(2025-07-04). German government expands arms cooperation with Ukraine. wsws.org While the US government is scaling back its military aid to Ukraine, and even halting previously promised arms shipments, the German government is intensifying its military cooperation with Kiev.
(2025-07-04). Trump-Putin call fails to break Ukraine deadlock. geo.tv 
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump. — AFP/FileWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide…
(2025-07-04). New Zealand PM affirms support for NATO military escalation. wsws.org Luxon made explicit at the NATO summit that he fully supports the war in the Ukraine against Russia while doubling NZ's military spending, aimed ultimately at China.
(2025-07-04). German regime promotes war, represses press freedom. workers.org 
At the NATO conference in The Hague, Netherlands, June 24-25, most European NATO members committed to a major increase in military spending, jumping from 2% to 5% of the annual Gross Domestic Product. The working class of Europe faces imminent cuts to social services, as the money spent on weapons . . . |
(2025-07-04). The Politics of the Street-Corner Wiseass. counterpunch.org The Politics of Street Corner Wise-Ass Joseph Natoli Assessing the damage President Donald J. Trump's street corner smart ass politics has done begins first with defining the domain. National and International, surely. On the national scene, with a phony warrant declaring "waste, fraud and abuse," he's taking down "The Deep State," that dark imagined fortress
(2025-07-04). Insights | Scholar: Hague Summit underscores NATO's inevitable divisions and uncertain future. ecns.cn The NATO Summit held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from June 24 to 25 unfolded amid internal divisions and rising geopolitical tension. Li Haidong, a professor at China Foreign Affairs University, analyzed the summit in an article, arguing that it underscores NATO's increasingly fractured direction and inevitable decline.