Venezuela's turn toward Israel did not begin in the rubble.

The earthquake gave the world the story it was meant to see, rescue teams, drones, prayers, gratitude. But the real machinery was moving somewhere else. In Caracas, Venezuela's Jewish-community leadership opened the door. The evangelical channel ran through Texas and Florida, where Trump's faith network met Rubio's Venezuela politics. The strangest part was waiting inside Chavismo itself, where Nicolás Maduro's own son had spent years building the religious infrastructure that made the pivot possible.

The public version began on the morning of July 3, 2026, when Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, performed two acts of thanks in quick succession. One was staged for the international cameras. The other was posted on the state's own Instagram account. In the first, Rodríguez stood before reporters and thanked Israel by name. She welcomed a delegation from the Israel Defense Forces that had arrived with drones and search-and-rescue teams after earthquakes killed more than 2,500 people along the northern coast. Venezuela had severed relations with Israel in 2009 and spent the subsequent fifteen years as one of the most vocal supporters of the Palestinian cause in the Western Hemisphere. The reversal was presented as disaster diplomacy: pragmatic, humane, and above politics.

Is it too little, too late for the struggling nation?

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave Canada a lost decade. A key contributor to the country's stagnation was the Liberal government's obsession with climate change and its ushering in of green energy policies that were disastrous for a nation rich in natural resources. To make Canada great again, Prime Minister Mark Carney is abandoning climate alarmism and embracing what made the country wealthy in the first place: crude oil.

Canada Loves Oil Again

On June 30, the prime minister published a 17-minute YouTube video, focused exclusively on his predecessor's climate agenda. He used words like "expensive" and "divisive" to describe Trudeau's environmental endeavors. Carney essentially admitted that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives were right.

For right-wing political pundits, this was a rare win for the incumbent. Indeed, in a bid to resuscitate the ailing Canadian economy, Carney is trying to make the country fall back in love with fossil fuels - and appease Alberta - despite years of climate doomerism.

During the 2020 pandemic hysteria there was a mad rush by globalist institutions like the WEF, IMF, BIS and numerous national central banks to speed-run the concept of "CBDCs" (Central Bank Digital Currencies) into the mainstream consciousness. The idea of digital currencies rooted to a blockchain ledger was presented as a solution to the pandemic. A number of globalists asserted that digital exchange would be necessary because "paper money carries the covid virus."

This was, of course, complete nonsense. There was zero evidence that shifting to digital would prevent the spread of the virus in any way. But, as I've said for years now, covid was their big play. It was intended to become a nexus point for a global coup; the "New World Order" takeover. The elites figured the population was so terrified that they would agree to anything without a logical reason.

They were wrong, at least in the long run. The virus was a dud (which seemed to catch them by surprise) and the death rate was minimal (0.23% median IFR). The public eventually woke up to the deception and the agenda was forced to dissolve, largely due to nearly half of all US states blocking the mandates. If Americans could live just fine without restrictions, then the rest of the world was going to follow.

Editor's Note

The twenty-first century has introduced a form of confrontation that rarely appears on television screens, is seldom announced through diplomatic declarations, and almost never begins with the spectacle traditionally associated with war. Its progression is quieter, considerably more sophisticated, and arguably more consequential than many conventional conflicts because its primary objective is not the occupation of territory but the gradual acquisition of economic leverage capable of influencing political decisions, technological innovation, industrial production, and ultimately the everyday lives of billions of people.

What follows is neither a dystopian prediction nor an exercise in geopolitical pessimism. It is an examination of structural transformations that are already unfolding across global markets and whose cumulative implications deserve substantially greater attention than they currently receive.

The US continues to playact diplomacy with Iran regarding the latest "memorandum of understanding" (MOU) signed, then immediately violated by the US, renegotiated, and supposedly agreed upon again — using the pause in all-out war to carefully shape the battlefield ahead of what will inevitably be another round of large-scale aggression.

In the interim, the US continues striking at Iran and its allies across the region at will.

This process takes place within the context of US policy papers for years, admitting that diplomacy in and of itself would be used against Iran to create a pretext for war rather than be used as a means of preventing it.

The US has implemented precisely this policy through multiple instances of the US deliberately betraying diplomatic processes, including the violation of the so-called "Nuclear Deal" (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) and two back-to-back US decapitation strikes carried out in the middle of US-Iranian "negotiations" between 2025 and 2026.

One can only imagine the scenes of obsequiousness and utter debasement as European politicians lined up to kiss Trump's ring.

What a turnaround. The NATO summit this week was heading for an almighty crash, its leaders were bracing for impact, and then, suddenly, at the last moment, the alliance pulled out of a nosedive, and everyone was happy ever after.

What happened? U.S. President Donald Trump came to Ankara in a fury over bashing the Europeans. Then the mood swung like a person who just got his rocks off. He was bought off with a $160 billion pledge from the European and Canadian NATO vassals. Money talks for this American president, whose administration is a byword for graft and grift.

