The United States has officially handed over its last military base in Niger, marking the end of its military presence in the African nation. The U.S. Department of Defense and Niger’s Department of National Defense announced on Monday that the withdrawal of American troops and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete.
Air Base 201, situated near Agadez, underwent significant improvements by the United States, but will no longer be able to enjoy the fruits of these costly investments. U.S. troops had been present in Niger for years, providing military training and supporting missions against Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the region.
Following a military coup in July of 2023, a pro-Russian military junta took over Niger, ousting the Western-backed president. The National Pulse reported that neighboring nations and the Biden-Harris government in the U.S. initially threatened to intervene and restore the country’s former leader. However, by April of this year, Russian forces had begun to move in, with Biden conceding to the junta and announcing a withdrawal of U.S. troops.
GEOPOLITICS.
In recent years, Russia has similarly supplanted the U.S. and its allies in Mali, Burkina Faso, and other states in the region.
The National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam noted last year that while reductions to U.S. foreign entanglements are positive—with many Americans opposing foreign interventionism—the Niger situation is more akin to a military defeat.
“In fact, while troops coming home is something to be celebrated, they’re not coming home because they’ve secured any kind of long-term strategic victory in the region—not even by globalist standards,” Kassam said.
“Biden’s apparatus has humiliated America again and leaves dangerous parts of the world in worse situations than when they took office,” he explained.
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The United States has officially handed over its last military base in Niger, marking the end of its military presence in the African nation. The U.S. Department of Defense and Niger's Department of National Defense announced on Monday that the withdrawal of American troops and assets from Air Base 201 in Agadez is complete.
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh has resigned after 15 years in power after weeks of violent protests and clashes with security forces. On Monday, demonstrators marched to the capital, Dhaka, defying a military curfew. They stormed Hasina’s official residence and celebrated her ouster in the streets, with some seen looting the residence’s furnishings and electronics.
In a televised address, Army Chief General Waker-Us-Zaman confirmed that Hasina, 76, had departed the country. An interim government will be established. Reports indicated that Hasina, accompanied by her sister, had flown to the eastern Indian state of West Bengal in a military helicopter. There are also reports of her heading to London, England.
Hasina is accused of presiding over arbitrary arrests, torture, extortion, and intimidation. She would not be the first questionable foreign leader to be welcomed by Britain. The country already hosts at least five Rwandan genocidesuspects and a Hamas leader who lives in London in a house provided by taxpayers, among others.
In London’s Whitechapel, home to a large Bangladeshi community, the news of her ouster spurred widespread celebration. Community members, who often seem more invested in Bangladesh than Britain, chanted and waved flags.
DEATH AND DISORDER.
The violence ahead of Hasina’s ouster resulted in nearly 300 deaths and numerous injuries as protesters clashed with security forces. Last Sunday alone, almost 100 people died in the clashes.
Authorities initially shut down the Internet and imposed a curfew on Sunday night, covering Dhaka and other major districts.
The unrest has been attributed to allegations of autocratic governance by Hasina. Many of her political opponents, including the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the banned Jamaat-e-Islami (Society of Islam) party, were detained or marginalized in the lead-up to her re-election in 2023, an election marred by accusations of being neither free nor fair.
Hasina’s opposition is not without its own controversies, with Jamaat-e-Islami being an Islamic fundamentalist party banned for its role in the genocide of Hindus in East Pakistan, as Bangladesh then was, in 1971.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh has resigned after 15 years in power after weeks of violent protests and clashes with security forces. On Monday, demonstrators marched to the capital, Dhaka, defying a military curfew. They stormed Hasina's official residence and celebrated her ouster in the streets, with some seen looting the residence's furnishings and electronics.
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The Taliban has received substantial funding from the United States due to inadequate vetting by the State Department under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. According to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at least $239 million has potentially benefited extremist groups since the Biden-Harris regime’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
The funds, distributed by the State Department‘s Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) and International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) divisions, were intended for development projects aligning with American foreign policy and national security goals in Afghanistan. However, the investigation found that these divisions failed to conduct proper vetting on at least 29 grants, as mandated by their own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements.
The vetting system is designed to ensure that prospective awardees possess ethical business practices and to assess whether the funding could benefit terrorists or their affiliates. SIGAR’s report notes that the State Department did not adhere to these protocols.
According to the report, in multiple instances DRL and INL failed to maintain compliance with document retention and vetting requirements. DRL did not properly screen the recipients of seven awards amounting to approximately $12 million. INL was unable to provide supporting documentation for 19 out of 22 awards, totaling about $295 million, making it impossible to verify compliance with the vetting requirements.
