Iran could launch a massive strike on Israeli soil within the next 24 to 48 hours, US officials claimed on Friday. Tehran has been threatening a harsh response since Israel killed two senior Iranian generals in an airstrike earlier this month.

As recently as this week, US intelligence agencies figured that Iran would target Israeli interests in the Middle East, an anonymous US official told the Wall Street Journal. Now, the US believes that the attack will take place between Friday and Sunday, "possibly on Israeli soil," the official said.

The attack could see more than 100 drones and dozens of missiles fired at the Jewish state, two anonymous US officials told CBS News, adding that the strike could come as soon as Friday evening.

The US leader believes it would be a "disaster" if the bloc were to break up...

US President Joe Biden has hailed NATO's further expansion toward Russia's borders, while accusing Republican rival Donald Trump of undermining the unity of the American-led military bloc.

Russia has for years voiced concern about NATO's creeping encroachment, viewing its policies as an existential threat. However, in an interview with Spanish-language broadcaster Univision that aired on Tuesday, Biden touted the recent addition of Finland and Sweden to the bloc's ranks amid the Ukraine conflict as a great achievement.

"We've done something that I was very proud of. I've engaged with NATO for my whole career. We were able to expand NATO, and we have 2,000 miles of border because you have two Nordic nations having joined NATO. You have a whole range of NATO countries along the Russian border."

Biden went on to argue that a stalemate in Congress over his $61 billion military aid package for Kiev is "very dangerous" for the bloc's unity, accusing his former US leader Trump of virtually holding the measure - and the entire Republican party - hostage.

Washington appears desperate to prevent Ukraine from being associated, in any way, with the horrific murderous rampage in the Russian capital...

The United States of America is trying to control and manipulate the media and political interpretation of the tragic terrorist attack in Moscow last month. In the Western information space, Washington is forming a narrative to try to distract attention from its proxy, Ukraine.

At certain points, ISIS was a useful tool for the Americans in Syria. There is published evidence suggesting that the US operated in parallel with the terrorist group against the Syrian government. The fact that Washington was ready to offer a coherent version of events from the first minutes after the attack in Moscow is in itself extremely paradoxical.

Consider this. The Americans have spent decades trying to determine the cause of crimes on their own soil, such as the assassinations of leading US political figures. They lack the resources, attention and enthusiasm to determine who was behind the sabotage of pan-European energy infrastructure: the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

However, within 15 minutes, they provided "accurate" information about who organized the terrorist attack in Moscow.

The idea of some form of compromise solution to Kiev-Moscow conflict is creeping up on foreign hawks and on more and more locals...

What a small band of objective-though-long-disparaged observers in the West have long warned about is now happening: Ukraine and the West are losing their war against Russia. The strategy of using Ukraine to either isolate and slowly suffocate Russia or to defeat and degrade it in a proxy war is coming to its predictable catastrophic end.

This reality is now being acknowledged even by key media and high officials that used to be uncompromising about pursuing the extremely ill-advised aim of military victory over Russia. A Washington Post article has explained that with "no way out of a worsening war," Ukrainian President Zelensky's options "look bad or worse." NATO General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg has discovered the option of ending wars by concessions - Ukraine's concessions, that is. The sturdy old hardliner Edward Luttwak warns of a "catastrophic defeat" - for the West and Ukraine. True, Luttwak is still spreading desperate illusions about a direct NATO deployment to avert the worst. In reality, it would, of course, only make things much, much worse again, as in World War III worse. But his fear, not to say panic, is palpable.

In an underreported new development, Washington said it could revoke its recent designation of the Iran-backed Ansar Allah Shia islamist political and military movement, commonly known as the Houthis, as a "terrorist" group in a kind of quid pro quo if the Houthi-based movement stops its ongoing campaign against shipping in the Red Sea. The US special envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, stated, during a press briefing on April 3 that their hope is to "find diplomatic off-ramps" and to find "ways to deescalate", which would allow Washington to "pull back, eventually, the designation and of course to end the military strikes on Houthis' military capability." Most analysts doubt this will work. Interestingly, Lenderking added the US favors "a diplomatic solution", and admitted that "there is no military solution."

Ukrainian leaders are unlikely to publicly acknowledge the scale of a new mobilization campaign, fearing it would send shockwaves across the country and demoralize the population, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

The Ukrainian parliament passed a long-awaited mobilization bill this week, which is awaiting signature by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. It significantly simplifies procedures for the draft and forces all men aged 18 to 60 - including those residing abroad - to register with the military authorities.

