Ukraine’s forced mobilization has become an “open manhunt,” with civilians being detained and forced into military service against their will, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
Commenting on the detention in Ukraine of a Hungarian citizen who allegedly attempted to help a group of Ukrainians cross the border, Szijjarto said people were “fed up with the fighting.”
“The Ukrainian people do not want to die, yet every day there are images of violence playing out like a series – open manhunts unfolding on the streets of Ukrainian cities,” he wrote on Facebook on Sunday. … Full article
Tensions between Hungary and Ukraine continue to escalate. The constant pressure against Hungarian-Russian energy cooperation and the policies of ethnic cleansing through military recruitment in Ukraine have caused fury in Hungary. Furthermore, the pragmatic and pro-peace stance of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is absolutely antagonistic to the neo-Nazi and warmongering ideology of the Ukrainian regime, making both countries irreconcilable rivals.
In a recent statement, Orbán said that Ukraine is Hungary’s “enemy.” The Hungarian leader’s words were extremely strong and signaled a radical shift in Hungary’s stance, moving from moderate opposition to Ukraine to open enmity – a logical and inevitable consequence of Ukraine’s constant provocations against the Hungarian people.
The trigger for the diplomatic crisis that prompted Orbán’s statement was Ukraine’s insistence on demanding that Hungary end its energy cooperation with Russia. The Kiev regime continues to provoke Hungary through its European partners, encouraging them to pressure Budapest to stop buying Russian oil and gas. For Orbán, these provocations are a red line, which is why Ukraine has ceased to be seen as a simple adversary in the international arena and has become a true enemy of Hungary. … continue
There are no grounds for talking about launching new negotiations with the United States on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday.
“There is currently no basis for discussing the launch of such a negotiation process. We have repeatedly spoken about the need to see deeper, far-reaching changes for the better in the US approach to the issues we are discussing,” Ryabkov said on the sidelines of the BRICS Sherpa meeting in New Delhi, adding that when US policy towards Russia changes for the better, then the preconditions for launching a corresponding dialogue will arise.
Russia regrets that the US administration perceives the New START Treaty as something that requires replacement with something else, the deputy foreign minister added.
“In any such hypothetical process, nothing would come of it without the involvement of the United Kingdom and the French Republic, as the United States’ closest allies, both possessing nuclear weapons and, in the current, highly tense international situation, pursuing a highly aggressive course toward our country. Therefore, ignoring their nuclear arsenals would be irresponsible. They must be at the negotiating table, I repeat, if and when something like this becomes relevant,” Ryabkov also said.
Britain is planning to launch a seaborne drone fleet to seize oil tankers it claims are linked to what it calls a Russian “shadow fleet,” the Sunday Times has reported. … continue
The US is “strangling” Cuba, Russia warned on 9 February, stressing that the Kremlin is looking for ways to assist the island nation to withstand Washington’s intensified blockade.
“The situation in Cuba is indeed critical … We are aware of this, and we maintain close contact with our Cuban friends through diplomatic and other channels,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
He added that “the stranglehold imposed by the United States is already causing a lot of difficulties for Cuba,” noting that Moscow and Havana are discussing “possible ways to resolve these problems or at least provide all possible assistance.” … continue
A quiet but profound shift is reshaping the geopolitical map of South America, as revealed by an exclusive Reuters report, “Brazil signals new openness to Mercosur-China talks as Beijing seeks deeper ties”: For the first time, senior Brazilian officials are considering a push for a “partial” trade agreement between the Mercosur bloc and China.
This represents a major shift for Latin America’s largest economy. While Washington is busy raising tariffs and fortifying protectionist walls, countries in the Western hemisphere are recalculating their survival strategies. The result? A pragmatic reassessment of ties with Beijing.
We are already seeing the ripple effects of US pressure on neighbors like Mexico and Panama, but the shifting mood in the wider region is far more significant. The degree to which Latin American nations are pivoting is directly correlated to the economic squeeze they feel from the North. … continue
Passports and political correspondence place Ukraine at the heart of the Epstein network. From Kyiv-based agencies linked to abuser Jean-Luc Brunel to references involving Zelensky and Western financial elites, the files reveal a pattern that clashes with prevailing media narratives. The silence surrounding these connections is quite telling in today’s narrative war. … Read article
The decadent lifestyle of disgraced US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his entourage is a testament to the moral decay of Western elites, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
Last month, the US Department of Justice released a large trove of emails, photos, and videos from the Epstein state, prompting renewed scrutiny of high-profile individuals who associated with Epstein despite his conviction for sex crimes.
The files “have revealed the face of the West and the deep state, or rather a deep union that rules the entire West and seeks to rule the whole world,” Lavrov said in an interview with NTV aired on Sunday. … continue
Influenza is only named pandemic virus—the same pathogen at the center of US gain-of-function experiments and vaccine development
By Jon Fleetwood | February 5, 2026
Congress has enacted legislation allocating at least $5.5 billion in taxpayer funding to finance pandemic and outbreak preparedness in fiscal year 2026—despite no declared pandemic and no formal emergency authorization. … continue
More than 250 Swiss academics have sent an open letter to the government calling for the termination of a research agreement with Israel, citing concerns over the genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
In the letter to the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), the signatories denounced the partnership as “complicity with crimes committed in Gaza” and called for closer scrutiny of institutional ties.
