"Meant To Overthrow The System": Iran's Khamenei On Israel's Attacks

07/16/25 11:55 PM

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that Israel's attacks during last month's 12-day war were intended to weaken the Islamic republic's system and spark unrest to topple it.

'Coincidence? Not even close': Ex-Trump operative blows up White House narrative

07/05/25 9:43 PM

Donald Trump and the media insist on one version of events, but a former Trump associate insists there's more to the story.Trump recently completed a phone call with Putin, which the media has reported led to no progress in halting the war on Ukraine. A follow-up call with Ukraine's leader was reported as having featured Trump offering some assistance.But there's more to the call with Ukraine's leader, according to Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump who worked on issues related to Ukraine during the president's first term.Parnas on his Substack flagged a devastating attack on Ukraine right after the call with Trump, saying, "The attack wasn’t random. It was systematic, with multiple drones launched in waves designed to overwhelm air defense systems. Targets included civilian zones, energy infrastructure, and transit hubs, with some of the heaviest activity tracked near Kirov Oblast—a name that’s now entering military dispatches as a hub for these new tactics."According to Parnas, the attack was directly connected to Trump's publicized calls with foreign leaders. "This is Putin’s escalation, timed perfectly after Trump’s back-to-back calls with him and then with Zelensky. Coincidence? Not even close," the ex-associate said, before blowing up the White House's (and the media's) description of the call."According to the press, Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was 'productive' and 'supportive.' But my sources—inside the room—tell a different story," he said. "Trump made no commitments to deliver weapons. He vaguely mentioned that he’d 'look into' retrieving U.S.-supplied arms that were held up. But as I’ve told you for weeks, this is part of a calculated delay tactic."According to Parnas, "Donald Trump has no intention of sending Ukraine the weapons it needs.""The strategy is simple: stall the Ukrainians, comfort Putin, and let the situation in eastern Ukraine deteriorate while Washington is distracted with optics," the ex-insider added. "I’m also hearing credible intel about a large-scale Russian troop buildup in the Sunni region, with over 50,000 troops mobilizing. The kind of movement that signals a major new offensive—one that could shift the war."Read the piece here.

'Cowardice!' Cory Booker loses it after Mike Waltz blames Biden for Signalgate

07/15/25 4:41 PM

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) lashed out at Mike Waltz after he suggested former President Joe Biden's administration shared some of the blame for the so-called SignalGate scandal, where he shared secret war plans with a journalist on a group messaging app.The New Jersey senator chewed out President Donald Trump's nominee for United Nations ambassador at his confirmation hearing on Tuesday."Congressman Waltz, I've watched this hearing, and I've been really disappointed," Booker opined. "And what's been troubling to me about your nomination from the beginning is your failure to just stand up and take accountability for mistakes that you made and that all Americans know that you've made.""But I heard you just blame Biden," he continued. "I've seen you not only fail to stand up, but lie... You denied, deflected, and then you did something that to me really lacks integrity, is that you sought out to demean and degrade that very journalist in crass and frankly cruel ways that made him a target.""Smearing people, attacking folks, singling them out, just furthers, compounds what I think is disqualifying about you for this position. It also, to me, just shows profound cowardice."Booker noted that Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) had pressed Waltz on the Signal scandal earlier in the hearing."Unfortunately, what you're doing to me is perfectly in line with the way this administration as a whole has operated," he observed. "We have too much of that rhetoric, that divisive, demeaning, degrading, cruelness that's being elevated and celebrated by this administration that you seem to fall in line with.""I just watched with great disappointment that even after weeks, if not months of reflection, you couldn't sit before this committee and take some responsibility and talk constructively about what's learned," Booker added. "Instead, you do what seems to be yet another creative tool that people are doing, which is, hey, let me just blame Biden."Watch the video below.