Right-wing US media figures have already begun lambasting the MoU, with Fox News show host Mark Levin calling it an 'outrage'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is gearing up for efforts to "influence" the final US-Iran agreement via right-wing, pro-Israel senators and media figures - in a bid to "exert pressure" on US President Donald Trump, CNN reported on 18 June.

"Netanyahu is aiming to influence the final Iran deal ... using right-wing media figures and friendly senators to exert pressure on ... Trump," the outlet cites an Israeli source as saying.

The premier is "skeptical" of Iran's intentions and believes they were "never willing to negotiate in good faith," according to the source.

Trump criticizes Israel and praises Iran in startling G7 comments

At the G7 summit, Donald Trump made some shocking comments, praising Iran, criticizing Israel's war in Lebanon, calling for the U.S. puppet government in Syria to instead invade Lebanon, and admitting that Israel could not exist without U.S. backing.

In this article, I will break down what I believe is behind each of these comments.

Trump Calling Iran 'Very Rational People'.

In one of Trump's most surprising comments, he praised the Iranian government and the Islamic Republic, saying , "we're now dealing with people that I think are very rational people. They were nice to deal with. They were strong people, smart people. I think actually they're smarter than the first and second group, but they're not radicalized and they're, you know, looking to help their country".

Venezuela's acting president visited India to revive oil ties and offer heavy crude as an alternative to Russian supplies, with the US quietly backing the move.

When diplomacy is linked with spirituality, even the most hawkish relations can be fixed. The Venezuelan acting president, Delcy Rodriguez, visit to India, from 3-6 June 2026, is its best manifestation, where diplomatic meetups were centered around energy, religion, and geopolitics.

Since the arrival of President Trump in 2025, American geopolitical strategy has witnessed a sharp shift from traditional liberalism to modern conservatism. The unlawful abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the capture and control of Venezuelan oil, and sanctions on countries buying Russian oil are all beads of a single thread that were intentionally carried out to create a place for evading the American monopoly in the international arena. Delcy's visit to India could be considered a small but significant part of this strategy.

Government is big. Elected and unelected officials wield enormous amounts of power. But lately I have found myself wondering whether we are paying attention to the wrong institution.

What if the most powerful institutions in America are not governments at all?

What if they are banks and payment processors?

A few years ago, during COVID-19, a friend of mine owned a small shop in Northern California. It was the kind of place many young mothers loved. They sold raw milk, organic cotton sheets, natural baby products, books, toys, and healthy foods. It felt like an old-fashioned mercantile reimagined for modern families.

One day, she made a comment on social media praising CBD. I do not remember the exact wording, but it was something along the lines of, "Of course, we can raise children without CBD, but why would we want to?"


Whether you think CBD is wonderful or terrible is beside the point. The issue is not whether she was right. The issue is whether she had the right to say it.

Not long afterward, her credit card processing company terminated her account.

The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to adopt the EU-US deal struck last summer by US President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Turnberry, Scotland.

The final greenlight needed to implement the agreement comes as Trump threatened on Monday to impose tariffs on French wine and champagne if Paris did not remove its digital tax on US Big Tech, according to Euronews.

However, Trump's latest threats of a trade war with EU countries did not prevent lawmakers from approving the deal. Four hundred and forty MEPs voted in favour, 151 against, and 50 abstained in the vote on the main legislative act aimed at changing the trade terms. The vote allows the EU to remove its duties on most US industrial goods, as agreed in the Turnberry deal, while Europeans commit to paying 15 percent US tariffs on goods exported to the United States.

When Tucker Carlson's Vladimir Putin interview outdraws CNN's primetime lineup, when Bassem Youssef's Piers Morgan appearance becomes more widely discussed than anything on legacy broadcast, and when Michael Jackson's biopic becomes one of the highest-grossing music films in history despite decades of media character assassination, the gatekeepers have a problem.

There is a particular kind of political/public punishment that doesn't involve courts or laws. It involves the phone calls that stop coming, the contracts that quietly evaporate, the headlines that transform a complex human being into a two/one-dimensional villain overnight. For decades, this system operated smoothly through "controlled" media outlets, largely invisible to the general public. Then the internet, and a new generation of independent voices, began pulling at its threads, year after year. The shifts we have witnessed, especially in the last few years, in how influential media figures speak are not random. They create a pattern, and this pattern reveals a story about power: who has it, what they protect with it, and what happens to those who get too close or challenge it.

