USA - Secretary Hegseth focused his remarks on what he described as biased media coverage of the strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. "Whether it's fake news CNN, MSNBC, or the New York Times, there has been fawning coverage of a preliminary assessment from the DIA," Hegseth said, referring to a Defense Intelligence Agency report that rated the impact of the strike as "low confidence." He contrasted the DIA's assessment with conclusions from other entities, stating that Israel's atomic energy agency found Iran's Fordow facility to be "inoperable," while the International Atomic Energy Agency reported "enormous damage." "Time and time again, I can go down the list... those that do proper assessments recognize that what the United States military did was historic," Hegseth asserted.

IRAN - Iran’s parliament has voted overwhelmingly to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, following Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear facilities. The legislation, passed with near-unanimous support, prohibits future IAEA inspections and surveillance camera installations until Iran’s nuclear sites are secured in a direct response to what lawmakers called the agency’s failure to condemn the attacks. The decision, now awaiting final approval from Iran’s hardline Guardian Council, marks a dangerous new phase in the already volatile standoff over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. The bill, approved by 221 of 223 lawmakers, with only one abstention and one opposition, reflects Iran’s fury over the IAEA’s perceived complicity in the recent strikes.

IRAN - The Islamic theocracy of Iran stated on Wednesday that it would work to preserve its illicit nuclear program “under any circumstances,” denying that the American airstrikes on key uranium enrichment facilities had marked an end to its nuclear ambitions. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei declared in an interview with the Qatari network Al Jazeera, according to the Iranian propaganda outlet PressTV, that Iran was “determined to preserve” its right to “enjoy nuclear energy… under any circumstances.” PressTV also cited officials from the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) declaring that Tehran would “expand” its nuclear development, rather than contain it, in response to United Nations condemnation and military action by Israel and America.

IRAN - Iranian officials chanted “Death to America” as they voted to expel nuclear inspectors and accelerate uranium enrichment, following President Donald Trump’s bold strike on Tehran’s nuclear infrastructure — a move that also helped force a ceasefire and avert a prolonged regional war. On Wednesday, Iran’s parliament passed a bill suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) just days after US forces executed an unprecedented strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. Lawmakers erupted into “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” chants as they approved the legislation, with Speaker Mohammad Qalibaf vowing the program would now move “more rapidly.” In his first public remarks since going into hiding on June 13, Khamenei appeared in a state TV broadcast to mock the United States, saying Washington only intervened to prevent the total collapse of the “Zionist regime.”

HUNGARY - Orbán’s Hungary passes constitutional amendment banning public LGBT events. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the Brussels Liberal-Globalist establishment’s ‘bête noire’, the man who almost single-handedly opposed the EU’s frankly suicidal policies. Now, with the historic return of his long-time ally Donald J Trump and the surge of right-wingers and populists in Europe, Orbán is forcefully implementing his ‘common-sense’ policies, to the absolute dismay of the USAID-media. In a development of the political decision that TGP reported back in February, Hungary’s parliament approved an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBT communities.

EUROPE - There is perhaps no one more devoted to defending the whole edifice of the failed Globalist policies than the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. From ‘climate change’ hysteria to unchecked mass migration and constant pro-Ukraine war-mongering, von der Leyen has never seen a Globalist disastrous policy that she did not love. And of course, the LGBT lobby is one of her most cherished ‘causes’ – so, in a sense, she was bound to clash yet again with the nationalist, conservative Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán. Orbán is the leader who once described the EU as ‘a contemporary parody of the Soviet Union’, and stated that ‘there Is Not Enough Money in the World To Force Us To Accept Mass Migration and To Put Our Children in the Hands of LGBTQ Activists’.

FRANCE - The French city of Lyon has decided to ditch Microsoft’s Office suite and plans to adopt Linux and PostgreSQL. The République’s third-largest city and second-largest economic hub on Tuesday cited a desire to reduce dependence on American software, extend the lifespan of its hardware and therefore reduce its environmental impact, and strengthen the technological sovereignty of its public service. However the city’s decision comes just weeks after Denmark’s’ Ministry for Digitalization decided to drop Microsoft and amid a European Union push to develop sovereign digital capabilities that has seen the likes of Microsoft and AWS try to reassure European customers that their cloudy continental outposts can’t be caught up in US claims to possess extraterritorial jurisdiction over data stored in facilities owned by American companies. So maybe Lyon ditching Microsoft represents one more snowball in a growing avalanche.

