Reader’s Links for July 14th, 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.

About Eeyore

Canadian artist and counter-jihad and freedom of speech activist as well as devout Schrödinger's catholic

35 Replies to “Reader’s Links for July 14th, 2026”

  2. Bridge Canada built cost 6.4 billion dollars. Canada will get half the revenue and the State of Michigan gets the other half. AWESOME deal right?

    • Very interesting, nice pix. I’d quibble with his selection of defining attributes.

      He quotes nasty Cicero instead of Julius Caesar, whose writings precede those of Cicero, and who was so friendly he learned to speak Hebrew.

      Odd that he ignores the separation into two traditions, Ashkenazi-Sephardi. They were undifferentiated as early as the Late Roman Republic. Gaul, but not Hispania Romana?

      He shows ancient Greek ruins but ignores the continuous presence of vital communities from classical antiquity to 20th C ethnic cleansing. He talks genetics but doesn’t mention the Sephardic genes of Ashkenazim from the Pale of Settlement.

      • It’s out of my league, but I posted because it seemed relatively fair and interesting. Yes, defining attributes, but had he dwelled on such I would not have posted.

  5. Jonathan Spyer. Paywalled, so here’s a long, slightly edited version.

    ISRAEL’S BUFFER-ZONE MILITARY STRATEGY

    Israel’s conquest of Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon from Hizbullah in May was one of the IDF’s most complex ground operations in recent years. It involved capturing and destroying a complex system of tunnels, built on Hizbullah’s behalf and at Iran’s behest by North Korean engineers over the past decade. The IDF operation isn’t finished…

    Israel’s deployment in southern Lebanon is part of a larger strategy Jerusalem has developed since the massacres of Oct. 7, 2023. It involves establishing Israeli areas of control on borders with territory held by Islamist organizations. Behind the buffer zones now established in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria is a set of ideas that observe a grim reality and provide a concrete and practical response.

    According to this thinking, Israel is at war against several states and state-backed organizations committed to related versions of political Islam. Where these states or their proxies rule, all diplomacy is an illusion, all politics a distraction. That is because there is no reconciling with these forces, which believe solely in their own advance and their enemies’ destruction.

    The Sunni Islamist axis crystallizing around Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan includes the emergent Sunni Islamist regime of President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Syria. Unlike current U.S. policy, policymakers in Jerusalem look past the public-relations campaigns around the Syrian president.

    They see the more than 1,700 Druze slaughtered by government and pro-government forces in Syria’s Sweida province in July 2025. They see veteran jihadists holding senior positions in the military Sharaa is building under Turkish tutelage. Keeping such power a safe distance from Israeli civilians underlies Israel’s thinking and subsequent action.

    Today, small independent jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS pose little threat. What matters is state-led formations that profess loyalty to similar ideas, but are far stronger and more sophisticated. The Iran-led alliance is one formation. The emergent Turkey-led axis is another. Israel sees the rise, advance and goals of these formations and seeks barriers against them…

    Critics say that leads to forever wars. But as in all wars, both sides get a vote. You may not want to engage in protracted conflicts, but if your enemy seeks your destruction, you should plan and act accordingly.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/israels-buffer-zone-military-strategy-c01ba1ac?mod=opinion_lead_pos8

    • More on Beaufort Castle [edited]:

      High on a rocky spur above the Litani River – southern Lebanon rolling away on one side, the Galilee Panhandle spread out on the other – sits Beaufort Castle. The ancient Crusader fortress was once the linchpin of Israel’s security zone in southern Lebanon: taken in a bloody and heroic assault in the opening hours of the 1982 war, then ringed for the rest of the occupation by IEDs and Hezbollah guerrillas until the outpost earned its nickname – the Monster on the Mountain. Forty-four years later, there is a new monster, and it dwells beneath the crumbling ruins.