The petitioners asked authorities to conduct an “assessment of ongoing projects” at Swiss universities to determine whether any have links to the Israeli army or the “genocidal policy” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s regime.
They also seek the termination of the agreement between the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Israel Science Foundation.
They argue that this partnership “gives Israel an even more privileged and therefore even more problematic status.”
The mobilization was organized by the Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (Clads), founded in 2024 by a number of academics. … Full article
A new report from the Los Angeles Police Commission’s Office of the Inspector General reveals that the LAPD sent personnel to “Israel” for training at least nine times over the last decade, yet failed to document what officers learned, who they met, or how the department benefited, the Los Angeles Times reported. […]
The LAPD has sent personnel to train with Israeli forces since the 1980s, intensifying after the 9/11 attacks under the banner of security cooperation. Critics, however, argue that these partnerships risk importing tactics used against Palestinians into local policing practices in the United States. … Full article
Armed Israeli settlers have carried out a series of new attacks across the occupied West Bank, injuring several Palestinians in different locations, local media reports say.
According to the Palestinian WAFA news agency, incidents near Nablus and Ramallah included physical assaults, road blockades, and property targeting.
In the first incident, settlers assaulted at least three Palestinians working on their land in the town of Beit Imrin, north of Nablus, leaving them with bruises and injuries.
One of the wounded was transferred to the hospital by the Palestinian Red Crescent.
In a separate incident east of Ramallah, two Palestinians were injured after settlers blocked a road between Ramoun village and Deir Dibwan town before assaulting them.
One sustained a head injury and required hospitalization. Additional assaults were reported in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus.
Local sources also reported attacks in the northern Jordan Valley and near al-Mughayyir village, where settlers targeted caves and agricultural areas.
Separately, the Israeli army said it shot a Palestinian detainee inside a military base in the Jordan Valley after alleging he attacked a soldier.
Israeli media reported the man, in his 50s, had been arrested at the Allenby Bridge crossing a day earlier and transferred to a military facility where he was shot in the knees, sustaining injuries. … Full article
A senior leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has firmly rejected calls for the group to surrender its weapons or accept foreign intervention in Gaza, pushing back against demands from the United States and Israel tied to the ongoing ceasefire process.
Khaled Meshaal, a former Hamas chief who currently heads the group’s diaspora office, made these remarks during a conference in Doha on Sunday, emphasizing that efforts to criminalize armed resistance and disarm Palestinian factions are “unacceptable” under continued Israeli occupation.
“Criminalizing the resistance, its weapons, and those who carried it out is something we should not accept,” Meshaal said.
“As long as there is occupation, there is resistance. Resistance is a right of peoples under occupation … something nations take pride in,” he added.
Meshaal further warned that Hamas would unequivocally reject any form of foreign rule in Gaza.
“We adhere to our national principles and reject the logic of guardianship, external intervention, or the return of a mandate in any form,” he said.
“Palestinians are to govern Palestinians. Gaza belongs to the people of Gaza and to Palestine. We will not accept foreign rule,” he added. … Full article
GAZA – In a new breach of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian child on Sunday evening in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
The child, identified as Mohammed Al-Sarahi, aged 16, was killed near the Salah al-Din Mosque in the same area, according to local reports.
His killing brings the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza on Sunday to six, including a woman who succumbed to injuries from a prior airstrike.
Since the ceasefire came into effect in October 2025, continuous Israeli violations have resulted in the killing of over 580 civilians and left hundreds more injured.
By Robert Inlakesh | The Palestine Chronicle | February 8, 2026
Reports that Israeli aircraft sprayed chemical agents along the Lebanese border — later identified as toxic defoliants — have intensified concerns over environmental damage, civilian harm, and possible violations of international law, with similar incidents also reported in southern Syria.
Key Takeaways
UN peacekeepers suspended patrols after being warned that aircraft would spray chemical agents near the Blue Line.
The sprayed substance was later identified as a toxic herbicide linked to cancer.
The campaign is seen as serving both military land-clearing and civilian displacement purposes.
Similar chemical spraying incidents have been reported in southern Syria.
Rights groups say targeting farmland may constitute a violation of international humanitarian law.
The president of Somalia has strongly denounced the Israeli regime’s interference in his country’s internal affairs and vowed to “confront” any Israeli military presence in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
In an interview on Saturday, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state is a “reckless, fundamentally wrong and illegal action under international law.” … continue
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on 8 February that the Islamic Republic will not give up uranium enrichment, as Israel and the US are demanding – stressing that Tehran will continue to pursue a peaceful nuclear program even at the cost of war.
