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Trump Can Still Help Ukraine Declare Victory Over Russia

by Con Coughlin  •  July 16, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Trump's change of heart on Ukraine is not only welcome, it could prove vital to improving Ukraine's hopes of ultimately emerging victorious from the conflict, not least because Trump's recent decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities has demonstrated America's willingness to use its overwhelming military superiority when required.

  • At the same time, the ease with which US and Israeli warplanes were able to penetrate Iran's Russian-made air defences has been a humiliating experience for the Kremlin and its claim to rival the US in terms of military capability.

  • At a time when Russia's weakness has been graphically exposed on the world stage, there is a golden opportunity for the Trump administration to drive home its advantage.

  • It can do this by providing Ukraine with the sophisticated weaponry it needs to win the war in Ukraine, in the knowledge that Russian missiles and air defences are simply no match for America's superior military might.

  • It would seem advisable for the future of Europe and the Free World to ensure that even a charming Putin – nonetheless a KGB graduate and serial mass-murderer in Grozny, Syria, Ukraine, not to mention his invasions of Georgia and Crimea -- is not allowed to emerge from this conflict before being thoroughly defeated.

US President Donald Trump's belated realisation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict could finally provide the breakthrough Kyiv desperately needs to win the war. Pictured: Trump meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, on April 26, 2025. (Photo by Office of the President of Ukraine via Getty Images)

US President Donald Trump's belated realisation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict could finally provide the breakthrough Kyiv desperately needs to win the war.

Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has persisted in his belief that, because of the strong personal relationship he enjoys with Putin, he could persuade the Russian despot to agree to a lasting ceasefire.

Back in February, Trump insisted that Putin was a man of honour who would abide by his undertaking to accept a ceasefire after the White House had published its own formula for ending the conflict, one that required Ukraine to accept Russia's illegal conquest of its territory.

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President Trump's Secret Weapon

by Lawrence Kadish  •  July 16, 2025 at 4:00 am

Secretary of Energy Chris Wright could easily start assembling a Trump Manhattan Project for Nuclear Fusion Energy this week. If he did, he would no doubt find himself catapulted from stardom to superstardom, while at the same time serving his country, its global leadership and its president. Pictured: Wright stands behind President Donald Trump as he holds an executive order after signing a series of orders on American energy production, in the White House on April 8, 2025. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

While all eyes are focused on tariffs, deportees, taxes, and the stock market of course, President Donald J. Trump's cabinet choice currently positioned to emerge as the leading member of Trump's cabinet and the MVP of the Trump Administration's Golden Age of Energy is Secretary of Energy Chris Wright.

Wright is already doing an exemplary job leading the revival of America's great asset, oil, to "Make America Great Again." By enabling lower prices, massive energy exports, and making the US not just energy-secure but energy-dominant, both he and Trump can be assured of success.

However, the greatest leap to global preeminence for the United States, and as a stunning legacy for Trump and Wright, will happen if and when they succeed in catapulting America ahead of China in the newest global race for the only energy that is clean, inexpensive, and limitless: nuclear fusion energy.

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Why Palestinians Terrorists Want a Ceasefire in Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 15, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Hamas has been demanding "clear guarantees" that any US-brokered ceasefire deal would ultimately lead to the end of the war in the Gaza Strip, meaning that the Israelis should stop defending themselves against attacks.

  • Many Arabs seem to like starting wars -- such as the war of 1948, when five Arab armies invaded Israel on the day of its independence, and which they now call the nakba (catastrophe) -- but then getting angry when they lose them.

  • "Once again, Hamas's spokesman – Izzat al-Risheq ... [insists] 'they will never surrender.' He speaks from comfort abroad, while Gazans starve in ruins.... This kind of language is only aimed to block any ceasefire that doesn't assure Hamas staying in power. Every time negotiations move forward, Hamas escalates the rhetoric and... prolongs this war." — Hamza Howidy, Gaza-born Palestinian human rights advocate, X, July 9, 2025.

  • The terror groups' leaders.... are convinced that despite the death and destruction they brought on their people, they can continue ruling the Gaza Strip after the war. As long as Hamas and PIJ insist on maintaining their hold on power, the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have no future.

