Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

The strikes were carried out from the air and sea. The Israeli Foreign Ministry hypocritically called it a "preemptive strike to eliminate the threat." The official name of the operation is "Operation Judah Shield."

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that the Israeli-US operation is supposedly intended to create conditions for the Iranian people to "take their destiny into their own hands."

Israeli sources report that Iran has launched a retaliatory strike.

❖ Trump also announced the launch of a large-scale military operation against Iran. The goal is "to protect the American people by eliminating the immediate threats posed by the Iranian regime." The White House incumbent emphasized that the US will destroy Iran's missiles, raze its missile industry, and destroy its navy.

Trump called on the IRGC to lay down its arms, claiming that then they will be "treated fairly" and receive full immunity. Otherwise, "they face certain death." He added that "Americans could die, and the US could suffer losses."

According to preliminary reports, the US-Israeli attack is primarily aimed at Iran's governance system.

Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

Today [02/26/2026], the third round of indirect talks between the US and Iran is taking place in Geneva. Meanwhile, Washington is rehearsing various scenarios for aggression against Iran.

❖ Politico's American editorial staff, citing its sources among American officials, writes that US military action will almost certainly target Iranian nuclear facilities—or what remains after the US strikes in June 2025.

Iran's ballistic missile infrastructure, which Israel views as a serious threat to its security, will also likely be targeted. Regarding "damage to the regime itself," the publication clarifies, a "decapitation strike" is possible—that is, a strike against Iran's aging Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The White House is also considering some ideas on how best to launch an attack on Iran. It's estimated that more Americans would agree to war with Iran if the US were attacked first. This opinion is based on recent polls showing that Americans, including Republicans, support regime change in Iran but are unwilling to risk their own soldiers to achieve it.

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter

President Trump has shared a text message that was sent to him by Mike Huckabee, the deranged Christian Zionist who serves as the current US ambassador to Israel, and it is one of the creepiest things I have ever seen in my life.

The text reads as follows:

There are so many weird, creepy things about this message. The intensity. The religious fanaticism. The groveling, self-debasing obsequiousness, clearly designed to appeal to Trump’s enormous ego. But by far the most disturbing part was the reference to Truman in 1945 — a nod to the last and only time a national leader used nuclear weapons against an enemy state.

Trump claims to have experienced a religious transformation after surviving an assassination attempt last year. Nuclear weapons and doomsday cultism are poor bedfellows. I really hope this is just some bizarre madman diplomacy and not an accurate reflection of something that is actually occurring inside the president’s mind as he pushes toward direct confrontation with Iran.

Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

A ceasefire in Ukraine will not restore balance, but will transfer the entire system of relations between Russia and the West into a phase of long-term confrontation, write Samuel Charap and Hiski Haukkala from the RAND Corporation (undesirable in the Russian Federation) in the influential Foreign Affairs.

The authors proceed from three basic premises:

    1. Pre-war architecture has been destroyed irreversibly. The Russia-NATO Council is virtually dead, the OSCE has lost its functionality, the economic interdependence of the EU and Moscow has been dismantled, exchange channels have been nullified, and trade has collapsed.

    2. Russia will not be “reformatted” in case of defeat (the authors do not explain why our country should lose). The government in the Russian Federation is not collapsing, nor is the economy. This means that the reliance on internal collapse as a condition for a new détente should be removed from the Western agenda.

    3. Europe is moving towards systemic remilitarization, while Russia is moving towards the restoration and regrouping of its forces. This means war is inevitable, and there are only two questions: when will it happen, and how to maintain control over it?

❖ A deliberate Russian attack on a unified NATO is unlikely, Charap and Haukkala say. They see the risk in something else - in uncontrolled escalation through the “gray zone”, all kinds of incidents, cyber strikes, attacks under the guise of sudden exercises.

