A Trump-linked oil company has shown up on the Danish territory without an invitation | An American oil company backed by powerful associates of US President Donald Trump has shipped drilling equipment to Greenland without permission from the Danish territory’s government. Is Trump trying to annex Greenland one bite at a time? ● Less than two weeks ago, a Danish tugboat towed a cargo ship into port at Nerlerit Inaat, 450 kilometers above the Arctic circle on Greenland’s east coast. The cargo ship, operated by a company called Permagreen, unloaded an excavator and 15 containers of equipment, before leaving the following day, according to Danwatch, a Danish investigative journalism outlet. ● A Permagreen spokesperson told Danwatch that the company was hired by the Texas-based Greenland Energy Company to deliver “some machinery and equipment that will support their oil exploration” in the region of Jameson Land. ● The Greenland Energy Company had no permission to deliver the equipment, Greenland’s Energy Ministry said in a press release, adding that the company has still not been granted the necessary permits to drill in Jameson Land, a wetland area protected by the international Ramsar Convention.

The legislation will give President Trump the power to apply 100% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil | The US Senate has approved a bill allowing President Donald Trump to impose 100% tariffs on the largest purchasers of Russian oil and gas. The bill was the brainchild of [the late] Senator Lindsey Graham, who tried multiple times to pass it before he died last month. The bill, titled ‘The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026’, passed the Senate by 86 votes to 11 on Friday, with Graham’s sister Darline, who was appointed to his seat, reading out the result.

BREAKING: The Trump Administration told Congress that Spanish enclaves “Ceuta and Melilla are located in Moroccan territory”, Thomas Massie revealed earlier today.

It also pledged US$40 million of US taxpayer cash for military purposes in Morocco.

“Two weeks ago the House… pic.twitter.com/cp75n716Nz

— Nury Vittachi (@NuryVittachi) August 2, 2026

Tarik Cyril Amar | The Ceuta migrant surge was sold as a border panic. The harder question is who benefited from lighting the fuse.

Israel’s UN ambassador has chosen to make this statement when social media are already abuzz with theories pointing to Israel as somehow behind – if not necessarily alone – the storming of Ceuta. In essence, the idea is that the Zionist apartheid state and its international networks have found a way to pay Spain back for its far from perfect but – in NATO-EU Europe – unusual solidarity with Israel’s Palestinian victims. No wonder that many Spanish observers, including the Minister of Transport, believe Israel’s involvement is real in this assault on Spain’s territorial integrity and standing within the EU. ■ Indeed, Danon’s comment was so revealing that Israel’s ambassador to Spain, Dana Ehrlich, went into damage control mode, posting that Israel’s UN representative does not represent the position of the Israeli government. Make it make sense.

■ US and Israel staged Spain migration invasion – Iran (RT)
■ Benjamin Netanyahu and his son, Yair Netanyahu, have been calling for an invasion of Spain's cities of Ceuta and Melilla by "Arabs and Muslims" since at least 2019. (Shadow of Ezra) (Jul 31, 2026)
📌 ECFR: If Trump defeats Spain, all of Europe will be in his pocket (Elena Panina)(03/12/26)
■ Asciende a 72 la cifra de personas muertas al tratar de llegar a la costa desde Marrecos (RTVE)

More than 3,500 individuals have been arrested under terror laws for holding signs that say 'I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action' | British authorities listed the cases of 1,579 people at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 30 July, holding cardboard signs opposing Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, according to the campaign group Defend Our Juries. ● The group said the hearing had been pushed back to October, but that hundreds of defendants were never told, leaving them unsure whether they were required to appear, pointing to the confusion as evidence of a crisis the courts cannot absorb. ● Over 3,500 arrests have been made under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000 of people holding cardboard signs reading, “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” Defend Our Juries said. Those cases are tried summarily and carry a maximum of six months in prison, and include senior citizens, faith leaders, and first-time protesters.

