USA - Maze Moore posted a video of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani explaining why he decided to run for office. It is also the likely reason he became a US citizen. Keep in mind that Zohran’s mother said he doesn’t identify as an American. He considers himself a Ugandan Indian. My guess is that since both his parents are Indian, he only included Uganda to lure in the Black population. It is obvious Zohran also considers himself a communist Islamist. He admits he is working within the state to subvert it.

USA - In April, Representative Ro Khanna (Democrat for California) called for Washington to end assistance to Israel, insisting that the funds would be better spent on hospitals and childcare in America. On the other side of the aisle, Representative Thomas Massie (Republican for Kentucky) also opposed sending billions to Israel, citing the soaring US deficit. Despite receiving minimal press coverage, many of the same arguments could also be made about Israel’s eastern neighbor, Jordan, a country roughly the size of Indiana that has received massive amounts of US aid. The United States has provided Jordan with around $33.8 billion in assistance during the past 75 years. In 2022, the Biden Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with Jordan pledging $1.45 billion annually over seven years, the largest-ever MOU with the Hashemite Kingdom. This year, Congress authorized over $2 billion in aid to the country, placing it among the top three recipients of US aid worldwide for 2026. From Ohio to Oregon, there is likely scant support for sending astronomical sums of taxpayer dollars to a country that most Americans could not identify on a map, especially as prices rise across the United States.

GERMANY - Germany was once the industrial engine of Europe, but years of disastrous climate change policies, high energy costs, and left-wing economic mismanagement have battered its manufacturing base. This pressure has been roiling the country's auto industry, where struggling carmakers are restructuring operations through workforce reductions, production cuts, and capacity reductions. Germany's top financial newspaper, Handelsblatt, reports that Porsche is preparing another round of deep job cuts at its main factories as the sports car maker grapples with weak demand. The company is considering eliminating as many as 4,000 additional jobs at its Zuffenhausen plant, the outlet said, citing people familiar with the matter. These reductions would come on top of previously agreed cuts impacting 3,900 jobs.

USA - The world is getting more dangerous while leaders keep running out of good options. A lot happened overnight, but one pattern keeps showing up. Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 drones at Kyiv, killing at least 11 people in the second massive strike on the capital in less than a week. Ukraine says its Patriot missile interceptors are running low, raising a simple question. What happens if the attacks keep getting bigger but the air defenses keep getting smaller? The timing does not look accidental. Zelenskyy is expected to meet Trump in Ankara this week, putting even more pressure on talks over military support and the next phase of the war. Then there is China. Beijing tested a submarine launched ballistic missile in the South Pacific, calling it a routine launch with a dummy warhead. Maybe it was. But Russia is escalating in Europe while China is demonstrating strategic weapons in the Pacific. Those are not isolated headlines. They point to a world where multiple flashpoints are heating up at the same time.

USA - NATO allies must step up defence spending “immediately” or face consequences, the Trump administration said on the eve of a key summit. US officials warned that many allies were “lagging behind” their pledge to spend 5 per cent of GDP on the military by 2035. Sir Keir Starmer announced a £15 billion uplift in defence spending this week but that will only raise the UK figure to 2.7 per cent of GDP by 2029. Matt Whitaker, the US ambassador to NATO, said on Sunday night: “Some allies are doing more than others. Poland, the Nordic countries, the Baltic countries lead the way. But many others are lagging behind, and President Trump expects all allies to step up immediately and not only get on a sustainable path to the 5 per cent but to get to 5 per cent as soon as possible.” Donald Trump is thought to be planning to reward or punish countries based on their defence spending.

TURKEY - Ten years ago, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, came within minutes of losing everything. Military jets flew low over Ankara and Istanbul, tanks blocked the bridges spanning the Bosphorus, and a faction within the armed forces attempted to seize control of the state. Erdogan himself was reported to have made a narrow escape when at least two F-16s harassed his plane in the air en route to Istanbul, locking their radars on it and the two aircraft protecting him. Within hours, the overnight coup had failed, killing more than 250 people, and within days it had become a defining rupture of Erdogan’s presidency, unleashing the biggest crackdown in modern Turkish history.

