[Mises] On January 31, 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he would impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico (except for Canadian crude oil and energy imports, which will be subject to a 10 percent tariff) and a 10 percent tariff on imports from China. Tariffs are taxes on things that Americans buy from producers in other countries. OR, they are negotiation weapons in getting other countries to drop their tariffs and policies that hurt American trade
One would have thought that out of all people, President Trump—who prides himself on placing America first—would never consider imposing tariffs. After all, a tariff on any imported good implies curtailing the supply of less costly goods and encouraging the supply in a domestic market of more costly, domestically-produced goods (i.e., punishing the domestic consumers: the Americans). In his Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt quotes Adam Smith,
It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. The shoemaker does not attempt to make his own clothes, but employs a tailor. The farmer attempts to make neither the one nor the other, but employs those different artificers. All of them find it their interest to employ their whole industry in a way in which they have some advantage over their neighbors, and to purchase with a part of its produce, or what is the same thing, with the price of a part of it, whatever else they have occasion for. What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom...
Given that President Trump considers himself as a successful businessman, he surely must be well aware that the ultimate goal of every business is to make profit. Hence, to succeed in this task as a businessman, Donald Trump will not allow activities that would undermine the net worth of his company. Yet the President is of the view that this is acceptable for the economy as a whole.
If policies such tariffs weaken the process of wealth formation and undermine individual well-being, obviously this is bad news for the economy as a whole, which President Trump holds as number one on his priority list. President Trump is of the view that, through tariffs, he can make the US economy prosperous...
CONCLUSION
The imposition of tariffs is going to hurt the American consumers. This will stifle trade between the US and the rest of the world. It will undermine the process of wealth generation. According to Mark Hendrickson--Trump's First Big Economic Mistake:
In 1850, Frederic Bastiat wrote in his classic essay, "The Law," that tariffs are a step toward socialism. In his words, "protectionism, socialism, and communism are basically the same plant in three different stages of its growth." All three call for government to intervene in the marketplace to influence who gains and who loses.
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The tariffs will marginally raise the price I pay for some consumer goods. I will, instead, buy other goods or keep my money. The price increase I pay for eggs and chicken caused whatever Fauci cooked up in a lab is more significant. Tarries are a big wealth destroyer for some people I don’t necessarily care for.
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Basic choice -
Low or no tariffs which exports labor to other countries and fund a large government bureaucracy for a large unemployed population paid by higher taxes
or
Matching or higher tariffs which means paying higher prices in the market, but less unemployment and size of government welfare.
#3
Does anything think Afrikan locals pay the same for as Americans for hunting lodge or hotel accommodation? No, they stick it to wealthy Americans. Doesn't happen when they come here, I can assure you.
#7
Tariffs are "friction" that impedes the flow of trade in a perfect world. So does corruption, taxes and the fact that goods do not magically change hands ...welcome to the Real World™.
#9
Absolute BULLSHIT - America's Golden Era in the 19th Century was funded via Tariffs. Prior to Windrow Wilson, 1800-1913, America didnt have an income tax and we were still flush with money. We built the Panama Canal from tariff money, not income tax.
#10
One of the reasons we have the income tax is that prohibitionists realized that much of Federal income came from excise taxes on liquor. So they needed an alternative source.
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[REGNUM] US President Donald Trump's first address to Congress since his re-election highlighted the deep divisions in American politics that have persisted since the recent election.
For the US president, this is a traditional annual speech in which he reports on his successes in office and outlines priorities for the coming year. During Trump's first term, his addresses to the nation and Congress always caused fits of madness among Democrats. His speech in his second term was no exception.
The main leitmotif of the address was the concept of the "American dream that cannot be stopped." Trump has only been in office for a month and a half, but he has already boasted of his first achievements, such as saving billions of dollars for the budget after cleaning up the state apparatus and cutting bureaucracy.
But the president mostly focused on America's problems and what needs to be done in 2025, which clearly promises to be a difficult year.
Trump gave one of the longest speeches in history, lasting more than an hour and a half; usually, presidents speak in Congress for an hour on average.
