Former UN director rejects the notion that resistance groups across the Middle East, including #Hezbollah and #Hamas, are Iranian proxies. He says this characterisation ignores the context of #occupation, #oppression, and violence that #Lebanon and #Palestine have faced from "Israel" and the #US.

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Trump: "The biggest bridge in Iran has collapsed and will never be used again. More is on the way.
It is time for Iran to make a deal before it’s too late, before there is nothing left of what could still become a great nation."

Iranian State Television Reports:

Key bridges across the region that could be targeted in potential Iranian retaliatory operations:

▫️Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Bridge — Kuwait

▫️King Fahd Causeway — Saudi Arabia–Bahrain

▫️Sheikh Zayed Bridge — Abu Dhabi

▫️Al Maqta Bridge — Abu Dhabi

▫️King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge — Jordan

▫️Damia (Adam) Bridge — Jordan–West Bank

▫️Sheikh Khalifa Bridge — Abu Dhabi

▫️Abdoun Bridge — Amman, Jordan

Now read between the lines:
Observe how most of these "strategic bridges" across the region carry the names of rulers, monarchs, and authoritarian figures, symbols of power etched into concrete, not of peoples, but of regimes.

And then observe something even more telling… A man like Donald Trump, who stands today claiming (false) victory, reduces his "achievement" to the destruction of a bridge. Not an army defeated. Not a war concluded. A bridge.

At a time when his own administration admits the war is still dragging on, with no clear end and rising global consequences , he celebrates rubble as if it were triumph.

This is no victory. This is the theater of power, where failure is dressed up as spectacle.

Because while bridges fall, reality stands firm: He could not stop the missiles. He did not break the will. And he will not dictate the outcome.

summary essay on the unified ledger

https://escapekey.substack.com/p/the-unified-ledger

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Trump is pushing a $1.5 trillion defense budget, a 40% increase and the largest since World War II, putting military expansion first.

To pay for it, he backs deep domestic cuts: halving environmental protection, cutting housing and education funding, and removing billions from clean energy, water, labor, and health programs. Job training, senior employment, and food assistance would be eliminated, along with the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps poor households pay heating and cooling bills, and the National Endowment for Democracy.

Overall, domestic spending would fall by about 10%, shifting money away from internal needs toward long-term military buildup.

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