  • The Trump administration needs to insist that all terror groups in Gaza be dismantled and driven out of power as part of any ceasefire deal with Israel. It is time that the Americans understood that the Palestinian jihadis pose a threat not only to Israel, but also to the US and its Arab allies in the Middle East, especially by inciting violence against them and carrying out -- or encouraging -- terrorist attacks against Americans and moderate Arab regimes.

The Trump administration needs to insist that all terror groups in Gaza be dismantled and driven out of power as part of any ceasefire deal with Israel. It is time that the Americans understood that the Palestinian jihadis pose a threat not only to Israel, but also to the US and its Arab allies in the Middle East. Pictured: Gazans transport food aid distributed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a private US-backed aid group, in the central Gaza Strip on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BabaAFP via Getty Images)

In separate statements over the past week, senior officials of the Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said that their terror groups "will not surrender." The statements came as the Trump administration continued its efforts to end the war in the Gaza Strip and secure the release of 50 Israeli hostages held by the terror groups. Twenty of the hostages are believed to be alive, while the remaining 30 are presumed dead. The hostages were kidnapped during the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led invasion of Israel. At least 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered that day, and thousands wounded.

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Will Xi Jinping Attack America to Prevent His Political Demise?

by Gordon G. Chang  •  July 14, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "Xi is obviously in some sort of trouble. The smoke keeps pouring out." — Charles Burton, Senior Fellow, Prague-based Sinopsis think tank, former Canadian diplomat, to Gatestone Institute, July 2025.

  • The world is at great risk... if Xi is now engaged in no-holds-barred fighting for his political life. In this case — the most probable in my view — he might feel he has every reason to stop at nothing to save himself.

  • It is apparent that Chinese agents are now in place in America. Toward the end of the Biden administration, U.S. Border Patrol officers noticed packs of military-aged Chinese males coming from Mexico, all outfitted in identical kit. Border Patrol apparently knew that some pack members had links to the Chinese military. In addition, Border Patrol suspects that China's military was orchestrating the infiltration.

  • Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him.

Why would Xi Jinping order an attack? Perhaps to show other Communist Party figures that he has the strength to take on the United States — or to create a crisis during which no one would dare to depose him. Pictured: Xi speaks at the Great Hall of People, on May 13, 2025 in Beijing. (Photo by Florence Lo/Pool/Getty Images)

Rumors say mighty Xi Jinping will lose his Communist Party and Chinese state posts in the next few months. There is, however, also a large group of China watchers and academics who say that little or nothing is out of place and Xi is fine.

Whatever the truth, the U.S. and other countries need to prepare for the regime to lash out without warning. Xi may now have reason to take the world by surprise.

There are clear signs that Xi has lost control of the People's Liberation Army, the most important faction in the Communist Party of China. A series of articles, beginning on July 9 of last year, in PLA Daily, the military's main propaganda organ, praised "collective leadership," a clear criticism of Xi's one-man style of rule. At the same time, many of Xi's loyalists were removed from their posts.

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Call It Another Dreyfus Moment for the French Government

by Lawrence Kadish  •  July 14, 2025 at 4:00 am

Pictured: Employees of the Paris Air Show work on blocking and censoring the Israel Aerospace Industries exhibit, on June 16, 2025. (Photo by Mathieu Rabechault/AFP via Getty Images)

While much of the mainstream media failed to focus on it, the French government recently blocked off the exhibitions of all Israeli defense companies at this year's annual Paris Air Show, held last month.

With echoes of the cynically rigged trial of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French Army officer falsely convicted of treason in 1895, the French exclusively targeted the Israeli displays amidst the many corporate booths displaying the military wares manufactured by defense firms from around the world.

Israel Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy told Aviation Week and Space Technology, "We are shocked by the behavior of the Paris Air Show organizers and the French authorities..." But perhaps we shouldn't be, because anti-Semitism has deep roots in France. Some historians believe that it was Dreyfus being "railroaded" to the infamous prison colony, Devil's Island, that helped inspire Theodor Herzl to found the modern Zionist movement in 1897.

