Today is war criminal Barack Obama’s birthday.
In 2009, Haiti’s🇭🇹 parliament passed a significant minimum wage increase to around $5 per day improve conditions for its working class.
Obama intervened to force Haiti to keep the minimum wage at $0.31 per hour. His administration was concerned that the minimum wage increase to the poverty wage of $5 a day would raise costs for US companies sourcing garments from Haiti.
Zelenskyy has attacked an Iranian commercial vessel, killing a sailor. A blatant UN Charter violation done at Israel's behest to drag Europe into its war.
In calls with EU High Rep Kallas and FM Lavrov, made clear that what the freeloader in Kyiv did CANNOT GO UNANSWERED.
BREAKING: The UAE has reportedly entered the war against Iran directly, launching Yabhon Loitering kamikaze drone at Bandar Abbas in its first known use of the weapon in the conflict, per Iranian media.
A major Iranian escalation is now increasingly likely. Iran's IRGC has specifically threatened to strike the UAE's Fujairah energy corridor before.
Today's footage over Iran's Bandar Abbas:
*On the Context of Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré’s 26 June 2026 reception welcoming H.E. Simon-Clément Seroussi, who holds the title of “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Israel to Burkina Faso”*
The widely circulated photograph evinces a relationship that currently consists of ceremonial meetings and regional ambassadorship roles. “Israel’s” ambassador in question, Seroussi, is a resident ambassador in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and a non-resident ambassador to Burkina Faso, Benin, and Togo. The “Israeli” embassy page confirms Seroussi’s title as ambassador in Côte d’Ivoire; his own public profile says the post also covers Togo, Benin, and Burkina Faso. The 26 June 2026 event was a credential-presentation ceremony for a new ambassador. In December 2023, Traoré also received credentials from “Israel’s” then-new ambassador Rony Yedidia Clein, resident in Abidjan. (Rony Yedidia Clein likewise was ambassador to Côte d’Ivoire and also accredited to Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo. She presented credentials in Burkina Faso in December 2023, and in Togo in August 2023.)
Diplomatic histories evince that Burkina Faso’s diplomatic relations were inaugurated in 1961 and were severed in October 1973. Under President Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana, Burkina Faso, then Upper Volta, broke diplomatic relations with “Israel” following the October Arab-“Israeli” War/“Yom Kippur War.” They were re-established in October 1993 (on the heels of the Oslo Accords’ “Oslo I,” signed that September) by Blaise Compaoré, after the CIA-backed coup against Sankara. Currently, “Israel” has no resident embassy in Burkina Faso. The Israeli ambassador is based in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and concurrently accredited to Burkina Faso, Togo, and Benin. “Israel’s” MFA page confirms Seroussi’s concurrent accreditation. In both Seroussi and Clein’s case, the ambassadors have lived in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
It is worth noting that, in its 9 October 2023 article title “Israel’s ‘Shin Bet’ Diplomacy in West Africa,” the “Africa Intelligence” outlet reported on “Israel’s” West Africa strategy, writing that “The Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ronen Levi aka ‘Maoz’ is turning the institution into a more strategic tool,” seeking to integrate security apparatuses into the Sahel region via such channels. Africa Intelligence reports that Traoré approved Seroussi’s position, warily noting that “Israel” seems to beinstrumentalizing the relationship to facilitate a counterweight to Burkina Faso’s rapprochement with Iran. I have not found evidence that there is reason to think that intelligence-gathering inroads have been made in Burkina Faso.
Re: Palestine, Traoré himself has not made outright public statements that I have found. Ousmane Bougouma—President of the Transitional Legislative Assembly, who has been entrusted to represent Traoré as head of state abroad, including at the November 2024 Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh—has, however. At the summit in Riyadh, on 11 November 2024, Sidwaya reported him as representing the official Burkina Faso position of “working toward a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” (translation mine).
Under Traoré, Burkina Faso’s UN record is generally pro-Palestine when it votes, though it has abstained on some Gaza-related resolutions. It was non-voting on A/RES/ES-10/21, UN Digital Library record 4025240, and A/RES/ES-10/22, record 4029732. It voted yes on Palestine’s UN status resolution A/RES/ES-10/23, record 4046991, and on the ICJ occupation advisory-opinion resolution A/RES/ES-10/24, record 4061432. It also voted yes on the Gaza ceasefire resolution A/RES/ES-10/26, record 4069197, but was non-voting on the UNRWA mandate resolution A/RES/ES-10/25, record 4069198. In 2025, it voted yes on the New York Declaration decision A/DEC/80/506, record 4088074, and on Palestine participation at the eightieth session, A/RES/80/1, record 4088513.
