Massie says US significantly weakened by war on Iran

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Al Mayadeen English

27 July, 2026

United States Representative Thomas Massie said the US has been weakened by the war on Iran, as reports say CENTCOM urged the White House to halt bombing.

United States Representative Thomas Massie said the United States has been “significantly weakened by the war with Iran,” arguing in an X post that the campaign depleted missile-defense systems, drained oil reserves, sacrificed US troops, pushed up consumer prices, increased debt, and sidelined domestic needs “all for Israel.”

The Kentucky Republican’s remarks added fresh political pressure to an already widening debate in Washington over the price of the war on Iran, the scope of US involvement, and the degree to which the White House has tied American military power to “Israel’s” regional agenda. That debate has sharpened as more lawmakers question the administration’s war powers and the long-term cost of the campaign.

CENTCOM urged a pause near the Strait of Hormuz

Massie’s remarks came as Axios reported that Admiral Brad Cooper, the top US military commander in West Asia and head of CENTCOM, advised the Trump administration to halt bombing around the Strait of Hormuz after concluding the two-week assault had reached diminishing returns. Axios said Cooper briefed the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the White House earlier in the week, and that his assessment helped shape Trump’s decision to pause strikes along Iran’s southern coastline and around the strategic waterway.

The report said Cooper warned that most of the assigned targets had already been struck, leaving few objectives whose destruction would materially change the battlefield. In other words, the campaign had begun to run out of useful military targets unless Trump was prepared to escalate the war further.

Air-defense stocks under strain

Meanwhile, General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth that shortages of air-defense interceptors could reduce Washington’s ability to shield its bases and regional allies if the confrontation escalated again. The warning echoed broader concerns inside the Pentagon about the strain that the war on Iran has placed on US missile-defense inventories.

The New York Times said senior advisers including Caine and Vice President JD Vance raised similar concerns about the shrinking stockpile of Patriot interceptors and other air-defence systems needed to protect US forces across the region. That assessment reportedly played a major role in Trump’s decision to hold back from a larger escalation.

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Netanyahu will reject US demands for withdrawal from Lebanon, Gaza, Syria if asked

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The Cradle

JUL 27, 2026

Israeli officials repeatedly voiced their intent to occupy sizable sections of their neighbors’ territories indefinitely

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told cabinet ministers that Washington wants Israeli soldiers to pull back from positions in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza, and that he does not intend to comply with US demands, Channel 13 reported on 27 July.

The report, which cites unnamed security sources familiar with the matter, states that US officials want the Israeli army to carry out a “series of withdrawals” across the three fronts.

Channel 13 does not state whether Washington is seeking full or partial pullbacks; however, Netanyahu told the ministers that he “intends to stand on my own two feet and resist.”

“I will strongly oppose this and tell them no,” he reportedly said.

The comments come as Netanyahu has set off for Washington for a meeting set for Tuesday with US President Donald Trump, after which he is scheduled to attend the funeral services for Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, one of Washington’s most persistent warmongers and an unwavering backer of Israel, who died on 11 July.

Israeli forces are currently occupying major stretches of land in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza.

Israel maintains positions in border and hilltop areas in southern Syria, especially near the Golan frontier, where the military has established footholds inside Syrian territory, and regularly conducts raids against locals.

What began as a pretext to aid Druze communities battling Damascus’s extremist troops and Syrian government-backed Bedouin tribes after the ousting of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has become a so-called “buffer zone.” Israel has since used it to launch incursions into Lebanon.

In Lebanon, Israel maintains its so-called “Yellow Line” in the south that runs from the Mediterranean coast in the west to the Mount Hermon area in the east, extending around 10 kilometers inland and, in some parts, passing the Litani River.

Israel’s occupation of Lebanon has been marked by repeated ceasefire violations, including near-daily strikes, demolitions, and incursions. Beirut cited more than 2,000 violations in late 2025 alone, while hundreds of thousands of Lebanese remain displaced.

Many dozens of Lebanese villages within the Yellow Line have been completely demolished, with the intent of ethnically cleansing the area and creating a dead zone to which residents cannot return.

According to comments from February by Israeli Minister of War Israel Katz, Israeli troops will be staying in Lebanon and Syria “indefinitely.”

In Gaza, following almost three years of genocide and near-daily ceasefire violations since last October, Israel continued to slowly edge its Yellow Line in the strip further under the cover of night.

The most recent reporting says the controlled area has expanded to about 65 percent of Gaza and that the line has been shifted westward in places by hundreds of meters and, in some areas, by more than a kilometer.

Netanyahu has publicly said he wants to expand Israeli control over the strip further up to 70 percent.

Satellite imagery released on 21 July and reviewed by AP and Haaretz shows that the Israeli military has dug a 23-kilometer earthen trench along its new positions, cutting the devastated enclave in two.

In one stretch of southern Gaza, the trench sits more than a kilometer past the Yellow Line.

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Trump claims US in ‘very deep talks’ with Iran after Tehran denies negotiations

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The Cradle

JUL 27, 2026

US President Donald Trump claimed on 27 July that “deep talks” with Iran were ongoing, while renewing the threat of “very strong military action” against the Islamic Republic in the event that the alleged negotiations “don’t work out.”

“We are in very deep talks with Iran. If they don’t work out, we will go back to very strong military action,” Trump told US outlet Axios in an interview.

In response to a question on how long the “negotiations” would last, Trump said, “Not much time. Either it goes fast or not at all.”

“All of the people that deal with Iran asked me: ‘Don’t fire,’” he went on to say, claiming mediators and regional states lobbied him to give diplomacy another chance. “Nothing gained, nothing lost,” he added.

The president also mentioned his upcoming meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington this week.

“I am going to talk to Bibi [Netanyahu] about the fact that if I weren’t president, Iran would have had nuclear weapons by now and Israel would have been destroyed,” he told the outlet.

Axios alleged that “current negotiations are focused on a new deal that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and relaunch talks on a comprehensive nuclear deal.”

It stated that talks are being “conducted mainly between Iran and Oman,” but that Qatar, Pakistan, Egypt “and Trump’s envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are actively involved.”

The interview coincided with an AP report that said “progress” has been made in getting the two sides back to the negotiating table.

“Mediators led by Qatar and Pakistan are working to bridge the gap between Washington and Tehran to return to an interim ceasefire deal that had collapsed,” anonymous regional officials told AP.

Shortly before the AP report, drones of unknown origin – potentially belonging to Iraqi resistance factions – targeted energy infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. Aramco sites were targeted by the Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance movement on Monday as well, as announced by Sanaa.

Israel also said on Monday that its forces shot down two drones over the Jordan border.

Hours earlier, Iran completely rejected claims by Trump, US officials, and media reports that negotiations were underway.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said that Iran and Oman were discussing joint management of the Strait of Hormuz, and that the talks had nothing to do with the US.

“We will not allow the US to determine the time of war and peace … We will defend ourselves for as long as necessary,” he said.

Over the weekend, Trump claimed Iran was taking alleged negotiations seriously following a pause of around two weeks of heavy US bombing against the Islamic Republic – to which Tehran responded with devastating strikes on Washington’s assets across the region.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also recently claimed that Iran was “begging” for a deal.

Trump, Rubio, and other US officials say they have crippled the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities.

However, satellite imagery and reports revealed heavy casualties and significant losses inflicted by Tehran on US bases in Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and elsewhere in the region in recent days.

Earlier this month, the Iranian army warned that it will leave “no trace” of the US military presence in West Asia if Trump carries out his renewed threats to destroy all of Iran’s bridges and power sites.

Trump has been making this threat since the start of the war months ago.

Axios had cited sources over the weekend as saying that the US “paused” the strikes on Iran due to their “limited effectiveness,” which military officials reportedly briefed Trump about.

As a result, the president delayed his plans for an even further and heavier escalation against Iran following the meetings with US military officials.

US intelligence assessments have recently concluded that continued military attacks against the Islamic Republic are “unlikely to move” Tehran or “soften its position” in any potential new round of negotiations, according to the Washington Post.

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Via https://thecradle.co/articles/trump-claims-us-in-very-deep-talks-with-iran-after-tehran-denies-negotiations

Vaccine Amnesia: 75 Forgotten News Segments That Could Never Air Today

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A Midwestern Doctor

Before the press was captured, vaccine injuries were openly covered on national TV. Now the dam of censorship is breaking, and we can finally confront the tragic history that keeps repeating.

Story at a Glance:

•Something about vaccines (e.g., their promise of a simple injection being sufficient to safely and effectively end all diseases) has always deeply appealed to the minds of government officials.

•That promise is often a lie. Over and over, unsafe and ineffective vaccines reach the market, and each time, the officials invested in them do everything they can to shield the vaccines from scrutiny and bury the red flags. The medical field has dutifully gone along.

