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Writes Caitlin Johnstone:

President Trump is reportedly returning to Washington early from a G7 summit in Canada and has told his national security council to prepare for an urgent meeting in the situation room, apparently to discuss Iran.

The US president has taken to social media to terrorize Iranian civilians, telling Tehran’s millions of inhabitants that they must immediately evacuate the city and saying “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign.”

Weirdly, the strongest indication that Trump has made a decision to attack Iran might be a recent post on Truth Social about former Fox News darling Tucker Carlson.

“Somebody please explain to kooky Tucker Carlson that,” IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!” the president posted.

Carlson has been an outspoken critic of warmongering toward Iran, and was reportedly responsible for personally talking the president out of his Iran brinkmanship in the first Trump administration.

Antiwar’s Scott Horton is reporting that, according to his sources, the Trump administration has already decided to join in Israel’s war.

Capitol Hill is clearly worried that a war with Iran is imminent, with numerous lawmakers in the House and the Senate scrambling to get legislation in place that would stop the president from ordering such a war.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking to the western press to argue in favor of assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. I keep thinking about the Mad King in Game of Thrones who went nuts and kept ordering everyone to be burned, until a member of his own court decided enough is enough and slit his throat.

A full-scale US war against Iran is one of the worst things that could possibly happen. Full stop. It would likely entail millions of deaths, massive worldwide economic suffering, chaos and devastation throughout the middle east unlike anything we’ve ever seen, and could easily wind up with an Israeli nuclear weapon exploding in Tehran. There is a reason even a lot of otherwise war-happy swamp monsters in Washington have resisted going down this path. I really, really hope it doesn’t happen.

If this is the direction the empire chooses to go, expect mass-scale psychological manipulation on an entirely unprecedented level to dupe the public into going along with this thing. Expect far more lies. Expect far more propaganda. Expect psyops. Maybe a false flag attack or two. It will be bad.

Don’t buy into the lies. Oppose their warmongering at the top of your lungs, with everything you’ve got. I will be doing the same.

Anyone who supports this war is an enemy of the human species.

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Bill Madden wrote:

As President Trump and many of our elected representatives would say: “America First – right behind Israel.”

See here.

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Rick Rozoff wrote:

My comment beneath the Candace Owens video:

American officials and their Israeli ventriloquists earlier accused Iraq, Libya and Syria of conspiring to develop ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ and now the three nations, all the homes of ancient and venerable civilizations, to all intents no longer exist. Now for a nation that has inherited a 3,000-year-old civilization and has a population of 90 million, more than the first three countries combined.

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Frahm.

InfoWars

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Daily Wire

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Tim McGraw wrote:

“The evangelical community helped deliver the White House to President Donald Trump and, therefore, believes his administration should support Israel’s biblical rights to its historical heartland of Judea and Samaria, Dr. Mike Evans, founder of Friends of Zion, told Fox News Digital.

“We hold strongly to that stand. President Trump won because of the Evangelical vote. There are 52 million of us in America, and we are Bible believers,” he continued. “Jesus said, ‘You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria,'” he said. His organization claims nearly 30 million members.” LRC Political Theater

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Hi Lew,

Oh, this “doctor” Mike Evans is a piece of work. “52 million Bible believers”, I hope it’s a bit higher than that. 30 million members claimed by Evans in his group of Zionist supporters. That is depressing if true.

The quote Evans cites is Jesus saying that witnesses in Jerusalem, etc., who saw his crucifixion (torture and murder) and Resurrection should testify to the Truth. It doesn’t mean that today’s Christians should defend Zionists running the Levant. Evans is insane, but no doubt very rich.

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‘Execution site’: Palestinians face death collecting food at US-Israeli Gaza aid points.

Middle East Eye

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Thanks, John Smith. 

BBC coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza ‘systematically biased against Palestinians’

Middle East Eye

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Hagee, Graham, Evans urge US support for Israel against Iran threat 

Fox News

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Ginny Garner wrote:

Lew,

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s tells it like it is. 

See here.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

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di Daniel Lacalle

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/la-big-beautiful-bill-e-molto-meglio)

Le prospettive di bilancio degli Stati Uniti sono motivo di preoccupazione. Tutti lo capiscono, il problema è che la maggior parte degli economisti keynesiani non è disposta ad ammettere che il problema del deficit sia interamente un problema di spesa.

