Reader’s Links for July 12th, 2026

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

**New intelligence suggests a specific course of action concerning use of Substack. For a variety of reasons, who owns it, and who owns the ONLY company that monetizes authors on Substack, the question for us has always been, ‘Why is Substack allowed to exist?” I believe the answer is now known to us. It collects data on you and who you are connected to. Substack does have the best writers out there for counter-narrative views, and does allow the authors to make money at it. Which is suspicious already. But the reasons were made known to us by a Cyber-security professional. The solution seems to be to use a dedicated browser, ONLY for substack. There are many good ones out there now. So downloading another browser is easy. Get the DuckduckGo go one, or Brave or one of many others and use it ONLY for substack and clear cookies after use. Like washing your plate after you eat.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like. But use it safely.

ADDENDUM: 

This site operates more at the philosophical level of the communist/Islamic revolution which is obliterating Western Civilization. Politics, culture, law are all down stream from philosophy. Understanding the philosophy of the attack is to understand what is an attack and develop tactics, both individually and collectively against them. The attack comes entirely (so far) in the form of Dialectics. To understand dialectics, watch and read everything you can by Maj. (Ret.) Stephen Coughlin.

Here is a repost of the simplest explanation, or at least the shortest one, we have been able to think of so far (Placed here by request)

We as humans communicate mostly via conventions. In other words, we decide what a word means by what we, as a culture want it to mean, then fix the term as a convention via a dictionary

or other means so we can express what we want to each other and be understood. It’s a group process more or less but based on what we want expressions, words, concepts and taxonomy to mean.

Dialectics is the imposition of meaning on existing terms for a political outcome which is destructive to what we all consider meaning. It is a complete hijacking of Meaning.

This also applies to taxonomy. The most underrated aspect of epistemology. Of how we see ourselves. Of how we understand the world, via categories. Via labels.

Dialectical taxonomy is what forces us to change everything we think about sexuality and accept political sexuality such as the Trans-movement.

Or somehow convincing everyone that the German National Socialist Worker’s Party is somehow “far right wing”, which may be the most masterful dialectical con of the 20th century.

This deserves a proper essay. But I just want to get the thought out there.

Imposing, forcing meaning on us. Changing terms to mean what a group of tyrants what us to think they mean as opposed to what they do mean and more or less always have meant.

Making words mean something other than what we meant them to mean, then banning or criminalizing them because of their imputed meaning, even though they were good, useful terms that helped hold our culture together.

Attacking us for using perfectly good words with important meanings, then telling us what we meant by what we said, then cancelling us for it in the pre-revolutionary stage, and now in the UK outright arrest you now that the revolution is all but complete.

That is dialectics.

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21 Replies to “Reader’s Links for July 12th, 2026”

  2. This comment below Dima’s latest video sounds just like the stuff I’m reading in Russian media comment threads:

    “Putin is already talking with his oligarchs on how to politely ask Trump to limit American attacks on Russia – maybe he will go to another meeting in Anchorage so he can clean Trump’s shoes and then Trump will like him better – but first Dimitriev has to meet with Kushner in Jerusalem and the Jewish National Congress will instruct them how this war will continue to be fought.

    “One important message from Putin to the Russian media: please don’t show to the Russians how the Iranian leaders fight and win the war with the West because seeing that the Russians will kick me out of power, the war will be finished and the oligarchs around the world won’t make any money.”

  3. List of “priority targets” for Iran being passed around on Telegram fwiw:

    -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu;
    -US President Donald Trump;
    – Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz;
    -Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth;
    -US Secretary of State Marco Rubio;
    -Central Command Commander Brad Cooper;
    -US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee;
    -Head of the Israeli administration Eyal Zamir;
    -Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar;
    -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz;
    -French President Emmanuel Macron;
    -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

    https://t.me/s/readovkanews

    • Nothing says more about VVP’s “SMO” in Ukr than a glance at my favorite German communist website. Fiercely determined to divert previous obsessive coverage of it, now dreamy speculation about what is-realis might be planning for eye-ran.

      Then there’s this Armenian fanboy of VVP, usually a good source of info about military tech on the front, he descends to this:

      “The Kitschification of America”

      That what President Trump truly exemplifies, at the heart of it all, is the kitschification of America.