He focused on the problem of illegal immigration and invited relatives of victims killed by illegal immigrants to the Capitol. Trump also promised to fight crime, destroy terrorists and revive the US Armed Forces, which have been stuck in a long-term crisis due to a decline in the number of people willing to serve and problems in the military-industrial complex.
The speech mostly concerned domestic politics, which primarily concerns ordinary Americans. But there were also references to foreign policy topics.
Trump reported progress in the negotiation process with Russia. It is not for nothing that even before the speech, insider information about the development of plans to ease sanctions against Russia began to appear in the American press. If the political will appears, then it is not difficult to do this - the president will not even need congressional approval to abandon the restrictions.
The rare earths deal with Ukraine remains in limbo, with Trump vowing to prevent the war from continuing for another five years.
The pressure on the current Kiev government has increased sharply after the recent spat with Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House. The US has completely curtailed programs for sending weapons under old contracts concluded during the Joe Biden era. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have also started having problems receiving intelligence data - both from the US and from Britain.
The aid freeze will affect contracts worth $30 billion at a time, primarily for Patriot and NASAMS air defense missiles, artillery ammunition, HIMARS missile systems, and anti-tank weapons.
This is a very painful blow for Kyiv, because they will not be able to get the same missiles anywhere else. The Europeans are ready to supply a small number of shells, but they themselves have very serious problems with air defense. And without satellite reconnaissance, using high-precision weapons will become completely problematic.
For Trump, closing the trenches is a lever of pressure on Zelensky's office. If the situation on the front line for the Ukrainian Armed Forces deteriorates sharply, then the situation inside Ukraine will also destabilize.
Then the probability of a scenario of a change of power, Zelensky's resignation and elections increases sharply. Someone more capable of reaching an agreement than Zelensky may win the elections.
If the Kyiv authorities back down in their standoff with Trump, they will likely be forced into an even more unfavorable rare earth deal.
In the meantime, Zelensky is threatened not only with a halt in aid from the United States, but also with anti-corruption investigations, which have been announced by Trump's allies.
The president also announced during his speech his desire to reach an agreement on the situation in Ukraine as quickly as possible and switch to other areas. Among them are the return of the Panama Canal to US control, the annexation of Greenland, and even the planting of the American flag on Mars when the colonization of the planet begins.
The speech provoked an unusually emotional reaction among Democrats. Some of them boycotted the event, while others demonstratively walked out right during the speech. Democrats brought many signs with which they staged impromptu pickets and tried to interrupt Trump.
The incidents of his first term, when Democrats also constantly went into hysterics during speeches, were repeated. In 2020, Nancy Pelosi, then Speaker of the House of Representatives, even at one point stood behind Trump and began to demonstratively tear up pages of his speech.
Typically, the party that opposes the current government records an alternative address to the nation. The Democrats have now chosen Michigan Senator Elise Slotkin for this.
She devoted most of her speech to criticizing not even Trump, but rather Elon Musk. She also made the usual cliches about Ronald Reagan “turning in his grave,” who would supposedly be shocked by Trump’s behavior in the context of the Ukrainian conflict.
President Nixon, on the other hand, apparently was a friend and admirer, looking forward to Donald Trump in the White House.
Reagan's figure in American political discourse is generally too heavily mythologized. He was not the hawkish man he is often portrayed as.
Moreover, Reagan himself was often criticized by many neocons in Washington, for example, for his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev, and accused of capitulating to the Soviet Union. Similar rhetoric is now being used by hawks against Trump in connection with the start of negotiations with Russia.
Senator Slotkin's speech ended mid-sentence, and this became a good illustration of the current state of the Democratic Party. Hysteria and full-throated vilification of Trump and Musk is the maximum they are capable of now. But there are obvious problems with developing an alternative agenda.
Democrats can only hope that Trump himself will make mistakes and that this will hurt his ratings. In the meantime, all they can do is pull off circus acts like what happened in Congress.
In the run-up to the US President's speech, there were insider reports that he might make some kind of sensation. For example, announce his withdrawal from NATO. However, such radical statements were not made.
However, the general course of the new policy, aimed at a serious shake-up of all US institutions and alliances with allies, does not change in any way.
To do this, it is not at all necessary to leave the North Atlantic Alliance. It is possible to reduce cooperation within NATO to a minimum - and, say, completely abandon the organization of joint exercises and teamwork.
