For now, links to nine reports: from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, and Reuters; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down today’s UKRAINE and MEDIA, and for IRAN 7-8-26.) — MCM

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First, a link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s IRAN and MEDIA so far, and down for UKRAINE 7-8-26.) — MCM

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Ukrainian drones batter Russian oil facilities and set more oil tankers ablaze, by Illia Novikov | AP  KYIV — Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Kyiv a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems to protect its cities. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others.

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First, a link to commentary from ¡Do Not Panic! via ScheerPost; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up for today’s IRAN and UKRAINE so far, and down for MEDIA 7-8-26.) — MCM

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FROM JULY 8  How the Guardian sells imperialism to progressives, by Nate Bear | ¡Do Not Panic! / ScheerPost  This morning the Guardian had a story about Israel’s ongoing efforts to illegally annex the West Bank. READ MORE . . .

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TO BE CONTINUED

This entry will be about as brief as yesterday’s in this category, for lack of time. (Scroll down for today’s MEDIA, IRAN, WEST BANK, LEBANON, and UKRAINE, and for (9/11 TRUTH 7-7-26.) — MCM

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Craig Unger

As far as I know, author and journalist Craig Unger is not known as a “9/11 truther.” His name appears in the MEDIA 7-8-26 just below, in a sentence about a 2025 article in the Milwaukee Independent citing his work alleging that Donald Trump has been a knowing, covert Russian asset over the years.

Readers are invited to research Unger as some of his many books may provide some clues to current events. One that could provide relevant context for the murderous events of Sept. 11, 2001, is House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties (2004).

One that may pertain, in spades, to the subject of today’s MEDIA entry (just below) is House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (2018). I’ve just borrowed it from Pittsfield’s public library, the Berkshire Athenaeum.

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Questions, questions. An entry with some links. (Scroll up or down for today’s 9/11 TRUTH. IRAN, WEST BANK, LEBANON and UKRAINE, and for MEDIA 7-5-26.) — MCM

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Does this part fit in the puzzle? by Mark Channing Miller

“Is a puzzlement!” the king exclaims in song in Roger & Hammerstein’s “The King and I.”*

I write today concerning both a blast from the past (early 2025) and a blast from further past (the late 1980s). It initially came courtesy of Facebook and the Kyiv Post in February 2025. When I saw the Post’s headline then, I may not have even read the article, taking it for Ukrainian wartime propaganda. If I did read it, I didn’t link to it for this website as at the time it didn’t seem relevant to the war in Ukraine.

But the Kyiv Post article, by Stash Luczkiw, may explain the behavior on the world stage of one Donald J. Trump, a New York City businessman in the late 1980s — now Washington-based and also president of the United States in his second term.

Here it is:

FROM FEB. 22, 2026  ‘Trump recruited as Moscow asset,’ says ex-KGB spy chief, by Stash Luczkiw | Kyiv Post  U.S. President Donald Trump was groomed 37 years ago as a potential Soviet asset, according to Alnur Mussayev, the former head of Kazakhstan’s security services, who had been a KGB officer in Moscow at the time. READ MORE . . .

I’m putting together this post under “Media, 7-8-25,” although it concerns daily entries on this website it which I try to shed light on UKRAINE, IRAN, GAZA, LEBANON, WEST BANK, and (perhaps especially) ALL OF IT.

It belongs at least under MEDIA because Luczkiw is or was an editor for the Kyiv Post — a digital daily operating under martial law in Ukraine — and also because it has not received, to my knowledge, much treatment one way or another in major U.S. newspapers or broadcasting operations.

HERE, however, is a link to a March 2025 article in the Milwaukee Independent citing the work of journalist and author Craig Unger. (The Milwaukee Independent explains itself HERE; it is apparently considered so minor, though, that it has escaped Wikipedia’s attention.)

And HERE is an article from Information War Newsletter by Hase Fiero, which appeared the day before Luczkiw’s in the Kyiv Post. (I came across both the Independent’s article and Fiero’s only this afternoon.)

I did eventually post a link on this website months after it appeared, perhaps in the summer or fall of 2025, probably in a UKRAINE entry, because President Trump’s behavior seemed to square with it. Anyone with endless hours to spare can scroll down for it.

Where was the New York Times? Where was the Washington Post? Where are they and their ilk on a lot of things?

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* Thanks to whoever wrote the following. “In this powerful soliloquy, the King grapples with what he knows and does not know. Faced with teaching a son whose inherited beliefs are challenged by European ideas, he struggles to find a way to guide his son confidently toward the truth.”

Links to seven-plus reports: from the Associated Press, National Public Radio, Reuters, the Cradle, Middle East Eye, and Middle East Monitor; others or at least headlines are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, WEST BANK, LEBANON and UKRAINE, and down for IRAN 7-7-26.) — MCM

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A link to a report from the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, IRAN, LEBANON and UKRAINE, and down for WEST BANK 7-7-26.) — MCM

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Illegal Israeli outposts control one-fifth of occupied West Bank. From the Cradle. Israel’s illegal settler outposts now dominate nearly one-fifth of the occupied West Bank, two Israeli NGOs said on Tuesday, describing the current situation as an acceleration of de facto annexation plans. READ MORE . . .

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A link to a report from the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up or down for today’s MEDIA, IRAN, WEST BANK and UKRAINE, and down for LEBANON 7-6-26.)

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Israel demands Beirut bar ‘unacceptable’ Lebanese army officers from deploying south. From the Cradle. Israeli state broadcaster Kan reported on Monday that Tel Aviv has handed Lebanese authorities a list containing the names of several senior officers in the Lebanese Armed Forces whose deployment in southern Lebanon it rejects. READ MORE . . .

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A link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll up for today’s MEDIA, IRAN, WEST BANK and LEBANON, and down for UKRAINE 7-7-26. — MCM

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A link to a report from the International Middle East Media Center; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll down for GAZA, UKRAINE, IRAN and 9/11 TRUTH, and for WEST BANK 7-5-26.) — MCM

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Violations in West Bank yesterday. From IMEMC. The occupied West Bank witnessed a new wave of Israeli military violations on Monday, with invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, assaults, and the firing of live rounds reported across multiple districts from Hebron in the south to Jenin in the north, alongside additional incidents in occupied Jerusalem. READ MORE . . .

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