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Measured in silver, the Roman soldier seemed poorly paid. But once we map his lifetime income by social percentile, he emerges as one of the best-compensated professionals of antiquity. Rome’s army wasn’t just a military machine — it was the empire’s largest engine of social mobility, recycling half of all state spending into land, pensions, and loyalty.
Is war with Iran Approaching. The choreography of logistics, diplomacy, and rhetoric suggests a narrowing path to confrontation that could reshape the region or plunge it into chaos.
The spectre of the 1930s has returned not through mobs or uniforms, but through manufactured crisis and political decrees. Europe’s political elites, convinced they defend democracy, are reproducing its decay. The West’s has birthed a bureaucratic form of fascism, administered by committees controlled by global finance and Oligarchs controlling online platforms.
The real story is industrial rather than conspiratorial. Faced with the vulnerability of foreign supply, China spent the past decade mastering the metallurgy, forging and testing of high speed rail wheels.
Europe used wartime powers to seize control of Nexperia. The move claims to defend security yet it signals the surrender of economic sovereignty to Washington. In an extraordinary act of economic self sabotage, the Dutch government used emergency wartime powers to take control of Nexperia, a major semiconductor producer based in the Netherlands and owned […]
Britain’s argument over China’s new embassy has become a mirror held up to its own insecurities. Commentators and newspapers now claim that Beijing plans to build spy rooms and tunnels under London to intercept fibre optic cables, as though the Royal Mint Court site were an outpost of a Cold War thriller. These fantasies are […]
Leaked Russian export tables suggest Tehran has signed a €6 billion deal for 48 Su-35 fighters, with component deliveries set for 2024–26 and aircraft in 2026–28. Meanwhile, Moscow quietly rushed frontline MiG-29s to Iran as a stopgap. If real, the pact deepens Tehran’s strategic dependence on Russia — and complicates the balance of power across the Middle East.
Each time Gaza is reduced to rubble, the same cycle repeats: Israel destroys, donors rebuild, and the bill lands on the world’s desk. From the airport it bombed to the power plant it crippled, the price of reconstruction—now exceeding $50 billion—will again be paid by everyone except the perpetrator.
Hours after the ceasefire, Gaza City saw fierce fighting between Hamas units and the Dughmush clan. At least twenty-seven people were reported killed, including a prominent local journalist, exposing the power struggle now shaping post-war Gaza.
Israel faces a narrowing window for war with Iran as U.S. naval forces and refuelling tankers reposition across the Middle East. With the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group on station and regional skies soon to close with winter weather, pressure is building on Tel Aviv to decide whether to strike now or stand down until spring.
At Valdai, Vladimir Putin’s joke about “Oreshnik” masked a serious message. Russia and the United States are both trapped in an era where escalation depends on infrastructure, not intent. Every modern weapon now travels with its own network of satellites, planners, and launchers — and building that network is the new act of war.
For eight decades Europe nestled under America’s triple canopy, military, technological, psychological. It was a seductive bargain. Washington’s shield let Europe skimp on tanks, pour billions into cradle to grave welfare, and sermonize about liberal values without the gritty cost of standing alone. The Ukraine war tore that illusion to shreds.
Burkina Faso / Africa / World
Burkina Faso’s recent arrests of foreign aid workers are not an outburst of paranoia but the culmination of decades of exploitation disguised as partnership. For generations, Western governments, mining conglomerates, and their affiliated NGOs extracted the country’s wealth—first its gold, now its data—under the language of development. What the world calls repression in Ouagadougou may instead be the long-delayed assertion of a people’s right to control their own resources and their own narrative.
When a leading London broadsheet claimed that North Koreans were “hunting tigers for food,” it exposed more than journalistic sloppiness. It revealed the desperation of Britain’s old media class to preserve a moral hierarchy that no longer exists. This essay traces how a false story about famine and wildlife became a metaphor for imperial nostalgia — and why the West’s fading press can no longer distinguish narrative from truth.
World / Britain / Germany / United States
Populist energy has moved from the street into the state. Alice Weidel in Germany and Nigel Farage in Britain are converting discontent into parliamentary power, while Tommy Robinson’s crowds still march without machinery. The same sentiment frustration with distant rule and collapsing trust now runs from Saxony to small-town England and deep into the American South.
