USA - A senior US military official told Congress on Tuesday that the US Navy used munitions at an “alarming rate” while defending Israel from Iranian missiles during the 12-day war that Israel started with massive strikes on Iran. Admiral James Kilby, the acting chief of naval operations, was asked during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing whether the US Navy had enough SM-3 interceptors, an advanced missile that can reach space and can cost between $10 million and $30 million for a single missile. “We do, sir, but we are, to your point, using them at an alarming rate,” Kilby told Senator Brian Schatz (Democrat for Hawaii), who said the US was using a large number of munitions to defend Israel.

USA - Zohran Kwame Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is embracing an Islamic end-times ideology that sees chaos and war as the path to global domination — and he’s on track to run America’s largest city. The Democratic Socialist and sitting New York State Muslim Assembly member just clinched the Democratic nomination after disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo withdrew from the race. With New York City’s deep-blue political makeup, Mamdani is now poised to become the next mayor — and according to Lopez, that could spell disaster. “Mamdani is very openly, profoundly communist and profoundly Islamic,” said Lopez. “And based on his own public tweet, he appears to identify with the most apocalyptic and dangerous sect of Islam — Twelver Shiism.” Twelver Shiism is the official state religion of the Islamic Republic of Iran and promotes an apocalyptic belief in the eventual return of a hidden imam, known as the Mahdi, who will return to establish global Islamic rule.

USA - With Mamdani now the Democratic nominee, the odds are strong that he will become mayor of America’s largest city — a terrifying prospect to those who understand the implications of Twelver Shiite ideology. “He could be the most dangerous mayor in American history,” Lopez warned. “Not just because of policy, but because of what his beliefs will allow — and even compel — him to support.” The goal of Twelver radicals, Lopez noted, is to impose Islamic rule, not merely to govern alongside other worldviews.

USA - Well this was certainly unexpected. The leftist Washington Post dropped a devastating op-ed Friday by its editorial board that ripped into democratic socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani and said that he would be “bad for New York.” Usually the liberal rag is little more than a mouthpiece for the DNC, so to see them go after a Democrat this hard is a stunner and reveals two things: 1) Mamdani and his extremist policies are truly a danger to the Big Apple, and 2), leftists are scared right now. As I wrote earlier Friday, Mamdani could turn out to be a “big, beautiful gift” to the GOP because we can and will pound away the narrative that this guy is the new face of the Democrat party. Even for many libs, this permanently-grinning specter with his socialist utopia visions, grand tax schemes and antisemitism is a bridge too far. The Post agrees, and they give the entire game away in their headline: Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party.

USA - Secretary Hegseth focused his remarks on what he described as biased media coverage of the strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. "Whether it's fake news CNN, MSNBC, or the New York Times, there has been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment from the DIA," Hegseth said, referring to a Defense Intelligence Agency report that rated the impact of the strike as "low confidence." He contrasted the DIA's assessment with conclusions from other entities, stating that Israel's atomic energy agency found Iran's Fordow facility to be "inoperable," while the International Atomic Energy Agency reported "enormous damage." "Time and time again, I can go down the list... those that do proper assessments recognize that what the United States military did was historic," Hegseth asserted.

IRAN - Iran’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, following Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities. The legislation, passed with near-unanimous support, prohibits future IAEA inspections and surveillance camera installations until Iran’s nuclear sites are secured in a direct response to what lawmakers called the agency’s failure to condemn the attacks. The decision, now awaiting final approval from Iran’s hardline Guardian Council, marks a dangerous new phase in the already volatile standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. The bill, approved by 221 of 223 lawmakers, with only one abstention and one opposition, reflects Iran’s fury over the IAEA’s perceived complicity in the recent strikes.

IRAN - The Islamic theocracy of Iran stated on Wednesday that it would work to preserve its illicit nuclear program “under any circumstances,” denying that the American airstrikes on key uranium enrichment facilities had marked an end to its nuclear ambitions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei declared in an interview with the Qatari network Al Jazeera, according to the Iranian propaganda outlet PressTV, that Iran was “determined to preserve” its right to “enjoy nuclear energy… under any circumstances.” PressTV also cited officials from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) declaring that Tehran would “expand” its nuclear development, rather than contain it, in response to United Nations condemnation and military action by Israel and America.

