USA - It's almost as much a Christmas tradition as eggnog and Rankin/Bass - The political left's propaganda disparaging Noel appears like clockwork every December. The disinformation campaigns against Christmas have been so effective in the past that there are even groups of Christians that actually believe the same nonsense and repeat it as if they have discovered some fantastic conspiratorial secrets that only "true Christians" know. Let's examine some of these lies and why they are historically inaccurate.

NIGERIA - The US has carried out an air strike on Islamic State (IS) militants in Nigeria over claims the group had targeted Christians. The attack on the country’s north-west region was launched at the request of the Nigerian government, Donald Trump and the US military said on Thursday. “Tonight, at my direction as commander in chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against Isis terrorist scum in north-west Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing – primarily innocent Christians – at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries,” the US president said on his Truth Social platform. The strike killed multiple IS militants and was conducted after an appeal from Nigerian authorities, the US military’s Africa Command said on X. Mr Trump warned last month that Christianity faces an “existential threat” in Nigeria and vowed to intervene over what he described as the country’s failure to stop violence targeting their communities.

EUROPE - In the final working week before Christmas, EU leaders gathered for what was billed as a historic summit. The familiar platitudes were duly rehearsed. “Ukraine alone can determine the terms of peace,” they insisted, while gesturing towards progress on Kyiv’s EU accession. Yet behind the rhetoric, some of them – a few openly aligned with Moscow, others paralysed by fear – pushed back. The result was not resolve, but exposure: a Europe divided over how to confront the war reshaping its future. Nothing truly shifted.

UK - Man, having supposedly “killed God” sometime in the 20th century, now seems to miss him. The secularisation of the West left a void that states in the 20th century filled with a rights-based humanism of common purpose and shared endeavour. Today, that purpose has withered. Our loss of faith in God has been twinned with a loss of faith in each other. The void has opened up again and we are using technology to try and fill it. Having been dismissed as a relic from a bygone era, religion has returned in a thin, hollow version, shorn of wonder and purpose.

UK - An NHS boss has warned people with mental health problems to avoid using chatbots for support over Christmas. Dr Adrian James, the national medical director for mental health at NHS England, said using the technology as therapy “can be dangerous”. A survey published last month showed that more than a third of adults had turned to artificial intelligence for help with their wellbeing. “As a psychiatrist, I’ve seen an increase in the number of vulnerable patients turning to AI chatbots for mental health support over the last year,” Dr James said. “Despite AI now being part of everyday life and a fantastic resource when used appropriately, it cannot be relied upon for everything – and in some cases can be dangerous. The vast majority of AI chatbots do not have access to your mental health history, cannot fully understand the nuances during a serious mental health situation and can give completely wrong advice, especially when they’re led off their script."

USA - Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard claimed at a recent Turning Point USA AmericaFest event that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called for Sharia Law in the US. "Earlier this year, there was a conference that was held representing organizations like the Council on American Islamic Relations, also known as CAIR, which issued a call to action to use American legal and political systems to implement Sharia law," she declared. Gabbard said the group’s ideology is “antithetical to the foundation that we find in our Constitution." Gabbard specifically criticized the city of Paterson, New Jersey, which calls itself the first Muslim City. Gabbard said the town is working to implement Islamic principles in the local government.

USA - 2025 has been a smashing year for those that invested in precious metals. The price of copper is up about 30 percent since the start of the year, and the price of silver has risen 128 percent during that same time period. The big financial institutions in the western world that have been attempting to suppress prices are fighting a losing battle, because the “AI revolution” is going to require vast amounts of physical silver and physical copper. At this stage, it would take a truly apocalyptic event to stop the construction of the thousands of colossal data centers that are currently going up all over the globe. At the same time, there has been a worldwide explosion in demand for physical silver from individual investors as paper currencies rapidly lose their purchasing power. And as long as the data center construction boom continues, the price of silver and the price of copper will both continue to rise.

USA - Financial writer and precious metals expert Bill Holter (aka Mr Gold) has been sounding the alarm of the profound risk in the financial system. At the beginning of December, Mr Gold warned about the record setting silver prices and said, “It’s pretty clear and pretty obvious that something behind the scenes is breaking.” What is “breaking” is the extremely leveraged futures markets with not enough physical silver to deliver. Fast forward to the end of the month, and new record highs in gold and silver are happening every day. Mr Gold says, “They are gobbling up all the supply available because they understand this is the end of the fiat currency experiment that started August 15 of 1971."