Madrid has rejected Ceuta’s pleas for decisive action and a formal declaration of a national emergency as some 30,000 people swarm the frontier | Spain has deployed just 60 troops to its North African exclave of Ceuta after thousands of migrants overwhelmed security forces and stormed across the border from Morocco, with up to 30,000 more people reportedly swarming the frontier. ● The Spanish Interior Ministry said the military contingent consisted of three platoons of 20 soldiers each, sent to reinforce the Guardia Civil after officers admitted that the border had “totally collapsed.” Madrid also dispatched specialized police units, bringing their total number to around 200, as well as 30 additional Guardia Civil officers. ● The small military deployment came after Ceuta’s regional government pleaded with Madrid to take “decisive” action, close the border and declare a national emergency, warning that local police, hospitals and migrant reception facilities had been overwhelmed. ● Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s government rejected the emergency request, arguing that migration does not qualify under legislation covering natural disasters, major accidents and other national catastrophes.

■ Spanish PM Sánchez launches global Left alliance in Barcelona, bypassing Brussels (Brussels Signal) | Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has used a two-day summit in Barcelona to launch a global Left alliance that turned its back on the European Union’s main capitals, pairing Spain and Brazil with governments and activist networks largely from outside the EU mainstream, alongside Alexander Soros’s Open Society Foundations in a prominent co-hosting role. [...] Beyond governments, the summit leaned heavily on private philanthropy with a political agenda, most visibly the Open Society Foundations (OSF) chaired by Alexander Soros, son of financier George Soros. Mr Soros acted in practice as a third host alongside Sánchez and Lula.

■ At least 34 die as 60,000 cross into Spain’s Ceuta (Press TV)
■ Spain offers token response as Morocco border ‘totally collapses’ (VIDEOS) (RT)
■ Más de 40.000 migrantes entran a Ceuta en medio de una crisis migratoria que deja ya 19 muertos (RTVE)
■ Thousands of migrants flood into Spain’s Ceuta as authorities try to stem tide (TASS)
■ Street battles between locals and African migrants have begun in Ceuta, Spain (Newsfront)
■ ‘Our order is to let them go’ – French police on migrants crossing to UK (VIDEO) (RT)
✅ La entrada masiva e ilegal de miles de personas en Ceuta, ¿crisis migratoria o coerción política? (Mateos)
📌 ECFR: If Trump defeats Spain, all of Europe will be in his pocket (Elena Panina)(03/12/26)

Eva Karene Bartlett | In 2022, I widely documented Ukraine's deployment of PFM-1 "Petal" mines in Donbass cities. Ukraine has been since also using boobytrapped explosives and now a new version of a"Petal" mine. | When Ukraine fired missiles containing insidious, difficult to see, and dangerous mines dubbed “Petal” mines onto Donetsk and nearby cities in July 2022, I was in Donetsk and went on to document the mines in city streets, parks, apartment courtyards and even an orphanage in nearby Makeevka. [...] As of April 2026, the “Petal” mines which Ukraine fired onto Donbass regions have maimed at least 195 civilians (11 of whom are children). Three of the injured civilians died of their injuries. This is according to, “The Department for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine of the Administration of the DPR Head and Government” (which used to be known as the JCCC, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues, related to the war crimes of Ukraine).

Al Mayadeen English | Britain forcibly expelled the Chagossian people from their homeland to build Diego Garcia, a secretive US-UK military base later used to support wars and rendition operations, amid accusations of war crimes. | Britain transformed Diego Garcia into a military fortress by first erasing its people from official records and then physically removing them from their homeland. ■ Before the runways, bomber facilities, and warships, the remote Indian Ocean atoll formed part of a thriving Chagossian community whose families had lived across the Chagos Archipelago for generations. ■ A Times of India explainer published on July 25 has renewed attention on the human cost concealed beneath one of the most important US military installations outside American territory: the deliberate expulsion of an entire population to satisfy Washington’s strategic demands. ■ The displacement was not an accidental consequence of constructing the base. It was a calculated British-US policy. London removed the islanders, destroyed their ability to sustain themselves, and repeatedly denied them the right to return, creating what Human Rights Watch has described as “crimes against humanity that continue to the present.”

