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The European Union did not stand up for international law, the International Court of Justice, or even the International Criminal Court. The genocide in Gaza, the EU supported it. The illegal war on Iran, the EU supported it. The illegal Israeli occupation of Lebanon, the EU supported it. The illegal kidnaping of the Venezuelan president and a violation of the UN Charter, the EU stayed silent about it. When the International Court of Justice called for sanctions against Israel, the EU refused it. When the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for war criminals, the EU opened its airspace and welcomed them. Just last week the EU stated that the EU supported the ICC, and just today, three EU and ICC member countries—Greece, Italy, and France—have permitted Israeli Prime Minister, a fugitive under ICC arrest warrant, to use their airspace to Washington D.C. The EU policy of double standards. It is not the people of Europe that have double standards, it is the governing coali...

by Alan MacLeod Part 4 -  Netanyahu’s Favorite Channel No nation, however, concerns PragerU as much as Israel. The organization has dedicated a huge amount of time and resources to defending and promoting the country. Their “Israel at War” series of lectures denounces the “lie” that Israel is occupying its neighbors, and includes a link to sign a petition “to condemn Hamas and stand with Israel.” A lesson plan designed for young children shows teachers how they can make a model Iron Dome out of juice boxes and straws, in order to educate American children on how Israel is defending itself from Palestinian terror, interspersed with messaging like Israel and the U.S. are best friends that “share values that are tied to God.” Another video, explaining the current crisis in the region to older children, claims that, “Like the United States, Israel is a nation of immigrants, which prides itself on its freedoms for all citizens, no matter their religion, ethnicity, or race,” and, “Unique...

The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe by Diane Abbott   When the economy is stagnating and living standards are under pressure, it is inevitable that a new prime minister will be judged primarily on their domestic agenda. But foreign policy cannot be pushed onto the backburner. There is simply too much at stake, both in terms of domestic spending priorities and in terms of our security and well-being. This is because we are at a crucial time in terms of war and peace. We are engaged in trying to stop multiple wars, not just one war. We have had an invasion and a coup in Venezuela and the same is threatened against Cuba. Nigeria has been bombed, along with Yemen. A coup in Syria installed an ally of radical jihadists. There is an ongoing genocide in Gaza, a rampage against Palestinians in the West Bank and a full-scale invasion of Lebanon. There is a military build-up against China, especially through Auk...

BreakThrough News Japan is swiftly remilitarizing, the US is funneling weapons to Taiwan, and the military encirclement of China is only escalating. Is the US driving Asia into war with China? Tings Chak, researcher at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and organizer with the Hands Off Asia campaign, joins Amanda Yee to discuss the alarming moves on the part of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to move the country away from its post-WWII pacifist principles – and how it fits into Washington’s preparations for a major military confrontation for China. Chak explains the US’s "architecture of militarization" surrounding China and how it threatens the entire region. But she also explains how people and movements in Asia are fighting back through the Hands Off Asia campaign.

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Times Of India Reports suggest the United States has reportedly evacuated Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar after recent Iranian attacks on the strategic military facility. New aerial images appear to show U.S. Air Force aircraft disappearing from the base, with reports claiming the number of aircraft dropped from 17 to zero in just days.  While U.S. officials have not confirmed the reported evacuation, the development comes amid escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran, raising fresh questions about America's military posture in the Middle East.

Israel killed nearly 100,000 people in 1,000 days in Lebanon and Palestine with weapons supplied by 51 countries. That means Israel killed about 100 people every day for 1,000 days with complete impunity. This's what real threat to world peace looks like. — Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) July 25, 2026

The world’s eyes will be on Lionel Messi on Wednesday night, as Argentina face England in the World Cup semi-final. The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business and security connections with the Apartheid State. From being the face of an Israeli A.I. company led and run by Israeli spies, entrusting his private security to a team of Israel secret agents, MintPress explores the reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu considers him to be his favorite football player. by Alan MacLeod Part 3 - Zionist Brothers  Others, including Netanyahu himself, cite Argentinian president Javier Milei as another factor. Since coming to power in 2023, Milei has made support for Israel a central pillar of his political platform. Internationally, Israel has few friends left. But Milei’s Argentina has emerged as among its most vocal backers. In May 2024, it voted against an overwhelmingly popular United Nations vote to elect Pa...

