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Of course, it was the Iran war—though I don’t think people, including Vice President JD Vance, are fully putting their finger on why.Fairly close to 100% of the electorate, whether they love or hate Donald Trump, understand him not as somebody to follow into a military campaign of his own impulsive choosing, unprovoked by any national emergency.Though in his arrogance and presumption it would have been hard for any underling to put it to him, there was something else: the unique and sequined nature of his legitimacy.His freakish rise in our politics is so much the reciprocal of the illegitimate...

Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — On the eve of the midterms, Susan Kokinda sets President Trump's final message to Republicans, given to Benny Johnson ("be smart, be strong, love your country"), against Senator Elissa Slotkin's September 30 speech at the Carnegie Endowment, where she called Trump's America "the Titanic", and her stage partner Anne Applebaum's praise for the January 6 hearings as "constructed for television". Slotkin's undercover-video remarks of October 29 show what her post-midterm "signature cases" would be: the White House ballroom and the Reflecting Pool. The episode then follows the playbook to Poland: Slotkin's visit to...

To ChatGPT:Internet dissidents, for convenience designated as centering around Andrew Napolitano, seem entirely oblivious to the potential for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps “capitalists” (IRGC) to form their own military-industrial-complex as demonstrated by Iran’s ability to produce new generations of non-nuclear missiles, the Iranian prowess in the field showing that their missiles exceed the velocity of the much-vaunted Oreshnik rated at Mach 12, with Iranian missiles rated at Mach 15. Dissident war news portrays the Iranian war-technology advance as a heroic response to unprovoked U.S. and Israeli aggression, failing to note the connection between IRGC enterprise ownership and the cutting...

Donald Trump is secretly asking close advisers about whether Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine should be fired after the midterms, even as he weighs restarting the bombing of Iran.The president has been quizzing allies on the performance of his defense secretary and his Joint Chiefs chairman, the two men who assured him the war would be wrapped up well before the midterms, according to the Atlantic. *** As Republicans face the real possibility of losing the House and Senate, Trump has concluded the Iran war would be partly to blame and trained his attention on the advisers who promised...

The verdict was met with a groan from Tommy Robinson’s supporters, who had sat behind the dock throughout his harassment trial. It took more than 11 hours of jury deliberations to find the far-right activist guilty of harassment causing fear of violence to two journalists, enough time for a band of lieutenants and hangers-on to get their hopes up that he might be acquitted. Yet as Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, potentially faces up to 10 years in prison, another narrative has now taken hold. A miscarriage of justice has taken place, according to messages pumped out across...

There are new signs that the American and Israeli militaries are preparing a potential wave of strikes to muscle Tehran to the negotiating tableDUBAI—The U.S. has told several Gulf Arab countries to be prepared for a short, intense military campaign after the U.S. midterm elections, people briefed on the conversations said. The communications through diplomatic and military channels are among a growing number of indications that the U.S. and Israel are readying to launch a new round of heavy combat operations against Iran, risking a major escalation in hopes of degrading Tehran’s strength and pushing it toward negotiations. The U.S....

US intelligence purportedly believes country may not survive the economic, political and social tensions dividing its societyThe green light had been given; the mission was ready to go.At an Israeli base deep inside Gaza, the soldiers of the Givati Infantry Brigade’s Rotem Battalion were preparing to embark on a combat patrol.Yet upon opening the door of their Namer armoured personnel carrier, they refused to enter.Despite the increasingly frustrated entreaties of their commander, the operation was ultimately scrapped.Why? Because, according to multiple reports on the August incident, there was a female paramedic inside the armoured vehicle, and for the troops...

On Wednesday Dutch officials in Paris discussing the Netherlands participation in France's nuclear deterrence. Conventional defense cooperation also on the agenda but now the Netherlands is responding to French President Emmanuel Macron's invitation... This week a new Odoxa poll in the April 2027 first round Presidential Election showing the top two finishers to be Marine Le Pen of the National Rally and Jean-Luc Melenchon of La France Insoumise (LFI)... On Tuesday the high school student protest movement again took to the streets of France 480,000 demonstrators... Another day of street protests on Thursday with Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu speaking of...

The security of Jewish Americans depends on the constitutional order—and the defeat of the MAGA movement that threatens to destroy it.

Rachel Timoner, Senator Schumer’s ‘Rabbi’, had spent the years since Oct 7 denouncing Israel. The trendy leftist clergywoman had been active with anti-Israel groups such as J Street and T’ruah, and had co-founded the New York Jewish Agenda leftist organization alongside Sharon Kleinbaum who had faced an exodus from her ‘temple’ after saying prayers for Hamas terrorists. When Prime Minister Netanyahu came to speak at the UN, Timoner addressed a rally “to demand that Netanyahu be held accountable for his war crimes” and blamed antisemitic attacks on Jews by Muslims, including a Muslim terror attack meant to kill Jewish preschoolers,...