Araghchi also reiterated that talks with the US will not focus on anything except the nuclear issue, as Israel continues to push Washington to double down on demands for curtailing the Iranian missile program and halting support for regional resistance groups.
“Iran has paid a very heavy price for its peaceful nuclear program and for uranium enrichment,” the foreign minister said on Sunday.
“Why do we insist so much on enrichment and refuse to give it up even if a war is imposed on us? Because no one has the right to dictate our behavior,” he added.
Iran will never abandon enrichment even “if war is imposed” on the country. “Their military deployment in the region does not scare us.” … continue
The attempted assassination of a high-ranking Russian general is an attempt to sabotage talks and extend the Kiev regime’s stay in power
By Nadezhda Romanenko | RT | February 8, 2026
The assassination attempt on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, first deputy chief of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is clearly the Zelensky regime’s latest desperate bid to sabotage the emerging Russia-Ukraine-US negotiations channel in Abu Dhabi and prolong the war.
When negotiations gain traction, spoilers surface. That’s Negotiations 101. And this week’s second round in Abu Dhabi was precisely the kind of movement that unnerves actors who fear ballots, reforms, and accountability more than inevitable defeat on the battlefield.
The target choice reinforces the point. Alekseyev is the second-in-command of GRU chief Igor Kostyukov – who sits on the Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi. Striking the No. 2 as the No. 1 shuttles between sessions is both a very deliberate message and an attempt to rattle Russia’s delegation, inject chaos into its decision loop, force security overdrive, and ultimately, provoke Moscow’s withdrawal from the talks.
Nor is this the first time kinetic theater has tracked with diplomatic motion. Recall the attempted drone strike on President Vladimir Putin’s Valdai residence in late 2025, which coincided with particularly intense US-Russia exchanges. You don’t have to be a cynic to see a pattern: whenever the diplomatic door cracks open, someone tries to slam it shut with explosives, drones, or bullets – then retreats behind a smokescreen of denials and proxies. Call it plausible deniability as policy.
Why would Kiev’s leadership gamble like this? Start with raw political incentives. … continue
Three Ukrainian draft officers have been detained in the city of Dnepr for allegedly beating a 55-year-old civilian to death, local police have said.
The latest incident in the chaotic Ukrainian mobilization drive occurred early on Saturday, when the officers attempted to conscript their victim. The civilian sustained fatal head injuries after being violently detained, according to an initial police assessment. […]
Draft officials have repeatedly been documented beating up recruits, illegally breaking into vehicles and homes, chasing their victims in the streets, and brawling with onlookers. Despite mounting evidence of the lawlessness of the process and numerous incriminating videos circulating online, the Ukrainian leadership has largely turned a blind eye to the abuse nature of the mobilization. Although Kiev had previously acknowledged certain “shortcomings” with the conscription drive, senior officials routinely dismiss such concerns as “Russian propaganda.” … Full article
By Anthony Watts | Climate Realism | February 3, 2026
Al Jazeera (AJ) recently published an article titled “Drought in the east, floods in the south: Africa battered by climate change” by Haru Mutasa, in which the reporter details recent experiences of drought in East Africa and flooding in southern Africa, asserting that those weather events are proof that climate change is battering the continent. This is false. The article relies on flimsy content such as personal observation, interviews, and evocative imagery to imply causation, ignoring data and trends that show no appreciable changes in flood or drought patterns over time.
Mutasa asserts that “rising seas and intensifying storms” and shifting rainfall patterns are already devastating livelihoods, citing the author’s personal field observations as evidence of a broader climate crisis. Readers are shown photos of dry riverbeds, dead livestock, submerged neighborhoods, and distressed residents, then invited to connect these scenes directly to global warming. The emotional impact is real, but emotion is not evidence.
Let us start with AJ’s most basic error: weather is not climate. Climate is defined by long-term patterns measured over decades, typically 30 years or more. A drought in one region followed by floods in another over a few weeks or months says nothing about a durable climate trend. Africa’s climate has always been highly variable, with sharp swings driven by ocean–atmosphere cycles such as the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and the Indian Ocean Dipole. Short-term extremes—sometimes back-to-back—are a known feature of the region, not a recently discovered diagnostical proof of climate change.
How the influential 2006 Stern Review conjured up escalating future disaster losses
By Roger Pielke Jr. | The Honest Broker | February 2, 2026
For those who haven’t observed climate debates over the long term, today it might be hard to imagine the incredible influence of the 2006 Stern Review on The Economics of Climate.1
The Stern Review was far more than just another nerdy report of climate economics. It was a keystone document that reshaped how climate change was framed in policy, media, and advocacy, with reverberations still echoing today.
The Review was commissioned in 2005 by the UK Treasury under Chancellor Gordon Brown and published in 2006, with the aim of assessing climate change through the lens of economic risk and cost–benefit analysis. The review was led by Sir Nicholas Stern, then Head of the UK Government Economic Service and a former Chief Economist of the World Bank, from the outset giving the effort unusual stature for a policy report.
