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Trump Allies Revolt Against His Iran Deal | News Round-Up

19 Jun 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday June 19th 2026. The backlash against Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran continues to intensify amongst the ...

Trump's First Major Step To Abandon NATO Announced

18 Jun 2026

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Even as he was signing the Iran ceasefire deal, and talking more positively about Ukraine, Trump's first steps towards de facto walking away from NATO...

We Have The Iran Deal Text - And It's Worse Than We Thought

17 Jun 2026

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When Iran sent over its first list of demands to the Trump Administration, it was reportedly treated with derision - hopelessly unrealistic. And yet, ...

Trump Celebrates What Seems A Terrible Deal With Iran

15 Jun 2026

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President Donald Trump got his birthday deal - well, maybe. So far the text hasn't been released, so we only have the word of the two different sides,...

Why Calls To 'Save Democracy From Trump' Don't Work

14 Jun 2026

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Lots of us have observed the incompetence, the trashing of US constitutional norms, the undermining of democracy, and all the rest of it - and conclud...

Why Trump's 'Close' Iran Deal Could Still Unravel | News Round-Up

12 Jun 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday June 12th 2026. The ceasefire deal that President Trump conjured as the reason for pulling back from inva...

Iran Called Trump's Bluff — And Trump Blinked

11 Jun 2026

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President Trump had gone back into bombing Iran, because this time he was going to grab all of Iran's oil, and invade Kharg Island and force them to a...

Q&A: Why Can’t Democrats Land A Blow On Trump?

10 Jun 2026

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In this Q&A video, with questions submitted by Patreon supporters, we talk about the possibility that President Donald Trump will choose to invade Cub...

Global Survey Just Named America The World's Biggest Threat

09 Jun 2026

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A major survey of global opinion, from the citizens of countries that make up 90% of the total world population - has found that Trump's America is no...

The REAL Reason Trump's Iran Talks Are Stalled | News Round-Up

05 Jun 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday June 5th, 2026: In an interview with CNN, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader confirms some of the ...

More And More People Are Saying No To Trump

04 Jun 2026

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Congress just passed a motion to restrict President Trump's Iran war powers - something that is a significant embarrassment as he struggles to get a p...

Trump Furious As The Failures Pile Up

02 Jun 2026

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One day after another, it seems that not much is going right for the administration of President Donald Trump. The Iran war is the big quagmire, of co...

Why Donald Trump Is The World's Worst Dealmaker

01 Jun 2026

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Ignore all the blather about the 'Art of the Deal' - why is Donald Trump in real life actually such a terrible dealmaker? And if that's the case, how ...

How Trump’s Obama Obsession Trapped Him With Iran | News Round-Up

29 May 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 29th 2026 - President Trump is touting how close the US and Iran now are to the final deal. Well, let...

The World Is Turning Away From Trump

28 May 2026

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The US needs all the allies it can get amongst the gulf states, you would think. And yet yesterday, President Donald Trump casually threatened to bomb...

Trump Caught In His Own Trap On Iran

27 May 2026

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One minute, President Donald Trump is breathlessly announcing to the world that a deal is on the verge of being signed - the next he is in full pace r...

The Pope Takes On Trump And The Tech Bros Over AI

26 May 2026

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Artificial Intelligence is, by its very nature, a transformative technology. But right now, it seems to be being driven by characters who are happy to...

Is Trump About To Sign An Iran Surrender Deal?

24 May 2026

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After numerous false signals where President Donald Trump would claim a deal was close, only to see Iran deny any such thing - it seems as though all ...

Why Trump Could Move Early Against Cuba | News Round-Up

22 May 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 22nd, 2026: President Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric and moving the pieces in place for an appar...

Trump’s Newly Announced Iran Strategy Is … Not Great

20 May 2026

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Now that the 'excitement' of his summit meeting with China's Xi Jinping has worn off, President Donald Trump is left back exactly where he was before ...

Trump’s Latest Secret Attempts To Get Control Of Greenland

19 May 2026

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An investigation by the New York Times has revealed how Trump's United States has been pushing a maximalist agenda for control on various aspects of G...

