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

Seit 1. April 2025 ist Elisabeth Zehetner Staatssekretärin im Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie und Tourismus.