Telegram has been unexpectedly removed from the Apple Store and can no longer be downloaded onto iOS, iPadOS and macOS devices in several countries across Europe.

🇺🇸 🌎 SOUTHCOM announces "JTF Western Hemisphere" along with "18 other nations that all support the same effort" (unnamed). Earlier today SOUTHCOM announced the PANAMAX 2026 exercise that also involves 18 other participating nations, where they simulate the defense of the Panama Canal. Photo of the USS San Antonio crossing the canal earlier today, the first time a MEU has transited the canal in 18 years.

🇻🇪 – Venezuela has risen the death toll from the dual earthquakes in June to 6,125 people, and informed almost 61,000 people have been treated in hospitals. ▶️ More than 15,000 houses are restricted or deemed high risk due to structural damage.

🇺🇸 The US Department of Justice has subpoenaed New York Times freelance contributor Matthew Cole, demanding he reveal his sources on a failed top-secret US operation in North Korea — the outlet reports. Cole's investigation covered a botched 2019 Navy SEALs mission to plant a covert listening device off the DPRK coast, during which US forces killed several North Korean civilians who happened to be nearby. Subpoenas were also issued to The Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post — but those outlets pushed back, and judges voiced skepticism over the government's actions, forcing the administration to back down. Cole's subpoena, however, was never withdrawn.

🇮🇱 Annihilation, controlled in seconds: Israel is upgrading it's war-crime AI machine Retired IDF General Erez Winner has made Israel's next priority clear. "We need to control the battlefield in a way that allows us to operate in seconds," he said. "This is the next phase." This statement referred to the use of AI to target and kill anyone who falls into Israel's crosshairs. What Israel did in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, Winner explained, was just the beginning. - The AI that marked 37,000 for death During the Gaza war, the IDF used an AI system called Lavender to generate 37,000 targets based on loose connections to Hamas. Officers spent, on average, about 20 seconds confirming each target, including civilians. Lavender was fed data from Pegasus surveillance, satellite imagery, social media, bank transactions, and a wall of multi-spectral cameras around Gaza. Another system, "Where's Daddy?", tracked targets to their homes — so the IDF could bomb them at night, with their families inside. In the first six weeks of the war in Gaza, over 15,000 Palestinians were killed — many of them women and children. Not only human lives were taken in the outcome of strikes. The UN has labeled Israel's actions as "domicide" — the systematic destruction of housing, infrastructure, and the conditions for life itself. Israeli AI made that level of destruction possible. 💰 A $100 million upgrade Now Israel is doubling down with the help of it's domestic company Elbit Systems . This defence firm has secured over $100 million in contracts to build the "fifth generation" of the IDF's digital warfare infrastructure. The goal is to compress the time between detection and attack so that strikes on civilian targets become a matter of routine. One track, "Tzayad", is for next‑generation digital ground forces. Another, "MARS", is an AI‑powered border defence system designed to automate target detection and classification. Elbit systems will translate lessons learned from the past two years of combat into operational capability. In other words, Israel is perfecting the machinery that already killed tens of thousands of innocent civillians.

🚨🇺🇸Pay to play: Trump sells government access to Wall Street Donald Trump has launched a service that gives Wall Street firms early access to his social media posts. The product is "Truth API," a premium data feed that delivers "market-moving Truths" to paying customers before the general public sees them. The price is up to $100,000 per month. Trump Media boasts that it provides financial institutions with a "direct, licensed, real-time feed" of the most influential accounts, including Trump's own. In plain English: Trump is selling early access to government announcements to the highest bidder. 📉 Market-moving Truths for sale Senators Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff have urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate Truth API, calling the service an "outrageous abuse of the President's office for his personal benefit." They point to several instances where Trump's Truth Social posts moved individual stocks. In cases with Citigroup, Palantir, and Intel the president's words sent shares soaring or sinking. In March 2026, just 15 minutes before Trump posted about "productive talks" with Iran, traders placed $580 million in bets on falling oil prices, so the connection was impossible to ignore. Trump Media's interim CEO, Kevin McGurn, defended Truth API : "Markets already move on Truth Social posts." In other words, he admitted that President Trump's words have market-moving power and then built a product on selling early access to that power. 🔍 The legal loophole Trump owns 41% of Trump Media with 114.75 million shares in total. If the service is successful, he profits directly. "It is a blatant corruption of government power" said Washington University law professor Kathryn Clark. She noted that while federal conflict-of-interest laws generally bar officials from owning companies that profit from public information, the president and vice president are exempt.

