Daily Archives: Jun 1, 2023

The government announced Monday that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s eldest son will resign as secretary to the Prime Minister on Thursday. The Shukan Bunshun magazine, an outlet known for being highly critical of the current ruling party, published photos last week showing Shotaro Kishida partying with friends and relatives in symbolic places and taking photos at the lectern where the Prime Minister addresses the nation. The party was said to have happened at the official...

Today, the U.S. Treasury announced the sanction of "five Iran- and Türkiye-based individuals and a company affiliated with the IRGC-QF, along with two senior officials of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization (IRGC-IO), who have been involved in plotting external lethal operations against civilians including journalists and activists." IRGC-QF official Mohammad Reza Ansari (Ansari), Shahram Poursafi (Poursafi), an Iranian national, and Hossein Hafez Amini (Amini), a dual Iranian and Turkish national based in Türkiye, have all been sanctioned in...

As this publication reported on 26 May 23, al-Shabaab militants seized a Ugandan military base in Buulo Mareer, Lower Shabelle, Somalia. However, at the time of that publication, Ugandan and ATMIS leadership refused to comment if the base had actually been overrun. Well, by 0700 on 31 May 23, Ugandan forces reported that they had recaptured several major supply routes to the base and that their forces were recovering ground, confirming the base had been...

At approximately 0725 EST, reports began to emerge of a knife attack at a school in Eskilstuna, Sweden. However, by 0745 EST, local police confirmed that the attack occurred a the Munktellarenan sports facility where a grade school function was also occurring, not a school. The official statement from local Swedish police reads below: "At 12:45 a call was received to the police regarding a suspected serious crime. Several calls were received to the police...

On Tuesday, May 30, violent clashes took place in the municipality of Teocaltiche, Jalisco in Mexico. The clashes resulted in the death of one individual and saw the burning of 15 vehicles. The victim was reportedly a civilian driving a van who was passing by before being shot. He was taken to hospital but later died from his injuries. Footage circulating on social media shows the gunfire within the region. Images show destroyed cartel monsters...

Some of you may remember a number of months ago I published an interview with a journalist in Rojava, Kurdish controlled Syria, known as Woman Life Freedom (Telegram: https://t.me/womanlifefreedom , Instagram: https://instagram.com/woman_life_freedom?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== ). She, and the people she works with, were able to write a longform analysis of the Turkish election that just took place a few days ago, which not only gives us a unique perspective on the election, but also a look...