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PROFILE: Starlink Offers Free Internet to Devastated Venezuela Until July 25
On June 25, 2026, the day after the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 — tremors of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, occurring…

TESTIMONY: How Reform UK brought down a prime minister
In May, the Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, swept local elections across England, winning 1,453 council seats and taking control of 14…

TESTIMONY: I watched Starmer resign outside Downing Street
On Monday, Keir Starmer stood outside 10 Downing Street to announce his resignation as leader of the Labour Party, in a speech several witnesses…

PROFILE: The Iran That Refuses to Bend Despite Trump's Fury on Hormuz
On July 8, 2026, as Donald Trump piled on public insults from a NATO summit in Ankara, calling Iranian officials "sick" and "scum," Iran…

Watching NATO Debate the 2% Target While Kyiv Runs Out of Patriots
Days before the NATO summit in Ankara, set for July 7 and 8, 2026, the question of burden-sharing among allies is once

On the Iran-Pakistan border, a regime flexing its muscle
I can't claim to have walked along the Iran-Pakistan border, nor to have seen with my own eyes the troop movements described

William Lai, the Taiwanese president who refuses to bend to Beijing
On January 1, 2026, Taiwanese president William Lai Ching-te delivered his New Year address just days after China conducted military drills dubbed

Rheinmetall Accelerates in Spain and Ukraine, the Shell the Front Is Missing
Since the start of the Russian invasion, one number keeps coming up in discussions between Western allies and Ukrainian military officials: the

Russia's Shadow Fleet, the Tankers Spying on NATO From the Sea
According to a report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the IISS, based in London, drones have overflown sensitive installations across