Iran’s Parliament Speaker Calls for ‘Maintaining Unity’ in the Face of US Blockade, Economic Sanctions

Merkel Receives The First European Order Of Merit Award, Repeats Call For Crackdown On Free Speech Authored by Jonathan Turley, The European Union recently announced the first recipients of its new European Order of Merit, the organization’s highest award. The headliner was Angela Merkel, former Federal Chancellor of Germany, who indeed personifies the European Union for both her fans and her critics. For many years, some of us have criticized Merkel as one of the leading forces behind European censorship efforts that have eviscerated the “Indispensable Right.”  Not surprisingly, Merkel called for more censorship and...

Walgreens Gives Bodycams To Employees After Rise In Retail Assaults As most Americans are now well aware, national retail theft has seen a significant spike since 2021, with total shoplifting incidents increasing by roughly 53% between 2021 and 2024 based on industry data.  This has led to sweeping policy changes to retail businesses, specifically in urban locations, and long aisles of locked glass cases are only the beginning.   In the case of Walgreens, the company has closed a significant number of locations in high crime areas since 2024 as part...

Paris Riots Fuel The Right: Jordan Bardella Reaches Record High Approval Via Remix News, With French national elections approaching in 2027, the mass riots seen in Paris following the PSG victory in the Champions League are leading to an even sharper electoral shift towards the right-leaning National Rally’s Jordan Bardella. Verian’s June barometer, published by Le Figaro Magazine, places Jordan Bardella at the top of political figures, with 47 percent of those questioned wanting to see him occupy an important place in public life.  This rating, up six points in one month, reveals a record...