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It is widely accepted that the Ukrainian crisis erupted into a military conflict on February 24, 2022, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the seeds of the hostilities were planted about thirty years earlier by President Clinton and, later, by George W. Bush, both of whom recklessly pushed for NATO’s eastward expansion.

A Hamas spokesman suggested Sunday that the terror organization could kill all of the presumed 137 hostages in its custody if Israel does not accede to its demands. Abu Obeida, a familiar spokesman for Hamas who had not been seen for several weeks, released a video in which he made the threat clear. “Neither the fascist enemy and its arrogant leadership… nor its supporters… can take their prisoners alive without an exchange and negotiation and meeting the demands of the resistance,” he said, according to the Times of Israel. It is not clear if Hamas would deliver on that threat....

Ukraine is reportedly scamming Syrian militants who were recruited to fight as mercenaries with its forces against the Russian military. On July 13, a video surfaced online showing a militant of the so-called Syrian National Army (SNA) claiming that he was scammed by Ukrainian authorities after fighting there for three months. The militant, who was only identified by his nom de guerre “Abu Mohamad,” said that he was paid in counterfeit money. The SNA is a coalition of Turkish-backed armed factions. The coalition rules Turkish-occupied areas in northern and eastern Syria and has a history of sending militants to fight...

A wild brawl broke out at a Democratic endorsing convention in Minnesota on Saturday when dozens of supporters of rival candidates clashed on stage.The convention for the Minneapolis Democratic Farmer Labor (DFL) Party's Ward 10 ended with at least one person hospitalized, another needing medical attention at the scene and no endorsement.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY (WRGB) — A Saratoga Springs city council adjourning early once again. This time, due to outrage over comments by the city’s Public Safety Commissioner, Jim Montagnino, surrounding a Restorative Justice resolution being voted on. This resolution acknowledges and apologizes for the city’s past racial injustices and, also, creates a Restorative Justice panel tasked with looking at the city’s race relations and what can be done to improve that. BLM made it clear to council members that restorative justice to them comes with dropping the charges against the three individuals charged.

Edward Hille gets emotional when he talks about watching the demise of America from his new home in Roatan - a bay island of Honduras. He’s now what many call an expat - still an American citizen, but fled years ago to live in another country. According to Aetna International, the number of expats has more than doubled in the last fifteen years — and even more Americans are leaving the US amid rising political divisiveness and cost of living.

A new column at the Geller Report by jihad expert Robert Spencer explains that in 2019, a letter from 40 Democrats described Ukraine's "Nazi Azov Battalion" as a terror group.Now some of those same Democrats are sending it billions of dollars.Explained Spencer, "One thing is certain: the full extent of the ties between Ukraine and the posturing, self-righteous, desperately corrupt, hypocritical and self-serving U.S. Democrat establishment is not publicly known, and may never be known."But what we do know should have brought that entire establishment crashing down years ago."Spencer explained that Kanekoa News, an independent journalism site, revealed that in...

Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), a prominent centrist Republican, said Monday that former President Trump should not have had a meal or a meeting with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist organizer and podcaster. “I condemn white supremacy and antisemitism. The president should never have had a meal or even a meeting with Nick Fuentes,” Collins told reporters when asked about a dinner Trump had with Fuentes and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, at Mar-a-Lago before Thanksgiving. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) reported that Fuentes and his followers support closing U.S. borders to immigrants and oppose feminism and LGBTQ rights...

What about the liquid assets? Well, the FT report goes on to notes that until Friday afternoon, Bankman-Fried was looking to sell the $472MM of Robinhood shares, the largest liquid asset listed for FTX Trading, in privately negotiated deals he was arranging on the messaging app Signal, according to an FT source. As a reminder, SBF acquired a 7.6% stake in Robinhood in May, a transaction which delayed (but did not halt) the company's collapse into oblivion. As part of the attempted firesale, Bankman-Fried was entertaining offers at a 20% discount to Robinhood’s VWAP price, or about $9 per share,...

The fatal shooting of rapper Half Ounce has ignited a familiar conversation about gun violence, rap culture and whether there’s a responsibility for record labels to protect their artists. The 32-year-old rapper, whose real name was Latauriisha O’Brien, was killed in Los Angeles’ Koreatown neighborhood Monday, just weeks after rapper PnB Rock was fatally shot during a robbery in the same city. These rappers are part of a string of artists who have died by gun violence, with at least one rapper being fatally shot every year since 2018. With other high-profile rappers such as Drakeo the Ruler, who was...

