US President-elect Donald Trump plans to clamp down on Iran to undermine its alleged support for Hamas and Hezbollah, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing sources. The approach will reportedly be similar to the ‘maximum pressure’ policy that marked Trump’s first term, and could be exacerbated by a personal vendetta over allegations that Tehran plotted to assassinate him.

Widely known as an Iran hawk, Trump spearheaded America’s unilateral withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which sought to curb Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for significant sanctions relief. Trump argued that the deal did little to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and reimposed crippling oil, trade, and financial sanctions on the country.

In 2020, Trump authorized a strike that killed Qassem Soleimani – the head of Iran’s Quds Force who was a popular figure in the country – a move that further escalated US-Iran tensions.

Former Trump officials interviewed by the WSJ believe that when the president-elect is sworn in in January, his approach to Iran “is likely to be colored by the knowledge that its agents tried to assassinate him and former top national security aides after they left office.” Tehran has denied ever having such plans.

Mick Mulroy, a top Pentagon official serving in Trump’s administration, noted that “people tend to take that stuff personally,” adding that “if he [Trump] is going to be hawkish on any particular country, designated major adversaries, it’s Iran.”

WSJ sources familiar with the president-elect’s plans said his team will “move rapidly to try to choke off Iran’s oil income, including going after foreign ports and traders who handle Iranian oil.” China is currently the top importer of Iranian crude.

An unnamed former White House official added that the Trump team will also try to “isolate Iran” both financially and diplomatically, adding that Washington will seek to exploit Tehran’s perceived “weakness.”

Potential changes in US policy could come as the Middle East remains in turmoil, with Israel locked in a war with Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza and a conflict with Lebanese-based group Hezbollah – both of which have close ties to Iran.

Officials in Tehran have signaled that they don’t really care who is the leader of the US. “The general policies of America and Iran are fixed… There is no change in people’s livelihood and it doesn’t matter much who becomes the president in America,” government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said.

SWAMP Watch – First Edition

by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

The filling back up of the Washington D.C. Swamp has begun.

Two days after his victory from “winning” back the Office of the President of the United States, Donald Trump made his first appointment for this new administration today, announcing that the co-chair of his campaign, Susie Wiles, will become his Chief of Staff.

The President Chief of Staff is a position that does NOT have to be approved by the Senate, and is typically one of the first appointments made of a newly elected President, as this person will guide the President in choosing the rest of this staff and cabinet.

Image source.

This speaks volumes about who Trump is going to surround himself with in his new administration, and remaining true to his original loyalties during his first term, he went with former Big Pharma lobbyist Susie Wiles, who has previously worked as a lobbyist for some of the largest manufacturers of vaccines, including Pfizer.

Image source.

So who is Susie Wiles? She is someone who mostly stays behind the scenes, until today, and is called by some people the “most powerful and feared woman” in America.

Earlier this year Politico ran an in depth investigative article on her titled:

The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America

Excerpts:

Susie Wiles, the people who know her the best believe, is a force more sensed than seen. Her influence on political events, to many who know what they’re watching, is as obvious as it is invisible.

The prints leave not so much as a smudge. It’s a shock when she shows up in pictures. Even then it is almost always in the background. She speaks on the record hardly ever, and she speaks about herself even less.

Wiles is not just one of Trump’s senior advisers. She’s his most important adviser.

She’s his de facto campaign manager. She has been in essence his chief of staff for the last more than three years.

She’s one of the reasons Trump is the GOP’s presumptive nominee and Ron DeSantis is not. She’s one of the reasons Trump’s current operation has been getting credit for being more professional than its fractious, seat-of-the-pants antecedents.

And she’s a leading reason Trump has every chance to get elected again — even after his loss of 2020, the insurrection of 2021, his party’s defeats in the midterms of 2022, the criminal indictments of 2023 and the trial (or trials) of 2024.

“There is nobody, I think, that has the wealth of information that she does. Nobody in our orbit. Nobody,” top Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio told me. “She touches everything.”

