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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a prominent populist congresswoman and Trump-ally, voiced concerns in a long Friday post on X about the state of the Trump administration, criticizing the current position of the administration on Iran, Ukraine, as well as a host of domestic issues. “I campaigned for no more foreign wars,” Greene wrote. “And now we are supposedly on the verge of going to war with Iran.” Greene was also highly critical of the so-called “Minerals Deal” between the U.S. and Ukraine, opining: And on top of that, now we are told that we have signed a deal for mineral...

Trump reversed the Biden administration's sanctions on Israelis, suspended new aid for the Palestinians, and withdrew the United States from the U.N. World Health Organization, which Israel has accused of colluding with Hamas. The president also spoke of confronting Iran and normalizing Israeli-Saudi relations—and vowed to bring home the remaining hostages abducted in Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.Overall, day one of Trump's second term signaled a return to form for the president, whose first administration waged a "maximum pressure" sanctions campaign against Iran, oversaw normalization between Israel and four Arab states, and recognized Israel's claims to Jerusalem and...

A fight in the Italian Parliament over the far-right government's plans to grant regions more autonomy has triggered an uproar, with some comparing the punch-up to the days of fascism. The fight broke out Wednesday evening when Five Star Movement deputy Leonardo Donno unfurled an Italian flag in front of regional affairs minister Roberto Calderoli of the pro-autonomy Northern League and closed in on him. Donno's stunt was intended to denounce plans to grant more autonomy from Rome to those regions that want it. Critics argue that it undermines Italy's unity.

Irish megastar Conor McGregor teases a future Irish presidential run with a cryptic tweet on X. The announcement comes after McGregor's harsh criticism towards the Irish Government.Conor McGregor’s career has taken another turn, with the UFC star once again at the center of a huge debate. This time, it is for hinting at a presidential run in Ireland. The announcement comes from an Irish inquiry into Conor McGregor’s social media posts during the Dublin riots. This adds another degree of complexity to the fighter’s public image.The UFC star, known for his unrivaled charm and global fans, hinted at a potentially...

Google-owned YouTube removed the video of a 2019 speech from incoming Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni which had been going viral across numerous platforms. The internet giant claims the video “breached” its community guidelines, a transgession that apparently took several years and a successful election for it to notice. In the fiery speech, delivered at the World Congress of Families in 2019, Meloni laid into globalist elites who attack national identity, gender identity, and the family. Clips of the speech circulated widely on social media following the victory of Meloni’s center-right coalition at the recent Italian elections.A partial transcript...

Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party that won the most votes in Italy’s national election, was preparing to be the country’s first woman premier on Monday. The center-right coalition leader is bound for office declaring “We defend God, country, and family” built on opposition to gender ideology and the LGBT lobby alongside support for strong borders and an end to limitless mass migration. Meloni sounded a moderate, unifying tone in a victory speech that noted Italians had finally been able to clearly determine who they wanted to govern and the direction they wished to go in defiance...

Donald Trump is planning to bring back his famous “Make America Great Again” political rallies -- and they may happen much sooner than most expected. CNN reported Trump may resume his political rallies as soon as May.

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Barack Obama blamed the ISIS-inspired Boulder shooting on “disaffection, racism and misogyny,” and called for more gun control. “It is long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so,” Obama said in a statement. “It will take time to root out the disaffection, racism and misogyny that fuels so many of these senseless acts of violence.”

Former Senior White House Advisor Jared Kushner has made his first public remarks since departing the White House earlier this year, penning an op-ed about the opportunity for peace in the Middle East.

A ship carrying more than 600 rescued migrants, including 123 unaccompanied minors and seven pregnant women, remained stranded in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday after Italy's new populist government refused to allow it to dock the day before, in a move described by rescuers as unprecedented. Matteo Salvini, Italy's hardline interior minister and leader of the anti-immigration League party, called on the country to "close the ports" and pledged Sunday to "STOP the filthy business of illegal immigration." Supplies on the ship are beginning to run low and a number of people are in need of medical treatment, including 15...

from link... Text: U.S. and Italy Designate 25 New Financiers of Terror ... 19. Miga-Malaysian Swiss, Gulf and African Chamber Ahmed Idris Nasreddin is identified as the President of Miga-Malaysian Swiss, Gulf and African Chamber, and exercises sole signatory authority on behalf of the organization. Fox News already broke the MIGA-Saddam connection (link), although MSM has not covered it. It would be MAJOR if any of the persons or companies named in the CIA report matched any persons or companies officially named as terrorists/terrorist financiers. We can say that officially the CIA has reported that Saddam supported terrorists (not including...

Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations oil-for-food program to help fund Al Qaeda? Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam’s overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of oil-for-food dollars began pouring into Saddam’s coffers and Usama bin Laden declared his famous war on the U.S. Now, buried in some of...