"Nigel Farage Was MAGA Before Trump"

Feb 13, 2026 | TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak chats to investigative journalist Sam Bright from DeSmog, to discuss how money has influenced our politics, and who is funding Nigel Farage and why.

WIKIPEDIA: Christopher Harborne »

Trump's Plan to Rig Elections with ‘Save America Act’ That Limits Voting

Feb 14, 2026 | The SAVE AMERICA ACT is being marketed as common-sense election security. But here’s the key question: what problem is this bill actually solving? Federal law already prohibits noncitizens from voting in national elections. Voter registration forms require applicants to attest—under penalty of perjury—that they are U.S. citizens. Multiple audits and investigations, including those conducted by Republican-led states, have consistently found noncitizen voting to be exceedingly rare.

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China - Making a Nation (1/2) The Blue Sun | ARTE.tv Documentary

Feb 14, 2026 | After the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, China faced a historic turning point: How could the country find its way in the modern world? This two-part documentary shows how for over a century, China has been building itself up to repel foreign influence and to create a strong nation.

China - Making a Nation (1/2) The Blue Sun | ARTE.tv Documentary
Available until: 12/08/2026

US-Botschafter bei der Nato: China könnte Ukraine-Krieg mit einem Anruf beenden

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Der US-Botschafter bei der Nato, Matthew Whitaker, kritisiert chinesische Käufe von russischem Öl. China kündigt humanitäre Hilfe für die Ukraine an.

China könnte den Krieg in der Ukraine mit einem Anruf beenden, hat der US-Botschafter bei der Nato, Matthew Whitaker, auf einer Podiumsdiskussion bei der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz erklärt. „China könnte Wladimir Putin anrufen , diesen Krieg morgen beenden und die Lieferung seiner Dual-Use-Technologien einstellen“, sagte er einem Bloomberg-Bericht zufolge.

Er fügte hinzu: „Wissen Sie, dieser Krieg wird von China voll und ganz ermöglicht.“ Das Land könne den Kauf von russischem Öl und Gas stoppen, so Whitaker. China ist Bloomberg zufolge ein wichtiger Lieferant für russische Drohnen und andere Komponenten, die militärisch eingesetzt werden können, außerdem sei Peking derzeit der größte Abnehmer russischer Rohöllieferungen. » | Anika Schlünz | Samstag, 14. Februar 2026

Rubio über Beziehung zu Europa: „Wir wollen nicht nur den Niedergang verwalten“

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Der US-Außenminister eröffnet den zweiten Tag der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz. Er betont die Nähe zu Europa und warnt vor Deindustrialisierung.

US-Außenminister Marco Rubio hat in seiner Rede bei der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz die Nähe zu Europa betont. „Wir gehören zusammen“, erklärte Rubio. Er verwies dabei auf gemeinsame kulturelle Verbindungen und eine gemeinsame Zusammenarbeit, insbesondere nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

Gleichzeitig warnte er, westliche Staaten hätten durch „Verlegung der Produktion in andere Länder“ einen Teil ihrer Souveränität gefährdet. Er plädierte für einen stärkeren Fokus auf nationale Interessen. „Wir können wieder die Herren über unsere Lieferketten werden, wir können erfolgreich sein“, erklärte Rubio. » | Anika Schlünz | Samstag, 14. Februar 2026

« L’Histoire vous placera aux côtés des plus grands héros du monde » : Reza Pahlavi appelle Trump à « aider » le peuple iranien

LE FIGARO : « Il faut en finir avec la République islamique », a déclaré le fils du chah d’Iran lors de la Conférence sur la sécurité à Munich, exhortant la population à poursuivre son opposition.