The Taliban has also profited from fraudulent non-governmental organizations (NGOs) absorbing funds managed through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM). Moreover, U.S. contributions to the United Nations for Afghanistan, amounting to $1.6 billion, likely also benefited the Taliban due to inadequate reporting requirements.
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The Taliban has received substantial funding from the United States due to inadequate vetting by the State Department under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. According to a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), at least $239 million has potentially benefited extremist groups since the Biden-Harris regime's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
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Japanese stocks recorded their most enormous daily loss in history on Monday, driven by fears of a U.S. economic slowdown under the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris government. The Nikkei 225 index plummeted by an unprecedented 4,451 points, closing over 12 percent down. This drop pushed the index into bear market territory with a 25 percent decline since early July. Analysts are likening the crash to the infamous “Black Monday” of October 1987, when the Nikkei fell by 3,836 points and global markets tumbled.
Concerns over a sharp slowdown in the U.S. economy have fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates. The latest U.S. jobs report showed job creation significantly below expectations, and unemployment significantly above expectations. Moreover, the jobs data suggests foreign workers are replacing American workers.
“The aggressive bear onslaught and fears of a hard landing in the U.S. are creating a contagion effect, leading to a severe meltdown in Tokyo’s markets,” warns Stephen Innes, managing partner at SPI Asset Management.
Trading in Japan and South Korea was intermittently halted as circuit breakers were triggered to prevent panic selling. This market volatility extended to other regions, including the U.S. where stock futures dipped sharply. Nasdaq futures dropped by 4 percent, while Dow and S&P 500 futures dropped by 1.5 percent and 2.3 percent.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index fell by 2.5 percent in morning trade in Europe, reaching lows not seen since February. Taiwan‘s Taiex, South Korea’s Kospi, Australia’s S&P/ASX 200, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index, and China’s Shanghai Composite also recorded big losses.
Oil prices also hit their lowest levels since January, and cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin fell by over 12 percent. Poor U.S. tech earnings—and China’s weak manufacturing data—are exacerbating the wider situation.
Investors are on edge, with many bracing for continued market instability in the days ahead.
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Japanese stocks recorded their most enormous daily loss in history on Monday, driven by fears of a U.S. economic slowdown under the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris government. The Nikkei 225 index plummeted by an unprecedented 4,451 points, closing over 12 percent down. This drop pushed the index into bear market territory with a 25 percent decline since early July. Analysts are likening the crash to the infamous "Black Monday" of October 1987, when the Nikkei fell by 3,836 points and global markets tumbled.
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A journalistic watchdog has published a scathing review of a prior report from a George Soros-funded group, which alleged members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were holding a secret conference to discuss deporting all people with a migration background from Germany, even if they are citizens.
The Übermedien expert group slammed the leftist activist group Correctiv for its misrepresentation of the facts. The watchdog also blasted the German mainstream media for being entirely uncritical of the claims made by Correctiv about a conference in Potsdam earlier this year that was attended by members of the AfD and Austrian anti-mass migration activist Martin Sellner.
The Correctiv report, which won awards in German media and sparked left-wing protests involving hundreds of thousands of people, is deeply flawed, according to the watchdog, noting a recent court case in which Correctiv outright admitted there was no formal talk of plans for the mass expulsions of migrants by the AfD.
“It has long been obvious how problematic Correctiv reporting and its reception are. And at the same time, how much a critical examination of it is lacking in large parts of the serious press,” the watchdog said.
FAKE REPORTS PROMPTED BANS FROM GERMANY.
Martin Sellner spoke at the Potsdam conference about the “remigration” of illegals and those who refuse to integrate into German society to their homelands, but Correctiv was accused by Übermedien of taking a few fragments of sentences he said, twisting them, and comparing his ideas to Naziethnic cleansing.
The watchdog was especially disturbed by the comparison to the Wannsee conference made by Correctiv in its reporting. The Wannsee conference was the first major meeting to decide on the implementation of what would become the Holocaust.
As a result of the misleading report, Martin Sellner was banned from entering Germany, despite the internal open borders of the European Union (EU) and the close links between Germany and Austria.
SOROS GROUP INVENTED ‘DEPORTATION OF MILLIONS’ PLAN.
Übermedien also notes that only two people in the conference spoke about remigration, but Correctiv implied that the entire conference was actively planning to deport millions of people from Germany.
The Correctiv report even opened by saying, “High-ranking AfD politicians, neo-Nazis and financially strong entrepreneurs came together in November in a hotel near Potsdam. They planned nothing less than the expulsion of millions of people from Germany.”
