Iranian Army:

"We will not submit to America and Israel, and we are ready for any confrontation, whatever its level, even if it reaches the most dangerous forms of wars... 🇺🇸🇮🇱

— In an explicit indication of all extreme possibilities, including the nuclear scenario." pic.twitter.com/NfPtaHiaqp

— Global Insight Journal (@GlobalIJournal) January 30, 2026

🚩 And who gave the Secretary-General and the Legal Affairs Department the right to interpret the UN Charter? Only the UN International Court of Justice is specifically vested with this right under Article 96 of the Charter, and even then, only at the request of the General Assembly or the UN Security Council. ● The right of limited interpretation is also vested in UN member states, as well as in the General Assembly and the Security Council, but only on matters within their competence. It is important to note that the 1945 San Francisco Conference recognized that no UN body can provide a binding interpretation of the Charter.  ● And where does the Secretary-General fit in? Apparently, the UN Secretariat is so frightened by Trump's Peace Council that they are afraid of losing their jobs. Otherwise, why lick so deeply, comrades? – Dmitry Medvedev (Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council) (Trans. DeepL + Grammarly)

■ Guterres’ 'bizarre statement' and costly Russophobia: MFA spokeswoman’s statements (TASS)
■ Russia condemns UN’s conclusion on inapplicability of self-determination right to Donbass (TASS)
■ Moscow slams UN chief’s ‘outrageous’ Crimea-Greenland double standard (RT)

The US president has dramatically escalated pressure on the government in Havana and its trade partners | US President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency and threatened to impose steep tariffs on any country supplying oil to Cuba, dramatically escalating pressure on Havana after the US military operation in Venezuela already cut the island nation off from its most crucial energy source. ● After abducting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month, the US has set its sights on Cuba, which Trump claims is “ready to fall” next. In an executive order signed on Thursday, Trump branded Cuba “an unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security. [...] Trump predicted on Tuesday that the Cuban government would be “failing pretty soon,” boasting that the cutoff of Venezuelan oil and revenue has pushed Havana to the brink.

■ Nutjob signs [illegal] order allowing US to impose tariffs on countries supplying oil to Cuba (TASS)

Iran responded to the US move by calling US forces in the region ‘terrorist groups’, Iranian state TV reported. | President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the United States is designating Iran‘s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign “terrorist organisation”, marking the first time Washington has formally labelled another country’s military a “terrorist group”. Responding to the move, Iran immediately declared the US as “state sponsor of terrorism” and US forces in the region “terrorist groups”, state media reported.

■ Iranian officials: EU will regret 'servitude to US' over IRGC designation (Press TV)
■ US military ready for action against Iran – secretary of war (RT)
■ Iran responds in kind to Trump’s IRGC ‘terrorist’ designation (Al Jazeera)

Harold Turner | Diplomacy efforts About Iran by Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey, have failed | Iran will NOT agree to limit its nuclear program, will NOT agree to stop Uranium enrichment which they say is for peaceful nuclear energy use, will NOT limit their Ballistic Missile production or the range of those missiles. ■ All of the demands being levied against Iran are within Iran's right to do as a sovereign country. Yet the US and Israel seem to think they can dictate terms to Iran under threat of heavy, destructive, military action. There is no basis in law, or in Treaty, and no authorization by the US Congress or the United Nations Security Council for the US or Israel to even make these demands, never mind do so while threatening military attack. Law and Treaties don't seem to matter in this situation; at least not to the likely aggressors.

■ China, Germany, Italy Tell Citizens "Leave Iran Immediately" (Hal Turner Show)
✅ Iran, China and Russia sign trilateral strategic pact (Ranjan Solomon)

Just a reminder of NATO’s expansion toward Russia’s borders. Don’t let warmongers fool you. Moscow never sought escalation with Europe.
“Not an inch to the East” — one of the biggest lies of modern diplomacy. Look at the facts, not the rhetoric. pic.twitter.com/XXcwrhuGsj