•In earlier decades, the press was far less captured than it is now, and it occasionally aired real investigations into what was happening — segments that documented the suffering of the injured.

•Watched together, these reports show two things at once: how much more candid the media used to be, and how precisely the lies of that era match the lies we face now.

•I compiled this article in the hope of breaking the collective amnesia, now that the pharmaceutical industry’s grip on the media is finally slipping. Below are 75 news reports on the dangers of vaccination that have been almost entirely forgotten and would never be broadcast today.

A key theme I’ve tried to highlight in this publication is that the same medical catastrophes keep repeating (because those responsible are never held accountable), so by understanding what happened in the past, you can see and understand what is happening now and what will likely happen in the future.

For example, because vaccines are “risky but necessary,” the medical profession and government, again and again, concluded that they needed to tell the public all vaccines were “safe and effective” as the potential injuries a mass vaccination campaign would cause were outweighed by “necessary” benefit the vaccines could offer. As such, examples can be found again and again of severe injuries being systematically covered up for the “greater good” (e.g., the earliest documented example I know of this happened in 1874 with the smallpox vaccine) and health authorities concocting the same set of excuses we’ve seen since smallpox as to why those vaccines failed to prevent the diseases they were supposed to.

Since the risks of most vaccines (detailed here) far outweigh their benefits, a mass-vaccination paradigm can only be sustained by censoring the evidence of harm — and then citing that manufactured silence as proof of safety. Over the decades, more and more has been done to conceal those harms. For almost a century, severe neurological injuries after vaccination were routinely reported in the medical literature. Now vaccine injuries are censored, and it is nearly impossible to publish anything critical of vaccines in a “reputable” journal.

Likewise, despite the “science” that says vaccines are safe, it is nearly impossible to obtain the raw datasets that could actually answer the question — as Steve Kirsch showed the public throughout COVID-19 with his relentless, endlessly stonewalled quest to get that data. Likewise, VAERS, a public injury-reporting database only exists because the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act required a way for patients to bypass doctors refusing to report their injuries, and as such, ever since a law mandated its creation, everything possible has been done to undermine and discredit VAERS (except when the industry uses it as “proof” to prove vaccines are safe).

This is the inescapable problem at the heart of mass vaccination. When you take a product that is not completely safe and give it to an entire population, tens of millions of healthy people, most of whom were never at meaningful risk from the disease, even a small rate of serious harm guarantees that enormous numbers are injured or killed. Since there is no way around that arithmetic the authorities have chosen concealment every time, suppressing the data, reclassifying the injuries, and dismissing each casualty as a coincidence, because the alternative is admitting the paradigm itself produces the ever-increasing wave of chronic illness sweeping our society.

For a long time, the injuries were too numerous to fully hide, so the public kept reawakening to them and the mainstream media kept covering them. The industry’s solution came after it won liability protection in the 1986 vaccine law: spend whatever it took to censor the coverage and bury the injuries. But removing that check, the public finding out and objecting, removed the only real constraint on toxic vaccines reaching the market, and progressively more dangerous ones followed, until the COVID-19 catastrophe injured so many people that even a robust censorship apparatus couldn’t contain it. Numerous polls I’ve summarized in detail here demonstrate the scale of the vaccine injuries: depending on the survey, 7% to 13% of recipients reported a serious side effect, 24% to 28% say they know someone they believe died from the shot, and 46% to 55% believe the COVID vaccines have killed a significant number of people. Propaganda has its limits, and once numbers like those take hold, a new awareness of vaccine injury surfaces across the media ecosystem, occasionally on conservative networks, but mostly in the independent press.

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Watch them in sequence and two patterns jump out. The same lines protected the schedule every time. We just need more research before we change anything, and we’ll do that research soon. Yet decades later, we still “need more research.” And the things vaccine-safety advocates warned about, and were denounced for warning about, kept coming true.

Mass Media Censorship

Actions like these were only possible because the corporate media suppressed dissent — even when large numbers of Americans believed the mandatory vaccines were injuring or killing their children, which is exactly the kind of story the press has a foundational duty to cover.

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Because of this, many people in the media wanted to speak out against the vaccines, but effectively could not, and to my knowledge, other than a few Fox hosts lightly criticizing them, only two did. One, a recently hired reporter at a local station, on live television announced Fox was muzzling stories the public wanted to hear (and was promptly fired) after which she provided secret recordings to Project Veritas corroborating this censorship.

