The US president can order a nuclear strike within minutes and without congressional approval, exposing the absurd danger of entrusting civilisation to one fallible person.

As William Perry, former Secretary of Defense under Clinton and Tom Collina state in The Button:

Within minutes, with just one phone call, President Trump could unleash up to a thousand nuclear weapons, each one many times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. It would be the end of civilisation… For President Trump, starting nuclear war is about as easy as sending a tweet.

 

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez says that 110,000 people have been evacuated as the wildfires have burned over 14,000 hectares (34,600 acres) in south-west France.
"We have never seen a convective fire of this magnitude," Nuñez tells French broadcaster TF1, explaining that around 50 firefighters have been injured today.

 

While visiting Paris on July 13, 2026, Ukraine’s unelected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, awarded his French host, President Emmanuel Macron, the Ukrainian Order of Freedom.
The Élysée Palace website makes no mention of this event.

 

Fascists as Guests of Honor at the July 14th Parade

 

Subsequently, French President Emmanuel Macron, outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hosted 34 foreign delegations and the NATO Secretary General at the Hôtel des Invalides for a summit of the "Coalition of the Willing."
Germany, France, and the United Kingdom plan for this coalition to replace NATO once the United States withdraws from the alliance.

 

And Starmer sleeps with the fishy. Burnham's first call was to a man he vowed to have nothing to do with, Trump. His first act was to allow British bases to be used by US bombers to pound Iran, Or perhaps drop the big one on Pickaxe Mountain, where Iran's uranium is stored?

 

MONOLOGUE: The Burnham coup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOIrheWjQWg

 

PLEASE VISIT:

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

Ukraine’s new commander-in-chief, Major General Mikhail Drapaty, has said that Russia had “no right” to exist and made derogatory remarks about the residents of Russia’s Donbass region, which Ukraine continues to claim as its own.

On Wednesday, the YouTube documentary channel Ukrainer W released an interview with Drapaty originally recorded in 2023. Speaking to journalist Karina Pilyugina, the general said that he had long anticipated a war with Russia.

“We see that you cannot call them neighbors. It is a nation, together with its leadership, that has no right to exist. Over thousands of years, nothing has changed there in civilizational terms – neither its mentality nor its imperial ambitions,” he said.

 

With more than a third of the US fast-attack submarine fleet sidelined by maintenance delays, the assumptions behind AUKUS Pillar 1 are looking less credible by the year.

 

Peter Briggs

The US shipyard crisis sinking AUKUS

 

More than 18 of the US Navy’s 48 in-service nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) are alongside, idle awaiting docking. This is a clear indicator of a structural crisis threatening the core of American undersea power. While official communiqués refer to these setbacks as “cyclical maintenance bottlenecks,” primary-source data from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) paint a more difficult and worsening picture.

APPARENTLY, THERE WAS A BIT OF CONTROVERSY, WHEN ONE OF THE CONTESTANT ON AN ABC PROGRAM MADE AN UNSAVOURY COMMENT ON A VIDEO... WE WON'T GO THERE. BUT WE WILL MENTION SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN ON RECORD FOR A WHILE:

 

Gina Rinehart

Georgina “Gina” Hope Rinehart, Australia’s richest citizen according to Forbes with a personal fortune of $21.5 billion, is the Chairman of Hancock Prospecting and daughter of iron magnate Lang Hancock. 

If you thought capitalism has been guilty of excess in its dealings with society and the environment, the bad news is that it’s getting worse, existentially worse. Michael Pascoe reports.

This is primarily a lift from the Economist magazine, specifically a piece by Silicon Valley guru Tim O’Reilly. Odds are you haven’t read it hence a summary before getting to the danger for us all from the threat he exposes.

O’Reilly’s thesis boils down to “the merchants are becoming princes”, upending the market disciplines that made it preferable to have “merchants” in charge rather than princes with untrammelled power.

The rule of Vladimir Zelensky has been a catastrophe for Ukraine, and that is how it will be remembered once the dust of relentless info war campaigns in his favor – and against his critics – settles.

 

Ukraine has a new butcher-in-chief – all the better to feed Ukrainians to the grinder

Syrsky is gone, but his replacement is a sign that Zelensky as committed as ever to prolonging a losing war at terrible human cost.

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

 

 

When One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce had an interview with Sarah Ferguson on the ABC's 7.30 program interrupted by an errant dog this week, he decided to take action.

"After getting to a point where I couldn't really think straight, I had to tell her, in farm language, to be quieter," the federal member for New England said.

"That's how it works on the land."

It was Mr Joyce's use of "farm language" with two-year-old Stella that shocked many dog owners.

 

Australia’s Lebanese is outraged at Israel’s attacks which have killed thousands and displaced millions. Is it genocide? Jude Manning reports.

Is a genocide modelled on Gaza about to happen in Lebanon?

Recent comments from Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz suggest Israeli action in southern Lebanon amounts to war crimes and potential genocide, concurrent with the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Katz said that southern Lebanon would “become Gaza.”

We will implement the Rafah model … and that’s what we did.

 

The US is directly participating in Ukrainian strikes against targets inside Russia by supplying weapons, intelligence, and communications support to Kiev, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Lavrov rejected Western claims that Russia and China were allegedly supplying Iran with weapons used to attack American military facilities.

He accused Washington of hypocrisy, pointing to its own role in the Ukraine conflict.

“The Americans, through arms supplies paid for by the European Union, the provision of intelligence, the Starlink system and much more, are not simply helping, but are directly participating in guiding Ukrainian weapons toward targets, including civilian targets, on Russian territory,” Lavrov said.

 

US President Donald Trump wants FIFA President Gianni Infantino to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations, the New York Post reported on Tuesday.

The Post cited a person close to Trump as saying that the president believes Infantino is “respected by everyone around the world” and has a “special ability to bring people together.” It is unclear, however, whether the Swiss-born football executive wants the job, the newspaper added.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Iran of not being serious about negotiations with the United States.

"The problem we're having right now is that they're not serious about talks. If they're serious, we're serious. If they're not, then we will do what is necessary to protect our interests and also the interests of our allies," Rubio said during the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting.

On the night of June 18, the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding to end the conflict that began on February 28. However, on the night of July 8, Washington resumed strikes against Iran, citing Tehran's actions against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran called the US attacks a serious violation of the agreements reached and began retaliatory strikes against US bases in the Middle East.