This strategy, which has been dubbed in the United States as a transition to a “sleeping NATO,” has long been discussed among Republican foreign policy strategists.
It could also become one of the points that Trump's team will offer to the Russian side during the negotiations. After all, the endless exercises near Russia's western borders and the build-up of military forces in Eastern European countries have only escalated the situation in recent years and eventually led to an open conflict.
Such plans by Trump's team are causing hysteria among European hawks, but their opinion is of no interest to anyone in the White House.
There they are betting on the further growth of isolationist sentiments in American society. Participation in the Ukrainian conflict and European affairs is already becoming unpopular in the US: 70-80% of Americans are in favor of negotiations with Moscow and de-escalation in Ukraine.
Attitudes toward Russia have improved significantly among the Republican electorate, especially its younger part, who did not live through the Cold War.
And Democrats' hopes that Trump will discredit himself with his conciliatory policies may ultimately prove futile.
[TheBlaze] With outdated goals and bloated costs, NATO may need a complete overhaul or a controlled dismantling to protect America’s long-term interests.
When they’re first built, skyscrapers and other towering buildings are impressive. But there comes a time when structural weaknesses raise the danger that one will collapse, injuring or killing many people going about their daily business. Shoring up the building works for a while, sometimes, but often things reach the stage where the most prudent action is to demolish it in a controlled way.
The United States faces similar structural threats today. The two most urgent and fundamental dangers are the unchecked administrative state at home — and, by extension, among globalist NGOs — and the declining condition of many NATO partner countries. Both the administrative state and the U.S. role in NATO were products of postwar efforts to create stability and order after World War II. However, these institutions have grown far beyond their original purposes and now pose significant risks to our national security, economic stability, and core constitutional freedoms.
Both the entrenched administrative state and our current alliances with Western Europe now show serious structural weaknesses.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency project is exposing the depth of corruption and waste within the administrative bureaucracy and its NGO partners. As a result, Americans are starting to see how these networks leave ordinary people struggling to afford basic needs like food and rent. The findings also reveal the extent of the country’s precarious financial situation.
However, fewer Americans realize how European countries have drained U.S. resources — and arguably poisoned the relationship — through their actions. While the United States has shouldered most of NATO’s expenses and defense efforts, European nations have neglected their own militaries and failed to meet their defense commitments.
European nations have made things worse by burdening their own economies with unsustainable welfare programs and excessive regulations that stifle innovation. At the same time, they have imposed unfair tariffs on U.S. goods, increasing the economic strain.
Even more troubling, they are trying to impose regulations on U.S. energy use, free speech, information flow, and even the participation of popular parties in national governments. Recent examples are easy to find, and Vice President Vance recently highlighted some of these issues at the Munich conference.
Meanwhile, they expect the United States to continue draining its resources, admit Ukraine into NATO — which would commit U.S. forces to respond to Russia — and silence any criticism of their actions on social media.
The hypocrisy is both staggering and offensive. For proof, just look at how much Russian oil and gas Germany is buying today, even as it refuses to allow imports of Israeli natural gas.
Is it time to consider a controlled demolition of NATO? Possibly. The alliance should have been restructured or dissolved after the Soviet Union fell 34 years ago. Instead, President Clinton and his successors expanded NATO incrementally by adding former Soviet and communist countries on Russia’s border. That this strategy would provoke a response was entirely predictable.
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Look at my post on the French speech today.
Macron just delivered his speech to the nation:
“I’ve decided to begin strategic discussions on protecting our allies on the European continent with our French nuclear weapons”
We need to run away from NATO right now they are making the Democrats in house and senate look saner.
#6
Post War I, II, and Cold War Europe has formed the EU.
It has pretty much declared it no longer needs or wants the US physically there, just the freebies give (MTV, PHV, Prüm, Manheim, Hubbelrath and many other sites) and $$$$$ we send and spend there.
So save the US Taxpayers a $10+ Billion in annual OCONUS expenses and let the EU defend itself.
It should not be forgotten that a crackdown on free speech in the name of promoting NATO & US government policies has been a consensus in the Western political class for a quite some years.
