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 […]
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 […]
On a December evening in 2025, a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach turned into a scene of horror. Fifteen people were killed, dozens injured, and a community’s sense of safety was shattered. In the hours that followed, the story seemed clear: a terrorist attack, antisemitic in motive, connected to […]
For more than a decade, Israeli officials have warned of an alleged international campaign to “delegitimise” the Jewish state. The accusation has been repeated so often that it has hardened into dogma. A new investigation dubbed “Israel Files” reveals what this rhetoric was designed to obscure: not a besieged democracy […]
The aftermath of the Honduran presidential election has been marked with unease, anxious crowds, contested tallies, and a sense that unseen hands have been quietly rearranging the country’s political destiny. Among those shadows moves Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, a figure whose career has lurched from spectacle to scandal […]
UN Security Council Resolution 2803 arrives in Gaza at a moment of exhaustion and uncertainty, offering the promise of stabilisation and a blueprint for rebuilding after months of devastation. Backed by major powers and framed as a route out of conflict, it introduces an international force and a U.S.-led board […]