GERMANY - The return of the Stasi? As the Euro-Globalist failing leaders try to whip their countries into an anti-Russia Frenzy, Germany is trying to come out of this process as the country with the largest military and – it appears – the meanest intelligence services. In a move reminiscent of the darkest days of the Cold War, new legislation will allow spies from Germany’s foreign intelligence agency ‘to attack and sabotage enemies of the state’. The Telegraph reported: “Since its founding in 1956 in West Germany, the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has only been permitted to gather and analyze intelligence. But a new law, drawn up by chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition, will give BND spies additional powers to launch cyber-attacks, carry out sabotage abroad and covertly enter the homes of enemies of the state.”

USA - The elites who run a large northern Dallas suburb have provoked national anger after ignoring the will of the people and submitting to political Islam. A brave Christian migrant who survived Sharia law in Iran walked straight up to the McKinney City Council and delivered a blistering, unfiltered warning that had the chamber erupting. Eddie Isa (also referred to as Eri Issa / Edwin Isagholi), an Iranian-born Christian and self-described “Sharia law survivor,” stood before the packed August 4, 2026, meeting and told the council exactly what soft Westerners refuse to hear. “I’m a Sharia law survivor from Iran,” he declared. “I’m TELLING YOU, this is a BAD idea, and you’re going to REGRET not listening to people like us who lived under Sharia law!”

USA - Police Chief Issa Shahin released a desperate video message urging residents to stay away from Tuesday’s August 18 city council meeting because “anti-Islam protesters,” including activists planning a “Christian Crusader March” to “Stop Islamification,” are expected to show up and exercise their First Amendment rights. “Please stay home,” Shahin said. Dearborn Police Chief Issa Shahin says individuals and organizations from outside the community may travel to the city for an anti-Islam demonstration. Police will deploy an “enhanced presence” and have prepared what the department describes as a comprehensive security plan. Shahin claims the expected demonstrators are coming to provoke residents, manufacture a confrontation and generate publicity. Dearborn has become ground zero for the demographic and cultural transformation of America. The city is now majority Arab and heavily Muslim. Outdoor Islamic calls to prayer blast through neighborhoods. Mayor Abdullah Hammoud previously told a Christian resident he was “not welcome” in the city.

USA - The Pentagon is pressing US arms makers to accelerate production as the ongoing war with Iran depletes critical weapons stockpiles, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a Department of War memo to industry leaders. The memo, written by Deputy Secretary of War Steve Feinberg and reportedly sent earlier this week, gives manufacturers 21 days to propose “significantly faster” and “more aggressive” delivery schedules, expanded production capacity, or both. “Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.”

IRAN - Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, laid out the country’s key demands for the US amid negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. Iran and Oman are engaged in ongoing discussions around this key waterway, which carries a significant portion of the world’s oil supply and has been effectively closed during Iranian strikes in the Gulf region. In a message shared by state media, Zolghadr called on the US to end its naval blockade in the key waterway, lift sanctions on Iran and pay out war reparations. Additionally, the Iranian official demanded the US military withdraw from the country and cease attacks on Tehran’s allies. “The Supreme National Security Council will never give up, whether in war or in negotiations,” Zolghadr said in a translated statement reported by state media.

JAPAN - Tokyo is building a military and intelligence architecture very different from the one that defined its postwar era. The result is a changing equation. Japan remains much smaller than China in population, military expenditure, and overall military capacity. But it is becoming a considerably more capable, connected, and technologically sophisticated military power than before. For China, that means the strategic environment along its eastern periphery is changing. Japan is no longer simply the relatively constrained maritime power of the postwar decades. It is developing the intelligence, strike, industrial, and technological capabilities required to act earlier and farther from its territory, while remaining closely integrated with the US-led security system. In short, a more assertive Japan is redrawing the map of East Asian security – and Beijing knows it.

UK - Andy Burnham is leading in the polls, a nihilistic far-Left is rising on both sides of the Atlantic, the West is facing geopolitical decline and fiscal immiseration, artificial intelligence (AI) is upending our lives, immigration is being weaponised by our enemies, and what are Right-wing parties’ response to this global emergency, this existential crisis for the societies and values they hold so dear? They are bickering, splintering, turning inwards, treating politics as a branch of show business, unleashing circular firing squads, plunging into demented purity spirals, and embracing demagogic podcasters and charlatans who measure their worth according to the volumes of clickbait they spew out. I despair. We need great leaders who rise to the occasion, men and women of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher’s stature, and we have ended up with politicians who squabble like children. It is hard to be anything other than deeply pessimistic about the West’s future.