“Certainly,” said former Florida Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo, “she’s one of the most consequential people in American politics right now.”

“And nobody,” said veteran Florida lobbyist Ronnie Book, “even knows who she is.”

Full article.

Liam Sturgess, writing for The Kennedy Beacon, also profiled her earlier this year.

Susie Wiles Is a Lobbyist for Big Pharma. She’s Also a Key Advisor to President Trump. That’s a Problem.

On April 26, former president Donald Trump revisited one of his most controversial pet projects: Operation Warp Speed.

This time, he dragged his political opponent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into the fray.

“His Views on Vaccines are FAKE, as is everything else about his Candidacy,” wrote the former president about Kennedy in a post on Truth Social.

This ignited significant backlash from Trump’s base, highlighting the extent to which they disagree with him on COVID-19 vaccines.

Operation Warp Speed, which expedited the development and rollout of experimental gene therapy products in response to COVID-19, saw unprecedented profits for Pfizer and Moderna, as noted by senator Bernie Sanders.

Speed came at the cost of compromised clinical trials, with needles entering arms under Emergency Use Authorization with only two months of safety data on the FDA’s books.

As a result, tens of thousands of Americans report suffering vaccine injuries, as even The New York Times is now reporting.

Given the increasingly vocal opposition to the COVID-19 vaccination program, including among his base, why does Trump continue to demand acclaim for his role in pushing the shots through?

We find the answer in Susie Wiles, who appears to be the connective tissue between Trump and Big Pharma.

Wiles is a soft-spoken, approachable grandmother figure with a long career specializing in political machinations.

Daughter of legendary NFL play-by-play man Pat Summerall, Wiles’ early work in Republican politics earned her the label “indispensable,” both to her clients and the media, to whom she frequently leaks inside information.

As Politico admits, her allegiances are not clear: “The Wiles M.O… was and remains hard for [her colleagues] to describe.”

Wiles is also a seasoned lobbyist; her LinkedIn profile summarizes her leadership roles at multiple corporate and political lobbying firms since the mid-1980s, allowing her to sway Trump’s psyche with her conflicts of interest.

Wiles became co-chair of lobbying firm Mercury Public Affairs in February 2022.

As highlighted by Wholistic News, Mercury’s clientele includes Pfizer; Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which spearheaded vaccine funding and distribution efforts during the COVID-19 crisis – a role also played by the United Nations Foundation, another Mercury client; and Gilead Sciences, developer of the equally-rushed COVID-19 “therapeutic,” remdesivir, as critiqued in Science. (Full article.)

So what does that say about RFK Jr.’s chance of having any kind of real authority to do what he is claiming he is going to do, when Trump himself called his views on vaccines as “Fake” just a few months ago?

The Substack page called “Wholistic News” also did a piece of Susie Wiles earlier this year highlighting her connection to Big Pharma vaccines, and not only here in the U.S., but globally with ties to the Bill Gates organization, GAVI: The Vaccine Alliance, which purchases vaccines for the United Nations.

Trump Trashes RKF Jr. Over Vaccine Stance: The Global Vaccine Activism Organizations Connected to His Campaign

Trump’s Save American PAC Chair is Susie Wiles, who has significant ties to Big Pharma and Gavi: The Vaccine Alliance.

In a recent statement on Truth Social (see below), Trump expressed a preference for Biden over RFK Jr and criticized the latter’s views on vaccines as “fake.” This has sparked questions about Trump’s refusal to acknowledge concerns about covid vaccines.

Notably, Trump had previously tweeted about a link between vaccines and autism back in 2014. Many are wondering what has changed Trump’s mind about vaccine safety.

Tom Renz, a Trump supporter, has raised concerns about the influence of campaign leader Susie Wiles, a key figure behind the scenes in Trump’s campaign.

Wiles has strong connections to Big Pharma through her work at Mercury LLC, a company representing major pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Gilead, as well as Gavi: The Vaccine Allience and the UN Foundation. (Source.)