      Israel did not come back for the view. Since early March, the Beaufort and Wadi Saluki sector has served as one of Hezbollah’s principal firing platforms – more than 400 rockets launched toward northern Israel, most of them at the northern town of Metula, alongside drones and anti-tank fire at troops operating across southern Lebanon, with the ridge functioning as the command node directing the fighting…

      The tunnel – one node in Hezbollah’s “Land of Tunnels” project, an underground construction effort across southern Lebanon supervised by IRGC officers alongside North Korean advisers – runs 1.3 kilometers from the cliff face into solid rock. Inside: water and electricity, living quarters with showers, toilets, and kitchenettes (stocked mini-fridges included, per the Daily Mail’s tour), even a fully equipped, completely sterile operating room.

      Operatives could live underground for months at a time. It is estimated that construction of the facility took 10 to 15 years and tens of millions of Iranian dollars. The purpose was dual: to fire directly at Israel and to defend the ridge against precisely the ground maneuver that eventually took it.

      The complex functioned as a significant command-and-control center where hundreds of operatives were stationed, managing the fighting from inside the mountain – until the ground operation began, at which point they fled…

      https://xcancel.com/AmitSegal/status/2076679304184762590#m

  6. Walter Russell Mead:
    THE ‘IRREPRESSIBLE’ U.S.-IRAN CONFLICT
    Both sides might like to stop but see too much to lose to make an agreement stick.

    The Iranians have no plans to negotiate an end to their nuclear program and are targeting countries ranging from Oman to Jordan. This isn’t peace. It isn’t even a ceasefire. The U.S. has believed for 80 years that ensuring the free passage of Middle Eastern oil and gas to world markets is essential to America’s prosperity and security. President Trump is unwilling to give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz.

    We shouldn’t underestimate the sense of joy and vindication that a global wave of anti-Zionism and Jew-hatred have given to the darkened hearts and minds of Iran’s current leadership. Their resistance and defiance, they and their proxies in Lebanon and beyond believe, is turning the global tide against the hated “Zionist entity.”

    They expect America will soon turn against Israel, and the holiest of holy wars can finally begin.

    Mr. Trump may be feeling more confident and less risk-averse than the Iranian leaders believe. Iran’s assassination threats are more likely to enrage than to cow him. He will likely find it easier to build support abroad and at home for a war to protect oil supplies by stopping Iran’s blocking of the strait than he did for a preventive war against its nuclear program.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-irrepressible-u-s-iran-conflict-81121fbc

  7. U.S. State Department:
    INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT’S THREAT TO AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY

    On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the threat posed by the International Criminal Court to U.S. sovereignty. The campaign will seek to systematically disable the ICC’s ability to operate and target American servicemen or officials.

    The ICC poses an intolerable threat to U.S. sovereignty. It claims the authority to prosecute and even imprison American servicemen and officials operating on behalf of America’s national interest.

    Americans never signed up for this, and all American presidents since the ICC’s ratification have maintained that the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Americans. The ICC previously opened an investigation into U.S. servicemen and intelligence officers and has since refused to close these cases.

    https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/07/state-department-launches-campaign-to-dismantle-international-criminal-courts-threat-to-american-sovereignty/
    ~~~~~
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio:
    WHY WE’RE DISMANTLING THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

    America never agreed to a world tribunal that can override our own courts and the Constitution. Both of our major political parties opposed the prospect of handing a distant global court the power to prosecute and jail our own citizens. President Clinton refused to submit the Rome Statute (the ICC’s founding charter) to the Senate for ratification due to his “concerns about significant flaws in the Treaty.”

    Independence is our birthright. We don’t intend to trade it for rule by a self-appointed priesthood of “international law.” Using all the tools at our government’s disposal, working beside every ally with whom we can make common cause, we will dismantle the ICC – brick by brick, if necessary.

    https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-were-dismantling-the-icc-0af0a8a6?mod=opinion_lead_pos5

    • Buried in the 2002 American Servicemembers’ Protection Act is a provision known as the Hague Invasion Act. It authorizes the president to use “all means necessary and appropriate”- including military force – to liberate any US citizen or allied personnel detained by the International Criminal Court. Rather than redeploy forces from Iran to patrol the Belgian coast, the administration has opted for diplomacy.