Correctiv had to note that Sellner had not said that he wanted to use unlawful means to deport anyone, and that others had even said deporting those with German passports was impossible.
REPORT DIVIDED THE POPULIST RIGHT.
The Correctiv report also had some repercussions on the AfD’s relations with other European populist parties. French National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen said she was reconsidering her party’s then-alliance with the AfD because of the report.
Following the European Parliament elections, the AfD had to go its own way and split from other leading populist parties, forming the Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) group along with other smaller parties from across Europe.
Le Pen and others joined with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban to form the Patriots for Europe group, whhile Italy’s Giorgia Meloni remains in the more establishment-friendly European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), effectively splitting the populist right.
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A journalistic watchdog has published a scathing review of a prior report from a George Soros-funded group, which alleged members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party were holding a secret conference to discuss deporting all people with a migration background from Germany, even if they are citizens.
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Vadim Krasikov, a Russian national held in a German prison, is a key figure in the prisoner exchange deal which saw the release of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan earlier today. Despite the Russians having Krasikov at the top of their list in past negotiations regarding prisoner swaps, little is known about the man other than his assassination of a Chechen dissident in Berlin in 2019 and his suspected role in the death of a businessman in Moscow in 2013.
The twice-divorced Krasikov was serving a life sentence in Germany for the 2019 murder. German and U.S. officials suspect that the Russian national carried out the assassination at the behest of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). However, some have speculated further that Krasikov may actually be more than just a contract killer and former FSB agent—believing that he never retired and instead acted as a professional assassin for the agency.
Born in the Soviet Union—in what is today Kazakhstan—the 58-year-old Krasikov moved to Siberia in the 1980s. By 2019, however, the allegedly former FSB colonel had relocated to Moscow. By August 2019, Krasikov had entered Germany, and on August 23, he murdered Zelimkhan “Tornike” Khangoshvili in the Kleiner Tiergarten—a small Berlin park. Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen and ethnic Chechen, was an outspoken critic of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. He was shot three times in broad daylight by a then-unknown assailant who had followed him on a bicycle.
In February, Putin appeared to refer to an individual believed to be Krasikov as a “patriot” during his interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Putin referenced an individual “serving a sentence in an allied country of the U.S.”—a likely reference to the Russian assassin.
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Vadim Krasikov, a Russian national held in a German prison, is a key figure in the prisoner exchange deal which saw the release of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan earlier today. Despite the Russians having Krasikov at the top of their list in past negotiations regarding prisoner swaps, little is known about the man other than his assassination of a Chechen dissident in Berlin in 2019 and his suspected role in the death of a businessman in Moscow in 2013.
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Germany has seen a substantial increase in its Syrian population since the 2015-16 migrant crisis, with the number reaching at least 972,000 by the end of 2023. This represents a sixteenfold increase from 2014, when there were only 60,000 Syrians in the country. Syrians in Germany now represent nearly five percent of all Syrians.
Over half of the Syrians in Germany, 513,534 people, receive German welfare known as Burgergeld, according to the Federal Employment Agency. Even those not on welfare receive aid via the Asylum Seekers’ Benefits Act. The government’s expenditure on migrants was nearly €50 billion in 2023, largely contributing to record-high debt levels. Since 2010, Germany has paid over $145 billion in welfare to foreigners.
Afghan migrants have also increased significantly, with their numbers reaching 419,410 in 2023, representing a sixfold rise since 2014.
Nearly half of these, approximately 197,551, receive social welfare payments. This rapid influx has continued, with an announcement from Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock indicating that 10,000 more Afghans are expected to arrive soon.
Official data reveals that 47.3 percent of all welfare recipients in Germany are foreigners.
Alongside overrepresentation in welfare usage, migrants are overrepresented in crime. Statistics reveal that Afghans have higher criminality rates than native Germans, including serious offenses like assault and gang rape.
Germany’s new citizenship law will allow migrants who have been in the country for five years to apply for naturalization, with some eligible after just three years. Last year, at least 70,000 Syrians became German citizens.
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Germany has seen a substantial increase in its Syrian population since the 2015-16 migrant crisis, with the number reaching at least 972,000 by the end of 2023. This represents a sixteenfold increase from 2014, when there were only 60,000 Syrians in the country. Syrians in Germany now represent nearly five percent of all Syrians.
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A French lawmaker who is a far-left extremist Antifa associate listed on the French S-File terrorist watchlist is calling for an Antifa response to riots in the United Kingdom. The riots broke out in response to the fatal stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background suspect, leaving three dead.
