What’s Driving Germany’s Planned €800 Billion Remilitarization? By Andrew Korybko Michel Chossudovsky Jul 20 [This article by Andrew Korybko was published by Global Research. You can read it here.] The Financial Times reported in early July that “Germany to borrow €800bn for rearmament in historic shift”. The larger context concerns the “NATO 3.0” concept that the …

Japan’s ‘destructive potential’ in South China Sea may eclipse the US: analyst Japan’s recent firing of an anti-ship missile was first time it had shown its ‘military muscle’ since World War II, security round table told. A prominent Chinese maritime analyst has sounded the alarm over Japan’s increasing military presence in the South China Sea, warning …

How come Iran and Russia both corrected their targeting of drones and missiles in the same week? Russia’s version of Starlink has only jest entered service, while China’s satellites now give Iran its targeting data, which was not the case before the MOU. The USA is provoking a very serious reaction in Iran, as is NATO doing …

Middle East Eye 29 minutes ago Kuwait is negotiating an expanded defence agreement with Pakistan in exchange for energy cooperation and investment with the South Asian country, according to a Reuters report. A Pakistani official told Reuters that Kuwait wanted Islamabad to deploy “thousands of Pakistani troops on the ground, fighter jets, drones, an air defence …

Refuelling tankers are not wanted in Gulf States as they are being successfully attacked by Iran’s missiles. Even Israel refused to keep them at Ben Gurion Airport. So where to next? Turkey? Italy? The options are running low. The only other way is to bring the aircraft carriers closer to Iran. …

Jul 19, 2026 The body bag numbers are rising. Israel continues the Gaza slaughter. Board of Peace? Bored of peace!. And I’ve completely lost interest in the World Cup, George declares

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the U.S. security strategy for global hegemony after the Cold War, and the use of vassals to fight Russia, Iran and China. US policy is not peace, but primacy and domination. US military capability is powerful, but does the world believe the US is all powerful. The US cannot admit defeat. The narrative …

Itapirkanmaa2 6 hours ago Overnight US strikes hit critical transport infrastructure in southern Iran. Damage: — Shahid Mirzaei Tunnel (Glogah) — blocked in both directions. — Two bridges beyond the gorge — bombed. — Outbound Minab intersection bridge — struck. — Shur River bridge on Bandar Abbas–Sirjan route — destroyed. At least 3 killed, 8 wounded in …

It is gratifying to see so many aspects of the climate scam having been debunked, or fallen by the wayside over the past year, as data centers became the next big thing. (And the ascension of the data centers seems to be collapsing as well, since the profits from AI are much less than predicted. …

  Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/brandon-smith/election-integrity-is-representative-democracy-a-foolish-fantasy/ Yes it is, it needs radical reform The current system is bust, it needs reforming He suggests a few possible reforms below, he’s from the US, but his points are valid here in UK too, in fact across the whole of the “West” I could think of quite a few more reforms too I’m not holding my breath …

Source: https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/simply-compare-the-behavior-of-washington It seems like the media has been given orders to only speak in hushed tones about the new war on Iran and the invasion of Lebanon. You could be forgiven for not having even noticed that Washington is back to bombing Iran on the regular and that these are serious attacks, almost a prelude …

  Source: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/where-is-the-empire-moving Of all the July 4th think pieces I read this year, the most surprising was Kit Knightly’s piece for Off-Guardian.org, “America Was Never the Problem.” I say “surprising” because most such Independence Day articles are written by and for Americans and are generally some variation of the lament that “kids these days don’t know what …

  Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/07/capt-randall/psycho-planet/ I awoke before the Sun,…thinking.  The realizations of a lifetime crystallized into the summation of our pathetic situation on this once glorious planet. . As a child, life was all Jingle Bells and Easter Bunnies.  Later, most folks would just as soon kick ya to the curb in their rush to where? Much …