L'estimation du Pentagone s'écarte considérablement du chiffre de 30 milliards de dollars annoncé publiquement par l'administration Trump.
Source : Sharon Zhang, Truthout
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
La guerre menée par les États-Unis et Israël contre l'Iran a déjà coûté jusqu'à 100 milliards de dollars aux États-Unis, selon les estimations internes de l'administration Trump - soit plus de trois fois le montant avancé publiquement par cette dernière.
Après la victoire d'Abdul El-Sayed dans le Michigan, un nouveau revers pour le lobby pro-Israël est annoncé en Floride et en Californie.
En Floride, Angie Nixon, une candidate ayant fermement condamné le génocide perpétré par Israël à Gaza, a remporté l'investiture démocrate pour le Sénat américain.
En Californie, Aisha Wahab a conservé une courte avance lors de la primaire démocrate, malgré les millions de dollars dépensés par des groupes pro-Israël pour s'opposer à elle.
Par Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
Il semblerait que les États-Unis souhaitent intensifier leurs actions militaires dans le conflit avec l'Iran. Malgré un récent apaisement des hostilités, Washington envisagerait non seulement de reprendre ses opérations habituelles, mais aussi d'utiliser son arsenal le plus destructeur contre la nation perse. Selon une récente déclaration d'une ancienne députée américaine, le président Donald Trump n'exclut pas le recours aux armes nucléaires.
By Andrew P. Napolitano
August 20, 2026
When a government agency comes to an internet service provider demanding information about Americans because of what they have said on social media, the provider should discard the demand, close the door or hang up the phone.
The government is not entitled to rummage through the political opinions, associations, criticisms and angry rhetoric of anyone merely because a government official finds those opinions offensive, threatening to an agency's reputation or inconvenient to its mission.
By Paul Dragu
The New American
August 20, 2026
A number of news reports warning about coming food shortages and increased food prices have emerged over the last few days. The stated culprits for this coming crisis, we are told, are war and weather.
Independent journalists and outlets such as this one have warned for many years that globalists are fomenting global famine. An independent journalist who has traveled the world extensively recently told The New American that the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the coordinated migration crisis targeting Western Civilization, and upcoming food shortages are all connected.
This is a Warning of End of a Government
By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com
August 20, 2026
Editor's Preface
What follows emerges from seventeen months of examination into procedural collapses, constitutional erosions, and institutional betrayals that have accelerated beyond the capacity of conventional reportage to capture. Sources include former jurists who resigned rather than participate in predetermined outcomes, law enforcement officials who documented unlawful commands, and archival materials that reveal pattern precedents for contemporary ruptures.
Schiff Sovereign
August 20, 2026
Four years ago this month, Washington passed a law and named it, with a straight face, the Inflation Reduction Act.
Bizarrely, their plan to 'reduce inflation', which had been caused by excessive government spending, was for the government to spend even more money. It's genius!
Among its various provisions, part of the legislation authorized the government to negotiate prescription drug prices.
Martin Jay
Trump's war on Iran backfired - and now the Houthis are sinking his midterms.
How much longer can Saudi Arabia and the UAE remain even token allies of Washington, given how their economies are drained each day by Trump's so-called blockade of the Straits of Hormuz and his massive blunder to ever strike Iran in the first place on February 28th?
In recent weeks we have seen more acerbic statements from the Saudi foreign minister, hinting that the established set-up of the U.S.
Par Jenny Williams
Un meeting politique en Floride ne devrait pas, en soi, nous en dire long sur l'orientation de la politique étrangère américaine. Mais celui-ci pourrait bien faire exception.
À seulement trois jours de la primaire démocrate en Floride, un établissement de Fort Lauderdale a annulé un événement qu'il devait abriter et auquel devaient participer la députée Rashida Tlaib et les candidats au Congrès Angie Nixon, Elijah Manley et Oliver Larkin.
By John Kennedy
August 19, 2026
Introduction
America lives inside of a glass castle, and it will be its destruction. This destruction will be as much the people's fault as it will be its leaders. About 130 million Americans, or 54% of the U.S. population, cannot read at a 6th grade level. It's true that this statistic is no doubt diverse, dispersed among Blacks, Hispanics, and rural whites scattered around the country, but what excuse do American bureaucrats, elected officials, and commanders have in times like this ? The greatest problem facing America at this current moment is that it is lost in a dream; it is trapped in a glass castle of what it thinks it is, convinced by its own propaganda and technological terrors.