The other was Tucker Carlson, who was able to leverage both being the most popular news host in America and having a show which did not rely upon pharmaceutical funding to speak out against the vaccines without being fired. Nonetheless, this was still a huge risk for him and eventually, after airing this remarkable 4-19-23 segment (which took a lot of courage), at immense cost to Fox News, was immediately fired.

Once he left, he began talking openly about how much pharmaceutical money kept these stories off the air — and other former hosts corroborated him:

When I was on Fox News [circa 2007] and we talked about the possibility of vaccine injuries … They would RUN out to the set to tell you to shut that down.—Megyn Kelly

Likewise, Sharyl Attkisson (an acclaimed CBS investigative journalist) has extensively chronicled (e.g., in her 2020 book and even more so in her 2025 book) how in the early 2000s, the pharmaceutical industry, feeling the pressure from negative coverage of disastrous vaccination programs was creating for them, lobbied to prevent future negative coverage. Once this happened, it became impossible for her to air well produced segments which were critical of any vaccine initiative, and likewise, that in the post-2000s, stories on vaccine risks “disappeared” due to advertiser pressure.

However, things were not always this way. Rather, major networks used to air numerous scathing stories about vaccine disasters—and in many cases, the dangers they covered were so explicit by current journalistic standards that I frequently find sharing those (previously inconceivable) segments with people on the fence about vaccination opens their minds to the entire mess.

Mass Censorship

The Vietnam War was considered by many to be the event that broke the public’s trust in the Federal Government.

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It is hard to overstate how much work went into hiding the horrors of war, and how effective it was — transforming war from something much of the public vehemently opposed into an abstraction they were largely apathetic about (the best documentary I’ve seen on how military propaganda evolved is Why We Fight).

The sanitizing of war parallels the medical censorship we now face. The same PR (public relations) firm that manufactured a heart-wrenching but entirely made up testimony that dragged the U.S. into the Gulf War has a long history of pharmaceutical work — and was contracted both to promote the COVID narrative and to eliminate “vaccine hesitancy.”1,2,3

Turning Points in Medical Censorship

Numerous medical catastrophes have happened which provoked widespread public outrage, and like the Vietnam War, those events brought the government to conclude it was imperative the public was prevented from becoming aware of future medical atrocities. Some of those events include:

The Polio Vaccine

In 1955, after an expedited approval, the government released a much-heralded vaccine, and two weeks later, children across America began turning up paralyzed in the exact limb where they’d received Salk’s polio shot.

After some investigation, it was discovered that:

•Only two of the five vaccine manufacturers had produced the same “safe” vaccines used in the clinical trials—which meant many of the vaccines the public got (which at the time were a new experimental technology) had never been tested in humans.

•At the urging of Salk, when the vaccine was mass produced, a different and less safe production process was used for the vaccine so the orders could be met.
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•Bernice Eddy, an NIH employee, had immediately discovered this mass produced vaccine caused paralysis in monkeys.

•All of the paralyzing vaccines came from the same manufacturer (Cutter Laboratories).

•The (early) FDA delegated testing of the vaccine for safety to the vaccine manufacturers rather than doing so itself.

•There were many safety concerns with the testing of the Salk vaccine, but the professional publications chose to censor them and instead continually repeated the message that the vaccine was completely safe and effective.

The public was outraged, the government faced a public-relations crisis, and lawsuits dragged on against Cutter. In response, the federal government took direct control of every aspect of the vaccine program — switching from a neutral external auditor to a major stakeholder. As you’d expect, that conflict of interest gave the government every incentive to bury safety problems, and business as usual soon resumed.

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The National Foundation told doctors, in a memo, that the vaccine was completely safe and the risk of paralysis was “zero.”

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In 1960, five years after Cutter, Bernice Eddy determined that the polio vaccines were contaminated with a cancer-causing virus, SV-40, and were not fit for the public. Ordered to keep quiet so the public wouldn’t lose faith in the program, she published anyway — and was immediately demoted and stripped of her lab. Officials had known since 1959 that their vaccine caused cancer (a consequence of cutting costs with imported monkey kidneys) and were scrambling to address it while still promoting the shot. Only in 1963 did the government force manufacturers to stop growing the vaccine on contaminated kidneys — by which point between 40 and 98 million Americans had been infected, and a case can be made that SV-40 lingered in some vaccines until around 2000. This drove an increase in cancer that, until COVID, was unprecedented.

Around 1997, Canada’s Broadcasting Corporation aired a remarkable program on the recent findings that SV-40 was turning up in tumors, how it caused cancer, and the full history of how the polio vaccines became contaminated with it.