      For those unfamiliar with the term, kitsch represents a kind of cheap, low effort aesthetic that is often a mishmash of pop-culture sediment scraped lazily together and popularized in the 50s and 60s for the sake of consumerist memorabilia in the form of little gewgaws and cheap souvenir shop trinkets…

      [K]itsch is in some ways the embodiment of a culture of excess, a culture that has reached its zenith, its peak flowering phase, and has begun to wilt, shedding its invasive spores haphazardly over the once-virgin garden. It is the exaltation of “memeified” cultural tokens to the point of parody, which had come long before the invention of internet ‘memes’. It purposely calls attention to itself, to become a kind of self-mockery…

      It resonates even in the chosen names: Golden Dome, Golden Age, Make America Great Again, a strange kind of spiritually inert alchemy in reverse—turning what was once real gold, into fool’s gold and other debased byproducts.

      Considering these facts forces you into an understanding of how Trump’s aesthetic vision for America reimagines the nation as a kind of Potemkin village of kitsch memetics long unbound from the core cultural groundings that had actually once given these ideas life.

      https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-kitschification-of-america

  4. For once I like Seth Frantzman’s editorial:

    Israel Doesn’t Need Unconditional U.S. Support to Be Confident in Its Own Strength

    If you read the headlines, you might think everything in Israel is doom and gloom – lurching from crisis to crisis. In fact, after more than 1,000 days of a multifront war, the overall picture is positive. Israel is still a dynamic country, rapidly growing, with a strong economy. Defense exports are at an all-time high. Israel is not more isolated and threatened. Israel has thrived from the 1950s until today under different types of threats.

    The expectation that Israel must receive complete support from the U.S., or else there is an existential crisis, creates an impossible burden on the relationship. There is a tendency to view a lot of Israel’s friendships abroad as a kind of zero-sum game. Either it’s perfect, or it’s bad.

    https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-902027

  5. THE “NAKBA” EXHIBIT AT THE CANADIAN MUSEUM OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS A DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN

    The “Palestine Uprooted” exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg demonstrates how a one-sided portrayal that advances an anti-Zionist political agenda can exacerbate burgeoning antisemitism and undermine the safety of the Canadian Jewish community.

    Culture Minister Marc Miller called it an “error in curation” that “should be rectified.” Misinformation and disinformation must not be used to propagandize a political, ideological, theological or partisan agenda. We should acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but it is also necessary to understand who caused it and who is perpetrating it and why.

    Prior to Israel’s independence, incoming prime minister David Ben-Gurion urged Arabs to stay. His comments were consistent with Israel’s Declaration of Independence, which called on the Arab inhabitants to “participate in the building of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship.”

    Nevertheless, up to 750,000 fled, in part, at the urging of Arab leaders and fear of war, with the promise that they could return as soon as Israel was defeated. This evacuation would not have occurred had five Arab countries not declared war on Israel and then attacked it.

    Yet 150,000 Arabs remained after the war and their descendants today constitute a Palestinian minority of over two million Israeli citizens. That contrasts with 3,500-4,000 Jews currently living in Arab countries. Nearly 950,000 Jews were driven out from countries they had lived in for two millennia, starting in 1947.

    So Jews also suffered a “Nakba,” which the UN never recognized. Neither catastrophe was caused by the creation of the State of Israel, but rather by Arab hostility to its creation.

    No group’s refusal to recognize Israel has been more intense than that of the Palestinian leaders, with tragic consequences. On numerous occasions, Israel was prepared to sign a peace agreement with the Palestinian authorities but was repeatedly rejected.

    https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-4

  6. COORDINATED ANTI-ISRAEL PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN BLINDSIDED THE WEST AFTER OCT. 7

    Shortly after the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, Canadian political strategist Warren Kinsella began noticing the fingerprints of a professional propaganda campaign, documented in his new book, The Hidden Hand: The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda.

    Hamas and its networks, along with their Western followers, had thousands of social media accounts primed, protest banners ready, and talking points translated into multiple languages long before the IDF response to the carnage had even begun.

    What may appear to be spontaneous outrage on Western streets and social feeds was, in fact, a coordinated political operation that could only be executed by state actors and professional agitators. Jew-hatred is being mainstreamed by outlaw states and extremist groups who use tools of modern campaigning. And, he says, Western democracies have barely begun to respond.

    In October 2023, “there were thousands of protests around the planet using the same slogans,” said Kinsella. That was either “one hell of a coincidence” or evidence of central planning. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has accused Iran of seeking to fund and encourage anti-Israel protests.

    Kinsella said, “The bad guys have unlimited resources and armies of propaganda,” with which they have successfully convinced Westerners that Israel is a “white supremacist colonial state bent on destroying a powerless non-white minority.”