Trump Created A Global Crisis And Doesn’t Care

18 May 2026

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While citizens of the United States fret about having to pay more at the pump for gasoline, President Donald Trump's illegal war on Iran is having mas...

Trump Fantasy Slams Into China Summit Reality | News Round-Up

15 May 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 15th 2026: President Trump is forced to explain to MAGA why what they heard with their own ears from ...

Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Warning Made Trump Go Quiet

14 May 2026

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President Donald Trump is very used to deploying fiery rhetoric against his enemies to seek to cow them into submission, even though he's found his br...

China Prepares To Eat Trump For Lunch

10 May 2026

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Later this coming week, China's Xi Jinping will be hosting President Donald Trump in Beijing for their delayed summit meeting. It's hard to ignore the...

The Truth About Trump's Big Iran War U-Turn | News Round-Up

08 May 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 8th, 2026. It turns out that President Donald Trump's about-turn on Project Freedom had even less to ...

Trump's Humiliating U-Turn After 'Project Freedom' Fails

06 May 2026

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President Donald Trump has 'paused' so-called Project Freedom. Supposedly, it's because the Pakistanis asked him to. Nothing at all to do with the rea...

Trump's Strait Of Hormuz Gamble Likely To Blow Up In His Face

04 May 2026

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There's no doubt that the thousand ships that are stranded in the Strait of Hormuz need rescuing - and if it could be achieved, it would be a tremendo...

Iran Won't Let Trump Off The Hook | News Round-Up

01 May 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday May the first, 2026. Iran presents its new peace proposal, and it does not make President Donald Trump ha...

Furious Trump Threatens To Pull Troops From Germany

30 Apr 2026

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German Chancellor Merz made an entirely reasonable observation - Iran had humiliated the United States, and was being much more skilful in its negotia...

King Charles' Urgent Wake-Up Call To Trump's America

29 Apr 2026

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King Charles spoke to Congress, and then again at President Donald Trump's own banquet. He impressed many with his skilful diplomacy, and also that wh...

“Iran Has Humiliated the US” Germany's Chancellor Merz

28 Apr 2026

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The world is changing - especially in the fact that a growing number of world leaders are prepared to speak the truth in public, caring little any mor...

Trump's America Is Continuing Its Slide Into The Abyss

26 Apr 2026

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At the White House Correspondents' Dinner we saw the latest in a growing line of incidents of political violence directed at President Donald Trump an...

Leaked Email Reveals Trump's Plan To Punish NATO | News Round-Up

24 Apr 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday April 24th 2026. A leaked email shows that President Trump is looking for new ways to bully the world, an...

Trump Flooded The Zone - Now He’s Drowning In The Consequences

23 Apr 2026

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The theory, as expounded by Trump's former strategic adviser Steve Bannon, was that the Trump administration could utterly change America by 'flooding...

Why Nobody Wants To Do A Deal With Trump

22 Apr 2026

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One of the biggest barriers preventing serious work on an Iran negotiated settlement is the fact that the Iranians have so little trust when it comes ...

Ukraine Has Given Up On Trump's America

21 Apr 2026

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After a painful year and a quarter of flattering and pleading with Trump to stay the right side of the Ukraine war, the president's obvious predisposi...

Why Iran Is Running Rings Around Furious Trump

20 Apr 2026

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President Trump thought he was being forceful in declining to drop the blockade on Iran's vessels in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran had declared it o...

China and Taiwan In A Race To Learn From Trump's Iran War

19 Apr 2026

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The sight of Donald Trump's America throwing everything it has (nearly) at a smaller, but smarter and more determined adversary - this has been a gold...

Trump Blunders Again On Iran Deal | News Round-Up

17 Apr 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for April 17, 2026: Iran is demonstrating its leverage as the US pushes Israel into a ceasefire with Lebanon, and th...

Trump Isolated As World Turns Against Him

14 Apr 2026

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Ever since he became president again, Donald Trump has been enthusiastically burning through any goodwill he might have had, or indeed that the United...

