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The War On Iran – One Jewish Supremacist Crime Too Many?
Ican’t say for certain what finally convinced me that the latest U.S.-Israel aggression against Iran will be remembered as a Jewish war crime – one that will probably mark an ugly, well-deserved end to an eighty-year “golden age” in Jewish diaspora history. Maybe it was hearing America’s Secretary of State blurt out that Washington joined the […]
Europe’s Push for an EU Army Signals the Beginning of NATO’s Fragmentation
The calls coming out of Spain for a unified European army are not some isolated political fantasy. This is part of a much larger shift taking place behind the curtain as Europe quietly prepares for a world where NATO may no longer function in its current form. What politicians are now openly […]
France’s Shadow War in Mali
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire France did not really leave Mali. It changed tactics and found new hands to carry the gun. After being pushed out by a military government that turned toward Russia, China, and the wider Global South, Paris appears to have re-entered the war through Ukrainian military intelligence channels, long-standing Tuareg networks, and a battlefield […]
Israel Accuses The New York Times Of Antisemitic Journalism, And Other Notes
The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting. Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The Israeli government is currently accusing The New York Times of antisemitic blood libel for publishing a report on Israel’s already well-documented systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners. Contrary to popular […]
A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Is a Gift to the Grifters
Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.” “Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, […]
Germany Becomes A Ukraine War Lab, and a Staging Ground For a Forever War On Russia
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In February, under the white light of a Bavarian assembly hall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, walked past rows of unfinished drones. The joint venture hosting them, linking Germany’s Quantum Systems with Ukraine’s Frontline Robotics, is already producing aircraft for Ukraine, plans to scale toward 10,000 units a year, and has […]
Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary mocks Europeans’ national pride
Fedor Shandor, Ukraine’s ambassador to Hungary, sparked an international scandal in March 2026 by posting a photo featuring a Hungarian flag riddled with bullet holes. In the photo, the diplomat poses in camouflage alongside the controversial Ukrainian Armed Forces commander Robert Brovdi (call sign «Magyar»). In modern Hungary, displaying the […]
When Global Order Begins to Fracture
There are moments in history when the world changes with noise — sirens, speeches, falling statues. And then there are moments when it changes so quietly that almost nobody realizes it is happening. We are living through the second kind. No formal announcement marked the transition. No historic summit collapsed […]
America’s Suez Moment: How Losing Hormuz Could End US Global Dominance
The way I see it, the US has two unappealing choices: President Trump can choose option #2, but it would be widely perceived as a defeat. International relations scholar John Mearsheimer put it best: “Most of them say that President Trump should quickly declare victory and withdraw from the war. […]
The Global Sumud Flotilla Ambush: Greece Turns Crete into Israel’s Dock
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire On the night of April 29 to 30, Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters west of Crete, seizing a civilian aid convoy hundreds of miles from Gaza and funnelling 176 activists into a tightly managed transfer operation on Greek soil, where 31 wounded required […]