🚨 BREAKING: The official website of Somaliland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been taken offline after being compromised in a cyberattack.
Authorities have temporarily taken the site down while technical teams work to contain the incident, repel the attack, and restore services securely. An investigation into the breach is ongoing, and official updates are expected once more information becomes available.
This is a developing story.
This is genuinely shocking, and says so much about our approach to China.
I decided to check for independent reviews of the English version Xi Jinping's latest book, published a year ago, to see what people had to say about it since I hadn't read it myself.
To my surprise, I couldn't find any: not a single thoughtful review about the book out there! Even on Amazon, check it for yourself (https://t.co/1LVlhACA53): the book has only 3 ratings, that's it.
No matter where you stand on China, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty crazy: the sitting president of the world's rising superpower publishes a 700-page book explaining exactly what he's doing and why, and we don’t even care to look.
If there ever was a fact that illustrates just how willfully ignorant we are about China, this is it.
All the more because we then go spew the usual clichés around how secretive and impenetrable the Chinese system is: the book is on Amazon for $21 for crying out loud!
Anyhow, this felt so wrong that I figured I'd fix it. I bought the book, read it attentively and wrote what I hope you'll agree is a thoughtful review of it.
The book contains genuinely surprising passages, such as Xi writing that oversight of the Communist Party by "the judiciary, the public, and the media" was not just something the Party must “readily accept,” but something that he framed as historically decisive - an essential component to "escaping the historical cycle of rise and fall" that has doomed every dynasty in China's history.
Other passage that I'm sure would surprise many: a common narrative out there is that China blames the West for the century of humiliation and is driven by revenge. Well, Xi explains that's not true at all: the century of humiliation was China's own mistake, originated in the Ming Dynasty's disastrous "policy of national seclusion" that "resulted in China missing out on the opportunities presented by the Industrial Revolution" and "led to China’s decline."
All in all, the book is remarkably self-reflective and thoughtful. For instance Xi recognizes that his drive for “full and rigorous internal governance” - including to rid the Party of corruption - risked "instill[ing] fear and apprehension, or intimidate members into inaction.” He emphasizes the need for pragmatism in this regard, codified in a framework called the “Three Distinctions” that separates honest mistakes - made while experimenting, reforming, or operating without precedent - from deliberate violations committed for personal gain.
And many other surprises still. I found it a genuinely fascinating read for anyone interested in how the Chinese system works and how Xi thinks - or anyone interested in governance, period, as so much of what he writes is pretty universally applicable.
This is the link to my review of the book, an article I titled "The Book the West Refuses to Read": https://t.co/DYowWEESOd
FGS has been lobbying for somaliland since 2018 When Bashir Goth came
For 8 years FGS has not mentioned Somaliland's June 26 sovereignty in any of their lobbying Letters to the U.S government
And Bashir Goth refers to SL as defacto (gooni goosad)
This is deliberate sabotage
@Abdirahmanirro@Huseindeyr@ChrisLandauUSA@somalilandmfa@SenatorRisch@tedcruz@CENTCOM
🇷🇺🇺🇦 On command from Brussels, the Kiev regime attempted to disrupt the Economic Forum in St. Peterburg.
This is no retaliation, it was planned ahead, the bordering nation of Estonia and Latvia were used in this attack on the Leningrad region.
All drones shot down except a few which made their way to the oil facilities/port. Damage minimal with the fire being extinguished.
Every US war is never the US' fault.
It's always a "blunder"
Or "we were lied to"
Or "it's Israel"
The great myth of American innocence and exceptionalism
Jared Kushner says he will bring wealth, power, and status only to countries that join the Abraham Accords.
Kushner says he will create "economic packages" to encourage countries that have not joined the Abraham Accords to join.
Kushner says he has his sights set on Morocco and Syria next.
"We are looking at opportunities to invest in countries that have joined the Abraham Accords."
"Leaders who join the Abraham Accords show they are thinking about the future."
@SufiEritrean Justice is a fundamental part of Islam. You cannot talk about justice without talking about truth. Al haqq is one of the names of Allah which means The Eternal Truth. All of creation was created 'in truth', and Daud was instructed to establish the first caliphate 'in truth'.
The cost of Hajj for 11,000 Somali pilgrims inside the country reached about $55 million 💵. If we add what Somalis in the diaspora spend as well, the total could reach $110 million.
At a time when many Somalis 🇸🇴 are struggling, imagine if even part of that money was used to build modern hospitals for the poor or provide homes for displaced families (IDPs).