Many severe kidney diseases are also strongly associated with SV-40, and have likewise exploded since the polio vaccines. Because SV-40 was introduced into the population through the program (and transmits between humans and to fetuses) there has been a persistent reluctance to study its danger or admit it lingered in the supply for decades.

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Sleepwalking into a Global Catastrophe: Why Trump’s War on Iran Threatens the Infrastructure That Keeps Billions Alive

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Mike Adams

The Failure to See the Real Danger

Admittedly, I have failed to explain the stakes clearly enough. For months, I have written about fertilizer supply chains, the Haber-Bosch process, and the vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz. But the gravity of this crisis has not sunk in for most people. Let me put it as plainly as I can: The global population of more than 8 billion people depends on a fragile web of natural gas, oil, and downstream chemistry that took 60+ years to build on this planet. If we lose 25 percent of these critical substances, we lose 25 percent of the population. That is 2 billion people. Here is why that math is inescapable.

As I documented in my article “The Haber-Bosch House of Cards,” the single chemical reaction that fixes nitrogen from the air into fertilizer is responsible for feeding roughly half of humanity [1]. That process requires vast quantities of natural gas. The Persian Gulf region, especially Qatar and Iran, supplies much of that gas. When the Trump administration launched its war on Iran in February 2026 and the Strait of Hormuz was effectively closed, the global fertilizer supply chain began to collapse. This is not a prediction of future famine. The famine is already baked in. But it could still get a whole lot worse depending on how things go from here.

The Hidden Infrastructure That Keeps Us Alive

Natural gas from Qatar and the Persian Gulf is not just for heating homes. It is the essential feedstock for nitrogenous fertilizers via the Haber-Bosch process. Without this gas, ammonia production stops. Without ammonia feedstock material for agricultural fertilizers, crops fail. Half of humanity is alive today only because of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. As Sharon Astyk explains in her book “Depletion and Abundance,” our entire food system floats on a sea of oil and natural gas [2]. We have built a civilization that is utterly dependent on these energy-dense inputs.

Then there is sulfuric acid. It is produced as a byproduct of sour crude oil refining and is indispensable for manufacturing phosphate fertilizer. Without oil extraction, no sulfur, no phosphate – no food. The Persian Gulf supplies roughly one-third of globally traded fertilizer, and the Strait of Hormuz is the lifeline for both oil and gas shipments. As Lewis Dartnell notes in “Origins,” the narrow straits of Bab-el-Mandeb and Hormuz have been critical chokepoints for trade for millennia [3]. Today, they are the arteries of global food production. Sever them, and you sever the lifeline of billions.

How Trump’s Bombing Has Already Fractured the System

The war began with U.S. airstrikes on Iran after Trump claimed an imminent threat – a decision he later admitted was influenced by Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Pete Hegseth [4]. Iran retaliated by closing the Strait of Hormuz, effectively cutting off 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas supply. Then came the Israeli strikes on Iran’s South Pars gas field. Iran responded by targeting QatarEnergy’s gas trained, achieving precision strikes. The damage is extensive. Two of QatarEnergy’s gas trains have been destroyed, with repairs estimated at 3 to 5 years – or a decade if Iran retaliates further and damages all 14 gas trains.

The loss of that gas means no nitrogen fertilizer, no affordable aluminum, no derived helium – the entire industrial chain is crippled. A detailed analysis by Craig Tindale, titled “Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis of a Zero-Flow Strait of Hormuz Closure,” shows that the interruption of this one corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization [5]. Trump’s threats to target Iranian civilian infrastructure risk escalating the destruction to all Persian Gulf states. The system is not just under strain; it is breaking.

The Unavoidable Result: A Decade-Long Mass Die-Off

Without abundant fertilizer supplies, global food production collapses. For a decade, it will be physically impossible to feed all 8 billion people (only some of them will have access to food, but not all). As I warned in “The 10 Year Famine Is About to Be Unleashed,” the foundation of civilization is one vulnerable facility – the fertilizer supply chain [6]. In a worst-case scenario with extensive infrastructure destruction, the population could shrink from 8 billion to 4 billion or less. This is not hyperbole; it is mathematics. You cannot have half the food and keep all the people.

The coming migration tsunami will reshape the world, as I detailed in my article by that name [7]. Civil unrest, government collapses, and even cannibalism will follow. This is the scale of an asteroid impact, but man-made. The question is not whether mass death will occur, but how many billions will die before the system stabilizes at a lower population.