EUROPE - On the eve of a tense NATO summit in Ankara, some of the alliance’s frontline states have issued ominous prophecies of imminent Russian aggression. Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, conjured up the spectre of the 1939 Gleiwitz incident, when Nazi Germany faked an attack on its own radio centre and blamed it on the Poles as a pretext for the invasion that started the Second World War. “Our message to Vladimir Putin is this: we know what you are planning. Don’t do it,” Sikorski told reporters on Friday. Colonel Pawel Szota, the head of the Polish foreign intelligence agency, underlined the sense of threat in a rare public interview, warning that NATO had to “act as if an armed conflict with Russia were a near-term prospect”. “The level of Russian aggression is very high, and the risk of military confrontation is real,” he told Rzeczpospolita, a newspaper. There is certainly something approaching a consensus among the “like-minded” northern and central European allies that NATO is entering a period fraught with risk.

RUSSIA - Not long ago, BRICS was largely seen as an economic acronym – a loose coalition of emerging powers united by their ambition to reshape global finance and give the developing world a stronger voice in international economic governance. Today, that image is rapidly becoming outdated. As wars spread, supply chains fracture, cyber threats multiply, and established international institutions struggle to keep pace with an increasingly turbulent world, BRICS is expanding its ambitions. What began as an economic partnership is steadily evolving into a platform where major emerging powers discuss not only prosperity, but security. The evolution of BRICS into a forum addressing both economic and security questions is therefore worth watching – not because it has resolved today’s geopolitical divisions, but because it represents one of the clearest attempts to manage them within an increasingly multipolar world.

YEMEN - Yemen’s Iran-backed terrorists accused Riyadh of sending fighter jets to stop an Iranian civilian plane from landing in Sanaa, warning that continued ‘aggression’ would trigger attacks on airports and vital interests on land and at sea. Yemen’s Houthi terrorists accused Saudi Arabia on Friday evening of violating their airspace and threatened to attack the kingdom if what they called “aggression” continues. AFP reported that Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree claimed the group had “confronted” Saudi fighter jets after they allegedly tried to prevent an Iranian civilian aircraft from landing at the international airport in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. “We warn the criminal Saudi enemy against any further attempt to violate our airspace or carry out any aggression,” Saree said in a recorded statement.

ITALY - Mount Etna has erupted in Sicily, forcing Catania Airport to cancel all flights as volcanic ash clouds trigger a red aviation alert across Italy. A red alert has been declared and flights have been disrupted and cancelled in Italy as Mount Etna spews vast clouds of ash high into the sky. Local news outlet La Sicilia has reported that Catania Airport has been compelled to cancel all incoming flights owing to safety concerns as the volcano releases ash across Sicily.

INDIA - At least 14 people, including several children, were killed in heavy rainfall across South Asian countries.In the eastern suburbs of India's Mumbai, at least six people were killed when a group of buildings collapsed on Sunday, the latest casualties of heavy rains that have disrupted travel and shut down schools in the city. Rains also triggered landslides on the expressway connecting Mumbai with Pune, forcing its closure and disrupting traffic between the two cities. Besides road transport, flights were disrupted and long-distance train services, including those running between Mumbai and Pune, were also canceled.

GERMANY - In the summer of 2026, Germany is a punch-drunk country reeling from harsh knocks, many of which are self-inflicted. In the short term, it has just suffered a humiliating defeat at the UN General Assembly, where it was punished for Berlin’s brazen arrogance, political provincialism, and last but not least, steadfast support for Israel and its crimes, including genocide. At the World Cup, the German team was booted out of the tournament early and crushingly.

ISRAEL - A new red heifer born in Israel’s Galilee region has reignited calls among Temple-focused rabbis, educators, and activists for a broader national movement to prepare the Jewish people for the restoration of Temple service in Jerusalem. The renewed push comes as Temple awareness appears to be rising inside Israel. Israel365 News reported that a recent survey commissioned by the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation and conducted by Direct Polls found that 55 percent of Israeli Jews support rebuilding the Holy Temple on the Temple Mount. The outlet also cited a separate editorial claiming that 150,000 men have already enrolled in training connected to Temple service, out of a reported goal of 200,000.

USA - GridStatus' website shows the PJM Interconnection under severe peak-demand stress as heat-driven cooling loads surge across the Mid-Atlantic and eastern US. The fuel-mix chart shows the grid is heavily reliant on natural gas and coal, which together account for about 64.2% of all power, with nuclear at 20.6%. In total, gas, coal, and nuclear account for about 84.8% of the power being generated, while solar and wind remain in the high single digits. The grid is operating near record load and relying heavily on gas-fired generation to prevent rolling blackouts.

USA - In 1874, the state geologist of Pennsylvania, then the nation’s leading oil producer, warned that the US had only four years of oil remaining. Forty years later, in 1914, when oil still hadn’t run out, the federal government said the US had only a ten-year supply remaining. In 1940, the government announced that reserves would be depleted within a decade and a half.