Coloro che propugnano l'aumento delle tasse e della spesa non considerano mai l'impatto negativo delle tasse sulla crescita e sull'occupazione, né la natura ciclica delle entrate.

Le spese aumentano durante i periodi di crescita economica e aumentano ancora più rapidamente durante le recessioni, il che si traduce costantemente in un debito più elevato.

Le tasse elevate non sono uno strumento per ridurre il debito pubblico, ma per giustificarlo. Aumentando costantemente la spesa pubblica e le tasse, i governi attuano un'espropriazione al rallentatore della ricchezza della nazione.

La Francia è la prova lampante della trappola fiscale keynesiana: ha il cuneo fiscale più alto nell'OCSE, ha un'enorme spesa pubblica e le sue prospettive fiscali sono peggiori di quelle di qualsiasi economia sviluppata, con un deficit insostenibile del 5,8%, soprattutto se consideriamo le sue enormi passività non finanziate che raggiungono il 400% del PIL, in aggiunta all'attuale debito al 116% del PIL.

I doppi standard degli economisti

È interessante notare che molti economisti erano lieti di sostenere il piano economico di Kamala Harris, che prevedeva forti aumenti della spesa, tasse più alte e più debito.

Il Congressional Budget Office aveva ipotizzato un aumento del debito pari a $8.300 miliardi, ipotizzando costi più elevati ed entrate più deboli, con un debito detenuto dal pubblico che sarebbe salito al 134% del PIL entro il 2035.

Gli stessi economisti e premi Nobel che hanno sostenuto il programma della Harris, basato su tasse elevate, spesa elevata e debito, sostengono che la Big Beautiful Bill dell'amministrazione Trump distruggerà i conti nazionali. Perché?

Un ampio consenso tra accademici ed economisti tende a minimizzare la continua crescita della dimensione dello stato nell'economia, ignorando gli effetti negativi delle tasse elevate e di un settore pubblico sovradimensionato sulla crescita, sugli investimenti e sulla produttività.

Uno stato ipertrofico viene sempre difeso. Non sorprende, visto che la maggior parte di questi economisti si occupa di governi ed enti finanziati con fondi pubblici.

Pertanto gli investitori globali leggono sempre stime negative quando un'amministrazione promuove tagli fiscali e riduzioni della spesa, e praticamente nulla quando la spesa pubblica va fuori controllo.

Capire la Big Beautiful Bill

Il concetto di tagli fiscali non finanziati è uno dei più offensivi. I tagli fiscali restituiscono parte del denaro che i cittadini hanno guadagnato. L'unica parte non finanziata di un bilancio è la spesa pubblica in deficit.

Musk ha criticato la “Big Beautiful Bill” definendola “abominevole”, ma dobbiamo capire alcune cose.

Un disegno di legge importante come questo non sarà mai perfetto. L'amministrazione deve trovare il sostegno della maggior parte dei membri del Congresso e del Senato, molti dei quali hanno priorità di bilancio diverse.

Il disegno di legge prevede quasi $1.700 miliardi di tagli alla spesa obbligatoria, la più grande riduzione nella storia degli Stati Uniti. Questi tagli rappresentano modifiche permanenti alla legge.

Il disegno di legge comporterà una riduzione del deficit netto di $1.400 miliardi nel prossimo decennio, tenendo conto sia dei tagli alla spesa sia dei nuovi tagli fiscali.

Non si prende in considerazione alcun impatto positivo derivante da tagli alla spesa discrezionale, entrate dai dazi, o miglioramenti nelle entrate.

La Casa Bianca sostiene inoltre che, se si considerano l'aumento delle entrate tramite i dazi e gli ulteriori tagli alla spesa discrezionale, la riduzione cumulativa del deficit potrebbe raggiungere i $6.600 miliardi.

Prorogando i tagli fiscali del 2017, il disegno di legge impedisce alla maggior parte dei contribuenti di subire aumenti fiscali che si sarebbero verificati se suddetti tagli fossero scaduti. Sostiene gli investimenti, la spesa dei consumatori e la crescita economica. Gli sgravi fiscali mirati stimolano inoltre l'attività economica.

Sarà inoltre essenziale eliminare gli oneri normativi per stimolare la crescita e gli investimenti, generando ulteriori entrate fiscali e riducendo ulteriormente il deficit.

