Houthis Just Seized the Strait That Keeps Saudi Oil Flowing
The Houthis now control every island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the chokepoint that Saudi Arabia has been desperately using to get its oil to the world ever since the Strait of Hormuz went sideways. They also just took the port of Mokha. Oh, and Saudi Arabia shut down its...
The Neo-Nazi Party Sweden Once Banned From Politics Is About to Run It
In 2018, Sweden's current Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson personally assured a Holocaust survivor that he would never work with the Sweden...
30 Beds, All Full, No Vaccine: Ebola Is Killing Congo's Kids
Last week, an Ebola treatment unit in eastern Congo lost eight patients. All of them were under five years old. The unit has 30 beds....
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Germany Just Elected the Far Right in a Landslide. Yes, Again.
Germany, the country that spent the better part of the twentieth century as the world's cautionary tale about what happens when you hand power to nationalist...
Russia and North Korea Open a Bridge — Because the Troops Weren't Enough
Two of the world's most sanctioned, most isolated, and most aggressively destabilizing regimes just cut the ribbon on a shiny new bridge. Russia and North...
Iran Just Threatened to Lock Down the World's Oil Spigot — and Gas Is Already $4.14
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Germany's Far-Right AfD Wins 44% in Regional Vote, Eyes First State Government
Germany's far-right Alternative für Deutschland just won roughly 44% of the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, more than doubling its 2021 result,...
Iran Shot at a US Aircraft Carrier. We Sank Three of Their Oil Tankers.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps fired ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier and a guided-missile destroyer in the Persian Gulf on Saturday. Both ships...
164 Countries Voted to Fix the World Map. The US Said No.
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Philippine VP Arrested for Threatening to Hire a Hitman on the President
The Vice President of the Philippines has been ordered arrested for threatening, on camera, in a live online press conference, to hire someone to kill the...
Putin's Own Pollsters Are Telling Him to End the War
Vladimir Putin controls the Russian government, the Russian media, and the Russian polling apparatus. And even those polls are now telling him he's losing the...
Nazi-Free Since 1945: Germany May End That Streak Sunday
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1,200 Dead, 4,000 Missing: Nepal Families Burn Grass Effigies Because That's All They Have Left
A week after a wall of ice, water, and rock erased entire communities in Nepal, more than 1,200 people are confirmed dead and more than 4,000 are still...