■ UK temporarily withdraws embassy staff from Iran over ‘security situation’ (Anadolu Ajansi)(22 July 2026)

Kit Klarenberg | A bitter row has erupted between Kiev and Warsaw, after Volodymyr Zelensky renamed a Ukrainian military unit the “Heroes of the UPA”. The UPA - Ukrainian Insurgent Army - was an ultranationalist faction heavily implicated in the Holocaust, which slaughtered up to 100,000 Polish civilians during World War II. In addition to commemorating the mass-murdering militant group, the corpse of Andriy Melnyk, leader of UPA parent the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN-B), was reburied in Kiev. At a grand accompanying ceremony, Zelensky declared:

The unspeakable horrors inflicted upon Poles - and Communists, Jews, Romani and other “undesirables” - by Melynk and his fellow Nazi collaborators were of course unmentioned. So too that the genocidal nationalism practiced and preached by Melynk was covertly promoted and sponsored for decades by Anglo-American intelligence, within and without Ukraine. The ongoing proxy conflict is a direct product of this little-known spectral meddling, which was specifically concerned with promoting cultural and ethnic difference, and enmity, between Russians and Ukrainians globally. ■ As this journalist has previously revealed, in August 1957 the CIA secretly drew up elaborate plans for a US special forces invasion of Ukraine. Intended to collapse the wider Soviet Union, the Agency’s conspiracy depended heavily on recruiting local fascists as footsoldiers. A significant stumbling block to the Agency’s plot, however, was much of Ukraine’s population actually harbouring “few grievances” against Russians or Communism. “Points of conflict” between Russians and Ukrainians, which could be exploited by the CIA to foment a mass uprising, were scant.

The “neocon war lobby” in Washington is driving the Ukraine conflict against Americans’ interests and with no valid justification, the conservative journalist has told RT | There is no convincing strategic, political, or moral justification for the US to be in conflict with Russia, Carlson insisted, claiming that the Ukraine conflict has been driven by what he described as the “neocon war lobby” in Washington out of “hatred” for both Russia and Europe.

■ Russia Warns US Against Ukraine Arms Sales in Manila Meeting (The Defense Post)
■ US directly involved in Ukrainian strikes on Russia – Lavrov (RT)

The Russian Defense Ministry said it hit military-industrial enterprises and fuel and energy facilities in and around the Ukrainian capital | The Ukrainian capital and its suburbs were hit by a combined missile and drone strike early Monday morning, in what the Russian Defense Ministry called a response to terrorist attacks by Vladimir Zelensky’s government. ● The first wave of blasts in Kiev was heard at around 1:30 AM local time, followed by more explosions in multiple waves until 5 AM. Videos shared on social media showed numerous powerful blasts around the Ukrainian capital, some followed by secondary detonations, suggesting that a weapons depot, production facility, or air-defense system had been hit. ● The Russian Defense Ministry said it used long-range precision weapons and attack drones to hit Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises, fuel and energy facilities in Kiev and Kiev Region, and military airfield infrastructure across several regions in retaliation for “terrorist attacks” on civilian infrastructure inside Russia.

Almost 8,500 Russian civilians have been killed and 22,500 people have been injured by the attacks of the Ukrainian armed forces since February 2022, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said on Friday. | "From February 2022 to June 30, 2026, the number of injured has already reached 30,913 people, of whom almost 8,434 people died," Miroshnik said at a briefing. From April to June, 422 Russian civilians were killed and more than 2,500 were injured by Ukrainian troops' attacks, the ambassador-at-large said, adding that 371 civilians were killed and 2,300 were injured in drone attacks during the given period.

■ Russia bombards Kyiv in deadliest strike this year, killing at least 27 people (CNA)
■ Deadly Russian Attack On Kyiv Kills 27 As Drones, Missiles Pound City; Zelenskyy Vows To Retaliate

Private individuals can face criminal prosecution and even prison for sharing the broadcaster’s content online, according to a new ruling | The EU’s top court has ruled that private individuals can face criminal prosecution for posting RT videos on public websites, widening the bloc’s crackdown on Russian media. ● The Court of Justice of the European Union issued the ruling on Thursday in a case from Germany, where three people are being prosecuted for publishing RT DE videos on a freely accessible website. ● The site did not charge readers and was financed only through voluntary donations. The CJEU, however, said that made no difference and ruled that all persons who are “directly or indirectly” responsible for making banned content available to the public can be treated as “operators” under EU sanctions rules. [...]Under the German law cited in the ruling, violations of EU sanctions-based media bans can carry up to five years in prison.

