Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Most people outside France still have no idea what BlackCore is. They do not know that in March 2026 a company no one had ever heard of walked into French municipal elections, ran a professional smear operation against left‑wing, pro‑Palestinian candidates, then tried to erase its own existence […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Bolivia is once again at the centre of a struggle over sovereignty, resources and political power. Six months into Rodrigo Paz’s presidency, the country is being shaken by national blockades, Indigenous-led mobilisations, labour unrest, shortages, and a widening legitimacy crisis as protests have paralysed roads into La […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire Behind a UN-backed prisoner exchange between Yemen’s internationally recognised government and the Houthis lies a deeper story of islands, radar, black sites, and a southern Yemen security order Riyadh chose to dismantle after years of coalition decay. This proxy network stretching from Yemen’s Socotra Island to Bosaso on Somalia’s coast, […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In March 2026, an investigation in Haaretz argued that West Germany may have “secretly financed” much of Israel’s Dimona nuclear project through off‑the‑books loans worth roughly 2 billion Deutschmarks, funneled under the cover of “Negev development.” Historical clues indicate that Germany secretly funded Israel’s nuclear program and raise the questions […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In early May 2026, three pro‑Palestine candidates in French municipal races were hit with a coordinated smear campaign built on lies, synthetic identities and anonymous digital attacks, which French authorities and platform investigators traced back to an Israeli influence construct and the wider cyber‑operations infrastructure behind […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire France did not really leave Mali. It changed tactics and found new hands to carry the gun. After being pushed out by a military government that turned toward Russia, China, and the wider Global South, Paris appears to have re-entered the war through Ukrainian military intelligence channels, long-standing Tuareg networks, and a battlefield […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In February, under the white light of a Bavarian assembly hall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, walked past rows of unfinished drones. The joint venture hosting them, linking Germany’s Quantum Systems with Ukraine’s Frontline Robotics, is already producing aircraft for Ukraine, plans to scale toward 10,000 units a year, and has […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire On the night of April 29 to 30, Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla in international waters west of Crete, seizing a civilian aid convoy hundreds of miles from Gaza and funnelling 176 activists into a tightly managed transfer operation on Greek soil, where 31 wounded required […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire On May 5, 2026, the pro-European government of Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan collapsed in a parliamentary no-confidence vote engineered by an unlikely but explosive alliance: the Social Democrats (PSD) and the sovereigntist Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR). The motion passed with 281 votes, well above the 233 threshold in Romania’s 464-seat parliament. Ten months […]
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In Honduras, ordinary people have spent years watching power pass between men who speak the language of democracy while selling the country piece by piece to foreign patrons and protected elites. Now a new investigation tears open that closed world and names the forces that allegedly […]