Ukraine’s secret Al-Qaeda invasion of Africa

 

Ukraine, backed by Western intelligence networks, has expanded covert operations into the Sahel, supporting anti-government and extremist-linked forces in Mali as part of a broader campaign against Russian and Chinese influence in Africa.

On May 13th, French outlet RTL published an explosive report, entirely unremarked upon by English language media. It exposed how Ukrainian military and intelligence units are covertly operating in Mali on France’s behalf, “in coordination” with both ethnic Tuareg rebels and Al Qaeda-linked forces determined to crush the country’s revolutionary government. Furthermore, Kiev is keen to expand and escalate its African operations yet further, and destabilise neighbouring countries. Ukrainian militancy, long-encouraged by the CIA and MI6, has now decisively developed into an independent international threat. 

In August 2020, elements of Mali’s military staged a coup, overthrowing Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Ever since, its government has sought to neutralise Western influence locally, while pursuing radical economic policies for the good of the population. French forces were booted out in 2022 after almost a decade of occupation. Mali has instead looked to China and Russia for economic, military and political assistance, while founding the revolutionary Alliance of Sahel States (AES) with neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.

Polling shows Malians almost universally embrace their government, and its close alliance with Moscow. However, Bamako’s military administration has throughout its lifetime battled incursions from ethnic Tuareg rebels, backed by murderous extremist groups. Since late April, they have conducted combined offensives, capturing several towns, executing deadly strikes on major cities, attacking state buildings, and murdering Defense Minister Sadio Camara via car bomb. Moreover, government forces backed by Russia’s Africa Corps have been ejected from several key areas.

Bamako and Moscow characterise the bloody upheaval as a thwarted coup attempt. Nonetheless, the situation remains volatile, and potentially grave. RTL now reveals the Al-Qaeda-linked unrest has been orchestrated and practically supported all along by “Ukrainian soldiers on the ground, who are cooperating with the Tuareg rebels.” In turn, France can “continue to operate” in Mali “indirectly”. Through Kiev’s cutouts, Paris provides “operational support” to the unpopular and savage local counter-revolutionary insurgency, in the absence of her own occupying army.  (more...)

Ukraine’s secret Al-Qaeda invasion of Africa

Pope condemns ‘dizzying profits’ behind pollution in Acerra visit

 

Pope Leo denounces corporate greed driving environmental destruction during a visit to Italy’s “Land of Fires,” urging accountability over decades of toxic waste dumping.

Pope Leo XIV has condemned the “dizzying” profits earned by companies responsible for environmental pollution during a visit to Acerra in southern Italy, a region long associated with illegal toxic waste dumping and public health crises.

Speaking in the so-called “Land of Fires,” about 220 kilometres south of Rome, he urged a rejection of “temptations of power and enrichment linked to practices that pollute the land, water, air, and social coexistence.”

The area near Naples has faced decades of environmental degradation linked to illegal dumping networks. In 2025, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Italian authorities had failed to protect residents from toxic waste exposure dating back to at least 1988.

Residents greeted the pope as he arrived by popemobile, with crowds waving Vatican flags and displaying photographs of relatives who died from illnesses linked to pollution, according to local reports.  (more...)

Pope condemns ‘dizzying profits’ behind pollution in Acerra visit

Israel's deeply hypocritical message to Christians

 

Israel claims Christians are thriving in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. But Palestinian Christians, clergy, and rights advocates point to harassment, attacks, and restrictions on worship and freedom. Critics say Israel's message to the Christian world unveils its hypocrisy as realities on the ground tell a very different story.

Israel and Latin American Christian Zionists seek to promote Isaac Accords

 

On 19 April 2026, Argentina’s self-proclaimed “most Zionist president in the world,” Javier Milei, arrived in Jerusalem.

After greeting his “dearest friend” Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and affirming his support for the US-Israeli war on Iran, he signed a series of agreements to strengthen ties between Argentina and Israel despite its ongoing genocide in Gaza, where over 75,000 people have been killed since October 2023.

The Isaac Accords, which include a commitment to counter-terrorism and improved cooperation in artificial intelligence, have been in preparation since August 2025 when Milei launched a nonprofit aimed at increasing cooperation in trade, technology and cultural exchange between Israel and various Latin American countries.

Bankrolled by the Genesis Prize, the American Friends of the Isaac Accords (AFOIA) is a registered nonprofit based in New York.

Just two months earlier, Milei became the first non-Jewish recipient of the Genesis prize, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel.”

With an initial focus on Costa Rica, Panama and Uruguay, three countries “primed for enhanced cooperation with Israel,” and proposed interest in Brazil, Colombia, Chile, and potentially El Salvador, “the Isaac Accords are a natural continuation of the Abraham Accords,” according to Stafford Fitzgerald Haney, a former US ambassador to Costa Rica and current head of AFOIA, during an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

“Same spirit, new region, broader impact.”  (more...)

