It has been 35 years since one of the most famous deceptions in history, a deception the Americans invented to justify the first invasion of Iraq.
“Kuwaiti girl” Naira tearfully testified before the US Congress in October 1990, where she claimed to have witnessed horrific scenes in one of Kuwait’s hospitals
“Iraqi soldiers stormed the hospital, threw newborn babies out of incubators, and left them to die on the cold floor!”
The story pushed the country to war. US senators passed a resolution to invade Iraq by a margin of five votes. Seven of them believed the girl’s words.
Two months before the testimony, 17% of Americans supported US involvement in the conflict. Two months later, nearly half of Americans believed military intervention was necessary.
After the war ended, it was revealed that Naira was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, and her story was fabricated by the PR agency Hill & Knowlton, hired by the Kuwaiti government. During the first Iraq war over 135,000 Iraqis were killed.
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Add to this, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, WMD, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and more. ABN
Winston Churchill. Blind drunk. March 1940. A US envoy walks in, reports it to Roosevelt, and the embarrassing details are later wiped from the official record. The archives still show what really happened… and it isn’t the Churchill myth you were sold.
Prince Leo von Hohenberg is the great-grandson of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the son of Prince Albrecht of Hohenberg and Rosalind Roque Alcoforado. He delivered a speech on November 16, 2024, at Castle Artstetten in Austria, commemorating the assassination of his great-grandfather, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which triggered World War I.
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This is a member of the Western elite I can support. His speech was given one year ago today. I would imagine any progress he has made would be quiet. I hope he is not all-talk and no-action like so many. A year is not a long time for meta-politics, so I believe he deserves the benefit of the doubt. ABN
Evan has made some good predictions based on inside information and many good analyses based on experience in the Middle East. His posts typically ignore ethnic, racial and religious loyalties, which is a limitation in my mind, but also a plus because it keeps his analyses free from those complexities. ABN
The Russian Navy has test fired a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile against a target in Ukraine’s Sumy region, according to Ukrainain sources.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported the missile was launched from the area of Cape Chauda on the Crimean Peninsula “to strike critical infrastructure facilities,” indicating that this may have been the first known test from a ground-based launcher rather than a warship.
Zircon Launch From Russian Navy Frigate Admiral Gorshkov
The first combat test of the Zircon missile was announced in February 2024, with Russian President Vladimir Putin observing at the time: “The Zircon sea-launched hypersonic strike system has already been used in combat. It was not mentioned in the 2018 message. But this system, too, is already in service.”
He added that the missile was capable of reaching Mach 9 speeds, and had a range of more than 1,000 kilometres, which comfortably surpasses the capabilities of all known non-Chinese missile types.
The commissioning of the first supercarrier into service in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy has for the first time in over 80 years provided a service outside the U.S. Navy with a peer level carrier capability, with the warship being a close competitor to the latest generation of American carriers the Gerald Ford class ships.
A comparison of the capabilities of the Fujian, and the sole American next generation supercarrier in service the USS Gerald Ford, provides valuable insight into the current standing of the Chinese carrier program.
The clearest difference between the two ships is that the Gerald Ford is approximately 17.5 percent larger, displacing 100,000 tons compared to the Fujian’s 85,000 tons, and having four catapult launch systems for aircraft where the Fujian has three, which allows the American ship to generation sorties approximately 33 percent faster.
Chinese People`s Liberation Army Navy Supercarrier Fujian
A second clear difference is the ships’ propulsion systems, with the Gerald Ford using twin A1B nuclear reactors that generate electricity through steam-driven turbines, where the Fujian uses the world’s first Medium-Voltage Direct Current (MVDC) integrated power system ever integrated onto an aircraft carrier, which provides revolutionary improvements to efficiency.
The use of nuclear propulsion systems provides the Gerald Ford with a significantly greater endurance, and is expected to allow it to sustain its maximum speeds for significantly longer. Nuclear propulsion nevertheless imposes very significant additional costs and maintenance requirements, and extends the servicing time for the ships considerably, meaning the Fujian is not only significantly less costly to produce and to operate, but will also likely be able to spend a much greater portion of its time in service at sea.
