POLAND: Polish farmers marched through downtown Warsaw today to protest against the EU’s climate policies and to oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
The march was organised by Solidarity, a farmers’ trade union strongly opposed to the EU’s farming policies, in particular a policy known as the Green Deal, which the farmers say interferes with their work and imposes high costs.
GULF OF ADEN: A European naval force detained six suspected pirates today after they opened fire on an oil tanker travelling through the Gulf of Aden, officials said.
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys


