“I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere,” Witkoff reportedly said.
Bloomberg did not say how it obtained the recording, which was likely made by US intelligence agencies who routinely monitor and eavesdrop on foreign officials’ conversations.
“Ultimately, it’s for the good of New York,” Trump said, of the two men’s goals. “I don’t care about affiliations or parties or anything else. … If he could be a spectacular success, I’d be very happy.”
Trump said he and Mamdani discussed crime in New York City, without getting bogged down in their political differences over ICE.
“What we did is we discussed crime, more than ICE per se, we discussed crime. He doesn’t want to see crime and I don’t want to see crime,” Trump said. “And I have very little doubt that we’re not going to get along on that issue.”
The Oval Office meeting marked the first time that Mamdani and Trump have met face to face following a war of words between the two leaders throughout Mamdani‘s campaign and election.
„It was a productive meeting focused on a place of shared admiration and love, which is New York City and the need to deliver affordability to New Yorkers,“ Mamdani said.
Zohran Mamdani, who ran for mayor of New York City in part on a promise to stand up to President Trump, will meet with the president at the White House on Friday, weeks before taking office.
Mr. Trump announced the meeting on social media on Wednesday night, saying that Mr. Mamdani had asked for it and labeling him incorrectly as the “Communist Mayor of New York City.” Mr. Mamdani is a democratic socialist.
Als hätte die deutsche Öffentlichkeit Jahrzehnte geschlafen. Nun ja: Das hat sie ja auch.
(October 3, 2025)
Thirty-six Turkish nationals and international activists from the intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla, including prominent figures like Greta Thunberg, arrive in Istanbul on a special flight after detention by Israeli forces.
The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn’t a psychopath.
(…)
I didn’t come to where I’m at ideologically from reading Lenin or talking to Marxists, I got here because I did a lot of inner work and had some transformative experiences and came out the other side with a deep love for this beautiful planet and for the strange naked ape mutants who people it, and with a yearning to help create a healthy world. I just kinda felt my way through the human experience as the barefoot hippie earth mama that I am, and it carried me to a clear intuitive understanding that the western empire must end and that capitalism cannot carry our species into the future.
Jimmy Kimmel returns to the air and talks about all of the people who have reached out over the last six days including fellow late night talk show hosts, fans of the show, and those who don’t support what he believes but support his right to share those beliefs anyway, and he expresses that it was never his intention to make light of the murder of a young man, how important it is to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this, the Chairman of the FCC Brendan Carr telling an American company that “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Trump saying he has no talent and no ratings, being fortunate to work at a company that has allowed us to do the show we want to do for almost 23 years, not agreeing with the decision to have our show pulled off the air last Wednesday, Trump making it very clear he wants to see Jimmy and other late night hosts fired, and solidarity from the right, left and those in the middle.
Activists from Greenpeace UK have rebranded bus stops across London with posters reading “Protesting genocide is not terrorism.”
More than 500 people have pledged to hold “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action” signs today in central London, as part of a campaign to end the proscription of Palestine Action.
The Met Police have said they will arrest all participants, regardless of capacity constraints.
The trouble between the two started brewing days ago, when Musk denounced Trump‘s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill. The president initially held his tongue while Musk campaigned to torpedo the bill, saying it would add too much to the nation‘s $36.2 trillion in debt.
Trump broke his silence on Thursday, telling reporters in the Oval Office he was „very disappointed“ in Musk.
„Look, Elon and I had a great relationship. I don‘t know if we will anymore,“ Trump said.
As Trump spoke, Musk responded in real time with increasingly acerbic posts on X.
“Defendants appear to sanction unlimited Executive power, free from checks and balances, but the Constitution prohibits unilateral control over ‘official appointments’ by ‘dividing the power to appoint the principal federal offices … between the Executive and Legislative Branches,‘” Chutkan added.
The judge further dispatched the defendants’ argument that a court cannot review the president’s actions in this case.
“The fact that President Trump purports to create a position and assign it powers by Executive Order does not preclude review under the Appointments Clause,” she wrote.
“No branch may aggrandize its own appointment power at the expense of another and no branch may abdicate its Appointments Clause duties,” Chutkan added. “And the Judiciary has a duty to maintain ‘the constitutional plan of separation of powers.’ Consequently, the court will reject Defendants’ perverse reading of the Appointments Clause.”
In the photo, taken by a Reuters photographer, the names of people Waltz had been texting included Vice President JD Vance, Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Steve Witkoff, Trump‘s Middle East envoy.