      Yesterday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a sweeping campaign to dismantle the ICC “brick by brick, if necessary.” The toolkit involves visa revocations, travel bans, expanded sanctions, and diplomatic pressure on Rome Statute signatories to withdraw.

      The Secretary himself, along with his deputy and US ambassadors across the globe, is calling governments directly, urging non-member states to leverage their own networks in parallel. The message, as Rubio put it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, is simple: “sovereign states over globalism.”

      It is perhaps fitting that America chooses its 250th birthday to remind the world that it has never much liked foreign powers exercising jurisdiction over its citizens…

      https://xcancel.com/AmitSegal/status/2077040428306558993#m

      • Until recently there were enough US service personnel in Europe to make moving more into the area unnecssary.

        The ICC is just another attempt to create a one world Marxist government.

        • Bloody nerve.
          It appears that plans had been drafted to arrest our POTUS after the next one took the oath of office.
          Gd forbid, a soulless Demonrat!

          • If that happens all hell will break loose, it the then POTUS does nothing it will ll get a whole lot worse.

          • If they try to do this the vets will raise so much hell not one in the world will every try it again.

    • Eugene Kontorovich @EVKontorovich Jul 13

      BREAKING: @StateDept @marcorubio declares war on the ICC, declaring the U.S. will “dismantle” the organization “brick by brick.”

      You read it here first: This is the policy I’ve been advocating consistently since it became clear that the tribunal will prosecute Americans as soon as Trump leaves office.

      https://xcancel.com/EVKontorovich/status/2076677548113641577#m

      • I doubt that the ICC and the UN will survive the coming years of chaos, the survivors will all be familiar with the authoritarian types that created the ICC and won’t want anything to do with them.The only people who want it now are the ones who think that a one world socialist hell hole would be a nice place to live.

  8. Dinesh D’Souza interviews Orban”s former political director on what is now going on in Hungary:

  9. Slightly OT (don’t get mad at me, Vlad. I’ve really behaved.): Me during my last proctology exam:

  10. Crime tourism in Canada. Glancing at the very brief shot of the mugshots many are gypsies:

    • Years ago, I knew an auctioneer. He hired a couple of Romanians (aka Gypsies). All was well for a few weeks. And then, his warehouse had been emptied overnight and no trace of the Romanians.

      It is to be noted that Romanian Gypsies are Christian. The auctioneer was/is Jewish.

      • Frankly I don’t think it matters. Gypsies so inclined are equal-opportunity thieves.

  11. Iranian Economist: China Uses Iran as a Tactical Tool to Maintain Controlled Tension in Middle East

    Iranian economist Arsham Reisinezhad, discussed China’s role in the Middle East tension between Iran and the United States in a June 20, 2026 Farsi-language interview with the Iran Talk podcast.

    He said that China needs the Strait of Hormuz, and the Middle East in general, in order to maintain cheap access to energy sources. At the same time, he said, China prefers “controlled tension” in the region in order to prevent the U.S. from diverting its full attention from the Middle East to China.

    According to Reisinezhad, China can use Iran as a “tactical tool” to prevent the tensions in the region from subsiding. He said that during the Hormuz War, China overtly and covertly supplied Iran with military support, equipment, and satellite data.

    He also said he believes China is deliberately maintaining tensions in the Middle East in line with its national interests, thereby preventing American control of the region and U.S. hegemony.

    He added that the Chinese would not welcome normalization between Iran and the United States. Reisinezhad said that despite the risks, rising insurance premiums, and the resulting increase in the cost of minerals, gas, and oil, these factors would not be enough for China to give up this geopolitical tool.

      • That is one of the reasons PT is staying the course, right now China is cut off from cut rate oil and as to pay the market price, this means they have less money to spend on other things. Remember China’s economy is much much weaker then what anyone is reporting. Personally I think their economy is so bad they don’t dare try starting a war to loot other nations, doing this would just mean they collapse faster.