— Russian Embassy in NL🇷🇺🇳🇱 (@rusembassynl) January 26, 2026

Tarik Cyril Amar | An AfD co-leader has stated the obvious – that pouring money into the Ukraine war is killing the German economy. But will anyone listen? | Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, has given a speech to which every observer of Germany should pay close attention. And not simply because of Weidel’s inherent political weight. ■ She is among the country’s most important politicians and with serious prospects for very high office: if her New-Right party breaks through to leading a Berlin government, Weidel is the most likely chancellor. Next to her co-chairman Tino Chrupalla, she is the only real opposition that matters inside the current German parliament. ■ What makes this particular Weidel speech, delivered in the city of Heilbronn while campaigning in state elections in the classically 'West German' Land of Baden-Württemberg, especially noteworthy is its unprecedently outspoken, bracingly combative, and, stirringly logical and honest take on one specific topic, namely Germany’s masochistic relationship to Ukraine. [...] Therefore, for Germany and Germans, Ukraine is anything but a friendly state, and it is absurd – to put it very mildly – that German governments have ruined the relationship with Russia and the German economy as well, while pumping Kiev full of money and arms. This is an immense national scandal, as clearly as 2 plus 2 is 4. And like that simple fact, it’s always true, no matter who has the courage to say it.

Oleg Tsarev | After the seizure of tankers went unpunished, insurance for the “shadow fleet” has doubled in price. The lack of a strong response to the seizure of tankers belonging to the “shadow fleet” has led the West to become bolder in its piracy, and insurance for ships has already more than doubled in price. ■ This was stated by former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleg Tsarev in a conversation with blogger Pavel Ivanov, according to a PolitNavigator correspondent.

Trump asegura que la flota enviada a Irán está "preparada para actuar salvo que quieran negociar"

▪️Ese acuerdo debe ser, en sus palabras, "justo y equitativo y que incluya la premisa de que Irán no tenga armas nucleares"

🎙️ @enriquemastor pic.twitter.com/BfEzQCdkpU

— Radio 5 (@radio5_rne) January 28, 2026

Trump exige a la República Islámica negociar ya sobre su programa nuclear. El Gobierno iraní cree "más probable" la guerra que la negociación. | El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, ha expresado la amenaza más directa y clara hasta el momento de un ataque militar a Irán si el país no negocia inmediatamente un nuevo acuerdo para paralizar su programa nuclear. ● "Una Armada enorme se dirige a Irán. Se mueve rápidamente, con gran poder, entusiasmo y determinación. Es una flota más grande, encabezada por el gran portaaviones Abraham Lincoln, que la enviada a Venezuela. Como en Venezuela, está lista, dispuesta y capaz para cumplir rápidamente su misión, con velocidad y violencia, si fuera necesario", ha escrito Trump en su red social, Truth Social.

(Translation: DeepL) | Trump demands that the Islamic Republic negotiate immediately on its nuclear program. The Iranian government believes war is “more likely” than negotiation. | US President Donald Trump has issued his most direct and clear threat yet of a military attack on Iran if the country does not immediately negotiate a new agreement to halt its nuclear program. "A massive Navy is heading to Iran. It is moving fast, with great power, enthusiasm, and determination. It is a larger fleet, led by the great aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, than the one sent to Venezuela. As in Venezuela, it is ready, willing, and able to quickly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary," Trump wrote on his social network, Truth Social.

■ Trump to Iran: Agree to Nuclear Deal Or the US Will Attack (antiwar.com)
■ US could ‘preemptively’ attack Iran – Rubio (RT)
■ Iran Parliament APPROVES Closure of the Strait of Hormuz (Core Insights)
■ IRGC: Iran has full control of the Strait of Hormuz (IDN Financials)

✅ Creative Energy Diplomacy Might Avert Another American Attack On Iran (Andrew Korybko)
✅ Covering His Tracks? Trump Hard-Pivots Once More to Iran (Simplicius)
✅ For Iran, another US–Israeli attack would be an 'existential war' (Seyed Hossein Mousavian)
✅ Iran's battle for survival is the Arab world's fight too (David Hearst)
✅ Trump Wants To Win – But Iran Is No Easy Target (Moon of Alabama)

How many more innocent lives must be lost before we say enough? | The sister of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse who was fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis on Saturday, has released a statement, pushing back against the “absolutely gut-wrenching” falsehoods she said have been spread in the aftermath. The remarks from Micayla Pretti, Alex Pretti’s younger sister, closely mirror those released by parents Michael and Susan Pretti over the weekend.

She sacrificed her career for humanity.

hats off to her! pic.twitter.com/yHT5yFDBpP

— The Resonance (@Partisan_12) March 7, 2025

She sacrificed her career for humanity. Hats off to her!

