Author: Press Room
Great nations are rarely destroyed in the way Hollywood imagines. Most people still think empires collapse under missile strikes, invasions, assassinations, revolutions, or dramatic military defeats broadcast live across television screens. History, however, tells a colder and far more disturbing story. The strongest civilizations usually begin dying financially long before the population realizes anything irreversible has started. Military decline only becomes visible later, after the economic foundations supporting the empire have already begun cracking underneath the surface. Rome did not suddenly wake up one morning and discover barbarians had magically become stronger than the empire itself. Rome exhausted its own…
The foreign ministers of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a group commonly known as the Quad, joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New Delhi, India, on Tuesday to announce new security and energy initiatives for the Indo-Pacific region to counter the growing influence of China. Meeting with Rubio in New Delhi on Tuesday were Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu, and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Rubio said the United States is “deeply committed to this partnership,” praising the Quad as a “linchpin in a cornerstone of our global strategy as a nation.” He said it…
Former President Joe Biden has sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in his quest to block private audio recordings from 2016 and 2017 between him and his biographer. Filed in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, the lawsuit “comes ahead of the department’s planned June 15 release of the materials to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the conservative Heritage Foundation,” per Reuters: The foundation sought them after they were used as part of then-Special Counsel Robert Hur’s 2023 investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents. Hur declined to bring criminal charges. The department fought the Heritage Foundation’s 2024 request for the…
Alberta plans a public vote this year amid growing tensions with Ottawa over energy and federal policy Calls for separation in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta have invited comparisons with Brexit from Prime Minister Mark Carney, who warned against the move and described it as a “dangerous bluff.”The western province is set to hold a public vote in October on whether to remain part of Canada or move toward a formal referendum on independence. The vote, announced by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith last week, follows a petition drive by the pro-independence group Stay Free Alberta, which submitted more than 300,000…
The next stage of the ongoing political realignment of the United Kingdom out of the century-old status quo may be on the verge of emerging, with reports indicating further Labour Party fracturing if insiders fail to install their preferred prime Minister, Andy Burnham. A significant number of Labour Members of Parliament could defect leftwards to the considerably more radical Green Party if the present slow-motion coup against party leader and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer fails, it is claimed. While the party’s astonishing defeat in the nationwide local elections earlier this month had been taken by many as the signal…
US military has reportedly been forced to accept higher Starlink costs to operate kamikaze drones Elon Musk’s SpaceX pressured the Pentagon into paying higher rates for Starlink satellite connectivity used by US kamikaze drones during the Iran war, Reuters reported on Tuesday.The dispute reportedly centered on the Low-Cost Uncrewed Combat Attack System (LUCAS), a cheap loitering munition used by the US military. According to Reuters, SpaceX argued that the military had been paying about $5,000 for connection per terminal while effectively using a higher-tier service priced at $25,000 per month.In March, Musk tweeted that the use of Starlink in weapon…
BUGGENHOUT, Belgium (AP) – A train traveling at high speed hit a minibus crossing a railway in Belgium on Tuesday, killing four people, including two children, and badly injuring five other children in what officials called one of the worst rail accidents in the country’s history. It appeared that the minibus drove through the closed crossing barrier, officials said. A security camera showed the bus, carrying nine people, was moving when the train hit it. The collision happened during morning rush hour near Buggenhout town, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of the capital, Brussels. The bus driver and an…
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner’s “tattoo and his commentary about it” are “personally disqualifying. I hope Maine voters agree with me.” Guest host Boris Sanchez asked, “Would you encourage Democrats to rally behind party candidates in November, even if they don’t 100% agree with them? And, as I ask that question, I’m thinking about you calling for Graham Platner in Maine to drop out of that race over that tattoo that he has with Nazi imagery. Would you stand behind him in order to beat Sen.…
Spoiler: it’s not China. In this episode of Breaking Free of Psyops, I trace North America’s drug crisis from the British Empire’s original opium wars through the CIA’s Air America heroin pipeline, Afghan poppy fields guarded by Western troops, and the Sackler family’s OxyContin empire. We review how Afghan opium production exploded the moment US forces arrived in 2001 and collapsed again the moment the Taliban returned in 2023, a fact the Pentagon’s trillion-dollar budget apparently could not replicate. We also review some of the actual proven players fueling today’s fentanyl crisis: Khalistani organized crime networks in British Columbia, money-laundering…
Marxist streaming personality Hasan Piker expressed frustration at Democrats for failing to sufficiently defend him after he received a subpoena from U.S. federal officials to discuss his recent propaganda trip to Cuba. Piker, an online commentator and the nephew of The Young Turks’s Cenk Uygur, reportedly received a “Request for Information” from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) over the weekend. OFAC is reportedly investigating Piker, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin, and about 40 other American nationals who formed part of the “Nuestra America” convoy, an international gathering of leftist activists and politicians supporting the repressive communist regime in…