General Aharon Haliva’s resignation is expected to be the first among many of the Jewish state’s top security brass after the October 7 attack The head of Israel’s military intelligence agency, Major General Aharon Haliva, has stepped down over the failure of his department to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack, the Jewish state’s military…
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Kremlin reacts to Poland’s nuclear comments
The country’s president has said that Warsaw is ready to host US atomic weapons on its territory Russia will take all appropriate measures to protect itself if the US proceeds with the deployment of nuclear weapons in Poland, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. Earlier in the day, Polish President Andrzej Duda told the…
Sándor Petőfi Overseas — A Review of the Movie Now or Never! Screened in New York
When I was handed an English-language poster about the upcoming screening of the Hungarian movie Now or Never! at a Hungarian American event in Los Angeles, I was a bit surprised, because I had not heard of any American screenings at the time. But by the time we flew back home to the East Coast…
Poland doesn’t have Patriots to give Ukraine – Tusk
The launchers that Warsaw does possess are under American control, the prime minister said Poland doesn’t have any US-made Patriot missile systems available to donate to Ukraine, unlike some other NATO nations, Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Monday. The long-range air defense system emerged this month as a priority item on Kiev’s wish list…
Deputy PM Zsolt Semjén Visits Transylvania Ahead of EP Elections
Deputy Prime Minister Zsolt Semjén of Hungary visited the 4th annual forum of the Associations of Hungarian Old Age Pensioners in Romania on Friday, 19 April in Bors (Borș), Transylvania, Romania. He focused his speech on the upcoming European Parliamentary election in Romania, held in June. Deputy PM Semjén stressed the importance of getting ethnic…
Xi expected to visit Russia – Lavrov
The Chinese leader is set to attend the BRICS summit in the city of Kazan, according to the foreign minister Russia expects Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the BRICS summit in Russia later this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. The group, which now includes Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa Ethiopia,…
US-led West on verge of causing nuclear war – Lavrov
The three Western nuclear powers are among the chief sponsors of the Kiev regime and main organizers of provocations against Russia, the foreign minister has said The US-led collective West could cause a potentially catastrophic war between global nuclear powers due to its openly hostile stance toward Russia and efforts to undermine existing arms control…
Fossil fuel era ending – Scholz
Despite ambitious plans to phase out Russian gas, the EU increased purchases in 2023, Reuters reported earlier this month The predominance of Fossil Fuels (Renewable Energy) in global energy output is nearing its end, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has claimed, adding that his country aims to produce 80% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030. German…
BRICS is force for global transparency – African experts
The “unfair” Western agenda is a barrier to the continent’s development, business professionals have told RT Africa is seeking new cooperation with countries and international organizations on mutually beneficial terms, business experts from the continent who attended the ‘New Era – New Paths’ forum in Moscow told RT on Friday. Meliane Aida Ouedraogo, director of…
Confiscating Russian assets would set ‘dangerous precedent’ – Kremlin
The US will shoot itself in the foot if a House-approved bill is implemented, Moscow has warned The US will hurt its own economy, as well as the global financial system, if it follows through on its threat to expropriate frozen Russian assets and give them to Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday….
