By The Cradle

The Israeli army’s new Chief of Staff, Eyal Zamir, was officially sworn into the position on 5 March, making a speech and vowing that the “mission” against Hamas has “not yet been completed.” Continue reading “Israel’s new army chief sworn into office: ‘Hamas not defeated, mission not over’”

By Ted Galen Carpenter – The Libertarian Institute

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The commitment of Washington’s European allies to democracy is increasingly fragile, if not hypocritical, as Vice President J D Vance highlighted in his speech to the Munich Security Conference last month. That problem is most acute in Romania. In the first round of the country’s presidential election on November 24, 2024, Calin Georgescu, the candidate of a right-wing populist party, unexpectedly led the field. In addition to having populist social views, Georgescu is an outspoken critic of NATO. His “apostasy” on that issue makes him especially unacceptable to Romania’s political establishment and its American supporters. Continue reading “Romania’s Dying Democracy”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

President Trump on Wednesday issued a threat against the civilian population of Gaza, saying the “people of Gaza” would be “dead” if the Israeli hostages weren’t released immediately. Continue reading “Trump Says the ‘People of Gaza’ Will Be ‘Dead’ If Hostages Aren’t Released”

By John Perry – The Grayzone

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A new UN report relies on a US government-funded operative, Felix Maradiaga, who helped instigate the violent 2018 coup to remove President Daniel Ortega in 2018.  Yet UN “experts” have refused to interview the many Nicaraguans kidnapped and tortured by the opposition.

Continue reading “‘Biased’ UN report on Nicaragua ignores victims of US-backed opposition violence”

By TYLER DURDEN – Zerohedge

South Korean F-16 fighter jets accidentally dropped Mk82 bombs on a town near the North Korean border during a live-fire drill, injuring 15 people and damaging multiple buildings, local media reported.

Continue reading “Watch: South Korea Fighter Jets Accidentally Drop Bombs On Small Town”

By Hayden Cunningham – The Postmillennial

LA Mayor Karen Bass faces fierce recall campaign over poor handling of wildfires

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is facing a significant recall effort over her handling of the wildfires that swept through Southern California in January. Continue reading “LA Mayor Karen Bass faces fierce recall campaign over poor handling of wildfires”

By David Icke

Their hero Kennedy now wants to target freedom of speech justified by ‘antisemitism’ after coming out to promote vaccines that he spent years condemning. Continue reading “I despair – briefly – at how hundreds of millions of people (at least) cannot see that a government controlled to its DNA by Israel is not there to put America first or ‘fight globalism’.”

By Dave DeCamp – Antiwar.com

The Arab League issued a statement following a summit in Cairo on Tuesday backing an Egyptian-proposed $53 billion reconstruction plan for Gaza, an idea quickly rejected by Israel and the US. Continue reading “Arab League Backs Egypt’s Gaza Reconstruction Plan, Israel and US Reject It”

By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net

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The Brussels-based EU DisinfoLab non-profit is exploring how useful and efficient large language models (LLMs) chatbots are in advancing online censorship (“moderation”), particularly as that relates to “misinformation.” Continue reading “Chatbots as Censors: How the EU Machine is Eyeing AI for Speech Control”