(April 21, 2025)
The latest revelation comes days after Dan Caldwell, one of Hegseth‘s leading advisers, was escorted from the Pentagon after being identified during an investigation into leaks at the Department of Defense. (…)
Following Caldwell‘s departure, less-senior officials Darin Selnick, who recently became Hegseth‘s deputy chief of staff, and Colin Carroll, who was chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, were put on administrative leave and fired on Friday.
Later, Feldstein’s lawyer Oded Saburai and Sion Hausman tell Channel 12 the claim that Feldstein did not act as a spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office in the six months before his arrest “is false and contradicted by mountains of objective evidence.”
The lawyers assert their client acted in an official capacity on behalf of the Prime Minister’s office as a spokesperson on diplomatic and security matters.
Zvika Klein, The Jerusalem Post’s editor-in-chief, was named on Tuesday as the journalist who was questioned by police the day before as part of the investigation into actions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides Yonatan Urich and Eli Feldstein.
During Klein’s testimony as a witness, he was cautioned but the nature of any allegations against him has not been specified.
„We‘re going to meet with them (Russia) later on today and tomorrow, and hopefully, we‘ll be able to (work) out a deal. I think the ceasefire is very important,“ Trump said.
When asked if Zelensky would be invited back to the White House, the U.S. president responded, „Sure, absolutely.“
“It is what I was saying, this guy doesn’t want there to be Peace as long as he has America’s backing and, Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelenskyy, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the U.S. — Probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against Russia,” Trump added in his post. “What are they thinking?”
Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky descended into a shouting match with the US president abruptly ending the conversation and throwing reporters out.
Mr Trump told the Ukrainian president he was “gambling with World War Three” as their meeting became heated.
The Ukrainian president told Mr Trump the rare earth minerals deal being negotiated by the two leaders was not enough for his country.
Mr Trump in turn accused Mr Zelensky of being “very disrespectful”.
JD Vance, the vice president, intervened, asking Mr Zelensky: “have you said thank you once?”
As voices were raised, Mr Trump told the Ukrainian leader that “you have to be thankful”.
“You either make a deal, or we are out,” the president warned.
Mr Trump then abruptly ended the meeting saying he thought it was enough, with the press abruptly ushered out.
Die SPD-Führung schlägt offenbar Parteichef Lars Klingbeil als neuen Vorsitzenden der Bundestagsfraktion vor. Das teilt der jetzige Fraktionschef Rolf Mützenich nach einer Sitzung des Parteipräsidiums den SPD-Abgeordneten in einem Schreiben mit, das der Deutschen Presse-Agentur vorliegt.
Nach der Wahlniederlage der FDP bei der vorgezogenen Bundestagswahl hat Parteichef Christian Lindner angekündigt, sich aus der aktiven Politik zurückzuziehen. Auf X schrieb er, er sei dankbar „für fast 25 intensive, herausfordernde Jahre voller Gestaltung und Debatte“.
FDP-Chef Christian Lindner hat angekündigt, sich aus der Politik zurückzuziehen, falls es die FDP nicht in den Bundestag schaffen sollte. „Dann ist mein Führungsanspruch für die FDP erloschen“, sagte er in ARD und ZDF.
Ukrainian military intelligence head Kyrylo Budanov believes that Ukraine and Russia will reach a ceasefire this year, he said in an interview with Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev published on Feb. 18.
Im aktuellen ARD DeutschlandTrend äußert sich die Hälfte kritisch zum Vorgehen der Union, mit AfD-Stimmen einem Antrag zur Mehrheit zu verhelfen. Ein gutes Viertel davon (27 Prozent) finden das Vorgehen der Union grundsätzlich falsch. Knapp jeder Vierte (23 Prozent) ist zwar grundsätzlich mit dem Vorstoß der Union einverstanden, nicht jedoch mit der Inkaufnahme von AfD-Stimmen.
Gut vier von zehn (43 Prozent) bewerten das Unions-Vorgehen im Bundestag grundsätzlich als richtig – auch wenn dafür AfD-Stimmen in Kauf genommen wurden.
Wer von Impfstoff-Umsätzen profitierte, wie Bill Gates (das beste Investment seines Lebens), hatte immer genug in der Kriegskasse, um mit der monetären Gießkanne den Mainstream-Journalismus zu bewässern. Für jede gebende Hand gibt es eine nehmende Seite. Bill gab und sie nahmen gerne. 300 Millionen US-Dollar ließ sich Gates seine toxische Finanzinjektion des Journalismus kosten (er spritzt sie echt alle tot). Mehrere Millionen gingen auch an den Spiegel.