As the climate issue gained momentum in the 2000s, the Review’s conclusions that climate change was a looming emergency and that virtually any cost was worth bearing in response were widely treated as authoritative. The Review shaped climate discourse far beyond the United Kingdom and well beyond the confines of economics.
One key aspect of the Stern Review overlaps significantly with my expertise — The economic impacts of extreme weather. In fact, that overlap has a very surprising connection which I’ll detail below, and explains why back in 2006 I was able to identify the report’s fatal flaws on the economics of extreme weather in real time, and publish my arguments in the peer-reviewed literature soon thereafter.
But I’m getting ahead of myself.
I have just updated through 2025 the figure below that compares the Stern Review’s prediction of post-2005 increases in disaster losses as a percentage of global GDP with what has actually transpired.
Specifically, the figure shows in light grey the Stern Review’s prediction for increasing global disaster losses, as a percentage of GDP, from 2006 through 2050.2 These values in grey represent annual average losses, meaning that over time for the prediction to verify, about half of annual losses would lie above the grey bars and about half below.
The black bars in the figure show what has actually occurred (with details provided in this post last week). You don’t need fancy statistics to see that the real world has consistently undershot the Stern Review’s predictions over the past two decades. … continue
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has for decades advocated net-zero governmental policies to reduce anthropogenic CO2 (aCO2) emissions.
This advocacy is rooted in the non-physical assumption that aCO2 molecules are special, as they remain in the atmosphere for decades to centuries.
In reality, a new study references the Equivalence Principle in emphasizing nature’s sinks indiscriminately and equivalently absorb both aCO2 and natural CO2 in about 4 years (Müller, 2025). There is no physical reality for IPCC claims of “specialized” absorption time for aCO2 vs. natural CO2 molecules.
The IPCC assumes exactly 50% of aCO2 emissions remain in the atmosphere for decades to millennia. It is consequently assumed net-zero policies that propose to halve aCO2 emissions will lead to the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Because “anthropogenic CO2 has the same [4-year] residence time of natural CO2,” this assumption is physically invalid.
Net-zero policies will literally have no detectable effect on atmospheric CO2 concentrations. In sum, “the IPCC’s assumptions and fundamentals are wrong.”
A Landmark Study of One Million Men Exposed the Crisis — Then Buried the Cause
Lies are Unbekoming | February 6, 2026
In August 2025, the Journal of Endocrinological Investigation published the largest systematic review ever conducted on male testosterone trends. Fifty-five years of data. 1,256 papers. 1,504 study groups. Over one million healthy men across the globe. The finding: testosterone levels are declining, significantly and persistently, independent of age and obesity. The methodology is rigorous. The statistics are robust. The peer reviewers approved it.
The paper confirms an alarming crisis while steering interpretation away from any cause that would require action against powerful interests. This is epistemic capture in plain sight. … continue
The US houses 47% of global BSL-3 facilities — and 91.6% of countries operating them lack dual-use research oversight
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH | FOCAL POINTS | February 7, 2026
As public discussion around biolabs intensifies following law enforcement’s recent raid of an illicit biolab in Las Vegas, now is a good time to become informed.
Unauthorized “basement biolabs” are undeniably dangerous. But risk is not limited to rogue operators. Government-run and NGO-run high-containment laboratories also handle some of the world’s most dangerous pathogens — and most operate within poorly enforced oversight frameworks. … continue
94% had H5 antibodies, 100% showed neutralization despite no exposure to virus.
By Jon Fleetwood | February 2, 2026
A new peer-reviewed study published last week in the journal Immunity reports that the vast majority of people already carry antibodies capable of neutralizing the cattle-linked purported H5N1 bird flu virus, despite having no known exposure to H5N1 and being classified as immunologically naïve.
The findings challenge the widespread assumption that humans are broadly unprotected against H5N1—an assumption that has underpinned recent pandemic warnings tied to the virus’s spread in U.S. dairy cattle.
The findings show that H5N1 is not entering the human population as an immunological blank slate: most people already carry antibodies and immune memory capable of recognizing and neutralizing the virus, even without prior exposure.
This directly undercuts pandemic narratives that portray H5N1 as a wholly novel, population-wide threat requiring emergency gain-of-function research or mass vaccine programs to create immunity from scratch.
While the study does not address transmission dynamics, it clearly demonstrates that baseline human immunity to H5N1 already exists—raising questions about whether current levels of alarm, experimentation, and preemptive intervention are scientifically justified. – Read full article
By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender | February 5, 2026
A lawsuit filed by Children’s Health Defense (CHD) against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) alleges that the AAP’s aggressive promotion of childhood vaccines created a “closed-loop” business model that set up pharmaceutical companies to profit from vaccines and from drugs used to treat vaccine injuries.
The lawsuit alleges the AAP violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO, by running a decades-long racketeering scheme to defraud American families about the safety of the childhood vaccine schedule.
A “racket” exists when a service creates its own demand, according to the complaint.