So sorry to disappoint all you Trump believers who foolishly thought Trump would correct all the wrongs he made in his first administration when he killied millions of people as he pressured the FDA to approve his COVID-19 experimental “vaccines.”

Now that he has won the election, he is clearly showing where his allegiances continue to be, and you can be quite certain that Mr. Kennedy will never have any meaningful position in his administration that can affect change.

But Trump has to pay him back for his support, so expect the Wall Street Billionaires and Silicon Valley Billionaires to keep funding Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense organization, where I am sure it will now become the largest “Alternative” Health website in the world.

Mr. Kennedy will most likely have to take a REDUCTION in salary to serve in government, as the most recently available tax returns from 2022 list him as making about a half million dollars a year at Children’s Health Defense, which is more than Dr. Anthony Fauci made as the highest paid government official, before his retirement.

Mr. Kennedy’s salary has dramatically increased since COVID, going from $255,000 in 2019 to $345,561 in 2020 to $497,013 in 2021. (Source.)

The revenue coming into CHD has more than doubled each year of their existence, from $1,063,837 in 2018 to $2,928,566 in 2019, to $6,769,658 in 2020, the year COVID started, to an astounding $15,990,132 in 2021.

So while Mr. Kennedy will get some of kind of token place in Trump’s administration, the main benefit for that position will most likely be increased revenue for Children’s Health Defense, where he will probably eventually return to with a “modest” increase in his salary after his “service” to Trump is complete.

Stay tuned for more editions of “SWAMP Watch” as we watch Donald Trump fill back up the D.C. Swamp!

by Adil Faouzi

Morocco conducted 70 cloud seeding operations in 2024 to combat drought.

Doha – Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water, revealed earlier this week that Morocco has conducted 70 cloud seeding operations in 2024 as part of its efforts to combat the drought crisis.

These operations were carried out using both aerial and ground-based methods in specific regions of the country.

Speaking at the House of Councillors on Tuesday, Baraka emphasized that Morocco is among the few countries in the world that possesses the capabilities to carry out “artificial rain” operations and has extensive experience in this field.

He also noted that Morocco has been instrumental in transferring this technology to several African countries.

The minister explained that cloud seeding is a complex and costly process, currently implemented in limited areas of Morocco, such as the provinces of Azilal, El Hajeb, and Beni Mellal.

Cloud seeding operations were not responsible for recent floods
These regions were chosen based on their available resources and the presence of a fleet equipped to carry out this technique. However, he mentioned that there are plans to expand this experience to other parts of the country.

Morocco has carried out a total of 140 artificial rain operations since 2021, including 52 aerial operations and 88 ground-based operations using generators.

A total of 21 cloud seeding operations were conducted in 2021, Baraka highlighted, detailing that this number increased to 27 in 2022 and 22 in 2023.

Approximately 70 operations were carried out in 2024, with 30 using ground-based methods and 40 utilizing aerial means.

The minister clarified that the recent floods in some southern provinces of Morocco were not related to the cloud seeding operations, contrary to rumors circulating on some websites. No cloud seeding activities were conducted in the flood-affected areas, he stressed.

Baraka pointed out that precise data determines the timing and method of conducting cloud seeding operations. Extreme weather conditions are avoided based on warning bulletins indicating heavy rainfall to prevent any negative impact. The focus remains solely on drought situations.

The artificial rain program involves the collaboration of several government bodies, including the Ministry of Equipment and Water, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Agriculture, the National Defense Administration, the Royal Gendarmerie, and the National High Committee for the “Al-Ghaith Program.”

Recent rainfall across Morocco has brought a welcome surge in dam reserves, which reached a volume of 5 billion cubic meters on October 31, according to Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment and Water.

This boost raises the national reservoir fill rate to 29.7%, an improvement of nearly 5 percentage points over last year’s figure of 24.8% at the same time.

via Morocco World News

by Pepe Escobar

© Photo: Public domain

The Talmudic psychos not only obsessed on breathing fire against the Axis of Resistance but now also going after Russian national interests.