■ How the EU uses polls to manufacture consent (07/02/26)

■ Strike on Kyiv. A detailed analysis of the targets hit (Lord Of War)

The Eurobarometer survey seems custom-designed to deliver the answers Brussels wants | The European Union’s in-house pollsters have concluded that their citizens overwhelmingly support the decisions made in Brussels, and want more of what the EU is giving them. It doesn’t take much digging to discover that someone is cooking the books. ● The topline results from the latest Eurobarometer survey paint a rosy picture of life in the EU. 75% of respondents see the EU “as a place of stability in a troubled world,” they value its “contribution to protecting peace and strengthening security,” and “vast majorities of Europeans” want deeper integration and more power for Brussels to “face global challenges,” with defense and security their top priority.

Tarik Cyril Amar | While railways stall, hospitals fail and scandals spread, Brussels still finds endless billions for its pet proxy war | NATO-EU Europe, that tense, unhappy realm of deeply unpopular yet aggressively doctrinaire centrist regimes, has many grifts. ■ Its elites, whether national or EU, in business, politics, and the mainstream media and think-tank sinecure system are stunningly inept when it comes to addressing the urgent, even vital problems of their subjects. They could not care less about critical economic decline and general impoverishment, crumbling infrastructure, withering education, and scarce, unequal health care, to name only a few. ■ But the same elites are endlessly creative and tirelessly busy when looking after themselves, from top to bottom. Recent and countless examples of this ever more shameless divergence between not doing their job of looking after the public interest, on one side, and extensive as well as exclusive “self-care,” on the other, are easy to come by.

Alastair Crooke | Russia has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe.

 ■  Firstly, senior Kremlin aides, notably Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s spokesman, have been saying over the past three days the ‘spirt’ of the Anchorage summit, and its concomitant understandings, “have effectively collapsed” — “The U.S. abandoned them”. Moscow no longer expects those commitments to be honoured and is focused solely on securing its own “victory” through military means. Foreign Minister Lavrov went further, describing the Alaska meeting as an American “ploy” designed to buy time for Ukraine to rebuild and rearm its military — essentially likening them to the Minsk Accords that similarly were mounted as a deceit.

 ■  The second development stems from President Putin’s address at the St George’s Hall to military cadets on 23 June. Putin, in summary, told the young officers that the West manufactures a Russia threat, then accuses Russia of creating that very threat. This, said Putin, is a historically repeated pattern going back to 1941. Putin implied that a threshold had now been crossed. He stated that whilst, until recently, NATO countries had limited themselves to supporting the Kiev regime to wage war on Russia, the West today is openly talking about preparing for a war against Russia, and is building up their military offensive budgets.

■ Russia hearing the European clamour for war, announces it is ready (06/30/26) (VIDEO)
■ Larry Johnson: Putin Warns the West - Russia is Ready for War (06/29/26) (VIDEO)

Larry Johnson discusses NATO's increasingly direct involvement in attacks against Russia, and Putin's warnings to the West about war. Johnson is a former CIA intelligence analyst who also worked at the U.S. State Department's Office of Counterterrorism.

Russia has warned that the Baltic states are ready to let Kiev use their territory for strikes | Latvia and Ukraine will establish a joint drone production facility in Latvia’s eastern border region near the Russian and Belarusian borders, Latvian Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs has said. ● Ukrainian UAVs have repeatedly targeted northwestern Russia in recent months, including energy infrastructure in Leningrad Region near St. Petersburg. Some drones veered off course and crashed in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Finland. ● Moscow has warned the Baltic states against allowing Ukraine to use their airspace for strikes, saying it could trigger retaliation. ● Kulbergs announced the project on Saturday during a visit to the Luznava military base in Latvia’s eastern Latgale region. According to LSM, the initiative is intended to promote cooperation between Latvia and Ukraine in the defense industry. [...] Russia has warned that Western countries have become de facto parties to the conflict by supplying weapons to Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin has said, however, that Russia will not attack a NATO member unless it is attacked first.