  12. You Can Run, but You Just Die Tired: Secretive Israeli Unit Has Killed Over 2,500 Oct 7 Hamas Terrorists

    …According to Israeli media, Israel has killed no fewer than 2,561 of the around 3,000 terrorists who crossed from Gaza into Israel on October 7. About 1,000 of these were killed in traditional combat with the IDF. The remainder got their one-way trip to Hell courtesy of a secretive unit called Nili.

    Nili was formed shortly after the October 7 attack and given the mission of tracking down every single terrorist who invaded Israel on October 7. The name Nili is an acronym for a biblical phrase (1 Samuel 15:29) that translates as “the Eternal One of Israel will not lie.”
    …
    According to reports, the unit uses facial recognition software to identify terrorists captured on film inside Israel. It also uses electronic surveillance and, probably the most important element: prisoner interrogations.

    Hamas (and Hezbollah) are not drawn from a warrior culture. They turn on each other at the first sliver of self-interest. That’s why Israeli intelligence has deeply penetrated its enemies.

    “For me to give the locations of these two men would be treason. However, in Iraq we have a saying: if death comes to greet you at your door, introduce him to your brother.”

    The hunt continues. Several hundred of the rabid beasts who killed and raped with glee on October 7 and the following days and who held innocent people hostage still roam the earth. And as long as they do. they’ll be looking over their shoulder and ignoring their pager.

    https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/07/12/you-can-run-but-you-just-die-tired-secretive-israeli-unit-kills-over-2500-october-7-hamas-terrorists-n2204258#google_vignette

    • Flopping Aces @FloppingAces 16h

      A lot of the men who crossed into Israel on October 7 made it back home and tried to return to normal life.

      They went back to their neighborhoods, their families, and whatever passed for a routine. Some of them probably told themselves that the worst was over.

      After all, they had survived the raid, the fighting, and the initial wave of retaliation. In their minds, time was now on their side. The world would move on, the headlines would fade, and eventually they could just be regular people again.

      That was the mistake.

      Israel didn’t treat October 7 like a regular wartime event that eventually gets archived. They treated it like a crime scene with thousands of pieces of evidence and an extremely long memory. While some of these men were busy trying to blend back into civilian life, Israel was busy matching faces from bodycam footage, cross-referencing names from captured phones, and following the trails that came out of interrogations. They weren’t in a rush. They were building files.

      There’s something almost darkly funny about watching men who participated in that level of barbarism try to go back to being husbands, mechanics, or neighbors, as if the footage of what they did would eventually expire like old milk. They really believed that if they just kept their heads down long enough, the whole thing would become yesterday’s news.

      It didn’t.

      Israel kept the receipts. And unlike most governments, they’ve shown zero interest in letting the statute of limitations run out on mass murder and rape. The slow, steady announcements of individual deaths aren’t random. They’re the result of patient, methodical work on men who made the critical error of assuming they could commit atrocities and then simply return to ordinary life like nothing happened.

      Some mistakes don’t get smaller with time. They just get documented.

      https://xcancel.com/FloppingAces/status/2076845684301648091#m

  13. Spyware the Ontario Provincial Police is using that it doesn’t want you to know about. Cops have a job to do, I know, but asking any Canadian to trust any level of government or institution given the last five years is a stretch:

  16. There was another ICE shooting, this time in Maine, the driver was shot after speeding towards an ICE agent. If you look at the shot placement in the windshield and know that the driver was shot in the head it is obvious to any who know firearms that the shots were fired from in front of the car. The left in their efforts to vilify the ICE agents ignore the obvious evidence and are all claiming that the shots were fired from the side.

    BULL.

  17. Very hot here, I do not have air conditioning just fans. Can’t open windows because of high winds blowing smoke down from forest fire north of here. All the rust coloured “evergreens” make an area a big tinder box.
    Keep spraying and killing more trees, then tell us it is climate crisis.
    Only way out of where I live is one road North. YIKES, I could evacuate in my canoe. The smoke is terrible.
    My car is full of gas and I have extra full gas cans.
    I give the Ontario Goberment and the Federal Liberal Goberment an F —- for forest management.