Left-Wing Terrorism Has Been Unleashed

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/09/26/left-wing-terrorism-has-been-unleashed/

For years, we were told by government officials and outside “experts” that the terrorists in our midst were mostly right-wing fanatics – a list that under the Biden administration came to include parents who spoke up at local school board meetings and Catholics who like the Latin mass.

But even the left is now admitting what everyone else already knows.

Namely, that despite their constant bleating about tolerance and peace, it’s leftists who pose the greatest threat to Americans.

This week, the Trump-hating Atlantic magazine published an article titled “Left-Wing Terrorism Is on the Rise,” written by scholars at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

“We found that left-wing terrorism has increased since President Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence in 2016. Indeed, 2025 marks the first time in more than 30 years that left-wing attacks outnumber those from the far right.”

By early July, “far-left extremists had already been responsible for five terrorist attacks and plots, putting 2025 on pace to be the left’s most violent year in more than three decades.”

And their list doesn’t include the killer who slaughtered two children in a Minneapolis church, the gunman who shot up ABC10 in Sacramento, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the killing in a New Hampshire restaurant by a gunman who shouted “free Palestine,” or the attempted assassination of ICE agents in Dallas by a shooter who engraved bullet casings with “Anti-ICE” (but who ended up killing an illegal immigrant). All of these political attacks were committed by leftists — in just the past month.

The Crudity of the Obsessive-Compulsive Left The left’s crude obsession with Trump and conservatives now fuels sabotage, slander, and even celebration of violence—proof their hatred has gone global and unhinged. By Victor Davis Hanson

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/25/the-crudity-of-the-obsessive-compulsive-left/

Donald Trump just visited the United Nations to offer a customary annual presidential address.

Before he arrived, there were reports that UN staffers had joked about shutting down the escalator to chastise Trump for cutting out aid to some UN programs.

Upon arrival, as if on cue, Trump was met by a series of mysterious coincidences.

As soon as he and First Lady Melania mounted the escalator, it suddenly froze—forcing them to walk up.

Other escalators worked fine. Shortly afterward, the supposedly broken escalator was just as mysteriously running again.

When Trump went to the podium, his teleprompter mysteriously quit—and his alone.

As he delivered his speech from a text, the amplification in parts of the assembly was mysteriously lowered to near imperceptible levels.

Despite UN denials, all three “accidents” were too closely tied to Trump to be coincidences.

But they remind us that the left-wing hatred of the president has gone global—even after two near-successful assassination attempts.

The House of Representatives recently offered a resolution honoring the life and legacy of the conservative organizer Charlie Kirk, murdered by a leftist assassin.

The left both feared and hated Kirk. Why?

He had been singularly successful in redirecting youth’s natural rebelliousness against the status quo onto the ruling, ossified liberal establishment.

Kirk was winning over a new generation of young Americans to be counter-culturalists and counter-revolutionaries.

He urged them to question the entire left-wing orthodoxy of higher education, the corporate media, and popular culture—the ruling institutions that the baby boomers had enshrined as the current establishment.

His singular success may be why the terrified left attacked him as much after death as they had while he was alive.

Emmanuel Macron is Clueless on the Palestinians by Bassam Tawil

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21923/emmanuel-macron-is-clueless-on-the-palestinians

“[Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas] has asserted his commitment to fighting hate speech and has promised a thorough overhaul of Palestinian governance.” –French President Emmanuel Macron, timesofisrael.com, September 23, 2025

Abbas, unfortunately, has been promising sweeping government and security reforms ever since he assumed power in 2005. Palestinians have yet to see even the slightest change in anything.

[Abbas] had two entire decades to reform the PA, but did not seize the opportunity to end rampant corruption or make any changes in the PA that might be constructive for his people. Even the garbage disposal is toxic.

The results of these polls show that a majority of Palestinians do not share the French president’s optimism regarding the implementation of government, security and economic reforms.

While Macron seems to have taken at face value Abbas’s commitment to launch a “thorough overhaul” of the PA, most Palestinians, according to the polls, have not.

Macron is overly optimistic, if not pathetically naïve, regarding the prospects of democracy in a future Palestinian state.