Lula also condemned the recent US action in Venezuela that led to the capture of ruller Nicolás Maduro, questioning what he portrayed as a violation of territorial integrity. | Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Friday that global politics is entering a critical phase in which “multilateralism is being thrown out by unilateralism,” and argued that US President Donald Trump is effectively proposing “to create a new UN in which he alone is the owner,” referring to Washington’s plan to set up a Peace Council tied to the administration of Gaza. ● Lula spoke at the closing session of the 14th National Meeting of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Salvador, Bahia. He said the UN Charter was being “torn up” and reiterated Brazil’s long-standing call for UN reform—specifically, expanding permanent membership of the Security Council to include countries such as Brazil and Mexico, as well as African nations.

■ The architect of Gaza's destruction joins the 'Board of Peace' (Al Mayadeen)

Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to drive medical charity out of Gaza backed by an aggressive Israeli propaganda campaign in Britain. | Israel’s government is funding an advertisement campaign in Britain to attack medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Declassified can reveal. ● MSF has provided crucial medical care to Palestinians throughout the Gaza genocide, with international and local staff working in hospitals across the besieged strip. ● Transparency data shows the Israeli Government Advertising Agency is paying for an advert to appear as the top result on Google when users search for information about the charity.

Moon of Alabama | The false narrative coming from the White House turned out be a huge own-goal. It has become a complete unnecessary public relation disaster for the Trump administration. | Alex Pretti, the victim of the ICE assault, was killed on Saturday. It took until noon of Monday for Trump to acknowledge the mess and to attempt to chicken out. ■  After the Immigration and Custom Enforcement goons executed an unarmed man in the streets of Minnesota the Trump administration did a full court press to claim the man was a terrorist, had intended to kill officers and had been illegally carrying a weapon. ■ Vice President Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Trump policy leader for immigration Stephen Miller, FBI chief Kash Patel, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and others all made false claims about the case. Their words were an attack on constitutional rights under the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendment. ■ Multiple videos of the incident were out in the public and everyone was able to see that what really had happened were crimes committed by multiple ICE agents. Every newspaper and channel which discussed the video called out the lies by the Trump administration.

Sarah B. | A tribute to the man who taught us how the machine really works. | For millions of us who never set foot in his classroom, because by the time we found him, he’d been exiled from the classroom, this hits like the loss of a teacher we never got to thank. The one who explained what no one else would. The one who made it make sense, for me anyway.

■ The Blacklisting | The story of how Michael Parenti became Michael Parenti is the story of what happens when you refuse to play the game. A game many of us now know. Well, he was the beta tester. The Lecturer | If Parenti had only written books, he would be remembered as an important dissident scholar. But the books were only half of it. His lectures became a phenomenon before “viral” was a word. Long before podcasts, before YouTube algorithms, grainy recordings of Parenti talks circulated like samizdat through the early internet, uploaded by anonymous devotees, shared on forums, burned onto CDs and passed hand to hand.

■ The Legacy | The establishment ignored him when it could and dismissed him when it couldn’t. He was never invited onto the Sunday shows. He wasn’t cited in the prestige journals. The respectable left kept him at arm’s length, embarrassed by his refusal to condemn the Official Enemies with sufficient enthusiasm, by his insistence on asking who benefits from the stories we’re told. But his books kept selling. His lectures kept circulating. His ideas kept spreading through the cracks in the official story. [...] He was a street kid from East Harlem who got a Yale PhD and then got exiled for refusing to shut up.

✅ Michael Parenti — A Titan of Thought, A Compass for Conscience (Norman Finkelstein)

The newspaper noted that while von der Leyen had had tense relations with former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, they were even worse with Kaja Kallas | Chief of European diplomacy Kaja Kallas describes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as a "dictator," a senior European official told Politico.

Politico noted that while von der Leyen had tense relations with former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, they are even worse with Kallas. The newspaper also pointed out that Kallas comes from "tiny Estonia," which makes her position even weaker than Spain’s Borrell’s.

Isra, is blocking aid trucks when children in Gaza is starving.
pic.twitter.com/6tGI81uIgm

— MenchOsint (@MenchOsint) July 26, 2025

■ Ben Gvir Celebrates as Israel Destroys Aid Agency Headquarters (antiwar.com)
✅ A new level of open & deliberate defiance of international law (Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of UNRWA)
■ 'Living hell': B’Tselem documents systemic torture, rape, and starvation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons (The Cradle)

Derrick Broze | The US bombing of Venezuela and capture of Nicolás Maduro cannot be rationally explained as a drug enforcement operation, or even solely about recovering oil. The bigger picture is Technocracy. | In the early 20th century, a movement emerged around a political theory known as Technocracy—a system in which government and society would be managed by technical experts, often involving technology-focused solutions. Early proponents claimed that Technocracy would lead to better management of resources and the protection of the planet. However, this system of governance by technological experts and their technology would also involve a loss of privacy, as well as centralization of power and the management of all human behavior.

