"Trump did not walk into the White House alone. He stormed in with a promise to "drain the swamp," but trailing in his shadow was Jared Kushner, carrying a tangled web of private financial networks, offshore holdings, and foreign capital so deeply embedded it functioned like a quiet engine at the heart of the presidency. Years later, FBI documents released alongside the Epstein files crystallised the danger, with a Confidential Human Source (CHS) alleging that Trump had been compromised by Israel, and that Kushner was the true centre of gravity, orchestrating both the Trump Organisation and the White House from within.

This is not theatre. Intelligence reporting rarely accuses outright; it maps vulnerability, flags leverage, and exposes the invisible pathways through which foreign influence can seep into the corridors of American power, remaining unnoticed, unchallenged, and structurally unstoppable.

Howard Lutnick is a man the world has been sold as a survivor, a Wall Street titan who rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald investment bank from the ashes of September 11, a billionaire philanthropist, and, most recently, joined at the hip with President Donald Trump, as his Commerce Secretary. His public biography reads like a meticulously crafted narrative of resilience, morality, and calculated success. But a deeper look into the released Epstein files and FBI documents tells a far more troubling story, one that cannot be contained in the usual heavily curated press releases or tidy interviews.

For years, Lutnick has insisted he 'severed all ties' with notorious sex trafficker and Israel-linked intelligence operative Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 - we're told after a brief, disturbing acquaintance, where he portrayed the disgraced financier as a "gross" figure he never wanted to see again. And yet, recently released emails tell a totally different story. Uncovered in the latest Department of Justice's release show how Lutnick was planning a family visit to Epstein's private pleasure island, Little Saint James in 2012, seven years after he claimed to have cut ties. His wife Allison's messages confirm the trip, detailing the ages of their children and expressing excitement about the gathering. Epstein's reply — "Nice to see you" — suggests the meeting went forward as planned (EFTA01050718). This troubling discrepancy will likely cast more doubts over other statements and claims made by what many call "Trump's handler" in the White House.

Half a century after the public learned that boys at a Belfast group home were sexually assaulted by senior staff, a key question remains unanswered: was British intelligence implicated in the abuse conspiracy, and did Kincora serve as a 'honeypot' to entrap and blackmail powerful figures?

A vast trove of declassified files on Jeffrey Epstein's sexual, political, and intelligence escapades released by the US Department of Justice has once again thrust disgraced former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor into the spotlight. With British police reportedly reviewing Andrew's past sexual activities and links to Epstein, questions are growing about whether Britain's spy agencies were aware of Andrew's alleged escapades with minors.

If the darkest rumors turn out to be true, it will not be the first time a British royal had been embroiled in a child rape conspiracy with spy agency involvement. Back in 1980, a scandal erupted when the Kincora Boys' Home in occupied Ireland was exposed as a secret brothel run by powerful pedophiles. Chief among the alleged perpetrators was Lord Mountbatten — Andrew's great-uncle.

From the very beginning, hints began to appear that MI5/MI6 knew of the child abuse taking place Kincora, and could have even been running the group home as part of a dastardly intelligence plot. With Britain's domestic and foreign spies engaged in a savage dirty war in Ireland, and both services running operatives in Republican and Unionist paramilitaries, Kincora would have provided an ideal means of recruiting and compromising potential assets. Official investigations have strongly insinuated British intelligence chiefs had a close bond with many individuals who ran the Boys' Home.

A total of eight people were killed -- most of them at a school -- and more than two dozen were wounded, after a shooter opened fire on Tuesday in a small community in Canada's British Columbia. Officials had earlier said nine people were killed before revising the death toll.

The suspected shooter -- identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar -- is dead from what is believed to be a self-inflicted injury, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The suspect did not currently have any firearms registered to her, according to the RCMP.

There was a documented history of police visits to the family residence over several years, with the most recent visit to the home in the spring of 2025. That visit was related to "concerns regarding mental health" and "self-harm" with respect to the suspect, British Columbia Royal Canadian Mounted Police Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said, during a press briefing on Wednesday.

Architecture of Deception: A Forensic History of Israel's False-Flag Operations — from Irgun/Likud Bombings to the USS Liberty and Mexico City after 9/11

To understand the operations that reshaped the Middle East — and would one day touch America itself — you must begin with the men in this photograph: Where an Operational Tradition Learns to Wear Another Man's Face

The Philosophy Behind Modern State Terrorism

Benjamin Netanyahu once revealed far more than he intended when he told Oliver Stone, in Persona Non Grata:

"You must shock people — then you can disregard all the normal rules of morality."

Most viewers heard provocation.

Students of covert history heard a blueprint.

Netanyahu wasn't speaking in metaphor.

He was summarizing the core operational logic of a system that learned — long before it had tanks, embassies, or formal intelligence units — how to weaponize chaos, seize the narrative in the first minutes, and turn crisis into political advantage.

