Iranian firefighters inspect damage at the site of an Israeli bombing in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025.
US Sent Israel Hundreds of Missiles Days Before Attack on Iran
Just days before the surprise and unprovoked Israeli war on Iran, the US shipped Tel Aviv 300 Hellfire missiles. An Israeli official implied they were used in the assault.
On Friday, Israel launched an offensive war against Iran, striking military sites, nuclear facilities, and carrying out targeted assassinations of top officials. Middle East Eye reports that on Tuesday, just three days before the attack began, the US sent 300 Hellfire missiles to Israel.
One Israeli official indicated that the precision air-to-ground munitions were used in targeted attacks on top civilian and military leaders. Ali Shamkhani, a senior aide to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed in his home on Friday.
Shamkhani was part of the negotiation team engaging with the US to work out a new nuclear agreement. American and Iranian officials have engaged in five rounds of talks, with a sixth previously scheduled for Sunday. Tehran recently indicated it believed a deal was possible.
However, following the start of Israel’s undeclared war, Iran called off talks with the US. New York Times UN correspondent Farnaz Fassihi said Iranian officials made it clear that Tehran views Shamkhani’s assassination as “Israel targeting and killing nuclear diplomacy with the US.”
Israeli officials say President Donald Trump played a key role in deceiving the Islamic Republic into believing Tel Aviv was not planning to attack, and the window for diplomacy was still open. Additionally, Tel Aviv says Washington provided intelligence that Israeli forces used in the attack...............
Democracy Now talks to journalists from Israel and Iran ... June 16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrzSs6Cznk
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Israel is Fully Integrating its Gaza “Food Aid Hubs” into the Genocide
It is entirely unsurprising that Israel has yet again been caught out in a lie – a lie that the BBC once again spread far and wide on its news services.
Israel claimed that it had not fired at starving Palestinians queuing on Sunday morning to get food from one of its highly militarised “aid distribution hubs” – a system Israel imposed on Gaza in place of a long-established and successful aid network run by the United Nations.
More than 30 Palestinians are known to have been killed and dozens more injured in the weekend incident.
Israel blamed Hamas fighters for shooting Palestinian civilians, saying they were trying to stop the crowds from taking food boxes. The Israeli military dished up a video, taken by one of its drones, as supposed proof.
The BBC broadcast that video on its main shows, and then did one of its standard “Israel said, the Palestinians said. Who can really know the truth?” reports of the incident.
The BBC should never have taken Israel’s disinformation seriously, not least because Israeli claims are always shown to be lies when subjected to any serious independent scrutiny. The default position should be that Israel is lying until it can demonstrate convincingly that it is not.
Doctors treating the dead and wounded immediately pointed out that their injuries were consistent with Israeli gunfire. The victims had single shots to the head or chest, in line with targeting by Israeli snipers. Others suffered shrapnel wounds from tank shells. Hamas has no tanks.........................
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https://morganc000.substack.com/p/operation-proteus
Operation PROTEUS:
How Canada and the U.S. Built a Proxy Security Regime in Palestine
Morgan Chase June 3, 2025
Canada’s involvement in Palestine is neither neutral nor limited to diplomacy. It functions as part of a Western security system designed to stabilize Israel’s occupation by outsourcing repression to Palestinian intermediaries. The instrument of that policy is Operation PROTEUS, a long-running mission that arms, trains, and directs the Palestinian Authority (PA) Security Forces in the West Bank under foreign command.
These forces do not exist to protect Palestinians. Their mandate is to carry out arrests, suppress dissent, and police civilians—demonstrating loyalty not to their people, but to Western backers and the Israeli state.
The program is administered through the Office of the United States Security Coordinator (USSC), which includes Canadian, British, and Dutch personnel but is led by American generals. Its strategic doctrine was imported directly from U.S. counterinsurgency operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where local militias were rebranded as national forces under foreign supervision. In Palestine, this was called “state-building.” In function, it is occupation-by-consent.
Lieutenant General Mark C. Schwartz, who ran the USSC from 2019 to 2021, oversaw this structure. A former commander of elite U.S. Special Forces and strategic advisor to NATO, Schwartz now advises the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)—a post-genocide entity claiming its creation to manage Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.His role in both arenas shows the system’s continuity. Same doctrine, same function, same personnel........
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce814ez7030o
by Barbara Tasch
BBC rejects incorrect White House claims on Gaza coverage
The BBC has rejected incorrect White House criticism of its Gaza coverage, describing a claim that it had taken down a story as "completely wrong".
At Tuesday's White House briefing President Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused the BBC of taking "the word of Hamas" when reporting on the number of people killed in a shooting near an aid distribution site on Sunday.
She also claimed, wrongly, that the BBC had retracted a story.
"The claim the BBC took down a story after reviewing footage is completely wrong. We did not remove any story and we stand by our journalism," the BBC said in a statement.
Karoline Leavitt criticised the BBC for changing the number of casualties in the story's headline. The corporation said its coverage was updated with new figures throughout the day, which is "totally normal practice on any fast-moving news story".
The numbers were "always clearly attributed, from the first figure of 15 from medics, through the 31 killed from the Hamas-run health ministry to the final Red Cross statement of 'at least 21' at their field hospital," the statement said.
There are conflicting reports on what happened near an aid distribution centre in Rafah on Sunday.
Civilian witnesses, NGOs, and health officials said people were shot at while waiting for food at an aid distribution point. But the Israeli military said the reports were false, and denied that its troops fired at civilians near or within the site. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US and Israel-backed group which now runs the aid distribution, said the reports were "outright fabrications".
Israel does not allow international news organisations, including the BBC, into Gaza, making verifying what is happening in the territory difficult.
On Tuesday, there was a similar incident when local officials said Israeli forces fired at civilians as they attempted to collect aid, killing at least 27 people..............
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Katie Halper
Jews Speak Out: Israel’s Genocide “Worse Than Nazis”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjiwDmKQtAb
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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rule-of-idiots
The Rule of Idiots
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
https://voicefromrussia.ch/en/diplomacy-on-his-deathbed-from-peace-president-to-warmonger/
Diplomacy on his deathbed – from Peace President to Warmonger
The US’s involvement in the attacks on Russia and Iran makes a negotiated solution to these conflicts unlikely. Trump, who promised his people peace, is bringing war.
Peter Hanseler
Untrustworthy Trump
One day before the second round of negotiations in Istanbul, Ukraine attacked aircraft from Russia’s strategic bomber fleet with drones hidden in trucks that were smuggled into Russia. We reported on this in “Operation Spiderweb: Ukraine and NATO attack on Russia: a new Pearl Harbor? Full escalation? Are the fanatics back? Facts and analysis.” The military damage was minor; what remained was a propaganda victory for the West – nothing more. On June 11, the Financial Times went to great lengths to prove that these attacks were carried out with AI without Western help. The FT should probably confine itself to business news – pure bcomplicity in the Israeli attack on Iran at the end of the week............
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Trump wants a city of 10 million Iranians to evacuate. Let's open our borders to the Iranians as they are going to be made refugees by Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXwVvnEjpb4
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