Anche una stima prudente della Tax Foundation prevede un incremento del PIL a lungo termine pari allo 0,8% derivante dalle disposizioni fiscali contenute nel disegno di legge.

L'amministrazione Trump dovrebbe fare di più?

Ciò che trovo sorprendente è che Musk non abbia preso in considerazione l'effetto della Curva di Laffer in questa legge. Posso capire che gli economisti statalisti vogliano negare l'evidente effetto positivo dei tagli fiscali sulla crescita delle entrate, ma un imprenditore serio come lui dovrebbe come minimo presumere un miglioramento significativo delle entrate.

Secondo la mia analisi, questi tagli fiscali e misure di deregolamentazione rappresenteranno una fonte maggiore di riduzione del deficit rispetto ai tagli alla spesa, per quanto essenziali.

L'amministrazione Trump dovrebbe fare di più? Certo che sì. Nessuno, da Bessent a Trump, lo nega.

Ma l'economia statunitense deve uscire da questo incubo fiscale, concentrandosi sulla crescita del settore privato in modo che i tagli alla spesa possano essere estesi e incrementati. In un'economia in cui la crescita del PIL nel 2024 è stata interamente trainata dalla spesa in deficit, è necessario ripulire il disastro e contemporaneamente stimolare la crescita produttiva.

Ogni economista libertario o Austriaco dovrebbe sostenere questa proposta di legge come primo passo essenziale, che potrebbe non essere perfetto ma è fondamentale per l'economia statunitense, e tener presente l'impatto sulla Curva di Laffer di una riduzione delle tasse e la spinta economica della deregolamentazione.

Se non crediamo noi negli effetti positivi dei tagli fiscali e della deregolamentazione, nessun altro ci crederà e la prossima legge sarà più grande e più brutta.

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Saturday morning, we toodled over to the next town, Salem, New York, (pop. 2,612, per capita income $19,499) fifty miles northeast of Albany, to catch one of the hundreds of “No Kings” demos across the nation sponsored by Shanghai-based software billionaire Neville Roy Singham, Walmart heiress Christy Walton, Paypal partner (and Linked-in founder) Reid Hoffman, and father-and son team, George and Alex Soros.

Speaking of A;ex Soros, Saturday also happened to be his wedding day, to Huma Abedin, former Hillary Clinton sidekick and BFF (and ex-wife of disgraced congressman and convicted sex offender Anthony Weiner.) The nuptials happened at the Soros’s Hamptons estate. Cable news covered the fabulous cavalcade of black Escalade limousines conveying the super-elite of Progressive-Wokery to the glorious event. The New York Times, with its habitual lack of self-awareness, styled the event thusly:

“Liberal royalty?” Say, what. . . ? There is such a thing? In the party of No Kings? What’s the deal, then? Just princes and princesses, dukes and duchesses, earls, viscounts, baronets, lairds, marquis, knights and dames, and so on. Yet, no king? Well, if you asked the fortunate wedding guests, they might aver to Hillary Clinton as a sort-of Queen of the party, or maybe just Queen Bee. As for former president Bill, he appears to be undergoing slow-motion mummification, so he currently occupies an ambiguous zone between this world and the next, with no mojo left for kingly duties. Anyway, it rained that day down on the South Fork.

Meanwhile, back upstate, cloudy and cool but no rain, some two-hundred wrathful plebeian souls gathered at the one-stoplight-intersection in little Salem, these days mainly a farm community, the old railroad engine repair shop defunct, and many good non-farm jobs with it, the usual story in this corner of the country. The hopped-up crowd was well-supplied with signs and placards, many avouching Down with Oligarchs! — which, oddly, seemed a sort of backhanded reference to billionaires of the very type underwriting the day’s festivities, not to mention the super-rich “liberal royalty” gang gathered for the Soros-Abedin royal wedding.

But that was only one of the many incongruities haunting the mass protest against the abhorred president, Mr. Trump. For instance, one poor fellow on the southeast corner of South Main and East Broadway inveighed mournfully against the suppression of free speech, apparently unaware of the epic efforts 2021 to 2025 by “Joe Biden’s” underlings to censor the Internet and de-platform the regime’s critics (including yours truly, whose website was mysteriously destroyed in October 2024).

