Israeli army has initiated a strike against Iran "to remove threats against the State of Israel", the nation’s Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, adding a special and immediate state of emergency has been declared across the country.

"'As a result, a missile and drone attack against the State of Israel and its civilian population is expected in the immediate timeframe," the Israeli authorities add.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260228/israel-launches-preemptive-strike-against-iran--defense-minister-1123707463.html

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There’s a pet peeve of mine that throws me into a rage whenever I hear it.

I hear it again and again, from some of the otherwise best commentators on geopolitics, who are otherwise pretty incredible when it comes to international matters. Libertarian-Adjacent people and Foreign Policy Critics I’ve been following for almost a decade Like the Andrew Neapolitano Crowd, John Mearsheimer, Col Douglas MacGregor and the Wider Antiwar Libertarian space: Tom Woods, Dave Smith, Scott Horton, and most recently Daryl Cooper. 

Discrimination is a Right

BY KULAK

NOV 25, 2025

People I grew up listening to and who first introduced me to the nature of the regime… and who for a decade or more I’ve considered amongst the best commentators around…

As the Donald Trump administration attempts to push through its ambitious plans for the “reconstruction” of Gaza, a tragedy is unfolding in the Middle East that is forever changing the face of the region. The numbers released by the enclave’s health authorities have already become incomprehensible: 72,070 Palestinians killed, with 171,738 wounded since October 7, 2023. Since the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip took effect last October alone, 612 Palestinians have been killed and 1,640 wounded. That is the price of the so-called Trump ceasefire deal!

The Federal Reserve has appointed longtime Wall Street lawyer Randall Guynn as its new director of supervision and regulation – a move critics say risks entrenching industry influence at the heart of financial oversight, a move that one critic said was worse than “putting the fox in charge of the henhouse.”

Jake Johnson

“This is like appointing a lifelong arsonist as a fire chief,” Dennis Kelleher, president and CEO of Better Markets, said in response to the Fed’s decision to put Randall Guynn in a position to regulate the industry he has long represented.

Financier Jeffrey Epstein spent just 13 months in jail for soliciting an underage girl for prostitution in 2008 in a plea bargain
During plea negotiations, his lawyers had emphasized his close relationship with Bill Clinton
A 2007 letter to the Florida State Attorney's office claims that Epstein helped set up the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Global Initiative
But the former president credited longtime assistant and Foundation director Doug Band with the idea for the Initiative
Epstein is not listed as a director or founder on the non-profit's documents but did give $25,000 through his Swiss bank account
The convicted sex offender's lawyers also mentioned Clinton had been a guest on his jet during a charitable trip to Africa
Foundation also came under scrutiny as critics question how much of the donations goes towards the causes

MR GUS LEONISKY EXTRACTED THE TRUTH [IN CAPS] FROM A FANTASIST ANALYSIS BY DISTINGUISHED SENIOR LIARS, BULLSHITTING AT THE GEORGE W BUSHIT CENTER:

With U.S. and European help, Ukraine WILL LOSE the war THE WEST started…

On this fourth anniversary of Russia’s LIMITED MILITARY INTERVENTION of Ukraine, we take stock of where things stand with Russia and Ukraine and what the West needs to do to help end the worst conflict on the European continent since World War II.

A record 129 media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, marking the second consecutive annual high for such deaths, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. The New York-based organization found that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of these killings, making the conflict in Gaza the deadliest for members of the press since CPJ began data collection in 1992.

Israel responsible for most journalist killings in 2025 – report
A record 129 media workers lost their lives last year, most of them in Gaza, the Committee to Protect Journalists has found

Can you hear that sound? That incessant rumbling of republican agitation? The growing protest that Australia remains formally under the reign of the British monarchy, even as a truly dark scandal surrounds it? This disquiet over the fact that the Andrew formerly known as Prince, recently arrested, could theoretically become our head of state?

Why the scandal of the royal formerly known as Prince won’t remove Australia’s King

BY Waleed Aly

The so-called Board of Peace, established by US President Donald Trump, has now begun its work[1]. This body was originally intended only to coordinate and then manage the peace process in the Gaza Strip in the long term. This peace council was indeed authorized to do so by the United Nations.

On the Way to the New Feudalism

By Hermann Ploppa

Global Research, February 27, 2026

However, a subcommittee of this new institution is taking over the administration of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Board of Peace is already addressing global hotspots, and the impression that it is intended to eventually replace the United Nations Security Council[2] is not entirely unfounded.

About a third of practicing American Christians say the spiritual advice they get from artificial intelligence is just as good as that from a pastor, with practicing Christians more likely to agree with this notion than non-practicing Christians and non-Christians, according to new research from the Barna Group.

A third of Christians trust spiritual advice from AI as much as pastor: study

By Leonardo Blair

The Alberta electricity company Capital Power, which is developing a large new AI data centre in the province powered by natural gas, lobbied the federal Mark Carney government dozens of times last year to eliminate clean energy regulations, DeSmog has learned.

Carney Allowed Gas-powered AI Data Centres After Lobbying From Alberta Energy Company

The Alberta gas giant Capital Power lobbied the government 37 times in the lead-up to an accord suspending clean energy regulations, federal records show.

These regulations were subsequently dropped from a fossil fuel accord that the prime minister signed with the government of Alberta last November, allowing large new data centres fuelled by gas turbines to proceed.

Four years ago, Russia’s decision to launch a military operation in Ukraine stunned almost everyone, including supporters and critics alike. Few believed Moscow would take such a drastic step. For decades, the prevailing assumption in global politics had been that force was no longer a legitimate way to resolve disputes. When military action did occur, it was wrapped in euphemisms such as humanitarian intervention and the defense of human rights.

Fyodor Lukyanov: After Ukraine, the world stops pretending
The Ukraine conflict hasn’t changed the world, just exposed what was already breaking....

In practice, this meant that military power was considered acceptable only when used to reinforce the existing international order, the liberal world order, and therefore only by its architects, above all the United States.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she will push for a referendum to create a right to free speech that would make it harder for her widely condemned remarks about Muslims to fall foul of the law.

The anti-immigrant populist party has used online posts recently to falsely claim Labor’s post-Bondi hate crimes laws were being used by “political elites” to jail her over her statement that there were no “good” Muslims, directing supporters to a web page to sign up as One Nation members.