Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

French president says bloc should be ready for trade war after 30% tariff threat but other EU leaders call for calm The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the EU to “defend European interests resolutely” after Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on nearly all imports from the EU. He said the EU should be ready for a trade war and to stand up to the US president who was only last week expected to approve a 10% tariff agreement in principle with the bloc. Continue reading...

Exclusive: most of defense department’s discretionary spending from 2020-2024 went to military contractors A new study of defense department spending previewed exclusively to the Guardian shows that most of the Pentagon’s discretionary spending from 2020-2024 has gone to outside military contractors, providing a $2.4tn boon in public funds to private firms in what was described as a “continuing and massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to fund war and weapons manufacturing”. The report from the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Costs of War program at Brown University said that the Trump administration’s new Pentagon budget will push annual US military spending past the $1tn mark. Continue reading...

Brussels has been ignoring warnings from scientists concerning rapidly increasing exposure to toxic “forever chemicals” from Europe's food and drinking water. Documents obtained by Follow the Money re...

Passive radio signals sent by cellular stations could detect small boats and improve security at ports and harbors

„Bösartige Drecksau“, „korrupter Lügner“ oder „verlogener Psycho“ sind „keine Verstöße gegen die X-Regeln“. Gesetze und Behörden, die ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried an Unseenlabs satellite, BRO-18, for use in geolocating ships via radio frequency detection

Die Preise für Lebensmittel sind enorm gestiegen. Bei einigen Lebensmitteln kann man das konkret auf den Klimawandel zurückführen – und diese werden langsam zum Luxusgut.

Bereits unmittelbar nach dem Abschuss von MH17 häuften sich die Indizien für eine Täterschaft russischer Kräfte. Dennoch gelang es dem Kreml und seinen Fürsprechern, gezielt Verwirrung zu stiften. Neb...

Geleakte Zolldaten zeigen: Noch im April 2022 gelangten Gewehr-Zielfernrohre von Swarovski aus Österreich nach Russland. Zuvor hatte der Tiroler Konzern behauptet, sein Russland-Geschäft auf Eis geleg...

Sie erklären den Ukrainekrieg mit Russlands Sicherheitsinteressen und wollen von Putins Imperialismus nichts wissen: Sind die selbst ernannten Realisten einfach nur naiv?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is on track to form a majority government, powered by a backlash to U.S.-style MAGA politics.

Tibeter, Uiguren, Taiwaner und andere von China als Feinde deklarierte Personen erzählen, wie sie Peking in Österreich mundtot macht. Auch Politiker werden unter Druck gesetzt

The Administration of U.S. President Donald Trump approved the first arms export to Ukraine worth $50 million through direct commercial sales

After seizure in Hamburg of 16 tonnes of high-purity powder, state attorney is accused of being on payroll of gang he was supposed to be prosecuting

Cause of blast in southern port of Shahid Rajaee in Bandar Abbas unknown but one report says containers exploded An immense blast in Iran’s southern port of Shahid Rajaee has wounded at least 516 people, according to state media. The cause of the explosion in the southern city of Bandar Abbas was unknown, with the director general of the province’s crisis management saying the body was working to determine the cause of the incident. Continue reading...

"Wall Street execs are getting a direct heads-up from the White House about news that could earn them billions on the stock market."

Hearing scheduled for Friday as residents receive anonymous leaflets that downplay pollution dangers Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is stirring controversy in Memphis, Tennessee. That’s where he’s building a massive supercomputer to power his company xAI. Community residents and environmental activists say that since the supercomputer was fired up last summer it has become one of the biggest air polluters in the county. But some local officials have championed the billionaire, saying he’s investing in Memphis. The first public hearing with the health department is scheduled for Friday, where county officials will hear from all sides of the debate. In the run-up to the hearing, secretive fliers claiming xAI has low emissions were sent to residents of historically Black neighborhoods; at the same time, environmental groups have been amassing data about how much pollution the AI company is likely generating. Continue reading...

Friedensverhandlungen in Trumps schöner neuer Welt

EU executive bans meetings with Huawei-linked groups following bribery scandal.

The U.S. proposal is expected to be discussed tomorrow in London. Ukrainian officials aren't thrilled.