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by Amin Sharifi • June 8, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran's ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. The regime's goal is the bomb. Iran's Supreme Leader is not just a political figure, but is considered divine, with a legitimacy given not by man but by Allah. "And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged." — Qur'an 8:60 (Sahih International Translation). This verse is used by the IRGC not just as a call for defense, but as a religious endorsement of nuclear armament. In this view, nuclear weapons are not only permitted, but also necessary. They are both a shield against the regime's many enemies and a divine tool for the end-times struggle they believe is coming. Iran's leadership sees deception not as dishonorable, but as strategic. The Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, or religiously sanctioned deception, allows lying to infidels in the name of survival or victory. The regime's lack of response to Soleimani's killing revealed something essential: the mullahs understand only strength. Iran's nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran's corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent. The day we wake up to hear that Iran is about to use its nuclear bomb will be the day the world changes forever.
Iran's nuclear program must be completely and permanently dismantled. Even if ideology were not part of the equation, Iran's corruption, mismanagement and incompetence would still make it unfit to operate any nuclear facility. Senior officials are appointed through favoritism, cronyism or family ties. Industry is collapsing. Accountability is nonexistent. Pictured: The Isfahan uranium enrichment facility in Isfahan, Iran. (Photo by Getty Images)
Iran's ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. To Iran's rulers, their nuclear program is not just a policy objective to protect the continuation of their regime, but the centerpiece of Iran's ideology and propaganda. Despite having some of the world's richest oil and gas reserves, the regime has accepted crushing sanctions and economic ruin, all under the excuse of pursuing nuclear power. The regime's goal is the bomb.
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by Amir Taheri • June 8, 2025 at 4:00 am
For Obama, giving the final nod [on the JCPOA Iran deal] was even made easier because the "accord" that Chatham House described as historic was a "non-paper agreement" which meant no one needed to sign anything; waving the shadow of the fountain pen was enough. The mullahs knew that the "agreement" drafted by Obama would have no impact on their ambitious plans to extend their theo-ideological empire as far as they could, and as long as they didn't hit something hard on the way. They also knew that Obama couldn't and wouldn't end sanctions imposed by the United Nations, the United States and the European Union. Tehran has succeeded to reduce the whole issue to one of the degree of enrichment of uranium that Iran would be allowed to retain. As long as Trump doesn't cite real issues, such as Iran's centrifuges, exporting revolution, promoting terrorism, seizing hostages, funding what is left of terrorist groups across the world, sending drones to Russia and cut-price oil to China, the mullahs will play the game around enriching the uranium they don't need.
Will they, won't they? This is the question that those interested in current talks between Tehran and Washington on Iran's nuclear program are darting around in the hope of getting a straight answer. Pictured: A combination of photos showing President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff (L) and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi. (Photos by Evelyn Hockstein and Amer Hilabi/AFP via Getty Images)
Will they, won't they? This is the question that those interested in current talks between Tehran and Washington on Iran's nuclear program are darting around in the hope of getting a straight answer. Public statements from both sides offer no clear answer. President Donald Trump seems confident that an accord that reflects his wishes is well on the way to conclusion. He is even musing about a golden age of prosperity that awaits Iranians once the accord is signed. Confident that his new diplomacy, let's call it diplo-business, will deliver what eight US presidents, including Trump in his first term, failed to do. "They [the Iranians] are negotiating intelligently," Trump says. You might say: we've been there, done that and bought the T-shirt! And you won't be wrong.