The Bush administration's political support for basic civil rights in the West after 9/11 was lukewarm at best, the Obama administration was downright hostile.
Obama, a beloved POTUS who was elected and reelected, officially and publicly demanded that the future must not belong to basic free speech. The free speech in question being a Christian pastor's publicity stunt designed to draw attention to Islam's murderous intolerance.
At the same time representatives of a passive aggressive, disrespectful, hostile and evil regime (liberated Afghanistan / The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) were obesequiously receiced by the US & NATO politcial elite, even unsuited in the Oval Office.
MB Egypt, a recipient of US aid, officially called for negotiations with the US about amending the US Constitution to make it Sharia compatible, to no outrage or consequences.
The Obama administration leaked information about Israel's potential actions against Iranian nukes, even though Iran pioneered the Islamic threat to Western free speech rights in the West.
Even Donald Trump criticized the targets of the Garland attack in 2015 for criticizing Islam after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
I believe this demolition, controlled or not, already happened in Afghanistan, it was called Operation Enduring Freedom. Because of Afghanistan NATO, very much including the US, chose to abandon the core values of Western civilization.
[IsraelTimes] Ahmad Majdalani says Ramallah wants to turn page with Washington after bitter first term, is maintaining contacts because it doesn’t see president’s proposal being implemented
A senior Paleostinian official and confidant to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> says that the PA will cut ties with the US if President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... advances his proposal to take over the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and relocate all of its residents.
In an interview with The Times of Israel from his Ramallah office last week, Paleostine Liberation Organization Executive Council member Ahmed Majdalani said implementation of Trump’s proposal would amount to the "expulsion" of Gaza’s roughly 2 million residents, thereby posing an "existential threat" to the Paleostinian cause.
Pressed repeatedly as to whether such fervent opposition to the proposal meant the PA was prepared to sever ties with Washington again, Majdalani’s response was the same each time: "Of course."
"Why would we have ties if Mr. Trump sticks to this proposal?" he said.
The longtime PA minister clarified that Ramallah is prepared to work with Trump if he abandons the idea. He also pointed to comments from top aides to the US president who have softened the proposal and suggested they would be open to shelving it if Arab allies came up with an alternative plan for the post-war management of Gaza that removed Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... from power.
But the plan unveiled on Tuesday didn’t explicitly address this concern, and the White House quickly came out against it, saying it was sticking with Trump’s original proposal.
"We have been listening to Mr. Trump’s advisers who have explicitly said that this is just a proposal — not an obligatory plan of action," said Majdalani in a rare on-record interview with Israeli media by a Paleostinian official.
Still, the fact that he was willing to even entertain publicly the idea of ending ties with the US, just over a month into Trump’s second tenure, highlighted how alarmed Ramallah was by the president’s talk of taking over Gaza.
TRYING A DIFFERENT APPROACH
The PA gradually cut ties with the US during Trump’s first term, when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and proposed a peace plan that envisioned Israel annexing all of its settlements, while offering the Paleostinians only limited illusory sovereignty over the semi-contiguous West Bank land that would remain.
But two senior Paleostinian officials who spoke to The Times of Israel ahead of Trump’s return to the White House said Ramallah would take a different approach during his second term, acknowledging that the lack of engagement with Washington led the US to bypass Ramallah completely as it brokered the Abraham Accords normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab countries.
Abbas restored ties with Trump, sending him a letter wishing him well after the then-GOP presidential nominee survived an attempt on his life last summer. Days after Trump was re-elected, the two then held what interlocutors described as a "warm" call — their first since 2017 — during which the president-elect pledged to end the war in Gaza.
Two months later, Trump played an essential role in securing the ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas that is still holding to date, albeit barely.
Accordingly, Majdalani said Ramallah was caught off guard when Trump weeks later announced his proposal for the US to "own" Gaza and "permanently" relocate all of its residents.
’DEAL OF THE CENTURY’ FLASHBACKS
Majdalani is one of the closest aides to Abbas, who has appointed him to a string of ministerial posts over the past 20 years. Last month, the PA president tapped him to head a fund that will be responsible for a highly sensitive reform to end controversial stipends to Paleostinian security prisoners based on the length of their sentences.
