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Elections attorney Cleta Mitchell on Wednesday reacted to the Department of Justice subpoenaing the Fulton County board of elections for records of people who worked in the 2020 election and handled ballots. On Steve Bannon’s “WarRoom” podcast, Mitchell said Georgia officials, including Republicans, were part of the improper handling of ballots in Fulton County. “This is something the Justice Department of the United States of America should have done immediately in January of 2021. And they didn’t do it. And now it’s being reconstructed five years later,” Mitchell said about the new investigation launched by U.S. Attorney Dan Bishop.STEVE BANNON:…

President Donald Trump signed a new counterterrorism strategy Wednesday that includes domestic left-wing groups like antifa and drug cartels in its definition of terrorist organizations. The strategy follows moves earlier this year to designate several Latin American cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, allowing the administration to implement financial sanctions on them and levy criminal penalties for material support. The inclusion of drug cartels in U.S. antiterror strategy complements the administration’s more militarized U.S. posture in Latin America, which has relied heavily on the methods pioneered in the Middle East during the War on Terror. The inclusion of left-wing groups like…

Photo by Annie Spratt For some years, I’ve been interested in the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure —  specifically what they suggest is necessary to achieve animal liberation, and, as a result, where animal activists should be focusing their efforts. I’ve come to believe protein alternatives that are identical in taste and cheaper to produce than slaughtered meat are likely a precondition of widespread animal liberation. Consequently, my activism has been focused on securing public funding for cultivated-meat research. For those who don’t know, the new protein is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. The technology exists to create…

We are back in an era of hard resource power and Mahanian sea power. Geography matters again. Chokepoints matter again. Energy, food, minerals, and shipping routes matter again. And above all of it still sits American monetary power, reinforcing advantages that the United States and the wider Western Hemisphere possess in abundance. So, what is the real meaning of Operation Epic Fury? Epic Fury is not about Iran, except in the most superficial sense. Iran is the trigger, not the subject. The subject is power: who has it, who depends on it, and who discovers in a crisis that he…

President Donald Trump and Congress want to help you increase your savings. And you should. At the household level, saving is the foundation of financial security and the seed capital for a better retirement. At the economy-wide level, savings fund investment that expands the capital stock, raises wages, and grows the economy. A society that does not save is a society slowly consuming its future. So, any politician who wants to help Americans save more deserves at least a hearing. What should such a politician propose? The first thing to do is remove all government-made barriers to savings. This includes…

As Washington retreats from multilateral institutions to instead opt for bilateral and transactional engagements, much of the world expects China to fill the gap, writes Damilola Banjo.  China’s U.N. Ambassador Fu Cong, president of the Security Council this month, arriving to brief reporters on May 1. (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By Damilola BanjoPassBlue When Fu Cong, China’s ambassador to the United Nations, was asked whether Beijing intended to fill the financial and other voids left by Washington in the multilateral system, he said that China was already the “de facto” No. 1 contributor to the U.N. regular budget and had no interest…

Trump’s retribution is painful for Germany and Nato, but Merz is not backing down. He knows the status quo is untenable Source link

Back in November, Vinay Prasad, then-director of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, asserted in an internal email that “at least 10 children have died after and because of receiving COVID-19 vaccination.” He provided no evidence to back up his claim then, and none has since been forthcoming. Prasad left the agency at the end of April. Good riddance. In the meantime, other Trump administration officials have continued their efforts to undermine the American public’s confidence in the safety of previously vetted and approved vaccines. Jay Bhattacharya, who is simultaneously head of the National…

Photo by Ling Tang As the smoke from intensified Middle East conflicts shrouds the Strait of Hormuz in spring 2026, the global economy finds itself teetering on a precarious edge. With the artery that carries about 20 percent of the world’s crude oil and roughly one third of its maritime fertilizer trade effectively constricted, international shipping costs have surged to an all-time high, and oil prices even breached the $119 per barrel mark. Yet, beneath these headlines of geopolitical fracture, a counter-narrative of resilience is emerging: China has evolved from a mere growth engine into an indispensable global stabilizing anchor. In an era when…

Barack Obama brought the children and cronies of Iran’s ruling elite into the United States. Now they’re being sent back. Source link