On February 25, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered what would become known as the “Secret Speech.” This denunciation of Joseph Stalin and his “cult of personality” at the 20th Party Congress marked the first time top Soviet officials publicly described state terror as the result of abuses of power and violations of “socialist legality.” However, the condemnation remained selective. The terror’s true scale and the Communist Party’s complicity were never openly addressed, and much of this criticism was later rolled back. Nevertheless, Khrushchev’s speech was a watershed moment in the USSR’s history, signaling a definitive break with the Stalin era and the beginning of a period of relative openness known as the “Thaw.” Meduza examines what drove the Soviet leadership to break its silence on Stalinism, what crimes they chose to expose, and what they left unspoken.

In the span of just two months, U.S. President Donald Trump has overseen the forcible removal of two sitting foreign leaders: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Both men were long-standing autocrats who cultivated anti-Western agendas and opposed U.S. influence abroad. Vladimir Putin has at times employed similar tactics, raising obvious questions for the Russian leader: Is he at risk of the same fate? And what the new war mean for a Kremlin that’s invested heavily in its partnership with Tehran? Alexander Baunov, senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, examines these developments and their ramifications.

From The Unz Review

Britain’s 1956 financial defeat has traditionally been called its “Suez Moment” revealing to the entire world that Britain no longer existed as a great and independent power. Britain would never again attempt any such bold international action, so the sun had finally set on the last faded residue of the once mighty British Empire.

I think there is a very real possibility that President Donald Trump’s sudden attack against Iran might result in a similar development for our own country.

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2026.02.27

White Gold (TSXV:WGO, OTCQX:WHGOF, FRA:29W) in November published assays from the first hole of the 2025 drill program at its Golden Saddle deposit, part of the company’s flagship White Gold Project located in Canada’s Yukon Territory.

The 2025 program at Golden Saddle was designed to target three zones of mineralization: the hanging wall, main zone and footwall. At the Arc deposit, drilling was designed to test the down-plunge extent of gold mineralization below 120m vertical, as well as provide material for metallurgical test work programs as contribution towards a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA), expected to be published in Q2 of 2026.

Continue reading White Gold reports assays, announces critical minerals spin-out and multiple porphyry-style targets on Pedlar property – Richard Mills at Ahead of the Herd.