Le fils exilé du chah déchu, Reza Pahlavi, a appelé ce samedi Donald Trump à « aider » le peuple iranien, jugeant qu'il était « temps d'en finir avec la République islamique ». « Le peuple iranien vous a entendu dire que l'aide est en route , et il a foi en vous. Aidez-le, et l'Histoire vous placera aux côtés non seulement de la nation iranienne, mais aussi des plus grands héros du monde », a lancé Reza Pahlavi à l'adresse du président américain, dans une conférence de presse en marge de la Conférence sur la sécurité à Munich. » | Par Le Figaro avec AFP | samedi 14 février 2026

« Nous croyons que l’Europe peut survivre », lance Marco Rubio à Munich, un an après le virulent réquisitoire de JD Vance

LE FIGARO : Lors de la conférence sur la sécurité, le secrétaire d’État américain a affirmé ce samedi que les États-Unis « ne cherchaient pas à diviser, mais à revitaliser une vieille amitié et à renouveler la plus grande civilisation de l’histoire humaine ».

À Munich, 2026 s’annonce un peu plus doux que 2025. Un an après le virulent réquisitoire du vice-président américain JD Vance à la « conférence sur la sécurité » (MSC) qui se tient annuellement dans la ville allemande, c’est au tour, cette année, du chef de la diplomatie, Marco Rubio, de représenter les États-Unis. « Nous voulons que l’Europe soit forte, nous croyons que l’Europe peut survivre », a déclaré ce samedi 14 février le secrétaire d’État américain, ajoutant que « nous ne voulons pas que nos alliés soient faibles, car cela nous affaiblit. Nous voulons des alliés capables de se défendre afin qu’aucun adversaire ne soit jamais tenté de tester notre force collective.»

De même, le diplomate a eu des mots plus rassurants que ceux que Donald Trump a pu récemment prononcer à propos de l’Otan : « Nous ne cherchons pas à diviser, mais à revitaliser une vieille amitié et à renouveler la plus grande civilisation de l’histoire humaine. Ce que nous voulons, c’est une alliance revigorée ». » | Par Alexis Feertchak avec l’AFP | samedi 14 février 2026

Michael Lambert: Who Replaces Starmer? Do You Agree with My Choice?

February 14, 2026

‘The Time of Monsters’: Everyone Is Quoting Gramsci – But What Did He Actually Say?

THE GUARDIAN: Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote

Screenshot taken from this article. | Antonio Gramsci filled notebooks with his thoughts on political theory and philosophy after being imprisoned by the Italian fascist government in 1926. Photograph: Fototeca Storica Nazionale/Getty Images
At a time when geopolitical certainties of old are crumbling away, it has become the go-to quote to make sense of the current moment in all its seeming senselessness. “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters” is a line attributed to the former Italian Communist party leader Antonio Gramsci.

Over the last two months alone, it has been quoted – and often mangled – by a rightwing Belgian prime minister, a leftwing British political leader, an Irish central banker and in the title of the most recent BBC Reith lecture, given by the author Rutger Bregman.

“We can’t let the monsters win,” influencers earnestly warn their followers on Instagram; on LinkedIn, business consultants post graphs that visualise the “Gramsci gap” and its relevance to corporate strategy.

The only problem is, Gramsci never said or wrote such a thing. Or at least not in the snappy wording that has made it go viral. » | Philip Oltermann | Saturday, February 14, 2026

Why Does Trump Hate America's Allies? (w/ John Mearsheimer)

February 14, 2026

Truth To Power: The Transatlantic Machine Hyping Britain’s “Decline”

February 14, 2026 | The far-right has a coordinated transatlantic strategy to convince you Britain is broken. From AI-generated 'scary London' images to Jenrick's revisionist fantasy that 1980s football hooliganism was 'good-natured fun,' Reform UK and their American backers profit from your fear. But the facts? London is safer than any US state. You're more likely to be stabbed in America. Violent crime in London sits at 87% of the UK average. Modern Britain is objectively better than the racist, violent 1980s they romanticise, yet a third of voters now believe 'Britishness' must be born with (up from 1 in 5 in 2023). Don't swallow the lies.

Champagne, Concierges and Emergency Sand: How the Ultra-Rich Travel

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Inside the arms race to satisfy travelers for whom exclusivity is everything and money is no object.

Today’s super-rich travelers want luxury. They want personalized attention. They want non-cookie-cutter hotels with impeccable service and private villas with personal butlers. They want to never, ever, have to wait, stand in line or be herded around with other people.