A case could be made that Iran’s Ballistic Retaliation Night, a measured response to Israel’s serial provocations, is less consequential when it comes to the efficacy of the Axis of Resistance than the decapitation of Hezbollah’s leadership.

Still, the message was enough to send the Talmudic psychopathologicals into a frenzy; for all their hysterical denials and massive spin, Iron Toilet Paper and the Arrow system were de facto rendered useless.

The IRGC made it known that the volley of missiles was inaugurated by a single hypersonic Fatteh 2 which took out the Arrow 3 air defense system’s radar – capable of intercepting missiles in the atmosphere.

And well-informed Iranian military sources stated that hackers went on heavy cyberattack mode to disrupt the Iron Dome system just before the start of the operation.

The IRGC finally confirmed that just about 90% of the intended targets were hit; the implication was that each target was supposed to be visited by several missiles, with some getting intercepted.

It’s open to wide speculation how many F-35s and F-15s were ultimately destroyed or damaged on two air bases, one of which, Nevatim, in the Negev, becoming literally inoperable.

The Iran-Russia military entente – part of their soon to be signed comprehensive strategic partnership – was in effect. The IRGC used the recently supplied Russian electromagnetic jammer to blind Israel-NATO GPS systems – including those of U.S. aircrafts. That explains the Iron Dome far off hitting the empty night skies.

Framing Iran’s retaliation as a casus belli

None of that substantially changed the deterrence equation. Israel continues to bomb southern Beirut. The pattern remains the same: whenever they’re hit, the genocidals cry out in pain or whine like annoying babies even as their killing machine keeps going – with unarmed civilians as privileged targets.

The bombing never stops – and it won’t, from Palestine to Lebanon and Syria, across West Asia, and leading to the “response” to Iran’s Ballistic Night.

Iran is in an extremely tough geopolitical and military position – not to mention geoeconomic, still under a tsunami of sanctions. Obviously the leadership in Tehran is fully aware of the trap being set by the Talmudic-American Zionist combo – which want to lure Iran into a major war.

Jake Sullivan, one of the stalwarts of the Biden combo which is really dictating U.S. policy (on behalf of their sponsors), considering the pathetic condition of the zombie in the White House, all but spelled it out:

“We have made clear that there will be consequences – severe consequences – for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make sure that’s the case.”

Translation: Retaliation Night is being spun as a casus belli. U.S.-Israel are already blaming Iran for the possibly incoming Mega-War in West Asia.

This war is the Holy of the Holies since at least the Cheney regime days – two decades ago. And yet Tehran, if it so decided, already has what it takes to raze Israel to the ground. They won’t do it because the price to pay would be unbearable.

Even if the Talmudic psychos and the Zio-cons finally got their wish, a remote possibility, this war, after a devastating bombing campaign, could only be won with massive U.S. boots on the ground. Whatever the spin rolling on Zio-con controlled Think Tankland/ media swamp, that won’t happen.

And still the March of Folly proceeds uninterrupted: the Zionist Project, a U.S./Israel deadly embrace, against Iran. But with a potent diferential: the back up of Russia and, further behind, China. These three are the key BRICS triad. They are at the vanguard of trying to build a new, fair multinodal world. And not by accident they happen to be the top three existential “threats” to the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder.

With Project Ukraine going down the drain of History, as well as burying for good the “rules-based international order” in the black soil of Novorossiya, the real major front of the One War, the new incarnation of Forever Wars, is Iran.

In parallel, Moscow and Beijing fully realize that the more Exceptionalistan gets bogged down in West Asia, the more room of maneuver they have to accelerate the draining of the wobbly Leviathan.

Gaza-on-the-Litani

Hezbollah has a seriously though spell ahead. Resources – especially supply of weapons and military equipment, through Syria and by air from Iran to Lebanon – will become increasingly scarce. Compare it to Israel’s unlimited supply chain from Exceptionalistan – not to mention tons of money.

