When Payam Akhavan talks about the Trump administration’s new, sweeping sanctions on the International Criminal Court, the first feeling he brings up is despair.
“These institutions, which were once sacrosanct, are besieged,” said Akhavan, a Canadian who was appointed as a special adviser on genocide at the ICC in 2021.
The United States government, in the words of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is now working to “dismantle the ICC, piece by piece.”
I’m with Trump.
No, I am not quite ready to go to war with Europe, though declaring war on France might be a great way to get cheap wine, nice vacation spots, and a pleasant visit to a declining civilization. We’d have to quell the riots first.
After all, they would surrender before the first shots were fired, so what is the downside?
Between late 2023 and early this year, Abdel Adhami allegedly transferred more than $83,000, mostly through PayPal to financial associates of a Gaza-based contact who converted the funds into Tether cryptocurrency. Court records say about $2,000 was sent directly to Gaza through Western Union to a recipient who picked up the cash in October 2023.
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Freeland must be sweating through her shirt that the Trump-Putin Diesel agreement will derail her Ukraine gravy train.
Donald Trump’s decision to import Russian fuel to the US represents a remarkable about-face from the president.
Just three weeks ago, Trump signed legislation to authorise fresh American sanctions and tariffs on nations that import Russian oil and gas.
Now, Trump says, Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel fuel to the US and world markets in the coming months.
OTTAWA – Canada signed a joint statement in support of the International Criminal Court after the United States moved to sanction the organization today.
The statement says the signatories strongly disagree with the sanctions and reaffirm their “continued and unwavering” support for the court.
Canada issued the statement jointly with Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Gotta poke the Eagle.
Michigan is a prime flip opportunity for the GOP, and it looks as if the Democrats are engaging in shenanigans to try to steal it.
Start with the motive. Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed are fighting to replace retiring two-term Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and recent polling shows the contest in a dead heat. The last two surveys that RealClearPolitics tracked put El-Sayed ahead by a single point, well inside the margin of error. Cook Political Report rates Michigan as the only Democrat-held seat in the toss-up column, in a state President Donald Trump carried in two of his three runs.
Pollsters and Republican political operatives aren’t fully buying the Democratic polling leads that project the minority party to flip the House and possibly win back the Senate, a task considered herculean at the start of the 2026 election cycle.
Heading into the weekend, polls showed Democrats holding an advantage of more than 8 points over Republicans on generic House ballots, leading most analysts to believe that the chamber will flip majorities in November.
Donald Trump agreed to buy diesel from Vladimir Putin after Volodymyr Zelensky ignored his requests to stop bombing Russian oil refineries, sources have said.
Mr Trump announced on Friday that Putin would “immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace”, followed by another 1.5 million tons before the end of the year.
The US president is facing pressure from voters over the cost of fuel before November’s midterms as diesel prices have soared around 70 per cent since he launched a war against Iran. On Friday, a gallon of diesel cost $6.28, up from $3.68 a year ago.
“… But if you think about it very quickly, Canada keeps doubling down. [Mark] Carney just won’t stop. And now he’s announced that he’s going to … The 5% trade partner is the EU, and he’s gonna have a special relationship with it, a special relationship with China that’s about, I guess, 15% or 20% of its trade, which is … We know how China treats inferior powers militarily and economically.”
A new study comparing economic performance in all of the Canadian provinces and U.S. states has found that, of the 60 jurisdictions, seven of the 10 lowest-ranking are in Canada.
The research by the Fraser Institute looked at living standards, incomes, private sector employment and labour productivity to compare the economic growth of the two countries. It found that, in every category, Canadians have fallen further behind Americans.
Just weeks after the United States commemorated the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks, a new poll reveals more than one in five undergraduate students believe America deserved the attacks, while nearly half of all undergraduate students think physical violence is justified to stop so-called hate speech.
Britain is America’s mother country. Regardless of what one may think of the once-Great Britain today, much of America’s essence sprang from that island’s political philosophy, cultural inheritance, legal tradition, and national character. Our language, common law, conception of liberty, parliamentary instincts, and stubborn individualism all trace back directly to Britain. Britain may have declined, but the DNA of its greatness lives on in us. Its decline is therefore not merely a foreign story. It is a cautionary tale written in a language we understand because we inherited it. We ignore those linkages at our peril.
President Donald Trump has announced a deal to import Russian diesel into the US, as he faces mounting pressure to bring down fuel prices.
Trump said Putin had agreed to release 300,000 tonnes of diesel immediately “to the American and global marketplace” followed by 500,000 tonnes in November and another million after that.
The move on Friday sparked anger from Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelensky, who called it a gift to Putin that amounts to “an investment in a war that must be ended, not prolonged”.
While Hamas continues its forever war against Israel following its attack on the Jewish state on October 7, 2023, often ignored is how the Trump administration is combating Hamas’ growing threat to the U.S. — namely its fundraising and its growing inspiration for terrorism in the homeland.
To that end, the Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Saleem Al-Zaq, as well as the arrests of Omar Adhami, Abdel Adhami, and Raed Yousef, for their involvement in fundraising for Hamas. Additionally, the DOJ coordinated with France to arrest three additional associates of Al-Zaq in France: Faouzi Barika, Amel Oualid, and Nordine Barika.
