There is a systematic scare campaign running in Europe apparently to prepare the population for more war against the enemy of the day – be that Russia, Iran or China.
The Italian journalist Thomas Fazi has written several fine pieces about this theme:
The “Russian hybrid war” narrative: a new NATO strategy of tension?
Does the evidence support the narrative? Or does it rather point to a “hybrid war” — a campaign of psychological warfare — being waged by the EU-NATO establishment itself, against its own population?
and
Evidence of a Russian “hybrid war” in Europe is vanishingly thin
The narrative of all-out gray-zone conflict with Moscow evokes Italy’s Cold War “strategy of tension”
Today saw a new item that can be added to the list of “Russian hybrid war” interventions. As the Financial Times reports:
Hundreds of schools across Italy, Scotland and Ireland receive bomb threats (archived)
Hundreds of schools across Italy, Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland received bomb threats on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest co-ordinated attack aimed at disrupting life in Europe.
Italy’s education ministry said more than 300 schools received emails warning of imminent explosions, leading to thousands of students being rushed out of their classrooms.
Dozens of schools in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland were subjected to similar threats, also leading to some evacuations.
A “co-ordinated attack aimed at disrupting life in Europe.” Oh. My. God!!!
I’d rather call that a cheap prank of some loon’s making.
What are the difficulties which require “co-ordination” to send a “scary email” blast to a lists of school email addresses?........................
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https://ronpaulinstitute.org/sad-dems-helped-to-stymie-massies-impeachment-of-hegseth/
Voters across America showed up at the polls to empower Democrats in last Tuesday’s election. In one of the first votes of consequence after the midterms, eleven Democratic Members of the House of Reprentatives failed to show up for the vote that could have led to the Impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
When Democrats show up, they win – – That message ought to be posted at the entrance to the Democratic caucus.
It was only a week ago that many Americans, tired of the war against Iran, exhausted from the consequential rising expense of gas, diesel, home heating oil, groceries, woke up with hope for a new day, upon learning that a blue wave swept America, carrying Democrats to victory in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
An historic opportunity to challenge to the war against Iran and the role of the Secretary of Defense came yesterday in the form of Rep. Thomas Massie’s (R-KY) Impeachment of Pete Hegseth. The Secretary of (illegal, undeclared) War’s projection of power is eerily reminiscent of the iconic Major T. J. “King” Kong, who rode a nuclear missile as if it were a bucking bronco, on its way to its target in Kubrick’s prescient Dr. Strangelove.
The triple-tap bombing of innocent Iranian school children on February 28, 2026 was one of many key provisions in the impeachment resolution. The totality of the Articles read as if they were written by a constitutional scholar.........................
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Migrants in Libya victims of “violent business model” of systemic violations and abuses – UN report
17 February 2026
GENEVA – Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers in Libya are subjected to ruthless and systematic human rights violations and abuses, which include killings, torture, sexual violence and trafficking, according to a UN report published today.
The report by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Support Mission in Libya finds that migrants are rounded up and abducted by criminal trafficking networks, often with ties to the Libyan authorities, and criminal networks abroad. It describes how they are separated from their families, arrested and transferred to detention facilities without due process, often at gunpoint, in what amounts to arbitrary detention.
In detention, migrants are routinely subjected to horrific violations and abuses, including slavery, torture, ill-treatment, forced labour, forced prostitution and other forms of sexual violence, ransom, extortion, as well as the confiscation and re-sale of their belongings and identification documents.
Covering the period from January 2024 to December 2025, the report uncovers an “exploitative model preying on migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in situations of heightened vulnerability [that] has become ‘business as usual’ – a brutal and normalised reality”.
The report is based on interviews with almost 100 migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees, from 16 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
“I wish I died. It was a journey of hell,” said an Eritrean woman, who was detained for over six weeks at a trafficking house in Tobruk, in eastern Libya. “Different men raped me many times. Girls as young as 14 were raped daily,” she said. The perpetrators released her after her family paid a ransom.
Another Eritrean woman, who had been subjected to female genital mutilation in the past, described how she and her friend were forcibly cut open by traffickers, and then raped. Her friend later died due to severe bleeding.
A survivor, who was detained in a hangar, said men with weapons used to take women at night and rape, torture and beat them in front of others. “I was raped twice in that hangar before my daughters and other migrants. A Sudanese man tried to help me and stop them, but they beat him severely. My daughter was traumatised and is still asking me about that night,” the woman said.
Migrants also described horrific attempts to cross the central Mediterranean. “Interceptions by Libyan actors were frequently dangerous and involved threats, hazardous manoeuvres, and excessive use of force, putting people’s lives at risk,” said the report. Those intercepted are often forcibly returned to Libya, where they risk facing the same cycle of abuse..............
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