By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
June 19, 2026
To quote James Carville, "Its the economy stupid!" On Monday I wrote:
So the question we ought to ask is why did Donald Trump blink and accept the proposal that Iran proffered way back in April?
I think there are several reasons, but the principal one is that the US is running out of oil, which means Trump will not be able to artificially suppress the price of gasoline.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
June 19, 2026
Friday came on Wednesday. Last night the Memorandum of Understanding that was supposed to be signed tomorrow in Switzerland was signed digitally by the US and Iranian presidents. The Iranian explanation for the digital signing is that "When the text is signed by the highest authorities of both countries, violating it will naturally carry greater costs.
By Drago Bosnic
InfoBrics
June 19, 2026
By enforcing laws that allow the existence of organizations such as RICU, the UK has effectively become the only country on the planet that arrests people for "thought crimes", which are a total absurdity from a legal (or any other) standpoint, as there's no way to police someone's thoughts.
Nearly 80 years after George Orwell wrote "1984", Western media still use it to describe totalitarian governments and societies, particularly if they're non-Western.
The US Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex and DoD have been having a great time in Ukraine.
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
June 19, 2026
In April of last year I gave a presentation at Jesus College, Cambridge about US Department of Defense Bio-labs with a focus on its facilities in Ukraine. As I pointed out, the DoD explicitly acknowledged its investment in these labs on March 10, 2022, when a Senior Defense Official spoke about DoD's "Cooperative Biological Threat Reduction Program activities in Ukraine" and published a "Fact Sheet" that included the following disclosures.
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
June 19, 2026
Editor's Note: This article was originally inspired by a simple question that has quietly found its way into countless conversations over the last few years. What would actually happen if the systems we take for granted suddenly stopped working ? While nobody can predict the future, geography, history, climate, and demographics often tell stories that politicians and headlines prefer to ignore.
Mohamed Lamine KABA,
La stratégie américaine de domination mondiale par procuration, visant à épuiser ses adversaires sans intervention directe de ses troupes, a échoué. Cette échec est dû à une sous-estimation de la résilience de la Russie et de l'Iran, ce qui a entraîné un redécoupage du pouvoir mondial et un affaiblissement de la position des États-Unis.
Par Max Blumenthal, le ·18 juin 2026
L'empire médiatique de Charlie Kirk et son organisation militante d'extrême droite, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), sont désormais sous le contrôle du pouvoir israélien qu'il a passé les derniers mois de sa vie à combattre. Erika Kirk affirme aujourd'hui que son mari a soutenu Israël jusqu'au bout, tandis que TPUSA enterre son opposition à la guerre contre l'Iran.
Le président américain Donald Trump a reconnu que les réserves mondiales de pétrole étaient au bord de l'épuisement, une situation qui a contraint Washington à accepter les conditions proposées par l'Iran pour un accord-cadre visant à mettre fin à la guerre et à rouvrir le détroit d'Ormuz.
S'exprimant mercredi au sommet du G7 en France, Donald Trump a averti que sans cet accord avec l'Iran, le monde aurait sombré dans le chaos, les réserves de pétrole étant sur le point d'être épuisées d'ici quatre semaines environ.
U.S. President Donald Trump, during his first and second administrations, has broken with American tradition and rejected international law and institutions. Washington's foreign policy is fully militarized and is characterized by power politics. The present long-planned war against Iran is a war of aggression and is contrary to international law.
By Clifford A. KIRACOFE
Finian Cunningham
This defeat of U.S. imperial power is on par with the shame of the Vietnam War.
When Trump launched his war against Iran on February 28, his maximalist demands included regime change, total surrender, no nuclear program, and no enriched uranium.
None of that has been achieved. Iran has emerged stronger, the U.S. looks weaker, its military assets in the region battered, and Tehran is calling the shots on what a final deal will look like, based on its unbowed terms.
By Andrew P. Napolitano
June 18, 2026
The Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, embraces two value sets. The first is natural rights, and the second is limited government. After 250 years, neither value has survived, and the opposite of each currently prevails in America.
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration in three days while staying at a rooming house in Philadelphia. He had been greatly influenced by the British philosopher John Locke.
