"According to French media, Palantir is no longer a peripheral tool but the central software architecture of the French Secret Services (DGSI), a level of dependence so deep that even some of America’s closest allies have refused to accept it on sovereignty grounds. The contradiction is stark. As Europe warns of foreign interference, influence operations, and strategic dependency, France is voluntarily handing the keys to its intelligence infrastructure to a company rooted in a system that explicitly views Europe as a strategic arena to be shaped."

21st Century Wire

Outsourcing Security: The Palantir Paradox at the Heart of French Intelligence - 21st Century Wire

21WIRE | How France entrusted its intelligence nerve centre to an American firm.

For the record. The Berlin Declaration.

Voltaire Network

Berlin Declaration

Statement by Chancellor Merz, Prime Minister Frederiksen, Prime Minister Michal, President Stubb, President Macron, Prime Minister Frostadóttir, P...

"On 15 December, the European Union took a step that few could have imagined: it sanctioned twelve individuals, including Swiss analyst and former intelligence officer Jacques Baud and French national Xavier Moreau, not for breaking the law, but for expressing views deemed politically inconvenient. Asset freezes, travel bans, and economic restrictions were imposed without any judicial process. While presented as an EU initiative, the fingerprints of NATO’s strategic communications and information-control apparatus are unmistakable, shaping both the targets and the justification."

21st Century Wire

NATO’s Red Pen on Ukraine: Jacques Baud and the Silencing of Dissent - 21st Century Wire

Deep Dive | How Europe and NATO turn dissent into a security threat to police the Ukraine debate.

House Kills Bill on Blocking War With Venezuela, Israel Shelling Injures 11 in Gaza City, and More

Free markets have to be regulated

"With a customary sense of perversion, Netanyahu has managed to mangle Israeli policy, his own political destiny and the interests of Jews in a terrible, terrifying mix. The broad stroke charge of antisemitism is the front name of this venture, and it conveniently presents itself whenever Israeli policy requires an alibi when pursuing particularly unsavoury policies: massacre, starvation and dispossession of Gazans; the continued destruction and intended eradication of a functional Palestinian entity; efforts to prevent criticism of its settler policies in other countries."

Using the Slain

Israel Exploits the Bondi Beach Shootings