CHINA RUSSIA IRAN

JUDGE NAP—Israeli Influence on US Military Policy: The war’s origins and conduct are deeply intertwined with Israeli strategic goals, with Netanyahu leveraging US military power to pursue regime change in Iran. This relationship illustrates how foreign interests can dictate US foreign policy, often at significant cost to American lives and resources. The resulting conflict is not solely a US endeavor but effectively a proxy war serving Israeli territorial and political ambitions, raising questions about sovereignty and democratic accountability in US decision-making.

DIMITRI LASCARIS—On the 13th day of the West’s war of aggression on Iran, Dimitri Lascaris examines growing evidence that Israel’s air defences have collapsed. He also discusses worsening turmoil in global oil markets and the Iranian navy’s latest attacks on tankers belonging to U.S. interests. By all indications, the Trump-Netanyahu war of aggression war will be a debacle of epic proportions, but there’s no sign yet that the aggressors will make the concessions that are necessary to end the war. That means that more escalation is coming – and that more and more Westerners will flee the region.
PLUS: Will Pakistan join the Iran war?

OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—US war expenses are increasing rapidly, reaching $1.8 billion per day according to Max Blumenthal. At this rate it is inevitable that the White House will have to raise more money from Congress. The Republicans have a razor-thin majority in the House, while the minority Democrats in the Senate have the power to filibuster if a vote in favor does not achieve 60. Not only are there questions as to whether the US government will have the necessary support to pursue the war, but it may at some point in the future have to consider whether it is vulnerable, given the entirely unprovoked nature of the war, to demands for reparations.

DW—The video features an in-depth discussion with Scott Ritter, a former Pentagon analyst and intelligence officer, about the ongoing 12-day war between the United States and Israel on one side, and Iran on the other. The conversation centers on the tragic and controversial events of the war’s first day, specifically a devastating Tomahawk missile strike on a primary school in Iran that killed over 180 children. Ritter exposes significant failures in U.S. military targeting procedures and the disregard for international law, particularly the cancellation of the civilian harm and mitigation team by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, which led to unchecked strikes on civilian infrastructure such as schools and hospitals.

JUDGE NAP—The video is a deeply insightful and urgent interview conducted by Judge Andrew Napolitano with Professor Seyed Muhammad Morandi, who provides a firsthand account of life in Tehran amid an aggressive conflict initiated by the United States and Israel. The discussion centers on the resilience of the Iranian people, the miscalculations made by Western powers, and the broader geopolitical and moral implications of the ongoing war. Professor Morandi describes the devastation caused by preemptive “carpet bombing” terror strikes, including the tragic bombing of a girls’ school, and condemns the false narrative propagated by the U.S. government accusing Iran of such atrocities.