US Envoy Denounces UNIFIL as ‘Human Shields for Terrorists’

Ukraine's Anti-Graft Cops Raid The Central Bank... So Where's The Gold? Ukraine's wartime corruption saga, which so far has swept through the state nuclear monopoly, the president's former chief of staff and the prosecutor general's office, has now reached the one institution that was supposed to be above it all: the central bank. On Wednesday morning, detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU), working with the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO), searched the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) headquarters in Kyiv and the home of what the bureau coyly called "one...

Is Britain Abandoning Military Defense To Fund More Socialism? It's a curious position for European governments; for the past few years they have been rattling their sabers over the Russian war in Ukraine, calling for boots on the ground.  It's the kind of intervention that would automatically trigger WWIII.  Yet, these same governments are completely unprepared in terms of military spending, armament and training.   When the British government refused to join the US blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, almost no one cared because the British have allowed their...

Against US Dominance: Europe's Hormuz Mission And The Illusion Of Geopolitical Power Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The loss of Europe’s geopolitical power is the defining decline narrative of our time. As Europeans, we are condemned to become unwilling witnesses of continental decay. And in no field of politics does the toxic amalgam of eco-socialism, elite arrogance, and rampant infantilism become more visible than at the level of the European Union. What we are witnessing in Brussels and the leading capitals of the EU are desperate attempts at coordinated foreign policy – and...