A deeper look at Europe’s institutional crisis, antisemitism, and the ideological currents reshaping the West

In recent months, the alarm raised by Jewish communities and observers has grown louder: antisemitism is escalating within Europe’s universities, political institutions, and cultural fabric. A key warning echoes: “It will not end with the Jews.” The forces now in motion threaten not only Jewish lives and identity but the stability of democracy and the rule of law across Europe and North America.

This article expands on that troubling testimony. It examines three interlinked phenomena: the resurgence of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in Europe; the rising antisemitism on campuses and in society; and how institutional responses are faltering. The stakes are high. Democratic societies must confront the challenge before it grows deeper, broader, and harder to reverse.

What you’re about to read may sound like the plot of a political thriller—but it’s real, and it’s happening right in our own backyard. There are two deeply intertwined reasons why the U.S. is confronting Donald Trump’s administration is zeroing in on Venezuela: drugs and oil—but not just that. This is about global rivals setting up shop next door. It’s about trafficking routes, proxy armies, and the erosion of U.S. security from the south.

Let’s break it down. Reason One: Drugs—Lethal drugs

First, Venezuela is not only a transit country—it has become a conduit for deadly narcotics. Cocaine and increasingly fentanyl-laced product are entering the U.S., and there are credible reports that those shipments involve networks tied to the Venezuelan regime and its allies.

Across the last century, one catastrophic truth repeats itself with terrifying clarity:

Communist and Marxist revolutions rise on the backs of university students — then destroy those same students once power is secured.

This is not allegory. This is not political spin. This is historical record, written in blood.

From Mao’s China to Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba, the Vietnamese communist consolidation, and Iran’s post-revolution purge of leftist students, the pattern is identical:

1. Mobilize idealistic youth to destabilize society.
2. Weaponize students to overthrow the old order.
3. Once power is secured, purge, imprison, “re-educate,” or kill the very young supporters who made the revolution possible.

Below is a stark, detailed account of how this pattern unfolded — and why modern rhetoric echoing early revolutionary indoctrination must be recognized for what it is.

A Historic Shift

In a move that signals unprecedented seriousness in combating global cyber-fraud and digital enslavement, China has sentenced 11 Burma (Myanmar) based scam syndicate leaders to death, dismantling a billion-dollar criminal empire built on human trafficking, forced digital labor, torture, and murder.

This case does not simply represent crime prosecution — it marks a geopolitical escalation and a moral stand against cyber-slavery networks that have ravaged lives across Asia, Europe, Africa, and the West.

The Crimes

Chinese courts determined that the syndicate — operating from the Kokang region — was responsible for:

• US $1.4 billion in fraud

• Human trafficking and enslavement

• Abuse and torture of captives

• Killing at least 14 people who tried to escape

This criminal complex forced trafficked victims to run "pig-butchering" scams worldwide under threat of shock torture, beatings, starvation, and execution.

How Generational Behavior Drives Modern Illness More Than Genetics

For decades, the public has been taught that many diseases “run in families.” While genetics do play a role, emerging evidence shows a more powerful force often at work: behavioral heredity. We inherit much more than DNA — we also inherit our family's diet, stress response, physical activity patterns, coping behaviors, and emotional environment.

In many cases, what appears to be genetic illness may actually be generational habit-driven illness.

Genes load the gun. Lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Behavior-Driven Diseases That Often Masquerade as Genetic

Federal, State, and Local Police officers and Sheriff’s across the United States — are facing a growing, deadly crisis. Law-enforcement suicides are rising, yet public conversation remains muted. Officers are dying quietly, far from the spotlight, even as they serve on the front lines of some of the nation’s most polarized political and social battles.

This article brings together key data, the California context, individual officer cases, the toll of anti-police sentiment and political hostility, and what must change to save lives.

The Scale of the Crisis

Law-enforcement officers die by suicide more frequently than by homicide or in the line of duty.

For the world watching Ukraine and Taiwan, it may appear that China and Russia have formed an unbreakable anti-Western alliance. Beijing refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, while Russia has turned eastward for survival as sanctions crushed its economy. China now buys 60% of its energy from Russia, providing Moscow the cash needed to wage war after European energy imports fell by nearly 80%.

On the surface, this looks like a marriage of power.
But this is not a friendship — it is a geopolitical trap.

The truth is clear: China and Russia are historical rivals, and their current partnership is a temporary alliance born out of necessity — not genuine trust.

“When the torch of justice is left unlit, terror spreads in its shadow.”

1. Sudan — War Without Mercy, Genocide in Waiting

In the heart of Darfur and across Sudan, the brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has evolved into what rights-groups and governments now classify as genocide and mass killing on an industrial scale.

• The United States officially declared that the RSF and allied militias committed genocide in Darfur on 7 January 2025.

• The RSF has carried out numerous village raids, executions, ethnic-based targeting of civilians—especially in West Darfur, North Kordofan and the city of El Fasher.