I don't expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and moral depravity. But I do expect a lot from intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. The explanation by his wife Valéria - Noam suffered a severe stroke in June 2023 and is incapacitated - of their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is filled with the fatuous excuses used by all those who have been outed in the Epstein emails and documents. According to Valéria, she and Noam were "overly trusting." This led to "poor judgment." She writes that she and Noam were ensnared by dinners with luminaries at Epstein's mansion, flights on his private jet nicknamed the Lolita Express, a literary reference to the sexual exploitation of girls Noam would have recognized, financial assistance, trips to Epstein's ranch and the use of one of Epstein's apartments in New York. Like everyone else outed in the Epstein files she and Noam "never witnessed any inappropriate behavior from Epstein or others."

A storm moved over Hawaii this past weekend, causing flooding, knocking down trees and power poles and dumping a foot of snow on the island's mountaintops.

On Monday morning, every spot in the state was under a flood watch, with widespread wind advisories and winter storm warnings on the mountains of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

AccuWeather Meteorologist Alex DaSilva said that a stalled front draped across the Hawaiian Islands, combined with a slow-moving area of low pressure, led to major flooding and near-hurricane-force wind gusts.

Hawaiian Electric warned customers to prepare for extended power outages Sunday night, after power was restored to 45,000 customers lost power earlier in the day. As of Sunday night, 19,000 customers were still in the dark.

Winds gusted over 70 mph on the islands of Maui and Moloka'i, with gusts over 60 mph on Oahu, Lanai and the Big Island. Rainfall amounts exceeded 30 inches at Laupahoehoe on the Big Island, with 23.22 inches at Waikamoi on Maui.

France and the United Kingdom are reportedly involved in the assassination of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the prominent son of former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, as he was seen as the man who could reunite Libya after the NATO-backed uprising.

Saif al-Islam was killed by unknown gunmen who stormed his home in the town of Zintan on Tuesday.

Gaddafi's political team said in a statement that "four masked men" killed him in a "cowardly and treacherous assassination," adding that he tried to fight off the assailants, who shut off the security cameras at the house "in a desperate attempt to conceal traces of their heinous crimes."

Lessons on corruption from a Russian, and why Westerners come across as naive

Silent East on YouTube begins his essay on corruption with the following:

When people hear the word corruption, they usually think of money, envelopes, bribes, stolen budgets, officials living beyond their salaries. That image is convenient because it frames corruption as a moral defect, a flaw in character, a problem of bad individuals inside an otherwise normal system. And if that were true, the solution would be simple. Punish the bad people, clean the system, restore order.

But corruption survives for decades, not because people are immoral, and not because enforcement is weak. It survives because it quietly replaces something much more important than money. It replaces the relationship between a person and reality.

He draws on his experience growing up in Russia and the difficulties he had adapting to life in a Western nation — and the perspective this gave him on the nature of corruption. As he puts it, corruption is not something one enters into consciously. Rather, it is absorbed unconsciously from childhood. One learns it through trial and error — what works and what doesn't, which rules apply and which do not. This leads many to a profound disenchantment with official rules, forms, and institutions — with the surface of things in general — which are seen as fake or irrelevant. Outcomes in the real world depend on things like personal connections, timing, leverage, the mood of officials, and informal signals rather than formal processes.

The below transcript is from Prof. Alexander Dugin's latest talk on the Radio Sputnik Escalation Show:

Radio Sputnik, Escalation Show Host: So, the US Department of Justice has finally published the Epstein lists: 3 million files that journalists are now actively sorting through. Some things look terrible, others comical, especially when individual names appearing in these materials are taken out of context. They found Zhirinovsky, Lenin, and even characters from films and cartoons.

Alexander Dugin, last year you mentioned that your name appeared in one of the correspondences. To sum up this whole story, how should it be interpreted, given that the news is spreading rapidly in both Russian and foreign media?

Alexander Dugin: In my opinion, I would not underestimate the significance of what is happening. A global network of pedophiles involved in torture, rape, murder, even cannibalism and "black masses" has now been exposed. This network included the elite of both American parties: from George Bush Sr. to Barack Obama, the Clintons, and Bill Gates. Their own participation as well as that of many European leaders in this structure has been confirmed. Many of them are now resigning because belonging to this group, being part of Epstein's inner circle, and visiting his island are, in principle, a total discrediting for any politician, public figure, person with scientific ambitions, thinker, philosopher, economist, or businessman. In essence, belonging to this criminal network, being acquainted with Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and other figures in their circle in any capacity, is tantamount to a full admission of criminal activity.

Therefore, in my opinion, this is extremely serious. First, the most important thing is that the modern Western elite is so immoral that no one in the West has the moral right to lecture their own society or dictate to it what to do, and when it comes to other nations, these degenerates — the pedophile, liberal, globalist elite — simply have no right to open their mouths. In my opinion, it is simply immoral to engage in any negotiations with them or to sit next to people who are tainted by the "Epstein list." People who respect their dignity are forbidden from finding themselves in the same situation as those who openly trample on that dignity. It is a matter of honor: the people on the Epstein list have completely lost any sense of being respectable or ability to interact with decent people. There is a harsh term in Russian criminal slang — byt' zakontachennym — "to be finished," "to be utterly discredited." People who have participated in child abuse are totally discredited in every respect. And that is the first colossal conclusion. Now they are trying to hush up this scandal a little, but it will have truly tectonic consequences.