There are "no innocent people" in Gaza and Israel should "also kill two-week-old babies" in the Palestinian enclave, Israel's former prime minister Yair Lapid has recounted young Israelis telling him. "I heard all the rhetoric of: 'they all need to be killed,' 'there are no innocent people'," Lapid said in an interview on Wednesday, describing "a furious and painful meeting with a group of really young people" he had recently met. The former prime minister, who is now part of the centrist-right wing alliance of the Together party, added that he asked them, "What about babies? They said: 'babies too,...

For young white American men, building a successful career in fiction has become something like trying to kick water uphill. An analysis by Jacob Savage in Compact of The New York Times’ annual “notable fiction” lists and that of several other leading magazines revealed the grim reality: "By 2021, there was not one white male millennial on the “Notable Fiction” list. There were none again in 2022, and just one apiece in 2023 and 2024 (since 2021, just 2 of 72 millennials featured were white American men). "There were no white male millennials featured in Vulture’s 2024 year-end fiction list,...

The notion that conservatives care about discrimination against whites is merely a “myth,” according to an article published last week by Law & Liberty. Citing the 2024 American National Election Survey, which asked voters a battery of questions on many topics but included questions like, “How important is being white to your identity?” and gauged their perceptions of discrimination based on whiteness, author George Hawley tries to make the case that the GOP should move on from these concerns and away from the MAGA coalition that won the presidency for Donald Trump in the 2024 election. Hawley notes that in...

The AfD’s rising trajectory demonstrates that – like throughout the rest of the West – voters increasingly want an end to unchecked mass migration. The anti-mass-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) has won the election to the provincial parliaments in the states of Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The AfD’s rising trajectory demonstrates that – like throughout the rest of the West – voters increasingly want an end to unchecked mass migration and its many cultural, economic, and security problems. It also shows that the globalist, pro-mass-migration political and media establishment continues to ignore and demonize the voters and pretend there is no...

A new Toluna-Harris survey for French radio RTL and French television channel M6 published Monday showed that Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally (RN) party was set to win around 35 to 36 percent in the first round of voting for France's presidential elections on April 18, 2027, up from 33 percent in an earlier poll published on September 14. In the second round on May 2, she would easily beat hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon, if he made the run-off, and also polls well ahead of centre-right candidate Édouard Philippe, who was seen winning 13 percent to...

Complete Transcript SummaryOverall summary The September 30 broadcast revolves around three major themes. International instability: Jones sees the Russia-NATO confrontation, the Iran war, and terrorism as interconnected threats that could produce wider conflict and economic disruption. Concentrated institutional power: His discussions of AI, wealth, surveillance, defense contractors, and UFO disclosure share a common argument: powerful corporations and government-connected organizations allegedly exercise influence without sufficient public accountability. The conflict within conservative media: The extended Candace Owens discussion focuses on the distinction between questioning official accounts and making unsupported accusations. Jones criticizes Owens's investigative methods while also defending his own record and...

Video Transcript SummaryTommy Robinson’s speech at the “Together For The Children” demonstration in London (uploaded September 26, 2026). The video is Robinson’s full address at the event. He opens by congratulating organizer Phil (Hickin) and the volunteers (many of whom also helped with his own events) for the hard work and stress involved. He specifically thanks behind-the-scenes “predator hunters” and others who work daily against child sexual exploitation and abusers without public recognition. He highlights survivor Nicole, the first person to speak out in his “The Rape of Britain” series. Her willingness to describe the rape, torture, and abuse she...

Video Transcript Summary The video argues that recent media outrage and political criticism surrounding President Donald Trump’s summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, along with a White House “autopen” communications moment, are distractions from a much larger shift. According to the presenter, Trump is systematically dismantling a 50-year-old geopolitical and imperial framework long associated with Henry Kissinger and sustained by what the speaker calls “the empire” (with particular emphasis on British-linked institutions and thinking). The core claim is that Trump’s actions are reversing this framework in concrete ways that neither the media nor traditional foreign-policy elites can stop. China, the...

Another citizen journalist exposes people defrauding the US taxpayer. This time it's the Jewish Hasidic community.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani renewed his call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes and accused him of visiting a “genocide” on Palestinians just days before the leader is to speak at the UN General Assembly. “When it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, I have described him as I believe him to be — a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people,” the mayor told CNN after a cordial meeting with President Trump at Gracie Mansion Monday.“I do believe that that is something that should be honored, because what we want...