Fueled by the explosive rise of artificial intelligence and the data centers that power it, America’s demand for electricity has surged to record highs. Meeting that demand will require unprecedented investment in reliable, affordable energy. Yet just as the need for dependable power grows more urgent, radical climate activists are working to choke off the very projects that promise to supply it and threatening the integrity of the American judicial system in the process.   The clearest example of this troubling trend came earlier this year, when Greenpeace International filed a lawsuit in the Netherlands against the American company Energy Transfer, an extraordinary attempt to overturn a verdict issued by an American court. In the case, a North Dakota jury ordered Greenpeace to pay roughly $660 million in damages for its role in the disruptive 2016 and 2017 protests targeting Energy Transfer’s Dakota Access Pipeline.  During the North Dakota trial, jurors heard how the organization engaged in a campaign of defamation, disruption, and property damage that led to costly delays in the pipeline’s construction. One of Greenpeace’s central falsehoods was that the pipeline would cut through sacred tribal lands. In reality, Energy Transfer worked directly with tribal leaders and routed the pipeline to avoid such areas, a fact Greenpeace chose to ignore. Greenpeace was also found to have dispatched paid protesters to the construction site who were carrying tools that were later used to lock agitators to equipment. These ‘hired guns’ trained protesters who assaulted law enforcement officers, set fires, and caused untold environmental damage by leaving behind 48 million pounds of garbage.  Sensing that it was likely to lose, Greenpeace filed a countersuit in the European Union, claiming Energy Transfer’s case violated a new EU directive against “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation,” or SLAPPs. That measure was meant to stop frivolous lawsuits designed to silence critics, not to shield activist groups from the consequences of their own unlawful actions. The implications of this transnational lawsuit are staggering for American energy security and judicial independence. Greenpeace’s attorneys have said that if they win, they will seek enforcement in any jurisdiction where Energy Transfer holds assets, and those assets “would be subject to seizure.” In other words, a foreign court could soon decide the fate of an American company, and by extension, the energy infrastructure that powers our economy. If that precedent takes hold, it will open the floodgates for radical activists to weaponize the U.S. judicial system and effectively veto energy projects they disagree with. Many other climate NGOs are already turning to litigation and disruption to advance political goals. As the National Law Review recently noted, climate NGOs “have increasingly sued gas, oil, and energy companies, challenging their historic messaging on climate change, plastic recycling, and fossil fuels’ effects.” In one especially brazen case, four nonprofit organizations sued ExxonMobil over the environmental impact of single-use plastics, even though ExxonMobil doesn’t manufacture plastics. Beyond the courtroom, radical activists have also increasingly deployed violence against American energy suppliers. In 2016, a group calling itself “ShutItDown” launched coordinated attacks on U.S. pipelines across three states in the name of “climate justice.” In 2021, an Iowa woman was charged with conspiracy to damage an energy facility after plotting to use cutting torches on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The same year, roughly 100 protesters stormed Enbridge pump stations in Minnesota, forcing out workers and damaging critical equipment. What ties these incidents together is not a legitimate environmental concern, but a willingness to weaponize protest and the legal system to achieve ideological ends. The result is greater risk to workers, communities, and the energy systems that power our nation. If Greenpeace succeeds in convincing a foreign court to overrule an American jury, others may be emboldened to follow suit. U.S. companies could face endless rounds of duplicative or retaliatory litigation abroad, even after winning fair verdicts at home. Such a system would also undermine legitimate environmental advocacy while crippling investment in critical infrastructure, a lose-lose situation for good-faith actors on both sides of the issue.  The stakes could not be higher. Every kilowatt that powers our factories, homes, and AI data centers depends on a stable, secure energy supply. Undermining that supply threatens not only our economy but also our technological and national security. Meeting this moment will require bold action to ensure American energy security and judicial independence are upheld.  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Greenpeace Wants Europe to Rewrite American Law appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel was deliberately obtuse on his Wednesday show when he claimed that the Trump administration’s focus on Antifa is non-sensical because ANTIFA “is just short of anti-fascist.” Kimmel also pretended that the administration thinks Antifa is a terrorist group simply because they have matching signs. Kimmel teed up a clip of Attorney General Pam Bondi by declaring, “The reason we know Antifa is organized against the government is because their matching signs indicate they are somehow in league with Kinko’s.”     In the clip, Bondi proclaimed, “You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They’re organized, and someone is funding it. We are going to get to the funding of Antifa . We're going to get to the root of Antifa , and we are going to find and charge all of the people causing this chaos in Portland and all of the cities across our country.” The signs are proof of organizing. The violence is meant to be the proof of terrorism, but Kimmel tried to claim Bondi was claiming the signs were proof for the latter, “Yeah, and if we can't find them, we are going to pretend we did. Antifa is just short for anti-fascist. It's not a club you can join. There are no membership dues, but they have matching signs!” Under that logic, North Korea—the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea—is the most democratic country on earth because it has “democratic” and “people” in its name. Still, Kimmel then continued his bad faith argument by putting up a picture of a 2024 Trump rally where attendees all held signs that read “Witch Hunt,” and claimed that if signs are proof of terrorism then, “Okay, well, then I guess we'd better round up these domestic terrorists too.”   Nobody has ever argued that signs alone are proof of terrorism. However, people like Kimmel have tried to claim that Antifa is just an idea or an umbrella term for a movement that has no central headquarters that hands out marching orders, but Bondi was trying to argue that’s not true. If Kimmel and his late night comedy compatriots want to “speak truth to power,” they should at least focus on what the administration is actually saying. Here is a transcript for the October 15 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 10/15/2025 11:39 PM ET JIMMY KIMMEL: The reason we know Antifa is organized against the government is because their matching signs indicate they are somehow in league with Kinko’s.  PAM BONDI: You’re seeing people out there with thousands of signs that all match, pre-bought, pre-put together. They’re organized, and someone is funding it. We are going to get to the funding of Antifa . We're going to get to the root of Antifa , and we are going to find and charge all of the people causing this chaos in Portland and all of the cities across our country. KIMMEL: Yeah, and if we can't find them, we are going to pretend we did. Antifa is just short for anti-fascist. It's not a club you can join. There are no membership dues, but they have matching signs! Okay, well, then I guess we'd better round up these domestic terrorists too.

