Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, tweeted that German generals were “called to a surprise assembly in Berlin” in 1935 and “required to swear a personal oath to the Führer,” the defense secretary responded with sarcasm. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Putin returns Trump's favor t.co/g9Smvgnt5L

Beijing's greenwashing of the South China Sea https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/beijing-s-greenwashing-of-the-south-china-sea

Errol Musk has been accused of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren since 1993, a Times investigation found.

My God, who are these people. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

There is strike in Italy. Everything is on standstill. The entire country is idle in solidarity with PALESTINE 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 The Muslim countries, recognizing Israel, have yet to severe their diplomatic and trade relations. apnews.com/article/ital...

People in Trump’s favor can make a lot of money from their proximity to power. On the other, Richard Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell, served 19 months in prison for his crimes during Watergate. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

hich adversary wants chaos in Europe by using the capability to exploit single-point failure in its vital systems? # Russia, currently heating up the temp on NATO over Ukraine # Iran, facing imminent snapback invoked by E3 after spectacular humiliation at the hand of Israel

The facility in China that Trump was almost certainly referring to is Beijing’s nuclear test range Lop Nur, in Xinjiang region. “The flight distance from Lop Nur to Bagram is 2,000km and a modern Chinese jet fighter could cover that distance in one hour.” www.ft.com/content/9652...

The risk of conflict escalation is a major concern, and if a legally binding instrument to regulate autonomous weapons systems is not forthcoming, Pakistan prefers to match the autonomous weapons abilities of India, its geopolitical rival. www.armscontrol.org/act/2024-11/...

Critically, the @Jerusalem_Post has come to understand that Mossad director David Barnea views the role that female Mossad agents played during the Israel-Iran war as very substantial. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

The Assad regime bargained its prisoners for abducted infants of Syrians incarcerated for speaking out for their rights. SOS facilitated the infant snatching. Asma Assad supervised the dark orphanages. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

The UN Security Council condemned the strike, but didn’t mention Israel in the statement agreed to by all 15 members, including the US. Israel’s arsenal of air-launched ballistic missiles was disclosed in U.S. intelligence documents leaked in 2024. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Moscow wants to take back the S-400 air defense systems it sold to Turkey in 2019, aiming to resell them to other countries. Turkey, which paid $2.5B for two systems, never integrated them into NATO, while the missiles are already halfway through their shelf life and require costly maintenance.

“I’m not looking at the polls too carefully, but it would look like he’s going to win,” Mr. Trump, a Republican, said of Mr. Mamdani. “And that’s a rebellion. It’s also a rebellion against bad candidates.” www.pressreader.com/usa/the-new-...

"At stake is the question of whether Einsteinian gravity, which shapes the larger universe, plays by the same rules as quantum mechanics, the paradoxical laws that prevail inside the atom." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/s...

Dalia Lama was also friends with Jeffrey Epstein

Mandelson resigned from government in 1998 over an undeclared loan from a millionaire Labour Party donor to buy a house. He resigned again in 2001 after allegations that he used his position in government to influence a passport application for an Indian. www.wsj.com/world/uk/bri...

Pigs might fly www.eurasiareview.com/10092025-ass...

How brave of them to silence a wall. 👎🏼🇬🇧

Gianni Berengo Gardin made his first pictures with his mother’s old-fashioned Ica Halloh, before it was confiscated during the Nazi occupation in 1943. (“I went out to take photographs just because I liked to disobey!” he remembered.) www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...

After the Saudi exit, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the Export-Import Bank of the US, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, and Export Development Canada have collectively pledged $6b in Reko Diq cooper & gold mine. asia.nikkei.com/business/mat...

Azeri AF MiG-29s in Ukraine's defence against Russian invasion www.twz.com/air/ukraine-...

Exclusivity is a cheap trick. Transparency's good for everyone. William Langewiesche in American Ground: Unbluilding the World Trade Center "It's been suggested that I must be glad to be the only writer with free access to the inner world of WTC site but the opposite's true."