Conclusion: The Mad Emperor at the Controls

In summary, Trump is waging war on the entire human race. He and his advisers seemingly have no understanding of the ramifications of their actions. As I wrote in “The Coming Famine,” millions (at minimum) will starve because of a man-made catastrophe [8]. And if the escalation worsens, we could literally be facing the end of the world as we know it.

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Via https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/07/15/we-are-sleepwalking-into-a-global-catastrophe-why-trumps-war-on-iran-threatens-the-infrastructure-that-keeps-billions-alive/

 

The Diaries of Anthony Fauci

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The Diaries of Anthony Fauci: 2020-2021

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the full diaries of Anthony Fauci, the former head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the leading voice of the Covid response during the most critical time in US history in the 21st century. The diaries are a hugely important documentation concerning a period otherwise shrouded in mystery. So far as we know, they are unredacted and from Fauci’s own pen, a day-by-day chronicle to compare against the public record.

Below we post Senator Paul’s rendering and a version from AI engine Claude.

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Wildfires Across Europe and the Americas — Israel’s Vengeance?

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By Helena Glass
July 26, 2026
Massive wildfires have erupted across Spain – roughly a week or two after Netanyahu threatened terrorism across Spain for daring to defame the most moral army in the world – Israel’s Defense Forces (IDF).

Netanyahu warned Spain that it would “pay an immediate price” for waging a diplomatic war against Israel.

Spain’s PM, Pedro Sanchez, has declared a national emergency as the fires have caused the evacuation of 20,000.

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A fire in southern France which created 60,000 evacuations, has merged with the Spain fire which is burning out of control despite efforts of some 10,000 firemen.

95% of all fires are caused by human activity – not simple heat and wind. Half of all wildfires are intentional. The wildfires in Patagonia Argentina and Chile were observed to have been caused by Jewish ‘tourists’. However, media pundits will typically forget these factoids and blame climate change.

Israel swore vengeance. Israel always gets its vengeance.

The Abraham Accords have become the new Middle East blackmail employed by Trump.

Saudi Crown Prince has been remanded that America ‘allowing’ them nuclear capabilities hinges on them playing nice with Israel and obeying their dictums.

Which may include assisting in the complete annihilation of Iran. The Crown Prince has said he wants to diversify its internal energy production so that it can expand oil exports and revenue. True to Trump, the condition was not enumerated to Bin Salman – it was simply enumerated in a Trump social media post. A highly demonstrative slap in the face!

Why any Middle East country would continue to support Israel or the United States at this juncture is truly odd.

Why the Saudis would need US permission is the first and most glaring anomaly. But a king trumps a prince. And that would seem to be our president’s view of himself on the global stage.  

As Brent Crude hovers in the $96 range, Lloyds of London has announced they will not sell war insurance for Saudi Arabian oil transit in the Red Sea. Other contracts may be cancelled as the Trump War continues unabated with the Middle East subject to the brunt of Iran’s vengeance. If the Middle East simply joined Iran instead of Israel/America, they would no longer be bombed.  From the outside, it appears an obvious choice.

One thing is for certain, Trump is quickly running out of bombs.

But the strategic maneuver to park fighter jets at Israeli bases only fuels a double target for Iran. Perhaps clearer minds prevail in their understanding than Trump’s because a WWIII would benefit no one. Yet, Trump and Rubio are reaching the end of their tether as they continually create new reasons for warring with Iran. Meanwhile Israel has moved into Venezuela.

A 32-member IDF Relief Team convened in Venezuela for the first time to help officials assess the course of action that should be taken in the aftermath of the earthquakes.

While the Venezuelan people were not swayed by the supposed mission, the inserted President welcomed them – their first time to ‘openly’ set foot in the country in 17 years. They left behind a number of Israeli Humanitarian Aid organizations to carry on their work including IsraAID, SmartAID, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

The point of physically removing Maduro was for the country to come under the command and rule of Israel and the Open Society. Maduro was a staunch enemy of this occupation and his removal framed as a drug lord was manufactured for the stage set. The gold and oil will be removed while the people remain sequestered in poverty under the auspices of Rubio and Trump and a contingent of soldiers. Despite their claims that they have deposited these pirated confiscations for Venezuela benefit – there is no indication or evidence to substantiate the claim.