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by Majid Rafizadeh • June 7, 2025 at 5:00 am
Uh oh. US President Donald J, Trump has reportedly fired a "slew of pro-Israel officials in America First 'course correction,'" and that "Trump is looking for an Iran dove to take over as Middle East chief at National Security Council, while pushing for nuclear deal," according to Middle East Eye. Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran's possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen. If the US Congress could please pass a bill as soon as possible preventing the US from allowing centrifuges in Iran, it would be an enormous benefit to US and global security. Meanwhile, America's enemies -- Russia, China, North Korea and Venezuela -- are waiting to see if the US actually has any real backbone before deciding if it is safe for them to go on offense again. This is not warmongering — it is the last resort when diplomacy fails and survival is on the line. Israel and the US have every right to defend themselves – and the region – against a regime that openly seeks their extermination. Unfortunately, Trump has repeatedly given Iran reason to bet on that. First, Trump told Hamas in January that they had to deliver all the hostages or "all hell will break out." When Hamas did nothing of the kind, Trump's dramatic response was -- nothing. Even better, Trump seemed to "throw Israel under the bus." How perfect! Then, on March 7, Trump sent Khamenei a letter saying that Iran had two months to dismantle its nuclear program... Hmm. It is now June and Iran has been enriching more uranium than ever. No wonder Iran's regime assumes it is holding a royal straight flush. Iran's regime saw what happened to Libya's Muammar Qaddafi when he gave up his nuclear arsenal. Iran's regime saw what happened when Ukraine, thanks to the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 – signed by Ukraine, Russia and the US – gave up its nuclear arsenal. The lesson they surely learned was: No nukes, no power. Iran will not voluntarily give up what it must see as its insurance policy for ruling Iran forever.
Iran uses it centrifuges to enrich uranium to high levels. Highly enriched uranium is needed only for nuclear weapons. No highly enriched uranium, no nuclear bombs. Even one uranium-enrichment centrifuge in Iran's possession is a nuclear weapon waiting to happen. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a 'Qasem Soleimani' missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
Uh oh. US President Donald J, Trump has reportedly fired a "slew of pro-Israel officials in America First 'course correction,'" and that "Trump is looking for an Iran dove to take over as Middle East chief at National Security Council, while pushing for nuclear deal," according to Middle East Eye. The threat posed by Iran's nuclear ambitions, however, is no longer a distant concern — it is a rapidly escalating crisis with the most severe and immediate implications for Israel, the oil-rich Sunni Arab Gulf States, and North and South America. Trump appears to be scurrying to back down from "or there will be "all hell to pay," and is possibly on the verge of letting Iran keep its uranium-enrichment centrifuges. Not an option.
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by Lawrence Kadish • June 6, 2025 at 5:00 am
The success of the stunning Ukrainian attack on Russia's airbases needs to be a wake-up call regarding the threats America faces from enemies of freedom who have equal access to weapons that allow them to be cunning, calculating and deadly effective. Pictured: Ukrainian drones attack Tu-22 supersonic bombers at Belaya Airbase in Russian, on June 1, 2025. (Image source: Security Service of Ukraine via Wikipedia)
When Chinese entities began to buy up farmland near remote but strategic American military installations here in the United States, there were some of us who raised the question, Why? Those who did so were criticized, described as paranoid, Sinophobic, and hostile to Chinese investment in America. We might want to revisit that criticism. Pentagon experts are looking with deep concern at the extraordinary damage done to Russia's strategic bomber force in the wake of Ukraine's recent surprise drone attack. Engaging in what is called asymmetric warfare, Ukraine used flatbed trucks, carrying shipping containers filled with cheap attack drones, driving thousands of miles to get close enough to distant Russian airbases before launching the drones and destroying as much as a third of Russia's strategic bombers. Think David versus Goliath. But in this instance, David just had to sit outside of Goliath's yard to get the kill.
