The Iwo Jima 2.0 pic, immortalizing the Trump fist surviving an assassination attempt, has taken the world by storm – generating everything from a meme tsunami on China’s Weibo to fresh anime in Japan. Not to mention the deluge of hats and T-shirts.

This carefully composed pic changes everything – in more ways than one. So let’s engage in a first attempt to deconstruct it.

 

Iwo Jima 2.0: What story is this picture telling?

BY PEPE ESCOBAR

 

We start with the major losers. The combo running Crash Test Dummy’s teleprompter/earpiece set up is essentially composed by Mike Donilon, Steve Richetti, Bruce Reed and Ted Kaufman.

THIS WAS POSTED BY THE SUNDAY DENVER POST THE DAY AFTER THE SHOOTING... BUT THE UGLY MEDIA DOES NOT STOP THERE...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1cqpvC77Y

Media Worries About Making Trump a Hero By Talking About Assassination Attempt, with Matt Taibbi

 

Megyn Kelly is joined by Matt Taibbi, editor of "Racket News," to discuss the media’s ridiculous coverage and skepticism of Donald Trump’s ear and bandage post-assassination attempt, how they coined the term “photoganda” to discredit the iconic photos of Trump after the shooting, why the left doesn't like that Trump is getting positive attention for his bravery and courage, and more.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpp4-HXuJU4

NATO Just Revealed Its Next Target...You Won't Believe What Happens Next

 

SEE ALSO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxVngkTl5t8

Why China’s Economy isn’t Actually Collapsing?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwckW1VFpOw

Why The Chinese Real Estate Downturn Won’t Sink The Chinese Economy | Ben Harburg

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lU0HtSzNc0

 

Joe Biden has accused Elon Musk “and his rich buddies” of trying to “buy” the US presidential election, following claims that the billionaire is planning to make major contributions to a group that supports Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

“I am sick,” a post on Biden’s personal social media account said on Wednesday, in an apparent reference to his positive Covid-19 test announced the same day. In a reply, the US president continued the sentence: “of Elon Musk and his rich buddies trying to buy this election.”

The post called on Americans to pitch in to Biden’s campaign through ActBlue, the Democratic donation platform. The fundraising platform has been in the spotlight because Thomas Crooks, the man who tried to assassinate Trump at a rally on Saturday, made a small donation to it when he was 17.

America has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of America’s bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts, we just like to fuck around and blow shit up once in a while to let off some steam after a long day. I mean, we quit Afghanistan after like twenty years and we kind of quit Iraq. We could totally go cold turkey and put America first if we wanted too.

 

Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’

By Nicky Reid / CounterPunch

 

Last month the major Democratic Party-aligned think tank in Washington, the Center for American Progress (CAP), announced that former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will launch a new leadership program as part of the Center’s Global Progress Action initiative.

 

Former New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern joins pro-war US think tank

BY Tom Peters

 

In my view, some parts of Mary Kostakidis’ Twitter feed displays a particular and disturbing orientation. Despite that criticism, there should be no doubt that the pro-Israel lobby is engaged in a form of coordinated lawfare against critics of Israel on several fronts. Win or lose, the Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) will attempt to use the case against Kostakidis to discredit those who support Palestine in general as antisemites. This attack is part of a general assault on media critics.

 

Pro-Israel lobby smells blood in coordinated lawfare against media critics    By Larry Stillman and response by Mary Kostakidis

 

Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle - who faces calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination - landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, sources have claimed.

Embattled Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who is facing congressional outcry and calls to resign over security lapses leading to former President Donald Trump’s near-assassination Saturday, landed her role thanks largely to a close relationship with first lady Jill Biden, The Post has learned.

Vance’s top funder, Peter Thiel, co-founded the data-analytics company Palantir, which has the CIA as a client, and was an early investor in Facebook, the CIA’s “wet dream.”

Surging in the polls after surviving an assassination attempt, Donald Trump boosted his prospects of becoming the next president by nominating J. D. Vance as his vice president.

 

BY Jeremy Kuzmarov 

 

Vance is an Ohio Senator whose best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy positioned him as a politician who could empathize with people living in poverty in the Rust Belt.

Hillbilly Elegy recounted Vance’s upbringing in a poor family that also served as a sort of sociological examination of white working-class Americans.

Albanese’s advisers must have been smoking something when they decided that Australia should have envoys against antisemitism and Islamophobia. 

The British elections showed the impact of disenchantment over Gaza among Muslim voters.

 

Albo’s envoys will entrench religious and political divisions for generations   By Jack Waterford

 

US claims Russia threatened by ‘democracy’
Washington has rejected Moscow’s call to address “root causes” of the Ukraine conflict

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller has rejected Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s call for resolving the “root causes” of the Ukraine conflict, arguing that Moscow illegitimately fears a “functioning democracy” in Kiev.

Lavrov spoke at the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday, describing Russia’s military action in Ukraine as the consequence of a security threat by the US and its allies.

Russia’s former president, Dmitry Medvedev, levels a scathing criticism of what he termed the NATO/EU Holy Trinity of leadership. The current Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Unleashed overdue criticism of NATO boss Mark Rutte, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, and Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas. Medvedev’s cutting revelations reveal more evidence of why the Western alliance is disintegrating.  

 

EU Corruption: If It Smells Like a Volga Fish

BY Phil Butler

 

Just days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, theories are flying from all directions. Many who ridiculed the “conspiracy theories” of conservatives are now suggesting the whole event was a set-up to boost Trump in the polls ahead of the election. Others suggest it was the “deep state” or even foreign actors who organized it.

 

by Ron Paul

 

For the sake of America’s security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favour of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.

 

NATO and the deadly strategy of neoconservatism    By Jeffrey D. Sachs

 

Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for US president in the upcoming November election, has tapped JD Vance as his running mate.

The announcement was made on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“After lengthy deliberation and thought, and considering the tremendous talents of many others, I have decided that the person best suited to assume the position of Vice President of the United States is Senator J.D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Monday evening.

James David “JD” Vance is currently the Republican senator from Ohio. He was elected in 2022 to replace the retiring GOP Senator Rob Portman.