This is what Trump and Israel would like to do with Iran. Same destruction. Same confiscation. Same removal of all government officials via assassination. There is no evidence Maduro is alive and his trial has been pushed to June 2027. According to The Guardian, The Play Act II is to obscure any remembrance of Maduro as his fellow citizens are brainwashed into believing Israel is just flitting on the outskirts of taking over the country while Maduro’s memory is erased.

While banners and billboards still prevail in holding up their reverence for Maduro, Israel and the US are painting over the murals, tearing down the depictions, and wiping his name from existence. An MKULTRA operation. The media is quite helpful in obscuring the truth which is that the people don’t want Israel in their country – they want Maduro. In that vein, the humanitarian aid is part of the stage to portray Israel as a benevolent charitable soothsayer. So far it is not working.

It is the blueprint for Iran – and Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, is the 5D to Trump’s Parcheesi. For when Trump runs out of bombs, which is his only ‘strategy’, the 5D kicks in and our government will make mush of America spiraling into civil war possibilities, food shortages, and fire. Because fire is an Israeli tool. 

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/wildfires-europe-americas-israel-vengeance/5934575

 

Trump to Block Release of Ukraine Financial Aid Package

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By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
July 26, 2026

US President trying to resist pressure from the pro-war lobby.

Apparently, Donald Trump’s promises to halt American financial support for Ukraine have not been accepted by the country’s lawmakers, who insist on approving assistance measures for the Kiev fascist regime.

According to information recently revealed by a US senator, Washington is ready to release a new financial support package for Kiev, awaiting only final approval from Trump, who has yet to make a decision on the matter.

In a recent statement, Dick Durbin, a Democratic Senator from Illinois, said the White House is withholding a 400 million dollars package intended to expand the US military assistance program for Ukraine. The funds were previously approved by US lawmakers in January, but the administration is apparently holding them back to prevent a deepening of US financial and military cooperation with Ukraine.

Durbin shared information about the matter during a public hearing on July 22. According to him, the funds will not be authorized until at least 2029 – when a new leader will be elected and take office at the White House. Durbin claims to have received this information directly from spokespeople for the Trump team during private conversations.

“[President Donald Trump’s representatives] informed us that the money will not be available in many aspects until the next president is in office (…) The payment plan tells us to be prepared to spend that money in fiscal year 2029,” he said.

In practice, what appears to be happening is yet another instance of diverging interests between the White House and Congress. Trump has faced pressure since his inauguration regarding the foreign policy agenda he established during the campaign – in which he promised to “end the war in Ukraine” by cutting off military and financial support to the regime, as well as through strategic bilateral diplomacy with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump succeeded in fulfilling some of his campaign promises but failed in others. He was effective in re-establishing diplomacy with Russia. Frequent phone calls between Putin and Trump, as well as the Alaska summit, demonstrated Trump’s genuine intent to maintain diplomatic engagement and constant dialogue with Russia. However, this engagement appears to have clear limitations.

So far, Trump has been successful only in improving bilateral relations between the US and Russia, restoring channels of dialogue and cooperation that had previously been lost due to the intransigent and bellicose stance of Joe Biden’s Democratic administration – which had irrationally attempted to “isolate” Russia. However, regarding the war in Ukraine itself, Trump has had little success.

The American president even attempted to halt military aid to Ukraine but was prevented from doing so by the combined pressure of the military-industrial complex and Congress. He then adopted a stance emphasizing the commercial nature of the assistance, asserting that Ukraine should pay for all US military aid packages – thereby breaking with Biden’s policy of “automatic” aid, which had prioritized fighting Russia over generating profit for the US from the war. Shifting US support for Ukraine toward a more commercial and pragmatic approach was the most significant change Trump managed to make to the American assistance program for Kiev.

However, pressure on the president continues to mount. American politicians and lobbyists constantly propose measures to further expand the country’s spending on Ukraine – and on the broader policy of “containing” Russia. Trump’s recent reckless decision to launch a war of aggression against Iran further exacerbated the situation, as it demonstrated that the American president is willing to make certain concessions. Just as he yielded to pressure from the Zionist lobby to intervene in the Middle East, the pro-Ukraine lobby expects him to resume the policy of systematic support for Ukraine initiated by Biden.

Trump is attempting to resist domestic political pressure by withholding of Congressionally approved funds for Ukraine, yet it remains to be seen how long he can maintain his stance on the matter. The Iran situation demonstrated that Trump has limited domestic political strength and could eventually yield to pressure from pro-war lobbies.

