By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
June 23, 2026
Against the odds, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US and Iran appears to be holding, after threats and counter-threats. It may collapse, but it has survived a first round of talks between the two sides in Switzerland over the weekend.
President Trump started a war on Iran against all sober guidance and in violation of the US Constitution's requirement that only Congress can declare war.
By Ron Unz
The Unz Review
June 23, 2026
Over the last few weeks I'd been paying less and less attention to our continuing Iran War mostly because less and less seemed to be happening.
Every few days President Donald Trump would loudly announce that a peace agreement was about to be signed that would fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tanker traffic. Then a couple of days later he would invariably declare that he was instead about to launch a massive bombing attack against Iran, sometimes even doing so in very limited fashion and afterward suffering some retaliatory strikes by Iranian missiles and drones.
By Dennis J. Kucinich and Elizabeth Kucinich
The Kucinich Report
June 23, 2026
The United States Congress, on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from Great Britain, is preparing to formally diminish American independence and sovereignty through a proposed merger and long-term integration of executive functions throughout the government, coordinated by the Department of Defense.
By Tucker Carlson
June 23, 2026
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By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
June 23, 2026
For years, governments assured the public that license plate readers were simply tools to catch stolen vehicles, fugitives, and dangerous criminals. That was always the sales pitch. Now the mask is coming off. According to reports, a new surveillance platform called SignalTrace is being marketed to law enforcement and government agencies that goes far beyond reading license plates.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
June 23, 2026
Saddled with defending President Trump's "peace agreement" with Iran, Vice President J.D. Vance is lashing out at Israeli officials who are criticizing and condemning the agreement. He stated, "My message to them would be twofold. No 1: Donald J. Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
June 23, 2026
A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality. If you hold your time on the meditation cushion as something separate from the weeping mother clutching a small body in Lebanon, you're wasting your time.
A spirituality that is uninterested in ending war, genocide, poverty and injustice is a dead spirituality.
Attrition rather than territorial movement is increasingly becoming the decisive factor shaping the outcome of the conflict in Ukraine.
By Brian Berletic
New Eastern Outlook
June 23, 2026
A recent article published in the Kyiv Independent titled "Is Ukraine starting to win the war again?" tests the maxim that if you need to ask, the answer is probably "no."
As the collective Western media has done since 2022, the Kyiv Independent cites "flatlined" Russian territorial gains and expanding drone strikes deep inside Russian territory (the article attributes them to Ukraine despite the New York Times admitting such strikes are enabled by the US Central Intelligence Agency and the US military) - all as evidence of growing Russian weakness and increasing Ukrainian strength.
By Eric Peters
Eric Peters Autos
June 23, 2026
Most everyone wants to be on he right side of things; the problem is discerning which is the wrong side to be on.
The COVID debacle is an example. It was difficult for many people to discern which side was the right side. Many probably thought they were on the right side, by siding with the experts who insisted everyone was facing the risk of death (and of transmitting death) if they didn't wear a surgical mask over their face.
By John J. Mearsheimer
John's Substack
June 23, 2026
On 21 June 2026, I was on Tom Switzer's podcast - "Switzerland" - with Trita Parsi. We focused almost exclusively on the negotiations between Iran and the US, which had begun earlier that day in a resort near Lake Lucerne in Switzerland. It is fair to say those negotiations got off to an inauspicious start, raising doubts about whether the two sides would ever reach a deal.
By Brandon Campbell
Ultimate-Survival
June 23, 2026
History is often remembered through visible catastrophes. Wars redraw borders, economic collapses destroy fortunes, pandemics alter demographics, and revolutions replace one political order with another. Yet historians have long noted that some of the most consequential transformations occur beneath the threshold of public awareness, advancing gradually enough to avoid resistance while fundamentally altering the structure of society.
Par Camille Adam
Si le prochain président de la République n'est pas encore connu, le programme qu'il devra appliquer l'est. En effet, la Commission européenne vient de publier les recommandations pour la France pour l'année 2026. On y retrouve les obsessions habituelles de la Commission : réduction des dépenses publiques et dérégulation. La nouveauté tient au rôle désormais assumé du Semestre européen, devenu l'un des principaux outils dont dispose la Commission pour imposer, ou tenter d'imposer, des réformes dans des domaines où les traités ne lui confèrent aucune compétence : dérégulation des professions réglementées ou orientation de l'épargne.
Giulio Chinappi
L'intesa tra Stati Uniti e Iran non è il trionfo diplomatico rivendicato da Trump, ma la prova del fallimento della coercizione imperiale. Washington non ha piegato Teheran: ha dovuto accettare la fine del blocco e il ritorno alla diplomazia.
La firma, o comunque l'annuncio ormai avanzato, di un quadro d'intesa tra Stati Uniti e Iran per porre fine alla guerra nel Golfo rappresenta uno spartiacque politico di enorme portata.
Par IntelSky, le 22 juin 2026
Le cadre technique de Bürgenstock : une nouvelle architecture de "sécurité" pour le Moyen-Orient, et comment la Résistance a imposé "l'équation Ali al-Taher" à la table des négociations - Talal Nahlé
Compte rendu du cinquième jour suivant le protocole d'accord
La guerre américano-israélienne contre l'Iran et ses alliés régionaux est entrée dans une phase tactique déterminante après 18 heures de négociations tendues entre les dirigeants à la station de Bürgenstock, en Suisse.
Par François Burgat
Pour illustrer l'évolution du traitement judiciaire de la question palestinienne, un autre dossier que ma condamnation le 29 avril 2026 devant la cour d'appel d'Aix-en-Provence (à 17 000 euros d'amende pénale et de dommages et intérêts aux associations pro israéliennes) réclame davantage d'attention : le verdict prononcé contre Mohamed Makni est bien plus révélateur. Il est bien pire.
Par Drago Bosnic
Près de 80 ans après la publication de "1984" par George Orwell, les médias occidentaux continuent de s'en servir pour décrire des gouvernements et des sociétés totalitaires, en particulier lorsqu'ils ne sont pas occidentaux.
Le postulat général avancé par la machine de propagande dominante est qu'Orwell parlait des autres et que ses œuvres ne pourraient jamais s'appliquer aux pays "démocratiques" de l'Occident politique.