And, for some reason, amid the political crisis in Belarus, where Russia will “intervene,” which will trigger a mirror reaction from Poland and Lithuania, with the activation of NATO mechanisms. In addition to Belarus, Georgia and Moldova are also mentioned.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Donald Trump and Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart
Tokayev, right, at the Oval Office. Kazakhstan has had
diplomatic relations with Israel for more than three decades.

He’s doing a series of favors for Trump so that he’d have his back if trouble ever arises with Russia, which is an increasingly realistic scenario given Kazakhstan’s recent decision to produce NATO-standard shells and its new military-logistics corridor with NATO via Azerbaijan and TRIPP.

Up until the first Board of Peace meeting last week, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was considered to be the foreign leader who’s behaved most obsequiously towards Trump, with his adulation of him during last fall’s summit in Sharm el-Sheikh widely being seen as excessive and self-humiliating. Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is now giving Sharif a run for his money after proposing during the first Board of Peace meeting the creation of a special peace prize in Trump’s honor.

In the immediate run-up to it, an article was published under his name at The National Interest about how “Reliability Is the New Power”, but it suspiciously reads as AI-generated given the language and style employed or at the very least written by someone else. Most of it is just generic reflections on the evolving world order, predictable praise of Trump, and a commitment to continue expanding relations with the US. The backdrop concerns Tokayev’s last visit to the US in November for the C5+1 Summit.

Not only did Kazakhstan sign an MoU on critical minerals cooperation with the US, which was followed up on by its Foreign Minister participating in the US’ first Critical Minerals Ministerial in early February, but it also joined the Abraham Accords despite having already recognized Israel for over three decades. The preceding hyperlinked analysis assessed that “[he] likely did this as a personal favor for Trump so that he’d have his back if trouble ever arises with Russia”.

Krondor Analytics
Krondor Analytics (Telegram)

Examining contemporary European politicians, one cannot help but notice how unimpressive they appear compared to their predecessors.

Starmer is nowhere near Churchill, Macron is no De Gaulle, and Friedrich Merz is no Konrad Adenauer. One gets the impression that this is some kind of freak show and the result of negative selection. And that is largely the case.

To understand this fact, we must examine the origins of the modern European elite.

After the end of World War II, most of Western Europe came under the influence of the United States, thanks to the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe. West Germany was simply occupied, and American military bases appeared on its territory. And in general, Europe, rebuilt after the war, developed actively, spent part of its money on defense against the “red threat,” and lived in relative peace. The US, in order to maintain control over Europe, set about cultivating a Western European elite loyal to itself.

This process took place through education (the Fulbright program), the creation of a network of NGOs influencing the public policy of allied countries, a system of grants from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, and support for the most loyal and potentially useful political figures and civil activists.

Glenn Diesen
Glenn's Substack

Why are Norwegian political elites so overrepresented in the Epstein files? Several news outlets around the world have reported on the shock to the small Scandinavian country, which consistently demonstrates high public trust in the government. How could this have happened?

The source of the problem is a de-nationalised political elite decoupling itself from the public. The Norwegian government has an explicit ambition to become an international humanitarian superpower by spending billions on aid. The small country’s obsession with punching above its weight in international humanitarianism could be applauded. However, if one scratches the surface, it is not as benign as one would hope.

A small but wealthy country can easily give rise to an elite class with ambitions beyond national borders, and even fuel delusions that they can save the world. With enough resources, these elites form a permanent bureaucracy, develop international elite networks, and in the process earn some money for themselves. Whereas monarchs of the past had a mandate from God, the new nobility claims a mandate from humanitarianism and globalism. Immunity develops because when policies are defined by virtue, opposition is deemed heretical and illegitimate. Herein lies the problem of international humanitarianism: the assumed virtue limits criticism, transparency, and accountability.

Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

By a 6-3 majority, the US Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling that the White House inhabitant had exceeded his authority by invoking a "1977 law." As Reuters reports, the ruling followed a lawsuit filed by companies affected by the tariffs, as well as 12 US states, mostly Democratic, against Trump's unprecedented use of this legal provision to unilaterally impose import duties. 🔺 The "1977 Act" (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA) grants the US president additional powers in the event of a national emergency. However, Trump became the first US president to invoke this law to impose tariffs, declaring a national emergency... the US trade deficit! Even though the US has been facing such a deficit every year since 1975.

What are the consequences? Just before the court hearing, the Cato Institute released a report. Seven (!) independent analytical studies have already been conducted under its auspices. All of them have reached the same conclusion: American consumers are paying for Trump's tariffs. The theory that tariffs would force foreign producers to lower their prices in the US accordingly hasn't worked: prices for imported goods haven't fallen; they have actually risen. Having processed a large data set, the researchers concluded that American companies and consumers continue to bear the brunt of the tariff burden, although in 2025 this figure was slightly lower (90%) than in 2018 (100%).

Now the question of compensation for losses will naturally arise, since Trump imposed the tariffs in excess of his authority. Economists at the Penn-Wharton Budget Model calculated that the losses from the US president's tariffs exceeded $175 billion. And now this sum will likely have to be repaid, although it is unclear from where and under what heading. 🔺 In any case, what happened is a major blow to Trump's policies, both foreign and domestic. Externally, the US President's favorite tool—the tariff cudgel—has been knocked out of his hands.

Mike Adams
Natural News

The Sudden Vindication of Conspiracy Theorists | For years, those labeled 'conspiracy theorists' for speaking of a ruling class operating above governments were mocked, censored, and financially punished. The Department of Justice's long-delayed, partial release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein's network has delivered a staggering vindication. The files confirm the existence of a powerful, supra-governmental cabal whose perverse tastes and criminal enterprises are but one facet of a broader agenda for global control.

Independent journalists like myself and Maria Zeee, who have long reported on these interconnected networks of power, faced deplatforming and the closure of their financial accounts for telling this truth [1] [2]. The Epstein files are not merely a sordid list of crimes; they are a key to deciphering the globalist script. This script, which independent media has painstakingly pieced together, outlines a coordinated agenda spanning engineered pandemics, coercive vaccination campaigns, and radical social engineering, all converging toward the dystopian goals of Agenda 2030.

The evidence laid bare illustrates that the individuals implicated are not random celebrities but key nodes in a system that funds and promotes destructive ideologies like transgenderism and transhumanism, using them as tools to dismantle natural human identity and societal cohesion in preparation for a fully digitized, controlled populace.

Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

Carnegie Foundation: The war in Ukraine will continue, Kyiv will not renounce Nazism, and the West still wants Russia's defeat

The main reason for the SVO is Russia's deep mistrust of the West and its conviction that the West intends to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. And as long as this fear persists, the war will not end. Furthermore, Moscow demands that Kyiv renounce Nazism, even though this is impossible.

This is stated in an extremely curious article published by the Carnegie Foundation (deemed undesirable in the Russian Federation) by foreign agent Tatyana Stanovaya. The text is intriguing because it describes the root causes of the Ukrainian conflict with exquisite precision. It also quite clearly explains why the war continues unabated.

The Russians want to achieve this by imposing a series of political restrictions on Kyiv, the author continues. They want to ban Ukrainian nationalism, legitimize pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, guarantee the status of the Russian language, restore the position of the Russian Orthodox Church, and so on. At the same time, the Kremlin is seeking a sharp reduction in the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a severing of Kyiv's partnership with NATO, and a ban on the deployment of long-range weapons and any Western military infrastructure in Ukraine.

One can do nothing but shake one's head. In general, these are precisely the goals of the Joint Military Operations (JMO) that were outlined from the very beginning. No oppression of the Russian population, Kyiv's renunciation of Nazi ideology, the elimination of threats from Ukraine... Everything implied by "demilitarization and denazification." In December 2021-February 2022, Russia proposed to Kyiv and the West that all this be resolved diplomatically. They fell on deaf ears. It took four years for the most thoughtful think tanks in the West to begin to understand the JMO's goals.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

It’s unimaginable that the US would allow any competitor to reduce its enormous new market share in the European energy industry, which it plans to further expand to make Europe even more dependent on it, and that the US wouldn’t weaponize this if Europe ever defies it on anything of significance.

