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Big Bomb

World War III has already begun - Which side will win?

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:07 UTC
President Trump's dismissal of Tulsi Gabbard's Iran assessment and his alignment with Israeli interests suggest deeper U.S. complicity in escalating Middle East tensions and undermining a multipolar world order.
Don and Tulsi
© New Eastern Outlook
The news that American President Donald Trump dismissed his head of national security, Tulsi Gabbard's assessment of Iran's nuclear status is a neon, blaring signal. Oops! We Americans did it again. The same sidewinder we elected in 2016 is lying through his teeth, doing the bidding for the same elites desperate to rule the world.

Israel, Israel, Tisk, Tisk!

An AP story this week tells us Tulsi Gabbard left no doubt when she testified to Congress about Iran's nuclear program earlier this year. She said Tehran has no nukes and has no intention of building them. To this, after conversations with his pal Ben Netanyahu, Trump replies, "I don't care what she says." If Elon Musk dropping Trump from his party list was not a glaring sign, Gabbard being shoved into a closet in the White House sure should be.

Let's look at this Israel-Iran situation from a closeup and a wider view angle. First, minutes after Netanyahu's IDF hit nuclear facilities, military leaders and scientists in their homes, Trump and the NATO gang claimed no role in the ghastly attack. Imagine blowing up scientists in their apartments and then later pushing to kill off Iran's leader like he is a bug. It's too bad those refuelling tankers goofed and turned back on their transponders. Let's face it: where one German Airbus A400M is refuelling Israeli jets, there have been a lot more in the past week. And now, suddenly, President Trump is saying "we" have total air superiority over Tehran. Wait, now "we" are involved a few days after he says we were clueless?
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Arrow Up

Trump is first US leader in decades to tell Americans the truth - Zakharova


RT
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 00:47 UTC
Zakharova interview
© RTInterview with Maria Zakharova
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman is optimistic that the US president will restore "normalcy" in his country.

America faces a "colossal" number of internal problems, and Donald Trump is the first US president in many decades to openly admit this, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RT's Rick Sanchez on Wednesday.

Moscow remains cautiously optimistic about mending relations with Washington, because Trump has at least openly declared his intention to focus on "saving America" instead of meddling in other countries' internal affairs, Zakharova told Sanchez in response to a question on whether Trump can resist the forces that seek confrontation with Russia.
"Finally, a man has arrived in the White House who isn't talking about other parts of the world or dealing with problems of various population groups on other continents. He is the first in decades to tell the American people - and the world - that America needs to solve a colossal number of colossal problems.

"This man had it all: Money, fame, popularity, comfort, family - everything he wanted. He was even president. He could have said, 'From now on, I'll live for myself.' But instead, he came back and said he'll run again - not for money, fame, or popularity, but to try to save his country. That gives me additional optimism."

Comment: Normalcy? Trump is 'a man of the moment'. We shall see if his moments string cohesively together or are, one-by-one, cast aside. Zakharova? Too kind.

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Attention

It's not a broken system: From food to development, it's a masterpiece of control

Colin Todhunter
Off-Guardian
Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:52 UTC
Control of Food
© Off-Guardian
Industrial agriculture is not a system in crisis. It is a system in command. Engineered with precision, it reflects the civilisational logic of industrial modernity: domination over cooperation, profit over sufficiency, scale over ecology. It is not malfunctioning — it is functioning exactly as designed.

Across three volumes — Food, Dependency and Dispossession (2022), Sickening Profits (2023) and Power Play: The Future of Food (2024) — I have mapped this critique in layered terms. What emerges is not a sectoral failure but a planetary regime of dispossession: a machinery that converts ecological life into economic assets, undermines autonomy under the banner of development and metabolises resistance into market-friendly reform.

The food system is not broken. It is a weapon. And it is intended as such. It concentrates power, severs people from land, deskills and displaces producers and commodifies nourishment. It benefits financial capital and corporate actors while externalising its costs — to health, biodiversity, labour and culture.

In the Global South, 'development' is the velvet glove of structural dependency. It arrives cloaked in the language of poverty reduction and climate resilience — while deepening indebtedness, consolidating proprietary seed systems and subordinating food sovereignty to export-driven logic. For all its rhetoric and well-laundered PR, Bayer is not saving Indian agriculture. It is enclosing it.

