Both the House and the Senate passed a concurrent resolution, which means Trump is required by the 1973 War Powers Act to end the war.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said on Saturday that President Trump's renewed strikes on Iran are a violation of the War Powers Resolution that has been passed by both the House and the Senate.

"These strikes are a blatant violation of the War Powers Resolution that we passed," Khanna wrote on X. "Trump must stop this war now — or we will take him to court to compel him to do so."

Last week, the Senate approved a House-passed concurrent War Powers Resolution directing President Trump to end hostilities against Iran, marking the first time Congress has approved a concurrent resolution under the 1973 War Powers Act.

"The Golden Dome is a planned multi-layer missile defense system for the United States, intended to detect and destroy ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles before they launch or during their flight."

On June 24, United States War Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon had conducted its first major test of the "Golden Dome" strategic missile defense system.

Hegseth claims to have personally supervised the test, describing it as using a supposed directed-energy weapon and what he called the Dynamic Defense Autonomous Defeat (DDAD) system.

He added that it "flawlessly and autonomously cued, targeted and eliminated a multitude of incoming threats" and that the test was "executed on schedule — and dynamically defeated every threat". Hegseth concluded that the test was "real, powerful and on track".

"Today, the first milestone test of Golden Dome for America (GDA) was a full mission success — and I was honored to witness it firsthand. Cutting edge directed energy was harnessed and the Dynamic Defense Autonomous Defeat (DDAD) system flawlessly and autonomously cued, targeted, and eliminated a multitude of incoming threats. This test was executed on schedule — and dynamically defeated every threat. I watched our elite warfighters integrate with next-generation technology to stop incoming drones and cruise missiles dead in their tracks," he posted on X, adding: "Traditional Primes and emerging Primes are competing, collaborating, and winning — delivering on President Trump's priority. This historic milestone was only made possible by the One Big Beautiful Bill — giving us the funding to deliver on the ultimate shield to protect America.

President Trump is making President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) vision a reality. With Golden Dome, the War Department will defend our homeland more powerfully than ever before. Golden Dome is real, powerful, and on track."

By mentioning SDI, Hegseth effectively confirmed that the "Golden Dome" project is its continuation (or, more specifically, a reboot).

The Reagan-era program sparked an arms race in the 1980s, forcing Russia to respond with a plethora of its own space weapons projects, including the legendary "Polyus/Skif-DM". This Russian orbital platform was designed to destroy SDI satellites and other assets with a megawatt-class chemical gas-dynamic CO₂ laser named "Dreif". The system revolutionized Moscow's space capabilities, but it came at a turbulent time, as the unfortunate dismantling of the USSR halted all progress on the project.

Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference.

Congress has regulated in areas of governance nowhere articulated in the Constitution. Its general regulatory powers were granted to address interstate commerce, but during the FDR years, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress can regulate events that affect interstate commerce. This has resulted in federal regulation of matters too infinitesimal to measure, that are not commercial and devoid of movement across interstate lines.

The most extreme of these is the regulation of a farmer's small field of wheat, all of which was ground into flour and consumed as baked goods by the farmer's family. Though this had no measurable effect on interstate commerce, the court ruled that if you add up all the similarly situated farmers who may do the same, the aggregate will affect interstate commerce. And, by growing their own wheat and baking their own bread, the farmer's family was buying less bread from their local grocer and that — though truly infinitesimal — affected interstate commerce.

From Rome to Washington, history is but the graveyard of empires condemned by their own excess; today, the Pax Americana falters under the lucid gaze of a global South ready to rewrite the terms of a new world.

Indeed, from Rome to London, by way of Byzantium and Vienna, all superpowers have shared the same illusion of permanence. Endowed with hegemonic power at a given moment in world history, each believed it held the world for eternity. Each also carried within it, from its zenith, the seeds of its downfall: military hubris, the economic predation of the peripheries, and the inability to reformulate an acceptable global contract. The Pax Romana collapsed under the weight of its overextended legions. The Pax Britannica expired at Suez in 1956, humiliated by its own American creation. The Pax Americana is not exempt from this iron law of history, culminating in Tehran seizing power and burying the illusion of the Pax Judaica.

It is dying today under the lucid gaze of a global South that, at last, dares to name the empire.

One week into the 'Peace Deal', the US and Iran are back to taking potshots at each other - both online and ballistically - over control of shipping through the strait of Hormuz. And, for all their recent criticism of Israel, US leaders this week gave Netanyahu something of a 'win' in Lebanon: a crooked deal between them and the official Lebanese leadership that sees the IDF withdraw from most of southern Lebanon, but permits it indefinite occupation of two 'security pockets', ostensibly to 'disarm Hezbollah' and end that country's bond with Iran. Realistically, can this issue be settled any other way than through another Lebanese civil war?

Meanwhile, Western media (and social media) is going at full pelt with the message that a.) Russia has definitively lost the war and must therefore sue for a peace short of its SMO goals, and b.) Putin's imminent demise will occur either before or immediately afterwards. The man himself says "all is under control," but also admits that his country is under "unprecedented pressure from Western elites," who are "trying to destabilize the political situation [in Russia] and sow internal unrest." Could the 'Ukraine War' be entering a new phase? Or will whatever scheme the NATO ghouls are hatching fall flat?

Finally, a word on the Venezuela earthquakes: they're too much of a coincidence to be natural in occurrence given the US operation this year to regime change that country and gain control of its resources and infrastructure.


