COUPS & CIVIL WAR

OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—[The response to the stupid US provocation continues to make waves in Russia and Europe]. For Antiwar.com David DeCamp (DeCamp) reports that Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today that a controversial US missile defense base in Poland is a potential target of the Russian military.

“The Aegis Ashore anti-ballistic missile system in Poland has long been a security concern for Russia as its Mark-41 launchers are capable of fitting nuclear-capable Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of about 1,000 miles. A land-based version of the Tomahawks was previously banned by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which the US withdrew from in 2019. The integration of the Aegis Ashore system into NATO’s defensive network has just been formalized. The Aegis Ashore Ballistic Missile Defence System facility at Redzikowo, Poland. Also today, Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia has the right to strike the military facilities of countries that are supplying Ukraine with the missiles”.

EDITOR—HISTORY is accelerating notes Col. Douglads Macgregor, as the collective West, led by the US continues to escalate its aggression on Russia with the object of  exhausting her and eventually liquidating the hated “Putin regime”.  That, of course, no matter how much the Neocons in the West try, is not likely to happen. However, the West’s constant and criminal provocations can at this point easily provoke a nuclear exchange with no winners. With a bloc led by criminals and mediocrities, blinded by a mendacious media and political class, the West is incapable of diplomacy, and, apparently, even the most elementary self-preservation instinct seems to be lacking. Macgregor also comments on Putin’s recent use of an ICBM to reply to Western provocations through their puppet in Kiev.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The real Israel, whose government is deliberately and methodically starving Palestinian civilians to death by the tens of thousands just for being the wrong ethnicity.

The real Israel, whose snipers routinely murders Palestinian children by shooting them in the head.

The real Israel, whose military is so sadistic that it created an AI system to specifically target suspected Hamas fighters when they are at home with their families, and called the AI “Where’s Daddy?” because it would be killing fathers when they are at home with their children.

The real Israel, whose soldiers cannot stop posting footage of themselves mockingly dressed in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children.

The real Israel, where Palestinian doctors are raped and tortured to death.

EDITOR—Israel Genocide Tracker is an X account created in May that scans social media and gathers data on Israeli soldiers from previous posts they had published boasting about their actions in Gaza. It then creates a profile for each soldier, including personal information such as their name, age, family origin, and army unit. According to TRT, which cited Israel’s Channel 12 News, multiple soldiers have expressed concerns over the account. “I’m afraid they could Google my name and find it there,” one soldier told Channel 12.

DEMOCRACY NOW!—We are joined by U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, who says Israel is committing genocide on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Facing accusations of antisemitism from Israeli and U.S. officials, Albanese is in New York to present her report, titled “Genocide as colonial erasure,” which finds that Israel’s genocide is founded on “ideological hatred” and “dehumanization” and “enabled through the various organs of the state,” and recommends that Israel be unseated from the United Nations over its conduct. She argues that Israel’s attacks on U.N. employees, including the killings of at least 230 U.N. staff in Gaza, its flagrant violations of U.N. resolutions and international law and the unique status of “the first settler-colonial genocide to be ever litigated before [an international] court” justify this measure. Israel’s continued impunity, Albanese warns, “is the nail in the coffin of the U.N. Charter.”