Trump’s Favourite Dictator Orban Lost BIG - What Next?

13 Apr 2026

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By all accounts, right up until the moment when Viktor Orban gave his concession speech, things were tense in Hungary's election. After 16 years of au...

Iran Negotiations Fail - Now Trump Is Really Stuck

12 Apr 2026

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It was all but inevitable that the talks were going to fail - Iran's position, as correctly described in the 10-point list reported publicly (despite ...

Trump Pakistan Talks, AI Danger, Orbán's JD Vance Problem | News Round-Up

10 Apr 2026

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The Trump team of crack negotiators head to Pakistan for talks, but will the Iranians even show up? Anthropic announces its new AI could basically hac...

Trump Panics As World Notices He Lost Iran War

09 Apr 2026

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More and more world figures, leaders, commentators, are agreeing in public that the US seems to have lost the Iran war. And that includes oil company ...

Trump's Ceasefire Shows Iran Really Won This War

08 Apr 2026

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After all the fire and thunder, the deadline came, and it presented mostly as a feeble capitulation to the need for compromise. In spite of all the us...

Trump Threatens War Crimes In Holy War On Iran

05 Apr 2026

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Immediately after celebrating the rescue of a US airman from Iran, Trump launched into a tirade that was extraordinary even for him - where he threate...

Macron Calls Out Trump Bizarre Iran Behaviour | News Round-Up

03 Apr 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday April 3rd 2026. After Trump's incoherent address to the nation the backlash against his war on Iran is wi...

Trump Tied Aid To Minerals - Zambia Just Said No

02 Apr 2026

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The administration of President Donald Trump was quick to cancel USAID. But quietly since then, it has been reinstating some programmes - with a catch...

Trump Threatens To Pull From NATO

01 Apr 2026

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Another day, another verbal twist from the President of War. Yes, now Trump is SO furious at all those Europeans who apparently care about internation...

Trump Tells World Go Get Your Own Oil

31 Mar 2026

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President Donald Trump, who just yesterday was threatening to commit war crimes against Iran if it didn't open the Strait of Hormuz, is now on whiplas...

Trump ‘Wants Iran’s Oil’ And Other Fantasies

31 Mar 2026

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The multi-faceted stream of consciousness from President Donald Trump about what he wants from the Iran war, when and how he might end said war, and m...

Enabling Trump Has Turned Palantir Toxic

28 Mar 2026

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In principle, Palantir is just a company that helps governments to work smarter. In practice, it has embraced the absence of guardrails of the US admi...

Trump's Bizarre Iran Fantasies Are Getting Weirder | News Round-Up

27 Mar 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday, March 27th 2026. Trump declares that Iran negotiations, which seem mostly to be conducted between the vo...

The Iran War Peace Plans Are A Farce - But No-One's Laughing

25 Mar 2026

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Even though President Trump declared to the world that peace negotiations with Iran were advanced, and seeing agreement on most points of substance - ...

Can Trump and Putin Save Viktor Orban?

24 Mar 2026

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The election in Hungary is getting closer - and we've been seeing all the things we knew were coming - Trump's endorsement of Viktor Orban, related to...

Trump's Bizarre Made-Up Iran Negotiations

23 Mar 2026

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President Donald Trump has form in claiming that he is in active negotiations with other leaders, or with countries, when the other parties deny any s...

Why Trump’s Iran Whiplash Points To Growing Desperation

22 Mar 2026

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In the course of 24 hours, President Donald Trump went from saying that he was looking at 'winding down' the Iran war, to issuing threats to escalate ...

Trump Blunders A Huge Energy Crisis Onto The World | News Round-Up

20 Mar 2026

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In this news round-up for March 20th 2026: Iran's strike on Qatar has triggered what energy analysts are calling an "Armageddon scenario" for global g...

How Trump’s America First Became America Alone

19 Mar 2026

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According to one of his best allies in the Senate, President Donald Trump is more furiously angry about having none of America's allies agree to join ...

Trump Wants To Bury Bad News About the Iran War

17 Mar 2026

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In the last few days, the administration of President Donald Trump has been going hard after the media - any journals or networks that have reported t...

