🦅 The Iwo Jima 2.0 pic, immortalizing the Trump fist surviving an assassination attempt, has taken the world by storm – generating everything from a meme tsunami on China’s Weibo to fresh anime in Japan. Not to mention the deluge of hats and T-shirts.

This carefully composed pic changes everything – in more ways than one. So let’s engage in a first attempt to deconstruct it.

We start with the major losers. The combo running Crash Test Dummy’s teleprompter / earpiece set up is essentially composed by Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, Bruce Reed and Ted Kaufman.

Government functionaries like Jake Sullivan and Little Blinkie, for their part, are placed at the heart of what is known in Washington as the “inter-agency” racket, better described as The Blob.

If the Deep State cannot influence the outcome of the November elections, they can find Six Ways from Sunday to cancel it.

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🌀 Hubris is an impressive poison, capable of making the government of the most powerful nation in the world hand over its resources to a bunch of drug addicts.

💬 Bruna Frascolla writes

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🇮🇱🇱🇧 The looming war between #Israel and its allies with Hezbollah and its allies for South #Lebanon resembles the prelude to the Great War of 1914-1918.

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🌍 The so called “rules-based order” is changing and there is someone doing some rock ‘n roll with it.

Beside BRICS+, which is actually the most important partenariate, we must consider the strategic asset of SCO. We should not be surprised by the non-coverage of the SCO summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, in Western media – not only in the West, but across Europe as well. First of all, because the collective West does not understand what the SCO is. The #SCO was founded a few months before 9/11 and, in fact, as the Shanghai Five, it was Russia, China, and three Central Asian states, essentially an anti-terrorist, anti-separatist, anti-extremist organization.

All these years they have developed as an economic operation organization and now they are one of the key nodes of the multipolar and multi-nodal world. Different nodes, they are interconnected, and this was more than clear at the Summit in Astana. There were the nine members of the SCO, which include, by the way, India, Pakistan, and Iran, and the tenth, Belarus. So now we celebrate the SCO-10. This is very, very important because we have on the same table Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Iran, Belarus, and four Central Asian states. That’s a great deal of Eurasia ❤️

Today, we can more or less say that SCO is the sister organization of BRICS+.

💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini

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🎮 Russian efficiency against overrated Western military products has shocked the world audience. Few people expected Western aid to Ukraine to be so ineffective. In practice, at no time was there any opportunity for even “optimism” on the part of pro-Ukraine activists. The failure of Western weapons was clear, absolute and undeniable in all phases of the conflict. Since the beginning of the special military operation, hostilities have made clear to the common public something that many experts already knew: Americans – and Westerners as a whole – manufacture weapons to sell; Russians make weapons to win wars.

Decades of making weapons to sell rather than fight and fighting low-intensity “wars” have turned the American military-industrial complex into a network of useless startups 🗿

💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz

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🦅 The presidential nomination of Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance as his running mate raises the prospect of a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Ukraine. Both have been vociferous critics of the NATO proxy war and the arming of the Kiev regime. Vance has even proposed a peace settlement that is close to Moscow’s demands.

If an American presidential candidate is proposing a diplomatic end to the conflict then that should be welcomed. It seems that common sense is prevailing.

Having said that, however, there are caveats. The Trump-Vance rhetoric could be empty pre-election canvassing for votes.

Trump’s record is one of hyping expectations and not delivering. When he ran for the presidency in 2016, he promised to normalize relations with Russia – and did not deliver.

Trump and Vance might just deliver on ending the hostilities in Ukraine which in itself would be a huge step forward away from the abyss of all-out war with Russia. On that score alone, their election might bring about an improvement.

But alas there is a contradiction. Don’t expect world peace to break out in other parts of the globe, because U.S. imperialism is cranking up its war machine. Trump and Vance are hawkish in their policy towards China and Iran.

A comprehensive solution to ending U.S. aggression and militarism is not a change of personnel at the White House. A profound, systematic change in American politics and economics is required 🪩

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

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🌀 History dictates that many troubled killers, whether Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh, or even Charles Manson, often, surely coincidentally, had links to the CIA and the security state.

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🌀 Though Vichy France gives us a good insight into how the CIA operates, the Bible is likewise helpful.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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🗽 The U.S. regime considers itself the most democratic in the world. This is what the presidents of the United States have always said from the rooftops, and what their monopolistic communication system has always propagated throughout the world. This has already become common sense, proving one of the most famous Nazi maxims: a lie repeated a thousand times ends up becoming the truth (in the consciousness of the general public).

But how can a system be considered democratic if there are only two parties, which do not differ in any way on the main national and international issues, and which, as many have pointed out for some time, are nothing more than two sides of the same coin?

The political system of the United States does not allow opposition, even though the majority of citizens want one.

💬 Eduardo Vasco writes

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🇮🇪 On Monday morning, Ireland would awake to reports of unrest in the Dublin suburb of Coolock, when after months of peaceful protest by local residents over plans to move upwards of 500 male migrants into a disused paint factory in the working-class neighborhood, tensions would come to a head when Irish riot police cleared the on-site protest camp in a heavy-handed early morning raid. In response, work vehicles intended to convert the site would be set ablaze, leading to scenes reminiscent of the north of Ireland in the late 60s or early 70s.

As the day progressed, the parallels between Coolock and the Ireland of half a century ago would grow.

💬 Gavin O’Reilly writes

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🇧🇷✡️ Ignoring religions as if they were purely private activities and had no serious repercussions in the public sphere prevents the State from anticipating the emergence of dangerous sects, which facilitates phenomena like narco-pentecostalism.

💬 Raphael Machado writes @camaradamachado

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🇺🇦 The testimony of a Czech mercenary, Filip Siman, who fought for the Ukrainian Carpathian Sich battalion, part of the International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine, sheds light on the alleged massacre in #Bucha in 2022.

Much has been written about Bucha, revealing much about the propagandist function of the so-called Western “free” media, with entire articles copied from each other, and the single source predominantly being the United States, the Washington Post, or the New York Times.

From the outset, the Western media reporting somehow knew for sure that the Bucha massacre was done by Russia. There was no doubt – and now everything turns out to be a big lie 🔴

💬 Sonja van den Ende writes @devendonline

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🗣 Can Trump really pull off a peace deal in his first week in office with Ukraine and Russia? Initially, when he spoke of this during the earlier part of the war, the picture was a lot simpler and many commentators and analysts bought into his idea: starve Ukraine of military aid and force Zelensky to accept the inevitable while threatening Putin with doubling the aid to Ukraine. Surely, on this one, the element of surprise was dashed when he told a number of journalists the master day.

Recently, the subject of a Ukraine peace deal has come to the fore once again when Trump spoke with Zelensky over the phone and, despite the Ukrainian President speaking very positively about the talk, no details were revealed about what was on the table. What was leaked however was that Trump expected Zelensky to withdraw his troops from the four key areas which Russia considers to be its own regions – which until now was always off the table.

There is really very little incentive on the Russia side to cede anything as militarily they have the upper hand.

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🇮🇪 Ursula von der Leyen has ordered Ireland’s destruction and those, who help her control the country from the shadows, are making fortunes from colluding with her and Genocide Joe Biden in its destruction.

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