✅ Ukrainian Armed Forces Present in the Baltic (Richards Vinkelis)

The newspaper claimed that the outgoing UK prime minister is considering becoming the military bloc’s chief in 2028 | UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is stepping down following a revolt within his own party, is interested in becoming the next secretary-general of NATO, The Observer reported on Sunday. ● Starmer teared up last week when he announced that he would resign as prime minister and Labour Party leader in response to mounting pressure. Several ministers left his cabinet, and more than 80 Labour MPs urged him to step down after the party lost nearly 1,500 local council seats in last month’s elections. ● Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who won the Makerfield by-election on June 18, is widely seen as Starmer’s successor.

The Soviet Union made the biggest sacrifice in World War 2. How can the West forget the 27 million who sacrificed their lives for YOUR freedom? I visited Mamayev Kurgan, a cemetery in honor of those who fought one of the bloodiest battles in WW2 history, the Battle of Stalingrad. pic.twitter.com/2s315Mxv7R

— Sasha Meets Russia (@sashameetsrus) May 7, 2025

The new rules in Finland will permit the deployment of NATO nuclear weapons on Russia’s doorstep | CIA asset, Finnish President Alexander Stubb has signed amendments to the Nuclear Energy Act allowing nuclear weapons to be deployed on the country’s territory. The Nordic nation’s parliament supported lifting the long-standing ban earlier this month. The removal comes three years after Helsinki renounced its decades-long policy of military neutrality and joined NATO. Finland’s accession into the US-led military bloc has led to serious tensions with Russia, with which it shares a 1,340 km border. [...] Stubb, a known Russia hawk, signed the amendments into law just a day after he stated he was “realistically optimistic” about the outcome of the Ukraine conflict in an interview with Politico, while still talking about the “strategic failure” of Russia.

■ Former Finnish premier Stubb reveals his CIA-contacts as Plame and Lavery (UMV-Lehti)(02.09.2017)

Andrew Korybko | Russia can either decisively “escalate to de-escalate” in its own right to swiftly end the conflict on as many of its terms as possible, carry on as usual amidst this new “war of attrition” at tremendous risk to itself, or freeze the conflict. | Lavrov sheepishly said during a roundtable event last week that “I do not even want to suspect that Alaska, like the actions of the Europeans, was designed to buy time to rearm the Kyiv regime. I don’t even want to think about it. But in reality, things turned out the way they did.” This came three and a half years after former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted in December 2022 that the Minsk Accords were just a ruse to buy time for Kiev to rearm. [...] Putin famously responded a month later that “We endured for a long time, tried to reach an agreement for a long time. But, as it turns out now, we were simply led by the nose, deceived.

RT Investigations | Celebrity sex crimes, imprisoning Assange and torture terror. Before Downing Street, the outgoing PM built his reputation at the Crown Prosecution Service – where some of Britain’s ugliest scandals were buried, delayed, or erased. | As Keir Starmer prepares to leave the UK’s highest office after less than two years, the media has lined up to explain why he failed to deliver on the enormous hype he received as opposition leader and during his initial months in office. A repeated trope has been that Starmer was a “decent man,” but simply not cut out for mainstream politics. However, his record of concealing the UK establishment’s repulsive crimes – be that serial child sex abuse or spy agency torture – shows him to be anything but decent.

Jeremy Kuzmarov | Russian Spy Was Killed as Part of CIA-MI6 Psychological Warfare Operation Says Former Commander of French Anti-Terrorism Group | On November 1, 2006, a former Russian spy turned British MI6 agent, Alexander “Sasha” Litvinenko, was poisoned with polonium while meeting with two alleged Russian agents, Andrey Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, and an Italian security consultant, Mario Scaramella, at the bar of a hotel. Litvinenko died 23 days later in a London hospital. ■ The U.S. media at the time reported that Litvinenko had made a death-bed accusation that Russian President Vladimir Putin was behind his killing, though Litvinenko never in fact actually said that but was made to sign a form stating so in a state of incapacitation. ■ However, in 2016, Paul Baril, a former French counter-terrorism army unit commander and security adviser to French presidents Giscard D’Estaing and François Mitterrand, gave a YouTube interview that turns the official narrative of Litvinenko’s killing on its head.

