USA - One of the great lies of modern globalism is the idea that cultural differences are shallow, cosmetic, and easily blended if everyone just tries hard enough. They aren’t. Our differences run really deep, and when you ignore them, systems break, hate gets hotter, and division widens. We’ve already learned this the hard way, from “diversity is our strength” to the Bush nation-building nightmare, mixing cultures is a recipe for disaster. When Western leaders tried to import Western values through nation-building in the Middle East, it caused massive backlash, resentment, and even more conflict. Why? Because Western values don’t work in the Middle East. They have no business being there. The same mistake is now being repeated at home, under the lie that our cultural and religious differences don’t really matter. Globalists tell us that people are psychologically interchangeable, and that blending everyone together is just fine. It’s not. It’s made everything louder, angrier, and more unstable.

EUROPE - The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought free trade agreement on Saturday, strengthening commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world. The signing ceremony in Paraguay’s capital, Asuncion, caps more than a quarter-century of torturous negotiations. It marks a major geopolitical victory for the EU in an age of American tariffs and surging Chinese exports, expanding the bloc’s foothold in a resource-rich region increasingly contested by Washington and Beijing. Mercosur consists of the region’s two biggest economies, Argentina and Brazil, as well as Paraguay and Uruguay. Bolivia, the bloc’s newest member, is not included in the trade deal but could join in the coming years. Venezuela has been suspended from the bloc and isn’t included in the agreement.

FRANCE - In a democracy, the government in office cannot ban an opposing candidate from running on the grounds that the candidate would win and take the place of the current government. But that is what President Macron has done to Marine Le Pen. Le Pen heads the largest political party in France. She has been banned by a French court from holding office for five years. This prevents her from competing in the 2027 presidential election, where she has long been considered to be the leading candidate. The excuse used by the French government to frustrate the popular will is that Le Pen was convicted of “misappropriating EU funds.” She was convicted of using money intended for her European Union staff for her French staff. Money, of course, is fungible, and the orchestrated charge succeeded only because the establishment presstitutes hyped it over and over. Marine Le Pen is a controversial figure with the French establishment because she represents ethnic French nationalism, not the globalism of open borders and multiculturalism, that is, she stands for France, not for a Tower of Babel.

USA - Jihadist leaders — led by the Muslim Brotherhood and aligned Islamist movements operating both overseas and inside the United States — have long treated mass migration, now weaponized through the exploitation of modern immigration systems, not as a humanitarian phenomenon but as a deliberate strategy of conquest meant to penetrate, subvert, and ultimately remake the United States from within. Hijrah, Schweizer explains, was never merely about movement. Migration is “critically important” for da’wah — the effort to spread Islam by inviting others to understand and adopt it — and equally important in establishing an Islamic state or durable political power base inside a host society.

USA - Citing recent events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland, three cardinals said their statement was inspired by Pope Leo. The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the United States said in a strongly worded statement on Monday that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. Their critique of the Trump administration’s principles — while not mentioning President Trump by name — escalates the American Catholic Church’s denunciations of the country’s top leaders. Citing recent events in Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland as having raised fundamental questions about the use of military force, the cardinals call for a “genuinely moral foreign policy” in which “military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy.” The three cardinals lead dioceses that together include almost four million Catholics, more than 550 parishes and hundreds of Catholic schools.

USA - US security guarantees for Europe have “dissolved into thin air” amid Trump’s push to acquire Greenland, the AfD’s Kay Gottschalk has said. Germany should become a nuclear power as US President Donald Trump’s push to take over Greenland shows Europe can no longer rely on American protection, right-wing lawmaker Kay Gottschalk has said. Gottschalk, the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) parliamentary finance policy spokesman, said the postwar consensus of “outsourcing Europe’s defense” to Washington had “dissolved into thin air” and claimed Trump’s Greenland posture proves “there are no friendships between states, only interests.” “And the interests of the United States are fundamentally different from ours and from Europe’s. Precisely for this reason, we must once again take the defense and security of Europe into our own hands… Germany needs nuclear weapons,” Gottschalk wrote on X on Sunday.

GREENLAND - Keir Starmer joined European allies warning of a 'dangerous downward spiral' in NATO today after Donald Trump threatened a trade war over Greenland. A joint statement from Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK said they stood 'firmly behind' the 'principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity'. The president has shocked the military alliance by warning that opponents of an American takeover of the Danish territory will be hit with punitive tariffs from February 1. In a bombshell post on his social media site, Mr Trump said levies will start at 10 per cent - and potentially rise to 25 per cent if they have not capitulated by June. But in a joint response this afternoon, the European powers said: 'As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. The pre-coordinated Danish exercise Arctic Endurance conducted with Allies, responds to this necessity. It poses no threat to anyone.'

CHINA - Beijing quietly EXTENDED a policy letting banks roll over 3.8 TRILLION yuan of bad personal loans. Translation: the debts are so bad they can’t be cleaned up. Banks are dumping credit-card defaults at 10–20¢ on the dollar, hiding losses, and repackaging the trash into “ABS” that circle back into ordinary people’s savings. This is robbing the already thin wallet of the average Chinese citizen. When regulators stop publishing data and just extend deadlines, it means the credit foundation has cracked. 3.8T yuan isn’t the end. It’s the opening act.

USA - Washington’s “abuse” of financial instruments through sanctions is pushing the rest of the world away from the greenback, Paulo Batista has told RT. The US is the main enemy of the dollar, prominent Brazilian economist and former International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive director, Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr, has told RT. Washington has increasingly weaponized its national currency, undermining trust in the greenback and the broader Western financial system, he said, in an exclusive interview with RT. “The main enemy of the dollar and of the international payment system controlled by the West is the US itself,” Batista said. “There is a move away from the dollar, from US Treasuries, to a large extent derived from the abusive use by the US of instruments [such as] SWIFT, of reserves.”

VATICAN - Pope Leo XIV has warned of "new Orwellian-style language," and condemned "jihadist violence." He made the warning Friday during an address to members of the diplomatic corps. "It is painful to see how, especially in the West, the space for genuine freedom of expression is rapidly shrinking," Leo said, Fox News reported. "At the same time, a new Orwellian-style language is developing which, in an attempt to be increasingly inclusive, ends up excluding those who do not conform to the ideologies that are fueling it."