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Far right and Risk of Trump Endorsement

by Oui Thu Jan 22nd, 2026 at 01:20:36 PM EST

European far-right distances itself from Trump over Venezuela and Greenland: 'Everything he touches turns to shit'

Article in De Volkskrant today ...

Far right parties losing support due to the mad men Trump and Musk 🥺

      America Is Having a Moral Convulsion

      Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our
      politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline.
      And when social trust collapses, nations fail. Can we
      get it back before it’s too late?
      -- David Brooks (2020)

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Dutch Personal Data Sold Out to Land of Trump

by Oui Thu Jan 22nd, 2026 at 04:23:24 AM EST

Just another stake through the heart of sovereignty of Europe ...

Dutch cloud firm Solvinity taken over by US IT giant Kyndryl | Dutch News |

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Wealth of the happy 1% rises to $16.1 trillion ..

Cooperation due to the joint War on Terror .. We Are United 🔥 🔥 🔥

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Wilders' One Member, Single Issue Party Hit Hard Today

by Oui Tue Jan 20th, 2026 at 07:26:33 PM EST

Morocco lost the battle of Rabat for the African Cup on Sunday ... sadness didn't last long ...

Victory for the Dutch born Moroccans in The Netherlands  as the very sad one issue, anti-Islam party of racist Geert Wilders just about split through the middle ... reduced representation in Dutch Parliament from 26 seats to 19 ... great celebration all around in the major metropolitan areas of Amsterdam - Rotterdam - The Hague and everywhere the citizens with Moroccan roots are living.

Friend of European Far Right, friendship with Donald Trump and special relationship with war criminal Bibi Netanyahu.

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International Humanitarian Law (IHL)

by Oui Tue Jan 20th, 2026 at 07:47:44 AM EST


"War is essentially an evil thing.
Its consequences are not confined to
the belligerent states alone, but affect
the whole world. To initiate a war of
aggression, therefore, is not only an
international crime; it is the supreme
international crime differing only from
other war crimes in that it contains within
itself the accumulated evil of the whole"

Basic evil in human kind often stays below the radar of daily news cycle and historical record.

Holocaust Nakam or Avengers | Posted by Oui @BooMan on 24 Jan 2018 |

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The Quiet 'Pacification' of Post-Assad Syria

by Oui Mon Jan 19th, 2026 at 11:45:41 AM EST

Joshua Landis on the United States abandoning their allies: Syria Democratic Forces (SDF).

'The goal is to destroy the Syrian Democratic Forces': Clashes break out between army and Kurds

Joshua Landis, the director of the University of Oklahoma's Centre for Middle East Studies, talks about how the Syrian military's advance across the country's north aims to end years of autonomy won by the country's Kurdish community - and why the US appears to be abandoning its former allies.

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Trump's Fury Delayed ... Wants a Decisive Strike at Mullahs

by Oui Sat Jan 17th, 2026 at 09:29:52 PM EST

Trump seeks a Shock and Awe moment to decapitate Iran's religious leadership.

Trump wants Iran's submission not a long war | The New Arab |

Bishara argued that US President Donald Trump does not seek to change the Iranian regime, but rather to subdue it and force it into making radical concessions

The Iran file and the US threat to bomb the country dominated half of Al-Araby Television's interview on Thursday evening with Azmi Bishara, Director General of the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, speaking from Lusail in Qatar.

Bishara argued that US President Donald Trump does not seek to change the Iranian regime, but rather to subdue it and force it into making radical concessions. In the interview, Bishara said Trump is determined to complete the mission he began in last summer's 12 day war on Iran, warning that Arabs have no interest in an Iranian war, nor in partition or chaos there.

On the newly formed Gaza administration committee, Bishara noted that its chances of success depend on Israeli conduct, ruling out any change in the occupation state's policy and describing what is happening in Gaza as the continuation of war at a lower intensity, alongside creeping annexation in the West Bank.

As for any forthcoming Israeli elections, which may be called early, Bishara asserted that raising Arab voter turnout in Israel is a key condition for defeating Benjamin Netanyahu and the far right.