Israel and Latin American Christian Zionists seek to promote Isaac Accords

Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines

 

By fast-tracking critical minerals, Canada is not simply building a green economy. It is being further integrated into the U.S. war industry

Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney touts his plans to protect Canada’s economic sovereignty, the country’s critical minerals are making their way into U.S. weapons. 

According to legal experts, the U.S. is taking “possibly unprecedented” measures to secure ownership over Canadian mines, turning Canada—and the First Nations from whose lands the minerals are sourced—into a U.S. mining territory. All the while, the Canadian government is helping fund and fast-track these projects. 

From the provincial to the federal levels, Canada has been on a tear of expediting the extraction of critical minerals from its far north. These minerals were branded as “urgently necessary”—first for the transition to clean energy, and then, amid U.S. annexation threats, for Canada’s national security. 

Nickel, copper, graphite, cobalt, tungsten, chromium, and rare earth elements are not just inputs for batteries and wind turbines. They are also needed to build fighter jets, drones, missiles, radar systems, submarines, armour, and ammunition.

As I explain in a policy paper for the Transition Security Project, Canada has long been a reliable supplier of inputs for the United States’ wars. From Canada’s underbelly came the uranium for the U.S.’s nuclear bombs, nickel for armoured plates on its battleships, and aluminium for its warplanes. 

But when Canadian minerals are being earmarked for foreign military manufacturing, is that really in Canada’s national interest?  (more...)

Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines

Ireland pushes for EU trade ban on Israeli settlements amid widespread violations

 

The Irish foreign minister has called for an EU-wide ban on trade with illegal Israeli settlements as the occupying regime pushes ahead with a Palestinian land grab and the expansion of settlements across the occupied West Bank. 

In a social media post on Friday, Helen McEntee said that the bloc must send a “strong signal” that such actions were "unacceptable."

“Today at the Trade Foreign Affairs Council, I’m calling for an EU-level ban on trade with illegal settlements. We must send a strong signal that this behavior is unacceptable and must stop,” McEntee said on X.

Also speaking ahead of the EU council meeting, McEntee also said ministers would discuss European security, the situation in West Asia, and its impact on the bloc’s economic security.

European countries, including Spain and Ireland, have already pushed to suspend a pact governing the EU's ties with Israel.

They are leading a coalition urging the EU to take firm action: suspend the Israel Association Agreement, ban arms exports and impose sanctions over genocidal war in Gaza and rights abuses across the occupied territories.  (more...)

Ireland pushes for EU trade ban on Israeli settlements amid widespread violations

US political operatives built a surveillance app for Alberta separatists, a coordinated attack to destabilize Canada

 

The Centurion Project's voter surveillance tool was built by US political operatives with direct ties to the Trump regime

The data on 2.9 million Albertans was loaded onto an app built with US funding, shaped by US political strategists, and deployed by a Canadian separatist organizer who spent nearly two years cultivating US partners before launching the Centurion Project. The question is not whether there is a US connection to what lawyers have called potentially the most significant privacy breach in Canadian history. The question is how deep the operation goes, who in the Trump orbit knew about it, and how far are they willing to take it.

On the night of 29 April 2026, David Parker stood in front of supporters at the Edmonton Oilfield Technical Society and unveiled the Centurion Project app, describing the technology as the same tool that "helped Trump win Michigan." Minutes after Parker finished speaking, an Elections Alberta investigator arrived with Edmonton police officers to inform organisers they were under investigation for improperly accessing and using the province's list of electors. Parker had already loaded the names, addresses, and voter identification numbers of every judge, every lawyer, every politician, every domestic abuse victim, every First Nations chief, every journalist, every senator, and every elections investigator in the province onto that app. Former premier Jason Kenney, on learning his home address had been shown to meeting participants, retained legal counsel and said he had previously received threats from people involved with the separatist, anti-vaccine, and far-right movements in Alberta. The database was accessible to anyone with the link, with no identity verification required.

Parker is a former Harper PMO staffer and the founder of Take Back Alberta, the political machinery credited with installing Danielle Smith as leader of the United Conservative Party. Smith attended Parker's wedding in 2023. UCP caucus staff attended an online Centurion Project meeting in April 2026, though the UCP says staff believed the data being presented had been legally obtained. Smith says she learned about the breach through media reports.

Elections Alberta confirmed the list came from the Republican Party of Alberta, a registered provincial party that advocates for independence, which had lawful access to the data. Investigators use fictitious "salt" names seeded into lists distributed to parties to identify the source of any leaked copy. Those salt names appeared in the Centurion database. Parker has not denied this. He has described the database as "like a phone book" and said it was intended to help volunteers search for friends and acquaintances they could canvass. He has also said he obtained the list on what he described as the black market for $45,000. Both things cannot be simultaneously true.  (more...)

US political operatives built a surveillance app for Alberta separatists, a coordinated attack to destabilize Canada