MIDDLE EAST - Hamas announced Monday that it has dissolved its government in Gaza as it prepares to transfer power to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, which was established under a US-brokered ceasefire deal. The militant group did not state whether it actually intends to disarm itself, which was also required under the ceasefire, but described the decision as evidence of its commitment to rebuilding Gaza after years of war, according to the Associated Press. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" plan that was presented to the group in March requires Hamas to destroy its vast tunnel network in Gaza and lay down its arms. "We have taken note of the announcement today regarding the dissolution of the 'Emergency Committee' in Gaza," the Board of Peace said in an X post on Monday. "Ultimately, our assessment will be guided by actions, not promises, to meet the critical needs of the people of Gaza."

USA - Manufacturers around the world are leveraging AI to create drone swarms that could change the reality of war forever. Both defensive and offensive drone swarm systems are slated to hit global battlefields in the near future. As companies such as Swarm Defense create new systems that will launch tidal waves of drones at targets, other companies like XCaliber Technologies are rapidly working to build a wall of drones and other defensive systems that can defeat the new offensive threat. Keeping production costs down is critical, as the drones are one-time-use offensive munitions. “Swarm Defense Technologies builds American-made drones at manufacturing scale, along with the software that lets one operator command many of them at once,” a Swarm Defense spokesperson told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We come out of nine years and tens of thousands of drones of production heritage, and every system we field operates human-in-the-loop, with a person making each engagement decision.”

USA - Looking to expand surveillance? Is the world just losing its mind? History shows that war rarely breaks out in times of widespread prosperity (fat & happy). When economic conditions deteriorate, civil unrest, revolution, and international conflict tend to follow. This isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s a pattern observable across centuries of global history. As economies contract, public frustration mounts, and long-simmering grievances resurface with explosive force. We are now entering a period of major global realignment, with 2032 marking a critical turning point. By 2028, the rising tide of conflicts will become unmistakable. The historical precedent of the post-9/11 security expansion, is on the minds of some unelected bureaucrats. An attack inside the USA by Hezbollah of some sleeper-cell if they were to explode a serious bomb in the USA would change everything for the Midterms. Homeland Security and ICE did not exist prior to the World Trade Center attack 9/11.

USA - It’s 250 years and one day since the United States was formed, and we have radical Islamists nipping at our ankles to take over the country. A Minnesota imam told Muslims they are here to replace Americans. Speaking at an Islamic Center in Bloomington, he urged Muslims to rise to leadership through education and civic engagement, citing New York City’s Muslim mayor as proof that their moment has arrived. “Americans are right to be scared that Muslims are here to replace them. We are the new kids on the block; this is our moment. They should be very scared.” They don’t sound like they intend to ever assimilate. They come to Western nations to take us over because they are a supremacist, politicized religion.

USA - Saying the quiet part out loud: Somali Representative Ilhan Omar’s Fourth Of July video message exposes plan to remake America into something ‘different’. On the Fourth of July, as Americans celebrated the nation’s founding and independence, Minnesota’s Somali Congresswoman Ilhan Omar released a video message declaring how she wants to make America into something “different.” In the video, Omar reflected on joining Congress not to preserve or strengthen the United States as it exists, but to help create “a different kind of neighborhood, city, and country.” The video confirms that her priorities and allegiance are not with Americans. Omar frames her election as part of a broader effort to reshape communities and the nation itself into something new and… foreign. Conservatives immediately pointed out the irony of delivering an open admission that her agenda involves changing the country’s character rather than defending its founding principles as Americans celebrated the nation’s 250th birthday.

USA - Maze Moore posted a video of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani explaining why he decided to run for office. It is also the likely reason he became a US citizen. Keep in mind that Zohran’s mother said he doesn’t identify as an American. He considers himself a Ugandan Indian. My guess is that since both his parents are Indian, he only included Uganda to lure in the Black population. It is obvious Zohran also considers himself a communist Islamist. He admits he is working within the state to subvert it.

USA - In April, Representative Ro Khanna (Democrat for California) called for Washington to end assistance to Israel, insisting that the funds would be better spent on hospitals and childcare in America. On the other side of the aisle, Representative Thomas Massie (Republican for Kentucky) also opposed sending billions to Israel, citing the soaring US deficit. Despite receiving minimal press coverage, many of the same arguments could also be made about Israel’s eastern neighbor, Jordan, a country roughly the size of Indiana that has received massive amounts of US aid. The United States has provided Jordan with around $33.8 billion in assistance during the past 75 years. In 2022, the Biden Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan pledging $1.45 billion annually over seven years, the largest-ever MOU with the Hashemite Kingdom. This year, Congress authorized over $2 billion in aid to the country, placing it among the top three recipients of US aid worldwide for 2026. From Ohio to Oregon, there is likely scant support for sending astronomical sums of taxpayer dollars to a country that most Americans could not identify on a map, especially as prices rise across the United States.