In the early morning hours of January 3, 2026, the United States military launched military strikes on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Maduro and Flores have since been transported to the New York City to face charges relating to gun crimes and cocaine trafficking. ■ The move has divided the MAGA base—and the American public more generally—with a large portion of President Donald Trump’s base viewing it as a betrayal of the principles he claimed to champion. Specifically, Trump has claimed for years he would not start new wars of aggression. ■ While Trump has stated that taking out Maduro is not about launching new wars but instead a calculated attack to take out a man he blames for America’s fentanyl crisis, the facts tell another story.

Simplicius | Oddly, he seems to admit the West was complicit in this selective ‘fiction’ of unequally imposing its made-up ‘rules’ on the rest of the world, yet he deftly avoids personal culpability. Most importantly, we must ask what precisely is the purpose of his speech? | Mark Carney gave a ‘seminal’ speech that many are hailing as a kind of bifurcation point of the West’s geopolitical trajectory. It is a quite remarkable speech and should be listened to in full. In it he rails against the overreaching abuses of great power countries and announces the demise of the so-called Rules Based Order, and the ushering in of a new period of might-based diplomacy. But the most remarkable aspect of the speech by far, was his admission that the entireties of the Rules Based Order and system of “International Law” were in fact fictions the West used to maintain the status quo of American hegemony because it was useful to do.

Five Palestinians killed in Gaza amid Trump's "Board of Peace" rollout; House passes spending package that funds DHS despite ICE abuses in Minnesota | Attacks on Gaza continue, killing five Palestinians. U.S. sanctions Gaza-based medical groups. U.S. boosts Israel aid in 2026. General strike protests crime in Palestinian towns inside Israel. Gaza’s technocratic committee awaits guarantees. House passes a spending package that funds DHS. Minnesota resident says she was illegally detained and abused by ICE. The U.S. names Laura Dogu top envoy for Venezuela. U.S. maintains control over Venezuela oil sales. Mahmoud Khalil challenges DHS deportation threat. Supreme Court cases advance corporate claims tied to Cuba regime change. Trump’s war on childcare. U.S. urges ceasefire compliance in northern Syria. U.S. weighs full troop withdrawal from Syria. Iraq accepts transfer of ISIS detainees from Syria. Drone strikes intensify around El Obeid, killing civilians. Sudan weighs new U.S.–Saudi ceasefire proposal. Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo worsens a humanitarian crisis. UN warns Nigeria food aid at risk amid funding shortfall. Venezuelan officials privately pledged cooperation with the U.S. post-Maduro. Ecuador–Colombia trade and power dispute escalates. U.S. signals outreach to Islamist party ahead of Bangladesh vote. Ukrainian partisans disrupt Russian supply lines. U.S. envoys hold Kremlin talks ahead of Ukraine mediation. U.S. warns Haiti council over move to oust prime minister. Peru president rejects calls for removal over undisclosed meetings. Drop Site covers the latest in Syria.

■ The architect of Gaza's destruction joins the 'Board of Peace' (Al Mayadeen)

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Frame by frame breakdown of this MURDER shows ICE is lying!

-ICE had ALREADY disarmed the man before shooting.

-The man NEVER drew his gun.

At the 0:06 second mark we see the man’s hands on the ground covered in large gloves.

His hands are empty. pic.twitter.com/o7flTX54Wd

— Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) (@adamscochran) January 24, 2026

ICE clearly attacked this man and executed him. He didn’t even fight back. They started the whole thing. | I don’t know how America survives this level of willful, institutionalized savagery. By most counts, ICE pumped ten bullets into a ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, for the crime of filming them and trying to intercede on behalf of a woman they had shoved to the pavement. The evidence of the execution is clear cut. ICE has not just gunned down an innocent man, but is also successfully terminating what remained of the rule of law in the US. A sampling of the evidence. Video proves beyond a doubt that ICE murdered Alex Pretti in cold blood, he never unholstered his weapon, and was disarmed when the regime thugs shot and executed him. This was 100% intentional. It's a homicide.