The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.

Modi finds no exit from his Trump imbroglio [The NYT story sidesteps Pakistan and Trump's assertion of India's half dozen fighter jet losses.] www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/u...

Nickle on the grass to the spirit, enthusiasm, sacrifice and courage of Major SLAB. #polishf16

Iran's case against snapback is set to cloud the SCO Summit. Tehran'd attempt to get a condemnation. In reality, the regime has 30 days to negotiate deal on the mechanism to comply with its obligations to IAEA monitoring and inspections. The bloc faces its first challenge.

As for Putin’s vaunted “super weapons”, their performance has been unimpressive to say the least. The supposedly unstoppable Kinzhal – nothing more than an air-launched version of the 1980s Iskander – turned out to be quite stoppable by the Patriot. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

In the 1980s, the former Soviet Union helped India, which launched its first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine in 2009. With Russia’s support, North Korea will be able to build them. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The rising demand for ICE Air transport is proving lucrative to private charter airlines like GlobalX and the budget airline Avelo, which are making millions of dollars from the flights — and sometimes reversing otherwise dire corporate financial straits. ig.ft.com/us-deportati...

Caterpillar’s D9 bulldozers were being used in the “unlawful destruction of Palestinian property” on the West Bank and in Gaza www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Describing osmotic power as “a next-generation renewable energy source that is not affected by weather or time of day and emits no carbon dioxide,” the agency framed the start-up as a step toward round-the-clock clean electricity. interestingengineering.com/energy/asias...

In Israel, hundred of thousands take to the street opposing Netanyahu's planned military campaign in Gaza City and demanding that he accept the hostage release deal already accepted by Hamas. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/m...

“I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

“Asking help from a chatbot, you’re going to get empathy but you’re not going to get help.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

Orange-ification is trending in the animal kingdom too. www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/ar...

Iran, Hezbollah and Russia's lasting legacy of pain on Syrians www.thetimes.com/article/99ad...

Sea drones, or Unmanned Surface Vehicles, have transformed the war in the Black Sea and the rivers that flow into it. And the technology that controls the vessels is becoming more sophisticated

#SlavaUkraini Keep fighting for sovereignty and freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzhZ...

✈️For two days in a row, Russia conducted electronic and optical reconnaissance of Alaska using an Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft. 🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/russ...

The white cat is blind and has a best friend, a black cat, who is always by its side to guide it.

hina's another blatant copy of nextgen American advanced helicopter will certainly fuel cyber-espionage and IP-theft woes www.twz.com/air/sikorsky...

Based on analyzing historic NATO operations alongside doctrine for counterair missions, we estimate that it will take 40–160 aircraft to protect the skies of Ukraine during a ceasefire and peace process. www.csis.org/analysis/how...

The refiner's, part-owned by Russian Rosneft PJSC, 400,000 barrels-a-day processing plant accounts for 8% of the India's refining, and the company operates 7% of its fuel stations. It’s hit by EU’s measures targeting Moscow’s oil revenues. gcaptain.com/indias-nayar...

"This is the first time she has heard of naval mortgages being used in this way. It shows the increasing boldness of these networks, operating in the grey zones between maritime law, finance and geopolitics.” India Iran Russia www.ft.com/content/19ce...

Trump might not be hero and producers of his new reality show. He does not care as long as he believes that he is. The Epstein saga is a hanging the sword of Damocles he is trying to escape. Michael Wolff et al won't be quite.

"#Russia|n oil made up less than 1 per cent of #India’s crude imports. Since then, daily imports have soared to more than 1.5mn barrels — more than 30 per cent of India’s total," writes Peter Navarro, Trump's Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing. www.ft.com/content/2861...

Nonetheless, the question remains if Ukraine and Europe are ready to ever-betraying postwar US www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Around 200 million people were without food for weeks, says Jose Andre of World Central Kitchen from Palestine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_y...