In a last-minute move, the bill was stripped of a clause envisaging the demobilization of men who had served for three years, meaning that many troops would have to remain in the army until the conflict is over. Aleksandr Syrsky, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, reportedly lobbied for the change.

Kiev officials have signaled that they need around 500,000 troops to reinforce the frontline, although they later said that this number had been reduced.

A group of conservative lawmakers have defeated an effort by House Speaker Mike Johnson to hold a vote on funding the FISA surveillance act. While the act once enjoyed bipartisan support, the GOP's pro-Trump faction have soured on it since it was used to wiretap the former president's campaign.

Drafted in 2008, Section 702 of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) grants US intelligence agencies the power to monitor messages from abroad made through American networks like Google. The provision, which must be reauthorized every year by Congress, also allows these agencies to 'indirectly' collect data from millions of American citizens.

Once collected, this intelligence is stored for five years, during which it can be searched - for example by name, phone number, or email address - by the agencies without a warrant.

Ahead of an April 19 deadline to renew Section 702, 19 conservative Republicans opposed a procedural vote on Wednesday that would have brought the measure - along with three other unrelated bills - to a full floor vote later this week. With 193 votes in favor and 228 against, the floor vote has effectively been postponed unless Johnson can win back the support of the 19 defectors.

Be serious now. If you woke up to Good Morning America and heard Vladimir Putin personally shot JFK with a Makarov pistol from the grassy knoll, would you be surprised? After all, Russia's president surely rules the world already. And, he's superhuman, too. He's survived cancers, brain disorders, Russian uprisings and revolutions. Okay, the uprisings and revolutions were just figments of Washington's imagination, but the other stuff is real, aren't they? So, Putin being the cause of European corruption is no surprise.

The latest supervillain feat of Mr. Putin, according to the geniuses at the Atlantic Council, is that he's set in motion a plan to create crooked Europeans. Or, to be more specific, the Russian superman is now "weaponizing corruption" in order to further weaken the EU. No, really, I am serious. Research assistant Francis Shin reveals, MEPs from France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, and Hungary are crooked, and it's Putin's fault!

The story focuses on a Ukrainian political figure named Viktor Medvedchuk, whose biggest mistake has been his opposition to Russophobia. To be more specific, Medvedchuk became a political prisoner once the Zelensky Nazis took over. Labeled "pro-Kremlin" because of his efforts to mediate in Ukraine's parliament. He was placed under house arrest and then exiled to Russia in a prisoner exchange. Medvedchuk, who led the Opposition Platform — For Life party, was labelled a traitor for basically representing Russian speakers in Ukraine. The regime called him a financier of terrorism. Oh, and he actually did say the EU is just like the Nazi Third Reich. This won him no friends in Washington, and especially not in Berlin.

The whole fuzzy mess revolves around a Czech media outlet called Voice of Europe, which Medvedchuk is supposed to have been a financier of. As most of you realize, alternative or even moderate ideas in opposition to the Fourth Reich, uh, excuse me, Washington's EU puppets are not desirable. In most cases, these days, ideas about NATO expanding, the Euromaidan being an American coup, or anything that does not paint the Russians as inhuman barbarians - well, you understand. However, the former Ukraine lawyer's biggest crime was to paint the EU's most horrific criminal activity correctly. Viktor Medvedchuk was brazen enough to say the EU (and its benefactors) intend to turn Ukraine into a "raw material appendage." (See Lithium reposits in Donbas for reference)

The government that Moraes represents works hand-in-hand on the climate agenda, COVID, countering "disinformation", LGBT+, and persecuting political opponents on "national security" pretexts after Lula's "Faustian deal" with the US Democrats.

President of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court Alexandre de Moraes has become infamous in recent days after Elon Musk rebelled against his dystopian censorship demands of X. Musk had hitherto pledged to comply with national legislation across the world but said that "The final straw was we were being given demands to suspend sitting members of the parliament and major journalists" within two hours "or face major fines". He also objected to Moraes' demands to lie about why they were being suspended.

France's Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate Alsace has turned tail from the Red Sea after running out of missiles and munitions repelling attacks from the Yemeni armed forces, according to its commander, Jerome Henry.

"We didn't necessarily expect this level of threat. There was an uninhibited violence that was quite surprising and very significant. [The Yemenis] do not hesitate to use drones that fly at water level, to explode them on commercial ships, and to fire ballistic missiles," Henry told French news outlet Le Figaro in an exclusive interview published on 11 April.


"We had to carry out at least half a dozen assistances following [Yemeni] strikes," he added.