Trump Threatens NATO: Help Now Or Regret It

16 Mar 2026

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President Trump told NATO allies, as well as countries like Japan, South Korea and even main geopolitical rival China, that they must send warships to...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Platform Just Blew Up In His Face

15 Mar 2026

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It's not a secret that Elon Musk's xAI platform, Grok, is not entirely like other AI models. Specifically, he has gone to great lengths to ensure it a...

US Ammunition Crisis As Iran Grows Bolder | News Round-Up

13 Mar 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 13th 2026. Pentagon insiders reveal that Trump's war on Iran has burned through years of critical m...

How The Massive Impact Of Trump’s War Is Hitting The Entire World

12 Mar 2026

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The alarm bells across the world are really starting to sound loudly now, as the short-term effects on the cost and availability of energy and fertili...

Peter Magyar vs Putin, Trump AND Orban | Hungary’s Crossroads

11 Mar 2026

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Today, the Financial Times reported on a leaked proposal for Russia to engage in a disinformation and influence campaign in support of the re-election...

Is Trump About To TACO Out Of Iran?

10 Mar 2026

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Trump has started talking in terms of the war being complete, and stressing that it was just an 'excursion' - a sign, according to stock markets and c...

Why Trump's Iran Assassination Threats Are A Huge Deal

09 Mar 2026

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Even before Iran had announced the selection of its new Supreme Leader, President Trump and Israel had said they were intending to assassinate whoever...

China's Five Lessons From Trump's Iran War

08 Mar 2026

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Xi Jinping's China sees itself as the rising primary power in the world, soon to take over from the fading old empire of the United States. But it kno...

Kristi Noem Is Fired - For Making Trump Look Bad | News Round-Up

06 Mar 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday March 6th 2026. The first of Trump's Cabinet Secretaries to be fired is Homeland Security Secretary Krist...

Spain Doesn't Mince Words About Trump's Illegal War

06 Mar 2026

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Most of the international community know that President Donald Trump's war on Iran, having been launched without any sort of imminent threat, having b...

Trump's Leaked Plot to Take Over Elections Exposed

05 Mar 2026

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President Donald Trump has muttered darkly about the need to take federal control of the mid-term elections. And now, the evidence suggests that his t...

Total IDIOTS Are Leading America’s War In Iran

04 Mar 2026

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War is a serious business. You would hope. But since President Donald Trump announced the start of the war against Iran, the US conduct has been typif...

Trump Just Demolished 80 Years of Global Order

02 Mar 2026

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There are seven ways that President Donald Trump has broken, or significantly altered, the US system, and the global political or economic system. Way...

Trump Getting A Taste For War Is Not Going To End Well

01 Mar 2026

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President Trump has declared war - not a special military operation, not an in-and-out abduction. A full-on offensive assault with the stated goal of ...

Anthropic Stands Up To Trump Despite The Cost | News Round-Up

27 Feb 2026

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In this news round-up for the week of 27 February 2026: If 2025 was about corporate cowardice and capitulation to the Trump revolution, 2026 is seeing...

Epstein Files And The Massive Gap In Accountability

26 Feb 2026

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Today saw Hillary Clinton being quizzed in Congress about the man she never met, while President Trump, who is all over the files, faces no such press...

Trump Flailing And FURIOUS On His Way To State Of Union

24 Feb 2026

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Trump promised that the State of the Union address 2026 would be 'long, because there's lots to talk about'. Some of that talk is likely to be peevish...

Trump’s Most Absurd Greenland Gambit - What’s Really Going On

22 Feb 2026

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In (yet another) moment of the truly surreal, President Trump announced this weekend that he is sending a hospital ship to Greenland to help with all ...

Supreme Court Hands Trump His Biggest Defeat Yet | News Round-Up

20 Feb 2026

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In this news roundup of the week for Friday February 20th 2026. The Supreme Court strikes down President Trump's emergency tariffs in the single bigge...

