As the excitement builds over the possible signing of the new so-called 'Iran Deal', a rift of sorts is beginning to show between Trump and Netanyahu which is getting harder and harder to ignore. Not only did Trump refuse to let Bibi and his government look at the final draft of the deal, but Trump dropped a bombshell at the G7 meeting in France recently by mentioning that he thought Syria would be better positioned to take on Hezbollah in Lebanon, rather than the IDF. This message came in two parts. Firstly, Trump believes that there is a strong likelihood that the deal won't hold, as Bibi has shown no signs of ending the hostilities in Lebanon with his IDF forces. Secondly, Trump is preparing already for the relationship between these two world leaders to go sour. If Bibi cannot stop fighting Hezbollah after the deal is signed, then Trump will feel threatened and humiliated and will have to react both to save face and to assert his omnipotence in the region. This may well reach a point where he falls out altogether with Bibi and seeks to create a conspiracy with the Jewish lobby in the U.S. to remove him from office, possibly even suspending Israel's massive $3 billion USD military subsidy from America.

Seems far-fetched? Perhaps, but it is no more implausible than the extraordinary events of the last three months, where Trump started a war with Iran which has lost the U.S. its influence in the region, given Iran control of the Straits of Hormuz, and effectively made Tehran a fourth superpower in the making. The blowback which came from taking Israel at face value with its claims of regime change in Iran have been colossal and represent one of America's greatest military defeats ever, leaving Trump worrying over how the historians will write it up, with him coming out of it looking like a juvenile, insecure man-child who almost wrecked the entire global economy just to prove a point to Obama.

Trump will be worried about his legacy, but in the shorter term he is also worried about the markets, which have not bounced back as he might have hoped. There are still many obstacles in the path for the deal to work, and many sceptical analysts argue that Iran has won so much already that they will be difficult to deal with in 60 days to secure the quick-fix deal over nukes that Trump needs. The U.S. president himself will be looking at other ways to claw back some credibility, especially with the Gulf Arab elites who are wondering these days whether they are even allies any more to Washington. One way to do that would be to empower Syria and use its new former head-chopping terrorist as a useful proxy in the region to batter both Hezbollah and even Israel itself - which has always kept its relations with the Syrian president on a cordial level, even though Israel harbours ambitions of swallowing up Syria with its 'Greater Israel' plan one day. Al Sharaa, or Al Jolani - or whatever he calls himself these days - has always wisely kept Israel at arm's length while simultaneously making sure not to become its enemy.

Newly declassified documents released Thursday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard show that a U.S. national laboratory assessed the COVID-19 lab-origin hypothesis as a serious possibility as early as May 2020, as well as evidence of U.S.-funded coronavirus research that included planning for spike-protein modifications, receptor-adaptation experiments, and testing in humanized mice in collaboration with researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The documents also prove that Anthony Fauci lied under oath.

The release, issued on Gabbard's last day on the job, includes an eight-page May 27, 2020, assessment from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Z Program. That assessment concluded that "all of the necessary conditions for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus - specifically a coronavirus adapted to recognize human cell receptors - were present at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology in mid-to-late 2019." It assigned equal weight to a laboratory-modification hypothesis and a natural-origin scenario.

The Russian foreign minister has shared his views on NATO expansion and EU militarization, including in the nuclear sphere, and the threat this poses to global security

The pro-establishment, Brussels-based publication Politico Europe, owned by Germany's Axel Springer SE, has refused to publish an exclusive article written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Lavrov's article was initially slated for publication in the Brussels-based Politico Europe, but due to a "last-minute decision by the outlet's editorial team," the publication was canceled, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

In the article, Russia's highly experienced top diplomat outlined Moscow's view of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe's role in escalating the crisis, and the broader implications for global security. Lavrov accused European leaders of using diplomacy as a cover for NATO and EU expansion, while arguing that the West has sought to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian foothold. He also warned that the EU's growing militarization, including discussions about nuclear deterrence and "strategic autonomy," could increase the risk of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.

Below is the full text of Lavrov's article, as published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website:

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused Israel of carrying out a "Holocaust" in Gaza during an interview with Al-Arabiya English, saying Israel had killed "so many people," including women and children.

"They already have a bad reputation in the world because of the bombing of Gaza," Lukashenko said. "It is a Holocaust. Why do we speak about the Holocaust suffered by the Israelis? While they themselves have killed so many people, women and above all children have died in the Gaza Strip."

He said Gaza had been "wiped off the face of the earth" and criticized what he described as plans to build a resort on land where people were killed. "Israel has to start thinking about its future because otherwise even nuclear weapons will not help them," he said.

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.