German high school students protest against military service

Young people gathered in Berlin’s central Potsdamer Square on Thursday and marched through the German capital to protest against the government’s plans to reintroduce military service. While the police counted around 3,000 participants, organizers claimed there were 6,000 demonstrators in Berlin and 50,000 in more than 130 towns and cities across Germany.

“I don’t think I’ll be dying for my friends, relatives or acquaintances, in the worst-case scenario,” 17-year-old Shmuel Schatz, spokesperson for the School Strike Committee, told DW’s Gasia Ohanes. “Rather, in the end, only for those who are put into the trenches for the interests of large corporations like Rheinmetall, ThyssenKrupp, and others, so they can line their pockets at the expense of war.”

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Carney’s contradictions: from Davos to New Delhi

OTTAWA—Given his short tenure to date, Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have fully grasped something every leader eventually must: power doesn’t corrupt, it deludes. By reconciling the irreconcilable, it persuades its holder that contradiction is sophistication.

… At the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January, Carney presented himself as the custodian of coherence in a splintering world. He warned against economic coercion, and the fragility of rules-based co-operation. He cautioned against an overreliance on singular partnerships, and urged renewed commitment to multilateralism and international law. It was the technocrat at his level best: sober, strategic, and alert to all the systemic global risks.

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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.

The assistance, which has not been previously reported, signals that the rapidly expanding conflict now features one of America’s chief nuclear-armed competitors with exquisite intelligence capabilities.

Since the war began Saturday, Russia has passed Iran the locations of U.S. military assets, including warships and aircraft, said the three officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

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WARMINGTON: Toronto cops will watch weekend pro-ayatollah rally but so will Canadians

Toronto will get a better picture this weekend of just how much support there was for Iran’s fallen spiritual leader and how much opposition there really is for the war being prosecuted by Israel and America that eliminated him.

While some local mosques have martyred Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Saturday’s planned protest at the U.S. consulate in Toronto by those mourning his death will provide a bellwether of where Canadians stand on this conflict?


The folks who do al Quds Day usually draw a pretty good turnout in Toronto with their marches typically drawing several thousand Shia Muslims among others.

We have been betrayed by our elite as they should never have been allowed to settle in Canada to begin with.

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‘We have been preparing’: Why the boots on the ground in Iran could be Kurdish

For a sixth day, the US and Israel are battering targets in Iran, waging war from the air. Could there soon be boots on the ground? Maybe. But not American ones.

Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in exile in northern Iraq have told the BBC they have plans to cross the border – and have had them for decades – but they flatly deny claims that their fighters have already done so.

“We have been preparing for this for the past 47 years, since the age of the Islamic Republic,” said Hana Yazdanpana, of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), which claims to have the biggest armed force.


I don’t think the IRGC or the army will want to be caught exposed above ground should the Kurds advance leaving the prospect of an ugly urban war fought in the rubble of Iran’s cities.

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Four Singhs charged after $2.3M in suspected fentanyl seized in Brampton probe

More than $2.3 million worth of suspected fentanyl was seized and four individuals have been charged following an interprovincial drug trafficking investigation that spanned between Alberta and the Greater Toronto Area.

In a news release, police say the investigation, dubbed “Project OLLIE,” began in May 2025 when the OPP launched an intelligence-led probe into a network trafficking fentanyl between the GTA and Calgary.

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Don’t trust Ottawa on Musqueam agreement

Last weekend it became known that the Federal Government had signed an aboriginal rights agreement with the Musqueam First Nation, which acknowledged rights and title “within” a large area encompassing most of Metro Vancouver. This bilateral agreement between the Carney government and the Musqueam sets out their shared intention to “negotiate” Aboriginal title for the Musqueam within their vast claimed territory using the principles of UNDRIP as their lodestar.

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‘There was bombing all the way’: terror in the desperate queues to flee Iran

Even those who thought they had seen it all before said they had seen nothing like it. Iran is a country used to suffering. Older generations lived through the bombing and gassing of the war with Iraq in the 1980s.

In recent years there have been sanctions, economic chaos and military action in the name of the Axis of Resistance which took countless young Iranian lives.

But what the world’s two most sophisticated air forces, those of America and Israel, could achieve when working in concert was yet to be fully demonstrated.

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A visit with Occam’s Razor

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Trump’s new name for Starmer is his most derogatory yet

Donald Trump has described Sir Keir Starmer as “a loser” in conversations with friends, The Telegraph can disclose.

The US president was talking at a private dinner within the past fortnight when he dismissed Sir Keir with his most derogatory term yet.

A source told The Telegraph: “Trump has started calling Starmer a loser. He said it at a dinner with friends. He just thinks Starmer has no future any more.”

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Canada’s top crying general weighing military options to support Gulf states in Iran conflict – DEI expected to play key role

CAF – Little Green Army Men. Some In Bright Summer Dresses.

OTTAWA — Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff General Jennie Carignan said she will be meeting with her European counterparts on Friday morning to discuss military options to support Gulf states. But Carignan ruled out any Canadian military involvement in Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

“We are not talking about participating to Epic Fury, per se, this is not the mission that we are considering,” she told reporters on the sidelines of the the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence on Thursday.

What military options? It’s doubtful the CAF could put down a sewing circle at this point.

h/t patthedog via Pacific Pundit

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Unexploded Iran Missile in Syria

Is the Iranian Regime Cracking? Police, Soldiers, and Even IRGC Members Not Showing Up to Work

Is this report real, or Israeli disinformation to create a cascade of defections from the regime’s coercive apparatus?

At this point, it is hard to say, but the reports that police, soldiers, and IRGC thugs are opting out of risking their lives to protect a regime that is in deep trouble and getting killed at an astonishing rate are certainly plausible.

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How Federal Law Enforcement Rescued Memphis From Third-World Murder Stats

A few days ago, I was driving through downtown Memphis to go to dinner with my wife when we passed a group of National Guard soldiers out on patrol. This has become an altogether frequent and welcome sight here in Bluff City, and the Guard’s positive effect has been widely felt.

There’s been a lot of national discussion and commentary about the presence of soldiers in our city, but the truth is clear for those here on the ground. Walk around Memphis today and the community feels transformed.

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