In this case, the same companies that make pediatric vaccines have also acquired companies that develop treatments for autoimmune disorders, allergies and neurodevelopmental conditions — conditions recognized in vaccine package inserts as adverse events that occurred during clinical trials or in post-marketing studies. … continue
What an Australian Newspaper Article Reveals About the Vaccine Compliance Machine
Lies are Unbekoming | February 5, 2026
The Sydney Morning Herald wants you to know the penalties. Doctors and nurses who falsify vaccination records face suspension, deregistration, and jail. Parents who seek them out face fraud investigations through Services Australia. The article names specific dollar amounts ($2,500 per child), quotes the Health Minister expressing shock and outrage, and reminds readers that AHPRA—the regulatory body that controls whether medical professionals can earn a living—is watching.
German authorities have escalated their long-running attempt to enforce domestic speech regulations against a US-based platform with no corporate presence in the country, issuing a €31,650 ($37,421) penalty demand to Gab.com under Germany’s Network Enforcement Act, known as NetzDG.
The enforcement notice, dated 22 December 2025 and issued by the Federal Office of Justice in Bonn, seeks payment of fines first assessed in early 2021.
The official notice states that a penalty was imposed following a 14 January 2021 order and that the amount is now considered enforceable, according to the document.
The accounting records list a €30,000 fine tied directly to NetzDG, with additional fees added over time.
NetzDG requires large online platforms to maintain local compliance infrastructure, including a German service address, and to process government censorship demands on tight timelines. … continue
The British establishment newspaper the Guardian, is pushing for censorship on Substack in a new article titled, “Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters”.
The article used the oldest censorship trick in the book: to scour for examples of obscure individuals who hold extremist or hateful views and use them to push for a broader censorship agenda. … continue
… Chomsky’s relations with Epstein have only confirmed suspicions about the judeo-leftist intellectual functioning as a gatekeeper in anti-war leftist circles. For decades, Noam Chomsky occupied a unique position in American intellectual life. The MIT professor who gained prominence due to his contributions in the realm of linguistics became the left’s most prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy while maintaining an institutional home at a university receiving substantial Pentagon funding. He was never sanctioned, never fired, never truly threatened despite his radical rhetoric, all which should raise questions about Chomsky.
This contradiction troubled some observers. As one critic, Shyamoli Jana, noted at Ground Zero, “Why do these big, powerful criminals hang out with Chomsky? Can one imagine such a hangout involving a regular campus Leftist? No. The only ones allowed in are those that are guaranteed to play ball.”
The Epstein revelations intensified longstanding accusations that Chomsky functions as “controlled opposition,” a radical whose dissent remains within carefully policed boundaries that never credibly threatened Jewish power. Throughout his career, Chomsky took positions that aligned with establishment narratives on key issues while maintaining the facade as a fearless critic of the Judeo-American imperium.
Chomsky rose to prominence as a leftist intellectual while rejecting communist ideology, dismissing foul play in the assassination of JFK, and defending the official narrative about 9/11. On these and other questions of deep politics, Chomsky consistently sided with regime narratives. Though publicly recognized as a critic of American foreign policy, Chomsky serves a gatekeeper role by drawing a firm line against false flag theories, effectively limiting the scope of permissible criticism of the Jewish supremacist power configuration that dominates Western politics.
Nowhere is the accusation of gatekeeping more pronounced than on questions of U.S.-Israel relations and Jewish influence in American politics. While Chomsky built a reputation criticizing Israeli policies, his framework for understanding the relationship obfuscated organized Jewry’s role in shaping American policy in the Middle East.
Chomsky’s position is straightforward. He argues that U.S. support for Israel is driven not by the Israel lobby but by Israel’s role as a “strategic asset“ serving broader US imperial interests. In a 2006 response to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s “The Israel Lobby,” Chomsky argued that U.S. Middle East policy has been a “remarkable success“ for energy corporations and its broader imperial grand strategy for 60 years.
In a Journal of Palestine Studies interview, Chomsky was even more dismissive. Chomsky said the following: “It’s no secret that concentrated private capital has an overwhelming influence on government policy in all sorts of ways, so if in fact the “Lobby” is forcing the U.S. into policies that are against the interests of these people who effectively run the country; we should be able to convince them. And they would put the Israel Lobby out of business in about five seconds. The Lobby is peanuts compared to them. The military industry lobby alone vastly outspends and has much greater influence than the [Israel] Lobby does.” … Read full article
Amid the digital fog surrounding the recent foreign-engineered riots in Iran, a troubling pattern emerged: individuals reported “dead” were later found to be very much alive and healthy.
This revealed a systemic failure in verification and pointed to a deliberate campaign of narrative manipulation – an old tactic against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Coverage of civil unrest often involves conflicting claims, but international reporting on Iran’s recent unrest exposed a persistent anomaly: premature or fabricated death declarations.
Across social media and major Western media outlets, names and faces of Iranian citizens, as well as those outside Iran, circulated widely as martyrs “killed” by Iranian security forces or detainees facing imminent execution.