Notably, despite how unpopular it was among Paleostinians, Abbas signed the decree enacting that reform days after Trump announced his Gaza takeover idea.
Trump’s proposal was unveiled in a joint presser with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who immediately welcomed the idea. Majdalani said this was because it fits with what he said is the premier’s effort to annex large parts of the West Bank, thereby destroying the PA and the effort for Paleostinian statehood with it.
Majdalani noted that the Arab world has similarly rejected the US proposal, with Egypt and Jordan viewing Trump’s calls for them to take in Paleostinians from Gaza as "existential threats" to their national security.
Trump’s idea "is not the right way to achieve stability and peace and security in the region," he asserted.
The PA rejected Trump’s 2020 peace plan with similar fervor and refused to discuss the initiative with Washington both before and after its rollout.
The plan was largely shelved within months, while Washington pursued the Abraham Accords. Trump’s aides hinted that it could resurface in his second term, but the president refrained from standing by it when asked last month.
’NO NORMALIZATION WITH EXPULSION’
Explaining the decision to re-engage with Trump after a first term that saw the US cut all aid to the Paleostinians and shutter their diplomatic missions in Washington and Jerusalem, Majdalani explained that Ramallah is "acting according to the political reality."
During their November call, "President Abbas expressed a willingness to cooperate with President Trump and his new administration," said the senior member and faction leader within the PLO — the international umbrella body representing Paleostinians, which is also dominated by Abbas.
"We are ready today and tomorrow to positively cooperate with Mr. Trump and his administration, if he renounces and forgets his idea about taking over Gaza and expelling of its residents en masse," Majdalani said.
That readiness would dissipate completely if the US actually moved forward with the idea. "We will defend our principles and our interests," he asserted.
Pressed again on why the PA has maintained contacts with Washington, given that Trump has yet to back away from his Gaza takeover pitch, Majdalani said that the US has not actually begun implementing it, calling it "a proposal — not a plan."
Trump has defended his idea, saying that Gaza is an uninhabitable "demolition site."
"The question Mr. Trump should be asking is, ’Who destroyed Gaza and made it uninhabitable?'" Majdalani said, referring to Israel’s 15-plus month bombardment of Gaza aimed at dismantling Hamas after the October 7 onslaught.
"The problem is not the existence of Paleostinians in Gaza. The problem is the existence of the Israel occupation in Gaza. So the goal should be to remove the occupation, not the Paleostinians," he said, asserting that only a two-state solution will provide security and stability for Israel and the region.
"If [Trump] thinks that there will be regional peace with Israeli normalization alongside the mass expulsion of Gaza’s residents and the annexation of the West Bank, he is wrong," Majdalani said.
Asked whether the PA could accept the relocation of Gazooks if it was done temporarily and not by force, Majdalani rejected the premise.
"There is no such thing as voluntary emigration... in more accurate terms, it’s ethnic reasoning," he continued. "For us, it is not acceptable to move the residents of Gaza — not temporarily and not permanently."
"Gaza is not for sale in the first place. It is part of the Paleostinian homeland... and the Paleostinians in Gaza will remain on their homeland."
The other half of the interview with Majdalani about the PA’s recent reform of its controversial prisoner payment policy was published on Tuesday.
#6
The PA areas are being discussed by Trump people on X as movable too. Abbas and his buddies need to wake up and get with the plan so they don't become "action items" too.
Only thing I can think of is a call to action for the money launderers to do something or they will shut down the machine, the 5million condoms people.
Second, an appeal to activists to do something or they will quit killing juice.
[VISIONOFHUMANITY.ORG] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (IS) and its affiliates remained the deadliest terrorist organization in 2024, responsible for 1,805 deaths across 22 countries.
The four major terrorist organizations, IS, Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Moslemeen (JNIM), Tehrik-e-Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Pakistain (TTP), and al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... continued to increase their activity, with deaths attributed to these groups increasing by 11 per cent to 4,204. In 2023, these groups were active in 29 countries which increased to 30 countries in 2024.
IS continues to function as a global network, maintaining its presence across multiple regions through affiliated groups. In 2024, it was active in 22 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Despite counterterrorism efforts, the group's ability to coordinate, inspire, and execute attacks highlights its resilience and evolving operational strategies.