The US’ dispute with Europe over Trump’s planned acquisition of Greenland, in pursuit of which he even threatened punitive tariffs against several NATO allies before relenting after they agreed to a framework deal, exposed the strict hierarchical vassal-client relationship between them.

This was explicitly acknowledged by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, who said that “Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else” in response to Trump’s pressure upon Europe.

Bruna Frascolla
Strategic Culture Foundation

The entire current scientific establishment probably rests on cohesive dogmas of a metaphysical nature.

Amid the avalanche of noteworthy things relating to Jeffrey Epstein, I wanted to draw attention to a very atypical combination: rigorous religiosity and militant atheism.

The religiosity appears in its most extravagant form with Epstein’s idea of funding the development of a cloven-hoofed pig – a genetically modified kosher pig – so that he could eat bacon. The attempt to circumvent divine prohibitions is far from exceptional in Talmudic Judaism (the most prosaic example is the use of wigs to cover women’s hair). It causes some amazement that a terrible criminal could be a very religious person, since we are faced with the possibility that his religion is more concerned with dietary restrictions than with moral restrictions. But this is also old news. Since virtually no one knows the Talmud without being a religious Jew capable of reading Hebrew, I recommend reading the indispensable Jewish History, Jewish Religion, by Israel Shahak, which exposes the immorality and racial supremacism intrinsic to the Talmud. It does not follow from this that every religious Jew is a bad person, but rather that, if he is a good person, it is by natural inclination and influence of the culture in which he is embedded, not by the Talmud (of which Epstein displayed dozens of volumes on his bookshelf).

As for militant atheism, a photo was released showing Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Steven Pinker together in the Lolita Express. That is, two of the “four horsemen of neo-atheism” (Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, and Hitchens, who died in 2011), plus the Harvard atheist Jew Steven Pinker, who weaves scientific praises to the moral progress of our times. Furthermore, information was released that a club of atheists who consider themselves genius scientists (of which Sam Harris is a member) relied on Epstein’s philanthropy. The club is called Edge.org. A religious person funding atheists who are certain that people who believe in God are stupid? How strange!

Elena Panina
Елена Панина (Telegram)

Details of the US "compromise" regarding Iran's nuclear program have emerged.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke on this issue for the first time. According to him, Washington may even reconsider its demands on Tehran—in particular, abandoning the condition of complete cessation of uranium enrichment.

According to the conditions proposed by Washington, Tehran was required to:

● completely cease uranium enrichment for a period of 3 to 5 years;
● then resume it at only 1.5%; (and)
● hand over 400 kg of uranium enriched to 60%.

The US, for its part, merely promised to refrain from a military strike against Iran—without making any commitment to lifting sanctions. Predictably, Tehran rejected this "generous" offer.

Meanwhile, Washington has decided to send a second carrier strike group, led by the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Middle East. A strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is already deployed in the region.

Reuters, citing unnamed sources in the US Department of War, reports that the US military is preparing for possible prolonged, weeks-long operations against Iran if Trump orders an attack. The agency clarifies that the new military operation, if it occurs, will be much larger in scale than the one the US and Israel carried out in June 2025. This time, the strikes will target not only nuclear facilities but also the Iranian government and security structures.

Trump himself stated that "regime change in Iran" may be the "best option."

Manlio Dinucci
voltairenet.org

Faced with the dominant political and media narrative that portrays Russia as belligerent and aggressive—while the US, NATO, the EU, and Ukraine want to end the war—we present excerpts from recent episodes of Grandangolo. They contain irrefutable evidence, erased by the mainstream media, that the reality is the exact opposite of what they have been told. Below is a thread through the preparatory phase of the war, taken from the book L’altra faccia della Storia (“The Other Side of History”) published by Byoblu.

