Banning Iranian aircraft from their airports may sound like a clever show of obedience to Washington. But Tehran could simply return the favor and impose the same restrictions on the far busier airports of the Arab dictatorships.

The irony is almost too perfect: monarchies voluntarily helping Washington "squeeze Iran" while Washington's own policies are actively disrupting the region's security, trade, energy flows and economies.

Well, nothing says "strategic independence" quite like taking instructions from the power actively setting your neighborhood on fire.
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🇵🇸No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men | Mondoweiss

In #Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under the rubble are facing a little-known crisis. Without death certificates for their husbands, they’re locked out of #bank accounts, aid, and custody rights, trapped in #bureaucratic limbo amid #genocide.

@mondoweissgram
#Palestine #Widow

US prepares sweeping sanctions to 'dismantle' ICC: Report | The Cradle


Such sanctions would have a drastic impact on the court and its work. Several officials, including chief prosecutor Karim Khan and court president Tomoko Akane, have already faced previous US sanctions.
“The sanctions would forbid most transactions with the ICC after a grace period of six to seven months,” sources told WSJ.

This would “cripple” the court and potentially cut it off from global finance. Washington has publicly declared war on the #ICC. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in July a campaign aimed at isolating the Hague-based court.

@thecradlemedia
#Palestine #Genocide #ForcedDisplacement #EthnicCleansing #WarCrimes #Apartheid

NEW UK PM’S FIRST military move in YEMEN-SAUDI WAR

#UK to REFUEL #Saudi (#KSA) warplanes from the air as they carry out ‘DEFENSIVE’ strikes against #Ansarallah (#YAF) in #Yemen

@MTodayNews

some reminders ..

2025 - Air Power, Controversy, and Colonial Continuities: UK Arms Sales and the War in Yemen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2025.2496844#abstract

The war in Yemen has been relatively invisible in Western public debate compared to wars prosecuted by antagonists and enemies, as in Syria and Ukraine. This is despite the scale of civilian harm in Yemen: the United Nations Development Programme estimated in November 2021 that 377,000 people would be killed due to conflict by the end of that year; of these, almost 60% would be indirect deaths due to lack of access to food, water, and healthcare

US mercenary 'was paid millions to carry out killings for UAE in Yemen' | Middle East Eye


2023 - Leaked files: Britain's secret propaganda ops in Yemen | The Cradle

Who's At the Top? - Questions For Corbett | The Corbett Report

It’s the most common question confronting any would-be researcher of conspiracy reality: Who’s at the top of the pyramid? Join James for today’s edition of Questions For Corbett where he talks to Charlie Robinson and Derrick Broze about how they answer that question, and James answers the question himself.

@CorbettReport
#PyramidOfPower

Imran Khan's entire immediate family detained in Pakistan ahead of mass protest demanding his release

Khan has been jailed on corruption charges since 2022 following a US-backed coup to oust him as prime minister

❗️Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s Taiz as Ansarallah forces advance

#Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck the Hayfan district in Yemen’s #Taiz province, Al-Masirah TV reported. Local sources indicate the attack targeted a crowded market. The report did not provide details on casualties or damage.

The reported strike comes amid claims of rapid advances by #Ansarallah forces across western Yemen, including control of parts of the Red Sea coast and movement toward areas near the #BabAlMandab Strait.

@thecradlemedia
#YAF #Yemen #KSA

France prepares for blackout

BFMTV reports that in the event of a massive blackout, rescue efforts will prioritize military enterprises aiding #Ukraine over civilians. Macron has ordered prefectures to prepare for potential Russian attacks and large-scale power outages at city, department, or regional levels.

The scenario involves non-functioning traffic lights, dark schools, halted metro and trains, and no mobile or internet connectivity. Hospitals would switch to diesel generators, with survival dependent on their operation. Authorities must identify critical infrastructure: power plants, water systems, railways, airports, and defense sector factories producing weapons for Ukraine.

txt - - @Slavyangrad
#France #EU #Nato #Russia #BFmerde
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VIDEO | Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran during UN address

US President Donald Trump said that he faces a choice between reaching a deal with Iran and "annihilat[ing] the Islamic Republic," during his address to the UN General Assembly in New York.

"I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly?" Trump said.

He added, "Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations?" Trump said he nevertheless believes a deal with Iran can be reached after the US midterm elections.

Dmitry Orlov's latest is worth listening to in full, but this excerpt was apt:

"The special know how of the British deep state is profiting from others misfortunes. If it can ever lend a hand in causing and perpetuating a conflict, it will surely do so. Many nations suffered from nefarious British meddling. Russia in particular. It had a hand in causing a war between Russia and France under Napoleon Bonaparte. It had a hand in the Russian Revolution of 1917...More recently, it did its best to prevent peace from breaking out between Russia and the former Ukraine.

Now many Russians view the UK as a decaying postimperial shell whose collapse is mathematically inevitable. Its societal, economic, and moral decay is simply too profound. Russian nightly news takes great pleasure in chronicling its demise. The British deep state is also something of a franchise. Its tentacles have reached into New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, and other globalist financial centers. In each case, a detachment of a few thousand British subjects is deployed to manipulate the situation in the interests of the British deep state.

This tendency to spread out across the landscape infesting key nodes along important sea lanes makes it hard to see where it ends. Even after the UK is no more, cutting off these tentacles promises to be a lengthy and laborious process for the competing deep states.

The British deep state is also a highly successful parasite. After the collapse of the British Empire, it attached itself to the US the way a sucker fish attaches itself to a shark. No longer able to fend for itself, it has skillfully used American power to serve its own pernicious interests, which it facetiously presented as common interests.

Some US officials were too naive to see through the ruse, while others had to be corrupted. At present, fissures are appearing between the British and the American deep states. This may mean that this special relationship is nearing its end. Or it may mean that the British and the American deep states are getting ready to jump off a cliff together holding hands."
https://youtu.be/YYYRKxtsPaQ?t=634

@Eva Karene Bartlett