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The War on City-Dwellers
'Climate Change': Grift of the Century, Part III
by Robert Williams • June 5, 2025 at 5:00 am
The ostensible goal of the climate change project is to get to "net zero" carbon emissions by 2050. To do that, global leaders, led by the WEF and the UN, are apparently planning to radically transform the lives of everyone on the planet except their own. Their plan, officially launched as the UN "Agenda 21" in 1992, during the UN's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and now renamed "Agenda 2030," -- still under the pretext of saving the planet -- sets in motion initiatives aimed at controlling every detail of people's lives. "On the surface, these 15-minute neigbourhoods might sound pleasant and convenient. But there is a coercive edge. The council plans to cut car use and traffic congestion by placing strict rules on car journeys. Under the new proposals, if any of Oxford's 150,000 residents drives outside of their designated district more than 100 days a year, he or she could be fined £70," according to the UK website Spiked. Furious residents went out to protest the measures -- to no avail. Popular demand, democratic inclusion and the free market play no role whatsoever. It reminds one of China -- which is no coincidence. The idea embedded within the concept of the 15-minute city is not a new one – it has been practiced in Communist China since 1949. Tracking people's mobility is – and remains – a way for self-appointed "elites" to efficiently control what they seem to regard as the "great unwashed (and incapable of making important decisions) masses." "The means of control [in China] have greatly evolved [into unparalleled surveillance].... No one pays with money anymore: over there, they pay with WeChat or Alipay, through their phone, which is very easily to control.... The Party's goal of controlling people hasn't changed, it's been updated." — Jean-Philippe Béja, Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Center for International Studies and Research at Sciences-Po, forumviesmobiles.org, November 13, 2019. China...is using biometric scanners as checkpoints, meaning that neighborhoods can turn into prisons by only being accessible through facial scans. If the social credit score is too low, you may not be able to enter or leave. China increasingly... dependent on biometric scans.... Updates... the movements of its citizens, so that it knows where they are at all times. Similarly, the "City Brain" knows what they buy – cash is no longer used – when they take public transport and so on. Anonymity and the right to privacy has been completely abolished. [A]dding the magic words "carbon neutrality" keeps assuring many Westerners that they are saving the planet. So they keep on buying cheap China's goods and enriching China's military -- enabling it to replace the United States even faster as the world's leading superpower and at last to fulfill Chinese President Xi Jinping's dream of finally ruling the planet.
China has taken smart "15-minute cities" to the extreme. It is using biometric scanners as checkpoints, meaning that neighborhoods can turn into prisons by only being accessible through facial scans. If your "social credit" score is too low, you may not be able to enter or leave. Pictured: Surveillance cameras in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (Photo by Getty Images)
Despite President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and UN executives and bureaucrats doubled down this year at the poorly attended WEF gathering in Davos -- could world leaders possibly be starting to catch on? -- and proclaimed that nothing can stop their radical transformation of the world in the name of "climate change." "We are already collaborating at a scale where no one can stop; not one country, not one leader making a decision, because it's just the right thing to do globally," announced Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All. "Anyone who steps back ... will create a vacuum that others will fill", said Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • June 4, 2025 at 5:30 am
The leaders of the Iran-backed Hamas terror group do not seem to be in a rush to end the war with Israel: after all, they and their family members are not living in the Gaza Strip... Hamas's political leaders, billionaires funded by Iran's mullahs and the rulers of Qatar, live in several Arab and Islamic countries, including Qatar, Turkey, Algeria and Lebanon. They and their family members lead luxurious lives in these countries and do not have to worry about lack of food or medicine. Hamas leaders are in no rush to accept any deal because, unlike most of the residents of the Gaza Strip, they do not have to stand in line and risk being shot by Hamas terrorists for trying to receive food from a humanitarian organization. Moreover, the Hamas leadership will never accept any ceasefire without prior permission from the Iranian regime. The mullahs in Tehran also appear in no rush to end the war against Israel. They want the war to continue: it distracts attention from Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. For [Hamas's leaders], the No. 1 priority is to make sure that Hamas remains in power the day after the war For Hamas, "the end" (eliminating Israel) justifies "the means" (sacrificing Palestinians as "martyrs" in the jihad against Israel). Hamas staying in power would be great news for the Iranian regime, jihadis, and Islamist terror groups who consider the US the "Great Satan," and are committed to killing Americans, Christians, Jews and all other "infidels."
