Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public. “I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is. Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution. Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress. And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits. What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing. We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order. Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government. So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization. We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war. So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?” Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.

ARRESTED FOR PROTESTING AGAINST THE KILLING OF BABIES Susan Sarandon is 79 years old. It’s insane that she’s being treated this way simply for exercising her First Amendment rights.

⚡️BREAKING: Iran has Officially Completed Construction of the Strategic 730-Kilometer Chabahar-Zahedan Railway Line This railway will connect the Landlocked Central Asian Countries to the Indian Ocean and will be fully operational within three to four months The construction of this entire Project has been Extremely Challenging and Includes: - 33 Stations - 39 Tunnels - 201 Bridges

The real name is the Yemeni Armed Forces, not the Houthis. Yemen is a state, an army, a people, a government, and a land. We are not just a group, a party, or a sect. We are Yemen, we are the Yemenis, we are Ansar Allah (Supporters of God). As for the victories achieved by the Yemeni army and the spoils it seized from the fleeing Saudi mercenaries, this is just the beginning, and it is not the first time we have seized weapons from Saudi mercenaries who are running away from us.

A Varesh Airlines flight from Tehran to Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan, had to return to IKA Airport in Tehran after neighbouring countries between Iran and Tajikistan had denied passage of this Iranian passenger plane. The Iranian plane then attempted to use an alternative route and enter Tajikistan via Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijan did not allow that either. It’s very very unfortunate that our neighbouring countries are submitting to Trump’s forceful request. What’s sad is that if the roles were reversed, Iran would probably have been the first country to help them. Massive loss of respect.

Imagine proudly showing the world evidence of a major terror attack you ordered.

Palantir and Anthropic targeted Minab school, aided by Pentagon stale data and Hegseth psychopathy stripping target review staff. And it was a triple tap, not a double tap. Children killed on first strike. Parents killed by second strike getting surviving children. Rescue workers killed by third strike rushing in after second strike. Unforgivable.

Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.

LAVROV & ARAGHCHI MEET — WARMLY SHAKE HANDS & POSE TOGETHER on SIDELINES of UNGA

After spending several minutes attacking the mayor of New York City, Netanyahu brandishes a weapon his assassination department used for a massive terror attack

Jeffrey Sachs: Netanyahu goes to the UN to accuse the world of antisemitism while Israel faces an ICC arrest warrant over its conduct in Gaza. Trump’s answer is to attack the court itself. “Every speech [Netanyahu] has given at the UN has been deranged, and I listen to the Israeli speeches in this chamber, and they are deranged. They are just accusations. 'The world is antisemitic.' No. The world watches Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people. They watch the genocide taking place in Gaza. They watch these lawless, bigoted so-called leaders who are Netanyahu’s partners in murder and crime, like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and how they taunt and torture the Palestinian people, and how they encourage confiscations of their land and the simple murder of farmers and their families, which is happening in the West Bank to top off what has happened in Gaza. And then this man comes and has the audacity to talk about, 'oh, the great danger of the world is Iran,' and spews hate instead of looking for a way to make peace in the midst of his complete criminality and lawlessness. And when he speaks from the podium, he will be the person who has an arrest warrant for him from the International Criminal Court. And incidentally, because the International Criminal Court identified Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders as criminals, Trump said yesterday that not only is the United States sanctioning the International Criminal Court because the Israel lobby told him to do so, but he called on the international community to leave and dismember the International Criminal Court. In other words, we will just not have justice. We will have annihilation if he decides. That’s what Donald Trump told the world yesterday.” No justice and no law—only annihilation if Trump decides.

This is what happens when you let him get away with genocide. He’s now comfortable making threats to blow up the UN in a fucking UN speech

Huge parts of the world walk out on one of the most justly hated demons on the planet -- Netanyahu -- while about a handful of countries plus small delegations from a few of the US's paid-off tiny colonies remain in an empty hall. Apt symbolism for Israel's global isolation.

