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[ad_1] U.S. bombs Somalia for 74th time this year in one of America’s longest running ‘silent’ wars. This article provides the answer as to why the bombs keep falling on Somalia. The Trump administration is making lots of money for the military-industrial complex. President Trump has kept the war in Ukraine-Russia going by continuing to fund, supply and provide intelligence to one side in that conflict, Ukraine, while encouraging it to expand the war by using U.S. missiles and targeting systems to strike deep inside Russian territory. Not only has Trump continued funding Ukraine’s war with Russia, but he is…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken – CC BY-SA 2.0 Could it be put down to a measure of confidence on his part?  On this occasion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, in the Wing of Zion, been less cautious in making a journey to Washington through European airspace.  In September 2025, French airspace was avoided during a flight to New York.  Most European states, with occasional hiccups of complaint, remain signatories of the Rome Statute, that document founding the International Criminal Court (ICC).  The Israeli PM, along with his former defence minister Yoav Gallant, have extant arrest warrants for alleged war crimes in Gaza.…

[ad_1] Image Source: Nilfanion – Ordnance Survey OpenData – CC BY-SA 3.0 There was something oddly disorientating about hearing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps mention RAF Fairford last week. Fairford is hardly a place that intrudes on the world’s imagination. I spend Christmas not far from there. That is my only connection. Most people know it, if they know it at all, for the Royal International Air Tattoo, or as a sleepy corner of Gloucestershire surrounded by fields, stone villages and long, quiet roads. Yet last week the IRGC, through Iran’s official news agency, declared that any military base used…

[ad_1] Hong Kong Secretary of Security Chris Tang warned booksellers to make sure the books they sell do not harm national security, comparing it to making sure food is safe to eat. This came after police raided two independent bookstores, Have A Nice Stay and Greenfield Book Store, and arrested five people for allegedly selling and displaying materials that could stir up hatred against the government, courts, and police. It was the third round of arrests in four months, raising worries about shrinking freedom of speech and unclear rules for what books are allowed. But Tang said the government will…

[ad_1] President Donald J. Trump poses for a Family Photo with world leaders at the Shield of the Americas summit at Trump National Doral, Saturday, March 7, 2026, in Miami, Florida. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok) In less than two years, Donald Trump has disarmed the Congress and put the Constitution on life support.  The separation of powers has been breached, and checks and balances have been compromised.  One of Trump’s most serious victims is arms control and disarmament, a tragedy the mainstream media have virtually ignored. Trump’s initial proposal last week to allow the sale of nuclear…

[ad_1] When President Donald Trump declared Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to U.S. national security in a January 2026 Executive Order, the designation was accompanied by a series of sweeping claims. Among them were accusations that Cuba “provides support” to Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, that it “supports terrorism,” and that the Cuban government supports actors who “seek to destroy the United States.” What began as a discussion over Cuban intelligence capabilities has now expanded into a much broader narrative that presents Havana as a link between America’s foreign adversaries, militant organizations, and domestic political movements. And the…

[ad_1] Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump’s much ballyhooed public address on July 16 – an attempt to pressure Congress to approve his “Save America” election legislation – turned out to be a pitiful bust.  Even Sean Hannity seemed embarrassed by a speech that claimed large‑scale “election vulnerabilities,” including hundreds of thousands of alleged non‑citizen votes and Chinese hacking of voter files but offered zero evidence of fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Evidence or no evidence, Trump can’t stop alleging that the vote for Biden was rigged – a compulsive accusation that anti-Trumpers attribute to his inability to…

[ad_1] The state has discovered that the most efficient way to manage what you believe is to reach you before you know you are being reached. Consider a man walking into a church in Prescott, Arizona on a Sunday morning. He carries a phone, as everyone does. He does not know that the building has been wrapped inside an invisible digital boundary, that his device will be logged the instant he crosses it, and that for days afterward his screen will fill with political advertising paid for by a foreign government. He never consented. He was never asked. He was…

[ad_1] On July 20, 2001, in the historic port city of Genova, the global ruling class met behind the Red Zone while the Italian state showed the world exactly how far it would go to protect them. Silvio Berlusconi played host to George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and the rest of the G8. Outside, hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of the planet had gathered to declare that another world is possible. Among them was Carlo Giuliani, twenty-three years old, the son of a CGIL trade-union militant, raised in a family that understood class struggle as a living…

[ad_1] One of the stranger geopolitical developments in the Middle East of late (leaving aside the present war) has been the rupture between Israel and Turkey. A war of words has turned into something resembling a full diplomatic spat, with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing Turkey’s regional aspirations as “aggressive” and other high officials even advocating for the country’s removal from NATO. Most worrying, considering the conflict in which the United States currently finds itself embroiled, are Israeli comparisons of Turkey to Iran. The former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, for instance, has declared that “Turkey is the new…