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Silicon Valley oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen have much to gain from Donald Trump’s seizure of Greenland, both as a source of rare earth minerals to feed the AI boom and as a site for a libertarian “crypto state.”

The escalation of threats to Venezuela by United States President Donald Trump may be easy to dismiss as one of his random whims, but it is too closely linked to major confrontations to be seen as a regional affair with limited impact on the rest of the world.

Donny’s feeling the heat. Keep the fire going. Let’s make 2026 the year of accountability

Essay by the president of Finland.

Like Banquo’s ghost, there is one presence that hangs menacingly over all the Office for Budget Responsibility’s latest dismal set of growth forecasts for the UK economy – an uninvited guest at the table, as it were. Yes, Brexit.

Proof of the “Crypto Christian” problem in Turkiye. A subreddit on Reddit. It has “Muslim” in its name, but it has Hagia Sophia bowed down like the head of Mary Magdalene in the painting of Jesus’s Last Supper.

In his book Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922, McCarthy documents large-scale deaths and forced migrations of Ottoman Muslims (including Turks) in the Balkans, Caucasus, and Anatolia.

Even Wikipedia has an article on “false flag” operations, but when such an event actually happens, everyone dismisses it as a “conspiracy theory” or “paranoid thoughts”… People always forget to ask the right question: “Who benefited from this”..?

A one-stop source for following crucial trends in the most significant antigovernment protests worldwide since 2017.

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*UN experts expressed grave concern over credible and well-documented allegations of long-standing trafficking and forced labour of migrant women in the Golyanovo district of Moscow, in Russia.

For over half a century, Israel has pursued a deliberate strategy of concealing its nuclear weapons program while refusing to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Unlike Iran, which remains a signatory, Israel does not permit international inspections of its nuclear facilities, maintaining a policy of "nuclear ambiguity."

The Pentagon has initiated an official review of the AUKUS defense pact, a landmark agreement signed in 2021 by the Biden administration with Australia and the United Kingdom to develop nuclear-powered submarines.

The Turkish publication Aydınlık raised concerns about the modernization of B61-12 nuclear bombs.

In a surprising turn of events, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between India and Pakistan on social media on May 10. He claimed his intervention prevented a nuclear war. On May 12, responding to a reporter’s question at the White House, Trump said, “The U.S. didn’t just ‘broker’ the ceasefire between India and Pakistan— we stopped a ‘nuclear conflict.’”

The UK government has signed a contract worth approximately $11.5 billion (£9 billion) with Rolls-Royce to develop nuclear reactors for submarines. The project aims to support the maintenance and modernization of Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet. The contract includes the design, production, and maintenance of nuclear systems, which officials claim will create thousands of jobs and strengthen national defense.