Author: ALN Staff

From West Virginia to California, America’s fentanyl crisis shows no signs of slowing down. Mexican drug cartels dominate our country’s supply of synthetic opioids — leading to a record number of overdoses. Behind the scenes, China’s transnational organized crime syndicate (the Triads) provides the cartels with the chemicals necessary to produce the drugs and send them across the U.S. border. Into the country that’s by far the world’s largest consumer of illegal drugs. Houston’s KTRH reports: Former State Department official David Asher told TBN’s Centerpoint the Chinese government is essentially running a worldwide money laundering scheme using fentanyl.”The Chinese Triads are shipping the…

The USS Thunderbolt successfully prevented Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) from taking a U.S. Navy unmanned surface vessel back to base following an hours-long standoff in the Persian Gulf Monday night. The U.S. patrol ship and a Sea Hawk helicopter approached the IRGC support ship Shahid Baziar as it towed the U.S. Navy Saildrone Explorer, forcing the Iranians to release their prize. https://twitter.com/ryankakiuchan/status/1564636592312033282 The Daily Mail has more: The Guard’s Shahid Baziar warship attached a line to the Saildrone Explorer in the central part of the Persian Gulf in international waters late Monday night, said Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a…

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last premier of the Soviet Union, has died. Gorbachev promised to deliver reforms that would open his insular country and spur economic growth, but domestically he received pushback from hardline members of the Communist Party and liberals who felt he was doing too much and not enough, respectively. Outside of Russia, proposals like glasnost and perestroika received widespread praise for the perception they’d help the Soviet mindset transcend the darkest days of the Cold War. Ultimately they did, but they also hastened the end of the Cold War, the Soviet empire and the Soviet Union itself. The…

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is claiming that the FBI deliberately suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election by asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to censor the story, which the mainstream media subsequently dismissed as Russian disinformation. Zuckerberg admitted as much to podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday. https://twitter.com/minds/status/1562927481945980928 Now, according to investigative journalist Sara Carter, a whistleblower claims the FBI was instructed not to investigate the salacious accusations surrounding Hunter Biden’s laptop, claiming that the Bureau was “not going to change the outcome of the election again.” As Sara Carter reports: “These new allegations…

Pro-war Russian propaganda, in collusion with the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces, is claiming that Russian troops were deliberately poisoned by Ukraine. Russian-controlled international news station Russia Today reported traces of Botulinum toxin Type B were found in samples taken from Russian soldiers stationed near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine vehemently denies the baseless accusations and Kiyv says the poisoning could have been caused by eating expired canned meat. Observers fear the bellicose claims by the Kremlin and its allies could be used by Russian leader Vladimir Putin to justify the use of chemical weapons. The Daily…

Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) is suing the Justice Department to prevent investigators from searching his seized cellphone. Perry is a prominent supporter of former President Trump and the chair of the House Freedom Caucus. Per Mediaite: Politico first reported on Wednesday the 16-page suit, which was filed on Aug. 18 “but not publicly docketed until late Tuesday.” https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1562464692312117248 Perry’s phone was confiscated by the FBI on Aug. 9, one day after the FBI raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where there allegedly was hundreds of classified documents Trump allegedly took with him to the Florida home when he left office.“This morning, while traveling with my family, 3…

The bidding process only ended last week on South Korea’s first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), but the country positioned on one of Asia’s geopolitical fault lines already has high expectations for what is sure to be a provocative weapon. Korean Air will manufacture South Korea’s loyal wingman drone, a stealth UAV that observers believe will play an integral role in South Korea’s “decapitation strategy.” A plan to end or deter conflict with North Korea by killing its leadership. As the Asia Times reports: Critical aspects of the project include developing radar-absorbing materials and stealth shaping for future UAV designs.South Korea’s…

After one jury deadlocked on reaching a verdict, a judge declared a mistrial for the two ringleaders in the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. At their retrial today, a federal jury in Grand Rapids found both men, Barry Croft Jr., 46 and Daniel Harris, 24, guilty. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1562104680561479684 Both men were convicted on all counts and now face the possibility of life in prison. Per The Detroit Free Press: Fox and Croft were convicted of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to possess weapons of mass destruction. Croft was convicted on an additional weapons charge.The men were judged by a second,…

The former speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives has been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy charges and taken into custody. Federal agents arrested former Speaker Glen Casada (R) and his onetime Chief of Staff Cade Cothren at their homes this morning. Nashville’s WKRN reports: Casada, 63, and Cothren, 35, were arrested at their homes by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and will make initial appearances before a U.S. Magistrate judge later Tuesday. Both were charged with conspiracy to commit the following offenses: theft from programs receiving federal funds; bribery and kickbacks concerning programs receiving federal funds;…

Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking what he calls an independent review of the files the FBI seized from Mar-a-Lago. Lawyers for the former president teased the possibility of major legal action in recent days. The lawsuit is titled Trump v. United States Government. The introduction starts off as follows, “Politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice. President Donald J. Trump is the clear frontrunner in the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary and in the 2024 General Election, should he decide to run.” It proceeds to say that the FBI should have considered that executing…