By Boyd D. Cathey
June 18, 2026
Last year a good friend related to me some of the experiences his daughter had had in a high school not too far from him. You see, his daughter is a history teacher-or should we say "social studies" teacher, to be politically correct ? It seems that the curriculum she was directed to teach and the approved texts her students must use in the classroom were redolent thematically with the idea that from its beginning America was characterized by ingrained racism: indeed, a white racism which infected and colored practically everything, from the social structures in the colonies and later codified by a racist Constitution, to the dealings-both legal and familial-between inhabitants, to the very language they used to communicate their thoughts, beliefs, and ideas.
By James Bovard
Mises.org
June 18, 2026
Forty years ago, I attended the annual meetings of the American Psychiatric Association in Washington and my sanity never recovered. Or at least that is what therapists presume based on my writings about their endless fabrication of bogus mental illnesses.
I was attending as a journalist to find grist for my weekly Detroit News column. That conference spurred zesty protests by Scientologists, feminists, and folks who never forgave the Electric Shock Therapy they endured.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
June 18, 2026
The American taxpayer has become the cleanup crew for the American Police State.
We pay for the constitutional violations.
We pay for the wars.
We pay for the lawsuits, the settlements, the cover-ups, the damage control, the reconstruction, the overreach, the incompetence and the corruption.
And when government officials are finally called to account for their misconduct, we pay for that, too.
By Tom Engelhardt
TomEngelhardt.com
June 18, 2026
What a planet ! I only wish I could tell my grandfather about it. He arrived in this country, an immigrant from what's now Ukraine, in March 1888 - or so his daughter, my Aunt Hilda, wrote me once upon a distant time. Here's how she began that long-ago message to me: "Your grandfather, Moore Engelhardt, a boy of 16, arrived in New York from Europe in March 1888.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
June 18, 2026
In 1968 Britain's only leader, Enoch Powell, explained that the mass influx into Great Britain by immigrant-invaders from the third world would turn ethnic British into "strangers in their own country."
Powell, of course, was lambasted by the liberals and the left, by presstitutes, and by fellow politicians anxious to move forward at Powell's expense.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
June 18, 2026
The following summarizes some of the reasons why the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a regime-change operation orchestrated and carried out by the U.S. national-security establishment:
1. The fraudulent autopsy that was conducted on President Kennedy's body on the evening of the assassination. I detail the various elements of autopsy fraud in my book The Kennedy Autopsy, including, for example, two separate brain examinations, one of which necessarily could not have involved the brain of President Kennedy.
Par Moon of Alabama - Le 17 juin 2026
Plusieurs versions du mémorandum d'entente entre les États-Unis et l'Iran circulent dans les médias. Elles ne sont pas la version finale.
Hier, j'ai cité une version préliminaire publiée par l'agence de presse iranienne Mehr. On savait que cette version n'était pas non plus finale.
Depuis lors, Bloomberg, via Time, a publié une autre version.
Par Patrick Lawrence pour Consortium News, le 16 juin 2026
Je n'ai jamais vraiment digéré la façon dont Antony Blinken et Jake Sullivan, à qui Joe Biden avait confié la supervision de sa politique étrangère, ont complètement raté leur coup lors de leur première rencontre avec leurs homologues chinois dans un hôtel d'Anchorage. C'était en mars 2021, quelques mois après l'entrée en fonction de Biden à la Maison Blanche, et toutes les parties concernées savaient que cette réunion allait prendre une importance capitale d'une manière ou d'une autre.
par José Luis Lanao*
Notre époque est parfois si misérable que nous ne parvenons plus à trouver dans la société qui nous entoure l'humanité nécessaire pour résister aux deux fléaux de notre temps : l'excès de misère et la misère engendrée par l'excès.
Nous sommes tellement dégoûtés de cette planète que nous nous demandons pourquoi le monde, notre monde, est devenu un désert de membres mutilés, de faim et de pauvreté sans fin, comme si un cuisinier fou s'adonnait à l'inégalité et à la mitraille, concoctant un ragoût d'acier et de chair humaine pour y mijoter ses obsessions.