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France and Europe: Increasingly Submitting to Islam

by Guy Millière  •  July 13, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "We have imported another civilization."– Former MP Philippe de Villers, YouTube, "eight months ago."

  • "[W]here do those who do this come from? And why are they still here?" -- Éric Zemmour, president of Reconquest, a right-of-center party he created in 2021. When he spoke out, he was sentenced to heavy fines, X, June 1, 2025.

  • When illegal immigrants are arrested, all of them are given an "Obligation to Leave French Territory" (Obligation de Quitter le Territoire Français/OQTF) and ordered to leave France immediately. No one, however, including the police, deports them, so most do not go.

  • France is being ravaged by the rise of Islam.

  • The United Kingdom, with a smaller proportion of Muslims than France or Belgium, seems also to be undergoing a slow submission to Islam.

  • Political parties in power for decades in all Western European countries -- except Italy -- seem deliberately blind to the danger facing them. Any party willing to take on the "great replacement," is deliberately kept out of power.

  • The Dutch election will be closely watched. Wilders's chances of winning again in October could promise a revival for the Netherlands -- a second Enlightenment -- and a regeneration for Europe.

For years in France every celebration has led to riots, looting and violence. The police rarely intervene. If a rioter is injured by a policeman, the policeman could end up in prison. Arrests are few. Often those who are arrested are immediately released. Pictured: Riot police detain a man as Paris Saint-Germain supporters celebrate by rioting, after PSG won the UEFA Champions League soccer match, on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris on May 31, 2025. (Photo by Lou Benoist/AFP via Getty Images)

Paris. June 21, 2025. Annual Music Festival. Ten years ago, orchestras played peacefully in the streets. Families strolled and stopped to listen. Security reigned and was taken for granted. In recent years, the atmosphere has changed -- radically. Families no longer go out. Young men coming from the Islamic suburbs flood the city, prevent musicians they do not like from playing by shouting insults and threats, and by attacking anyone who gets in their way. This year, more than a hundred rape complaints were filed with the police. Countless knife attacks have left dozens injured. Stores are looted. What took place in Paris also took place in every major city of France.

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The Iran Ceasefire: A Dicey Intermission

by Amir Taheri  •  July 13, 2025 at 4:00 am

  • [T]he recent flare-up has deeper reason than a concern about Iran building a nuclear arsenal, something which all directors general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from Hans Blix to Muhammad Al-Baradei and Rafael Grossi have repeatedly said they cannot confirm.

  • Tehran's fourth demand may be the hardest for any American administration to even contemplate accepting: Accepting the Islamic Republic's right to "export" its model of governance, its Islamic values and its campaign for "global justice" just as the US does by propagating its values. In other words, Tehran says: Let us do what we please and we promise not to make the bomb that we have always said we never intended to build.

  • [M]id-term election in the US... could transform Trump into a lame-duck president if Elon Musk's new political Tesla manages to rob the Republicans of just six seats in the Congress and two or three in the Senate. At the same time, Israeli Prim Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's numerous political enemies may eventually manage to bring him down.

  • Thus, regime insiders believe it is imperative to prolong the current ceasefire, even through negotiations, until the two big clouds shaped like Trump and Netanyahu disappear like morning mist.

  • The current political situation doesn't have only two sides: steadfastness and surrender. The third side is change, of course. which means giving the enemy a victory it didn't win with war.

With varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, the war of Iran vs Israel and the US started more than four decades ago. Pictured: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian watches a military parade during a ceremony marking the country's annual Army Day on April 18, 2025 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)

The recent attack by Israel and the US on parts of Iran's nuclear project has already been dubbed by some commentators as the Twelve Day War.

However, that cut-off time was chosen by Tehran to back a claim that Iran managed to fight twice as long as Arab states led by Egypt did in the Six Days War of 1967.

In fact, with varying degrees of intensity and a diversity of locations, this war started more than four decades ago when the new revolutionary authorities raided the Israeli diplomatic mission in Tehran and handed it over to PLO leader Yasser Arafat on a visit as special guest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. A few months later, the new revolutionary regime repeated the exercise by raiding the US Embassy and seizing its diplomats as hostages.