Happy 5.1% 10Y America 🎉. Mashallah. Celebrate: it’s the floor two years out. You wanted Iran dragged back to 1970s? Nobody told you Iran isn’t for arrogant amateurs? We’ll return you to 1970s rates, plus high gas prices, diesel shortages and bell-bottoms. Enjoy the nostalgia!

The first Chinese ship of the year has arrived at Arkhangelsk. Arctic Express No. 1 runs from Bely Rast, a dry port and rail terminal in Moscow Oblast, to Arkhangelsk on the White Sea, then east along the Northern Sea Route to China. NewNew Shipping brought in about 880 containers of auto parts. The return load is 540 containers of sawn timber from Lesozavod 25, an Arkhangelsk lumber mill, and nickel concentrate. China already accounts for more than half of Arkhangelsk Oblast’s trade. The cargo moved by rail from the Moscow region, transferred at a working port, crossed the Arctic by ship, and will return with another load. Russia’s Arctic policy is to move tonnage. The Northern Sea Route functions because icebreakers and terminals exist to make it function. The advertised run is 20–25 days. The operators say that can cut 35–55% off the Suez haul from central Russia to Chinese ports. The Arctic is a development frontier of rail, power, ports, and nuclear icebreakers. Eurasia is building the corridor to escape the West’s stranglehold.

Trump’s UN speech was a unipolar speech. The jobs, markets, and crime numbers are wrapping paper. The operative policy is brute force plus the dollar. Putin told the SCO to get out from under finance, which is used as a weapon. Trump’s answer to empty tanks is more naval escorts, economic isolation, and a threat to drive a nation into hell. The Atlanticist illusion is that the City of London and Wall Street can issue any decree, sanction, or ultimatum and the machinery of enforcement will follow. No amount of financial engineering can produce diesel, jet fuel, or heating oil from a disrupted supply chain. Trump’s speech has a theory of how things are controlled. It has no theory of how nations develop. He calls it peace, but its physical content is war: destroyed economies, controlled chokepoints, conquered resources, and munitions plants. The City can control a chokepoint. It cannot print middle distillate.

Alastair Crooke (@AWCrooke): Voting did not open the system. Romania’s election was cancelled until Brussels got the right name. Germany is still talking about banning the AfD. Young people cannot buy a house. Protest meets militarized police. The establishment has closed the exits. “Elections have not changed anything. They may ultimately change something in Germany. I think they will, but not quite yet, because they’re still thinking in Germany about how to ban the AfD from taking part in elections. Remember what happened to Romania when they had an election? It was just cancelled. It was cancelled until they went on and chose the right candidate for Brussels. We have destroyed most of the political bridges. So young people today can’t get a job. The prices of everything are beyond their reach. They can’t afford to buy a house, can’t afford to rent easily. So what are they going to do? If they protest? You’ve probably seen some of the rushes by the armed, militarized police. They just come in great swaths to attack protesters. There were examples of that just in the last days in France. Strong action against protest. If protest doesn’t work, if voting can’t change or reform the system, what is going to happen? Well, people increasingly are going to turn to violence. That’s, I think, sort of inevitable. It’s a pity, but people have lost all confidence, all trust, all sense of believing in the establishment—the European establishment or the Brussels establishment. They are being closed in and closed in, and there’s only one way out.” A system that cancels the vote and criminalizes protest has already abandoned republican government. The living standard is the other ballot. Brussels cannot print that either.

The fascist imperialist will tell you he is guided by a thirst for resources or a divine right to dominate. The liberal imperialist will tell you that he is guided by the “rules-based international order”. Then both will bomb your family and take your wealth.

The Bank of England’s cashier will keep translating genocide into protocol. Carney was posted to Ottawa to destroy the Eurasian Land Bridge. Iran is sitting on a corridor the Empire needs to destroy so the US dollar system doesn’t collapse.

Israel created the largest group of child amputees in the world and then denies them wheelchairs. Just endless depravity.