The Israeli elections have become a race to the bottom for the Netanyahu government, which risks provoking conflict and the country's isolation. Türkiye, meanwhile, is proposing a peace alliance to resolve the Palestinian issue.

Israel is frozen in anxious anticipation of the upcoming elections

What was supposed to be a routine election cycle has turned into an existential thriller. These elections, which must legally be held no later than October 27, are not being called a celebration of democracy. Rather, this is a race for survival: voters hope to get rid of "the most failed government in history," but fear that the outgoing coalition will manage to inflict mortal wounds on the system itself.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Likud party, and his far-right allies are, according to every poll, doomed. They will not form the next government. But that, as political scientists warn, is precisely what makes them most dangerous. Surrounded by three corruption indictments, the political heavyweight who has ruled longer than anyone in the country's history has become a cornered animal. The question is no longer just whether he will leave, but what he will break on his way out.

Moscow views the use of Latvian territory for Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia as a serious escalation that could lead to Russian retaliatory measures against infrastructure in Latvia and force NATO into a difficult choice, threatening stability on the Alliance's eastern flank.

The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has issued a direct warning: Ukrainian drone teams have reportedly already been deployed on Latvian territory in preparation for new strikes against Russia's rear regions. According to Moscow, Kyiv is seeking to demonstrate its ability to damage the Russian economy, while Latvia — whose government recently collapsed amid controversy over Ukrainian drones using its airspace — has allegedly agreed to provide logistical support for such operations.

If these claims are accurate, this represents a serious escalation on NATO's eastern flank and significantly raises the risk of kinetic retaliation and, in the worst case, a direct NATO-Russia confrontation.

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett didn't mince words on Monday: the clock for regime change in Iran starts ticking the moment Israel gets a new government.

Speaking at the Knesset, Bennett unloaded on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership, declaring that his term "began with a civil war, continued with the massacre of October 7, and ends with a historic failure against Iran." He tied any serious effort to topple the Iranian regime directly to political change in Jerusalem.

Bennett promised that under new leadership he would revive the "Octopus Doctrine" - hitting Iran with every tool available while blocking its nuclear path - and fix the IDF's manpower crisis by ending Haredi draft exemptions.

"When there are no soldiers, you have to conquer the same point again and again, and that way you can't win. We can restore security to Israel."

At the supremely irrelevant G7 in Evian, the Emperor of Barbaria proclaimed to the room - including three full BRICS members - that "I'm the Boss". No irony intended.

So let's examine the "Boss" MoU between Iran and the US, which he spins as his (italics mine) deal ("I've ended 10 wars"). Well, it's not a deal: it's a MoU, at best an electronically signed promise to engage in talking. And it does not end the war that he (italics mine) launched on February 28.

Whatever antics take place in Geneva this Friday, the Barbaria Maestro won't really be signing the MoU. This is a play for time, to appease the oil markets and the bond markets, and to - covertly - weaponize a ceasefire framework. Inbuilt of course there will be someFalgs trade "relief" - as in the Strait of Hormuz more or less back in business.

At best the war on Iran and the broader imperial chessboard move to destabilize West Asia as a key front in the Big War against the Russia-China strategic partnership will continue in slower motion, with extra plausible deniability.

A mere glimpse at the non-stop hysteria across the Beltway reveals that the rarefied plutocracy who really runs the show in the US has absolutely no interest in any sort of peace with Iran. Grandmaster Lavrov's maxim always rules: the US is non-agreement capable.

What prevails, for the moment, are pedestrian imperatives. Team Trump needs the Strait of Hormuz - even with Iran charging maintenance/environmental/security fees - open to stabilize global energy markets.

Moreover, the GCC petro-monarchies - via mediator Pakistan and directly via Qatar and Saudi Arabia - made it very clear to Washington that they simply cannot afford a new war escalation.

In realpolitik terms, it's clear that Team Trump - and the ruling US plutocracy - will never accept the core of Iran's 14-point terms: sanctions lifted across the board; formal non-interference in Iranian sovereignty; end of all wars against the Axis of Resistance; and, following the money, full payment of war reparations.

What we will have is "talks" extending all the way to possibly the 22nd century while sanctions are not erased by the Zionist-controlled US Congress, plus serial US vetoes in the UN Security Council.

What the "Boss" that "ended 10 wars" gets in the short term is the simulacrum of victory: an arrangement masking a massive strategic defeat.