#thegrayzone   Piers Morgan invited Max Blumenthal on to discuss his Iran reporting and the illegal seizure of his devices by the US govt, but spent much of his time questioning Blumenthal's "impartiality." "I'm absolutely not impartial," Blumenthal explained. "I am not objective, and the concept of objectivity, as we understand it, is set out by the corporate media according to the parameters devised for them by their militant Zionist ruling class owners, who literally own the networks that you appear on." Blumenthal then illustrated how Morgan manufactured consent for the US-Israeli war on Iran by promoting inflated death tolls and a false narrative of the Israeli and US-sponsored regime change riots that ravaged Iran in January.  

POGROMS against defenseless civilians all over the West Bank (while Gaza is under fire). Israeli civilians and army joining forces. It is not just Nethanyahu and few "rotten apples". THIS IS ISRAEL ARMS EMBARGO NOW - STOP TRADE NOW This is what intl law requires. pic.twitter.com/6IHR4yPolS — Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) July 25, 2026  

The Electronic Intifada   A segment from The Electronic Intifada 's livestream on day 1021 of the Gaza genocide. Ali Abunimah, Nora Barrows-Friedman and Jon Elmer were joined by Dorotea Gucciardo in Gaza. 

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by Alan MacLeod Part 3 -  Free Healthcare is Slavery, But Actual Slavery is A-OK The PragerU content being shown to American schoolchildren contains a number of highly controversial viewpoints presented as common sense. Most “lessons” are presented in cartoon format, with one about the founding of America including an animated Christopher Columbus stating that slavery was “no big deal.” “Slavery is as old as time and has taken place in every corner of the world,” he said; “Being taken as a slave is better than being killed, no? I don’t see the problem.” Further justifying the enslavement and genocide of two continents, Columbus tells those watching that, “The place I discovered was beautiful, but it wasn’t exactly a paradise of civilization, and the native people were far from peaceful.” Another video lesson grossly distorts the views of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, with an animated Douglas justifying slavery in America, stating that “the founding fathers made a compromise [sup...

The Electronic Intifada   Jon Elmer covers the deadly Iranian missile and drone strikes targeting US bases, barracks and missile defense arrays, as the Yemeni armed forces expand a naval blockade to the Bab-el-Mandeb strait and the Red Sea.    

The Young Turks   The Iranian-backed Houthis have found a way to attack even MORE of the world's oil supply. Ana Kasparian and Glenn Greenwald discuss on The Young Turks .

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. pic.twitter.com/YRezmW6YVx — Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) July 22, 2026  

Breaking Points   Krystal and Saagar discuss China's new breakthrough in AI tech surpassing US companies.   

The world’s eyes will be on Lionel Messi on Wednesday night, as Argentina face England in the World Cup semi-final. The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business and security connections with the Apartheid State. From being the face of an Israeli A.I. company led and run by Israeli spies, entrusting his private security to a team of Israel secret agents, MintPress explores the reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu considers him to be his favorite football player. by Alan MacLeod Part 2 - Messi’s Israeli Handlers  The Argentinian has made multiple visits to Israel during his career. In 2013, he and his club, F.C. Barcelona, went to Israel and Palestine on a supposed “Peace Tour.” During his trip, he met and talked with Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, and glad-handed with IDF soldiers. He also donned a yarmulke and visited the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism. Even after leaving, however, M...

Owen Jones   This is probably the quickest and clearest defeat of the US imperialist beast since WWII, as the war against Iran fully exposed the limits of US imperialist power.   Normally, we should expect the US imperialist beast to respond with a second, much more brutal attack against Iran until its final surrender. However, reports about the draining of global oil reserves to dangerously low levels due to the Strait of Hormuz "weapon" successfully used by Iran, as well as limitations related to the production of new expensive weapons by the US against Iran's much cheaper drones and missiles, made such a possible second attack appear almost impossible.