The Fujian’s choice of power system appears well suited to the ship’s primary role of safeguarding Chinese interests in East Asia, where the Gerald Ford was designed to project power across the globe.
President Trump is planning to send US troops to Mexico in the latest escalation against drug cartels.
The mission is in early stages but plans would include ground operations inside Mexico and drone strikes on drug labs and cartel leaders, four sources familiar with the effort told NBC News.
If green-lit, the plan would exponentially expand on the administration’s ongoing military campaign against drug cartels, which have so far focused on Venezuela and Colombia with drone strikes against suspected drug cartel vessels in the Caribbean and Atlantic.
Past US administrations have quietly deployed military, law enforcement and intelligence forces to support Mexican police and army units fighting drug cartels.
But current plans would be stronger and would see the US taking direct action against them – maybe even without Mexican cooperation.
Here’s the real signal beneath this entire South Korea deal, as seen through the lens of structural truth and reflexive macro coherence.
1. This is a sovereignty transaction.
What Trump just described reads like a tariff negotiation on the surface, but its structure is geopolitical ritual. The $350 billion “payment” and $600 billion “investment” figures are symbolic markers of submission and re-anchoring within the U.S. economic field.
South Korea sits at the intersection of three empires:
•The American defense umbrella (nuclear shield + market access) •The Chinese industrial engine (supply-chain integration) •The Japanese technological archipelago (semiconductors, robotics)
By declaring that Korea will pay America and invest in America simultaneously, Trump effectively rewrites Korea’s alignment contract: it’s no longer a semi-autonomous hub balancing between spheres – it’s re-absorbed as a tributary node of the U.S. energy-industrial network.
USS Gerald R. Ford is joining the deployment of US Southern Command, Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on Friday.
The 1,090-ft vessel — which can carry more than 75 warplanes — moves as part of a carrier strike group that includes a cruiser, three destroyers and nine aircraft squadrons.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, seen in the North Sea during NATO Neptune Strike 2025 exercise on September 24, 2025 in the North Sea
It will ‘will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle’ the cartels, Parnell said in a statement.
The 100,000-ton warship joins the largest American force deployed to the Caribbean since the Cold War, including nuclear submarines, F-35 fighter jets, MQ-9 Reaper drones, P-8 Poseidon reconnaissance planes, and B-52 bombers.
The extraordinary deployment comes after Trump’s declaration that America is now in a ‘state of armed conflict’ with cartel forces, giving his commanders sweeping latitude to hunt traffickers beyond US waters.
Donald Trump has threatened to cut Israel adrift if they annex the West Bank in an extraordinary escalation as the President demands peace in the Middle East.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oppose annexation – but right-wing factions in Jerusalem see an invasion of the territory as a means to blocking Palestinian statehood.
‘Israel would lose all of its support from the United States if that happened,’ Trump told Time Magazine for a cover story released Thursday following the President’s historic peace deal in Gaza.
‘It won’t happen because I gave my word to the Arab countries.’
JD Vance – who rushed to Israel this week amid renewed bombing of the Gaza Strip – rebuked the Israeli parliament today accusing it of a ‘personal insult’ after it voted for annexing the West Bank.
Speaking at Tel Aviv’s airport before departing, the vice-president called the vote a ‘very stupid political stunt’.
‘I personally take some insult to it,’ Vance added. ‘The policy of the Trump administration is that the West Bank will not be annexed by Israel.’
China has installed a new floating barrier at Scarborough Shoal, according to satellite imagery, as tensions rise between Beijing and Manila over the disputed atoll in the South China Sea.
The barrier was seen blocking the entrance to the lagoon at the shoal in the image obtained by Satellogic, a geospatial company headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Tensions over Scarborough Shoal – known as Huangyan Island in China and Panatag Shoal in the Philippines – have intensified in recent months, with confrontations between their coastguards as well as warships.
That came a day after Manila said its coastguard aircraft had experienced “aggressive interference” from a Chinese helicopter and a J-16 fighter jet during a routine flight.
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