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July 4 marked the 250th birthday of the United States of America, the 102nd birthday of On the Waterfront and Exodus star Eva Marie Saint, and 50 years since Israeli commandos rescued 102 hostages at Entebbe airport in Idi Amin’s Uganda. Unlike Eva and the USA, that milestone failed to get the attention it deserved, and in 2026 the reasons will prove enlightening. On June 27, 1976 in Athens, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) hijacked Air France flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. The PFLP’s Jayel al-Arja and Fayez Abdul-Rahim al Jaber joined...

Boris Johnson appeared to take aim at the US vice president today, branding his comments that immigrants are erasing British civilisation as ‘b******s’. The former prime minister said: ‘The population of New York that was born abroad is virtually identical [to London]. ‘I think in America, about 30 per cent of people are either first or second generation immigrants. The statistic I used to cite was that 40 per cent of our population was born abroad. ‘So all these raving about civilisational erasure, “Britain's going down the tubes” - I think it’s b******s.' According to the 2021 census, around 41...

As Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur prepared to fly to the NATO summit in Ankara this month, he revealed to local journalists that several hundred U.S. troops deployed to his Baltic nation in the winter had quietly been withdrawn – with no clear sign of when or whether they might return. At the Ankara gathering itself, delegates from the Baltic states and Poland proudly wore badges proclaiming themselves members of the "five percent club", the only nations in the NATO alliance to have already reached the spending ​target set at last year's meeting in The Hague – a status they...

Direct YouTube Link: Secretary Rubio delivers opening remarks at the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political TerrorismA whole industry grew up in our countries around the study of extremism. We have think tanks and fellowships and journals and consultancies, with the unspoken understanding among them that the only kind of political violence that was a true threat to our system – I’m sorry – that only one kind of political violence was a true threat to the system. A bomb planted by a neo-Nazi group was a nefarious and murderous act of evil. It is. But a bomb planted by...

This video explores the reasons behind the European Union's current economic struggles compared to the United States and China. The continent is facing a "moment of reckoning" characterized by low productivity, a reliance on traditional industries, and a lack of investment in transformative digital technologies. Key Takeaways: Economic Stagnation: The EU economy is estimated to be roughly 18% smaller than it might have been, resulting in a €3 trillion shortfall in annual income (0:36-0:45, 4:11-4:20). The Draghi Report: Former ECB president Mario Draghi warned that Europe's competitiveness is weak. He emphasized that the EU must invest hundreds of billions of...

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This video explores several critical political and economic shifts across Europe, suggesting that many current challenges stem from a past reliance on outsourced solutions. Key Topics Covered: Spain's Migrant Amnesty Blocked (0:49 - 2:06): Spain’s Supreme Court has frozen a mass legalization of migrants, referring the case to the European Court of Justice. The ruling could fundamentally alter how EU member states manage migration and who bears the financial burden. AfD’s Rising Influence in Germany (2:07 - 3:07): The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party held a successful party congress, re-electing Alice Weidel as leader. The government is responding by restricting...

n Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest carmaker, Volkswagen, is cutting a sixth of its workforce. The government’s response amounts to a shrug, dressed up as reform. It seems like Germany is on a bad streak – and the AfD looks set to reap the rewards. Take the railways, the infamous Deutsche Bahn. A few weeks ago, they ground to a total halt. Every train in the country stood still, because the radio system that lets drivers talk to signal boxes – a system that appears to...

Antifa blocks an empty highway on Saturday outside Erfurt. Source: dpa. On Saturday, the United States turned 250, and Alternative für Deutschland held their national party congress in Erfurt. It was a scene of a now-familiar carnival: The Antifa alliance Widersetzen and other leftist groups summoned protestors from across the Federal Republic to obstruct the congress via road blockades; police responded with the largest security operation that the state of Thüringen has ever seen. As at Essen in 2024 and Riesa in 2025 and Gießen also in 2025, nothing substantial happened. The protestors ended up blocking roads and tramlines that...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s debt-fuelled spending not seen since Germany reunification. Germany plans to borrow more than €800bn by 2030, breaking with decades of fiscal restraint to bring defence spending to levels not seen since the cold war. Next year alone, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government plans to raise more than €200bn from markets, 12.5 per cent more than this year, the finance ministry said on Monday. Between 2027 and 2030, Germany is expected to borrow about €838bn, according to projections. The budget marks a sharp break with the country’s deep-rooted aversion to debt and with Merz’s own party line on fiscal...

