DW—The conversation highlights the United States’ desperate attempt to preserve the petrodollar system by controlling oil trade routes, notably the Strait of Hormuz. However, the regional reality reveals declining U.S. influence, with Gulf states seeking closer ties with China and Russia. The speakers propose a transformative, albeit imaginative, vision where China and Russia guarantee security in the Gulf, establish a Palestinian state, and shift control over key strategic assets away from Western powers.

TC—Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 State Fair gets trolled worldwide after his National Mall celebration turns into a global punchline and a sweltering empty tent disaster. I have a laugh joining in with the latest viral clips, mockery, and photos calling out the crumbling Trump Arch, Ferris wheel power cuts, missing crowds, no AC, RFK Jr.’s pull-ups, the $100K cover charges, and more.

PM—As we all know by now, Trump’s war on China has made China great again. Despite incessant bald-faced media lies smearing China, even the blind can see the nation’s unstoppable and accelerated rise under Trump’s attacks.

Everyone, except for the hopelessly delusional and excerebrose moron (who, unfortunately, continues to exist in small though significant numbers), knows what a shameless, lying scammer Trump is. His strident attack on communism may end up making communism great again.

PAUL EDWARDS—On this symbolically touted anniversary of our Independence, we are asked by our current rulers to celebrate the nation that their falsity, cynicism and villainy has destroyed.  We who recognize death when we see it, cannot comply.  But we can mourn.

All life ends in the individual and persists in the mass, in nations as in people, and in both a life is judged on what it verifiably did in its brief mortal span.  The function of a wake, and its chief purpose, is to laud the best in the deceased as consistently as possible without denying established fact, and to assuage, to some degree, the grief that is the inevitable result of the loss.

LH—Former UN Weapons Inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter takes down US-NATO neocon propaganda as Iran hits back at Trump dragging on deal commitments and Putin issues a major response to US-NATO backed Ukrainian drone strikes into Russia. This plus much more in this geopolitical round up.

DW—Militarily, experts like Professor Ted Postol argue that Israel and the U.S. are depleted of critical air defense capabilities, making a new war in the region unrealistic, though irrational actions cannot be ruled out due to the unpredictable nature of current leadership. Israel’s dual perception of regional enemies—as Sunni and Shia forces opposing it—fuels an endless cycle of conflict primarily driven by preemptive Israeli military strikes even in areas with unclear threats.