Dieser zeigte dann sein wahres, korruptes Gesicht in aller Schäbigkeit: Wo auch immer es Gelegenheit gab für Gates’ weltweiten Impf-Scam zu werben: Die Schwachmaten-Truppe aus Hamburg war ganz vorne mit dabei, sprach u.a. von Geiselhaft durch Ungeimpfte (wer hat wen eingesperrt?) und davon, dass die ganze Republik mit dem Finger auf Corona-Kritiker zeigen möge (ein bis heute ungesühnter Aufruf zur Volksverhetzung).
Es gab kritische Stimmen, nach denen beim ersten Versuch der Verhaftung von Yoon am 3. Januar zu wenig Personal im Einsatz gewesen sei. Demnach wird damit gerechnet, dass beim zweiten Versuch das Einsatzpersonal stark aufgestockt wird.
Die Gefahr des linksextremen Österreichs, von beiden obengenannten Parteien kräftig an die Wand gemalt, ist glücklicherweise nun abgewendet. Leistbares Wohnen und freie Presse waren zu extreme Forderungen, wirklich wahr. Diese Gefahr des oft heraufbeschworenen linksextremen Österreichs ist zwar in etwa so groß wie jene, auf dem Dachstein von einem Hai getötet zu werden. Aber: Austrian Sharknados sind eine Möglichkeit, die man wirklich nie aus den Augen verlieren sollte!
According to Spiegel, SPD members of the Bundestag in a recent meeting joined local and regional politicians in voicing doubts over Scholz’s chances to succeed and called for Pistorius to step in.
The comments were made on Tuesday at a meeting of the Seeheimer Kreis (Seeheim Circle), a conservative wing of the SPD which claims to be aiming at “a modern and pragmatic policy,” the German newspaper reported
We just elected a convicted felon who has normalized bullying, spread hate like an industrial sprinkler and shown us over and over and over again he sees laws as irrelevant and self-enrichment as sacrosanct. Faced with a billowing ocean of red flags – from indictments for trying to overturn the 2020 election to the coddling of dictators who rule enemy nations – a majority of Americans cast their vote for the man who is a totem of the worst in all of us.
So spare me the wails of “This isn’t who we are!” I’ve got bad news for the sane and decent among us: This is exactly who we are.
(May 02, 2024
My life has changed pretty dramatically since I started working full-time as the News Editor of Antiwar.com back in 2020. I started out in a studio apartment in Brooklyn and now live in an old farmhouse in rural Virginia (far from Washington DC).
The way I look at the world has also changed quite a bit since my wife Alison and I had our two boys, Dave and Tim (literally the coolest kids ever). The future has never mattered more to me. I have also rediscovered my Catholic faith, which fits well with being a professional opponent of war.
t‘s Thursday, October 24.
As some of you might have noticed, I was not here the last few days, but I am appreciative of Michael Tracey, the intrepid independent journalist, who sat in for me one night and of our excellent team who put together two great shows in my absence so that we weren‘t off the air even one night. But I‘m very happy to be back.
Tonight: From the moment Democratic Party elites imposed Kamala Harris on their party and then on the country, the most glaring weakness of her candidacy was manifest from the very beginning: she has no actual views or policy she‘s willing or able to express – to the point that they actually kept her away from any unscripted interviews, and her campaign site had no issue positions of any kind for weeks, not even vague banalities. The campaign strategy could not have been any clearer: to replicate Hillary Clinton‘s 2016 tactic of featuring as the overarching message that you should vote for her because she‘s not Donald Trump.
Kein „Kopf an Kopf“ – aber in den kommenden Wochen werden noch manche Köpfe rollen. Garantiert nicht der von Herbert Kickl, aber die Parteispitzen von ÖVP und mehr noch SPÖ haben sich mit ihren Ergebnissen kaum für die nächsten Jahre einzementiert.
Auch wenn sich ÖVP-Granden jetzt demonstrativ hinter „unseren Karl“ stellen, ist Kurz-Nachfolger Nehammer angezählt. Er muss bei den Regierungsverhandlungen der Volkspartei den Kanzler retten, sonst ist er bald Geschichte.
Nun, es stehen sich eigentlich zwei unterschiedliche Rechtsauffassungen gegenüber. Die AfD ist der Auffassung, dass die Geschäftsordnung des alten Landtages weiter gilt. Und sie vertritt die Auffassung, dass, bevor ein Landtagspräsident gewählt werden kann, zunächst einmal darüber befunden werden muss. Sie sagt also: Der Landtagspräsident kann erst gewählt werden, wenn der Landtag sich konstituiert hat.
Die Auffassung der anderen Fraktionen geht dahin, dass es das Selbstverwaltungsrecht des Parlamentes ist, sich jederzeit selbst verwalten zu können, selbst organisieren zu können. Und das schließt auch das Recht ein, Anträge zur Änderung der Geschäftsordnung einzubringen, über die heute nicht abgestimmt werden durfte.