Internationally, the new global order, in the Arab thinker's words, is now based on a division between strong and weak powers, between conservative and liberal forces, and on Trump and his team's conviction that NATO has become a burden on America. He observed that all of Trump's moves regarding Greenland are linked to dismantling the partnership with Europe.

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Trump's Wrecking Ball Ready to Strike Iran

by Oui Sat Jan 17th, 2026 at 12:44:12 AM EST

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    A view of giant banner, featuring an image of the Iranian flag and the slogan reading "Iran is our homeland, the flag is our shroud" at Enghelab Square in the capital Tehran, Iran. | TRT World |

Türkiye warns citizens in Iran to remain vigilant amid ongoing developments | Anadolu Agency |

    USS Abraham Lincoln, America's Powerful Warship Heads Toward Iran Signaling An Imminent Strike | CNN-News18 |

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Machado Out In the Cold

by Oui Fri Jan 16th, 2026 at 11:49:50 AM EST

Sky is the limit for Western hypocrisy and violation of human rights

Cuban security personnel buried back home ... brutally slaughter in Venezuelan coup d'état by U.S. Special Forces.

Urns containing the remains of Cuban soldiers killed during the US military's January 3 abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro are displayed at the armed forces ministry in Havana [Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo]

Cuba confirms death of 32 of its citizens in the US attack against Venezuela | El Pais |

The victims were military and intelligence personnel working as part of Nicolás Maduro's inner security detail, the government in Havana said in a statement

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Never Trust Any Voice of US Officials In DC

by Oui Fri Jan 16th, 2026 at 12:20:16 AM EST

Lying liars may just lay a trap for a covert attack soon ... element of surprise works miracles in drift of expansionism.

Trump claims all contacts w evil Iranian officials have been halted ...

Prologue ...

OAG Investigation Found Betar Engaged in Bias-Motivated Assaults, Threats, and Harassment Targeting Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish New Yorkers

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Canada PM Carney 4-day Visit to China

by Oui Thu Jan 15th, 2026 at 09:12:51 AM EST

China says ready to work for steady, sound ties with Canada | China Daily Asia |

China is willing to strengthen communication, enhance trust, eliminate interference, and deepen cooperation with Canada to bring bilateral relations forward on a steady and sound track in solid strides under the new circumstances, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Thursday.

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Arab Allies and World Nuclear Power Convince Trump

by Oui Thu Jan 15th, 2026 at 07:01:59 AM EST

At the behest of war criminal Netanyahu, a military strike on the Islamic State of Iran is not a wise move ...

YESTERDAY

Iran Riots - Now What Does This Mean? | MofA |

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On the Threshold of Another War In Middle East

by Oui Wed Jan 14th, 2026 at 08:54:25 PM EST

As the greatest war machine the world has seen, readies for another brutal attack on a dwarf without nuclear arms 🔥 people will die and the goal and end are uncertain ... economic sancties led to civil unrest and violence.

Pro-government rally held in front of British embassy in Tehran

Qatar Al Udeid Air Base On High Alert

Qatar says some personnel departing US-run Al Udeid Air Base in response to 'current regional tensions' | The Hill |

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On the Verge of World War III

by Oui Wed Jan 14th, 2026 at 12:40:49 AM EST

[Update-1]

As the greatest war machine the world has seen, readies for another brutal attack on a dwarf without nuclear arms 🔥 people will die and the goal and end are uncertain … economic sanctions led to hardship, civil unrest and violence.

Pro-government rally held in front of British embassy in Tehran

Losing the fight of regime change, Trump becomes more aggressive and throws punches in all corners of the ring.

Iran has blocked Elon Musk's Starlink communication that angers American interventionists in operation to overthrow the Mullah's of Tehran. War rhetoric in high gear as never before.

    Trump issues 'Stark Warning' to Iranian regime: 'All options' on the table

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Trump 2.0 Implements Policy Construct of Trump 1.0

by Oui Tue Jan 13th, 2026 at 11:22:55 PM EST

The idiocy has no border except his own evil 👿 conscience he calls "morals" .. Europeans manifest one another as apologists for American fascism. The new role of actors in character of British prime minister Chamberlain.