    The book cites Marc Ginsberg, head of the Washington-based Coalition for a Safer Web, who claims Iran and Qatar were two of the top funders of paid protesters, professional organizers, and top-tier lobby efforts. “These anti-Israel pro-Hamas people are well supported,” Kinsella said.

    The campaign found fertile ground on campus quads, where fringe pro-Palestinian groups had already built networks. Activists arrive in rental vans, unload professionally printed signs that can cost up to $100 each, lay out food and drink, and distribute scripts and legal hotlines in case of arrest. Organizers in reflective vests and walkie-talkies marshal chants and photo ops.

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/coordinated-anti-israel-propaganda-campaign-blindsided-the-west-after-oct-7-author-says/

    Some long-winded jerk who commented here asserts he doesn’t believe in “anti-sem-“: it’s fake, a construct of evil joooz. Others are willing to engage in leisurely philosophical debate about it.

    Well, there are those who certainly DO believe in it’s UTILITY, at any rate. And invest big-time to promote it.

    • believe in _it’s_ UTILITY

      _its_

      they’re
      their
      there

      Let’s eat, Grandma!
      vs.
      Let’s eat Grandma!

      Little things mean a lot…

  7. Institute for the Study of War:
    IRAN USING GULF ATTACKS TO FORCE CONTROL OVER STRAIT OF HORMUZ SHIPPING

    Iran is threatening the resumption of large-scale conflict by striking civilian vessels and the Gulf states to try to achieve permanent control over the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s attacks illustrate that Iran views control over the strait as its primary strategic deterrent and that Iran is unlikely to abandon its efforts to control the strait in response to opposition from the Gulf states.

    Recent U.S. strikes have had no visible effect on Iran’s ability to threaten shipping. Iran likely calculates that it can use control of the strait as economic leverage to shape U.S. decision-making and deter further U.S. military action.

    The Institute for the Study of War and the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute continue to assess that any arrangement that recognizes Iranian control over the strait would preserve Iran’s ability to close the strait at will to advance its strategic objectives.

    https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-special-report-july-9-2026/
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    WaPoo:
    BRIBING THE IRANIAN REGIME HASN’T WORKED – Editorial

    The experiment with appeasing the Islamic Republic of Iran didn’t last long. The U.S. revoked an oil sanctions waiver on Tuesday after Iranian forces fired on three tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. The reality is that diplomacy was doomed from the start.

    The Iranian regime perceived the White House decision to end the fighting under political pressure and offer multibillion-dollar sanctions relief not as a sign of goodwill but proof of weakness. Apparently, direct discussions aren’t enough to persuade the men who control Iran’s military that it’s in their interest to stop shooting at shipping vessels or executing political dissidents.

    As the White House weighs a post-ceasefire strategy, it sees that releasing tens of billions of dollars to a regime that won’t honor its end of the bargain will embolden it to ask for more. The administration can ratchet up sanctions pressure, impose an embargo on Iranian oil, and take limited kinetic action when necessary. There will be pressure to go back to the tired playbook of bribing the regime into good behavior, but that hasn’t worked recently and it won’t work again.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/07/08/trump-iran-appeasement-collapsed-can-he-stick-better-strategy/
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    Russian editorial sees it the same way:
    A TRUMP CARD THAT CANNOT BE KNOCKED OUT

    Everything revolves around a single geographic point. The Strait of Hormuz is 34 kilometers at its narrowest point. Before the war, about 20% of the world’s oil trade and a comparable share of liquefied natural gas passed through it. Three thousand ships a month. Now, almost zero.

    And here’s the trick. The Iranians don’t need to declare a blockade, sink tankers, or burn ports. It’s enough to remind them that they can only sail along the IRGC’s “approved routes,” and that alternative routes will be met with disaster. And the ships turn around on their own. The shipowner is guided not by ideology, but by insurance: one burned tanker is worth more than any beautiful statement about freedom of navigation.

    This trump card can’t be knocked out with missiles. To truly guarantee passage, it’s necessary not to engage eighty targets, but to clear the entire coastline of Hormozgan province (radars, launchers, boats, mines, warehouses). drones) and hold on for months. This isn’t a “series of strikes” anymore; it’s a ground operation and being drawn into a major war. The one no one wants.

    https://en.topwar.ru/285953-proliv-shredingera-pochemu-bolshoj-vojny-v-zalive-ne-budet-i-pochemu-radovatsja-nechemu.html

    • Yaroslav Trofimov:
      ASPIRING TO REGIONAL DOMINATION, IRAN IS READY TO ESCALATE OVER HORMUZ

      For the Iranian regime, keeping a chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz has turned out to be more important than the tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief from the Trump administration. Iranian officials believe the country has finally emerged as a regional hegemon and is seeking to cement its new status by securing permanent arrangements to control the vital waterway – and dominating the Persian Gulf economies along with it.