In 2024, 36 per cent of terrorist attacks were not claimed by an organization. IEP has developed a machine learning model to assign these incidents to likely groups. The analysis found that deaths attributed to IS would have been 58 per cent higher, while those linked to JNIM would have been 176 per cent higher. This underscores the challenges in accurately assessing the impact of different terrorist organizations.
This is the twelfth edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), which provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism over the last decade. While overall deaths from terrorism declined in 2024, several groups remained highly active, perpetuating violence and instability.
THE 10 DEADLIEST TERROR GROUPS IN 2024
ISLAMIC STATE (IS) AND AFFILIATES
Islamic State (IS) and its affiliated chapters, including Islamic State-Khorasan Province (ISK) and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWA), remained the most lethal terrorist network in 2024. The group was responsible for 1,805 deaths across 23 countries, despite a 10% decline from the previous year. IS continues to employ suicide kabooms and armed assaults, particularly targeting military personnel and civilians.
JAMAAT NUSRAT AL-ISLAM WALMUSLIMEEN (JNIM)
Operating mainly in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , JNIM recorded a significant rise in attacks, resulting in 1,022 deaths. The group expanded its operations in Mali and Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president used to be Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and was chased out in 2014. Now it's the usual army officer type guy, Captain Ibrahim Traore, running things, who's just doing a bang-up job unless he's already been deposed... , with its most devastating assault occurring in Centre-Nord, Burkina Faso, where up to 200 non-combatants were killed in a coordinated offensive.
TEHRIK-E-TALIBAN PAKISTAIN (TTP)
TTP was responsible for 558 deaths in 2024, marking a 90% increase compared to the previous year. The group intensified its attacks in Pakistain's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... provinces, with its deadliest attack killing 25 people at a railway station in Quetta.
AL-SHABAAB
Al-Shabaab remains Somalia's most dangerous Death Eater organization, responsible for 96% of terrorist attacks in the country. While the group's overall activity declined, it still accounted for over 400 deaths. The deadliest attack of the year occurred in Mogadishu, where a suicide kaboom and armed assault on a hotel killed 37 people.
BOKO HARAM ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Although Boko Haram's influence has waned compared to previous years, the group remains a significant threat in Nigeria and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... . In 2024, Boko Haram was responsible for multiple deadly assaults, including an attack in Yobe State, Nigeria, where 100 to 150 non-combatants were killed.
ISLAMIC STATE-KHORASAN PROVINCE (ISK)
ISK maintained its deadly presence across Afghanistan, Iran, and Russia, with 95 people killed in a single bombing at a memorial event in Iran. The group also orchestrated the Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow, which resulted in 144 fatalities—the fourth deadliest terrorist incident of the year.
ISLAMIC STATE WEST AFRICA PROVINCE (ISWA)
A key IS affiliate, ISWA engaged in violent mostly peacefulfestivities with Boko Haram in Nigeria, leading to over 85 deaths in April 2024. The group remains one of the dominant actors in the Lake Chad Basin region.
HAYATTAHRIR AL-SHAM, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State... (HTS)
Formerly an al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS continued its insurgency in Syria, responsible for numerous targeted liquidations and bombings, primarily in Idlib and Aleppo.
BALOCHISTAN LIBERATION ARMY (BLA)
The BLA escalated its campaign against Pak security forces and Chinese infrastructure projects. The group grabbed credit for Pakistain's deadliest attack in 2024, a suicide kaboom that killed 25 people at a Quetta railway station.
HAMAS ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... Hamas increased its Death Eater activities in 2024, particularly in Israel and the Paleostinian territories. The group grabbed credit for a high-profile attack in Tel Aviv that resulted in seven civilian deaths.
The findings from the GTI 2025 underscore the persistent and evolving threat of terrorism worldwide. While counterterrorism efforts have weakened some groups, others continue to expand, particularly in unstable regions such as the Sahel, South Asia, and the Middle East, fed in part by the root causes of extremism including political instability, economic deprivation and ideological radicalisation.
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somehow grandmothers praying didn't make the cut
nor did parents disagreeing with schoolboards about trans readings
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
