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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire On May 5, 2026, the pro-European government of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan collapsed in a parliamentary no-confidence vote engineered by an unlikely but explosive alliance: the Social Democrats (PSD) and the sovereigntist Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR). The motion passed with 281 votes, well above the 233 threshold in Romania’s 464-seat parliament. Ten months […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In Honduras, ordinary people have spent years watching power pass between men who speak the language of democracy while selling the country piece by piece to foreign patrons and protected elites. Now a new investigation tears open that closed world and names the forces that allegedly […]
Palestinians are not leaving their villages in the West Bank because of “tensions” or “clashes.” They are being driven out through a calculated campaign that weaponises sexual terror, military impunity, and land bureaucracy to make life unlivable. This article lays bare an illegal project of forcible transfer, enabled by the […]
Jamie Raskin has now done what Congress avoided for nearly six decades. With Trump’s Iran war spiraling and public trust collapsing, he has finally tabled a bill to build the “other body” the 25th Amendment quietly promised back in 1967. On paper, it is a nonpartisan commission,but in reality, it […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire JD Vance claimed that more aid is entering Gaza now than at any point in the last five years. The public documentary record from the UN and frontline humanitarian agencies, as reflected in the updates of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire A French speech law born inside a pro-Israel lobbying ecosystem is about to be voted in Paris, while Israeli leaders, including Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, face international arrest warrants, and a United Nations expert says there are reasonable grounds to believe Israel has committed genocide […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Islamabad was never a peace conference in any honest sense. It was the moment Washington tried to turn military failure into diplomatic blackmail. What it could not break with bombs, it tried to extract across a polished table. Iran answered by making clear that sovereignty defended […]