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This speech started the Cold War – and still haunts the world 80 years on

This speech started the Cold War – and still haunts the world 80 years on

Winston Churchill’s Fulton address was a signal for the Iron Curtain to drop, and for nukes to almost drop as well

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Tarik Cyril Amar

The Middle East is on fire. Will this gulf become another oil haven?

The Middle East is on fire. Will this gulf become another oil haven?

Constricted global oil supply lines might elevate the Gulf of Guinea to a new strategic importance

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Adamu B. Garba Ii

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren cannot be whitewashed

The murder of Iranian schoolchildren cannot be whitewashed

Western media is either silent or implicitly blaming Tehran for the strike that killed 168 girls

04.03.2026 40

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Eva Bartlett

How Germany became Israel’s enabler-in-chief

How Germany became Israel’s enabler-in-chief

Friedrich Merz says Iran deserves being the target of war because it hasn’t bent the knee to sanctions

03.03.2026 40

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Just relax and take it, the EU tells Iran

Just relax and take it, the EU tells Iran

Instead of invoking international law and condemning US-Israeli aggression, Western Europe’s top brass is gleefully victim-blaming Iran

02.03.2026 40

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Rachel Marsden

Has America scared the EU into talking to Russia?

Looks like there’s a new main villain supercharging Brussel’s tax-and-spend narrative

14.02.2026 80

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Rachel Marsden

How the Superbowl turned into an all-American identity crisis

This year’s half-time show was so chock-full of liberal agenda, conservatives decided to create their own alternative

13.02.2026 70

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Robert Bridge

Gaddafi’s son assassinated: Libya’s Rubicon crossed

The man I walked with in the desert just weeks ago was not the ‘war criminal’ described in The Hague’s warrants

13.02.2026 80

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Mustafa Fetouri

The EU has become so undemocratic even the US is calling it out

The Committee on the Judiciary of the US House of Representatives has issued an important report. Its title is an officialese mouthful: “The Foreign...

13.02.2026 70

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Tarik Cyril Amar

The EU would rather eat bugs than be real about its energy problems

It seems to have dawned on the EU’s energy commissioner that the bloc has a bit of a dependency problem. “There’s a growing concern, which I...

12.02.2026 40

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Rachel Marsden

Gitmo or bust: Have Epstein’s sexual predators been punished enough?

Now that the child molester Jeffrey Epstein is gone, and the Epstein files have been released, what fate awaits Ghislaine Maxwell and others remains...

10.02.2026 60

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Robert Bridge

China’s trade war battle plan for this region is simple

Last month, Kenya and China signed a preliminary bilateral trade agreement that will grant 98.2% zero-duty market access for goods exported from...

10.02.2026 50

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Jackson Okata

Russia and India are about to put their joint civil aviation fleet on the global map

Russia recently unveiled the Superjet SJ‑100 and the turboprop Il‑114‑300 at the Wings India 2026 airshow in Hyderabad. Hindustan...

09.02.2026 60

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Anil Chopra

Here’s how you build real multiculturalism

As globalization is fading and a multipolar world emerging, the question of identity is essential for people not to get lost. Between the abstract...

09.02.2026 60

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Matthieu Buge

The return of the atom: Survival of nations means embracing energy realism

Energy policy reveals the true structure of power. Liberal speeches are filled with essentially meaningless abstractions such as ‘values’ and...

08.02.2026 50

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Constantin von Hoffmeister

France is plotting revenge on its former colonies

A diplomatic shockwave has been sweeping across Africa following the publication of a statement by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)...

07.02.2026 80

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Egountchi Behanzin

Was Jeffrey Epstein really a Russian spy squid?

‘Not many people know zis’ – as Franz Liebkind, the demented Nazi hobby playwright character in ‘The Producers’, would have said – but...

06.02.2026 70

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Why the new Epstein revelations will change nothing

The long-anticipated release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s illicit activity was supposed to deliver justice to hundreds of underage...

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Robert Bridge

The German economic report: Talk is cheap, unlike everything else

The German government has presented its ‘Annual Report on the Economy’ (‘Jahreswirtschaftsbericht’) for 2026. Given the topic, it is not a...

03.02.2026 70

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Dr. Steve Turley: The liberal order’s legitimacy collapsed not from external attack but from internal hollowing

Dr. Steve Turley, an American scholar and public intellectual, has become one of the most widely recognized analysts of the political and cultural...

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Constantin von Hoffmeister

NATO ruined Libya, but couldn’t break it

To an outside observer, Libya is a map of fractured jurisdictions. Yet, beneath the surface, a singular, invisible nervous system keeps the lights on....

01.02.2026 50

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Mustafa Fetouri

India’s recent nuclear move is about to change who controls the atom

India’s Ministry of Power this week released the Draft National Electricity Policy 2026 (NEP), a long-term power strategy that seeks to transform...

01.02.2026 60

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Manish Vaid

EU democracy now has fewer boundaries than the average hooker

Every time I hear about some new attempt by EU officials to sanction or otherwise institutionally punish their own people for saying things about...

31.01.2026 50

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Rachel Marsden

At least someone in Berlin knows the true enemy

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, has given a speech to which every observer of Germany should pay close attention....

29.01.2026 70

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Tarik Cyril Amar

‘We are back in the Middle Ages’: How the EU literally starves dissenting experts

On December 15, 2025, the European Union slapped sanctions on former Swiss intelligence officer and ex-NATO employee Jacques Baud. No day in court, no...

28.01.2026 50

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Eva Bartlett

Israel is where Musk’s free speech meets its limit

X – formerly Twitter – and bullshit go back a long way. Elon Musk, the owner of X – who also happens to be the world’s richest oligarch, a...

27.01.2026 100

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Tarik Cyril Amar

The bounty farce: How the Western media rebrands an invasion as a ‘capture’

When the Trump administration’s attorney general, William Barr, announced a “bounty” of $15 million in March 2020 on Venezuelan President...

23.01.2026 100

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Mustafa Fetouri

The EU is addicted to American economic punishment

An American think-tank has some bad news for Europe. Just as the continent tries to wriggle free from an abusive relationship with Washington, it...

22.01.2026 100

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Rachel Marsden

There’s one way the EU could resist Trump’s US. But it won’t

Watching Trump toy with the EU over his vows to seize Greenland is infuriating in the same way that a friend keeps calling you nonstop to describe her...

22.01.2026 100

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Rachel Marsden

The plunder of Venezuela is the dead end of history

As deplored in the Washington Post, Washington’s recent assault on Venezuela wasn’t just your usual US war of aggression/regime change operation...

21.01.2026 80

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Tarik Cyril Amar

The tripolar reset: Washington, Beijing, and Moscow’s new global manual

What analysts have speculated about for two decades is now codified policy: The post-Cold War epoch of unipolar American hegemony, draped in the...

20.01.2026 80

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Adamu B. Garba Ii

Why are EU leaders suddenly being nice to Russia?

Sometimes a surprising statement made almost in passing on a minor occasion can pack a lot of political oomph. And sometimes, it’s just a slip and...

17.01.2026 90

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Why American Big Oil isn’t buying the Venezuela ‘victory’

Everything has gone beautifully in Donald Trump’s Venezuela operation. An alleged narcoterrorist dictator was captured and brought to justice in a...

16.01.2026 70

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Finian Cunningham