IRAN - Iranian officials chanted “Death to America” as they voted to expel nuclear inspectors and accelerate uranium enrichment, following President Donald Trump’s bold strike on Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure — a move that also helped force a ceasefire and avert a prolonged regional war. On Wednesday, Iran’s parliament passed a bill suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) just days after US forces executed an unprecedented strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Lawmakers erupted into “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” chants as they approved the legislation, with Speaker Mohammad Qalibaf vowing the program would now move “more rapidly.” In his first public remarks since going into hiding on June 13, Khamenei appeared in a state TV broadcast to mock the United States, saying Washington only intervened to prevent the total collapse of the “Zionist regime.”

HUNGARY - Orbán’s Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBT events. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the Brussels Liberal-Globalist establishment’s ‘bête noire’, the man who almost single-handedly opposed the EU’s frankly suicidal policies. Now, with the historic return of his long-time ally Donald J Trump and the surge of right-wingers and populists in Europe, Orbán is forcefully implementing his ‘common-sense’ policies, to the absolute dismay of the USAID-media. In a development of the political decision that TGP reported back in February, Hungary’s parliament approved an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBT communities.

EUROPE - There is perhaps no one more devoted to defending the whole edifice of the failed Globalist policies than the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. From ‘climate change’ hysteria to unchecked mass migration and constant pro-Ukraine war-mongering, von der Leyen has never seen a Globalist disastrous policy that she did not love. And of course, the LGBT lobby is one of her most cherished ‘causes’ – so, in a sense, she was bound to clash yet again with the nationalist, conservative Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán. Orbán is the leader who once described the EU as ‘a contemporary parody of the Soviet Union’, and stated that ‘there Is Not Enough Money in the World To Force Us To Accept Mass Migration and To Put Our Children in the Hands of LGBTQ Activists’.

FRANCE - The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL. The République’s third-largest city and second-largest economic hub on Tuesday cited a desire to reduce dependence on American software, extend the lifespan of its hardware and therefore reduce its environmental impact, and strengthen the technological sovereignty of its public service. However the city’s decision comes just weeks after Denmark’s’ Ministry for Digitalization decided to drop Microsoft and amid a European Union push to develop sovereign digital capabilities that has seen the likes of Microsoft and AWS try to reassure European customers that their cloudy continental outposts can’t be caught up in US claims to possess extraterritorial jurisdiction over data stored in facilities owned by American companies. So maybe Lyon ditching Microsoft represents one more snowball in a growing avalanche.

IRAN - Iran has today admitted its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' by US bombs after Donald Trump insisted they were 'obliterated' and lashed out at 'fake' news coverage suggesting he failed to deliver a knock-out blow. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei conceded there had been significant impact caused by American bunker-busting bombs at the country's three main nuclear sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz. It comes after Trump insisted the nuclear facilities were 'obliterated' and compared his airstrikes to the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. Meanwhile NATO chief Mark Rutte suggested Donald Trump dealt with Israel and Iran's war in the Middle East like a 'daddy' who uses 'strong language' to stop two children fighting in a schoolyard.

NETHERLANDS - Cowardice ill befits a military alliance. But it dominated yesterday’s Nato summit in the Hague. The alliance leaders who gathered in the Dutch city showed that they were more frightened of Donald Trump than of Vladimir Putin. To appease the US president, they cut the agenda short, sidelined Ukraine, downplayed the threat from Russia, made empty promises and dodged urgent decisions. It worked — for now. More importantly, extravagant military spending is politically unpopular and economically crippling. “It destroyed the Soviet Union,” noted a summit participant reflectively. The European Nato allies combined are ten times richer than Russia. If they spent even their existing defence budgets properly, the job would be done. Promising to spend a lot of money in the future does not fill the dangerous holes in defence and deterrence right now.

GERMANY - Germany will bring back conscription to boost its armed forces if a plan to use volunteers fails to deliver enough recruits, the country’s defence minister has said. Boris Pistorius said he would begin with a voluntary model to attract young people, supporting the Bundeswehr’s goal of more than doubling its reserve forces in response to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But he said Berlin would not shy away from a return to full conscription if the armed forces had spare training capacity — and would include such a provision in a bill that will be presented to parliament after the summer break. Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that he wants his country to have the “strongest conventional army in Europe”, vowing to play a greater role in the continent’s defence.

UK - Weekly hate marches and open terror-sympathising have become the norm – and many of the worst culprits are British born and bred. It’s not often you see communists taking a stand for free speech and civil liberties. But in the eyes of the Morning Star, it seems, drastic times call for drastic measures. In a scandalised editorial this week, it thundered that the Home Secretary’s decision to outlaw Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “a dangerous assault on our freedoms”. Ah, yes. The ancient and inviolable freedom of every patriotic Englishman to break into his own country’s military bases and cause tens of millions of pounds’ worth of damage to our aircraft. Thanks for the reminder, Comrades.