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Iran's New Trap vs. Trump's Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to Transform the Middle East

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  July 12, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results...

  • If Trump settles into believing that setting back Iran's nuclear program by a few years is enough, the world will soon fall into the very trap that Tehran has set. The regime will rebuild, rearm, and reemerge stronger, angrier, and even nearer to having its bomb. The world will then once again face the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran—with perhaps no leader to stop it.

  • Now is not the time to offer the regime a lifeline in the form of negotiations or sanctions relief. The regime will doubtless try its old tricks—sending diplomats to Western capitals, promising temporary compliance, and begging for centrifuges for "peaceful energy" and a new "deal." This is a trap

  • Any deal now will not benefit the United States. It will only help the Iranian regime recover, rebuild its economy, and ultimately return to its path of terror. The time has come to "finish the job."

  • The Iranian regime must not be allowed to survive long enough to recover. The goal is not to delay the problem but to solve it.

President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

It took decades — across multiple presidencies, wars, and failed negotiations — before the United States finally had a president who understood, with both clarity and conviction, how to confront the Iranian regime and transform the trajectory of the Middle East.

President Donald J. Trump, through a bold and unapologetic foreign policy, has emerged in just a few short months, as the only leader in recent history capable of reshaping the region and challenging Iran's theocratic dictatorship with real consequences. His actions have already produced historic results — from crippling the regime's nuclear infrastructure to fostering unprecedented peace deals.

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Warnings to President Trump on the Future of Gaza

by Robert Johnson  •  July 11, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip.

  • "His Excellency" Mohammed al-Rumaihi, Qatar's former ambassador to the United States, and former Minister of Municipality and Environment, noted on July 5 that he is concerned about "keep[ing] the Palestinian cause alive – and its people," and slammed Israel: "No major capital—neither Beijing, nor Moscow, nor Washington—has labelled the Gaza campaign as 'systematic killing,' let alone moved to punish Israel under Chapter VII of the UN Charter."

  • You are not left to guess which side of the conflict he is on.

  • Meetings currently appear to be underway to create a possible "consortium" of Arab and Muslim nations to govern the Gaza Strip – basically leaving in place many of the same radical Islamic adherents of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, of which it is an offshoot, as before -- most likely to make sure that Israel can be attacked again in the future as many times as necessary to ensure its extinction.

  • "Qatar is at the top of funding terrorism worldwide, even more than Iran." — Udi Levy, former senior official of Israel's Mossad spy agency, who dealt with economic warfare against terrorist organizations, Ynet, April14, 2024.

  • President Donald Trump -- whose initial instincts are often perfect until "advisors" try to talk him out of them – originally suggested an American-built "Riviera" on the Gaza Strip. Combined with a military base, it would greatly serve the interests of the United States as well as Israel – similarly to how the US stations the forward HQ of Central Command and Air Forces Central Command at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, to protect the oil-rich peninsula. American forces at Al-Udeid, the largest US military base in the Middle East, effectively serve as Qatar's private air-force. Qatar might even have snookered some US bureaucrats into thinking that they are doing the US a favor by allowing its troops to be there.

  • Trump's original idea of a US "Riviera" in Gaza, stems from an "America First" point of view, may be the most constructive way to successfully deter further military engagement for the United States in the Middle East.

  • At the moment, however, it is crucial not to allow Qatar, Egypt or any Arab state to get anywhere near Gaza. "His Excellency" al-Rumaihi from Qatar is clearly telling you so.

The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip. Pictured: U.S. President Donald J. Trump speaks with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al Thani as he departs the Al Udeid Air Base on May 15, 2025, in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Trump administration is being sent early warnings of the priorities of its possible "partner," Qatar, for the future of the Gaza Strip.

"His Excellency" Mohammed al-Rumaihi, Qatar's former ambassador to the United States, and former Minister of Municipality and Environment, noted on July 5 that he is concerned about "keep[ing] the Palestinian cause alive – and its people," and slammed Israel:

"No major capital—neither Beijing, nor Moscow, nor Washington—has labelled the Gaza campaign as 'systematic killing,' let alone moved to punish Israel under Chapter VII of the UN Charter."

