Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’

Time is up on Donald Trump's threat to impose a blockade on the strategic strait of Hormuz. That's as Iran says no port in the Persian Gulf or the Sea of Oman will be safe if Iranian ports are threatened. Amid Washington's failed anti-Iran campaign, Trump turns his attention to Beijing threatening staggering tariffs if it supplies arms to Tehran. A new leader for Hungary, Peter Madyar, says Budapest is open for programmatic…

Clandestine · They really think Trump has no clue what’s going on, when in reality, he now controls the flow of 36%+ of the world’s crude oil supply, and just forced the nations of the world to buy oil from us, and Venezuela, which Trump conveniently already secured, along with the Panama Canal. · Now Trump’s focus on Greenland, Canada, and the Arctic shipping routes, makes even more sense. Trump is securing global shipping lanes,…

The tech entrepreneur has accused WhatsApp of ‘consumer fraud’ over its backup practices · RT composite. © Getty Images / Tero Vesalainen / nantonov · Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has accused WhatsApp of misleading users about privacy, arguing that Telegram offers stronger protection for sensitive content. · The Russian tech entrepreneur has repeatedly criticized Meta-owned WhatsApp’s security model, dismissing…

The global shock from energy, food, and trade disruption threatens the well-being of people in 162 countries, according to a UN report · Displaced Palestinians offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in a Palestinian displaced persons camp on April 10, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. ©  Ahmad Hasaballah / Getty Images · The US-Israeli war against Iran could push up to 32 million people into poverty worldwide, despite the current tentative ceasefire,…

Russian forces continue to advance and are nearing the Donetsk People’s Republic’s borders, Dmitry Peskov has said · FILE PHOTO. ©  Stanislav Krasilnikov;  RIA Novosti · Russian forces only have a few kilometers left before Donbass has been liberated, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. · Speaking to Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Sunday, Peskov was asked to comment on a…

Washington should accept Tehran’s terms or face a stalemate after the failed talks, Ebrahim Azizi has told RT · Iran will levy tolls on ships from ‘hostile’ countries crossing the Strait of Hormuz as compensation for damage caused by sanctions and US-Israeli strikes, Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, has said. · Speaking to RT on Sunday following US-Iran talks in…

In this informative interview with Professor Glenn Diesen, TheGrayzone.com Founder/Editor and award winning journalist, Max Blumenthal, outlines what he sees as an Israeli Coup of the United States and essentially describes President Trump as a captured President doing Israel’s bidding by starting a war against Iran. · Blumenthal explains this process in details and names many of those involved. He also predicts that the MAGA vs.…

The Jimmy Dore Show · Jimmy and Colonel Douglas Macgregor discuss JD Vance's claim that Ukraine is "haggling over a few square kilometers," with Macgregor calling this "extreme ignorance" and comparing it to Mexico demanding parts of the U.S. Macgregor states NATO is "already a dead man walking" and that the U.S. should phase out its European troop presence responsibly rather than bullying allies. · He warns that Israel's attempt to "turn most…

Most Hungarians came to take his achievements for granted and won’t appreciate what they had until it’s gone. · Andrew Korybko · The EU- and Ukrainian- backed Hungarian opposition just won a two-thirds supermajority in the latest parliamentary elections that ended Viktor Orban’s 16 years in office. His crushing defeat followed the EU earlier freezing €17 billion in allocated funds on rule of law pretexts, Russiagate conspiracy theories derived…

The billionaire weighed in on Viktor Orban’s defeat in the parliamentary election · A billionaire investor George Soros meets with EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker in Brussels, Belgium, on April 27, 2017. © Getty Images · The pro-EU Tisza party’s victory over Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Hungarian election means that the country has essentially been taken over by the Soros network, Elon Musk has said. · In a post on X…