• In El Fasher, reports show at least 1,500 people killed in three days during the RSF takeover; the Sudan Doctors Network called it a “true genocide.”

• Ethnic cleansing of the Masalit people and other non-Arab communities has been documented by Human Rights Watch.

• One report describes the crisis as the world’s largest displacement disaster, with famine zones and more than 10 million people displaced.

When a nation is attacked from the outside, military conscription is controversial but comprehensible.
When a regime forces its own people to fight, kill, and terrorize their fellow citizens — the same communities the regime is already brutalizing — that is not defense; it is state-engineered betrayal.

This is the strategy of the Burmese military junta.

Legal Cover for Forced Complicity

Article 21A of Burma’s People’s Military Service Law (2010) — enforced beginning February 10, 2024 — permits the junta to mobilize civilians when a “state of emergency” is declared. The junta itself created that state of emergency through an illegal coup.

South Korea — once considered a beacon of religious freedom in Asia — is now dragging pastors into prison cells, raiding churches, and waging what observers call an ideological purge disguised as prosecution.

This is not “policy disagreement.” This is state power hammering the church.

Pastors in Prison Without Conviction

Multiple reports confirm that Christian leaders — including elderly clergy — are being detained for weeks in cramped detention cells without trial or conviction, in blatant violation of due process.
One 82-year-old Christian leader has been confined in a 70-square-foot cell for more than a month while still legally presumed innocent.

“Christian leaders detained without conviction in South Korea” — Washington Times, Oct. 22, 2025

Another detained leader — Rev. Son Hyun-bo, a former South Korean Special Forces soldier turned pastor — was imprisoned after publicly criticizing the government, an unmistakable act of political retaliation.

Drug cartels are no longer only sending crews across oceans in low-profile vessels. They are moving into unmanned, satellite-linked, and AI-assisted maritime logistics — a leap that threatens to outpace current interdiction doctrine and surveillance laws worldwide.

I. A Technological Breakout

In July 2025, the Colombian Navy seized the world’s first documented uncrewed “narco-sub” fitted with Starlink satellite internet, allowing remote control over long range with no crew onboard. Officials estimated it was capable of carrying up to 1.5 metric tons of cocaine and traveling hundreds of miles semi-submerged.

This was not merely another drug boat — it was a proof-of-concept that cartels are industrializing autonomy.

A prior case in November 2024 near India’s Andaman & Nicobar waters revealed a similar pattern: traffickers steering remotely via Starlink, transporting illicit cargo without a human pilot.

In a world marked by rapid shifts and deepening crises, PowerMentor Global Watch provides a weekly glimpse into pressing developments across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. From armed conflicts and humanitarian emergencies to natural disasters and political turmoil, this brief delivers clear, reliable insights to help you stay informed, advocate strategically, and respond with purpose.

In a world grappling with growing instability, this week’s briefing highlights evolving threats and humanitarian concerns—from strategic military escalations and terrorism to economic sabotage and severe infrastructure disruption.

In a candid audio conversation recorded in southeast Minneapolis near the University of Minnesota, one witness (here referred to as Speaker 1) offered a sweeping account of how public-benefit fraud, large cash outflows, refugee trauma and institutional distrust are colliding in one of America’s emerging immigrant hubs. The witness claims:

“The largest single funder of Al-Shabaab… are the Minnesota taxpayers.”

Whether this precise claim is verifiable is beyond the scope of this piece, but the statement demands attention because of the gravity of what it says: that U.S. government funds, filtered through fraud and migration-related financial flows, are reaching extremist actors abroad. The witness continues:

“Hundreds of millions of dollars in Feeding Our Future, hundreds of millions of dollars in daycare fraud… millions of dollars per month in cash are sent out to Minneapolis airport. Legally, I’ve got a hundred thousand dollars in cash, I’m putting on this plane and going with me.”

This piece explores that testimony in three parts: (A) the mechanics of alleged fraud and flight capital in Minnesota, (B) the mechanics of remittance pathways and terrorism-finance vulnerability, and (C) the human and community context within which such flows are alleged to occur. It concludes with reflections on oversight failures and what might be done.

A Promise Betrayed

When the United Nations (U.N.) was founded in 1945, it stood as humanity’s greatest hope — a moral compass meant to safeguard peace, protect human rights, and prevent the horrors of war from ever repeating. The world entrusted it with the responsibility to act with courage, integrity, and unity.

Yet after nearly eight decades, that noble vision has collapsed under the weight of corruption, hypocrisy, and political paralysis. The U.N. has drifted from being the protector of the oppressed to the bureaucratic enabler of tyrants.

From genocide and sexual exploitation to aid corruption and selective justice, its failures have not only destroyed trust but cost millions of lives.

Meanwhile, strong leadership — exemplified by results-driven diplomacy under President Trump — has achieved more through decisive action than the U.N. has accomplished through decades of debate and empty resolutions.