The final declaration from the Ankara summit states that the European and Canadian members are to donate $80 bn for military aid to Ukraine in 2026 and 2027. That is a total of $160 bn.

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says it has struck a US command and control center in West Asia and the al-Azraq airbase in Jordan with 10 ballistic missiles, in a second wave of retaliation for American strikes on Iranian territory.

The IRGC Aerospace Force carried out the attacks at 14:20 local time on Thursday. The strikes came hours after Iran's initial retaliatory operations against US targets in Bahrain and Kuwait on Wednesday and Thursday.

The IRGC said in a statement:

"In our previous statement, we said that any repetition of aggression would expand our response to other enemy bases in the region.

"In this second phase, we have made good on that threat against the aggressions of the child-killing American military.

"The enemy's command and control center in West Asia and the al-Azraq airbase in Jordan were crushed with 10 ballistic missiles."

The al-Azraq base is a key facility used by American forces in Jordan. The IRGC statement warned that further attacks would follow if US aggression continued:

"Should the terrorist US military repeat its aggression, the remaining US bases in the region will not be spared from our heavy fire."

Yesterday, the European Parliament held a vote on the issue of "chat control" - the legislation empowering tech giants to monitor private messages, allegedly to counter an "epidemic" of child sexual abuse material.

From EuroNews:

The legislation has been dubbed "chat control" by its critics, due to its privacy implications, particularly on end-to-end encrypted communications. The European Parliament is set to vote again this week on controversial legislation that would allow technology companies to scan online communications for child sexual abuse material.

That vote, technically on extending a temporary measure that expired in early April, was held yesterday.

The majority of MEPs voted "no".

The motion was passed anyway.

This was the second vote on this issue, it was previously rejected by a handy majority in March (311 against, 228 for, 92 absent). But the powers-that-be are really desperate to get this law in place, so they pulled out all the stops this time around.

That was entirely predictable.

Baboon of Barbaria and his minions broke their pledge to waive oil sanctions on Iran. The commitment was revoked by the Treasury Dept.

They broke the wobbly ceasefire - with strikes on Iran's southern coastal posts; Iran responded; the US doubled down; and the escalation ladder is back.

They broke the understanding on navigating the Strait of Hormuz with serial tanker provocations: the IRGC Navy responded in kind.

They broke - via the death cult - the MoU pledge to end the war "on all fronts including Lebanon".

Baboon of Barbaria signed the MoU with much fanfare in Versailles and in trademark nasty, brutish manner, broke it during the extended funeral ceremonies of assassinated Leader Ayatollah Khamenei - with tens of millions of Iranians demonstrating total national cohesion, alongside Iraqis in Najaf and Karbala.

Total Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz is back in effect.

And the Bab el-Mandeb may be next.

All that was proceeding in conjunction with the NATO summit in Ankara - where Trump declared, frothing at the mouth, and hysterically angry, that the ceasefire was "over" and described Iranian politicians, in neo-Crassus mode, as "scum" and "liars", "vicious, violent people". Talk about narcissistic self-projection.

It was so fitting for Baboon of Barbaria to re-escalate the war straight out of a summit of the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization. CENTCOM targets include Iran's civilian infrastructure and connectivity corridors. Certified terror tactics.

It's always crucial to re-emphasize that the NATO war on Russia and the American war on Iran are declinations of the same imperial war against sovereign civilization-states deeply implicated in Eurasia integration.

Cue to that ghastly NATO Secretary-General, Tutti Frutti al-Rutti, giving the game away, describing Europe as "one big platform of power projection for the United States": after all "5,000 planes had taken off from European airports" to support the American war on Iran.

Here it is, for anyone with an IQ over 50 across the West to understand: NATO is no more than a - vassalized - launch pad for the Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Piracy.

Baboon of Barbaria was not impressed by the Dutch clown. On the contrary: he vociferated against Italy - "very bad" - for not opening its bases; against the UK because it only opened a few; threatened Spain with a trade cutoff since Madrid closed its airspace to the war last March; and added his "need" to gobble up Greenland.

That's how the Empire treats the vassal "platform": as "scum".

Senior US military commanders bypassed warnings in critical databases that intelligence about potential targets in Iran was severely out of date and approved some strikes — including one that hit a school, killing nearly 200 hundred children and adults, according to three sources familiar with the decision-making process.

Messages indicating the intelligence was based on years-old intelligence that needed to be re-vetted were embedded in a system used for developing targets and required a senior officer to approve adding a site to the strike list, according to the sources.

The decision by senior commanders to ignore the warnings was made for "expediency," two of the sources said, in a rush to provide targets at the start of the war. But it also directly contributed to the accidental strike on the school, the sources added.

The strike killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers, according to Iranian state media. Those numbers would make the strike one of the worst civilian casualty incidents in recent US military history. The US military launched an investigation in the days after the strike.

US military officials "knew within days (of the strike on the school) how the mistake happened," one of the sources said. "It was obviously old info."