Violence prompts election re-run in northeast Indian state
New polls were ordered in almost a dozen locations in Manipur, where several voting stations were vandalized last week An election re-run has taken place in 11 locations in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur after a series of violent incidents disrupted the polling process last Friday. Ethnic clashes in the remote state have left…
EU close to agreement on using Russian assets to help Ukraine – minister
Moscow has previously warned that such a move would undermine “the legal foundations of European and international law” The EU is “close to a political agreement” on seizing the profits generated by Russia’s central bank reserves that remain frozen in connection with Ukraine-related sanctions, Belgian Finance Minister Vincent Van Peteghem said on Sunday. The West…
Viktor Orbán’s Speech on Illegal Immigration Goes Viral on X
The National Conservatism Conference held in Brussels, Belgium last week made international headlines for the far-left activists’ efforts to shut down the event. It had to move venues multiple times after previous venues caved to progressive pressure and refused to host it despite prior agreements. However, NatCon Brussels 2024 eventually did go ahead, with a…
EU to impose sanctions on Russian LNG – member state
The bloc plans to target liquefied natural gas in its 14th package of restrictions, Sweden’s foreign minister has said The EU plans to target supplies of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) in its 14th package of sanctions against Moscow, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom announced on Monday. Speaking ahead of an EU foreign…
TikTok will sue if US bans app – Bloomberg
A bill that would force China’s ByteDance to divest ownership of the popular app has been passed by the House of Representatives TikTok is reportedly planning to legally challenge the US government if it passes a law that would require the app’s Chinese parent company to divest its ownership or face a complete ban of…
MEPs Take the NatCon Case to EP President Roberta Metsola
Fidesz MEPs have penned a letter to Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament (EP), expressing their concerns about the surreal events that unfolded at the National Conservatism (NatCon) Conference in Brussels last week. ‘It cannot be left unaddressed that in Brussels, the very city that claims to exemplify European democracy, tolerance, and diversity,…
North Korea fires ballistic missiles – Seoul and Tokyo
The apparent short-range weapons test comes days after Pyongyang claimed a successful trial of a new cruise missile warhead North Korea launched several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, according to officials in South Korea and Japan. Several projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles were fired towards the Sea of Japan from…
Three North African states to form new regional bloc
Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya have begun talks without Morocco and Mauritania, the other two founding members of the former Maghreb union The leaders of Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya have launched a consultative meeting with the intention of reviving the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which has been largely dormant for more than a decade due to…
After Months of Delay US House Approves $95 Billion Aid to Ukraine and Israel
After months of political wrangling the US House of Representatives passed a $95 billion aid package providing security assistance to Ukraine, Israel and the Asia Pacific with broad bipartisan support. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill next week, before sending it to President Joe Biden. The question is, is it still in…
Stop Ukrainian refugee flow – German community leader
The head of a local councils’ association has said numerous districts are struggling with overstretched resources Communities across Germany cannot take in more refugees, particularly those arriving from Ukraine, the president of a local councils’ association has told the Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung newspaper. Germany hosts an estimated 1.15 million Ukrainian refugees, the largest number in…
Columbia University President Nemat Shafik: An Islamic Immigrant Success Story
Allahu Akbar: Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, is an Islamic immigrant success story! Jihadis around the world are celebrating. Did you think she came to America from Egypt to assimilate or to Islamize the country? The purpose of Islamic migration, known as hijrah, is the… pic.twitter.com/d7gJPof0rU — Amy Mek (@AmyMek) April 21, 2024 The post Columbia…
Iran to accept Russian credit cards – Izvestia
Tehran is preparing infrastructure for the alternative to Visa and Mastercard, a trade envoy has said Iran could start accepting Russian Mir debit and credit cards within the next few months, the trade attaché from Tehran’s embassy in Moscow told the Izvestia newspaper on Monday. According to Mohsen Rahimi, work on preparing the necessary…
Massive fire erupts at Delhi’s ‘mount of shame’ (VIDEOS)
The Ghazipur landfill east of the Indian capital is considered one of the largest and most hazardous dumping sites in the country The Ghazipur landfill site in New Delhi, known as India’s ‘mount of shame’ or the ‘Mount Everest of trash,’ caught fire on Sunday evening, local media have reported. At least eight fire brigades…
Major Investments in Hungary — A Brief Overview
Over the past couples of years, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into Hungary reached new records. The investments were related to a wide range of areas—from infrastructure and city development to car production and battery manufacturing. According to research conducted by the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA), the year of 2023 marked a…