China’s premier and Russia’s envoy flank Kim Jong-un at Pyongyang’s 80th Workers’ Party parade, signalling a new Eurasian power geometry where missiles meet diplomacy and isolation turns into leverage
A new generation of conservatives is rewriting the meaning of “America First.” Online and unafraid to challenge their elders, they question the cost of foreign entanglements — including billions in U.S. aid to Israel — and turn campus debates into a fiscal revolt. From Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes’s Groyper movement, the young right is united less by ideology than by arithmetic: America’s solvency before its crusades
World / Argentina / South America
At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, Argentina’s President Javier Milei revived his country’s claim over the Falkland Islands at a moment when Britain looks distracted abroad and divided at home.
The United States sought to cripple China’s semiconductor sector with sweeping export bans. Instead, the embargo triggered an unprecedented mobilization across China’s industry, universities, and state planners. Within three years, Beijing had rebuilt its chip ecosystem, advanced its AI capacity, and turned an intended chokehold into the architecture of technological self-reliance.
World / Australia / Journalism
The National Press club faces allegations of betraying Journalists killed in Gaza Because a leading Journalist proclaims his talk was cancelled, the club denies it
Latin America is breaking from U.S. dominance as Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico turn to China, Russia and Iran — burying the Monroe Doctrine.
World / South America / Venezuela
Washington thought sanctions would break Caracas. Instead, they built lifelines with China and Russia and hardened Venezuela’s place in the multipolar order.
On the holiest day of the Jewish year, a rabbinic call for peace links the Manchester synagogue attack with the suffering in Gaza — urging compassion, justice, and the pursuit of peace as Torah’s true command.
Why do these tiny Pacific islands that proclaim anti-colonial self-determination so often vote with or lean towards Israel at the UN? What has seemed a mystery is, in fact, a pattern Begin not in Suva or Honiara, but in The Hague. On 26 January 2024, the International Court of Justice ordered provisional measures in South […]
World / Israel / Middle East / Palestine
Donald Trump’s new “peace plan” for Gaza is presented as a humanitarian breakthrough — a cease-fire, hostages freed, food trucks rolling. Strip away the spin, and it is something else entirely: an occupation management scheme dressed as reconciliation. The plan demands Palestinians disarm immediately and exclude Hamas from politics. Israel’s commitments, by contrast, are conditional, […]
In capitals from Addis Ababa to Brasília, diplomats speak of Chinese loans and infrastructure, of classrooms where Mandarin now competes with English. In Delhi, Jakarta, and Johannesburg, scholars debate whether China’s approach — state-led, disciplined, outward-looking — offers a workable alternative to the American order that has framed global politics since 1945.
Signed Sept. 17 in Riyadh, the Saudi–Pakistan defense pact promises “all military means” and leaves nuclear terms unspoken
Britain is spending the income on Russia’s frozen reserves, a move critics call theft. Once London’s trust premium erodes, investors may not return.
World / Europe / Russia / Ukraine
The alleged violation was sensationalised and given wall-to-wall coverage in Western media. What was not mentioned is that in April 2025 Estonia passed a law expanding its military authority over its exclusive economic zone, blurring the line between territorial waters and international airspace. Embedded video under YouTube license. The autumn of 2025 has been marked […]
YouTube embedded video under license. Uploaded by No Comment TV. Aerial and ground footage showing the crowd at the Tommy Robinson, mainly white working-class rally in central London. I read a strange syndicated piece this week on one of the big online news portals. It insisted that Britain’s divisions were the fault of an overmighty […]
Labour Together began as a quiet project after Corbyn’s shock leadership win. A decade later, it stands at the heart of Starmer’s government.
Britain has pushed further than almost any other Western democracy in marrying surveillance, internet regulation, and artificial intelligence to its domestic security system.
