Boos erupted as the Iranian national anthem played before Iran's World Cup opener against New Zealand at SoFi Stadium.
Outside, fans protested FIFA’s ban on the pre-1979 Lion and Sun flag. Inside, supporters clashed over flags while many cheered the players — separating the team from the government.
#IranWorldCup #WorldCup2026 #US
To understand Cuba’s crisis, you must understand how the US has viewed Latin America for nearly 200 years, not as sovereign neighbors, but as its own backyard.
From the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 (“Europe stay out”) to the aggressive Roosevelt Corollary of 1904 (“Washington can step in”), America has justified interventions with changing excuses: protection, stability, anti-communism, drugs, democracy, and now great power competition with China & Russia.
#MonroeDoctrine #LatinAmerica #USBackyard #Cuba #BananaRepublics #RooseveltCorollary #USIntervention
Cuba is plunged into darkness again — massive power cuts, food, fuel, and water shortages are tearing the island apart.
Washington calls it "sanctions for freedom," Havana calls it a blockade.
What do you think?
#Cuba#CubaCrisis#Blackout#USSanctions#CubaEmbargo#USBlockade #LatinAmerica #TrumpCuba #EnergyCrisis
UFC Middleweight Champ Sean Strickland crashed the UFC Freedom 250 bout infront of the White House and boy was it a doozy.
Cops quickly swarmed in on him and he was charded with disorderly conduct (although he doesn't know what that means - but said it sounds cool).
People have speculated that is it because of his comments against Trump's handling of Israel and a certain group of files.
#UFC #UFCFREEDOM250 #UFC250 #SeanStrickland
Cuba is plunged into darkness again — massive power cuts, food, fuel, and water shortages are tearing the island apart.
Washington calls it "sanctions for freedom," Havana calls it a blockade.
What do you think?
#Cuba#CubaCrisis#Blackout#USSanctions#CubaEmbargo#USBlockade #LatinAmerica #TrumpCuba #EnergyCrisis
Reactions pour in after Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to 35 years for the murder of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco, Texas track meet. Rep. Jasmine Crockett claims Black women live in "fear and agony every day" something the Metcalf family "probably never felt."
Another supporter said "I got five boys... I don't know what to tell them."
One woman screams outside the courthouse: "Where you white people at?!"
This case has ignited a massive race debate online, further dividing America. Is justice being twisted into racism?
#KarmeloAnthony #AustinMetcalf #JasmineCrockett #TexasVerdict #RaceDebate
Karmelo Anthony has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted of fatally stabbing 17-year-old Austin Metcalf at a Texas track meet. His representative called the sentence a “legal lynching”
#KarmeloAnthony#AustinMetcalf#Texas
Protests have broken out in Belfast following a shocking attack by a Sudanese man, leading to violent unrest overnight despite police appeals for calm.
Where do you stand?
#Belfast#Belfastunrest#Belfastprotest
Shih Hsin University President told master's and PhD graduates to "end it already" if they struggle in their careers because "this world no longer needs you."
#GraduationSpeech#UniversityControversy#TaiwanNews
The Shatt al-Arab — a single vital river — has shaped centuries of rivalry between Iraq and Iran. In this first part of the series, we explore the deep historical roots of one of the most devastating conflicts in modern history.
From the Ottoman-Persian Wars and the Treaty of Zuhab (1639), through European colonial meddling, the 1937 Treaty, and the pivotal 1975 Algiers Agreement, this waterway became far more than a border — it became a symbol of power, oil wealth, and national pride.
#Iraq #Iran #IranWar
Shatt al-Arab is the river that shaped centuries of war in the Middle East.
For over 500 years, the border between Iraq and Iran has been a battlefield of empires.
#Iraq#Iran#History#MiddleEastHistory#PersianGulf
Why Russians are Hollywood’s default villain for 80 Years?
Hollywood made a decision decades ago: the Russian accent is the sound of the villain… and it’s stuck for 80 years.
It started in the Cold War. Soviets became the perfect bad guys — ideologically opposite, no risk of racism accusations, and everyone could agree they were evil. James Bond fought Russian villains in every film from 1963–1987. Boris and Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle basically created the template: emotionless, heavyset, grey coat, zero smile.
#Hollywood #Russians #USSR
The green energy “utopia” is a blood myth. While the West pushes net zero, EVs, and “clean” tech, the real cost is hidden in Africa.
Congo dominates global cobalt. Zimbabwe and Nigeria are in chaotic lithium rushes.
#GreenEnergyMyth#BloodBatteries#ChildLabor#CobaltMining
The “clean green future” is built on child labor in Africa. Human rights groups have documented the horror: Children as young as 10 working 12-hour shifts carrying heavy toxic rocks, breathing deadly dust, and washing ore in contaminated water.
Families send their kids into dangerous hand-dug pits because extreme poverty leaves them no choice.
#ChildLabor #CobaltMining #LithiumMining #EVExposed #GreenEnergyMyth
The “Green Energy Utopia” you see in ads hides a nightmare in Africa.
The Democratic Republic of Congo produces most of the world’s cobalt. Zimbabwe and Nigeria are in the middle of a chaotic lithium rush.
But there’s almost zero regulation, safety, or infrastructure.
#CobaltMining #LithiumMining #DRCongo #ArtisanalMining #EVTruth
The “Green Revolution” looks futuristic in ads… but the reality is a blood myth.
Western governments push net zero and electric cars while ignoring the dirty truth: lithium and cobalt mining in Africa, often under horrific 19th-century conditions.
#GreenEnergy#ElectricCars #EVTruth #LithiumMining #CobaltMining
After WWII, Stalin literally redrew Poland’s map.
The Soviet Union pushed the Oder-Neisse line, giving Poland rich German lands: all of Silesia, most of Pomerania, and parts of East Prussia. Poland lost the east but gained much more valuable territory.
#PolandUSSR #OderNeisse #PolishHistory #HiddenHistory
Think Poland was always the innocent victim in the 20th century?
Right after 1918, the new Polish Republic attacked eastward. In 1920, Piłsudski launched the Kiev Offensive to seize western Ukraine and Belarus. Poland took massive territories in the Treaty of Riga.
#PolishSovietWar #KievOffensive #PolishHistory
History tells a different story from Poland playing the "eternal victim crushed by Russia"
At the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander I personally created the Kingdom of Poland and gave it one of the most liberal constitutions in Europe — its own parliament, army, currency, courts, and freedoms that Poles never had under their own kings.
#PolandRussia #PolishHistory #RussiaPoland #HistoricalTruth
History tells a different story from Poland playing the "eternal victim crushed by Russia"
At the Congress of Vienna, Tsar Alexander I personally created the Kingdom of Poland and gave it one of the most liberal constitutions in Europe — its own parliament, army, currency, courts, and freedoms that Poles never had under their own kings.
#PolandRussia #PolishHistory #RussiaPoland #HistoricalTruth