Democracy Now! The United States is continuing to bombard Iran amid an intensifying standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said on Sunday the United States had struck 140 targets in Iran. In retaliation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. military facilities across the Middle East. “U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command, and the Pentagon at large have concealed the impact of Iranian strikes, in some cases entirely,” says Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News , adding that “Trump has dramatically underestimated the Iranians from the very beginning.” The escalating attacks from both sides come after Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz last week and President Trump declared the ceasefire over. Iran insists that, according to the 60-day memorandum of understanding with the United States, commercial ships going through the waterway must “coordinate” their movements with Iranian authorities, which the United States has rejected. “There ...

Danny Haiphong Iran has opened the gates of missile hell on US bases as troops casualties pile up in Jordan, and US strikes become less and less effective in countering Tehran's strategy. The UAE and Israel may be next and CENTCOM is scrambling.

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🚨The recent images of Dr. Hussam Abu Safyia are shocking evidence of Israel's abuse against Palestinian detainees. Dr. Abu Safyia has been arbitrarily detained for one and a half years without charges, while being physically abused and denied healthcare. His recent solitary… pic.twitter.com/2Zi9UUrd5f — Palestine Daily News✌️🇵🇸✌️ (@Palestinedaily1) July 19, 2026  

by Alan MacLeod Part 2 -  Leave Our Kids Alone You have probably seen a PragerU video. An estimated one-in-three Americans have. The billionaire-funded media machine is a powerful force on the American right, providing highly-produced conservative content attempting to push U.S. politics and society rightwards. Recently, however, PragerU has set its sights on children, and is seeking to hijack the American education system. Since 2023, it has signed deals with ten states – Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah – to become an official education provider, supplying books, videos, and other content to schools across the United States. Students in New Hampshire, meanwhile, can earn credits by completing online PragerU courses. And with PragerU Español, it has plans to expand into Latin America as well. Florida was the trailblazer in this phenomenon. As part of his Stop WOKE Act – a bill that sought to eradicate liberal ideology f...

MintPress News  /  Danny Haiphong  /  Drop Site News  /  Times Of India / Secular Talk They said the air defenses held. They said no bases were hit. They were lying. On July 16, Iran launched one of the largest attacks on US military facilities in modern history — roughly 100 missiles, with US Naval Support Activity Bahrain, headquarters of the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, as the target. Washington is hiding the true scale of the losses. Prof. John Mearsheimer evaluates the catastrophic impact of renewed US war on Iran and why Trump is caught is a strategic disaster. American air defence systems seem to be struggling against Iranian attacks. Footage has been released showing an Iranian ballistic missiles bypassing multiple Patriot air defence missiles in Jordan, while new satellite pictures showed that Iran scored a direct hit on a similar system in Iraq.  According to a statement carried by Iran's state broadcaster IRIB, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Cor...

Geopolitical Economy Report Donald Trump violated the diplomatic agreement and restarted the war, bombing Iran and re-imposing a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Ben Norton explains why the US government will fail, because it has no plan and lacks leverage, whereas Tehran and its decentralized military have escalation dominance.

The Electronic Intifada Jon Elmer,  The Electronic Intifada  contributing editor, reports on the battle in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s missile and drone operations targeting US military bases across the Gulf region and Jordan.

The world’s eyes will be on Lionel Messi on Wednesday night, as Argentina face England in the World Cup semi-final. The diminutive superstar has gained a massive following across the planet, not least in Israel, thanks to his numerous business and security connections with the Apartheid State. From being the face of an Israeli A.I. company led and run by Israeli spies, entrusting his private security to a team of Israel secret agents, MintPress explores the reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu considers him to be his favorite football player. by Alan MacLeod Part 1 - Palling Up With Ex-Israeli Spooks  As the world’s foremost football star, Lionel Messi is understandably protective of his image. The Argentinian forward carefully picks and chooses whom he is associated with, and has signed lucrative long-term deals with enormous global brands, such as Adidas, Pepsi, and Mastercard. That is why many were surprised when, in 2020, he announced a partnership with OrCam, a relatively small...