Israel intel is far from shabby – as commandos went deep, in secret, into Hezbollah territory collecting info on the fortification network. When – in fact if – they reach populated areas in Southern Lebanon, then it will be bombing dementia plus heavy artillery against residential areas.

That operation might well be called Gaza-on-the Litani. It will happen only if Hezbollah’s complex network in southern Lebanon is cracked – a major “if”.

Jeffrey Sachs, for all his good intentions, went as far as he could to characterize Israelis as judeo supremacist extremist terrorists. Virtually the whole Global Majority is now aware of it.

What comes next in Talmudic-Zio-con planning may include a ghastly false flag, possibly after the U.S. presidential election, for instance on a NATO vessel or on U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf, to lock up the new administration into the long-planned U.S. war on Iran. Dick Cheney will have an orgasm – and croak.

The BRICS summit in Kazan under the Russian presidency is less than three weeks away. In sharp contrast to genocide and serial wars in West Asia, Putin and Xi will be standing by the – open – door on behalf of BRICS+, welcoming scores of nations that are fleeing the collective West like the plague.

Russia is now fully behind Iran – and as much as in floundering Ukraine, that means Russia at war with the U.S./Israel; after all the Pentagon is directly shooting down Iranian missiles, while Israel is the U.S.’s de facto pre-eminent state, fully, fiscally supported by U.S. taxpayers.

It gets trickier by the minute. Immediately after a very important meeting between Alexander Lavrentiev, Putin’s special envoy to Syria, and Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Tel Aviv went Full Dementia – what else – and targeted warehouses of Russian forces in Syria.

There was a joint Russia-Syria air defense response. What that shows is the Talmudic psychos not only obsessed on breathing fire against the Axis of Resistance but now also going after Russian national interests. This can get very ugly for them in a flash – and is yet one more illustration that the name of the (new, deadly) game is U.S./Israel vs. Russia/Iran.

Original article: Strategic Culture Fundation

• For the last few centuries states have been the primary actors in global affairs. But when we look at the US we can’t assess its foreign policy on the basis of its supposed national interest – the US has imperial interests and these interests often coincide with the interests of nonstate actors, with finance and technology companies in the lead. These are not merely large multinational corporations; they have taken control of aspects of society, the economy, and national security that were once the exclusive preserve of the state. It’s a form of Ultra-imperialism that demands a new strategy of contrast and resistance.
• These companies exercise a form of sovereignty over an expanding realm: finance and digital space. Although this isn’t the first time that private corporations and banking giants have played a major role in geopolitics—consider the East India Company, Big Oil, the Rothschilds etc. — but earlier giants could never match the pervasive global presence of today’s finance and technology firms. They do not operate or wield power exclusively in physical space. They have created a new dimension in geopolitics, digital space, over which they exercise primary influence as people are increasingly living out their lives in this vast territory, where the digital and the physical are enmeshed. Political scientists still rely on a classification system that has become obsolete: “democracies,” “autocracies,” and “hybrid regimes,” which combine elements of both.
• Techno-feudalism has been suggested as a new category, though it doesn’t fully account for the totalitarian and opaque nature of this new form of government. Even as feudal subjects were separated through distinctions of class, guild, and estate, medieval vertical social relations and duties remained holistic. Economic obligations were derived from hierarchical bonds of political authority. While those bonds were unfree, they provided transparent recognition that one’s social position was embedded within the web of relations connecting the individual to the community.
• US nonstate actors penetrate virtually all aspects of civic, economic, and private life. A generation ago, the Internet accelerated globalization. Now, in the context of great powers rivalry and the formation of a new multipolar world, the fragmentation of the digital landscape makes operating on a truly global scale increasingly difficult for these US companies. And they have only themselves to blame – the weaponization of information, culture, social media, finance etc. to wage a hybrid war and advance US imperial interests has backfired. @LauraRuHK

by Serghey Markov (translated by Algora)

In October, cardinal decisions on Russia may be made. This will happen at a meeting of the leaders of the main Western countries, the USA, Britain, France, Germany. Perhaps they will decide to offer Russia a truce – before the elections, so that Harris wins.