The leaders of Hamas do not seem to be in a rush to end the war with Israel: after all, they and their family members are not living in the Gaza Strip. Hamas's political leaders, billionaires funded by Iran and Qatar, live luxurious lives in several Arab and Islamic countries, including Qatar, Turkey, Algeria and Lebanon. They and their family members do not have to worry about lack of food or medicine. Pictured: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (then prime minister) poses beside Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal (center) and the late Ismail Haniyeh, in Ankara, Turkey on June 18, 2013. (Image source: Turkish Prime Minister Press Office/Yasin Bulbul/AFP via Getty Images)
The leaders of the Iran-backed Hamas terror group do not seem to be in a rush to end the war with Israel: after all, they and their family members are not living in the Gaza Strip, which has been turned into a war zone over the past 20 months. Hamas's political leaders, billionaires funded by Iran's mullahs and the rulers of Qatar, live in several Arab and Islamic countries, including Qatar, Turkey, Algeria and Lebanon. They and their family members lead luxurious lives in these countries and do not have to worry about lack of food or medicine. Most of Hamas's military commanders in the Gaza Strip have been hiding in tunnels since the beginning of the war, triggered by the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel. Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas's military commander, was recently killed in an Israeli airstrike, together with senior officials of the group, while he was hiding in a tunnel beneath a hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
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by Lawrence Kadish • June 3, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Pictured: American astronaut David R Scott stands on the Moon's surface, beside the 'Falcon' Lunar Module, during the Apollo 15 mission on August 2, 1971. (Photo by James B. Irwin/Space Frontiers/Archive Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The last visitors from the planet Earth departed the Moon in December of 1972. No one has returned to that distant destination, and yet there is now a Moon-mining startup that has signed contracts to excavate and return to Earth thousands of liters of an element called helium-3 that sits just beneath the lunar surface, starting in the year 2029. The company, Interlune, has entered into an agreement to provide this rare and expensive resource to Maybell Quantum, a company whose CEO Corban Tillemann-Dick "wants to use Interlune's helium-3 for his company's special refrigerators that cool quantum devices to near-absolute zero temperatures." Technicians say helium-3 has amazing properties, among them, the ability to supply incredibly efficient cooling to ultra-low temperatures.
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by Drieu Godefridi • June 3, 2025 at 5:00 am
Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration. The normalization of radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse we are witnessing in Brussels is the result of 15 years of leaders abrogating their responsibility. Brussels, through its inability -- or unwillingness -- to make unpleasant but necessary choices, is setting itself up as the first potential locus of protracted European unrest. The Islamist Team Fouad Ahidar party embodies a new situation: a political Islam that no longer hides its identity. Instead, it advocates that a religious identity be the underpinning of national cohesion. This fragmentation reflects a profound breakdown in the social contract, between the old European society, which confines religion to the private sphere, and the "new Europeans" (Muslims), who want everything to be subject to their religious doctrine. Crime rates are rising everywhere in Brussels, particularly in an area in the spotlight for its frequent shootings: the Bruxelles-Midi Zone (Saint-Gilles, Forest, Anderlecht). Between 2022 and 2023, notes the newspaper L'Echo, robberies and extortion rose by 23%, robberies without weapons by 34%, pickpocketing by 27%, and armed robberies by a staggering 53%. The Brussels-Capital Region is not merely on the brink of bankruptcy; it is already at the bottom of a financial abyss. Jew-hatred, often marketed in unconvincing, transparent disguises as "anti-Zionism," flourishes in many other Islamic-centered and radical left-wing circles.... in Brussels, Jew-hatred enjoys almost total impunity. As of 2023, 74% of Brussels' population is of foreign background, compared to a European average of 10%.... This demographic transformation or "great replacement," far from being accompanied by an effective integration policy, has saturated Brussels -- overcrowded schools, overwhelmed hospitals, sorely inadequate housing -- and exacerbated communal tensions. In 2022, a report revealed that 35% of young people with an immigrant background in Brussels were living in households where nobody has a job -- a breeding ground for delinquency and radicalization. Brussels is not only a city in crisis, it is a city on the brink of implosion.