Macron and other Western leaders, if they believe that the PA will change for the better, at least in the foreseeable future, are living in a fantasy world…. Even if a Palestinian state is created, it will be ruled either by Abbas’s corrupt Fatah faction or Hamas.

In contrast to idealists and politicians such as Macron, the UK’s Keir Starmer, Canada’s Mark Carney and Australia’s Anthony Albanese, who are evidently terrified of their Muslim voters, the Palestinians at least are realistic. They are only too aware that their leaders will keep on providing them with nothing but anguish and misery.

French President Emmanuel Macron, in his speech before the United Nations during the “High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” on September 22, justified his decision to recognize a Palestinian state by arguing that Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas had promised “a thorough overhaul of Palestinian governance.”

Macron expressed hope that the new Palestinian state would protect “democratic expression”:

“The State of Palestine will also have to give new hope to its population, worn down by years of violence and occupation but also division and negligence. It will therefore have to provide its people with a new and secure framework for democratic expression. President Mahmoud Abbas has made that commitment to [Saudi Arabia’s Crown] Prince Mohammad bin Salman and to me. He has strongly condemned the [Hamas-led] terrorist attack of October 7, 2023. He has confirmed his support for the disarmament of Hamas and has committed to excluding it from the future governance of Gaza and the entire Palestinian territory. He has asserted his commitment to fighting hate speech and has promised a thorough overhaul of Palestinian governance.”

Nearly 25 suspects rob California jewelry store, stealing $1 million in merchandise Seven suspects have been arrested, according to officials.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/25-suspects-rob-california-jewelry-store-stealing-1/story?id=125892829

A group of nearly 25 people ransacked a jewelry store in San Ramon, California, this week, stealing an estimated $1 million worth of merchandise, police confirmed to ABC News.

Seven suspects have been detained, so far, and some of the jewelry has been recovered, the San Ramon Police Department said.

The group looted Heller Jewelers, located at the City Center Bishop Ranch shopping mall, on Monday afternoon and was armed with at least three guns, according to police. Video obtained by ABC News’ San Francisco station ABC7 shows the masked mob storming the store and smashing displays with crowbars and pickaxes before being locked inside by automatic closing doors.

This is the second time in two years Heller Jewelers has been targeted in a massive heist, when a group of seven masked men similarly broke into the store on St. Patrick’s Day in 2023 and took $1.1 million worth of jewels. The suspects were later apprehended due to a GPS tracking device hidden inside a stolen Rolex, according to local reports at the time.

On Monday, a member of the group fired upon the door to escape before the thieves fled into six getaway vehicles in the valet area of the shopping mall — several of which were reportedly stolen, police said.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Uncovered the Biggest Health Care Heist in American History Victoria Taft

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2025/09/24/the-biggest-health-care-heist-that-you-probably-never-heard-of-n4944085

What if I told you that cartels and other bad actors from around the world conspired to undermine the integrity of the health care system in the U.S. and came way too close to succeeding? If you didn’t hear about the bust of 324 people; the U.S.-based cartel shell medical supply companies; the pill mills pushing opioids; the doctors on the take; or how law enforcement captured many of the bad guys at the U.S. border and airports as they rushed to escape, that’s understandable. The feds revealed this potential $14.6 billion “depth charge” planted inside the Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance programs in June, while  most people were away on summer vacation.

Why did transnational organizations go after these particular programs? “Criminals go where the money is,” Acting Health and Human Services Inspector General,Juliet Hodgkins said at a news conference about “the largest health care fraud takedown in American history.” There’s more than $1.4 trillion spent by these government programs per year, and the bad guys have tried, by hook or by crook, and even with the aid of AI, to set into motion plans to steal nearly $15 billion. They got away with just shy of $3 billion before they were caught, and their other frauds were frozen in their tracks.

If this bust looks to you like it had Elon Musk’s old Department of Government Efficiency fingerprints on it, you’d be right. Using AI and law enforcement tactics, the DOGE team worked with HHS, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, and an all-hands-on-deck array of federal agents from the DEA, FBI, and health care agencies to track down all fraud leads, according to Dr. Mehmet Oz, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As a result, the feds are setting up a healthcare data fusion center to detect where fraud spikes are occurring in near real time.