      “This is the only way: recognize the new Iranian order in the Strait of Hormuz,” warned Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security commission. “The Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats,” added the parliament’s speaker and the lead negotiator with the U.S., Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.

      This attitude heralds a rocky future, with continuing uncertainty for global energy markets and a Damoclean Sword of renewed strikes hanging over the Gulf monarchies…

      The Iranian regime views the oil-rich Gulf monarchies as belonging to its own natural sphere of influence – a sphere denied to it by America ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Tehran’s drive to institutionalize Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz reflects its ambition to establish a new Pax Iranica in the Middle East.

      Iran’s perception of itself as a new regional hegemon is delusional given how much its military has been degraded, how much its network of proxy forces in the Middle East has been weakened, and how much its economy has been suffocated…

      https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/https-www-wsj-com-world-middle-east-iran-deal-strait-of-hormuz-b027c30f-580ee99f

      • I’ll believe this, the entire Western Liberal establishment will quickly surrender to them.

        • Surrender monkeys one and all.
          But the Twisted Ones will push too far, find themselves challenged by an alliance they might not anticipate.

  8. Amit Segal @AmitSegal 8h

    Israel had a problem, and Germany had a solution. Israel needs more manufacturing capacity for Iron Dome components. Volkswagen, having failed to establish itself as a leader in electric vehicles and bleeding market share to Chinese imports, has capacity to spare. So the two problems found each other: Volkswagen’s management board green-lit converting a production line to defense manufacturing under a deal with Israel’s Rafael, saving thousands of German jobs in the process. A win-win.

    Until the Qataris intervened and sank the deal.

    Why do the Qataris have a say in what German factories build? Because, according to Bild, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 10.4 percent of Volkswagen’s shares and 17 percent of its voting rights – and it vetoed the deal for one reason: the company slated to manufacture at the plant is Israeli. Qatar spent years funding Israel’s enemies and is now spending its equity blocking Israel from intercepting the missiles it paid for.

    Volkswagen confirmed that its Qatari shareholders vetoed the cooperation at the Osnabrück plant but said it would keep seeking partnerships to save the site. Good luck to the 2,300 workers employed there – all facing layoffs by the end of 2027.

    The Qataris had help, of course. Peace activists and opposition parties had criticized the conversion from the start, insisting Volkswagen manufacture only for the civilian market – never mind that everyone in Germany has understood for over a year that tens of thousands of jobs are gone without exactly this kind of reform.

    The protests intensified once the partner turned out to be Israeli, with radical left-wing activists, backed by the Left Party, declaring it “a deal that the German public cannot accept” given Netanyahu’s military activity across the Middle East.

    And this is not just about Volkswagen. According to Bild, the $4.2 billion deal for German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd to acquire Israel’s Zim is also apparently collapsing—and here too, senior Israeli sources point to Gulf money inside the German corporation: the Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 12.3 percent of Hapag-Lloyd, the Saudi fund another 10.2 percent.

    Nor is the creeping problem exclusive to Germany…

    https://xcancel.com/AmitSegal/status/2076328120831938831#m

    • This is one of the reasons the violence will spread around the world, there will be no true leader like Hitler or Tojo so there won’t be any coordinated violence just violence in every nation that requires massive effort to stop. This is one of the reasons I am predicting a long war.

  9. Yishai Elmakies | Yishai Elmakies @yishai_elmakyes 9h

    The IDF’s “number 1 most wanted” in southern Lebanon – captured:

    This is how the Yahalam unit describes the J-AHM – an Iranian-made anti-helicopter mine, dozens of which were captured in Hezbollah tunnels in the Beaufort Ridge and taken for examination in Israel.

    Hezbollah feared IDF helicopter raids on their power centers, so they planned to plant these mines in areas that could be helicopter landing pads. There, the mines launch themselves to a height of tens of meters.

    Until now, the IDF had no idea what exactly this thing looked like, and the Americans themselves were afraid of encountering such mines in the rescue operations of their pilots who were injured and abandoned in Iran.

    https://xcancel.com/yishai_elmakyes/status/2076320680916779069#m

    ~~~
    The thing jumps tens of meters into the air, explodes at the landing pad, and destroys the helicopter.