Pictured: The Brussels Federal Judicial Police display some of the 110 illegal firearms that were seized in a major operation, at a press conference in Brussels, on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga/AFP via Getty Images)
Brussels, the self-proclaimed capital of the European Union, is no longer the beacon of a united Europe, but an advanced symptom of its disintegration. For the past 15 years, the signs of a deep crisis -- political paralysis, an explosion in crime, fiscal bankruptcy, the rise of Islamism and migratory engulfment -- have been piling up, heralding an inevitable tipping point. The normalization of radical Islamic and anti-Semitic discourse we are witnessing in Brussels is the result of 15 years of leaders abrogating their responsibility. Brussels, through its inability -- or unwillingness -- to make unpleasant but necessary choices, is setting itself up as the first potential locus of protracted European unrest. Even Politico recognizes the scale of the problem. The only question is: When will the Belgian state recognize the failure of a society that has given up on governing itself according to a common law? 1. Structural political paralysis
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by Khaled Abu Toameh • June 2, 2025 at 5:00 am
As talks between Washington and Tehran are underway to reach an agreement on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, even if a deal is reached, unless it features "anywhere, anytime" inspections, to which Iran has never agreed, Iran will secretly continue to develop nuclear weapons and cheat, cheat, cheat. If such a deal is reached, Iran also is not going to stop its financial and military support for its terror proxies in the Middle East, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthi militia in Yemen. Iran, in short, is not going to abandon its declared goal of obliterating the "Zionist entity" ("the Little Satan") or the United States ("the Great Satan"). If Trump is serious about preventing war and bloodshed in the Middle East, he must insist that any agreement with Iran's mullahs include no centrifuges or uranium enrichment of any kind, and no support for Tehran's terror proxies. If something could possibly go wrong, unfortunately it will -- leaving Trump with the legacy of delivering yet another laughably fake peace deal and of his presidency being that of another failed Barack Obama. Trump must also demand that Iran's leaders stop calling for the annihilation of Israel. The same is true for the leaders of Qatar, as well Qatar's personal insults against Trump himself. The Iranian regime is determined to continue supporting [terrorist leaders] to help them achieve their goal of murdering Jews and eliminating Israel. "Iran's openly stated goal is to destroy Israel, but the broader game is its perception of the United States as the 'Great Satan.' Iran's strategy involves orchestrating various terrorist groups in the Middle East, with multifaceted objectives. Firstly, it seeks to dominate the Islamic world in the region, asserting its influence over other nations. Simultaneously, it aims to strike at the credibility of the United States, a long-standing adversary in Iranian foreign policy." — Shishir Gupta, executive editor, Hindustan Times, April 27, 2023. The Trump administration would do well to take these issues into consideration before signing any agreement with Iran. Such an agreement, if reached, unfortunately will not mean that the Iranian regime has become America's friend. As long as the mullahs continue to wish for the destruction of Israel and America, and to back Islamist terror groups, they should be treated as dangerous enemies of both Israel and the US.
It is wrong and unrealistic to assume that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his regime, if and when they sign a nuclear agreement with the Trump administration, would abandon their dream of destroying Israel and America. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian looks on as a 'Qasem Soleimani' missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
As talks between Washington and Tehran are underway to reach an agreement on Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons, even if a deal is reached, unless it features "anywhere, anytime" inspections, to which Iran has never agreed, Iran will secretly continue to develop nuclear weapons and cheat, cheat, cheat. If such a deal is reached, Iran also is not going to stop its financial and military support for its terror proxies in the Middle East, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthi militia in Yemen. Iran, in short, is not going to abandon its declared goal of obliterating the "Zionist entity" ("the Little Satan") or the United States ("the Great Satan"). US President Donald J. Trump said on May 28 that he believes his administration is "very close to a solution" with Iran on a nuclear agreement. "Right now, I think they want to make a deal," Trump said. "And if we can make a deal, I'd save a lot of lives."
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by Lawrence A. Franklin • June 2, 2025 at 4:00 am
Syria's Christians, most of whom are either Catholic or Greek Orthodox, are viewed by Muslims as infidels and therefore resented by the Syria's Sunni majority. Syria's new constitution, published on March 14, stipulates that Islamic jurisprudence is the main source of judicial decision-making. The constitution also asserts that Syria's president must be a Muslim and that the executive branch has virtually dictatorial powers. The constitution also includes no provision for protecting ethnic and religious minorities, which include Christians, Alawites, Kurds and Druze. Syria's Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X has challenged the benign view of the new Islamist regime. Israel, which has already attacked government targets in Syria to protect the Druze minority, may, as usual, turn out to provide the greatest protection for threatened minorities – as it has for, for instance, for Baha'is, Sudanese, Ethiopians and Kurds -- for which, of course, it receives no credit at all.
Syria's Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X has challenged the benign view of the new Islamist regime. He claims that Islamists killed many innocent Christians in recent fighting. Pictured: Jihadist gunmen deploy outside the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St George in Latakia on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty Images)
Sunni Islamist terrorist gangs are still slaughtering minority Alawites in coastal Syrian towns. Thes atrocities began on March 8, allegedly in response to attacks on government troops by remnant forces of the deposed Alawite Assad regime. Some Syrian Christians were also slain, but allegedly were not specifically targeted by Ahmed al-Sharaa's new government of Hayat al-Tahrir (HTS). During the Assad years, like the Alawites, Christians, were for the most part a tolerated minority. Syria's Christians, most of whom are either Catholic or Greek Orthodox, are viewed by Muslims as infidels and therefore resented by the Syria's Sunni majority. During the country's 14-year civil war, several churches were sacked and burned by jihadist enemies of the Assad dynasty. Some of these anti-Christian atrocities were also committed by foreign jihadists who hailed from Chechnya and Uzbekistan.