“DOGE is involved,” Oz told reporters in June. “The president has been very clear that he wants this fraud, waste and abuse crushed. That’s the word that’s used.” He continued, “DOGE is not just about cutting waste and fraud within government. [It] has been actively involved at CMS in helping us address places where fraud is existing that we never thought to look.” 

Oz said these bad guys were sophisticated and used state-of-the-art methods to rip the government programs blind.

[T]hat’s how we’re being attacked now, and it’s not done by small-time operators, as you’re hearing about and you will read about. These are organized syndicates who are designing to hurt America. And why do they hurt our health care system? Well, CMS is probably the largest target of all, responsible for about $1.7 trillion dollars of disbursements. So, it’s a big target on our side. And they can pierce the veil of protection by just getting identifier numbers from our seniors or Medicaid recipients or others.

China’s scramble for Africa The West will pay a heavy price for neglecting Africa’s potential. Joel Kotkin &Bheki Mahlobo

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/24/chinas-scramble-for-africa/

The West is about to get its comeuppance – if it does not wake up. The balance of the world economy is shifting decisively to what was once seen as the Third World, a shift led by China and, to a lesser extent, India. It is a dynamic that China hopes to exploit in order to replace America as the new global rule-maker. One region in particular is at the centre of China’s economic and geopolitical plans: Africa.

The rise of Africa, which now has 11 of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies, is only just beginning. And China’s strategy is clearly focussed on harvesting Africa’s growing wealth, while sidelining the US and the diminished former European powers. In 2023, the EU’s then foreign-affairs and security-policy chief, Josep Borrell, warned that, ‘Little by little, we are losing Africa’.

Africa’s importance begins with its unparalleled resource endowments, particularly in critical minerals. These are used to power everything from fighter jets to smartphones. The Democratic Republic of Congo alone controls over 70 per cent of the world’s cobalt reserves – a critical mineral used in electric-vehicle batteries and jet engines. South Africa boasts over 80 per cent of global platinum and 70 per cent of the world’s chromium, minerals without which we couldn’t make jewellery, car exhausts or most industrial applications.

These strategic materials provide the foundation for modern technological civilisation, and China has systematically secured preferential access through long-term partnerships that exclude American and other Western competitors. Beyond critical minerals, the continent also has substantial deposits of oil, natural gas, diamonds and gold. Nigeria and Angola are among the top 20 oil-producing nations, while Mozambique’s liquefied-natural-gas reserves promise to reshape global energy markets. China has invested heavily in all three countries. In recent years, it has also upped its investment in oil-rich Libya, a major producer once aligned with Europe.

African agriculture is also strategically important. With 60 per cent of the world’s uncultivated arable land, Africa represents the world’s last major frontier for agricultural expansion. Perennially facing ‘food-security concerns’, China has recognised this potential, and is investing heavily in African agricultural infrastructure and securing long-term food-supply agreements. This will reduce China’s dependence on American agricultural exports while positioning itself as Africa’s primary food-security partner.

Most importantly, Africa is producing the one critical asset that the world economy needs most: people. While China’s population is projected to decline, falling to 1940s levels by 2100, Africa’s population is heading in the opposite direction. It is projected to double to 2.5 billion by 2050, with the median age remaining below 25 throughout this period. Critically, Africa is predicted to be home to 25 per cent of all working-age adults by 2050.

$22 Million in Taxpayer Funds Exposed: Biden Admin’s Shocking Fetal Tissue Experiments NIH pledges not to renew the projects after public outcry, but the battle over taxpayer-funded experiments is far from over

https://lizpeek.com/news/22-million-in-taxpayer-funds-exposed-biden-admins-shocking-fetal-tissue-experiments/?utm_source=newsletter.lizpeek.com&utm_medium=

Efforts to rein in the “mad scientist” culture fostered under President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci are gaining traction, with new revelations about taxpayer-funded experiments involving aborted baby body parts and animals.