President Donald Trump said it is “ridiculous” for the United States to maintain its current level of support for NATO “when the relationship is not reciprocal." Referring to the alliance as a "one-sided path” late Thursday, Trump doubled down on his long-argued criticism of allied nations’ defense spending ahead of next week’s planned NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. Alongside his Truth Social remarks, Trump posted a chart displaying contributions from NATO members, showing the U.S. vastly outspending its allies. The President had earlier complained that the U.S. “spends more money on NATO than any other country, by far, to protect...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suggests to a classroom full of youngsters that Donald Trump has been “humiliated” by his war in Iran – and the President cancels deployment of the long-range missile systems around which Germany had planned its defense strategy for the coming decades. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez observes a strict neutrality on Iran, declaring his country’s bases out of bounds – and Trump urges Spain be kicked out of NATO. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer hesitates to sacrifice his country’s navy in a war on which he wasn’t consulted – and Trump mocks him in public for...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was planning to head to Brussels last month to deliver what would be a bombshell announcement in a meeting with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s top military chiefs. The U.S., he planned to say, was preparing additional cuts to its forces in Europe that would go beyond the canceled deployment of an armored brigade to Poland and the earlier withdrawal of an infantry brigade from Romania, people familiar with the matter said. But Hegseth’s proposal was nixed after it was shared with Marco Rubio—President Trump’s national-security adviser—and other senior officials, the people said. Instead, Hegseth said...

Twenty-five inflatable boats capable of carrying 1,700 illegal migrants, which were being shipped to people smuggling gangs operating in the English Channel have been intercepted in Bulgaria. Customs officers in the Eastern European country, who work closely with the National Crime Agency to track and stop consignments of small boat equipment shipped through the country, made two separate seizures. Five boats were found in an HGV attempting to enter Bulgaria at the Lesovo border crossing after the NCA and Home Office International Operations shared intelligence with Bulgarian partners through the NCA’s international network. Then, two days later on Friday 26...

Volkswagen has thrown in the towel. Is this the beginning of the end for the German economy? Volkswagen is planning to eliminate up to 100,000 jobs. It is the most devastating blow yet to the stomach of Germany's believers in the green transformation, climate crusaders, and eco-socialists. Whether this shock will be enough to force the country onto a new political course, however, remains an open question. Volkswagen is far more than just another German automaker. The Wolfsburg-based company symbolizes both the extraordinary heights and the painful decline of modern Germany. It embodies the country's moral failures born of political...

German supporters left Boston shell-shocked on Monday after their World Cup squad fell to a scrappy Paraguay team in a penalty shootout during the Round of 32. The devastation, it seems, has broken even the team’s most optimistic and joyful supporter. Freddy, or @FreddyLA7 as his handle would read, became the viral sensation of this World Cup. A wide-eyed German youngster, Freddy gained a (seemingly organic) following in the lead-up to the World Cup by posting his travels throughout the United States, discovering the innocent joys of late-night Taco Bell, diverse landscapes, and Ella Langley as he and his German...

When the 10pm service of Berlin’s U2 metro line failed to set off from the station, its frazzled driver finally snapped. “Get away from the doors!” he bellowed, leaping out to berate a young woman as she pawed at the broken, flashing-red buttons on the side of the train. “Don’t touch the doors!” Unbeknownst to the driver, who seemed to think the woman’s button-mashing had caused the breakdown, Germany’s entire rail system had just been crippled by a software glitch. For the next two hours, hundreds of thousands of Germans were left stranded on platforms or sweltering in packed carriages...

The left has their pro-terrorist One Battle After Another, an overlong, mediocre, $100 million studio movie told by a major director (Paul Thomas Anderson) using one of the world’s biggest movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio). The result? It flopped at the box office and was still predictably showered with unearned critical praise and major Oscar wins. Basically, One Battle After Another is angry that America enforces the law by deporting illegal immigrants and demands violence against the government to make it stop. Today we have a rebuttal, and a pretty effective one… Best of all, it’s deliciously subversive. Citizen Vigilante is...

I had never heard of Citizen Vigilante, Uwe Boll's new film starring Armie Hammer, until a few days ago. That's when I read that this movie has been effectively banned in Germany and the United Kingdom. Something about it encouraging violence against migrants. But then Elon Musk made Citizen Vigilante available to watch for free on his X (formerly Twitter) platform. Something that would avoid the censorious thought police and let the people see and decide on their own. Which only made the German and British governments even more furious. Rush Limbaugh called it the "Streisand Effect": trying to keep...

The full release of the film on X triggered a wave of reactions against Germany’s decision to block its commercial distribution. A scene from the film Citizen Vigilante - Screenshot from the video of Citizen Vigilante on XElon Musk has once again placed X at the centre of the cultural conflict between the United States and Europe by publishing Citizen Vigilante in full on his social media platform. This is the action thriller directed by Uwe Boll and starring Armie Hammer that Germany has kept out of its normal distribution channels. The film, which was posted as available to watch...