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BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning Palestinian homes and farmland in the village of Susya, occupied West Bank — in the middle of the night. Families are watching their homes burn. This is organized terror. Pure and simple. pic.twitter.com/xhz21SHD5a — sarah (@sahouraxo) July 16, 2026    

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal reports back from Iran, where he covered the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, documented US-Israeli war crimes and interviewed officials and others about the shattered MOU and the latest phase of war.    He also discuss his political harassment at the hands of the Trump administration, which ordered Customs and Border Patrol agents to interrogate him on his return to the US and seize his electronic devices. Former US Rep. Dennis Kucinich also joins The Grayzone to discuss the dangerous congressional bill that will effectively merge the US military with Israel's, cementing the so-called special relationship at a time when the American public is turning on Israel.

Breaking Points Krystal and Saagar discuss Trump bringing back the blockade of Iran while saying the US will charge a 20% fee for protecting the Strait of Hormuz.  Related: US empire insists on permanent war until regime change in Iran

by Alan MacLeod Part 1 PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partner in at least ten states, and blitzes children with highly questionable messaging on race, history, and politics. Even more concerning, PragerU is led by former Israeli spy, Marissa Streit, who has stated she uses the tactics and techniques honed by IDF military intelligence on the American people. Streit’s company is involved in a big-money operation targeting children with neoconservative, pro-war, pro-business, pro-Israel messaging, attempting to indoctrinate them at their youngest and most impressionable age. MintPress explores this increasingly powerful group, with ambitions to completely overhaul the American educational system. Source, links: https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-israeli-spy-behind-pragerus-plan-to-rewrite-american-education-to-indoctrinate-children/291039/ [ 2 ][ 3 ] [ 4 ]

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal meets top Iranian analyst and journalist Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm in Tehran on July 9, moments after the US resumed airstrikes on Iran, and as the funeral procession for the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proceeded through Iraq. Blumenthal asks Khoshcheshm what the red flags of revenge seen throughout the funeral procession signify, and whether the many public calls for targeting the US president and his inner circle as retaliation for Khamenei's assassination, and the killings of other top Iranian leaders, are to be taken seriously.   Khoshcheshm explains why he sees a massive regional war over the horizon, and why this war may eventually reach the United States due to Trump's reckless behavior and "betrayal" of his own regional allies. Seyed Mostafa Khoshcheshm has taught at a number of Iranian universities and academic centers, including the International Relations Faculty of the Iranian Foreign Ministry. 

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Successive United Nations investigations have documented Israel's genocide, yet western regimes still refuse to name it or deliver the accountability their own institutions demand by Hossam Shaker Part 3 - The margins, not the centre Those faltering positions gave the strong impression that they were conferring moral immunity on the perpetrator, namely the Israeli leadership and its regular army. Prevailing European and western criticism was limited to only two reckless ministers from the Israeli government, which amounts to little, since Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are already constantly criticised within Israeli circles. Meanwhile, the government and the political leadership more broadly continue to escape direct criticism, even after the accumulation of filmed atrocities and the issuance of an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself. This evasion becomes even clearer when criticism, along with some sanctions of limited e...

Iraq, Syria and the US plan to revive a historic 500-mile pipeline to Syria's Mediterranean coast as part of efforts to reduce Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, senior Iraqi and regional officials have told Middle East Eye . An agreement to revive the pipeline, originally running from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk to Syria’s coastal town of Baniyas, is expected to be unveiled next week when Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi meets US President Donald Trump at the White House, the sources told MEE. Tom Barrack, Trump’s ambassador to Turkey and envoy to Syria and Iraq, has been working on the details of the agreement before Zaidi’s visit, which is also expected to include a stop in Texas, the US's energy hub state.  The senior Iraqi official told MEE that Barrack has developed a good working relationship with Zaidi and wants to use the pipeline as a model for business projects in the Levant that he has trumpeted as benefiting the US and local governments.  The pipeline ...