According to a recent investigation by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), the Biden administration’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) advanced 17 grants—totaling roughly $22 million—for animal experiments using aborted human tissue. These grants worked against a 2019 Trump-era ban meant to curb such research.

“For years, White Coat Waste has been fighting to ensure taxpayers aren’t forced to foot the bill for nightmarish NIH experiments that crudely implant fingers, scalps, and other human fetus parts into animals,” WCW founder Anthony Bellotti said. “Thanks to our newest investigation exposing active Biden-era funding for these sickening animal experiments—and to swift action from the Trump administration—they won’t be.”

The NIH responded to Breitbart News, acknowledging the controversy and pledging not to renew the Biden-era grants. “NIH takes this issue very seriously and remains committed to the highest ethical standards in research,” the agency said. “We are actively reviewing these matters and will take all necessary steps to ensure our policies reflect that commitment.”

While the Trump-appointed NIH Director, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, underscored a focus on “valuing human life,” many of the controversial projects approved under Biden were said to trace back to Fauci before his 2022 retirement. Some were funded through 2026.

Not everyone welcomed the shift. Hideyuki Okano, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), defended fetal tissue research as a “cornerstone of biomedical progress since the 1930s.” He credited the practice with advances in studying infertility, neurodegenerative diseases, and even vaccine development for illnesses ranging from polio to COVID-19. He argued the work is carried out under a “robust ethical and legal framework.”

Charles Lipson Dallas shooting was a political act Democrats’ milquetoast calls for ‘public calm’ and ‘civil discourse’ ring hollow

https://thespectator.com/topic/dallas-shooting-was-a-political-act/

Although we are still learning the details of the lethal assault on the ICE facility in Dallas, we already know some important things, thanks to transparency from the Dallas police and the FBI. We know the shooter’s name; we know he committed suicide as police closed in; we know he fired indiscriminately at the ICE facility, killing at least one detainee but no ICE officers; and we know the assassin had a political motive, encoded on unfired rifle shells. He hated ICE.

We also know exactly what politicians from each side will say. They’ve said it so many times before. The Republicans have a much stronger, more convincing message here than Democrats.

Republicans will say, “This targeted violence against law enforcement and immigration officers has to stop. We have to do more than condemn it. We need to understand that the violence is not just a series a unconnected incidents. We have to name the sources behind it. If the violence is organized, we have to find and prosecute the organizers and the funding sources. We think it is fueled by vile rhetoric, a lot of it from elected Democrats and still more from their media allies. Their fulminations inflame passions and fuel violent demonstrations and deadly attacks. We know that some of this violence is organized. We need the FBI to find out who is doing that and who is funding it. And we need the Department of Justice to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”

Democrats will respond, “This is just more senseless gun violence. We need to talk with each other, not shoot at each other. All of us condemn this violence. Of course, we bear no responsibility for any of it. So, both sides need to calm down.”

Democrats are losing this argument. Polls show voters strong favor Republicans on both law-and-order and immigration enforcement. Democrats’ response rings hollow with voters because it ignores their reasonable demand for closed borders, strict immigration enforcement and better protection against urban violence. Democrats are seen as opposing all those.

If voters support those positions, why do Democratic politicians find it so hard to fall in line? Because the party’s activist base and its left-wing donors would crush them in the primaries, before they reach the wider electorate in November. They would also face the obvious question: why are you changing your positions now, after years of saying just the opposite?

US prosecutors to seek indictment of former FBI Director Comey in Virginia Sarah N. Lynch

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/former-fbi-director-comey-indicted-192939067.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Prosecutors are expected to ask a grand jury to indict former FBI Director James Comey in the Eastern District of Virginia in the coming days, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

The exact charges remained unclear, and it was uncertain whether the grand jury would return an indictment against one of Trump’s longtime political antagonists.

Comey served as FBI director from 2013 until Trump fired him in 2017, and Trump has since regularly assailed Comey’s handling of the FBI probe into contact between Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government.

Any charges against Comey would mark the starkest example of the Trump administration using its law enforcement authority against a prominent critic – after the president promised retribution in his election campaign.

