Howard Lutnick is a man the world has been sold as a survivor, a Wall Street titan who rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald investment bank from the ashes of September 11, a billionaire philanthropist, and, most recently, joined at the hip with President Donald Trump, as his Commerce Secretary. His public biography […]
By reviving a decades-old “national emergency” and weaponising oil supplies, the Trump administration, with Marco Rubio as its chief ideologue, is escalating a campaign of economic warfare against Cuba, betting that deprivation and collapse will succeed where decades of coercion failed. The Trump administration’s latest executive order, declaring Cuba an “unusual […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire As the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group slid quietly into the US Central Command’s area of operations, Washington insisted it was merely applying “pressure”, a familiar euphemism that has accompanied nearly every American war of the last three decades The decision to escalate toward war […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In October 2025, Europe was faltering. Inflation was eroding savings, war raged on its borders, and trust in governments was crumbling. Amid this turbulence, Brussels quietly moved forward with a project that sounded, at first, almost routine—a technical reform, harmless on paper. Its name, the “28th […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire On paper, Argentina is healing. Inflation has slowed dramatically, the fiscal accounts are balanced, and the government celebrates what it calls an economic ‘reactivation’ after decades of supposed mismanagement. In official speeches and sympathetic editorials abroad, President Javier Milei is hailed as the radical surgeon who […]
At Davos, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser, unveiled a “master plan” for Gaza, a seven-slide spectacle of CGI skyscrapers, luxury apartments, data centres, and coastal resorts. Branded Project Sunrise, it promises to transform the bombed-out Gaza Strip into a high-tech Riviera. On screen, Gaza gleams. On […]
When the first chants rose up in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar at the end of December 2025, they came from merchants worn down by real, everyday suffering: inflation eating away savings, a collapsing currency, and the unceasing grind of uncertainty. Yet within days, what began as a grassroots protest against economic […]
“How Western Media Sells War” is a deep-dive conversation on how conflict is packaged, branded, and sold to the public through news and entertainment. We look at: All this and much more… Salt Cube Analytics host Thomas Karat talks with 21st Century Wire founder & editor Patrick Henningsen for an extended conversation about the state of the […]
In January 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled an indictment alleging that President Nicolás Maduro was complicit in international drug trafficking, referencing the September 2013 Air France Flight 385 cocaine seizure as purported evidence. On the surface, the seizure appears to implicate Venezuelan authorities. Yet, a deeper examination, through independent reporting, judicial records, and […]
In Tehran, the streets are tense, the internet is down in many places. In a bid to try and stem a foreign-backed destabilisation operation, Iranian government has imposed a nationwide blackout, cutting citizens off from information, communication, and the outside world. Yet while state authorities scramble to maintain control, Silicon […]