Mark Rutte, the former Prime Minister of the Netherlands who played the role for nearly 14 years, and now the head of NATO, sold the bullshit last week that Americans should care about the strength of the alliance because Russia is preparing to attack the U.S.
Iran decided last week to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after claims from Tehran that the UN agency provided Israel with diplomatic cover to go to war over its nuclear program and accused Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s head, of “malign intent.”
Friedrich Merz, the warmongering German chancellor, drew criticism from Iran’s top diplomat for cheering on the Israelis during the brief war over Tehran’s legal nuclear program, stating that Iranians have already been “put off by Germany’s Nazi-style backing of Genocide in Gaza.”
Iran’s ambassador to Slovenia warned last week of the inherent risks to global diplomacy if Israel is not held accountable for carrying out its illegal war on Tehran and said no action would invite a “law-of-the-jungle” mindset.
Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, said Sunday that the IDF carried out major strikes on Yemeni ports in response to the Houthis’ continuing missile and drone attacks on Israel amid the genocide in Gaza.
Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives last week presented a bill that would provide the genocidal state of Israel with B-2 bombers and 30,000-pound bombs so Tel Aviv could more readily use the equipment if it felt threatened by Iran’s nuclear program.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to be seen as a leader on a major winning streak: he is carrying out a genocide in Gaza with the full support of the U.S.; he smashed Hezbollah in a conflict a few months ago after bombing out civilian targets across Lebanon; and he watched the fall of longtime nemesis Bashar al-Asad in Syria to only be replaced by a pro-Israel government for former Al Qaeda warlords.
Canada’s GDP contracted by 0.1 percent in April, Statistics Canada reported, and said early indications are that the economy shrank by a similar amount in May.
On 27 June, Donald Trump announced the U.S. is immediately “terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada” after the U.S.’s northern neighbor is set to begin collecting a digital services tax on Internet companies, both Canadian and foreign.
U.S. power companies are on trend to invest $212 billion in new power plants and transmission lines this year to meet the ravenous demand for electricity among artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, according to an analysis by investment bank Jeffries Group.