One of the sources said some prosecutors within the Eastern District of Virginia have presented new U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining why charges should not be filed, saying the case lacked evidence to show probable cause that a crime was committed.

A representative for Comey declined to comment.

At least one of the potential charges being considered would accuse Comey of lying to Congress during his testimony in 2020. The statute of limitations to bring charges against Comey in connection with that testimony would expire on Tuesday.

Since Trump returned to power in January, the Justice Department has been examining Comey’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, when he addressed Republican criticisms of the Russia investigation and denied he had authorized disclosures of sensitive information to the media.

Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America Israel’s story is one of dazzling success and unrelenting peril—prosperity, innovation, and resilience tested by enemies abroad and divisions within. By Peter Berkowitz

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/23/explaining-israel-the-jewish-state-the-middle-east-and-america/

This is the Introduction to “Explaining Israel: The Jewish State, the Middle East, and America,” by Peter Berkowitz. 

Introduction

In 2014, Israel’s future had never seemed brighter. Led by the high-tech sector, the economy was booming. The Israel Defense Forces—with advanced weapons, an outstanding air force, sophisticated intelligence capabilities, and cybersecurity prowess—gave the Jewish state the most powerful military in the Middle East. While not producing warm relations and bustling commerce, treaties with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994) brought cold peace and stability along Israel’s two longest land borders. World surveys placed Israelis among the happiest of populations. In a country whose national security interests compelled it to impose mandatory military service on men and women, life expectancy ranked among the longest in the West. Secular Israeli women had higher fertility rates than secular women in any country in the West; those of their ultra-Orthodox sisters were significantly higher. Israel pumped plentiful amounts of natural gas from offshore fields that had come online during the previous decade. Over the previous 30 years, the country had gone from a few vineyards making largely cheap wine for sacramental purposes to around 300 vineyards producing a variety of fine wines. And with its bustling commerce, stunning Mediterranean beachfront, culinary delights, thriving culture, and work-hard-play-hard spirit, Tel Aviv had become one of the world’s most exciting, and expensive, cities.

At the same time, and generally ignored or downplayed by much of the population and more than a few political leaders, Israel’s enemies strengthened their capabilities and plotted the Jewish state’s demise. In the summer of 2014, Iran-backed Hamas jihadists kidnapped and brutally murdered three young Israeli men in Judea and Samaria—the biblical names, used with increasing regularity in Israel, for the West Bank. Subsequently, Iran-backed Hamas jihadists in Gaza showered southern Israeli communities with rockets. In response, Israel conducted a seven-week military campaign in Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, to degrade Hamas’s ability to launch rockets at Israel’s civilian population, but not to destroy the organization or remove it from power. In Lebanon to the north, Iran-backed Hezbollah had amassed a vast arsenal of projectiles aimed at Israel—by that time tens of thousands of ordinary rockets, precision-guided rockets, and intermediate-range missiles—while its fighters gained battlefield experience in the Syrian civil war. The Islamic Republic of Iran made steady progress toward constructing nuclear weapons; insulating its nuclear program from attack; producing ballistic missiles; and funding, training, and equipping not only Hamas and Hezbollah on Israel’s borders but also other militias around the region.

As external threats intensified in 2014 and in the following years, internal strife in Israel mounted. Members of the working class, often Mizrahi Jews with roots in the Muslim-majority countries of North Africa and the Middle East, resented the well-educated, highly remunerated, and progressive Israeli elites, in large measure, Ashkenazi Jews hailing from families that had emigrated from, or could trace their ancestry to, Europe. While priding themselves on their commitment to equality and pluralism, Israel’s Ashkenazi elites often looked down on Mizrahi Jews’ traditional beliefs and practices. Meanwhile, much of the non-ultra-Orthodox majority angrily objected to the ultra-Orthodox minority’s exemption from military service and to the substantial subsidies that the government allocated to their religious schools (in 2014, the ultra-Orthodox constituted about 11 percent of the population and by 2024 about 13.5 percent). Although Israel had made considerable progress in improving the social and economic well-being of its Arab minority – around 21 percent of the citizenry – much remained to be done.