The United States is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus — not to defend Syria’s newfound freedom, but to enforce a “security pact” the U.S. is purportedly brokering between Syria and Israel. The move, reported by Reuters today, comes just 24 hours after Israel set up another checkpoint in Quneitra, the latest in an ongoing string of incursions and base-constructions justified under the banner of “protecting the Druze.” The interim government has so far remained diplomatically silent.

Jeffrey Epstein is back in the headlines, this time via claims published last Saturday by ‘independent’ news site Drop Site News that - according to newly discovered emails from former Israeli PM Ehud Barack - Epstein helped Israel build a “secret back-channel to Russia” over Syria between 2013 and 2016. Before anyone starts assembling a Netflix exposé, however, let’s pause to state the obvious: if this is the big reveal, it’s about 20 years late and several billion dollars short.

Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kiril Dmitriev today hailed a “brave German truth-teller” named Naomi Seibt — the self-styled “anti-Greta” of Germany’s far-right AfD party – for allying with fellow white supremacists in the USA, and for vowing to ‘FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT’ together for their cause and ‘restore European pride’.

On X, Dmitriev congratulated Seibt for “standing up to liberal tyranny” and praised Elon Musk for creating “the only platform where truth can no longer be silenced.”

The timing was immaculate.

Bulgaria’s interior minister Daniel Mitov claims Russian spies are working with people-smugglers and “hard-left humanitarian groups” to “flood Europe with illegal immigrants.”

Mitov told the UK's Times newspaper that Moscow’s intelligence services are collaborating with criminal networks and “neo-Marxist” NGOs to undermine democracy, helping migrants exploit EU and UK asylum systems and evade deportation.

UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper backed him, warning that “hostile state actors” like Russia are using migration “to destabilise Europe.”

Addressing the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons’ (OPCW) executive council on Thursday, Russia’s Permanent Representative Vladimir Tarabrin, declared the Kremlin’s support for an OPCW resolution towards conclusively closing the Syria chemical weapons file.

It takes a special kind of moral gymnastics to look at a flattened, starving, traumatized population of genocide survivors amid the rubble of their homes and decide they’re the ones who need to be monitored. Yet here we are.

As today’s news broke of a ceasefire in Gaza after two years of Israel’s genocidal war, the Political Director of the UK’s Foreign Office, Dr. Christian Turner, arrived in Beirut to present the Lebanese foreign minister with “historic maps” of Lebanon’s borders with occupied Palestine — the very borders which Britain and France carved into existence a century ago before Israel existed, and which Israel still refuses to recognize. It’s a touching gesture: the empire that divided the Middle East now offering souvenirs of the mess it left behind, one photocopy at a time.

On October 27, Edy Cohen, Israeli journalist and super-hasbara, will host what's being billed as the Middle East’s 'first minorities conference' in Tel Aviv — a jamboree of noble rhetoric about protecting vulnerable communities primarily in Syria.

Policy analysts, inspired by the visionary international post-conflict peace plan model proposed for Gaza, have begun to outline a similar framework to address the growing instability in the United States. Drawing directly on lessons from President Trump’s Gaza peace plan, they propose the establishment of a Peace Board USA: a multinational authority tasked with helping President Trump to restore security, deradicalize extremist insurgents, and rebuild dangerous cities scarred by years of unrest.

The Need for a Multinational Authority

The Jerusalem Post has just given Britain’s most notorious far-right grifter a platform, adding to the one already gifted to him by Elon Musk. In an interview published on Thursday, Tommy Robinson — convicted fraudster, prominent racist, virulent Islamophobe, pro-Putin demagogue — is posing again as Israel’s champion. It’s a typically grotesque spectacle: a white-supremacist conman who has spent years vilifying Muslims as a “civilisational threat” using Israel’s ongoing genocide as a backdrop to depict himself and Israel as the real victims.