The moiling mob was overwhelmingly geriatric, perhaps reflecting the backwater demographics of a region with few job opportunities for young folk. A spirit of revival bubbled among them as they reenacted old rituals of the hippie halcyon, the grand old days of the Vietnam War protests, when thousands gathered to levitate the Pentagon. Only now, their sentiments and beliefs exhibit a striking and peculiar inversion of the ancient 1960s credos that drove the beloved Movement.

I know because I was there, on campus, between 1966 and 1971. Back then, the Left opposed the wicked “establishment” and all its nefarious operations, from the war in Vietnam to the FBI’s underhanded suppression of political dissent. These days, strange to relate, the Left stands in staunch defense of the Deep State, big government (and its prodigious corruption), and the politicization of the FBI and CIA.

Their placards lament the withering of “our democracy,” yet they were just fine with “Joe Biden” selecting a 2024 presidential candidate for them — with no customary vote by party delegates, or anything approaching an open democratic process. They shout for the “rule-of-law,” except when it concerns special persons such as the former president’s crackhead, bag-man son. They’re all for the colossal grift around the war in Ukraine. And don’t forget they supported vaccine mandates, the closing and ruination of small businesses (while Walmart and Taco Bell were allowed to thrive), and all the other hypocritical, fraudulent, lethal actions of Covid-19 policy.

The object of the “No Kings” shuck and jive, you might suspect, was to prepare so many friction-points around the country that violence was apt to erupt in order to create a George Floyd-type martyr figure, so as to re-energize the Left for another sustained summer of riots. There was plenty of mayhem around the country but, alas, no martyr emerged, no apotheosis of “progressive” victim-hood. . . only the peculiar murder of two Minnesota legislators by an apparently deranged Democratic party fringe character, the sometime evangelist and Tim Walz appointee, Vance Boelter.

$65-million is a plausible number for the money spent by billionaires and political NGOs on the nation-wide “No Kings” project. A lot of that was paid directly to protesters for just showing up. (They ran ads on Craig’s List to enlist players.) None of them showed up in the Hamptons, though, where “liberal royalty” assembled for their special event. You’ve got to think that they missed something rather bigly there.

Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.

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Vacuous Pete read the US DoD FY 26 posture statement last week, explaining how the feds will spend the new trillion dollar US defense budget.  The SecDef seems unaware of the idiocy, and the irony, of what he presented to Congress.

We may quibble on whether it was idiot-speak, mendacity, or simple ignorance.  I’m agreeable that in Pete’s case, it could be all three.

First we have the sheer inability to identify the problem.  Pete says, “The $961.6 billion budget put forward by the President reverses four years of mismanagement and underinvestment.”  I’m not sure Pete has looked at Pentagon budget trends since WWII, but that budget has a long established pattern.  Robert Higgs’ “ratchet effect” is clearly shown in this chart:

As Charles Hugh Smith explains, ratchet-systems produce bloat that is easy to expand and hard to reduce. “Four years of mismanagement” tells us that the DoD has no idea what is happening, what to do, and will proceed accordingly. Smith writes that over time, only the “delusionally incompetent” remain inside these systems “…[leading] to the substitution of PR and artifice for actually reducing the organization to a sustainable level, for what’s required is not just a revised spreadsheet but an entirely new culture and value system.”

Point for Pete – he is good at substituting PR and artifice for the real change that is required.

Much of the latest posture statement is indeed delusional. Pete states,

The President has also been clear – we will not tolerate attacks on American vessels. To that end, we have completed a highly successful and focused campaign against the Houthis. Our message — and our goal — was clear: Stop shooting at our ships and we will stop shooting at you. I am pleased to report that the attacks on American ships have now ended.

The reason the Houthis stopped targeting our naval vessels is because we removed them from the line of fire after the loss of a few billion dollars in drones and other weapons, all without slowing the Houthis attacks on Israel-bound shipping.

Along these delusional lines, Hegseth takes credit for the diplomatic blackmail of Panama to give US vessels priority “Free and First” passage, posing this as a question of military strength. He goes on to emphasize US military protection of the border, even as border control in the US is and will remain a bureaucratic enforcement operation, not “defense” to be funded in a new way.

While he correctly wants a lean and nimble force, he ignores or is unaware that the DoD is little more than a massive jobs program for low wage earners all the way to up to retired generals and admirals, and the expensive stovepiped acquisition octopus that embraces them all, and directly attaches itself to half of every dollar spent in the Pentagon right off the top.  In turn, this MIC provides back to the DoD small numbers of uber expensive offensive platforms that are impossible to efficiently maintain, both for us and for the many “allies” we pressure into buying our not-lean and not-nimble products.

