Mark tells us about his trip to Vietnam ▪️ "A sense of tremendous dynamism" ▪️ Capitalist communism ▪️ Trump says USA "would have won Vietnam war easy" ▪️ A journey in Leif Erikson's footsteps ▪️ The first European settlement in America ▪️ How did American conservatism become so anti-intellectual? ▪️ Brief update on the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Gaza wars ▪️ Trump designates Antifa as a domestic terrorist group ▪️ and more...

Charlie Kirk assassinated at Utah university ▪️ A history of elite-sanctioned violence against "Right-wingers" ▪️ Hundreds get fired for celebrating Kirk's death ▪️ Increasing polarization in USA ▪️ Hundreds of thousands attend Tommy Robinson event in London ▪️ Russian drones violate Polish airspace in risky provocation ▪️ and more...

Israel attacks Qatar ▪️ Steve Bannon lashes out against Netanyahu ▪️ US sanctions groups working with UN court ▪️ US military kills 11 Venezuelan cartel members ▪️ Department of Defense rebranded as Department of War ▪️ A decade after Angela Merkel's "Wir schaffen das" ▪️ Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska brutally killed by black American Decarlos Brown ▪️ "The age of deportation" ▪️ and more...

Eastern leaders gather at SCO summit in China ▪️ China and Russia defending "outcome of WW2" ▪️ Israel committing genocide in Gaza say leading experts ▪️ Trump says Israel lobby lost "total control" over Congress ▪️ "No future in politics of victimhood" ▪️ 16-yo Ukrainian refugee girl killed by Iraqi migrant in Germany ▪️ American influence operation in Greenland ▪️ Trump's tariffs knocked down by federal court ▪️ and more...

"Far-right populists" top polls in Europe ▪️ National flags in British streets ▪️ Girl, 14, charged with brandishing knife in Scotland ▪️ Germany: Syrians slash American tourist in face ▪️ Israel strikes Gaza hospital twice ▪️ US sanctions ICC judges and prosecutors ▪️ Russia shows no interest in peace negotiations as Ukraine war continues ▪️ and more...

The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska ▪️ The Trump-Zelensky-Europe meeting in the White House ▪️ An optimistic "vibe" ▪️ Putin and Trump contradict each other about outcomes ▪️ Will Ukraine get security guarantees? ▪️ Will Putin and Zelensky meet for negotiations? ▪️ The Russian summer offensive ▪️ and more...

Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska ▪️ Trump and Putin protectors of the post-WW2 order ▪️ Is Russia "winning" the war in Ukraine? ▪️ Even ADL is backing off from Israel's war ▪️ Ambassador Huckabee cites Dresden bombing to defend Gaza war ▪️ Anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb ▪️ and more...

White working-class rage surging in Britain ▪️ Over half of Germans would NOT defend their country in war ▪️ Trump threatens states that boycott Israel ▪️ Leading Israeli author calls Gaza war a "genocide" ▪️ Netanyahu proposes full reoccupation of Gaza ▪️ Sydney Sweeney's jeans commercial accused of being "Nazi propaganda" ▪️ and more...

Israel claims no one starving in Gaza ▪️ Sweden urges EU to suspend trade ties with Israel ▪️ Canada, France, UK recognize Palestinian state ▪️ Knesset Speaker suggests Palestinian state in London or Paris ▪️ Horst Mahler dead at 89 ▪️ "The National Garden of American Heroes" ▪️ and more...