National Assembly member Raphaël Arnault, of the far-left France Unbowed party (LFI), is calling for an “antifascist response” to riots in Southport, England, which saw over 50 police officers injured in the aftermath of the mass stabbing by a 17-year-old suspect born in Wales to Rwandan migrants.
Arnault, 29, founded the Antifa group Jeune Garde Antifasciste in Lyon in 2018. He is the first known person to be elected while on the S-File terrorist watchlist, having been placed on it for his far-left extremist activities by three separate agencies, including the DGSI, France’s internal intelligence agency.
He has also been charged and convicted for politically motivated violence in the past, receiving a four-month suspended prison sentence which he is currently appealing.
Members of Antifa in Europe have carried out several violent attacks in Europe in recent years, including the notorious German Hammerbande (Hammer Gang) which went on a rampage in Budapest, Hungary, in February of 2023, attacking right-wingers and innocent bystanders with hammers.
Like Arnault, a member of the Hammerbande was also recently elected despite having been arrested for her connection to the attacks in Budapest. Hammerbande member and Italian national Ilaria Salis was elected to the European Parliament in June as part of the Greens and Left Alliance and, as a result, gained parliamentary immunity from legal proceedings against her in Hungary.
A French lawmaker who is a far-left extremist Antifa associate listed on the French S-File terrorist watchlist is calling for an Antifa response to riots in the United Kingdom. The riots broke out in response to the fatal stabbing of multiple young girls by a migration-background suspect, leaving three dead.
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Italian boxer Angela Carini quit her boxing bout against Algerian transgender Imane Khelif in 46 seconds, saying the biological man’s blows “hurt too much” for her to continue. Khelif previously failed testosterone tests that are supposed to mitigate the natural advantages male athletes have over women.
“I went into the ring to fight. I didn’t give up, but a punch hurt too much,” Carini said. She was struck twice by the Algerian man, with the second blow appearing to dislodge her helmet, and retreated to her corner. She refused to shake the male athlete’s hand, sobbing on her knees in the ring after he ended her Olympic dreams. Reports indicate she said she had never been hit so hard and may have suffered a broken nose.
Another male boxer, Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, is also competing against women in the Paris Olympics. As with Khelif, Olympic officials are allowing him to fight women despite a previously failed testosterone test.
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Angela Carini (blue, female) abandons fight against Imane Khelif (red, male) a few minutes into fight /1 pic.twitter.com/yOIvZkDaow
Italian boxer Angela Carini quit her boxing bout against Algerian transgender Imane Khelif in 46 seconds, saying the biological man's blows "hurt too much" for her to continue. Khelif previously failed testosterone tests that are supposed to mitigate the natural advantages male athletes have over women.
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German states have reported a surge in citizenship applications after the leftist national government changed citizenship laws last month, allowing migrants who have lived in Germany for just five years to apply.
The State Office for Immigration in Berlin reported receiving about 4,000 applications in June, averaging 133 per day. By July 21, the office had already processed over 5,000 applications, averaging around 200 per day.
The Bavarian Ministry of the Interior reports monthly applications in Bavaria surged from an average of over 5,600 from January to May to over 8,400 in June. In July, Hesse saw 3,300 naturalization applications, up from 2,600 the previous year. Hamburg experienced a 76 percent increase, Bremen 41 percent, and Schleswig-Holstein 38 percent.
These increases come after at least 70,000 Syrians alone were granted citizenship in Germany last year out of the total 200,100 people granted a German passport.
The new law, introduced by Germany‘s leftist governing coalition, reduces the naturalization period from eight to five years, with a three-year option for those showing supposedly exceptional integration. Children born in Germany to foreign parents will automatically receive German citizenship if at least one parent has lived legally in Germany for over five years and has permanent residency.
CHANGING THE ELECTORATE.
The Social Democrats, far-left Greens, and neoliberal Free Democrats that make up the coalition all polled behind the populist, anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the recent European elections. The move to hand out citizenship to many more migrants may boost the coalition at the ballot box, however, with migration-background Germans being more likely to vote left.
Since the migrant crisis of 2015-16, Germany has seen migrant crime soar to the point that migrants are suspects in nearly 60 percent of violent crimes.
Many Europeans are noticing the change in Germany, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who said last month that mass migration has radically transformed the country for the worse.
Jack Montgomery contributed to this report.
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German states have reported a surge in citizenship applications after the leftist national government changed citizenship laws last month, allowing migrants who have lived in Germany for just five years to apply.
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