Yet, case after case, these individuals reappeared – posting videos from home, giving interviews at work, or, in some cases, confirmed by families to have died of unrelated causes.
From Mobina Beheshti to Erfan Soltani, these instances reveal an information ecosystem where claims are amplified without scrutiny, geopolitical narratives override factual accuracy, and the real tragedies of foreign-backed terrorism become entangled with falsehoods – undermining credible journalism and exploiting the emotional weight of victimhood. … continue
The White House published an executive order authorizing additional tariffs of up to 25% on imports from foreign countries that directly or indirectly trade with Iran.
The order says “an additional ad valorem rate of duty — for example, 25 percent” may be imposed on goods imported into the United States from countries found to “purchase, import, or otherwise acquire” goods or services from Iran.
Under the order, the Commerce Department will identify such countries, while the State Department, in coordination with other agencies, will decide whether and to what extent the tariffs should be applied.
Dockworkers across the Mediterranean have halted activity in more than 20 ports in protest at the Israeli regime’s genocidal atrocities in the Gaza Strip and militarization of port infrastructure to serve Tel Aviv’s aggression.
Union organizers said on Friday, when the strikes went underway, that the protest action reflected both long-standing solidarity with Palestine and demands for dignified working conditions.
Ahead of the strike, ships known to regularly transport military cargo to the occupied territories reportedly altered their itineraries.
Demonstrations took place in ports across Greece, Turkey, and the Basque Country.
In Turkey, the Liman-İş Sendikası union rallied hundreds of members “against genocide and in solidarity with Palestine.”
In Greece, dockworkers emphasized a contradiction between substantial European investment in rearmament and austerity measures that had cut public services, arguing that these policies had compromised safety conditions. … continue
RAMALLAH – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continue to target elected members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) in the West Bank, with 10 lawmakers currently held in Israeli prisons, despite the council having been effectively suspended for years by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Among the detainees are two of the longest-held Palestinian political prisoners: Marwan Barghouti and Ahmad Saadat, both serving life sentences. The oldest detainee is Jerusalem lawmaker Mohammad Abu Tir, 75.
Abu Tir was rearrested on November 24, 2025, after the IOF raided his home in Dar Salah, near Bethlehem. He is among several Jerusalem lawmakers whose residency IDs were revoked in 2006 and who have since faced repeated arrests and forced removals from the city.
He has spent nearly half his life in Israeli detention and is currently held in harsh conditions in an underground section of Nitzan prison in Ramla under a four-month administrative detention order. … continue
On Friday evening, undercover Israeli forces shot and critically wounded a Palestinian child in the town of Al-Eizariya, east of occupied Jerusalem. In the southern West Bank, the army invaded the towns of Sa’ir and Beit Ummar, north of Hebron and injured several young men.
The Jerusalem Governorate reported that an undercover unit infiltrated the “Al-Qanater” area in the town of Al-Eizariya, traveling in a “civilian” vehicle.
It added that the soldiers opened live fire towards a group of Palestinian youths and children near the Apartheid wall in the town, shooting a 15-year-old child in the lower extremities.
Occupation soldiers blocked ambulance crews from approaching for more than one hour, despite him being critically injured child who was bleeding heavily.
Later, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its crews treated a child in the town of Al-Eizariya for a live bullet wound to the thigh and transported him to the hospital.
Meanwhile, occupation forces shot a Palestinian young man with live rounds after invading the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron in the southern West Bank.
The PRCS reported that its ambulance crews transported a 20-year-old man to the hospital after he suffered bullet fragment injuries to the hand and leg.
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire on Saturday in the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City, an area from which the army had previously withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.
The incident came amid Israel’s daily violations of the ceasefire deal, which entered into force on Oct. 10, 2025.
A medical source told Anadolu that the Palestinian, Faraj Ibrahim Salem, 30, was killed by Israeli fire in the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Salem was shot dead in an area located outside the zones of Israeli army deployment and control under the agreement.
Earlier Saturday, Israeli artillery shelled various areas east of Gaza City and east of the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, while the army carried out demolition operations east of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave, according to eyewitnesses. … Full article
By Robert Inlakesh | The Palestine Chronicle | February 7, 2026
Since the Gaza ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, repeated announcements about an imminent ‘Phase Two’ have created the impression of diplomatic progress. In reality, the agreement has not advanced beyond its initial stage, while shifting proposals and ongoing violations suggest the process was never designed to reach a definitive end to the war. … continue
US Congresswoman Delia Ramirez has strongly condemned ongoing US military aid to “Israel” amid the ongoing war on Gaza, stating that Washington continues to be complicit in the killing of Palestinians.
“There is no ceasefire in Gaza. US-supplied bombs are still being used to murder Palestinians,” Ramirez wrote in a post on social media, sharing a report that highlighted the killing of at least 30 Palestinians, including children, in recent Israeli airstrikes despite ceasefire claims.