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by Robert Williams • June 1, 2025 at 5:00 am
[O]n May 20 they adopted the WHO Pandemic Treaty at the 78th session of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. It will have to be ratified by at least 60 states, however, before it can come into effect, which means that it is up to citizens to prevent that from happening. The deadline to opt out of the International Health Regulations is July 19 – less than two months from now. It is time to notify your lawmakers to take immediate action in their parliaments and say NO to these regulations. So far, no country has opted out, and due to lack of media coverage most people appear completely unaware that a problem even exists. On June 1, 2024, the WHO's 194 member states agreed to sweeping amendments of the WHO International Health Regulations that give the organization's Director-General -- currently "Dr." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is not a medical doctor and to all appearances is in China's pocket -- overwhelming authority to declare not only actual international public health emergencies, but also potential ones. ""[T]he WHO's proposed amendments to its international health regulations and its forthcoming pandemic treaty present the most serious threat to national sovereignty in a generation." — Suella Braverman, former UK Home Secretary, April 20, 2025. [P]ublic health, according to the WHO and its member states (your governments), is now intertwined with "climate change." If climate warrior Bill Gates and his WHO cohorts feel like it, they can declare a "climate pandemic," pronounce lockdowns and a rollout of whatever measures they might see fit "to save the planet." Sadly, [the WHO] made itself into a fully disgraced and corrupt body, so deeply in the pockets not only of Gates and the pharmaceutical industry, but also of Communist China. During Covid-19, the WHO and "Dr." Tedros actually praised China for its "extraordinary" handling of the pandemic. "If you liked how the COVID-19 crisis was handled – in large measure thanks to the incompetence and malfeasance of the WHO and the insidious influence of the perpetrator, the Chinese Communist Party... you're going to love this new world order. Among its consequences will be: universal health IDs, vaccine mandates, obligatory censorship, technology transfers, open-ended financial costs and the proliferation of viruses with the potential to cause pandemics – all 'managed' by greatly empowered and unaccountable international bureaucrats." – Frank Gaffney, X, April 17, 2025 There is, however, another, newly acquired, instrument in the UN's toolbox, the "Digital Global Compact" (DGC) that seeks to make it impossible to criticize this new UN/WHO reign of terror. Without an ever-present, imminent and terrible-sounding "pandemic" there would be no legitimacy for WHO to seize all this power and gain access to so much control. This arrogation of power to itself could reasonably turn into runaway totalitarianism unless lawmakers step up immediately and demand that their governments object to the amendments to the International Health Regulations -- and opt out of them.
Sadly, the WHO has made itself into a fully disgraced and corrupt body, so deeply in the pockets not only of Bill Gates and the pharmaceutical industry, but also of Communist China. And now, the WHO might finally be getting just what it wanted: Unlimited power and control. Pictured: WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pays a visit to Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on January 28, 2020. (Photo by Naohiko Hatta/AFP via Getty Images)
The World Health Organization (WHO) might finally be getting just what it wanted: Unlimited power and control. The deadline to opt out of the International Health Regulations is July 19 – less than two months from now. It is time to notify your lawmakers to take immediate action in their parliaments and say NO to these regulations. So far, no country has opted out, and due to lack of media coverage most people appear completely unaware that a problem even exists. On June 1, 2024, the WHO's 194 member states agreed to sweeping amendments of the WHO International Health Regulations that give the organization's Director-General -- currently "Dr." Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is not a medical doctor and to all appearances is in China's pocket -- overwhelming authority to declare not only actual international public health emergencies, but also potential ones.