Those who oppose foreign wars find themselves at an impasse with those who support them.
By John Leake
The Focal Points
August 19, 2026
A good friend here in Dallas who was highly supportive of my dissident work during the COVID-19 pandemic disagrees with my criticism of President Trump for starting and continuing the war on Iran.
I am not troubled that we disagree about this subject, and I am confident that our friendship will be just fine.
That's right kids, welcome to the future, where the sky is filling with AI police drones while the planet burns.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
August 19, 2026
Today in dystopia, the US government is monitoring the social media accounts of individuals who oppose the rapidly spreading installation of Flock surveillance cameras throughout the United States.
In an article titled "The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts," 404 Media reports:
By Jonathan Turley
JonathanTurley.org
August 19, 2026
Below is my column in The Hill on the familiar bust-and-boom cycle of socialism, where failure is used to call for even more radical changes. While House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week reaffirmed that Democratic Socialists are part of the Democratic Party, radical figures are demonstrating how extreme this agenda is for some. For example, Socialist State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has declared that stealing should be legal for those in need.
By Capt. Randall
August 19, 2026
Each time I go to the grocery, I see mindless obese shoppers loading carts with processed garbage and cases of soft drinks. The stores have aisle after aisle of industrially manufactured fake foods, many times on low BOGO-priced enticements. Solid clean commodities are limited and require basic cooking skills. I have relatives, "shiteaters", who don't understand what they are doing to their lives by consuming seed oils (corn/soy/sunflower/canola/etc.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
August 19, 2026
Upon being elected president, both the first time and the second time, President Trump vowed to make America great again. That's what his MAGA movement has been all about.
Central to Trump's vow has been his war on immigrants, which I think most everyone would describe as ruthless and brutal. Having promised to "secure the border," Trump has not settled for strengthening the immigration police state along the borderlands, including the fortification of his Berlin Wall.
Brèves de crise
Se retourne-t-il dans sa tombe, le grand Lincoln, le vainqueurs des sécessionnistes et du glorieux général Rombert E. Lee, lui qui a son sombre et tragique visage sculpté dans les pierres géantes du Mount Rutledge ? Se retrouver, lui, symboliquement et par voie de baptême sans autorisation du Secret Service, au cœur d'une sordide bataille d'une Amérique qu'il croyait avoir restaurée à jamais, pour vaincre le suicide ; par sa victoire d'avril 1865 ; se suiciderait-il, lui, s'il n'était déjà mort, de chagrin et de désespoir ?
par Jules Kaizen
Le porte-avions USS Abraham Lincoln est en mer depuis plus de 250 jours. Sans escale. Sans répit. Les marins à bord décrivent des conditions "un enfer" : moisissures, douches en panne, nourriture avariée. Certains ont tenté de se jeter à l'eau.
Ce n'est pas une anecdote. C'est un symptôme.
Les États-Unis n'ont pas perdu une bataille en Iran. Ils sont en train de perdre une guerre d'usure qu'ils ne pouvaient pas gagner.
par Raphaël Besliu
Cinq mois. C'est le temps qu'il aura fallu pour que les contraintes matérielles de la guerre contre l'Iran rattrapent les projections initiales de Washington. L'administration américaine avait envisagé un conflit de trois à quatre semaines, mais celui-ci est désormais entré dans son sixième mois. Dans le même temps, des informations du Washington Post et de Reuters, reprises par ZeroHedge, font état de tensions internes au sommet du Pentagone et d'un niveau préoccupant de certains stocks de munitions américaines.
par Julia Conley
Suite à l'adoption d'une loi autorisant les personnes ayant des ancêtres canadiens sur plusieurs générations à demander la citoyenneté, les archivistes constatent également une augmentation des demandes de documents généalogiques.
Les Américains sont à l'origine d'une forte augmentation des demandes de citoyenneté au Canada et des sollicitations des services d'archivage canadiens pour vérifier leur admissibilité.