BREAKING: Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in Gaza right now. Families have nowhere to run. Nowhere is safe. The genocide has not stopped. pic.twitter.com/lEYslQW0mn — sarah (@sahouraxo) July 12, 2026  

globinfo freexchange   A report from early July at the Atlantic Council - one of the top US imperialist think tanks - website, confirms the long-term strategy of the US empire concerning Iran. Which in short, is to buy time in order to prepare for permanent war until regime change. Only a few excerpts from the report are more than enough for someone to understand the deeper plan, unfolding in plain sight. Furthermore, it reveals that the brains of Washington's warhawks are set up for permanent war and are completely incapable of thinking different alternatives that would not necessarily include more violence and destruction. As we read:                   More significantly, the regime, following its longstanding approach, has successfully created a “new normal” in which Iranian actions that would have previously been considered casus belli now have been redefined below the threshold of war. Every US president since Jimmy Carter and Rona...

Katie Halper     Palestinian-American journalist Ramzy Baroud reacts to newly surfaced October 7 footage of Israeli commanders ordering the Hannibal Directive to target their own captured soldiers. 

The Jimmy Dore Show   Russell Dobular and Revolutionary Blackout Network’s Nick Cruse examine Donald Trump's negative comments about Communism, using them as a starting point for a broader debate comparing the economic and political systems of the United States and China. They argue that China's development, infrastructure, and anti-corruption policies have produced better outcomes for many citizens while criticizing inequality, healthcare, and public investment in the U.S. They also discuss the historical legacy of Mao Zedong, the Chinese Revolution, and the role of state planning in China's modernization, while reflecting on public opinion Russell observed during his travels. The conversation concludes by contrasting government intervention in the U.S. economy with China's model, arguing that both major parties increasingly rely on state involvement while serving different interests. 

Geopolitical Economy Report   Many Western economists and media outlets claim that Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but this is not true; it's based on a misunderstanding of the difference between average wealth and median wealth. Ben Norton explains how the extreme inequality in the US make its average wealth misleadingly look high, and why GDP per capita is not a good measurement. He debunks the myth of "Europoors", which is often spread by Donald Trump supporters.

Free Dr. Hussam Now! More than 2,500 healthcare workers have signed a petition urging RCP to publicly demand the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. pic.twitter.com/vJxaTQ1yKe — PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) July 11, 2026  

Double Down News   For decades, the Western war machine assumed its high-tech hegemony was untouchable. Not anymore...    Related: Five reasons a war with Iran will mark the final fall of US empire

Useful Idiots   Abby Martin, journalist and filmmaker behind the Empire Files, Gaza Fights for Freedom, and Cuba After Castro, returns to Useful Idiots on the premiere day of her bold new film: Earth’s Greatest Enemy. The new documentary examines how the Pentagon, exempt from international climate agreements or emissions laws and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, is the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe. Martin went deep into Washington as well as into the communities and ecosystems it destroyed in order to expose the truth about the US military and put pressure on its most powerful conspirators, from bought-out politicians like Nancy Pelosi to squirming army officials to corporate profiteers like Palantir’s Alex Karp. In this interview, Abby recounts the most shocking discoveries she and her team made while unraveling the story and filming where the military didn’t want them to be f...

Successive United Nations investigations have documented Israel's genocide, yet western regimes still refuse to name it or deliver the accountability their own institutions demand by Hossam Shaker Part 2 - Double standards It is entirely understandable that the allies of a regime of occupation and genocide, or those who consider themselves Israel's partners and friends, would avoid issuing a clear condemnation of conduct they themselves helped support and encourage, directly or indirectly, even if only through silence and denial of its atrocities. Throughout this prolonged season of horrors, the Israeli side has enjoyed military and political backing, as well as propagandistic cover, through carefully crafted formulas uttered by senior European and western officials. These amounted to evasive justifications for whatever war crimes and grave violations an occupying authority and its military forces might commit against a population left utterly exposed to continuous bombardment....