Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’

RT: Dutch Starmer critic barred from UK Eva Vlaardingerbroek delivers a speech during the first “Remigration Summit” at Teatro Condominio in Gallarate, Italy, May 17, 2025. © Getty Images / Emanuele Cremaschi · Dutch political commentator and activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek (Vlaar) has been banned from entering the UK after criticizing Prime Minister Keir Starmer for neglecting migrant crime. · Vlaar, with over 2 million followers on X and…

The US president believes his Russian counterpart is ready to make a deal, unlike the Ukrainian leader · RT: FILE PHOTO ©  Joe Raedle / Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has singled out Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky as the main obstacle to a peace agreement to end the conflict with Russia, in an Oval Office interview with Reuters. · Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration that his attempts to…

The foreign policy chief reportedly joked about hitting the bottle over world crises as she herself faces calls to step down · RT: The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas. © Getty Images / Thierry Monasse · EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas has privately suggested that the state of the world might make it a “good moment” to start boozing, Politico reported on Wednesday.…

The chancellor has departed from his isolationist position and called for dialogue with Moscow, along with other senior figures · RT: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. © Global Look Press / IMAGO / dts Nachrichtenagentur · The European Union would do well to “find a balance again with our largest European neighbor,” German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated, in a reversal of his previous position on…

It might be a negotiating tactic to pressure Russia into concessions on its maximalist goals in the conflict as a quid pro quo for not reprioritizing Russia’s containment over China’s by extending Article 5 to NATO states’ troops in Ukraine and thus reducing the odds that they’ll actually deploy there. · Andrew Korybko · France and the UK recently committed to deploying troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire as part of their latest…

"He who fights with monsters must see to it that he doesn't thereby become a monster." · John Leake · A few years before he died in 1999, Alexander von Üxküll-Gyllenband lived just down the street from me in Vienna. He was the first cousin of Claus von Stauffenberg, who unsuccessfully tried to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944. · I occasionally had afternoon tea with him in his modest apartment, and we talked about history and…

Frank Bergman · President Donald Trump is preparing to storm the heart of the globalist establishment, bringing his America First agenda directly into the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual summit in Davos, Switzerland. · Trump’s appearance at the elite gathering, long synonymous with open borders, free trade absolutism, and unelected global governance, represents a direct challenge to the ideological consensus that has dominated…

President Trump isn't the only one clamming up over Jeffrey Epstein - as Bill and Hillary Clinton are both refusing to testify in front of Congressional investigators over their relationship with the dead sex-trafficking pedophile, escalating a monthslong battle with House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY). · The Clintons were scheduled to testify this week - weeks after the Trump DOJ released volumes of 'Epstein Files' -…

Alex Krainer · On Friday, 10 January, President Trump convened nearly two dozen oil and gas executives at the White House—Chevron, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Shell, and others—to pitch them on rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure following last weekend’s military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro. Trump’s apparent objective was to get the U.S. oil companies to invest $100 billion to revitalize Venezuela’s dilapidated oil…

Andrew Korybko · Building more facilities there to complement Pituffik Space Base would further the US’ “Golden Dome” missile defense plans for obtaining a strategic edge over Russia while extracting more critical minerals from there would reduce dependence on vulnerable Chinese supply chains. · Trump recently reaffirmed his intent to annex Greenland on the pretext that this would supposedly preempt China or Russia from invading NATO member…