America On Path to Break-up the European Union | 21 May 2018 |

Very much the theme of the AngloSaxon conservatives joined by the alt-right across the Western world ... once again warmongering coming out of the Pentagon, White House and the National Security Council under leadership of neocon John Bolton.

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NATO Rutte Meets Renew Europe Group

by Oui Tue Jan 13th, 2026 at 03:29:19 PM EST

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    On Tuesday 13 January 2026, the NATO Secretary General, Mr Mark Rutte, will address the Renew Europe Global Europe Forum 2026 at the European Parliament.

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Throwing Iranians Under the Bus of Capitalism

by Oui Tue Jan 13th, 2026 at 10:02:04 AM EST

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    Iran in 2025: Attacks, sanctions and a nation under strain | Al Jazeera - 27 Dec 2025 |

From nuclear negotiations with the West to economic struggles at home, and an unprecedented Israeli strike, 2025 shook Iran on every front. Its effects continue to unfold, influencing diplomacy, daily life, and critical decisions yet to be made.

My recent diary ...

Severe Drought In Tehran, Iran | 2 Dec 2025 |

Trump Pulls US Out Of Dozens Of International Organisations
| Dawn News English | Dawn News - 6 Jan 2026 |

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Founding of NATO and Double Containment

by Oui Mon Jan 12th, 2026 at 09:50:46 PM EST

NATO's Original Purpose: Double Containment of the Soviet Union and "Resurgent" Germany | National Archives |

    Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson. He was a key figure in the creation of the North Atlantic alliance and the effort to bring West Germany into a Western European community. (Photo taken at Acheson's office in 1950, from collection of Harry S. Truman Library, accession number 85-63).

French Told U.S. that West Germany Could Join NATO
as Long as There Was "No Independent Wehrmacht"

State Department Intelligence Saw NATO as a "Place" to
Help West Germany "Satisfy its Reasonable Aspirations
and Contain any Potential Unreasonable Ones"

In the Fall  of 1966, as part of an ongoing debate about the U.S. troop presence in Western Europe and the role of NATO during the Cold War, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara sent an illuminating memo to President Lyndon B. Johnson to explain the political reasons for keeping U.S. troops in Europe.  The rationales, he wrote, were to maintain NATO's "cohesion," to prevent Soviet "political blackmail," to deter "any bilateral Soviet-FRG [Federal Republic of Germany] security agreement," and to discourage "the revival of German militarism," according to a collection of previously classified documents published today for the first time by the National Security Archive.

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Axis of Evil :: London - Tel Aviv - New York

by Oui Mon Jan 12th, 2026 at 09:16:29 AM EST

Today's chilling headlines as war sentiment rises across several continents.

See recent diaries ...

Not so long ago ... the imminent risk of nuclear strikes

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AI In Support Regime Change w Images/Fakes

by Oui Sun Jan 11th, 2026 at 06:17:39 PM EST

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Starlink Key In Colour Revolutions

by Oui Sun Jan 11th, 2026 at 08:16:29 AM EST

 
THE EYE IN THE SKY

The Tech Colony Complex: Silicon Valley a Proxy State Orchestrating Regime Change In Iran

21st Century Wire

In Tehran, the streets are tense, the internet is down in many places. In a bid to try and stem a foreign-backed destabilisation operation, Iranian government has imposed a nationwide blackout, cutting citizens off from information, communication, and the outside world. Yet while state authorities scramble to maintain control, Silicon Valley quietly undermines sovereignty. Smuggled Starlink terminals from SpaceX beam uncensored internet into homes and streets, letting protesters livestream events, coordinate actions, and access unblocked platforms, a lifeline aligned with U.S. and Israel strategic objectives. This is not philanthropy. It is corporate-enabled geopolitical intervention.

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Alcibiades
by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer

Alcibiades (ca. 450-404 BCE) lived during turbulent times when the city-states of Athens and Sparta were at war. He grew up as a member of the privileged elite in Athens. At a young age he grew influential within the democratic assembly that met on the Pnyx. As the resident consul for Sparta he forged important diplomatic relationships.


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