You are not left to guess which side of the conflict he is on.

He goes on to suggest "political engagement.... in negotiation rooms and policy forums."

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Muslim Leaders Who Oppose Terrorism: The New Heroes

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 10, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • "You [Israelis] represent the world of brotherhood, the world of humanity, their world of affection, the world of democracy, the world of freedom." — Hassen Chalghoumi, imam from France and head of the visiting delegation, at a meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, July 7, 2025.

  • When Muslims say they support the Palestinian "resistance," they are actually voicing support for terrorism and Hamas's October 7 atrocities against Israelis and others.

  • Undoubtedly, there are some Muslims who are in favor of these kinds of visits and interfaith dialogue, but they either prefer to remain neutral or are afraid to voice their opinions in public. Muslims should applaud, not condemn, Muslim leaders who reach out to Israel and Jews and speak out against Islamist terror groups, for their own future: they can choose, instead of a life of fear a life of freedom, prosperity and opportunity.

A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of "treason" and promoting "normalization" with Israel. Pictured: The delegation tours the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 8, 2025. (Photo by Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images)

A group of brave Islamic religious leaders from France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and Britain who are visiting Israel this week are being condemned and ridiculed by many Muslims. The leaders are being accused of "treason" and promoting "normalization" with Israel.

The Muslim leaders did not come to Israel to stand against Muslims or the Palestinians. Rather, they came with a message of peace, coexistence and tolerance. They came to Israel out of a belief that interfaith dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims is imperative. Interfaith dialogue, which promotes peace and harmony, is important because it allows people to learn about different religions and cultures, and to appreciate the similarities and differences between them.

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Iran: Will the West Finish the Job?

by Amin Sharifi  •  July 9, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability.... It has never stopped.

  • The problem is not that Iran has "suspended cooperation." The problem is that the West keeps treating each step as if it is a fresh crisis that can still be reversed with enough diplomacy.

  • Iran will not stop, and diplomacy has an extremely low probability of working for a serious, long-term solution. Forty-six years of sanctions, deterrence, and inspections have all failed. Regime change appears the only realistic solution. It is what many Iranians still risk their lives demanding, what most of Iran's neighbors would welcome, and what the broader international community would ultimately benefit from.

Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Pictured: Reza Najafi, Iran's ambassador to the IAEA, speaks to journalists shortly at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on June 23, 2025. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images)

Iran's suspension of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is not a turning point. It is business as usual. Tehran's decades-long strategy -- deny, delay, deceive -- continues, and the West still refuses to call it for what it is: a slow-motion march toward nuclear capability. Some commentators are now warning that Iran has suspended cooperation and may finally pursue the bomb, as if that is not already taking place. Iran has been pursuing nuclear weapons for decades. It has never stopped.

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A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions

by Daniel Greenfield  •  July 9, 2025 at 4:00 am

  • Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.

  • Penguin Random House will be publishing Justice Amy Coney Barrett's book for which she received a $2 million advance. That's money the publisher seems even less likely to recoup considering that Barrett is hated among leftists and has a mixed approval rating among conservatives. Past polls show that the majority of the country can't even name a single Supreme Court justice, yet they are receiving celebrity level advances for books no one cares about.

  • Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor had been previously criticized for not recusing herself in cases involving Penguin which had paid her over $3 million.

  • Penguin is actually Bertelsmann: a German ex-Nazi publishing giant that has waged war on American parents, promoted racism and is trying to monopolistically gobble up all of American publishing. Ibram X. Kendi's "How to Be an Antiracist", Robin DiAngelo's "White Fragility", Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me", and, during WWII, "The Christmas Book of the Hitler Youth" all came out of Bertelsmann.

  • While the ex-Nazi foreign corporation operates under familiar names like Penguin, Random House, Doubleday, Ballantine, Knopf, Viking, Putnam, Bantam, Del Rey, Golden Books and many others, it's actually a foreign company pushing deeply destructive products. Even as parents tried to stop their children from being exposed to sexually inappropriate content, former CEO Markus Dohle went to war against them with a $500,000 legal fund.

  • [A] foreign company that has tried to completely monopolize American publishing by seizing control of Simon and Schuster, and has intervened in American politics, is ... troubling.

