Iraq Held An Election In A War Zone. Why Hasn’t Ukraine?

Iraq Held An Election In A War Zone. Why Hasn’t Ukraine?

In May of 2025, my Ukrainian business partner passed along a warning: If I didn’t stop pitching our proposed infrastructure security contract, we would both be killed.

This was not my first death threat. Attempts at intimidation are to only be expected in my line of work, which includes providing security in war zones. When your business involves protecting nuclear material near ongoing combat, you expect to live with a certain level of danger. But the corruption and mob-style skullduggery in Ukraine are an absolute disgrace: This is a European country engaged in a war for its very survival — and the beneficiary of well over $100 billion in American aid.

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Ilhan Omar’s Odyssey

Ilhan Omar’s Odyssey

It is a story with all the elements of a good narrative: devious characters, an exotic setting, a twisted plot, international conflict, etc. I am not talking about the Odyssey. I am referring to the story of Ilhan Omar and her family. Let’s start at the beginning. Ilhan Omar, the darling of the Left who has accused Netanyahu of perpetrating Gazan genocide, is the daughter of a mass-murderer. Not a fake one either, but the kind that lines up his enemies to be shot.

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Indian gangster wanted by INTERPOL arrested during traffic stop in Surrey

Indian gangster wanted by INTERPOL arrested during traffic stop in Surrey

An Indian gangster that is wanted by INTERPOL for murder has been arrested by police in Surrey after he was pulled over while being the passenger in a car that was seen driving erratically.

Amritpal Singh Bath is wanted on an INTERPOL Red Notice for murder and has been implicated in nearly 20 criminal cases in the Punjab region of India. These cases involve murder, attempted murder, drug trafficking, and extortion.

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Roswell Attracts ETs—Extra Tourists—After Government Releases New UFO Files

Roswell Attracts ETs—Extra Tourists—After Government Releases New UFO Files

ROSWELL, N.M.—The 1947 crash of an alleged flying saucer on a ranch outside this high-desert town started a neon-lit alien tourism economy of museums, gift shops, and festivals spanning decades.

Nearly 80 years later, new U.S. government disclosures about Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, are boosting that industry with videos of strange objects and encounters with U.S. military ships and aircraft.

This year’s release of documents and videos—including some in October referencing the Roswell incident—opened a new chapter in the UFO debate, drawing fresh interest and more visitors to Roswell.

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To fix a toxic culture, CSIS is trying to build trust in a world where no one trusts anyone

To fix a toxic culture, CSIS is trying to build trust in a world where no one trusts anyone

OTTAWA — When CSIS director Dan Rogers meets staff at one of the spy agency’s offices across the country, there comes a time when he asks the bosses to leave the room.

Then, he asks spy agency staff how things are really going.

There’s good reason for the head of the spy agency — who marked two years on the job earlier this month — to want to put his ear directly to the ground.

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Macrons can’t sue Candace Owens over Brigitte trans claim, judge rules

Macrons can’t sue Candace Owens over Brigitte trans claim, judge rules

Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron cannot hold Candace Owens personally liable for her claims that the French first lady is a man, a judge has ruled.

The Macrons had sued the Right-wing podcaster in Delaware after she spread the false claim that Brigitte Macron was transgender.

Ms Owens devoted dozens of episodes of her podcast to the conspiracy theory against the French first lady, which she began pushing in March 2024.


I didn’t even know this was still a thing.

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Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while he guts hard-won protections at home

Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while he guts hard-won protections at home

The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.

But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda.

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Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists

Tommy Robinson found guilty of harassing Daily Mail journalists

Tommy Robinson has been convicted of ‘weaponising social media’ to harass two Daily Mail journalists who exposed him stoking race riots in the UK from his sunbed in Cyprus.

The former English Defence League leader was convicted by jurors after they heard he used ‘bully-boy, intimidatory tactics’ to threaten the reporters.

The political activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, sent photographers to their addresses and shared images of their homes with millions of social media followers, prosecutors said.


10 years in prison possible? h/t Patti Jo

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Joel Kotkin: The generational war has begun in France

Joel Kotkin: The generational war has begun in France

Young people, at least a portion of them, are on the offensive, with mass protests spreading from Paris and Milan to Katmandu New Delhi and Sri Lanka. A generational war has begun, and its consequences, including for North America, could be devastating.

Although conditions differ by country, the spark behind these protests lies in both the real and the fitfully imagined: high housing prices, food inflation, lack of good jobs and failing education systems are not figments of their imaginations. At the same time, cries of poverty seem a bit overwrought for a generation that enjoys the most wealth in history and, in the West at least, their protest seems to stem from being raised to think they were special, only to find out that the world is not such a welcoming place.

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When will Britain drop the reparations farce?

When will Britain drop the reparations farce?

That old chestnut, “slavery reparations” – i.e. a practice almost every civilization has engaged in, but which a barefaced band of progressives has decided the West is uniquely responsible for – has reared its ugly head again.

The British monarch begins his visit to the Caribbean today, taking in the Bahamas, Guyana, and Antigua and Barbuda where he will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Ahead of the visit, Commonwealth Secretary-General Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has suggested that an apology by King Charles for slavery “wouldn’t hurt,” and that the time has come to discuss British reparations.

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