The government has now confirmed that digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks, marking a decisive shift from earlier voluntary trials. Framed as a tool to combat fraud and streamline services, the move has revived old arguments about surveillance, exclusion, and the erosion of civil liberties. The government dresses it as efficiency, […]
Embedded video under YouTube license — Creator of this video: Woodford from Woodford Videos. Follow him. BEIJING — The announcement came on an overcast September morning, delivered not with fanfare but with the clipped precision of a government communiqué: China’s Ministry of Commerce would launch an “anti-discrimination investigation” into American tariffs, export controls and restrictions […]
Video from Radio Free Europe. The situation on September 24 has become more difficult for the Ukrainians, with the Russians making major gains. Embedded under YouTube license. Russian forces in eastern Ukraine say they have turned a corner. After months of grinding attrition, Moscow’s troops are presenting a story of momentum: the isolation of a […]
Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in London with a triumphant Tosca, her first appearance since 2019. Her performance comes after years of political bans and media hysteria, underscoring how the campaign to silence Russian artists has collapsed.
The question is not whether whales, crows, or AIs “deserve” rights. It is who decides the hierarchy of intelligences — and in whose interests. The jungle of minds is coming. The real predators will be those who control the definitions.
Soviet-era MiG-19s (China: J-6) Licensed from the USSR in 1958 and mass-produced in China as the Shenyang J-6. Over 4,500 built; thousands retired and stockpiled since the 1990s. Estimates suggest up to ~3,000 retired J-6 airframes available for drone conversion. China is converting thousands of its retired Cold War–era J-6 fighter jets into pilotless drones, […]
Here is the Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi, singing with her colleagues the Nepali folk song Resham Firiri as a Dashain greeting to the people of Nepal. Hou Yanqi served as ambassador from 2018 to 2022 and became known for her cultural diplomacy during a period when Nepal’s ties with China grew markedly closer. […]
World / Health / United States
President Donald J. Trump delivered what he described as “the biggest medical announcement in U.S. history,” linking the use of paracetamol (known in the United States under the brand name Tylenol) to autism risk and urging Americans to avoid the drug. He also recommended stretching childhood vaccinations over several years and delaying the hepatitis B […]
World / Argentina / South America
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina has grown accustomed to living at the edge of crisis. Inflation has been a permanent companion, the peso a fragile token of trust, and the state an omnipresent but unreliable guarantor of stability. Now, under libertarian President Javier Milei, the country has embarked on its boldest — and most divisive — […]
She remembers the knock on the door like it was yesterday. The sheriff’s deputy, the sealed envelope, the word she’d been dreading: lawsuit. Her son was gone, another casualty in the long tail of America’s opioid crisis. The pills came in bottles stamped with corporate logos, marketed as safe, and sold as profit engines. Her […]
For decades, sunlight has been cast as the enemy—something to block, screen, or fear. Yet beneath the warnings lies a quieter truth: our bodies are wired to thrive on light, and pills alone cannot replace it. As the epidemic of high blood pressure silently claims lives from London to Lagos, the case for measured, deliberate […]
In a landmark synchronized announcement timed for the opening of the 80th United Nations General Assembly, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia formally recognized the State of Palestine as a sovereign entity on September 21, 2025, elevating the total number of UN member states extending such acknowledgment to roughly 150 out of 193. Keir Starmer […]
BEIJING — China’s leadership on September 19 delivered one of its clearest warnings yet to Washington: cooperate on equal terms, or brace for a rupture that will hurt not only the world’s two largest economies but the global system they anchor. In remarks and statements that departed from the usual layers of diplomatic restraint, Beijing […]
The MiG-31, a Soviet-era interceptor built to race nearly three times the speed of sound and patrol vast frontiers, is not a plane often mistaken for routine traffic. Designed to hunt down high-flying threats with its powerful radar, it remains central to Russia’s long-range air defense. On Friday, three of them cut across the skies […]
Video credit: Travelling with Russell — YouTube channel. Please visit him. Embedded under YouTube’s Embedding Terms and Conditions. © Google LLC 2025. Russia’s economy is booming compared to Britain’s. In 2024 it grew by about 4.1 percent, while the United Kingdom managed only 1.1 percent. Against this backdrop, the Kremlin has introduced a new progressive […]
LONDON — Britain rolled out its oldest tricks of statecraft when President Donald J. Trump returned this summer for an “unprecedented” second state visit. The carriages, the uniforms, the banquets in Windsor Castle were not just theatre. They were a strategy — carefully designed to flatter a president known to crave ceremony while insulating him […]