Trump decided to go to war with Iran largely under pressure from outside allies like Benjamin Netanyahu and Rupert Murdoch, while his own advisers offered little direct opposition.
Source: Bloomberg
The revelations in the Epstein files are beyond a leftist fever dream of how elites work.
The CEO of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, was using a paedophile financier as an intermediary to...stop a bankers bonus tax.
When the call happened Dimon threateded Chancellor Darling. Gangsterism.
My piece in Tribune this week on Trump’s New World Order 👇 Too many leaders think Trump’s crazy. This is dangerous. Trump, rather, wants to tear down the pillars of the old world order and create a new one 🧵
https://t.co/6RvP5sDP40
WOW!!!
Never thought we would hear this level of honesty from a Western leader, and certainly not Canada, given the direction of Canada in the past 25 years. Canada's shift towards multialignment is quite clear - and this level of honesty from Carney on Western "fiction" about the old order will be warmly welcomed in much of the Global South:
"We knew that the story about the rules-based order was partially false... We knew that international law applied with varying rigour depending on the identity of the accused and the victim. This fiction was useful [because of the goods provided by American hegemony]... So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination."
Reporter: What did you mean by the new world order?
Carney: The architecture, the multilateral system is being eroded—undercut. The question is what gets built in its place...
This is the perhaps best illustration that Trump's new "Monroe doctrine" is objectively achieving the exact opposite of what it intends. https://t.co/nZpR1Ul0lv
Carney is currently in Beijing describing a "new era of relations between Canada and China" and explicitly talking about both countries becoming "strategic partners" on a comprehensive range of issues, including "issues on security."
There is no overstating how extraordinary this is to anyone who's followed Canada-China relations in the past few years. Canada was probably THE country globally most aligned with the U.S. when it comes to China.
As a reminder they literally abducted the daughter of Huawei's founder on the U.S.'s behalf and held her hostage for years despite severe Chinese retaliation - all in service of Washington's containment strategy.
So for all intents and purposes Canada used to actually embody the Monroe Doctrine in practice: they were all-in on the US! And now Trump has achieved the extraordinary feat of changing that calculus, impressing upon Canada that HE was the threat and that they needed to hedge their US exposure.
I mean, imagine telling anyone during the Meng Wanzhou episode that 4 years later Canada would be in Beijing, asking them for a strategic partnership on security matters while America threatens to annex it 😅
Lowest London murder rate in a decade, after significant decline. taking into account population, since records like this began in 2003
At 1.1 in 100k one of the safest major cities in the globe, safer than all big American cities, & every single US State https://t.co/klGSh3Qf9b
Il existait mille raisons de condamner le régime de Nicolas Maduro : communiste, oligarchique et autoritaire, il faisait peser sur son peuple, depuis de trop longues années, une chape de plomb qui a plongé des millions de Vénézuéliens dans la misère - quand il ne les contraignait pas à l'exil.
Mais il existe une raison fondamentale pour s'opposer au changement de régime que les États-Unis viennent de provoquer au Venezuela. La souveraineté des États n'est jamais négociable, quelle que soit leur taille, quelle que soit leur puissance, quel que soit leur continent. Elle est inviolable et sacrée.
Renoncer à ce principe aujourd'hui pour le Venezuela, pour n'importe quel État, reviendrait à accepter demain notre propre servitude. Ce serait donc un péril mortel, alors que le 21e siècle est déjà le théâtre de bouleversements géopolitiques majeurs qui font planer sur l'humanité le risque permanent de la guerre et du chaos.
Il ne nous reste plus qu'à espérer, face à cette situation, que la parole soit rendue au plus tôt au peuple vénézuélien. C'est à lui que doit revenir le pouvoir de définir, souverainement et librement, le futur qu'il souhaite se donner en tant que Nation.
Ahmed, you are an Australian hero.
You put yourself at risk to save others, running towards danger on Bondi Beach and disarming a terrorist.
In the worst of times, we see the best of Australians. And that's exactly what we saw on Sunday night.
On behalf of every Australian, I say thank you.
I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk.
That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves will apply 20% VAT on all private hire rides such as Uber or Bolt from January
Firms had warned this "taxi tax" will push fares up by around 15%
#Budget
Before #Budget2026 is announced @yanisvaroufakis raises a very good point on @Econoclasts, it is currently estimated that the Bank of England quantitive tightening policy is costing the budget around £25 bn to £50 bn per year. Its maddness no one is challenging this!
NEW: 93 murders in London (pop: ~9m) in 12 months to October.
The city's murder rate is now lowest for decades; perhaps centuries. https://t.co/T0o7Q0bgVw