■ How the whistle became an anti-ICE rallying cry in Minneapolis (Minnesota Star Tribune)
✅ CBP Agent Guns Down Minneapolis Nurse: Video Analysis (Meghnad Bose, Rana Roudi, and Ryan Grim) (VIDEO)
■ Man killed in Minneapolis immigration crackdown was intensive care nurse (01/25/26)

BREAKING: A witness who was just 5 feet from Alex Pretti filed an affidavit depicting what she saw.

She says he didn’t touch any of the officers and didn’t appear to be resisting. He was merely helping a woman who had been pepper-sprayed.

She’s is terrified that ICE is… pic.twitter.com/zMfecaZGF7

— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) January 25, 2026

Jacqueline Sweet | One Canary Mission-affiliated website, BlackNest, reveals the group's internal operations, plans to expand, and how they celebrate deportations and firings | Notorious pro-Israel doxxing outfit, Canary Mission, has an army of anonymous doxxers, international tech vendors, marketing plans, and a secret website called BlackNest, where the group celebrates deportations and firings as “company impact” metrics, according to a collection of unlisted websites discovered by Drop Site. ■ BlackNest is just one of the names of several unlisted websites and content management systems used by Canary Mission, whose doxxing operation is run out of Israel and used by the highest levels of the Trump administration. The information on these unlisted websites—including dozens of names of workers and contracted vendors,internal communications about meetings and quarterly plans, and even strategic planning documents—demonstrates how the operation evolved over time.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer on 7 January. | Mr Pretti was a US citizen, born in Illinois. Like Renee Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a handful of traffic tickets. In bystander videos of the shooting that emerged soon after, Pretti is seen with a phone in his hand but none appears to show him with a visible weapon. Family members said Mr Pretti owned a handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota. They said they had never known him to carry it. They released a statement which read: “The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting." There have been daily protests in the Twin Cities since the shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good by an ICE officer who fired into her vehicle. Mr Pretti was killed just over a mile away from where Good was shot.

Public "spells" about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield have died down, but the most Russophobic circles in Europe continue to push this line, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergei Naryshkin told Sputnik.

■ Putin, Zelensky may meet shortly — Axios (TASS)

We will not allow Macron's regime to silence independent journalists. | On February 15, 2024, subscribers to the InfodefenseFrance channel living in France saw a banner stating, “This channel is unavailable because it violates local law.” Our subscribers whose Telegram accounts are linked to French SIM cards cannot access the channel. It turns out that InfodefenseFrance was blocked by a French court order, along with 20 other resources, for allegedly spreading false information. However, no examples of fake news were provided, and there were no complaints or warnings. The Infodefense team considers this blocking to be an act of censorship and a gross violation of freedom of speech. The French authorities are bothered by the truthful information we convey. (Trans.: DeepL)

■ Ex-commissioner Breton hates freedom of speech — Dmitriev (TASS)

Andrew Korybko | This final “Line of Effort” underpins the preceding three regarding the Western Hemisphere, the Indo-Pacific, and burden-sharing, all of which are being pursued in furtherance of Trump 2.0’s grand strategic goal of restoring the US’ predominant position over the world, including over China and Russia. | Trump 2.0 just released its National Defense Strategy (NDS) two months after its National Security Strategy (NSS), and as could be expected, they each preach the need to prioritize the Western Hemisphere. The “Trump Doctrine” that’s discernable within both, which was analyzed here, aims to restore the US’ predominant position (unipolarity) over the Americas and then the rest of the world. “Flexible, practical realism” will explicitly guide the implementation of this grand strategic goal. [...] [The] US will resume World War-like levels of military-industrial production in furtherance of Trump 2.0’s grand strategic goal of restoring the US’ predominant position (unipolarity) over the world. Although the US will try to avoid Great Power conflict with China and Russia, this will be very difficult to do given its attempt to establish strategic superiority over them through this new undeclared arms race, which risks a war breaking out by miscalculation.

✅ The US’ New National Defense Strategy Calls For A World War-Like Military Build-Up (Conor Gallagher)

Simplicius | Russia could soon start disconnecting the “final” source of Ukrainian power, which is the nuclear power plants. [...] Russia has for a long time avoided striking [the] nuclear substations. But it seems it may have been part of a long term strategy to first degrade or entirely wipe out Ukraine’s conventional energy grid generating capabilities and leave the nuclear power stations to the very end, particularly because there are not very many of them. ■ Ukraine has several dozen thermal power plants, which have now all been struck and either destroyed or degraded to some extent—but it has only three total nuclear plants (not counting Zaporozhye NPP, which most MSM still claims is under Ukrainian control)—Rivne, Khmelnitsky, and South Ukraine.