Since 1991, the year Ukraine became an independent republic after the dissolution of the USSR, NATO has been building a network of ties within the Ukrainian armed forces. Simultaneously, through the CIA and other intelligence services, neo-Nazi militants are recruited, funded, trained, and armed. Photographic documentation shows young Ukrainian neo-Nazi militants from UNO-UNSO being trained in Estonia in 2006 by NATO instructors, who teach them urban combat techniques and the use of explosives for sabotage and attacks. This neo-Nazi paramilitary structure came into play on February 20, 2014, in Maidan Square in Kyiv, during a political demonstration where supporters and opponents of Ukraine’s accession to the EU clashed. While armed and organized groups stormed government buildings, "unknown" gunmen (who later turned out to be snipers recruited in Georgia) fired with the same sniper rifles at both protesters and police officers, causing dozens of deaths. On the very day of the Maidan Square coup, the NATO Secretary General addressed the Ukrainian armed forces in a commanding tone, warning them to "remain neutral" under penalty of "serious negative consequences for our relations." Abandoned by the top brass of the armed forces and by a large part of the government apparatus, President Yanukovych was forced to flee.

Jonathan Azaziah
Mask of Zion

From the bantustan goes the donkey into the den of vipers...

While purchasing weapons from the occupier to murder our friends with snipers...

Collaborating with the beast on a rabid basis but you expect us to believe that you will end the crisis...

The two-state solution was born dead...

Palestine is bleeding and fleeting is more red...

You can’t resuscitate, reinvigorate, manipulate or bend the lifeless...

You and your clowns are stammering in defense of it...

Clamoring while the tyrannical attach strings, hammered to your appendages...

You are not Palestinian, you are from the house of treason...

You are from a gaping hole where spies and traitors flow from, worth less than the phlegm spit from the mouth of demons... The same demons you welcome into Bethlehem and Nablus...

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter

Our Leaders Couldn't Fix Our Problems If They Wanted To (And They Don't Want To)

Our leaders are not going to fix the worst problems in our world. They couldn’t if they wanted to. And they don’t want to.

Our leaders are not wise or insightful. They’re not even particularly intelligent. Our society is led by plutocrats who only know how to make more money, by unelected empire managers who only know how to dominate and control, and by elected politicians who only know how to say the right words and make the right bargains in order to get themselves elected.

These people are not capable of curing our civilization of its dysfunction. They don’t have the necessary skills or attributes. Even if they weren’t a bunch of evil sociopaths who are only in the positions they’re in because of their willingness to collaborate with the agendas of oligarchy, war, militarism, imperialism, ecocide, exploitation, oppression and planetary domination, they don’t even have the personal characteristics necessary to do things like end poverty, rescue our biosphere, bring about world peace or give rise to human thriving. They’d have no idea where to start.

Reidar Kaarboe
Hva Mener Partiene

President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his farewell
address to the nation on January 17th, 1961 (YouTube)

What would the world look like if states spent a fraction of their GDP on PEACE?

The US has a finger in everything | There is no doubt that the US has played a central role in most, if not all, wars since World War II. Here, we will examine the two most recent ones.

The US has equipped Israel with weapons, ammunition, bombs, money, and diplomatic backing so that Israel has been able to carry out mass murder, war crimes, and genocide. The US is therefore directly complicit in mass murder, war crimes, and genocide. Some media outlets have discussed whether Israel controls the US or the US controls Israel. What is certain is that they are closely linked.

Through NATO, the US has equipped Ukraine for war against Russia and, with impressive planning, has managed to provoke a war between Russia and NATO. There is also no doubt that the US controls NATO economically, ideologically, politically, and militarily, and thus has good control over Europe. When you look at NATO, there is no doubt that they have worked hard to ensure that Ukraine, which is NOT a member of NATO, finds its place in the sun. Where does this concern come from? Some say: from the arms industry, as if it were all about money.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

The timing amidst continued US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine suggests that the US expects this ramped-up pressure to raise the chances of coercing concessions from Russia.