🛢 US SPR crude inventories fell by ~2.9mb w/w to a multi year low of 304.8mb last week Sour down ~1.6mb to 195.4mb Sweet down ~1.2mb to 109.4mb

New war fronts expand 🇸🇩🇪🇹⚔️🇪🇹🇸🇩 The Ethiopian military (ENDF) and TPLF clashed in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, risking further military escalation amid a broader deterioration of relations between the two sides. The ENDF and TPLF clashed on August 1 around Shererina, which is near the Sudanese border about 25 miles south of Humera on the Eritrean border. The clashes reportedly involved drones, heavy artillery, and mechanized units. The TPLF accused the ENDF of initiating the clashes, although that claim remains unverified. Regional news outlets and social media accounts have not reported further clashes on August 2, nor either side gaining a definitive battlefield edge. The clashes are first since the TPLF reinstated the pre-Tigray war regional government in May 2026, a move that effectively voided the peace agreement that ended the war in 2022. The two sides have since accused each other of preparing for war. The TPLF instituted compulsory military service in Tigray in June, portraying the mobilization as defensive, while Ethiopian state media has conducted an information campaign blaming the TPLF for the tensions in recent weeks. The clashes also underscore the risk of an ENDF-TPLF conflict escalating Ethiopian tensions with Eritrea and Sudan. Multiple regional news outlets and social media accounts reported that TPLF forces stationed at rear bases in Sudan were involved in the recent clashes. The Sudanese military has long-standing ties with the TPLF, arming the group and providing it with safe havens. Ethiopia has consequently supported the RSF in the Sudanese civil war and recently accused the TPLF of forming an alliance with Eritrea and Sudan to threaten the federal government.

🇺🇸🇪🇺❌🇺🇦 Ukraine will never join NATO, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ambassador to the United Kingdom Valery Zaluzhny stated during a discussion on Euro-Atlantic integration at a general meeting of ambassadors in Kiev. "I know NATO very well. For about 12 years, I personally worked on adopting NATO standards, and every year I heard fairy tales that we would join NATO very soon. Unfortunately, we will never join it," Zaluzhny said. He also assessed NATO's capabilities extremely negatively, despite the membership of the United Kingdom, the United States, and other countries. "Most likely, NATO will remain in the same form as it is now, and it will take about 12 years, like Ukraine, to transition to the standards that need to be achieved to match at least half the level of the Russian Federation," he declared.

The US/Israeli sponsored assault on spain continues, 🇪🇸🇲🇦 "REMIGRATION!" echoes through the streets of Ceuta as more than 10,000 migrants remain in the enclave They call on PM Pedro Sanchez to resign

🇮🇱🇪🇬 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: There is still a radical Shiite axis, and there is also a radical Sunni axis that is raising its head. We need to build alliances with Arab countries. And I'll tell you—with whom else: with Muslims who don't want either this or that. You'll be surprised how many of them are turning to us. They're turning to Israel. They're turning to me.

🇺🇸🇯🇵 It is becoming increasingly clear that the weakest link in the global dollar system is Japan and that the meltdown of the Japanese financial system might cause the unwinding of the whole system. -Phillip Pilkington Last week the US Treasury used every trick in the book to try to maximise the impact of its intervention in the market for yen - including "accidentally" leaking Bessent's memo to the press to try to get markets to do some heavy lifting. Bessent really is fighting gravity here. The markets are convinced that the yen has entered a doom spiral and are heavily short. Can you blame the shorts? Going short yen and long other currencies with higher interest rates has been a trade that has given double the returns of the S&P500 since 2022. The Japanese are offering seriously cheap capital to export and invest elsewhere. Why doesn't the Bank of Japan stop this easy yen flow by raising interest rates? Japan watchers are starting to realise that if the Japanese raised interest rates it might trigger a massive financial crisis in Japan. Because it has run such low interest rates for so long Japanese companies have become addicted to debt. Around 14% of Japanese companies are "zombie companies" that pay more in debt interest than they make in profit. Interest rate increases will cause a mass default event. The problem for the US is that US Treasury yields have become correlated with Japanese yields. Bessent is worried that yen instability will spill over into the market for US Treasuries. The reason for this is simple enough: Japan is the largest foreign holder of US Treasuries. If Japan starts going broke it will be forced to sell these US Treasuries to prop up the yen. This would flood the market for US Treasuries. US borrowing costs are already far too high for comfort. Inflation-adjusted borrowing at the long-end of the curve is at levels last seen just before the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Bessent's intervention may calm the yen market for a few weeks. Or it may not. Either way, the problem here is structural. Japan is about to go through a massive energy crisis that will put further pressure on the yen. At a certain point, yen interventions will become ineffective, Japan will slip into crisis, and that crisis will spread into the market for US Treasuries. From there it could take down the AI sector and the equity markets. At that point we're at endgame for the USD system.