Ramirez is calling on Congress to exercise its constitutional authority over foreign military aid by supporting her proposed legislation, the Block the Bombs Act.
“Congress must assert its authority and put an end to the genocide. We must pass my Block the Bombs Act, which would stop the use of MK-series bombs and end our complicity in these horrors,” she said. “Not one more bomb, not one more dollar, not one more excuse.”
Despite mounting criticism, the US State Department last week approved over $6.5 billion in new US arms sales to “Israel”, divided into three major contracts. … Full article
Documents released by the US Department of Justice show that Jeffrey Epstein donated funds to the Israeli military and the Jewish National Fund (JNF), an organization that funds illegal Jewish settlements in occupied Palestine.
A 2005 IRS filings for one of Epstein’s charitable foundations, C.O.U.Q., show a $25,000 donation to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).
The US-based charity raises funds in coordination with Israel’s military establishment to support Israeli soldiers and related military infrastructure. … continue
By Tom Harris | American Thinker | January 30, 2026
Is Canada really warming at double the global average rate, as the Canadian government says it is? A new report says no, because the data Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) uses are apparently corrupted by fundamental mistakes, mistakes so severe that when corrected, all the supposed warming of the past six or seven decades vanishes.
Given that Canada represents a large fraction of global land surface area, one naturally wonders if the world is warming at anything like we are told it is.
This discovery should have generated mainstream media headlines across Canada. After all, the mistakes in the Canadian temperature data were discovered over four years ago by Dr. Joseph Hickey, a highly qualified Canadian data scientist, and the group I lead, the International Climate Science Coalition – Canada, has been publicizing the story for the past month.
But don’t expect mainstream media in the Great White North to say anything about this. Most of Canada’s press are heavily subsidized by the federal and provincial governments, which would probably not appreciate the story being covered. … continue
More than two decades ago, renowned climate scientist Mojib Latif of Germany’s Max Planck Instiute for Meterology, based in Hamburg, warned the climate-ambulance chasing Der Spiegel that, due to global warming, Germany would likely no longer experience harsh winters with heavy frost and snow as it had in previous decades.
In light of the current severe winter weather in Germany, Latif’s statements are facing renewed scrutiny. An article appearing in the Berliner Zeitungnotes that Latif’s prophecy has “aged poorly” and he appears to want to have nothing to do with them.
Hiding from the media
According to the Berliner Zeitung, the former Max Planck Institute scientist has recently stopped responding to media inquiries regarding his past claims. Critics argue that such drastic predictions damage the credibility of climate science, while others point out that extreme weather events—including intense cold snaps—can still occur within the broader context of climate change.
No Easter snow as well
Latif also claimed he recalled snow in the past occurring at Easter time, implying this no longer happens today. But that too was a false claim. perhaps prof. Latif will answer phone calls in April?
Seven years after skeptics challenged KNMI’s temperature adjustments, the institute reinstated “lost” pre-1950 heatwaves that over-correction erased
By Marcel Crok | Clintel | February 4, 2026
A miracle just happened. KNMI, the national weather and climate institute in The Netherlands, admitted publicly that we, a group of four skeptical scientists, were right in our critique of their homogenization. This admission means the end of a ‘battle’ that has been dragging on for about seven years.
What was this whole discussion actually about? In 2016, KNMI homogenized their daily temperatures for the period 1901-1950 because of a change in measurement method in 1950 (Pagoda screen to Stevenson screen) and a displacement 300 meter towards open field in 1951. They had parallel measurement for the change in screens but not for the displacement and therefore they had decided to homogenize De Bilt statistically by comparing it with a station 150 kilometers northeast (a place called Eelde) from De Bilt. The homogenization had a negligible effect on the average temperature. However the hottest days of the year (In The Netherlands this means Tmax of around 30oC) in the period 1901-1950 were corrected downwards by up to 1.9oC. Because of this, 16 out of those 23 heatwaves vanished from the official records.
Hot summer
In 2018, when The Netherlands experienced a hot summer, KNMI started claiming in the media that heatwaves nowadays are much more frequent than in the past. I, together with three others, decided to critically examine the KNMI corrections. In March 2019 we launched our first extensive report (in Dutch) about the matter, titled The Mystery of the vanished Heatwaves. The report showed that the KNMI had overcorrected far too much. An article was prepared for a major Dutch newspaper, but after interference by the director of KNMI, the editor in chief of the newspaper decided not to publish the article. A spokesman of KNMI used ad hominem arguments against us (or mainly me as I am the most visible of us four). After questioning this in an email I had a conversation with the director of KNMI and the spokesman. It was a shocking experience. They told me they wouldn’t respond to our extensive report as they didn’t “trust me”. I replied science isn’t about trust. “Our report is either right or wrong and in both cases I would like to know”, I replied.
This was the end of it and in the years after they kept using their – in our opinion – fraudulent corrections to claim a strong increase in heatwaves.