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by Amir Taheri • June 1, 2025 at 4:00 am
There are areas of life, some would say the most important, that cannot and must not be subjected to cold scientific logic. These include love, friendship, taste, talent and, of course, joy and pain. Why do we fall in love with those two particular black eyes and not others in the world? Why do we feel the grace of friendship with this or that particular individual out of billions of human beings? Why do we like the voice of this singer and not the other, and the poetry of this poet and not another? How is it that we can paint reasonably well but sing worse than a frog? Some areas of human existence must be allowed to retain the mystery that they have always enjoyed in the mystical chiaroscuro of the human condition. We should not decree love, friendship and talent. Nor should we try to decree death. Euthanasia, a Greek word, means "mercy killing," and was initially coined to describe the administration of the coup de grâce to badly wounded horses. Human beings, however, cannot be treated the same way as horses. Nor can a doctor of medicine act like a stable boy.
Pictured: Deputies applaud the adoption of the bill on assisted suicide, following the vote in France's National Assembly in Paris, on May 27, 2025. (Photo by Stephane de Sakutin/AFP via Getty Images)
In one of his memorable comments on the current state of Europe, the late Pope Francis expressed the wish that, in a world gripped by turmoil and war, the old continent becomes a field hospital for victims from the four corners of the globe. The comment implies that real or imagined victimhood provides anyone with a seat at the high table of privileges cast as human rights. In other words, the unorthodox comment put the pontiff on the side of those who have tried to transform their definition of human rights into a secular religion, unencumbered by the traditional concept of duty upheld by traditional religions. Last week, the French parliament passed a bill that will enshrine a new right in the law of the land: "the right to die." The issue was first raised in Europe almost 30 years ago, and led to Switzerland and Holland to become the first havens for the right-to-die. At first, the new "right" was presented as "mercy killing".
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by Majid Rafizadeh • May 31, 2025 at 5:00 am
Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike. Iran could, at any moment, declare itself part of the nuclear weapons club. The mullahs could also negotiate a deal that grants them partial sanctions relief, re-entry into the global financial system, and access to international trade — all while keeping key parts of their nuclear program intact. Giving Iran any daylight to enrichment is not diplomacy — it is surrender. US President Donald Trump seems shocked that he is being duped by the superstar of KGB (now the FSB) whose entire purpose is to dupe Americans and the West: You mean he is not really my good friend Volodya? Russian President Vladimir Putin has not gone crazy; we were crazy for believing him. The same holds true for Communist China's President Xi Jinping. Iran does not want "peace." Iran wants victory. Why don't we? The only "peace" Iran is interested in is one strictly on its terms. With nuclear weapons, there will be "peace," all right -- the Iranian regime's survival, power and domination -- that kind of peace. Meanwhile, Trump's "deadlines" with Hamas and Iran have come and gone, thoroughly eroding his credibility with Putin, Xi, Kim, NATO and everyone else. There have been no consequences, no accountability and no results. This is not about compromise or Munich 2.0. This is about survival. Ours, not theirs. Stop being played.
Iran does not want "peace." Iran wants victory. Why don't we? The only "peace" Iran is interested in is one strictly on its terms. With nuclear weapons, there will be "peace," all right -- the Iranian regime's survival, power and domination -- that kind of peace. Pictured: A Fattah hypersonic ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran, on September 22, 2023. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
Once again, the United States has sat down with Iran for yet another round of nuclear negotiations — this time the fifth. And once again, we are told that there will be another round in the "near future." Sound familiar? It should. Iran's cat-and-mouse diplomatic theater is not a breakthrough; it is a rerun. Just as the past rounds, this latest episode concluded without any meaningful agreement, while Iran continues to advance in its nuclear program, intercontinental ballistic missiles -- not needed to attack Israel -- and rebuild its air defense. Iran knows exactly what it is doing. It is playing a game it has mastered for decades: stall, confuse, buy time, bring in the well-intentioned but toothless International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). All the regime needs to win the negotiations is to entrench enforceability and retain the ability to work in secret down the pike.
