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A few weeks after President Trump declared on Truth Social that he wants a $1.5 trillion military budget, Republican leaders in Congress are working on making his dream of increasing military spending by about 50% a reality. Continue reading “Republicans Start Work To Get Trump His $1.5 Trillion Military Budget for 2027”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday as Israel is pushing for a new war with Iran following talks between US and Iranian officials in Oman on Friday. Continue reading “Netanyahu To Meet Trump on Wednesday as Israel Pushes for Iran War”
By Kit Klarenberg – The Grayzone
Continue reading “Kincora: British intelligence-run sex abuse brothel?”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced a deepening political crisis on Monday after losing a second senior aide in the controversy over his controversial appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the United States,vowing he would not resign amid mounting calls for his departure. Mandelson – who resigned last week from the House of Lords over the Epstein scandal – shared market-sensitive government information with Epstein during the global financial crisis.
Israel’s invaded Lebanon in late 2024, culminating in a ceasefire that was reached in November of that year. It was never much of a ceasefire, with Israel consistently launching attacks on Lebanese territory ever since. With the escalations though, it’s even less of a ceasefire than ever. Continue reading “Rate of Israeli Strikes on Lebanon at Highest Level Since Ceasefire”
The day before US and Iranian officials are set to hold talks in Oman, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a meeting of his security cabinet and told his top officials that certain “conditions” are in place that may lead to the downfall of the Iranian government, according to Israeli media. Continue reading “Ahead of US-Iran Talks, Netanyahu Tells Cabinet ‘Conditions’ Could Lead to Regime Change in Tehran”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
President Trump, just one year into his first term, is already pivoting away from his unfulfilled campaign pledge to conduct “mass deportations.” Continue reading “Trump Appears Poised to Abandon ‘Mass Deportations’”
The AI era already feels like a dystopian fever dream straight out of a bad sci-fi novel, but leave it to a software engineer to push the accelerator straight into the abyss. Enter Alexander Liteplo, the software developer behind RentAHuman.ai, a freshly launched platform that lets autonomous AI agents “search, book, and pay” actual human beings to perform physical-world tasks they can’t handle themselves, Futurism reports. Continue reading “This Website Lets AI Bots Rent Humans”
The president of Somaliland told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday that he expects to sign a trade deal with Israel after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a decree recognizing the Republic of Somaliland, a de facto independent state within Somalia’s internationally recognized borders. Continue reading “Somaliland Leader Says He Expects a Trade Deal With Israel After Recognition”
The Israeli military launched heavy attacks across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that killed at least 23 Palestinians, including young children, as it continues its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal. Continue reading “Israeli Attacks Kill 23 Palestinians Across Gaza, Including Seven Children”
Congresswoman Nancy Mace is turning up the heat on Bill Gates, pushing for a subpoena that could force the tech tycoon to spill the beans on his shady ties to Jeffrey Epstein—exposing how deep the rot runs in the elite circles that have long evaded justice.
Which intelligence services did Jeffrey Epstein work for?
Grayzone editor @MaxBlumenthal breaks down disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s network of pro-Israel politicians, billionaire financiers, and various intelligence services in the latest DOJ file dump.
“[Epstein]… pic.twitter.com/5dWF9Mk9BD
— One America News (@OANN) February 4, 2026
🚨 BREAKING:
U.S. Senator Atty Aber @USAttyAber
FOUND DEAD after EXPOSING israeli
smuggling ring. They literally killed her.Israel f*cking MURDERED a U.S. Senator. pic.twitter.com/3Xzk6ugE9o
— Jvnior (@Jvnior) February 4, 2026
By Stavroula Pabst – Responsible Statecraft
The U.S. Army has quietly sent a rotational force to the Philippines — a move experts tell RS signals greater U.S. military involvement in the region, amid growing tensions over the island of Taiwan. Continue reading “New US Army force deployed to Philippines”
By Elis Gjevori – Middle East Eye
Israeli fighter jets bombed the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least 21 Palestinians, including three children, according to local hospitals.
At least 14 people were killed in Gaza City after Israeli forces shelled the eastern neighbourhoods of Zaytoun and Tuffah at dawn.
Al Jazeera reported that at least two baby girls were among those killed in the attacks. Continue reading “Israel kills 21 Palestinians in Gaza bombing, including infants”
Trump had kicked off the week by warning Iran that “bad things” would probably happen if a deal could not be reached. “We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones – the biggest and the best – and we have talks going on with Iran and we’ll see how it all works out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “If we can work something out, that would be great and if we can’t, probably bad things would happen.”
“I’d like to see a deal negotiated. I don’t know that that’s going to happen,” he added. So far, Iran seems a willing participant, though at this point the reality is it has little to lose by risking such direct engagement.
Continue reading “Trump Warns Of ‘Bad Things’ If No Iran Deal Reached As Venue Moves To Oman”