Vice President JD Vance’s trips to Armenia and Azerbaijan were aimed at advancing several interconnected strategic goals. The most immediate was making progress on implementing the “Trump Route for International Peace & Prosperity” (TRIPP), which is the planned trade corridor across southern Armenia unveiled after last August’s White House summit that ended the decades-long Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict. TRIPP isn’t just economically significant, however, since it’s also highly strategic.

To begin with, it replaces Russia’s plan to pioneer a corridor along the same route that would be guarded by its forces, therefore challenging the Kremlin’s political influence in the post-war South Caucasus. Second, TRIPP serves as the means for optimizing Western logistical access to the resource-rich but landlocked Central Asian Republics on the other side of the Caspian, which is of interest for the US due to its critical minerals. The US signed MoUs with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan about this last November.

On that topic, Vance proposed the creation of a critical minerals trading bloc during the inaugural Critical Minerals Ministerial that was attended by representatives of more than 50 countries, thus further contextualizing his trip to the South Caucasus a week later. His progress on implementing TRIPP will help to logistically open Central Asia’s critical mineral supply chain for the US.

Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin’s Newsletter

Pay attention to what little we can learn about how these freaks conduct themselves behind closed doors. By all means. But don’t forget to also pay attention to the evils they openly inflict.

❖ They launched a live-streamed genocide in full view of the entire world.
❖ They’re openly targeting civilian populations with siege warfare in Iran and Cuba in full view of the entire world.
❖ They openly kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation in full view of the entire world.
❖ They deliberately provoked a horrific and dangerous proxy war in Ukraine in full view of the entire world.
❖ They spent years actively backing Saudi Arabia’s monstrous genocidal atrocities in Yemen in full view of the entire world.
❖ They’re plundering and exploiting the resources and labor of the global south in full view of the entire world.
❖ They’re killing the biosphere we all depend on for their own enrichment in full view of the entire world.
❖ They’re circling the globe with hundreds of military bases to secure planetary domination in full view of the entire world.
❖ They engage in nuclear brinkmanship and wave around armageddon weapons like pistols in full view of the entire world.
❖ People go homeless and die of exposure while billionaires buy private islands and choose the next president in full view of the entire world.
❖ Weapons manufacturers lobby for wars and then profit from the death and destruction they cause in full view of the entire world.
❖ The president of the United States has repeatedly admitted to being bought and owned by the world’s richest Israeli in full view of the entire world.
❖ The US Treasury Secretary has been repeatedly admitting that the US deliberately sparked the violence and unrest in Iran by methodically immiserating the population via economic warfare, in full view of the entire world.

Strategic Culture Foundation (Editorial)
Strategic Culture Foundation

Agent Rutte should be in a modern-day dock. He and his masters want to push the world into catastrophe.

NATO chief Mark Rutte declared in a high-profile address to the Ukrainian parliament this week that alliance troops would be deployed in Ukraine immediately on signing any peace deal with Russia.

He asserted that the NATO forces would be British and French, deployed “on the land, in the air, and at sea.” He added that the coalition would have the “crucial backstop” of a U.S. security guarantee if “Russia tried to subjugate Ukraine again.”

It seems more than a coincidence that three days after Rutte spoke in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament), there was an assassination attempt in Moscow on a top Russian general. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, the deputy commander of Russian military intelligence (GRU), was shot several times in the back by a gunman.

This was while delicate negotiations were being conducted in Abu Dhabi to find a peace settlement to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. Russian delegates met with American and Ukrainian counterparts for a second round of talks this week.

Rutte’s speech in Kiev and the assassination attack in Moscow appear to be calculated moves to sabotage the negotiation efforts that the Trump administration has been pushing.