Most likely, they will accept Russia’s ultimatum: agree to its terms of a truce. Or they will begin missile strikes on Moscow. Apparently, first in November, strikes on the Moscow region. And in January, strikes on Moscow.

Biden is flying to Germany especially for this meeting.

Another point of the negotiations is Europe’s support for the falsification of the elections in favor of Harris.

The UN General Assembly voted almost unanimously for the Future Pact, which contains humanity’s plans to solve climate problems, end wars and combat inequality.
A wonderful pact. But Russia did not support it. Together with Belarus, Iran, the DPRK, Syria and Sudan.

Russia demanded that the UN Future Pact not violate the sovereignty of countries. So that it does not happen like this: the UN Secretary General tells some country that the organizing committee of the Future Pact is very unhappy with how the country’s government is fighting against Global Warming, so it was decided that now this country will be represented in all international organizations not by government representatives, but by special commissioners appointed by the US and the EU at the request of the UN Secretary General. And if they object, they will be bombed – for too much carbon dioxide emissions.

Besides, Russia really didn’t like that this entire Future Pact was developed under the complete control of the West. Give the West the future as well? – Russia definitely doesn’t want that.

The presumed first assassin shows up on top of the adjacent building within eyesight of the podium. And nobody notices him. OK, the security personnel were corrupt, working for the democrats, for Biden. So, our poor Trump is out there by himself, nobody cared about his safety. Not even Netanyahu, his friend, and his Mossad apparatus. It was just Trump by himself heroically taking his stand against the Establishment as a people’s candidate. 

Now the “assassin” pulls the trigger and just as he does that, Trump turns his head… Wait a minute – he turned to his left, exposing his head in full view of the crosshairs, in other words perpendicular to the direction from which the assassin was shooting.

No matter. He, Trump, ducks right after the shooting, apparently in full control of himself, and spends a few long seconds under the rostrum, out of everybody’s view, surrounded by his aides… And then he emerges with his face smeared by a red-colored substance on his cheek and ear. No flowing blood. No shredded ear. Nothing. We could barely see some kind of darker point in the middle of his ear. Smaller than a BB-gun pellet. But most importantly, his ear was fully intact.

Now let’s compare the size of the smallest BB to a sharp-shooter’s bullet. I admit I am not an arms expert, it just that I’ve seen a real gun bullet and it is one of these

But what we’ve seen in the video following Trump’s reappearance was a dark spot half the size of a BB gun pellet.

Imagine what a real gunshot would have done to his ear. Completely blown it away. Yes, completely blown it away.

So, the most likely explanation of the attempted assassination is that the guy, the “assassin”, was set up with the full knowledge of Trump’s security personnel and had some blanks in his gun. He pulled the trigger, it made a ‘pop,’ Trump ducked and he had some red substance smeared on his face.

… As for the second shooter, don’t waste your time. It’s even more a fabrication.

When will the US approve long-range missile strikes on targets deep inside Russia? This does not depend at all on Zelensky’s visits and requests. And not even on the situation at the front – everything is stable there.
The main priority of the US presidential administration is Kamala Harris’s victory in the presidential election. Therefore, everything is subordinated to this victory. And decisions on strikes on Russia will also be made taking into account Harris’s campaign. How exactly?
1. If Harris wins in election surveys, then the decision on escalation of the conflict in Ukraine will be announced by Washington after the elections. For a simple reason – so as not to present Harris as a “candidate for nuclear war”. And 83% of Americans are afraid of the hybrid war in Ukraine escalating into a nuclear war. That is, the White House will try not to create acute crises so as not to disrupt the successful campaign.
2. If Harris is clearly losing, then the decision on escalation will be announced in October – in order to disrupt the course of the election campaign. An acute crisis will be created to try to unite voters around Harris on the principle of “around the flag”.
3. Therefore, it is already necessary to look at election surveys in the USA, taking into account the corrections, and on this basis confidently predict the moment of the “Ukrainian missile crisis”.

Serghey Markov