Growing property acquisitions by Israelis in Greek Cyprus have fueled discussions across both Turkish and Greek Cypriot media. | The debate started when a Greek Cypriot lawmaker raised concerns over foreign land purchases. Tensions escalated as competing narratives emerged surrounding the redevelopment of an abandoned village in Greek Cyprus. ● The discussion intensified after an independent Greek Cypriot member of the European Parliament (MEP), Fidias Panayiotou, warned that increasing Israeli investment and land purchases risked reshaping the island’s social and economic character. ● Panayiotou argued that the Greek Cypriot administration had become increasingly reliant on Israeli capital, particularly in real estate and land development, while raising concerns about what he described as concentrated property acquisitions creating “closed residential circles in specific areas.”

■ How likely could Turkey be 'Israel's' next target after Iran? (06/23/26)
■ The quiet occupation? Israeli migration and economic footprint in Cyprus under scrutiny (07/12/25)

Craig Murray | A lie repeated often enough enters the public consciousness, so I am republishing this in the hope of stimulating the honest and the intellectually awake. | I still do not know what happened in the Skripal saga, which perhaps might more respectfully be termed the Sturgess saga. I cannot believe the Russian account of Boshirov and Petrov, because if those were their real identities, those identities would have been firmly established and displayed by now. But that does not mean they attempted to kill the Skripals, and there are many key elements to the official British account which are also simply incredible. ■ Governments play dark games, and a dark game was played out in Salisbury which involved at least the British state, Russian agents (possibly on behalf of the state), Orbis Intelligence and the BBC. Anybody who believes it is simple to identify the “good guys” and the “bad guys” in this situation is a fool. When it comes to state actors and the intelligence services, frequently there are no “good guys”, as I personally witnessed from the inside over torture, extraordinary rendition and the illegal invasion of Iraq. But in the face of a massive media campaign to validate the British government story about the Skripals.

Lamija Grebo | Bosnia’s Roma population was not spared the brutality of the 1992-95 war, but due to social prejudice, their suffering has rarely been discussed, let alone documented and investigated. | Edin’s mother bought his freedom; she literally paid for him, “like cattle”, he recalled. “I will never forget it,” he said. “People here could be bought just like cattle; they buy you, and they sell you.” ■ Edin is not the man’s real name. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he still lives in the same municipality of Bosnia and Herzegovina where he was detained in May 1992, at the start of the 1992-95 war. He has never spoken before about his ordeal. No one here really talks about the suffering of Bosnia’s Roma population during the war. ■ Edin was first taken to the police station, where he was beaten, and then to the military barracks, where he was detained. Crying, he recalled two other Roma men being killed. Some of his abusers had been his classmates at school. “They call you by your name, take you out, and do whatever they want with you,” he said. “And you can’t touch them.” ■ Bosnia’s Roma community was not spared the ethnic cleansing, detention and mass killing of the war in Bosnia during socialist Yugoslavia’s collapse; some were tortured, some were sexually abused, some saw their property go up in flames. Some took up arms.

Rupert Lowe’s investigation implicates Keir Starmer’s government in the mass victimization of white girls by Pakistani men | At least 250,000 British girls suffered sickening sexual abuse by Pakistani gangs, who were enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to commit “child rape on an industrial scale,” British MP Rupert Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Report’ has detailed. ● Published on Tuesday, the 218-page report makes for sobering reading. It details the decades-long abuse of hundreds of thousands of white British girls – and smaller numbers of white boys and Sikh girls – by organized Pakistani ‘grooming gangs’ in 149 districts of the UK. ● Witness testimony describes the most depraved acts of sexual violence – including preteen girls raped hundreds of times, threatened with death, and sodomized by dogs – happening in plain sight of the authorities tasked with its prevention. ● Put together in just over a year, the report cost £600,000 ($803,000), drew on interviews with hundreds of victims and thousands of Freedom of Information requests, and yet has received zero mainstream coverage.