Pete nods to a future “Golden Dome,” innocently or ignorantly foretelling another massive overpriced stovepiped acquisition, run by contractors, that will, as in the past, deliver no effective defense – a fact we will discover 15 years and a dozen trillion dollars hence.

Pete likes lean and nimble, but we suffer one General or Flag officer for every 3,300 active duty service members, twice the ratio we had during World War II.  Beta AI could do the jobs of every one of our generals today, and not a soul would notice.  Hegseth’s reduction of GO/FO by 20% is too few by half, and yet he offered no comparable reduction in the 900 global locations where US troops are stationed around the world.

He advocates a government-funded shipping industry, comparing the productivity of modern ships built by China (and he might also have mentioned Russia or India).   Barring major acquisition reform, US subsidized shipbuilding circa 2026 will be terminally expensive and permanently technologically behind the times, a welfare scheme for the less competitive.  Similarly, Hegseth advocates a next generation F-35, with a new number and name. We know what our system produces, but why doesn’t Hegseth? In terms of the nuclear triad, Hegseth recognizes it is old and probably dysfunctional, but seems to have no sense of how to deal with the most important aspect of real deterrence, nor the cost of reshaping or fundamentally reducing it. I mean how many nukes does a man need? Pete has no idea.

Underlying this obscene budget request is the silent witness, the fundamental missing link – and that is the absolute and urgent necessity of blowing up entirely our current USG approach to defense.  To blow the OLDTHINK out of the water, and to truly ban the bloat, we must institute zero-based budgeting from the Pentagon, and a zero-based analysis of the real requirements of a republican defense.  For 60 years we have designed and funded the military of a slowly collapsing and increasingly desperate empire.  We would do far better to think about and identify the real defensive needs of a constitutionally defined Republic, the one our founders presumed, and our people deserve.

That said – the idiocy is clear, and it would not be a challenge for any American to name a thousand more sterling examples of Pentagon stupidity.  Oh, and Pete said the Pentagon must pass, and will pass an audit by 2028. I hope the Congressional audience laughed at that joke. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Three days after his briefing, Hegseth wakes up to find that the President was lying about diplomacy with Iran, and more interested in big beautiful nuclear war than the lean and nimble deterrent force he told Pete and the rest of the country about earlier. Oh the irony, or maybe Pete’s just a patsy.  Either way, Trump colluded with Israel in last week’s surprise attack and regime decapitation, “justified” by an Iranian nuclear weapons program that Trump’s own DNI briefed Congress a few weeks earlier DID NOT EXIST.  Israel’s attack was assisted in advance and in real time by US and Germany and probably other NATO forces, and passively supported by the neutered neighbors of Israel, including a former ISIS commander with significant American blood on his hands.  As Trump would say, so sad. Hegseth appealed to America First as Trump voters understood it, but Trump himself clarified that he “developed” American First, and it means whatever he says it means.

When your president is a real life Humpty Dumpty and the elites openly parasitical, when your empire is collapsing under the predictable trifecta of corruption, debt, and arrogance, what can we the people expect?

I think instead of listening to Pete Hegseth, we would do better to listen to Petyr Baelish.

Sometimes when I try to understand a person’s motives, I play a little game. I assume the worst. What’s the worst reason they could possibly have for saying what they say, or doing what they do? Then I ask myself, ‘how well does that reason explain what they say and what they do?

Along those lines, I think before building great ships, the USG will facilitate an all expenses paid funeral at sea for our oldest carrier, the USS Nimitz, as it diverts post haste to the current theater of war.  This event may be facilitated by Israel aching for a false flag every couple of decades, or another psychopathic ally. War will intensify, and a nuclear attack or accident will “allow” the empire of fools to justify domestic totalitarianism, and continued endless war.  I’m pretty sure that Alex Karp will help out, given his view that the tech industry has “a moral duty to work with the US government,…an affirmative obligation to support the state that made its rise possible.”

There is nothing new here.  The evil of the state is perennial, persistent, with a taproot to hell. Henry David Thoreau wrote – perhaps with a future Pete Hegseth in mind as he tries to “fix” the Pentagon –“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one striking at the root.”  The time for hacking the branches of evil is coming to an end, perhaps an abrupt end. We must strike the root.

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