Most of all, said Carlo Nocella, head of global sales at Vavius Club, the loyalty program for a destination management company in Italy, they want “to feel that they have something that other people cannot achieve.”

What that looks like is the preoccupation of an ever expanding, ever more elaborate travel infrastructure — travel advisers, concierge services and members’ clubs — catering to the extravagant needs and money-is-no-object whims of ultra-high-net-worth clients.

Roughly defined as people who have investable assets of at least $30 million and are prepared to pay, say, thousands of dollars a night for a hotel room or tens of thousands of dollars for a villa, these clients are in turn fueling an arms race in the world of high-end leisure. The goal is to offer the most fabulous, the most opulent, the most individualized and the most singular properties, experiences and services imaginable. » | Sarah Lyall | Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report

Jul 17, 2025 | Despite a strong desire from the public to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein case, which saw the trafficking and sexual exploitation of thousands of young girls, the cabal associated with Epstein continues its conspiracy to suppress the ugly truth of the ruling class.

IHIP News: 🚨 Rep. Drops Bomb on Trump after Seeing Unredacted Files! "The Famous Names Are Horrific"

Feb 13, 2026 | We are joined by Congressman Ro Khanna to discuss the unredacted Epstein files and the horrifying reality they expose.

Neue Epstein-Files: Die Verbrechen einer globalen Elite | Sandra Navidi

Feb 13, 2026 | Mehr als drei Millionen Seiten hat das US-Justizministerium aus den Epstein-Files veröffentlicht. Die Ermittlungsakten geben neue Einblicke in die Verbrechen des verstorbenen Sexualstraftäters Jeffrey Epstein. Und sie entblößen eine globale Elite im Umkreis des New Yorker Multimillionärs. Einflussreiche Männer weltweit, die Epstein schützten und am Missbrauch von mehr als 1.000 Mädchen und jungen Frauen beteiligt gewesen sein sollen. Über diese elitären Abgründe sprechen wir mit der deutsch-amerikanischen Autorin und Anwältin Sandra Navidi.

Ina Garten’s Top-rated Engagement Roast Chicken 💍 | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

Feb 13, 2026 | Ina Garten’s iconic Engagement Roast Chicken is juicy and golden, stuffed with garlic and lemons, roasted with caramelized onions and finished with a simple pan sauce that makes it perfect for any occasion.

US ‘Not Powerful Enough to Go It Alone’, Merz Tells Munich Conference

THE GUARDIAN: German chancellor rebuts idea of American unilateralism and says ‘democracies have partners and allies’

The US acting alone has reached the limits of its power and may already have lost its role as global leader, Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, warned Donald Trump at the opening of the Munich Security Conference.

Merz also disclosed he had held initial talks with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, over the possibility of joining France’s nuclear umbrella, underlining his call for Europe to develop a stronger self-standing security strategy.

In a speech on Friday designed to set a firm yet conciliatory tone about the future of the transatlantic partnership, Merz argued the old order had ended and in this new age of superpowers even the US was reaching the limits of going it alone.

Referring to those that warned the international rules-based order was about to be destroyed, Merz said: “I fear we must put it even more bluntly. This order, however imperfect it was even at its best, no longer exists in that form.”

Switching to English to ram home his message, Merz said: “In the era of great power rivalry, even the United States will not be powerful enough to go it alone. Dear friends, being a part of Nato is not only Europe’s competitive advantage. It is also the United States’ competitive advantage.”

“So let’s repair and revive transatlantic trust together,” he added. » | Patrick Wintour in Munich | Friday, February 13, 2026

Steve Schmidt: Trump’s Gestapo Will Answer America

Feb 13, 2026 | Yesterday, ICE Director Todd Lyons finally faced tough questioning in the Senate over abuses of constitutional rights. Steve Schmidt explains why this moment could mark a turning point for American democracy.

One cannot help but fast come to the conclusion that America needs to be put out of its misery! The country must surely be in the throes of its demise, of its death. Maybe 250 years was its natural lifespan? — © Mark Alexander

Donald Trump’s Climate Catastrophe!

Trump is such a dumb dude. Father David explains.

I Just Called to Say…

…I love YOU.