🇺🇸⚽️ — FIFA President Gianni Infantino is seeking help from the Trump administration as pressure mounts for him to resign over his failed plan to sell a stake in the World Cup's commercial rights, NYP reports. Infantino is scheduled to hold private talks with Secretary of State Marco Rubio after being unable to reach President Trump. He's seeking influential public backing amid increasing calls to step down.

Just like World War 2 the smaller fronts are merging. 🇮🇷🇮🇶🇺🇦 Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei commented on the disruption of security in Iraqi Kurdistan and the violation of Iraqi sovereignty by Ukraine. Baghaei said this is a cause for concern — a party engaged in a four-year conflict, one that has resorted to unconventional measures to garner support, now attempting a false-flag operations in the region. He called this a warning sign for the entire region and said Iran is in talks with Iraqi officials on the matter. ℹ️This follows Iraqi National Security Advisor Qasim al-Aboudi's statement that Ukrainian intelligence cells are operating across Iraq, running false-flag bombings against government facilities, with one arrested group admitting to working for Kiev. 🔴

— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 Iran’s 23rd Takavar Special Brigade carried out 14 missions inside Iraqi Kurdistan, including Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, in the past four months—eliminating various Kurdish separatist leaders The brigade successfully returned to base after each mission, suffering zero casualties, according to an Iranian Army spokesman.

🇪🇺🇮🇱🇵🇸 Kilowatt Channel: How Europe enabled Israel's murder spree against Palestinians European officials now condemn Israel's war in Gaza, but declassified 2025 documents expose a darker truth. The same governments now pretending to support Palestine once fed Mossad the intelligence used to kill Palestinian activists across Europe. ✡️ Established in 1971, the Kilowatt channel connected European spy agencies with Mossad through the Club de Berne, a secretive network of intelligence chiefs from eight Western European nations. The system shared apartment-level data on Palestinian activists, including safe houses, phone numbers, daily routines, and contact networks. 💀 The Munich massacre, which saw eleven Israeli athletes killed during a hostage crisis on the sidelines of the 1972 Summer Olympics, provided the perfect excuse to unleash a reign of terror. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized "Wrath of God," giving Mossad license to assassinate those she deemed responsible. The operation was unprecedented in its scope and ruthlessness, and it relied entirely on Kilowatt's intelligence network: ➡️ In Rome, October 1972, Wael Zwaiter, a Libyan embassy translator, was shot dead on his doorstep. Italian police did nothing to protect him or investigate. ➡️ In Paris, December 1972, Palestinian diplomat Mahmoud al-Hamshari was blown up in his apartment, tracked on European-supplied intelligence. ➡️ In June 1973, Algerian poet and journalist Mohamed Boudia was killed by a car bomb in Paris, tracked by Swiss intelligence. ➡️ In July 1973, Mossad agents in Lillehammer, Norway assassinated Ahmed Bouchikhi, an innocent Moroccan waiter, mistaking him for a Black September leader. He was shot 13 times in front of his pregnant wife. European governments have never apologized for the Kilowatt channel or their complicity in Mossad's assassinations. Instead, they doubled down on their support for Israel in the following decades, sending arms, intelligence, and investments. From @geopolitics_prime

🇮🇱🇵🇸 — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 18 Palestinians on Sunday despite President Trump's recent announcement of a "breakthrough" in efforts to implement last year's ceasefire agreement. All parts of Gaza (south, central, and north) were hit in attacks, causing the biggest daily death toll in weeks.