How Trump’s Autocrats Club Is Looking To Profit From Peace

19 Feb 2026

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Trump's Board of Peace had its first meeting today, and it was pretty much what you would have expected. Lots of praise for Trump, lots of big promise...

Three Ways Reality Is Smacking Trump In The Face

17 Feb 2026

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It would be entirely possible for President Trump, or A.N.Other autocrat, to seek to dismantle the guardrails of democracy in their country and all th...

'Presidential' Rubio Demands Europe Falls In Line With Trump

16 Feb 2026

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Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke this weekend at the Munich Security Conference, and he made probably the most cogent and professional spe...

Will The Epstein Class Be Trump's Downfall? | News Round-Up

14 Feb 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday February 13th 2026. As the Epstein Files revelations have continued to appear, the talk has turned to jus...

NATO Heads To Greenland - It's NOT About Russia Or China

12 Feb 2026

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As the Munich Security Conference kicks off this year - the same one that was made famous last year thank's to JD Vance's speech telling Europeans to ...

Trump's Latest Canada Attack - It's Not About The Bridge

11 Feb 2026

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President Trump has attacked Canada again, and this time said that he will prevent the opening of a new bridge between the two countries. And this is ...

How Europe Is Fighting Back Against Trump's America

09 Feb 2026

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Greenland was the pivotal moment. Before then, appeasement was the only game in town. But now, Europeans are increasingly joining Canadians in resisti...

Trump’s Mid-Term Election Plot Is Getting Clearer | News Round-Up

07 Feb 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday February 6th 2026, President Trump is getting very focused on the mid-term elections. We discuss what tha...

Epstein Scandal Threatens To Bring Down Britain’s Keir Starmer

05 Feb 2026

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Out of all the names that have come out in the latest massive tranche of Epstein files, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Steve Bannon...

Trump’s Abject Retreats Are Becoming Hard To Ignore | News Round-Up

31 Jan 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for January 30th 2026 - Trump's string of humiliating retreats in recent days continued with this week's abject U-tu...

Everything Trump Is Trying To Do Is Blowing Up In His Face - Here's Why

29 Jan 2026

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From the start of his second term, President Trump has been 'flooding the zone' with large numbers of major norm-breaking initiatives. The strategy wa...

Why NATO’s Trump-Crisis Is Splitting Europe In Half

28 Jan 2026

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European leaders have become clear post-Greenland crisis that Europe needs to disentangle itself from President Trump's America. But Mark Rutte, Secre...

Why This Is A Huge Pivot Point For Trump's America

26 Jan 2026

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The yawning gulf between the claims made by the Trump administration after the shooting of Alex Pretti and the events shown by the video evidence wide...

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canada over China deal

24 Jan 2026

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We already knew President Donald Trump was irritated that Canada's Mark Carney's speech got rave reviews at Davos. And that it plainly laid out - in w...

Trump’s Armada Heads To Iran - What Next? | News Round-Up

23 Jan 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday January 23rd, 2026 - Trump's America has a major armada of military force currently heading for Iran. Tru...

Trump's Greenland Deal Creates Chaos and Uncertainty

22 Jan 2026

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So Trump did a complete U-Turn on Greenland, and everything is now all right again. Right? Well, not so fast. Why hasn't this detail been written down...

Trump’s Reluctant Greenland Climbdown - As Mark Carney Steals Show At Davos

21 Jan 2026

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The Trump administration has stormed the World Economic Forum at Davos in force - and his senior lieutenants, such as Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent...

Trump’s Nobel Prize Snub Means All Bets Are Off On Greenland

19 Jan 2026

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President Trump told Norway that because - in his mind - the country snubbed him for the Nobel Peace Prize, now he believes he no longer needs to only...

Greenland Tariffs Have European Leaders Ready To Give Up On Trump

18 Jan 2026

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Yesterday, Trump made good on his threats and announced new tariffs to be levied against eight European countries for daring to defy his wish to annex...

Trump Grabs Peace Prize While Threatening War | News Round-Up

16 Jan 2026

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In this news round-up of the week for Friday January 16th, 2026: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado hands her medal to President Trump - an...