Social media users have reacted to a viral video in which Police Minister Bheki Cele says that people with tattoos have “gangster tendencies”. According to News24, Cele was speaking to the media and residents of Orlando East in Soweto, Gauteng, following the weekend fatal mass shooting at a local tavern. He assured the residents that police visibility in the area would be increased. Cele said that approximately 10 000 newly recruited police officers were in training until December 15. Following their training, they would also help to secure communities. In the same breath, Cele slammed tattoos, saying that his department...

US Foods Accused of Unfair Labor Practices as Executives Deal with Growing Number of Unresolved Labor Contracts (WASHINGTON) – The Teamsters Warehouse Division and numerous Teamster locals currently in contract negotiations with US Foods [NYSE: USFD] are putting the foodservice giant on notice that work stoppages are imminent. Workers at a growing number of US Foods Distribution Centers throughout the East Coast are considering the possibility of walking off the job following an increasing number of unresolved labor contracts. Workers at several of these locations say the company has violated federal labor laws, and US Foods is currently being investigated...

Soros Runs US Government In Ukraine, Not President TrumpGeorge Soros – World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2010Image by World Economic ForumPlease Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gab TV, GETTR, Truth Social ARTICLE ORIGINALLY POSTED ON NOVEMBER 15, 2019With the ‘impeachment’ inquiry underway in the U.S. House of Representatives, any reasonable person will see the lineup of U.S. government officials arrayed against POTUS for disagreeing with them on American foreign policy. Impeachment is not just about removing President Trump from office, or to prevent his re-election, it is about securing future control over American operations in foreign countries...

Unless something changes in a very big hurry, some very major grief is going to ensue.

The head of Russia's space agency said the country would leave the International Space Station, per Bloomberg."The decision has been taken already, we're not obliged to talk about it publicly," said Dmitry Rogozin on state TV.Rogozin, the general director of Roscosmos, criticized Western-imposed economic sanctions against Russia.The head of Russia's space agency on Saturday said that the country would leave the International Space Station, which Moscow said is the result of economic sanctions imposed as a result of the country's conflict in Ukraine, according to Bloomberg.Two Russian state news agencies — Tass and RIA Novosti — on Saturday reported that...

Russia would use nuclear weapons if it feels threatened, a Kremlin official said Tuesday. Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov was asked on CNN whether the idea of nuclear warfare was still on the table during the war with Ukraine. Peskov said that only an "existential" threat would be enough to justify the use of nuclear warfare.

During the Obama era, corruption in Ukraine had become an issue of national (and even international) concern. So much so, in fact, that the people of Ukraine had finally had enough. In May 2019, they elected Volodymyr Zelenskyy, an anti-corruption figure and political outsider, as president by a landslide margin of 73.2 percent, with a similar legislative snap victory immediately following. Zelenskyy was a Jewish comedian and actor who, ironically, became famous by starring as the fictitious president of Ukraine in a popular television series. As promised during his campaign, he immediately got to work to clean up Ukraine and...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urges the European Union to grant his country immediate membership, as Russia's assault against the pro-Western country enters its fifth day.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom clarified this week that when he called criminals accused of stealing packages from cargo trains in the state "gangs of people" he wasn’t implying the thefts were gang-related. This is not one-off," Newsom said in a news conference near Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Los Angeles on Thursday, according to the Washington Times. "This is organized theft. These are organized gangs of people that are coming out." "Forgive me for saying ‘gangs,’ that’s not a pejorative," he clarified. "They’re organized groups of folks that move from site to site."

A rising college football quarterback was killed when a barrage of 50 bullets was fired into his car, causing him to crash at a Florida intersection, authorities said. Ladarius Clardy, an 18-year-old who played in two games for Georgia’s Kennesaw State University last year, was set to return for his sophomore season before he was gunned down Thursday as he drove in Pensacola, WAGA-TV reported. “Someone fired over 50 rounds into the car, most of them into the car, the driver’s door,” Escambia County Sheriff Chip Simmons said. The 6-foot, 170-pound KSU backup quarterback and Pensacola native was killed just...