Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is looking for a reason to end his partnership with Benny Gantz's Blue and White party in the near future, prompting another national election that is expected to greatly benefit him, according to a report citing senior sources in the premier's party.

"The marriage between us and Blue and White will end at the Rabbinate [with a divorce] much faster than everyone thinks," a senior Likud source was quoted as saying by Channel 12 Sunday. "Netanyahu is trying to find the right timing and pretext to call elections."

The source said negotiations over the state budget, which must pass by the end of August, could provide such a pretext.

The official claimed Netanyahu's wife Sara and son Yair were pushing to dismantle the government, with Likud responding that that was an "ugly lie."

Netanyahu has reportedly been irked by statements made recently by several Blue and White ministers, including Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn defending the justice system from the premier's attacks and Social Equality Minister Meirav Cohen saying her party "doesn't believe Netanyahu or in Netanyahu."

The Trump administration wants to end enhanced unemployment benefits and replace them with a different policy, according to a senior aide.

Federal coronavirus relief legislation enacted in March authorized jobless Americans to receive an extra $600 a week in unemployment benefits.

Those payments are scheduled to end after July 31, which may lead to a sharp decrease in cash flow for the roughly 30 million people currently receiving the benefit.

The unemployment rate in April and May was higher than at any time since the Great Depression.

The Trump administration, in line with many congressional Republicans, wants the $600 payments to end. The administration believes they provide a disincentive to find work or return to a job, according to Larry Kudlow, White House economic advisor.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it is ending its emergency use authorization for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drugs backed by President Donald Trump to combat Covid-19.

The agency determined the drugs were "unlikely to be effective in treating COVID-19 for the authorized uses in the EUA."

"Additionally, in light of ongoing serious cardiac adverse events and other serious side effects, the known and potential benefits of CQ and HCQ no longer outweigh the known and potential risks for the authorized use," the FDA wrote in its notice Monday.

The FDA issued the emergency use authorization for the drugs in March. The EUA meant that doctors would be allowed to use the drugs on patients hospitalized with Covid-19 even though they had not been formally approved by the agency.

The UN Human Rights Council has joined the worldwide protests taking aim at racism and police brutality among US police forces. But where are these voices when the US military kills millions in the Middle East and Africa?

Burkina Faso, speaking on behalf of 54 African nations, requested an urgent debate on "racially motivated human rights violations" - specifically systemic racism and police brutality - in the US, and the UNHRC has agreed to hold the debate on Wednesday. But compared with what US military policy has wrought on the populations of the Middle East and northern Africa, police killings are a blip on the radar.

The UNHRC debate is the latest grand public statement in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month, and speaks to a growing disconnect between what has become a laser-focus on US policing and awareness of the much greater harms caused by Washington's foreign policy - harms that are just as racialized, if not more so, but which mysteriously fly under the radars of activist groups.

The Supreme Court has extended employment protections to gay, lesbian and transgender employees, and tossed out landmark border control and gun rights cases, all seen as massive setbacks for US conservatives.

Many Republicans have long held that despite the liberal bias of the media and the left-wing activism dominating the streets, their real power came from their hold over the US judicial branch.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is one of these Republicans, and was willing to place his political career on the line to hold the late Justice Antonin Scalia's seat open during the last months of the Obama administration, so he could replace Scalia with a suitably right-leaning judge once President Donald Trump took office.

All ideologies are similar, but the left-wing ideologies have one radical difference from the right-wing ones. The right-wing are conservatives, traditionalists. They seek to preserve the foundations of the existing society and state. Therefore they are focused on defending the interests of the state and the people. They are close to nationalists, but the ordinary right-wing (conservatives) consider the people to be representatives of all people who inhabit this state and adhere to its traditions. Nationalists, on the other hand, try to bring the nation out as a kind of absolutely pure substrate, constantly burning themselves on it, because there are no absolutely pure representatives of any existing nation.