USA - A powerful storm is turning roads into rivers while triggering torrential mudslides as apocalyptic scenes sweep southern California on Christmas Eve. The holiday period is forecast to be a washout for the Golden State this year, with meteorologists warning that up to eight inches of rain is expected to hit several areas including Los Angeles County and Santa Barbara over the next four days. California officials have warned holiday travelers to avoid the roads due to the series of winter storms which are continuing to bring flash flooding and even tornadoes. Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Shasta counties as the winds and rain intensified. Los Angeles will be especially hard hit, with a severe flood warning in place for the area until 12pm on Wednesday. Hundreds of residents in at-risk neighborhoods have been warned to 'immediately move to higher ground' and evacuate their homes.

MIDDLE EAST - The two-state solution has been agreed upon since 1947. It had even been negotiated at the Yalta Summit, but it could not be implemented because the Arab States rejected it unanimously: they opted to destroy Israel in a lightning war, which ended in a disastrous setback. Since then, a multitude of wars, insurrections, and bloody aggressions have taken place. That design of annihilation has been reinforced by the Global Jihad that has been waged for decades, and even more so within the framework of Global Hybrid War, especially after October 7, 2023, when a bloodthirsty attack was carried out that shattered an intangible element within Israel's existential security: the strength of its borders… For this reason, it is counterproductive to move toward a declaration at the UN advocating the creation of a Palestinian State, when this goal has never truly been part of the shared vision of Iran's Islamic Revolution and the currents promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood and other like-minded movements.

AUSTRALIA - As radical Islamist threats continue to plague Australia, politicians are pivoting to policing speech and tightening gun laws on law-abiding citizens — now openly admitting curbs on free expression are needed to shield their multicultural agenda. Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has unveiled a sweeping plan to combat what she calls rising anti-Semitism, but the measures conveniently sidestep the core issue of unchecked radical Islamism behind recent attacks, focusing instead on doxxing anonymous social media users and reviewing gun laws. “Under Victoria’s civil anti-vilification scheme which starts in 2026, the speaker of a vilifying statement generally needs to be identifiable and held accountable,” she stated. Instead, figures like Allan and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese repeatedly spotlight “right-wing extremists” and “neo-Nazis” as the supposed primary threats. In the days following Bondi, Albanese warned of the “rise of right-wing extremists,” despite the attackers’ clear Islamist motivations. This unwillingness to name radical Islamism head-on persists.

USA - Americans are now living in storage units, sheds, tents, and vehicles because rent has become completely unaffordable. This isn’t about bad decisions or laziness, this is about a housing market that stopped working for everyday people. We hear directly from those going through it: families in cars, single moms in RVs, workers sleeping in storage units just to survive. And the hardest part? Many of them have jobs. Some have two. They’re still homeless. This is the new reality for millions of Americans, and it’s only getting worse. If you’ve been feeling the squeeze or wondering how people are getting by right now, you’re not alone.

UK - It’s that time of year again when the usual people waste their time and ours arguing that Christmas is nonsense, that if Jesus was born at all it wasn’t in December, and anyway it’s all just a hijacking of pagan rituals. Yes, about as much fun as Oliver Cromwell confiscating our Christmas puddings. As it happens, the mid-17th century century condemnation of Christmas had little to do with Cromwell himself; and the Puritans who objected to the celebration insisted that the first Christmas certainly happened, but that its celebration had become “popish”, immoral, and that having a Christmas party wasn’t strictly biblical.

MIDDLE EAST - In the aftermath of the Israel-Hamas War, US and Israeli officials are increasingly diverging in how they assess Turkey’s regional role - a shift that has become more visible as Egypt and Turkey deepen military and security coordination after years of estrangement. That difference in approach now sits at the center of a growing US–Israel gap. While Washington has sought to widen the circle of regional partners involved in managing the postwar phase, Jerusalem has pressed to keep Turkey outside any framework that could shape Gaza’s future security order. “After the Gaza war, US and Israeli views diverge much more sharply on Turkey than on Egypt,” said Professor Chuck Freilich, a senior researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies and a former deputy national security adviser. “For Washington, Turkey remains an ally. Israel, however, sees Turkey as a hostile state and is trying to keep it out of Gaza and out of security affairs more broadly.”

MIDDLE EAST - Neither Israel nor Iran wants war at the moment, nor do either of them want war for the foreseeable future. While neither side wants war, both suspect the other of being ready to launch a surprise attack. Israeli officials have been stating their readiness to strike Iran to try to deter it from rebuilding its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. And if Iran keeps building up its ballistic missile volume, Israel may again need to attack, whether that’s in three months, six months, or a few years. In the meantime, however, Israeli officials are now concerned that they may have intimidated Iran too aggressively, and are hoping that a recalibration can avoid an early war.