Pacific nation reacts to Biden’s cannibalism quip
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has downplayed the US president’s comments on his uncle’s presumed death in the country US President Joe Biden’s recent remarks in which he implied that his uncle was eaten by cannibals in Papua New Guinea during World War II were uncalled for, the prime minister of the Southwest Pacific nation…
US aid to Kiev won’t stop Russia, Ukrainian sources tell FT
Ukrainian officials reportedly believe the $61 billion package “is unlikely to dramatically alter Kiev’s situation on the front line” A new US aid package will harden Ukraine’s resistance but will not be enough to stem the tide in the conflict with Russia, officials in Kiev and military analysts have reportedly told the Financial Times. The…
Poland ready to host US nuclear weapons
President Andrzej Duda has admitted he discussed the issue with Washington Poland is open to hosting US nuclear weapons on its territory amid the current stand-off with Russia over Ukraine, President Andrzej Duda has said. In an interview with the Polish daily Fakt on Monday, the Polish leader acknowledged that the issue of bringing US…
Former Trump Adviser Urges Hard Response to Iran After Attack on Israel
Joe Biden and his advisers are responsible for Iran’s attack on Israel, John Bolton, former national security adviser to Donald Trump, John Bolton argues in an article published in the Washington Examiner. Bolton also discusses how Israel and the US should deal with the Iranian threat. On 13 April Iran carried out an unprecedented attack…
White House slams ‘anti-Semitic’ protests at college campuses
The Biden administration will “aggressively” implement a new strategy to protect the Jewish community, it has announced The White House denounced an “alarming surge of anti-Semitism” at US college campuses in a statement on Sunday, against the backdrop of an escalating pro-Palestine protest at Columbia University in New York. More than 100 people have been…
Italy’s Epidemic of Islamic Immigrant Families Killing and Abusing Their Female Relatives
NOVELLARA, Italy—A recent Italian investigative news report titled “Violent Islam: The Hidden Horrors on Women,” broadcast by Italian news station Mediaset, has shined a spotlight on the treatment of women within Italy’s Muslim immigrant community. The documentary, hosted by journalist Eugenia Fiore, delves into several alarming cases in Novellara, a small town in the Reggio…
Sanctions don’t scare me – Russian Orthodox leader
Patriarch Kirill has dismissed the restrictions imposed on him by some EU member states The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, has said he will not be intimidated by travel bans imposed by several EU nations. The restrictions are part of wider Western sanctions on Russia in response to its military operation in…
NATO members have military personnel in Kiev – Stoltenberg
Western advisers are stationed at embassies, the US-led alliance’s chief has aid NATO member states have service members stationed at their respective embassies in Kiev, performing advisory functions, NATO Secretary General Jens Soltenberg told MSNBC News on Sunday. In an interview, Stoltenberg was asked whether NATO was planning to send additional personnel to help Kiev in…
Israel promises ‘painful blows’ to Hamas
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that all proposals to reach a new hostage deal have been rejected by Hamas Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to increase pressure on Hamas and threatened to “land additional and painful blows” in an effort to release remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza. Some 129 Israelis are believed…
Rockets fired at US base in Syria – Reuters
American troops have reportedly been targeted in the Middle East for the first time since February amid Israel-Iran tensions At least five rockets were fired at an American base in northeastern Syria, Reuters reported on Sunday, citing two unnamed Iraqi security officials. The projectiles were reportedly launched from the town of Zummar in northwestern Iraq….
The fatal flaw in David Lammy’s progressive realism
There is a fundamental problem with David Lammy’s concept of Progressive Realism, the mooted foreign policy doctrine according to which our coming Labour government will manage Britain’s most dangerous strategic environment since the Second World War. Reading through its mixed litany of practical suggestions, fragile hopes and groundless assertions, that which is progressive is not…
Liberalism didn’t protect Salman Rushdie
Why did he do it? Hadi Matar, 24 — dim, lugubrious, incel-y — had by his own admission “read, like, two pages” of The Satanic Verses. Judging by his slacker patter, one wonders whether he fully understood them. Yet there he was, “a squat missile” — as Rushdie describes him in Knife, his new memoir — charging…
The enlightened case for being selfish
Ever since the events of October 7, the streets of American and Western cities are routinely filled with heated demonstrations. The vast majority of the people in attendance are usually not themselves citizens of Palestine or Israel, but locals whose cultural identities, social circles or political loyalties compel them to embrace one cause and to…
Inside the Gen Z sex war
Women to the Left, men to the Right. And heaven forbid there is any crossover. These days, young people are floundering in their sex-based political silos wanting different things: girls are still seeking equality and boys miss being the good guys. This isn’t a battle of the sexes — we’re too far apart to fight….