UK - When I saw the pictures of Angela Rayner vaping in a lilo, I warmed to her. Like most parents, Rayner said that she hopes her kids never take up the filthy habit. And again, I find myself warming to her attitude of “do as I say, not as I do” parenting. But the idea that precocious children should be allowed to tell off their parents for doing what parents choose to do is less attractive. If I had told my parents I thought their habits were disgusting, I’m not sure I would have liked their response. Contemporary parents seem to think that good parenting means being equal with your children. It might be a different story for Rayner, whose kids are almost all grown up, but the idea that your own babies should have an opinion on your decisions and choices as an adult is ludicrous. Today’s baby-led, gentle-parenting mantra seems to want family life to be dictated by those who don’t yet know their backside from their elbow. This lack of adult authority is rearing a nation of brats. Perhaps it’s time adults found their backbone, and told the kids to mind their own.

USA - A dangerous view is creeping into the markets that the US has already gone so far down the path of a debt compound trap that it dare not raise interest rates to control inflation. The US treasury has to roll over $6 trillion of debt every three months in an increasingly sceptical market, as well as issuing $2 trillion of new debt annually to cover the worst structural deficit in US peacetime history.

UK - A fifth of all British taxes will be needed to pay the interest on the national debt later this century if the Government does not change course, a think tank has warned. The UK’s finances are “unsustainable” on the current trajectory, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a Left-leaning organisation with alumni across Andy Burnham’s Government. Younger Britons and those born in the coming years face “a heavy burden” left to them by past and current politicians. Just over £1 in every £5 of taxes taken in the 2070s will be needed to pay debt interest. The national debt is already thought to have risen above £3 trillion, according to estimates from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, a pressure group. Global debt investors charge Britain the highest interest rate in the G7 on its bonds, leaving the Government paying more than £100 billion per year in interest.

GERMANY - Germany’s economic growth risks being cut in half this year as heatwaves and drought leave water levels in the Rhine at record lows. Critical industries rely on the major river for the transport of metals, chemicals and fuel but they have found its waters increasingly difficult to navigate. The depth at the Kaub gauge, the shallowest part of the middle Rhine, has fallen as low as 15cm and could drop to just 5cm, down from more than 1.5m at this time last year. The low water level risks severing a vital route between Germany’s industrial heartlands and Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Europe’s biggest port. Extra rail freight services have been laid on to supply steel producer ​Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann ⁠in ​Duisburg. Further east, Saxony has relaxed its restrictions on Sunday lorry deliveries because of low water levels in the Elbe.

USA - The yen carry trade is blowing up right in front of our eyes. And so now major financial institutions in Japan are facing staggering losses… This is only the beginning. The yen fell so low last week that the US Treasury felt forced to take emergency action. The value of the yen is almost certainly going to continue to fall. Japanese bond yields are almost certainly going to continue to go up. And the pain will be felt all over the planet. As this crisis builds, it threatens to become an unstoppable tsunami which could end up ripping through everything. The war in the Middle East is far from over, and the really painful chapters of the global energy crisis are ahead of us. At the same time, a new global financial crisis is suddenly erupting in Japan. We just keep getting hit by one thing after another.

USA - Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Republican) has sounded the alarm against a planned Islamic “mega-city” outside Dallas. The East Plano Islamic Center, via its affiliate Community Capitol Partners, is seeking to construct a 1,000-home settlement around 40 minutes from Dallas. The so-called “Sharia City” would come complete with a mosque, Muslim schools, community college, and sporting facilities while serving as a reminder of Islam’s growing influence across America and the Western world.

SAUDI ARABIA - The headlines announcing a new defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey were presented as evidence of a changing strategic order in the Middle East. Saudi commentators quickly framed the agreement as proof that Israel would no longer be able to act freely across the region. But once the interviews end and the official talking points are set aside, a different conclusion emerges. One can almost smell it: the scent of Saudi anxiety. Saudi Arabia’s real concern is Iran. That is what makes this agreement so revealing. Rather than projecting confidence, it reflects the kingdom’s search for additional security guarantees in the face of Iran’s growing regional influence. The choice of partners is also telling. Pakistan and Turkey both maintain important relationships with Tehran. Neither is a natural cornerstone of an anti-Iran coalition. If anything, the agreement illustrates Riyadh’s desire to broaden its options in an increasingly uncertain regional environment. The headlines speak of power. The agreement itself suggests something different: a kingdom seeking reassurance in a volatile neighborhood.

UK - Millions of Britons are sweating their way into the fifth heatwave of the year. But the hot weather is not just an inconvenience for the public – the cost to the economy is high and rising. Britain is likely to suffer a multibillion-pound blow from heatwaves and droughts, economists estimate. Productivity slumps and retail sales tumble amid the torpor. A lack of rain is also hammering production across the country’s farms. Martin Beck, the chief economist at WPI Strategy, says: “A reasonable estimate is that the succession of heatwaves and exceptionally dry weather has already cost the UK economy around £3 billion this summer... High street footfall has fallen sharply in line with rising temperatures, according to the British Retail Consortium. It is simply too hot to shop. Although food sales are still rising, purchases of other products have dropped compared with last year. A rise in online sales has also failed to make up for fewer customers in physical shops."