 |

The CIA has published a "tradecraft review" of the 2016 "Intelligence Community Assessment" which had claimed that Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election. The review found what had been obvious to anyone. The 2016 assessment had not followed the normal process for such papers but had based its conclusions on no or insignificant evidence. Or, as the NY Post headlines: Obama’s Trump-Russia collusion report was corrupt from start A bombshell new CIA review of the...

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Strategic Ambiguity

by | Jul 4, 2025 |

Donald Trump calls himself a peacemaker. His actions, however, betray his words. When it comes to the Middle East, he is an obvious war president. This begs the question: Does he have a coherent Middle East strategy beyond providing for Israel’s security interests? Has he entered into a war against Iran he can’t finish? CrossTalking with Daniel McAdams, Elijah J. Magnier, and Alon Pinkas.

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Spying on Iran: How MI6 infiltrated the IAEA

Spying on Iran: How MI6 infiltrated the IAEA

by | Jul 4, 2025 |

Leaked confidential files indicate the International Atomic Energy Agency was infiltrated by a veteran British spy who has claimed credit for sanctions on Iran. The documents lend weight to the Islamic Republic’s accusation that the nuclear watchdog secretly colluded with its enemies. A notorious British MI6 agent infiltrated the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on London’s behalf, according to leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone. The agent, Nicholas Langman, is a veteran...

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The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West

The Empire Has Accidentally Caused The Rebirth Of Real Counterculture In The West

by | Jul 4, 2025 |

Everyone’s still talking about Bob Vylan, and rightly so. A crowd full of westerners happily being led through a chant of “Death, death to the IDF” at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival was a historical landmark moment for the 21st century, and the group’s persecution at the hands of western governments is once again highlighting the way our society’s purported values of free thought and free expression go right out the window wherever Israel is concerned. But one thing that’s not getting...

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What Freedom of Speech?

What Freedom of Speech?

by | Jul 4, 2025 |

In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate freedom of speech. That’s because there are no elections to worry about. The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons start arresting critics, disappearing them in terrorist confinement facilities, torturing them, and then killing them. Everyone else understands. No more criticism of the regime. In a democratic system, suppressing criticism is...

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Beyond the Bombs: Who Really Won the 12-Day War Between Israel and Iran?

Beyond the Bombs: Who Really Won the 12-Day War Between Israel and Iran?

by | Jul 3, 2025 |

On June 13, 2025, Tel Aviv launched what many international observers and Iranian officials have described as an unprovoked military strike on Iran. Israeli jets bombed military and nuclear sites, while Mossad-run sleeper cells carried out sabotage missions against air and missile defense systems from within Iran, and drones smuggled into Tehran were launched against local missile launch bases. Dozens—perhaps more—of nuclear scientists and top military commanders were murdered with...

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Independence Day 2025

Independence Day 2025

by | Jul 3, 2025 |

We are independent of London, but are we independent of Washington? Is there more freedom when governed by one tyrant 3,000 miles away or by 3,000 tyrants a few miles away? Does government today remotely resemble the values articulated on July 4th 1776? When the President of the United States bombs the lawful facilities of a foreign country that pose no threat whatsoever to American national security and does so without a congressional declaration of war as the Constitution requires, when...

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This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War

This Is Israel’s War – Not Our War

by | Jul 2, 2025 |

President Trump, to his credit, demanded a ceasefire between Israel and Iran. Both countries agreed to it. Then, the president became very angry with Israel because, as he said, “As soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs the likes of which I’ve never seen before.” But as I write this column, the ceasefire is still in effect. I hope it lasts. However, just two days before the ceasefire, we dropped ten 30,000-pound bunker bombs on Iran, a country that had not...

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US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price

US Support For Israel Comes At A Staggering, Multifaceted Price

by | Jul 2, 2025 |

When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.8 billion a year — the amount of annual military aid the United States is committed to under its current, 10-year “memorandum of understanding” with Israel. However, that answer massively understates the true cost of the relationship, not only because it doesn’t capture various, vast expenditures springing from it, but even more so because the relationship’s steepest costs can’t be...

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Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny: The Government Is Playing God

Inalienable Rights in an Age of Tyranny: The Government Is Playing God

by | Jul 2, 2025 |

We are now struggling to emerge from the wreckage of a constitutional republic, transformed into a kleptocracy (government by thieves), collapsing into kakistocracy (government by the worst), and enforced by a police state algogracy (rule by algorithm). This week alone, the Trump administration is reportedly erecting protest barricades around the White House, Congress is advancing legislation that favors the wealthy, and President Trump is grandstanding at the opening of a...

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What Means ‘Winning’?

What Means ‘Winning’?

by | Jul 1, 2025 |

At one level, Iran plainly “won.” Trump had wanted to be regaled with a reality-TV style, splendid “Victory.” Sunday’s attack on the three nuclear sites indeed was loudly proclaimed by Trump and Hegseth as such – having “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme, they claimed. “Destroyed it completely,” they insist. Only … it didn’t: The strike caused superficial surface damage, perhaps. And seemingly was co-ordinated in advance with Iran via intermediaries to be a “once and done”...

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The Answer to Sen. Rand Paul’s One Question Leads Him to Vote Against the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

The Answer to Sen. Rand Paul’s One Question Leads Him to Vote Against the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

by | Jun 30, 2025 |

President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leadership have been putting immense pressure of Republican United States House of Representatives and Senate members to approve and send to Trump before the July 4 holiday a large in size and scope piece of legislation that Trump has called the “Big Beautiful Bill.” On the Senate floor on Sunday, Sen. Rand Paul, one of the Republican legislators who has resisted this pressure, presented a speech explaining that the answer to one question...

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What Trump Should Tell Netanyahu

A Big Beautiful Bill for the Military-Industrial Complex

by | Jun 30, 2025 |

The US Senate worked through the weekend on the “Big Beautiful Bill.” The goal was to pass it quickly to ensure the House will then pass it and send it to President Trump’s desk before the July 4th holiday. However, disagreements among Republican Senators over reductions in spending on programs including Medicaid and food stamps as well as language in the bill eliminating “clean energy” tax credits were preventing Senate Republican leadership from getting enough votes to pass the bill. Also,...

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