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After his Oval Office visit today, an affair dominated by foreign reporters speaking truth to power by clamoring for more global military spending, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte had to defend his alliance's often-touted moral assertion: that NATO is defensive in nature.

Asked by ZeroHedge whether NATO's good deeds in Libya and Iraq (a de facto NATO "coalition of the willing" operation) qualified as defensive, Rutte had this to say:

Rutte: Again, NATO is there to defend 1 billion people living in NATO territory, from California up to and including Turkey, and everything in between. This is a transatlantic, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Alliance. It is extremely powerful. It is the strongest defensive alliance in world history. And we have our discussions, as you have seen this afternoon. There are always debates. These are democracies.

ZH: But what about those wars? What about Libya and Iraq?

Rutte: I'm not going to comment on everything, but I can assure you, NATO is there to defend. But if we would be attacked, you can be assured, that if we get attacked by anyone, for example the Russians or whoever, that our reaction would be devastating.

John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of retaining national security information related to his work during the first Trump administration.

Bolton appeared Friday morning for a re-arraignment in Greenbelt, Maryland before Obama-appointed judge Theodore D. Chuang. He faces a prison sentence of up to 60 months and has agreed to pay $2.25 million, according to prosecutors. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 28.

Bolton was originally charged in October of 2025 with eight counts of transmission of national defense information and ten counts of retention of national defense information. The charges centered on diary-like entries from his time in the Trump White House that were allegedly kept at his residence.

According to the indictment, Bolton used personal email and messaging accounts to transmit Top Secret intelligence about foreign adversaries, future attacks, and U.S. foreign-policy relations.

He also kept classified files at his home, including sensitive intelligence about foreign leaders and U.S. intelligence sources.

The Syrian quisling President, selected by the enemies of Syria, has gone on record trying to explain what President Trump mean't when he said Syria could deal with Hezbollah after Israel's failure to defeat the Lebanese Resistance. In a recent interview Abu Mohammed Al Jolani said:

From President Trump's statement, the answer is that he was expressing frustration with what is happening in Lebanon and looking for other solutions, and that there could be a positive role for Syria through the Lebanese state and Lebanese institutions.

In tones dictated for him by MI6, Jolani went out on a limb to deny the potential for any military action against Hezbollah and Lebanon - he said Syria should support the 'Lebanese state, strengthening its institutions, and building channels of communication among the political parties and active forces in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, in search of a security solution that everyone can accept.'

Taking the words of a terrorist operative in the pay of the entire regime-change alliance that finally brought the war of resistance to an end in 2024, would be foolish. It is far better to surveil the surrounding operations and actions on the ground that belie Jolani's dulcet tones.

Documents disclosed to Corbyn expose covert efforts by Starmer's former chief of staff to combat the British left

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party.

The documents were disclosed to Corbyn in response to a subject access request. They contain emails from Labour Together's two key figures Morgan McSweeney and Josh Simons.

McSweeney went on to be Keir Starmer's chief of staff while Simons became a cabinet minister until he resigned following revelations that he had hired a reputation management firm to "proactively undermine" journalistic investigations into Labour Together, McSweeney and Sir Keir Starmer.

Simons subsequently vacated his Makerfield constituency seat for Andy Burnham.

This week marked 85 years since Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in the greatest crime of aggression in human history. This week, too, German panzers with their distinctive Iron Cross insignia were rolling towards Russia's border, along with other NATO partners in a military exercise cynically misnamed Operation Freedom Shield.

It is truly shocking how history on such a criminal scale is being repeated, brazenly and seemingly with public insouciance.

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany launched the biggest military invasion ever recorded in history. Operation Barbarossa deployed three million German troops along with units from allied countries. The Blitzkrieg opened the largest theater of World War II, known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. At least 27 million citizens of the Soviet Union were killed, most of them civilians. Grainy footage from the time shows line after line of people being shot and dumped in mass graves. In one notorious atrocity, in September 1941, over 33,000 civilians were executed in just two days at a ravine in Babi Yar, near Kiev.

Four years later, the Soviet Red Army fought the Nazi Wehrmacht all the way back to final defeat in Berlin.

Every Russian family was traumatized by the horror and inhumane suffering. The memory of the calamity remains seared in the nation's consciousness. The Nazi invasion was carried out as a war of annihilation in which there was no mercy for men, women, and children. The Final Solution involved the systematic extermination of Slavs, Jews, Communists, and Roma and others considered Untermenschen (Subhuman) by Nazi racial ideology. The German Wehrmacht and Einsatzgruppen death squads were assisted by fascist auxiliaries in Lithuania, the other Baltic states, and Ukraine.

Eighty-five years later to the day, on June 22, 2026, the German army-led NATO exercises began in Lithuania. The very location of the NATO military maneuvers this week, Probradė, about 15 kilometers from the Belarus border, was the scene of massacres by the Nazis and their proxies.

The echo of Operation Barbarossa is odiously loud and clear. German Minister of Defense [sic], Boris Pistorius, officiated at the NATO military exercises this week. There was no shame or embarrassed commentary in Western media.

There is no way that the date was a foolish oversight. It was a deliberate provocation. German militarism is on the march again and is verbally aimed at Russia. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has declared the ambition of making Germany the biggest military power in Europe. NATO commanders talk glibly about striking Russian territory with long-range missiles and drones.

As in WWII, Lithuania, the Baltic states, and Ukraine are serving as the proxies for aggression against Russia.