Behind the slick brand messaging lies a familiar pattern. Corporate contracts replace commons. Proprietary inputs replace knowledge. The land is enclosed — not always by fences, but by code, debt and bureaucratic abstraction. This is not progress. It is programmed disempowerment. Weber's 'iron cage' of rationalisation is no longer metaphor — it is agronomic policy, algorithmic governance and institutional capture.

Post-development theorists like Arturo Escobar and Gustavo Esteva have long exposed 'progress' as a colonial narrative — one that erases plurality and imposes a singular vision of modernity. Barrington Moore's study of agrarian class structures illuminated a deeper truth: the fate of democracy and dictatorship often hinges on how land is owned, who controls surplus and which coalitions form around agricultural production.
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Eye 2

Nazi symbols prevalent in Ukrainian military - Le Monde


RT
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:39 UTC
Azov battalion.
© Gaelle Girbes / Getty ImagesAzov battalion.
The French outlet has identified hundreds of soldiers in Kiev's 3rd Assault Brigade who publicly display neo-Nazi emblems.

Ukrainian soldiers continue to publicly display neo-Nazi symbols - including swastikas, SS tattoos, and Nazi salutes - according to an investigation by French outlet Le Monde.

In its report, published on Wednesday, Le Monde identified nearly 350 Ukrainian troops posting neo-Nazi imagery online, including Nazi salutes, swastika tattoos, Black Sun emblems, and Totenkopf insignias. According to the research, at least 200 of those identified serve in Kiev's 3rd Assault Brigade.

Russia has repeatedly accused Kiev of fostering neo-Nazi ideology and glorifying WW2-era Hitler collaborators and has demanded the "denazification" of Ukraine as part of a negotiated peace agreement.

Formed in 2023, the 3rd Assault Brigade is a direct successor of the Azov Regiment - originally created in 2014 by far-right figure, Andrei Biletsky. Azov has been accused by multiple human rights groups, as well as the UN, of war crimes and torture and has been widely criticized for its use of symbols tied to the Waffen-SS.

Comment: See also:

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Attention

Flashback Underestimate Iran at your peril

William Schryver
imetatronink
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:54 UTC
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
Notwithstanding the abundant evidence to the contrary that has emerged over the past several years, most westerners, and Americans in particular, continue to deride Iran as a backward nation of mindless fanatics.

The idea that Iran could pose any credible threat to the American military, its incomparable weaponry, and its mighty warriors ... well, it is dismissed as an absurd notion by almost anyone sufficiently pretentious to speak authoritatively of such things — most of whom could not come within 1000 miles of locating Iran on an unmarked world map.

Few understand what it means to be among the few extant "civilizational powers" — nations such as Iran, China, and Russia — that have somehow managed to retain for millennia both their ancestral geographical integrity and cultural cohesion.
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USA

Trump's War?

Julian MacFarlane
News Forensics
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:56 UTC
Trump's War?
© newstarget.com
Preparing for war?

The United States is clearly making preparations for war with Iran. It's goal would be regime change, no doubt trying to turn back the clock to the days of the Shah.

The Israeli attack, which began on June 13, did not cripple the Islamic Republic's nuclear program or its defensive and offensive capabilities. Nor did it destabilize the government which now has more support than before.

Donald Trump doesn't read. So he doesn't know that.

As I have mentioned elsewhere, some 30 KC-135R Stratotankers and KC-46A Pegasus tankers have been deployed to Europe under the pretext of participating in a NATO exercise, apparently readying themselves for deployment to West Asia - if needed.

"If needed" is the key phrase.

They won't be.

Trump has going back and forth. Recently, mostly "forth".

Forth, forth, forth....soon enough back.
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Big Bomb

Iran shakes up Israel's intel: Senior officers and Mossad targets taken down


Sputnik
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:59 UTC
tel aviv missile defense iron dome
© Getty Images / Mostafa Alkharouf/AnadoluIsraeli air defenses respond to incoming Iranian ballistic missiles as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, June 18, 2025.
Iran has killed "a significant number" of officers and commanders in strikes on Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and military intelligence centers, the Tasnim news agency reported on Tuesday.

Earlier in the day, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran said that it had attacked the "operations planning center" of Mossad in Tel Aviv.

A significant number of senior Israeli intelligence officers and commanders were killed after IRGC missile strikes on intelligence centers, including Mossad and Israeli military intelligence directorate Aman, the report said.
The publication claims that due to censorship of the news space, Tel Aviv is not publishing information about the casualties, especially among intelligence officers and military command.