However, the Ukraine issue is even more critical, as the American leader’s popularity depends significantly on his position regarding Ukraine. American citizens are tired of the war and do not wish to see their country embroiled in further conflicts. Trump must resist the pro-Ukraine lobby if he hopes to preserve his popular support.

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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-block-release-ukraine-financial-aid-package/5934434

Iran FM: Ukraine’s attack on Iranian commercial vessel aims to drag Europe into war

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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi

Press TV UK

26 July 2026

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Ukraine’s military attack on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Caspian Sea was carried out at the Israeli regime’s behest in a bid to drag Europe into its war in the West Asia region.

In a strongly worded post on X on Sunday, Araghchi said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy orchestrated the attack on the Iranian commercial vessel that left one sailor dead.

He added that the attack constituted a “blatant” violation of the United Nations Charter.

The top Iranian diplomat noted that he raised the issue in separate phone calls with European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

He said he made clear during the conversations that the attack “cannot go unanswered.”

“I made clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED,” he wrote.

Araghchi urges international response to Ukraine’s attack on Iranian commercial vessel

Araghchi’s remarks came after the Ukrainian president announced in a post on X that Kiev had hit vessels that he claimed were used in military cargo shipments involving Iran, as well as a warship.

After the atrocity, the Iranian and Russian foreign ministers held a phone call on Sunday and discussed the latest developments in the region and across the world.

In the phone call with Kallas on Saturday, Araghchi called for a decisive response from the UN Security Council, the European Union, and the international community regarding Ukraine’s strike.

He urged international bodies to hold “the perpetrators and supporters of this criminal act” accountable.

In a statement on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said, “By attacking an Iranian commercial vessel, the Ukrainian regime not only committed an internationally wrongful act, but also, in a dangerous manner, sought to spread insecurity.”

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Via https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/07/26/773112/Iran-Ukraine-Araghchi-Europe

Yemen Joins Iran War which Threatens Saudi Arabia’s Oil Supplies – Price of Oil Increasing Again Threatening World Economy

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by Brian Shilhavy
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The stakes in the Iran War have increased significantly during the past few days, as Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthis) has bombed a key Saudi Arabian oil plant in Aramco, and has effectively closed down traffic flowing through the Red Sea, in addition to traffic being halted through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.

I am including two video reports here today that give a great overall perspective on the current situation, without the corporate media propaganda.

The first one is an interview with Professor Seyed Marandi from last night who actually lives in Tehran and has inside information, and the second report is from the Transition Protocol with ex-CIA agent Larry Johnson, Pepe Escobar, and Zulfiqar Ali that aired just hours before I published this article today, Sunday, July 26, 2026.

Marandi reiterates that there are no military solutions for the U.S. or Saudi Arabia at this point. He believes that the Trump administration is looking for an off-ramp, while acknowledging that they could also re-start the bombing at any point, and carry out their threats to target Iranian key infrastructure.

To do so, however, from Marandi’s perspective, is to then give a green light to Iran to start bombing American bases in the Gulf again, and take out the infrastructure of the Gulf Nations, such as their water desalinization plants, as well as bomb their ports to make it impossible for them to export their oil.

Iran is still hoping that the Gulf States will back down from supporting the U.S. military bases in their countries, because the U.S. cannot save them.

In the Transition Protocol discussion, Larry Johnson exposes the propaganda from earlier this week when Trump promised to help Saudi Arabia build a nuclear plant, by reminding everyone that the U.S. has only produced 2 nuclear power plants in the past 26 years (one of which was 30 years late), while Russia has built about 60, and China probably even more than that, during the same time period.

China is heavily invested in Saudi Arabia, and it would seem it is just a matter of time that Saudi Arabia will see that their only path forward is to work with China, and not with the U.S. who not only cannot protect them from Iranian missiles, but cannot protect them from their neighbors in Yemen either, because they build these drones and missiles for pennies on the dollar compared to the U.S. ones they rely upon.

Saudi Arabia is running out of options, and the one thing that is not discussed in either of these videos, is the fact that Saudi Arabia has invested heavily in U.S. Big Tech and AI during the past few years, and is as leveraged in the AI bubble as U.S. Big Tech is.

Keep a close eye on the markets this week, as Trump might be out of tricks to keep it going now, as the AI bubble draws closer to bursting while at the same time the price of diesel fuel and other petroleum products continue to climb as we head forward to what could be a total economic collapse soon.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2026/yemen-joins-iran-war-which-threatens-saudi-arabias-oil-supplies-price-of-oil-increasing-again-threatening-world-economy/