HEAD OF GERMAN FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SAYS WAR WITH RUSSIA IS COMING
“Germany is in danger of being drawn into a violent conflict with Russia,” Martin Jäger, the head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND), told parliamentarians, according to a report in politico.eu. Jäger said this, not as a warning to slow down the Merz government’s headlong rush to war with Russia, but rather to justify and […]
U.S. OIL RESERVE DOWN TO TWO WEEKS’ WORTH OF OIL CONSUMPTION
Amongst the ‘good vibe’ reports on how President Trump can have his cake—that is, destroy Iran—and eat it, too—that is, get enough oil to keep the economy from blowing up—the game of living off oil reserves has a pretty severe downside. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is now down to about two weeks’ worth […]
SPAIN’S SANCHEZ CALLS SNAP ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez responded to the mass protests sweeping the country over the housing crisis, and the brazen attempt of the neo-con PP and Vox parties to use that crisis to topple his government, by calling snap elections for Nov. 29. “Sánchez, who has been prime minister for more than eight years, called […]
PENTAGON DOUBLING DOWN ON CONTAINMENT OF CHINA
The Pentagon has redoubled its plans to contain China within the First Island Chain in accordance with the 2026 National Defense Strategy (NDS) update. In a Sept. 22 report to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the 2026 NDS, delivered two days before the Trump-Xi Jinping summit, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby […]
KHULU PHASIWE, “A WAR CORRESPONDENT WITHOUT A HELMET” – SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO ONE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S THE BEST SPOKESPERSONS
RIP FROM GSMN AND READERS: HUMBLE TO THE END: Late Khulu Phasiwe was committed and dedicated to public service in his unique down-to-earth way. Former Eskom spokesman, Khulu Phasiwe once said something that left an indelible impression on my mind. 702 radio host Stephen Grootes conducted an exit interview to oay tribute to him. And […]
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IS A “BROKEN, RACIST COURT” THAT MUST SHUT DOWN
Imagine if there was a court in Europe with universal jurisdiction which engages in blatant racial profiling and has only ever convicted black suspects in its almost 25 years of existence. Imagine if 80-90 percent of the people that the court has ever indicted were black. Imagine if that court has detained black suspects for […]