Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire “My God, we wouldn’t continue our guarantee of West Germany if they started manufacturing nuclear weapons, which is really of vital importance to us compared to our position in Israel.”President John F Kennedy, on Israeli nuclear ambitions, 1963(Source: National Security Archive – “Battle of the Letters, 1963” and […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Iran did not formally close the Strait of Hormuz, but through the IRGC Navy and its Naval Basij, it has built a distributed maritime deterrent capable of making insurers, shippers, and foreign militaries behave as if the old freedom of passage is already gone. Iran says […]
“We have lost control of the seas to a nation without a navy, using pre-World War I weapons, laid by vessels that were utilized at the time of the birth of Christ.” Rear Admiral Allan E. Smith, who wrote these words, learned this the hard way at Wonsan Harbour in 1950, when he realised the US […]
This is how the war on Iran was framed to the men and women ordered to fight it. “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” This was not a sermon at a rural megachurch. […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire “The question is no longer whether America can afford this war on Iran. It is whether America’s allies can afford America.” For three weeks, Washington and West Jerusalem have marketed the dubiously titled “Operation Epic Fury” as a limited, surgical campaign against Iranian nuclear and defence […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire The public story of Jack and Caroline Lang was supposed to be a triumph of culture and enlightened politics in the Fifth Republic. The private record now emerging from the Epstein files reads more like the biography of a dynasty that treated power as a family asset and […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire He told us he was done with politics. After the 2020 debacle, after the meltdown in the Trump campaign offices, after the headlines about firearms and marital collapse and that bizarre arrest in Fort Lauderdale, Brad Parscale retreated to the Christian broadcasting circuit, got himself baptised, […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire The lights are going out in Cuba again, but this time, the blackout is by design. With a stroke of his pen, a US president declared a “national emergency,” ordered an oil blockade, and warned every shipowner and government on earth that helping an island of […]
In the gilded corridors of Parisian power, where luxury handbags command the price of modest apartments and financial dynasties trace their lineage back centuries, a shadow has emerged that threatens to stain the immaculate marble of France’s most revered institutions. The recent release of thousands of pages of documents by […]
By the summer of 2016, Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just a well-heeled fixture working the back rooms in the corridors of power—he was a screaming red flag, a multiple convicted sex offender whose dodgy 2008 plea deal for procuring underage girls had already damaged his brand across elite political and financial circles. […]