IRAN - Iran has today admitted its nuclear facilities were 'badly damaged' by US bombs after Donald Trump insisted they were 'obliterated' and lashed out at 'fake' news coverage suggesting he failed to deliver a knock-out blow. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei conceded there had been significant impact caused by American bunker-busting bombs at the country's three main nuclear sites at Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz. It comes after Trump insisted the nuclear facilities were 'obliterated' and compared his airstrikes to the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan at the end of World War II. Meanwhile NATO chief Mark Rutte suggested Donald Trump dealt with Israel and Iran's war in the Middle East like a 'daddy' who uses 'strong language' to stop two children fighting in a schoolyard.

NETHERLANDS - Cowardice ill befits a military alliance. But it dominated yesterday’s Nato summit in the Hague. The alliance leaders who gathered in the Dutch city showed that they were more frightened of Donald Trump than of Vladimir Putin. To appease the US president, they cut the agenda short, sidelined Ukraine, downplayed the threat from Russia, made empty promises and dodged urgent decisions. It worked — for now. More importantly, extravagant military spending is politically unpopular and economically crippling. “It destroyed the Soviet Union,” noted a summit participant reflectively. The European Nato allies combined are ten times richer than Russia. If they spent even their existing defence budgets properly, the job would be done. Promising to spend a lot of money in the future does not fill the dangerous holes in defence and deterrence right now.

GERMANY - Germany will bring back conscription to boost its armed forces if a plan to use volunteers fails to deliver enough recruits, the country’s defence minister has said. Boris Pistorius said he would begin with a voluntary model to attract young people, supporting the Bundeswehr’s goal of more than doubling its reserve forces in response to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But he said Berlin would not shy away from a return to full conscription if the armed forces had spare training capacity — and would include such a provision in a bill that will be presented to parliament after the summer break. Germany’s chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that he wants his country to have the “strongest conventional army in Europe”, vowing to play a greater role in the continent’s defence.

UK - Weekly hate marches and open terror-sympathising have become the norm – and many of the worst culprits are British born and bred. It’s not often you see communists taking a stand for free speech and civil liberties. But in the eyes of the Morning Star, it seems, drastic times call for drastic measures. In a scandalised editorial this week, it thundered that the Home Secretary’s decision to outlaw Palestine Action as a terrorist group is “a dangerous assault on our freedoms”. Ah, yes. The ancient and inviolable freedom of every patriotic Englishman to break into his own country’s military bases and cause tens of millions of pounds’ worth of damage to our aircraft. Thanks for the reminder, Comrades.

USA - A far left Muslim socialist that has only been a citizen of the United States for seven years is the Democratic nominee to be the mayor of the biggest city in the United States. Let that sink in for a moment. Zohran Mamdani is a smooth talker, and he ran an excellent campaign. But if this is what the future of America looks like, we are in enormous trouble. He dreams of creating “a socialist New York”, and many analysts are suggesting that if he wins the general election in November it will open the door for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for president in 2028. We have allowed socialist ideology to be preached in our high schools, colleges and universities for a long time, and so we shouldn’t be surprised that large numbers of our young people are now socialists. We are reaping what we have sown, and this is just the beginning.

USA - WhatsApp, Snapchat, and Instagram report millions of abuse cases. Apple reported 250. Either Apple has the world’s safest app — or it’s looking the other way. What’s an acceptable level of online child sexual abuse, blackmail, and sextortion? How many teen suicides must happen before someone acts? Most parents would say the answer is obvious: zero. Apple doesn’t seem to agree. Despite serving as the constant digital companion for millions of American kids, the company has done nothing to rein in the iMessage app — a tool that now functions as an unregulated playground for child predators. Apple has shrugged off the problem while iMessage becomes the wild west of child exploitation: unchecked, unreported, and deadly. That device follows them everywhere — to school, to bed, into the darkest corners of the internet. The threat doesn’t just come from YouTube or TikTok. It’s baked into iMessage itself — the default communication tool on every iPhone, the one parents use to text their kids.

USA - Record-smashing daytime temperatures near 100 degrees are expected for millions from the Plains to the East Coast this week, while nighttime temperatures may stay above 80 in some metropolitan areas. A massive heat dome enveloping much of the central and eastern US this week will lead to levels of heat and humidity not seen in June in many years, warn AccuWeather meteorologists. This would mark the first time for some in many decades that triple-digit heat has been experienced in June.

USA - Not thrilled with mainstream media coverage of US strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities on Saturday, President Donald Trump on Monday erupted against some of the biggest names in American news. In a post on Truth Social, Trump stated: "The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it. Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible – And even they say they were 'pretty well destroyed!' Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, Dumb Brian L Roberts, Chairman of 'Con'cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast's NBC Fake News. It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that's why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!"