  • Bertelsmann millions have gone mostly unexamined even as ProPublica, a leftist advocacy group, launched a smear campaign against Justice Thomas. The Thomas smears were repeated by every media outlet in the country which pursued the 76-year-old justice's 96-year-old mother to find out where exactly she lives and who paid the tuition for his grandnephew, yet shrug when the Supreme Court can't even form a quorum over millions from a multinational giant that has business before the court being directed to justices

  • Justice Jackson making millions for a ghostwritten memoir after spending less time on the bench than most dustcloths is an equally obvious exercise in cashing in, not literary inspiration.

Pictured: Justices of the US Supreme Court pose for their official photo, in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

Last year, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, despite being in her early 50s and having an undistinguished career before her affirmative action appointment, published a memoir.

You might be forgiven for having missed it when "Lovely One" came out. As the media politely notes, it was "briefly" on the New York Times bestseller list and is now going for half price on Amazon. That is mostly to be expected of the ghostwritten memoir of an obscure judge.

Except that Jackson received a $893,750 advance for her memoir and is now reporting $2 million in profits last year. These would be record numbers for a Supreme Court Justice's biography from a book that hardly anyone had noticed when it came out. And while books can become unexpected successes once released, there was little sign of that happening.

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The Judge-Emperor: The Global Coup of the Courts

by Drieu Godefridi  •  July 8, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging.... [T]his judicial imperialism... [has] become a judicial tyranny....

  • These innovations... have gradually established the Israeli Supreme Court as the ultimate arbiter of all questions, not only legal but also political. Any Israeli citizen -- and any NGO, even one funded from abroad -- has the right to ask the Supreme Court to overturn any democratic decision.... There is no decision of the Israeli government and parliament that cannot be overturned by unelected judges.

  • [Marine Le Pen and her supporters] argued, accurately, that the judges were essentially preventing the French people from voting for Le Pen.

  • There is effectively no longer a single "right-wing" measure that can be adopted in any field by Parliament or the government without being struck down by the Constitutional Council or the courts. When the left loses at the ballot box, it is certain to win in the courts. In France, the judge reigns and the people no longer seem to have sovereignty over anything.

  • The torrents of universal rules and requirements deriving from articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. privacy, dignity), and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights are probably the worst modern example of tyrannical judicial imperialism. The anarchy of immigration in Europe is entirely of its making.

  • The US Supreme Court decided last week that the district court judges had jurisdiction over specific cases and plaintiffs in their districts -- not across the nation.

In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging. The torrents of universal rules and requirements deriving from articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (e.g. privacy, dignity), and the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (pictured) are probably the worst modern example of tyrannical judicial imperialism. (Photo by Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images)

"The judges of the nation are only the mouth that pronounces the words of the law, inanimate beings who can neither moderate its force nor its rigor."
Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws (1748), Book XI, Chapter VI

From Israel to the United States, via Europe, the judicial coup d'état has become permanent. In the West, it is not the executive that threatens the separation of powers. It is faceless judges lacking democratic legitimacy who legislate on the pretext of judging. Here are four salient examples of this judicial imperialism -- which have become a judicial tyranny -- and a proposed American solution.

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Do Not Rely on Egypt or Any Arab State to Bring Security to Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 7, 2025 at 5:00 am

  • There are also concerns that the tunnels could be used to smuggle terrorists into Gaza.

  • The Egyptians chose to ignore the smuggling as long as the weapons were making their way into the Gaza Strip and not staying in Egyptian territory. After all, these weapons were being used against Israel, not Egypt. The weapons did not pose any threat to Egypt's national security. In addition, Egyptian military and police officers apparently benefitted by accepting bribes.

  • By turning a blind eye to the massive smuggling industry, Egypt significantly contributed to transforming the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into a major base for Islamist terrorism, paving the way for the October 7 attack on Israel.

  • Egypt never did anything to stop Hamas from staging a coup against the Palestinian Authority and seizing control of the Gaza Strip. Egypt failed to stop the flow of weapons into the Gaza Strip. Egypt does not care about the Palestinians or Israel. It only cares about its own interests, and that is why it would be a big mistake to rely on the Egyptians or any Arab state to bring security and stability to the Gaza Strip.