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by Robert Williams • May 30, 2025 at 5:00 am
While it is understandable that President Donald Trump is eager to bring business deals to America, since when has Qatar been "a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East"? The answer is: Never. "Qatar is the leading sponsor of terrorism in the world, more than Iran." — Dr. Udi Levy, a former senior official of Israel's Mossad spy agency who dealt with economic warfare against terrorist organizations, Ynet News, April 18, 2024. There is hardly an Islamic terrorist group, in fact, that Qatar does not support. Meanwhile, it acts as both the arsonist and the firefighter. "Qatar has been playing a deadly double game with the U.S. for many years. It supports all Islamist terrorist organizations (ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, and Hezbollah). Worst of all, in 1996, it hid future 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in Doha, and when the FBI came to arrest him, informing only the Qatari Emir, KSM disappeared within hours." — Yigal Carmon, MEMRI, November 15, 2023. The Muslim Brotherhood's "Explanatory Memorandum" explicitly states: "The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and 'sabotaging' its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God's religion is made victorious over all other religions." Qatar's media empire, Al Jazeera, is the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood. It is this Arabic-language television network that has spread the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout much of the world. Even Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which agree on virtually nothing, both banned Al Jazeera – as have Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Bahrain. When the US sells advanced weapons to Qatar, it is literally arming an organization that openly funds terrorism, spreads radical Islamic ideology and straightforwardly seeks to undermine America, Israel and the West. The Trump administration, in seeking to make America great again, was supposed to move away from the policies of the Obama and Biden administrations, which appeased terrorist and rogue states such as Iran and Russia. But regarding Qatar, the Trump administration appears to be pursuing effectively the same extremely dangerous policies that endanger not only US allies in the Middle East such as Israel, but the United States itself. "[US] colleges and universities have accepted $6.25 billion from Qatar since 2001. However, Qatar's total spending likely exceeds that figure... Qatar is a major exporter of Islamist ideology, which it amplifies on the Qatar-owned Al Jazeera network. By pumping money into the American higher education system and across the United States, Qatar avoids scrutiny as it advances hostile ideologies." — Natalie Ecanow, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, in testimony to the Texas Legislature House Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs, April 2, 2025. A good place to start would be not to sell weapons to Qatar and not to pretend they are a friendly ally. Instead, the US should start looking for an alternate place, such as the United Arab Emirates, to relocate American forces from Qatar's Al-Udeid Air Base.
It is high time for the United States to free itself of the subversive forces working to destroy it from within, especially if America is to remain a beacon of freedom in the world, let alone "making it great again." A good place to start would be not to sell weapons to Qatar and not to pretend they are a friendly ally. Pictured: Qatar Emeri Air Force F-15 fighter jets escort President Donald Trump's Air Force One into Doha, Qatar on May 14, 2025.(Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The Trump administration will apparently sell Qatar a large weapons package, including eight long-range maritime surveillance drones and hundreds of missiles and bombs worth around $2 billion. A document from the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, notifying Congress of the initially approved sale, stated: "This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East. "The proposed sale will improve Qatar's capability to meet current and future threats by providing timely intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, target acquisition, counter-land, and counter-surface sea capabilities for its security and defense. This capability is a deterrent to regional threats and will primarily be used to strengthen its homeland defense."
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by Gordon G. Chang • May 29, 2025 at 5:00 am
The Trump administration, which had previously displayed a lack of interest in the conflict, then quickly intervened and brokered a ceasefire. "[T]he possession of nuclear weapons may have incentivized risky confrontations that pass just below the ambiguous nuclear threshold." — Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, May 23, 2025. Pakistan did not have to detonate one of its nuclear warheads to shake the world. Now, an emboldened Islamabad will almost certainly hit India again. Nukes are supposed to moderate national leaders and make them cautious. When it comes to India and Pakistan, however, the opposite now looks true.
Pakistan did not have to detonate one of its nuclear warheads to shake the world. Now, an emboldened Islamabad will almost certainly hit India again. Pictured: The remains of the house of Ahsan Ul Haq Sheikh, an Islamist terrorist involved in the Pahalgam attack, after Indian soldiers blew it up on April 25 in Murran, Kashmir. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images)
"We stopped a nuclear conflict, I think it could have been a bad nuclear war, millions of people could have been killed, so I'm very proud of that," President Donald Trump told reporters on May 12. Proud he should be. Although New Delhi refuses to acknowledge Washington's role in brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, the Trump administration was nonetheless instrumental in stopping fighting that could have escalated, as Newsweek wrote, "to the brink of all-out war." On April 22, gunmen murdered 26 Hindu tourists and others at Pahalgam, in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan also claims that territory. New Delhi blames Islamabad for harboring militants who staged the attack. Pakistan denies involvement.
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