1. Structural Paralysis: The Fatal Flaw at the Core

The rot begins with the U.N. Security Council veto, a mechanism that paralyzes global action. The five permanent members — the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China — each hold absolute power to block resolutions.

Despite high-profile crackdowns early in 2025, Myanmar’s network of scam compounds — often dubbed “fraud factories” or “scam cities” — is not only still operating, but expanding. Empowered by satellite internet, local armed groups, and complicity within fractured governance zones, these criminal hubs pose intensifying transnational threats.

Rise, Fall, and Rebirth: The Crackdown That Didn’t Stick

In February 2025, Thai and Myanmar authorities, pressured by public and diplomatic outcry, launched a crackdown against these online fraud hubs. Efforts included cutting off power, fuel, and internet access to border towns like Myawaddy and Tachilek, and repatriating thousands of foreign nationals held in the compounds.

Yet, the gains appear fleeting. Within months, new construction emerged, security fortifications were rebuilt, and operations resumed — often under more resilient architectures. Satellite imagery and drone footage reveal rapid expansion in facilities and infrastructure across the border region.

Where once these compounds relied on terrestrial ISPs and local power lines (sometimes via Thai cross-border links), many now deploy Starlink satellite internet — enabling connectivity even when traditional services are cut. Investigations show roofs festooned with Starlink dishes; in the case of KK Park, dozens of dishes have been counted on a single building.

For the first time in living memory, the guns have gone quiet in Gaza. Hostages held for over two years have just walked free. And for perhaps the first time in millennia, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have signed what may resemble more than a mere ceasefire.

Before proceeding, one must grasp how significant—and how difficult—this moment is. This is not like any conflict in recent history.

1. A Conflict Rooted in Deep Time, Not Just the 20th Century

• The conflict did not begin in 1948, or with the British Mandate, or even upon Israel’s founding. Its deepest roots are in the ancient contest for the land of Canaan, where Israel and the Philistines battled over Gaza.

• Gaza is recorded in the Bible as one of the five cities of the Philistines.

• Samson—a legendary Israelite judge—was betrayed, captured, blinded, and paraded through Gaza. In one of his final acts, he destroyed the temple of the Philistines, falling as many lives fell with him.

• Gaza has witnessed successive conquerors: Egyptians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Ottomans, the British, and more. Yet the rivalry between “the children of Israel” and “those who dwell by the sea” has endured across ages.

The Karen people, known also as Kayin or Kawthoolese, stand among the most ancient and resilient peoples of Southeast Asia. Their story stretches across millennia — a tapestry woven from linguistic heritage, DNA evidence, and sacred oral traditions that recall migrations from the lands of flowing sands in the north to the lush highlands of Burma and Thailand. The Karen narrative carries echoes of divine promise, sacred memory, and ancestral endurance.

This article honors that journey — grounding it in scientific understanding while celebrating oral truths passed down through centuries.

1. The Ancient Landscape: The First Footprints of the Karen

Long before recorded history, Southeast Asia was a crossroads of migration and cultural exchange. Ancient DNA studies show that for more than 5,000 years

The human brain is constantly evolving—reshaping itself in response to experiences, environment, and internal change. During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers began observing a new form of neurological adaptation. Studies show that the combined effects of infection, isolation, stress, and disrupted routines have altered both brain structure and function. This phenomenon, often described as “pandemic brain,” reflects not only temporary brain fog but potentially lasting biological and cognitive shifts.

Structural Changes in the Brain

Scientific investigations using MRI imaging and longitudinal studies have revealed measurable changes in the brain among those who contracted COVID-19 and even some who did not.

In the shadows of Africa’s eastern coast, a brutal campaign of terror is intensifying. Over 30 Christians have recently been beheaded, homes and churches torched, and countless civilians forced to flee their ancestral lands. This is not a localized conflict — it is a war on humanity, carried out under the banner of an ISIS-affiliated group in Mozambique’s once-peaceful hinterlands.

The New Wave of Violence: Beheadings, Shootings, and Arson

In late September 2025, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) published a chilling 20-image set showing militants executing civilians by beheading and close-range gunfire, while others were shown burning homes and churches. MEMRI+1
Among the attacks the group claimed:

• Two Christians beheaded in Chiure-Velho, Chiure District

• A Christian shot dead in Nacocha village, and two churches burned

• Raids on Nacussa, Nakioto, Minhanha villages, involving burning dozens of homes and churches

• In Macomia town, four Christians were killed; in nearby districts, more beheadings were reported

At least 7,087 Christians were killed in the first 220 days of 2025 in Nigeria—an average of roughly 32–35 per day—according to the Nigerian rights group Intersociety (International Society for Civil Liberties & Rule of Law). Multiple independent outlets summarized that report and its methodology in mid-August 2025, noting an additional ~7,800 kidnappings in the same period.

Who is doing the killing

The perpetrators identified most consistently are Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and radicalized Fulani extremist militias (often blended with criminal “bandit” networks). This aligns with years of documentation by Open Doors, USCIRF, and conflict researchers.