The logic of the right-wing conservatives is perfectly formulated by the ancient Chinese (who had already been influenced by the patriarchal-traditionalist ideology of Confucius for several hundred years): "A barbarian who lives like a Khan is a Khan. A Khan who lives like a barbarian is a barbarian". I.e., it doesn't matter who you are by origin, it's important to know the culture of the society you belong to.

Thus, right-wing conservatism separates its society from the rest and sets forth the conditions that determine belonging to this society. But it does not deny the right of other societies to exist in the form dictated by their culture and traditions.

A British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) film, which started its three-part broadcast on Sunday, has exposed the chain of command in the town of Salisbury at the time Sergei Skripal (lead image, left) and Yulia Skripal were poisoned on March 4, 2018. That command was directed by a medical specialist working at the Porton Down compound less than nine miles from the park bench where the Skripals collapsed. He gave the orders to the city's public health officials depicted in the film, as well as to the police, paramedics and hospital personnel starring in the film. He also coordinated the movement of the Skripals' blood from the hospital's intensive care ward to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down. From there he reported to the officials of the Cabinet Office emergency committee, code-named COBRA, meeting in a bunker in central London. They included the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6), Sir Alex Younger (lead image, right).

The medical commander's name is Nicolas Gent. His title is Deputy Head of the Emergency Response Department, Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Public Health England (PHE).

Gent's standing order to the Salisbury Hospital doctors taking blood samples from the Skripals, and to the DSTL analysts receiving the samples, was that "every transfer of a sample must be documented... you will need to complete a new form for each transfer (eg from the person who took the sample to the porter who will take the sample to the laboratory; from porter to scientist; from laboratory to courier service; from courier service to scientist in reference laboratory). All the forms in this chain must be numbered in sequence."

Gent wrote the blank forms; he reviewed the completed ones after they had arrived at Porton Down and the blood was analysed. He then reported to COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A).

But DSTL and the Ministry of Defence have subsequently acknowledged that "our searches have failed to locate any information that provides the exact time that the samples were collected."

For Gent to be telling the truth about how the blood samples were documented, and for the Ministry of Defence to be telling the truth that no forms have been found at Porton Down for the Skripal blood samples, leaves only one conclusion. If they aren't lying, the truth is that no Skripal blood samples were delivered to Porton Down before it was decided that Novichok, made in Russia and used to attack the Skripals, had been found in their bloodstreams.

Israel began preparations for a new settlement in the Golan Heights named after US President Donald Trump, following Israeli government approval on Sunday.

"We will start today with practical steps to construct Ramat Trump in the Golan Heights," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.

Ramat Trump in Hebrew translates as Trump Heights in English.

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and annexed it in 1981. Most of the international community considers the move, and Israeli settlements in the territory, illegal under international law.

Iran's Foreign Ministry has warned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'s Board of Governors against targeting Tehran under pressure from the United States and Israel.

"Should an unconstructive decision as such be taken, Iran is likely to respond with a proportionate reaction," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi said in Tehran on Monday during a regular press briefing, adding, "They can probably guess what Iran's reaction will be."

According to Press TV, the Board is scheduled to hold a virtual meeting and discuss a range of matters later Monday, but a controversial report that the IAEA recently released about Iran is expected to take center stage.

The report apparently alleged that "Iran has for months blocked inspections at two sites where nuclear activity may have occurred in the past," AFP reported earlier in the month.

For those wondering what will come after the Covid19 pandemic has successfully all but shut down the entire world economy, spreading the worst depression since the 1930s, the leaders of the premier globalization NGO, Davos World Economic Forum, have just unveiled the outlines of what we can expect next. These people have decided to use this crisis as an opportunity.

On June 3 via their website, the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) unveiled the outlines of their upcoming January 2021 forum. They call it "The Great Reset." It entails taking advantage of the staggering impact of the coronavirus to advance a very specific agenda. Notably enough, that agenda dovetails perfectly with another specific agenda, namely the 2015 UN Agenda 2030. The irony of the world's leading big business forum, the one that has advanced the corporate globalization agenda since the 1990s, now embracing what they call sustainable development, is huge. That gives us a hint that this agenda is not quite about what WEF and partners claim.