Comment: And this:



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Attention

Xi, Putin discuss Middle East situation on phone

Liu Xin, Li Yawei
Global Times
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:31 UTC
Ramat Gan Israel
© VCGDebris and damaged cars at the site of an Iranian missile strike • Ramat Gan, Central Israel • June 19, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that ceasefire is an urgent priority in settling the conflict in the Middle East, and the use of force is not the right way to resolve international disputes, according to the Xinhua News Agency.

During phone talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over the situation in the Middle East, Xi urged the conflicting parties, especially Israel, to cease fire as soon as possible.

The Chinese president said that protecting civilians' safety is the top priority amid the Iran-Israel tensions, calling on the conflicting parties to strictly follow international law, and resolutely avoid harming innocent civilians.

Dialogue and negotiation are the fundamental way out, he said, calling on the international community, particularly major countries that have a special influence on the parties to the conflict, to make efforts to cool down the situation.

China stands ready to continue to strengthen communication and coordination with all parties, pool their efforts, and uphold justice, so as to play a constructive role in restoring peace in the Middle East, he said.

Comment: The sounds of reason.

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Question

Trump says 'chill,' Bibi goes full thrill. So, who's in charge of the Middle East?

Murad Sadygzade
RT
Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:45 UTC
Trump Nety
© Alex Wong/file/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump • Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Behind the rhetoric, Israel's offensive has revealed just how little control the US now wields.

If the Academy handed out Oscars for political theater, Donald Trump would be a shoo-in for the 2025 award for Worst Performance in a Leading Role. His latest remarks are less about statesmanship and more about saving face as global events spin far beyond the grasp of American diplomacy. And the harder he tries to project himself as a dealmaker pulling strings behind the scenes, the clearer it becomes: Western dominance is cracking, and Washington is reacting more on impulse than strategy.

The latest flashpoint - the 2025 escalation between Israel and Iran - has exposed the crumbling illusion of American leadership. Despite Trump's claim that he "convinced" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike Iran, the facts tell a different story. Netanyahu brushed off the advice and launched a sweeping assault on Iranian targets - not just military, but symbolic. In one bold move, he derailed already fragile nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran, revealing exactly who sets the agenda in the region now.

Faced with this reality, US leaders had two choices: admit their influence over Israel had faded, or publicly support the strikes and cling to the image of leadership - even if it meant further undermining their credibility as a neutral arbiter. Unsurprisingly, they chose the latter. Backing Israel at the expense of diplomacy with Iran has become business as usual. Washington isn't conducting the symphony anymore; it's trying to stay in rhythm while the conductor's baton is in someone else's hand.

Comment: Trump is his own best friend and worst enemy - next in line to Bibi.

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Russian Flag

Russia, the second enemy of American intelligence

Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Strategic Culture Foundation
Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:00 UTC
USIA signs
© Public Domain
The picture painted by the DIA is less dark than one might think. The question now remains: who will be the next enemy?

A history of hatred spanning almost a century

Let's move on to the second enemy identified by the DIA report. After China, Russia has been identified as the second sworn enemy of the United States of America.

America recognises that Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the war in Ukraine an existential struggle against the West, which will determine Russia's role in the world, its continued hold on power and its historical legacy. He also remains firm in his demand that Ukraine be permanently excluded from NATO membership, insisting on the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian military forces from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhzhya and Kherson regions. Despite the West providing lethal aid to Kiev, it is highly likely, according to the report, that Russia wants to avoid a direct confrontation with NATO, as it believes it cannot win a conventional military conflict with the alliance.

Moscow still possesses extensive asymmetric capabilities against the United States and its allies, including cyber operations and information campaigns, and poses an existential threat through its strategic nuclear forces, which are capable of striking directly at U.S. territory. The SMO in Ukraine is part of a broader objective of the Russian government, which the U.S. views with a limited perspective, namely as a project aimed at regaining the prestige and global influence it lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, by exercising control over the former Soviet states and seeking to exert strong influence over the foreign, domestic and economic policies of these countries, global influence lost after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 by exercising control over the former Soviet states, seeking to exert strong influence over the foreign, domestic and economic policies of these countries, while limiting the advance of rival foreign powers. But the Americans ignore one fact: the world is no longer what it was in 1992, and the U.S. is no longer the centre of the world.
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