Open Source America

Independent in-depth coverage & analysis of current geopolitical & strategic developments.

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🇺🇸 | Brett Scrogham, a 23-year-old recent graduate from Indiana University, was shot and killed while on the way to watch a baseball game in Indianapolis with his family by a “14-year-old boy” who has not had his name released to the public.

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🇺🇸 | The Indian Candidate of the Governor of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy, said he’ll refuse to work with Democrats or put them in his cabinet.

In response, her opponent Dr. Amy Acton has promised to create a bipartisan cabinet if elected governor.

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🇦🇲🇺🇸 | Massive gathering of Armenia’s leading opposition force.

Armenia’s current Prime Minister, whose tenure saw the end of the Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic, has led the country for over 8 years and was recently endorsed by Trump.

Will Trump’s endorsement prove fatal for Pashinyan, as it did for Orbán in Hungary?

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 | BREAKING: US CENTCOM:
U.S. forces successfully defeated multiple Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, and conducted self-defense strikes on Qeshm Island in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East.

Iran launched several ballistic missiles toward regional neighbors; however, all failed to hit their intended targets. Two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait fell short or broke apart enroute, and three missiles launched at Bahrain were immediately intercepted by U.S. and Bahrain air defense forces.

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🇬🇧 | Pakistani Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood commends the police’s response in Southampton and claims the protesters are hijacking Nowak’s death to further “division, hatred, or tension.”

She then proceeds to threaten the protesters with a declaration to punish them “with the full force of the law.”

Mahmood has also voted against a national inquiry into the Muslim rape gangs in Britain last year, and now promises to wield the state to punish British protesters rioting after the murder of Henry Nowak, on behalf of a foreigner and the British state.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸🇰🇼🇧🇭 | Iran's IRGC says the attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain were in response to the US attacks on Qeshm Island in the Gulf earlier today.

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🇮🇷🇮🇶 | BREAKING: Reports that the Iranian air force bombed Kurdish positions in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan.

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🇮🇷🇰🇼 | More missile launches from Darab, Fars province, Iran, moments ago.

Sirens in Kuwait activated again.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼 | BREAKING: Iran targeted both Ali Al-Salem Air Base and Camp Arifjan in a single attack.

The US and Iran have been exchanging small-scale strikes over Qeshm Island and Kuwait in recent days - a decision by the IRGC to one-up American strikes on Qeshm.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼 | BREAKING: Ballisyic missile launches towards Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti Army confirms they are intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks.

The attack comes after reports of explosions in Iran’s Qeshm island.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼 | BREAKING: Ballisyic missile launches towards Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait.

The Kuwaiti Army confirms they are intercepting hostile missile and drone attacks.

The attack comes after reports of explosions in Iran’s Qeshm island.

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🇬🇧 | The bodycam footage of the officer who responded and detained a dying Henry Nowak has been released.

The officer dragged Nowak away from a wall, briefly searched him, and detained him after his Sikh attacker, Vikrum Digwa, claimed he'd been racially attacked.

A female officer then searched Nowak as he bled out in police custody.

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🇩🇪 | In Kevelaer, western Germany, a class was given the assignment titled, “Brothel for All,” in which the 13-15 year old students would simulate operating an “inclusive brothel.”

Questions such as “How do sexual preferences need to be served and addressed in the rooms?” were intended for students to complete and discuss afterward. - WDR.

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🇺🇦 | “Mixing Ukrainians and Indians is our path; Ukrainians can become métis (mixed-race people),” says the head of the Ukrainian Office of Migration Policy, Voskoboynik.

“The main thing is that the people who come to us pay taxes and become part of our political nation,” he added.

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🇺🇸 | Thomas Massie:
“I would have come out sooner, but I had to call my opponent and concede, and it took a while to find Ed Gallein in Tel Aviv.”

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 | Ed Gallrein has defeated Representative Thomas Massie in the Kentucky 4th Congressional District primary in a major win for Israel and Trump.

This was the most expensive House primary in American history totaling close to $33 million in campaign spending alongside normal payments to zionist and pro-Trump influencers.

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🇮🇹 | At least eight injured in car ramming in Italian city of Modena

The North African Muslim driver was arrested after deliberately driving into pedestrians and stabbing a bystander who tried to stop him.

The Italian PM Giorgia Meloni condemned the terror attack in Modena, Italy, but did not mention the Muslim North African attacker

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🇮🇷🇦🇪 | The Telegraph:
“Trump administration officials are encouraging the United Arab Emirates to get more heavily involved in the Iran war and seize one of Tehran’s crucial Gulf islands–the Lavan Island.”

The United Arab Emirates maintains longstanding claims to three islands currently administered by Iran: Abumusa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb.

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🇮🇱 | A large explosion took place in Beit Shemesh, Israel.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told 60 Minutes that he has told the Trump administration that he plans to end American military aid to Israel and wishes for the processes to begin now.

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🇮🇷🇦🇲 | Iran is using Armenian Christian heritage to project an image of “tolerance,” while referring to the Saint Thaddeus Monastery by its Turkish nickname and omitting its Armenian origins.

The same has happened with the Vank Cathedral in Isfahan, which is frequently portrayed simply as an Iranian cultural landmark while its Armenian roots and community are omitted.