Is US Foreign Policy becoming a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" ?  

By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review  

July 31, 2026

President Donald Trump met with both President Volodymyr Zelenski of Ukraine and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday in private sessions lacking the usual fanfare, photo ops and press releases. The men were in town to participate in the funeral services for recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham, who was a great friend of and might be described as a co-belligerent with both nations!

By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
The Intercept-TomDispatch  

July 31, 2026

There's no I in war. But there is in Iran. And in Iraq, too. Both these wars were about ME - that is, the Middle East. It's a region rife with supposed American security interests, but this wordplay points to another very all-too-real dynamic: These wars are as much about the "I" and "ME" of the White House as they are about the countries we attack.

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute  

July 31, 2026

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By Karen Kwiatkowski  

July 31, 2026

Long ago, great Senators existed. Resolute and accountable, they represented their governors and state legislatures and asserted those interests in Washington. They aspired to conduct themselves as statesmen; we the people expected statesmanship. We the people also hoped they would be better than we could be, while we agreed with the fundamental truth of  youtube in Legends of the Fall.

By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

July 31, 2026

Student loan defaults have surged to 9.2 million borrowers, representing roughly one in every five people with student debt. What is astonishing is the speed of the deterioration. There were approximately 6 million borrowers in default last August. That figure jumped to 7.7 million by December. By April it had reached 9.2 million. Another 3 million borrowers are reportedly at least 90 days delinquent and appear headed in the same direction.

Beginning of pardon period precisely coincides with NIH review of Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak's proposal for NIH grant "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence"  

By John Leake
The Focal Points  

July 31, 2026

President Biden's preemptive pardon of Anthony Fauci covered the period from January 1, 2014, through January 19, 2025.

NIH grant R01AI110964, titled "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence," was submitted by Peter Daszak as PI/contact PI of EcoHealth Alliance, with Ralph Baric as a key collaborator on June 5, 2013.

Par Caitlin Johnstone, le 30 juillet 2026

Nous assistons à une recrudescence des frappes aériennes américaines sur l'Iran, à des frappes conjointes américano-saoudiennes en Irak, à une escalade militaire croissante entre le Yémen et l'Arabie saoudite, ainsi qu'à des frappes de drones israéliens au Liban, le tout rien qu'au cours des deux derniers jours. Le Moyen-Orient ressemble chaque jour davantage à une poudrière, alors que tout cela aurait pu être si facilement évité.

par Claudio Grass

Thomas Massie est l'un des rares membres républicains du Congrès à remettre ouvertement en cause le consensus qui règne à Washington en matière de politique étrangère. Dans cette interview, il explique pourquoi il estime que l'OTAN a fait son temps et pourquoi la politique américaine des "guerres sans fin" conduit le pays à la ruine financière et au déclin moral.

By Andrew P. Napolitano  

July 30, 2026

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is not qualified to be the attorney general of the United States because he has demonstrated a hopeless conflict between the rule of law - which he has taken an oath to support - and his sense of personal loyalty to President Donald Trump, whom he represented for several years in a notorious but frivolous criminal case in New York.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

July 30, 2026

I have not written about the Fauci Diaries. Really no need to as so many have.

See here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

From the Fauci Diaries emerges a person so egotistical that he leaves a self-written trail of his own criminality. How this man can escape indictment and imprisonment or execution is beyond belief.

It is not just Fauci.

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.  

July 29, 2026

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July 29, 2026

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By Larry C. JOHNSON

Last Wednesday all the signs were pointing to a desperate action by the Trump administration to launch a ground operation inside Iran ostensibly to seize enriched nuclear material from an Iranian nuclear research facility.

The report from the Wall Street Journal noted that US special ops forces were once again being deployed to the region to carry out a raid on a Hardened Deeply Buried Target (aka HDBT).

By Patrick LAWRENCE

The question ahead of the latest summit with Netanyahu on Tuesday is what the U.S. president will lose - either a war, on the one hand, or on the other, the global economy and the American electorate.

I was talking to an investor friend the other day, asking whether I should get into one of these price-lock arrangements with the people who supply our heating oil.

By Charles Burris 

July 29, 2026

In his excellent book, As We Go Marching, the great conservative observer John T. Flynn analyzed the "good fascism" of Franklyn Roosevelt's New Deal, comparing and contrasting it with the "bad fascism" of Hitler and Mussolini:

"The test of fascism is not one's rage against the Italian and German war lords. The test is - how many of the essential principles of fascism do you accept and to what extent are you prepared to apply those fascist ideas to American social and economic life ? When you can put your finger on the men or the groups that urge for America the debt-supported state, the autarkical corporative state, the state bent on the socialization of investment and the bureaucratic government of industry and society, the establishment of the institution of militarism as the great glamorous public-works project of the nation and the institution of imperialism under which it proposes to regulate and rule the world and, along with this, proposes to alter the forms of our government to approach as closely as possible the unrestrained, absolute government - then you will know you have located the authentic fascist.

By Paul Dragu
The New American  

July 29, 2026

Americans are destroying Flock cameras in illegal acts of protest. As a headline from tech publication Gizmodo eloquently phrased it, "Flock cameras have a people-love-smashing-them problem."

Resistance to the Flock surveillance camera system has been building up since last year. In Suffolk, Virginia, 13 cameras were destroyed from April to October of 2025.

Strategic Infographics

America runs on electricity - but not equally. One state towers above the rest. Texas alone generates a staggering 13.44% of the nation's total electricity, more than any other state by a wide margin. This infographic ranks all 50 states by their share of U.S. power generation, revealing who fuels the grid, who barely registers, and just how domi

Utiliser le langage pour occulter la réalité, c'est faire preuve d'"indifférence envers la vérité" − c'est mentir au public et cesser de traiter nos concitoyens d'égal à égal. − Juge Clarence Thomas

Par James Howard Kunstler - Le 6 juillet 2026- Source Clusterfuck Nation

Le chef et son harem

Maintenant que la grande fête du 250e anniversaire des États-Unis est terminée - les discours, les avions de combat vrombissants, les feux d'artifice éblouissants, les discours et le gâteau aux fraises -, il n'y a qu'une seule issue possible.

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review 

July 28, 2026

Five months ago this Tuesday, President Donald Trump and his Israeli partners launched their sudden, devastating surprise attack against Iran.

Within the first few minutes, most of Iran's top political and military leadership had been killed in the waves of missile strikes that constituted our official declaration of war.

At the time, few observers believed that Iran could survive that massive onslaught.