‘Die MAGA die’ – Democrat congressional candidate
New Yorker Nate McMurray has celebrated passage of a Ukraine aid bill by wishing death to Donald Trump’s political movement A Democrat politician in New York has responded to Saturday’s passage of a long-stalled Ukraine aid bill in the US House of Representatives by condemning former President Donald Trump’s ‘MAGA’ political movement to death. “Slava…
US lawmakers scared of being framed for ‘kiddie porn’ – Tucker Carlson
Intelligence agencies have creative ways of forcing politicians to do their bidding, the conservative journalist claimed Members of Congress consistently vote in favor of mass surveillance programs because they’re “terrified” that intelligence agencies will plant “kiddie porn” on their computers if they speak up, American journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed. Carlson appeared on Joe Rogan’s…
After Locking-In Trudeau As Prime Minister, Jagmeet Singh Goes Silent
Share A strange phenomenon continues to emanate from New Democratic Party headquarters. Since the signing of a “supply and confidence” between the ruling Liberal government and the NDP, curious sounds of silence continue to ring clear. Two critical issues elucidate that which media purposefully omit. First, NDP Party leader Jagmeet Singh’s tepid response to an…
US voter interest sinks to historic low – poll
Enthusiasm has waned heading into the 2024 presidential election as majorities of Americans dislike both major-party candidates Americans are losing interest in this year’s US presidential election as both Democrat incumbent Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump alienate voters, a new NBC News poll has shown. The survey, released on Sunday, found that just…
Ukraine ‘will have chance at victory’ – Zelensky
A new batch of aid from the US would provide a boost, but only if delivered in time, the president has said It is still possible for Kiev to emerge victorious in the conflict with Moscow, now that the US House of Representatives has approved a new military aid package for Ukraine, President Vladimir Zelensky…
Ukraine secures another benefactor
South Korea has signed a framework agreement on economic cooperation with Kiev, including $2.1 billion in low-interest loans South Korea has followed through on its pledge to provide more aid to Ukraine, signing a framework agreement that clears the way to give Kiev $2.1 billion in low-interest loans to help shore up its finances. South…
Iran’s supreme leader thanks armed forces for Israel attack
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has praised the recent operation by saying it demonstrated the country’s resolve The latest attack on targets in Israel conducted by Iran’s armed forces has demonstrated the nation’s resolve, according to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, as cited by IRNA news agency. Speaking with a group of military commanders in…
Japanese naval choppers suffer fatal collision
One crew member was pulled from the Pacific Ocean and seven others are still missing after a training exercise went awry Two Japanese Navy patrol helicopters crashed in mid-air on Sunday, killing one crew member and sending seven others into the vast waters of the Pacific Ocean. The crash came a year after ten Japanese…
All Quiet on the Dutch Front
This article was published in Vol. 4 No. 1 of our print edition. Despite the surprise victory of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders in the Dutch national elections of 22 November 2023, and his further increased dominance in the polls since then,1 there is as yet no right-wing coalition government, let alone one that will lay…
EU elites promised a prosperous green future. This could be their undoing
Technocrats have staked their legitimacy not so much on a carbon-neutral future as on a vision of prosperity that is rapidly receding Lenin famously defined communism as Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country. In other words, the ideological project of building communism was supplemented by the technocratic project of electrification, the latter being…
Germany to ban smoking weed in train stations
Cannabis will be prohibited even in zones designated for lighting up, Bild has reported People smoking pot in German railway stations could be banned from the premises starting on June 1, the national railway operator, Deutsche Bahn (DB), told the tabloid Bild on Saturday. The move comes after the country legalized the use of recreational…
Ukraine considering military training in schools
A similar program has already been introduced for male students at universities Ukrainian high school and vocational school students could soon be required to undergo basic military training, according to a new bill backed by the Parliamentary Committee on Youth and Sports. Details of the new proposal were reported by the local Judicial Newspaper on…
Dumb taxpayer-funded legal bloggers pen a 36-page manual outlining all the things Alternative für Deutschland should definitely absolutely not be allowed to do if they ever come to power
Every day I encounter yet another hamfisted pseudoacademic propaganda operation eagerly churning out oceans of text to shore up the German political establishment. The idea seems to be that with just enough whitepapers, bursting with just enough words, the situation might still be saved. There are just so many of these outfits, they grow like…