Peer reviewed
We had one option left. We decided to try to get our critique published in a peer reviewed journal. As you can imagine this wasn’t easy, but ultimately in December 2021 we succeeded with a publication in the journal Theoretical and Applied Climatology. … continue
By Raphael Machado | Strategic Culture Foundation | February 7, 2026
Since the term “fake news” emerged in the world of political journalism, we have been confronted with a new angle through which the establishment attempts to reinforce its hegemony in the intellectual and informational sphere: by simulating ideology as science, data, or fact.
A fundamental aspect of hegemonic liberalism in the “rival-less” post-Cold War world is the transition of ideology into the diffuse realm of pure facticity. What decades earlier was clearly identified as belief comes to be taken as “data,” that is, as indisputable, not open for debate. This is the case, for example, with the myth of “democracy,” the myth of “human rights,” the myth of “progress,” and the myth of the “free market.” And today, we could extend this to the dictates of “gender ideology” and a series of other beliefs of ideological foundation, which are nevertheless taken as scientific facts. … continue
This dramatic escalation in military spending is a recipe for more waste, fraud, and abuse
By Ben Freeman and William Hartung | Responsible Statecraft | January 8, 2026
After promising on the campaign trail that he would drive the war profiteers out of Washington, and appointing Elon Musk to trim the size of government across the board, some will be surprised at President Trump’s social media post on Wednesday that the U.S. should raise the Pentagon budget to $1.5 trillion. That would mean an unprecedented increase in military spending, aside from the buildup for World War II.
The proposal is absurd on the face of it, and it’s extremely unlikely that it is the product of a careful assessment of U.S. defense needs going forward. The plan would also add $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Budget.
This would fly in the face of the purported savings of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In fact, a $500 billion increase in Pentagon spending would be more than double all of the alleged budget cuts wrought by DOGE, even according to DOGE’s own exaggerated figures. The $500 billion increase in Pentagon spending would also be more than the entire military budget of any country in the world, and more than China, Russia, and Iran spend on their militaries combined.
And, the Pentagon budget is already enormous, at $1 trillion per year, with more than half of that going to Pentagon contractors, and untold more lost to waste, fraud, and abuse. Exactly how much of our tax dollars devoted to propping up the Pentagon are wasted is unclear, because the Pentagon has never passed an audit. … contnue
NATO chief Mark Rutte declared in a high-profile address to the Ukrainian parliament this week that alliance troops would be deployed in Ukraine immediately on signing any peace deal with Russia.
He asserted that the NATO forces would be British and French, deployed “on the land, in the air, and at sea.” He added that the coalition would have the “crucial backstop” of a U.S. security guarantee if “Russia tried to subjugate Ukraine again.”
It seems more than a coincidence that three days after Rutte spoke in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament), there was an assassination attempt in Moscow on a top Russian general. Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev, the deputy commander of Russian military intelligence (GRU), was shot several times in the back by a gunman.
This was while delicate negotiations were being conducted in Abu Dhabi to find a peace settlement to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine. Russian delegates met with American and Ukrainian counterparts for a second round of talks this week.
Rutte’s speech in Kiev and the assassination attack in Moscow appear to be calculated moves to sabotage the negotiation efforts that the Trump administration has been pushing. … continue
Human trafficking is certainly one of the most monstrous mass criminal activities ever undertaken by other humans (although calling them “humans” is a bit of a stretch). And yet, there’s a special kind of this deeply repulsive crime that pushes it to diabolical proportions – child trafficking. Underage kids, particularly those who were abandoned, sold or have very poor/abusive family backgrounds, are by far the most vulnerable group. The depraved criminals who engage in such illicit activities specifically target unfortunate children and given there are millions of them all around the globe, particularly in war-torn areas, the “recruitment pool” is effectively endless. Unfortunately, the demand on the black market also seems to be constant and growing, making it a very lucrative and appealing prospect for criminals.
Children are usually forced into literal slavery that includes forced labor, sexual exploitation or prostitution, drug smuggling, forced begging, organ harvesting, etc. Many terrorist groups and narco-traffickers even use them as child soldiers, forcing them into dangerous firefights with rival groups or even official security forces such as the police and/or military. Although estimates vary significantly, as the exact data is incomplete at best, expectedly, the world’s most populous countries have the highest number of child trafficking victims. And yet, it seems the United States is the most profitable market for such criminal activities. Back in 2018, Tim Swarens of USA Today calculated that adults purchase children for sex at least 2.5 million times a year in the US alone. Worse yet, this is only based on available data. … continue
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GAZA – In a new breach of the ceasefire agreement, Israeli occupation forces shot and killed a Palestinian child on Sunday evening in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
One key aspect of the Stern Review overlaps significantly with my expertise — The economic impacts of extreme weather. In fact, that overlap has a very surprising connection which I’ll detail below, and explains why back in 2006 I was able to identify the report’s fatal flaws on the economics of extreme weather in real time, and publish my arguments in the peer-reviewed literature soon thereafter.
A Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire on Saturday in the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City, an area from which the army had previously withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.
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