By turning a blind eye to the massive smuggling industry, Egypt significantly contributed to transforming the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip into a major base for Islamist terrorism, paving the way for the October 7 attack on Israel. Pictured: A large Hamas tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, beneath the Philadelphi Corridor, discovered by the Israeli military, photographed on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Sharon Aronowicz/AFP via Getty Images)

Since the Hamas-Israel war began on October 7, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have discovered an estimated 90 tunnels crossing under the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The tunnels have been used by Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups to smuggle rockets and weapons into the Gaza Strip. According to Israeli military sources, there may be additional tunnels that have not been discovered. There are also concerns that the tunnels could be used to smuggle terrorists into Gaza.

The smuggling, which increased after Hamas's violent and brutal takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, took place under the watchful eyes of Egypt, if not with its willing assistance.

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'Only Islam Is the True Religion': The Persecution of Christians, May 2025

by Raymond Ibrahim  •  July 6, 2025 at 6:00 am

  • "This is not a farmer-herder clash. It is a genocidal campaign. Our communities are being wiped out methodically. The international community must not remain silent." — Dr. Joshua Riti, a local administrator, persecution.org, May 25, 2025 - Nigeria

  • "Typically, kidnapped girls... some as young as 10, are abducted, forced to convert to Islam and raped under cover of Islamic 'marriages' and are then pressured to record false statements in favor of the kidnappers, rights advocates say. Judges routinely ignore documentary evidence related to the children's ages, handing them back to kidnappers as their 'legal wives.'" — Morning Star News, May 28, 2025 – Pakistan

  • Despite fierce opposition from Pakistan's top Islamic authority and other Islamist groups, on May 29, President Asif Ali Zardari, signed into law a landmark bill banning child marriage, setting the minimum age for marriage for both genders at 18 years, but only in the Islamabad Capital Territory, not the entire country.

  • "Somalia's constitution establishes Islam as the state religion and prohibits the propagation of any other religion... It also requires that laws comply with sharia (Islamic law) principles, with no exceptions in application for non-Muslims. The death penalty for apostasy is part of Islamic law according to mainstream schools of Islamic jurisprudence." — Morning Star News, May 27, 2025

  • That there are so many "accidental" fires of churches in Egypt suggests one of two things: either the extremists have...become more sophisticated... in their attacks on churches... or else Coptic Christians, for some inexplicable reason, have become the most careless, fire-prone people in the world: more Coptic churches than any other kind seem to keep "accidentally catching fire."

  • A Christian woman managed to record the savage destruction and arson the Muslims carried out. (She was ordered by State Security to remove the video, which she did; some copies, however, evaded censorship.) — Egypt

  • This is hardly the first time in Berlin that Muslims target and attack people for being Christian. — Germany

  • "Posters on the fences of the Christian and Alawite city of Tartus in Syria: Either you immediately change your religion from Christian to Muslim and convert to Islam, or you pay protection and tribute fees with your lives. Unknown individuals are distributing posters throughout the city, and at the end it is written: All religions are infidels, and only Islam is the true religion." — X, May 20, 2025 -- Syria

  • "We live like refugees in our own country." — Monsignor Najeeb, Assyrian International News Agency, May 29, 2025, -- Iraq

On May 16, a judge in Lahore handed Jessica Iqbal, a 16-year-old Catholic girl, back to her 32-year-old Muslim abductor, despite clear signs that she was coerced into claiming she had converted to Islam and married him. Pictured: The Lahore High Court. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of May 2025.

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: In the opening days of May, Muslim Fulani militants killed six Christians in Plateau State. "They hacked dead three Christians... and injured four others," said a local, adding that their aim is "to drive away Christian victims of terror." A pastor warned of "a grand design... to wipe out more than 200 Christian communities." The same report notes that over 3,100 Nigerian Christians were murdered last year.

On May 7, Fulani herdsmen killed two Christians in central Nigeria, "after killing 10 others in the same area the previous month."

On May 12, the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, killed two Christian educational workers near an army base.

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