GERMANY - Germany was once the industrial engine of Europe, but years of disastrous climate change policies, high energy costs, and left-wing economic mismanagement have battered its manufacturing base. This pressure has been roiling the country's auto industry, where struggling carmakers are restructuring operations through workforce reductions, production cuts, and capacity reductions. Germany's top financial newspaper, Handelsblatt, reports that Porsche is preparing another round of deep job cuts at its main factories as the sports car maker grapples with weak demand. The company is considering eliminating as many as 4,000 additional jobs at its Zuffenhausen plant, the outlet said, citing people familiar with the matter. These reductions would come on top of previously agreed cuts impacting 3,900 jobs.

USA - The world is getting more dangerous while leaders keep running out of good options. A lot happened overnight, but one pattern keeps showing up. Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 drones at Kyiv, killing at least 11 people in the second massive strike on the capital in less than a week. Ukraine says its Patriot missile interceptors are running low, raising a simple question. What happens if the attacks keep getting bigger but the air defenses keep getting smaller? The timing does not look accidental. Zelenskyy is expected to meet Trump in Ankara this week, putting even more pressure on talks over military support and the next phase of the war. Then there is China. Beijing tested a submarine launched ballistic missile in the South Pacific, calling it a routine launch with a dummy warhead. Maybe it was. But Russia is escalating in Europe while China is demonstrating strategic weapons in the Pacific. Those are not isolated headlines. They point to a world where multiple flashpoints are heating up at the same time.

USA - NATO allies must step up defence spending “immediately” or face consequences, the Trump administration said on the eve of a key summit. US officials warned that many allies were “lagging behind” their pledge to spend 5 per cent of GDP on the military by 2035. Sir Keir Starmer announced a £15 billion uplift in defence spending this week but that will only raise the UK figure to 2.7 per cent of GDP by 2029. Matt Whitaker, the US ambassador to NATO, said on Sunday night: “Some allies are doing more than others. Poland, the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries lead the way. But many others are lagging behind, and President Trump expects all allies to step up immediately and not only get on a sustainable path to the 5 per cent but to get to 5 per cent as soon as possible.” Donald Trump is thought to be planning to reward or punish countries based on their defence spending.

TURKEY - Ten years ago, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came within minutes of losing everything. Military jets flew low over Ankara and Istanbul, tanks blocked the bridges spanning the Bosphorus, and a faction within the armed forces attempted to seize control of the state. Erdogan himself was reported to have made a narrow escape when at least two F-16s harassed his plane in the air en route to Istanbul, locking their radars on it and the two aircraft protecting him. Within hours, the overnight coup had failed, killing more than 250 people, and within days it had become a defining rupture of Erdogan’s presidency, unleashing the biggest crackdown in modern Turkish history.

EUROPE - On the eve of a tense NATO summit in Ankara, some of the alliance’s frontline states have issued ominous prophecies of imminent Russian aggression. Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, conjured up the spectre of the 1939 Gleiwitz incident, when Nazi Germany faked an attack on its own radio centre and blamed it on the Poles as a pretext for the invasion that started the Second World War. “Our message to Vladimir Putin is this: we know what you are planning. Don’t do it,” Sikorski told reporters on Friday. Colonel Pawel Szota, the head of the Polish foreign intelligence agency, underlined the sense of threat in a rare public interview, warning that NATO had to “act as if an armed conflict with Russia were a near-term prospect”. “The level of Russian aggression is very high, and the risk of military confrontation is real,” he told Rzeczpospolita, a newspaper. There is certainly something approaching a consensus among the “like-minded” northern and central European allies that NATO is entering a period fraught with risk.

RUSSIA - Not long ago, BRICS was largely seen as an economic acronym – a loose coalition of emerging powers united by their ambition to reshape global finance and give the developing world a stronger voice in international economic governance. Today, that image is rapidly becoming outdated. As wars spread, supply chains fracture, cyber threats multiply, and established international institutions struggle to keep pace with an increasingly turbulent world, BRICS is expanding its ambitions. What began as an economic partnership is steadily evolving into a platform where major emerging powers discuss not only prosperity, but security. The evolution of BRICS into a forum addressing both economic and security questions is therefore worth watching – not because it has resolved today’s geopolitical divisions, but because it represents one of the clearest attempts to manage them within an increasingly multipolar world.

YEMEN - Yemen’s Iran-backed terrorists accused Riyadh of sending fighter jets to stop an Iranian civilian plane from landing in Sanaa, warning that continued ‘aggression’ would trigger attacks on airports and vital interests on land and at sea. Yemen’s Houthi terrorists accused Saudi Arabia on Friday evening of violating their airspace and threatened to attack the kingdom if what they called “aggression” continues. AFP reported that Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed the group had “confronted” Saudi fighter jets after they allegedly tried to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft from landing at the international airport in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. “We warn the criminal Saudi enemy against any further attempt to violate our airspace or carry out any aggression,” Saree said in a recorded statement.

ITALY - Mount Etna has erupted in Sicily, forcing Catania Airport to cancel all flights as volcanic ash clouds trigger a red aviation alert across Italy. A red alert has been declared and flights have been disrupted and cancelled in Italy as Mount Etna spews vast clouds of ash high into the sky. Local news outlet La Sicilia has reported that Catania Airport has been compelled to cancel all incoming flights owing to safety concerns as the volcano releases ash across Sicily.