By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

June 30, 2026

This is the week Americans celebrate their independence, a false celebration as Americans are no longer independent, about which more will be said below.

The week leading into the Fourth of July in memory of 1776 is far from a peak reading week. The large selection of articles posted today will last those interested until next week. I will not be posting again until after July 4 unless there are major developments with Iran, Russia, or immigrant-invaders gaining yet more power over dispirited white ethnics, who have been abandoned by their own governments.

Or Is It Buying Time for Another War ?  

By Philip Giraldi  

June 30, 2026

No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, "me." Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his takeover of the Institute of Peace, his seizure of the District of Colombia's public golf courses, and a declaration two weeks ago that he continues to consider awarding himself a Congressional Medal of Honor.

Fatherhood has been under attack for decades, spoken of as a fungible role that a mother could play. The newest attacks are on the very meaning of "father," coming from trans ideology and science.  

By John M. Grondelski
Crisis Magazine  

June 30, 2026

Father's Day, which we recently celebrated, is a dangerous day. It's dangerous because fatherhood itself is controverted in contemporary society.

War Fever, Trump-Style  

By Tom Engelhardt
TomEngelhardt.com  

June 30, 2026

Today, with this latest war, war, war piece of mine, let me recommend a book by retired Air Force Lt. Col. and once upon a time TomDispatch regular Bill Astore, American Militarism on Steroids[. And while you're at it, don't miss his Bracing Views Substack, which I read regularly.]

Whether it's an addiction or an illness I'm not sure, but all too many of us and our leaders, it seems, have war fever (and a distinctly high temperature).

By John J. Mearsheimer
John's Substack  

June 30, 2026

On 25 June 2026, I was on the"Deep Dive" with Lt. Col. (ret.) Danny Davis. We talked at some length about events in Iran, where the US and Iran are once again engaged in tit-for-tat attacks. One might think the US has decided to get tough with Iran and settle this conflict once and for all. Think again. The US has no military option for winning this war, which is why the US signed the Memorandum of Understanding, which is effectively a surrender document, on 17 June 2026.

By Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter  

June 30, 2026

Some understanding was clearly agreed to at Anchorage even though it wasn't an "official" one, but Trump reneged on his commitments, so Rubio is playing dumb by denying that any agreement existed.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to three high-level Russian officials' claims that the US had reneged on the "Spirit of Anchorage", which an RT contributor described as Trump coercing Zelensky into withdrawing from Donbass in exchange for Putin declaring a ceasefire, by denying that any deal existed.

By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine 

June 30, 2026

One of the major issues in medicine is that because time is so compressed, it has become impossible for most doctors trapped within fifteen-minute-visits to provide the real healing that requires a real doctor-patient relationship. Because of that, when I started this newsletter, my goal was to be able to correspond with the readers who reached out to me, but as this publication grew, that became increasingly less feasible (especially now that there are 359,000 readers here).

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com  

June 30, 2026

Correspondent Simons Chase insightfully summarized this dynamic: Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Costs.

In my post Five Dynamics That Make Sense of an Increasingly Chaotic World, #3 is the distribution of risk, costs and consequences to a diffused populace while concentrating the gains into the pockets of insiders/owners:

Those seeking to reduce their private risks and increase their private gains seek to concentrate the gains generated by control structures and distribute the risks and costs to others.

Yuliya Novitskaya,

À la veille du Troisième Sommet Russie - Afrique, nous nous sommes entretenus avec Tatiana Evguenievna Dovgalenko, directrice du Département du partenariat avec l'Afrique du ministère russe des Affaires étrangères.

De quoi avons-nous parlé ? De beaucoup de choses. Comment la Russie devrait-elle mener sa politique pour soutenir les nouvelles alliances indépendantes (comme la Confédération des États du Sahel) sans affaiblir le rôle institutionnel de l'Union africaine en tant que principal porte-parole de la voix unifiée du continent ? Parvient-elle, dans les conditions géopolitiques difficiles actuelles, à maintenir sa présence en Afrique ? Nous avons discuté de la résolution adoptée par l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies reconnaissant la traite transatlantique des esclaves comme un crime contre l'humanité.

Par Spencer Gray, le 24 juin 2026

Pourquoi le système est en train de couler

Le gouvernement n'est pas défaillant. Il fonctionne exactement comme prévu.

Il a été conçu pour servir les riches et les puissants. Pour protéger leur fortune tandis que le reste d'entre nous travaille jusqu'à l'épuisement pour quelques miettes. Vous le saviez déjà. Vous l'avez constaté chaque fois que vous avez dû choisir entre payer votre loyer ou acheter à manger.

Par Moon of Alabama - Le 29 juin 2026

Les États-Unis ne sont manifestement pas disposés à remplir les conditions énoncées dans leur protocole d'entente avec l'Iran. Il faudra plus de pression de la part de l'Iran pour que les États-Unis acceptent ses demandes.

L'équipe actuelle de dirigeants iraniens qui avaient négocié et signé le protocole d'accord est le président Masoud Pezeshkian, un bon chirurgien cardiaque mais un politicien inexpérimenté - le Président du Parlement Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, un ancien dirigeant du CGRI et politicien professionnel - et le ministre des Affaires étrangères Abbas Araghchi, un diplomate professionnel et expérimenté.

Par Yezen Saadah

"Plateformicide" : Meta aurait délibérément réduit au silence des utilisateurs pro-palestiniens depuis 2021, selon une association à but non lucratif de défense des droits numériques.

Le Centre arabe pour la promotion des médias sociaux (7amleh), une association à but non lucratif basée à Haïfa qui défend les droits numériques des Palestiniens, a révélé, dans une analyse portant sur 3520 publications, que les plateformes de réseaux sociaux de Meta réduisaient systématiquement au silence les discours palestiniens et pro-palestiniens depuis 2021.