BB—The enduring myth that Israel controls the US is a narrative designed to obscure the deeper reality of Western corporatocratic and imperial power.

PE—Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif obviously did the math on the scale of such intelligence. He immediately told Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar – who was in New York for UN Security Council sessions – to deliver the information to Washington.

Dar bypassed the whole bureaucratic apparatus, directly calling U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York. The message, from Tehran to the Trump administration, was stark: the escalation ladder now features a terminal rung.

Rubio “may” (and that’s the operative word) have recognized the supreme gravity of what is in fact a formal nuclear ultimatum. He briefed Trump. The day after, May 29, Trump abruptly stopped any further kinetic action. And his incendiary rhetoric was instantly toned down.

This had nothing to do with a sudden fit of strategic restraint in the War-a-Lago/Oval Office axis. It was the direct, downstream result of the Sharif-Dar-Rubio back-channel.

FC—Evidently, the NATO states are providing targeting data and permitting the use of their territory to maximize the attacks on Russia. Hundreds of Russian civilians have been killed in these NATO-assisted drone operations, the most dreadful being the murder of 21 students at a college dormitory in Starobelsk, Lugansk, on May 22. Last week, on the same day as the drone attack on St Petersburg, eight civilians were killed, and 10 were injured when their bus was blown up in an air strike while traveling through the Donetsk region towards Crimea.

AK—A farmer named Eli noticed one egg was missing from his henhouse every morning.

After setting up a camera, he discovered a limping coyote was quietly taking a single egg each day. Instead of eating it, the coyote carried the egg to an abandoned black Labrador living under an old trailer.

JN—The interview also touches upon the delicate balance of power in strategic locations such as the Strait of Hormuz, emphasizing Iran’s control and the U.S. Navy’s controversial blockade. Ambassador Freeman dismisses the notion of active U.S.-Iran negotiations, criticizing President Trump’s optimistic declarations as detached fantasies.