The second anniversary of October 7, 2023 — the horrific day when Hamas attacked Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people and abducting 251 hostages — was marked yet again by sickening celebrations from pro-Palestinian activists worldwide, who lauded Hamas’ invasion as “resistance.”But Mark Levin refuses to overlook the deeper implications. He recognizes that the support for Palestine's cause extends beyond merely demanding that Israel relinquish Gaza and the West Bank — it's a broader push tied to undermining the foundations of the entire Western world.“Israel and the United States, [Islamists] view as one of the same. They view Europe as one of the same. Canada, Australia as one of the same. In other words, the West has to be overthrown,” he warns. “Your nation is based on Judeo-Christian values combined with the Enlightenment. [Islamists] don't believe in Judeo-Christian values or the Enlightenment. They're seventh-century. This is what we're up against,” Levi explains.He calls out the Palestinians who claim that Gaza and the West Bank are their ancestral lands. Palestinians, Levin reiterates, is the new term for the people the Bible calls the Philistines — “enemies of the Jews” who were “not indigenous to that area.”He explains that in the 1960s an Egyptian by the name of Yasser Arafat, who knew “the Western media are both stupid and ideologically driven hard left,” renamed the Bedouin Arabs “Palestinians.”When we hear activists chant about Palestine being free, what it really means is the total evisceration of Israel, its people, and ultimately everyone in the West.For those who think Islamic vitriol won’t touch America, Levin says it’s already happening. Not only are pro-Palestine protests allowed to run rampant across the country, but New York City is on the cusp of electing Zohran Mamdani — “a Hamas-supporting Marxist, America-hating, Jew-hating lowlife” — as mayor.He warns that there’s a poisonous sect within the Democrat Party — run primarily by Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — that will never stop campaigning for the Palestinians and their nefarious causes.“This has to be fought every damn day, or we're going to lose our country. Jews, Christians, other faiths, people who believe in the American system, in our values, in our belief system — we're losing it, America. We're losing it. And we're losing it fast,” Levin laments.To hear more of his analysis and commentary, watch the clip above.Want more from Mark Levin?To enjoy more of "the Great One" — Mark Levin as you've never seen him before — subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

President Donald Trump may have resolved several bloody conflicts since retaking office, but he is clearly not averse to executing military strikes in the Western Hemisphere in the interest of protecting the American people.The president announced on Sept. 2, for instance, that he had ordered a strike that killed 11 individuals on an apparent narcoterrorist drug boat that was headed to the United States. Following a series of similar attacks, Trump revealed on Tuesday that the U.S. military had conducted yet another lethal strike on an alleged narcoterrorist vessel, killing six men "just off the Coast of Venezuela."'Venezuela is feeling heat.'Trump, who has suggested that every such drug boat vaporized amounts to 25,000 American lives saved, confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. will not limit its actions against Venezuelan cartels, which the administration does not distinguish from the socialist Maduro regime, to kinetic maritime strikes.The president confirmed on Wednesday — months after the State Department increased the bounty for Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to $50 million and weeks after White House special envoy Richard Grenell reportedly cut off all diplomatic outreach to Venezuela on the president's instruction — that he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert actions on the ground in Venezuela.During a news conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump said he made the authorization for two reasons: first because Venezuela has "emptied their prisons into the United States of America" and second because of the drugs Venezuelan terrorists smuggle into the U.S.Citing unnamed U.S. officials, the New York Times reported earlier in the day that the authorization meant the CIA could execute lethal operations both in Venezuela — against Maduro and his regime — and elsewhere in the Caribbean, where Trump recently notified Congress that the U.S. is now engaged "in a non-international armed conflict" with several terrorist organizations.Trump said of the efforts by South American cartels to smuggle drugs into the U.S., "We've almost totally stopped it by sea. Now we'll stop it by land."RELATED: 'We will stop you cold': Trump announces successful strike against 'narcoterrorist' vessel The U.S. Navy warship USS Sampson docked in Caribbean waters. Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty ImagesWhen asked whether he was considering executing land-based military strikes on enemy cartels, Trump said, "I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got the sea very well under control."Three Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, the nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie, and the littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul are presently operating in the region.Maduro, whom the Trump administration has recognized as leader of the specially designated global terrorist organization Cartel de los Soles, claimed last month in response to the American military buildup in the region, "in response to maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum readiness to defend Venezuela."Caracas has supposedly enlisted over 8 million Venezuelans as reservists.When asked on Wednesday whether the CIA has "the authority to take out Maduro" — there is allegedly interest among a handful of senior officials in the Trump administration in orchestrating a regime change in Venezuela — the president said that was a "ridiculous question" for him to answer. Trump noted, however, that "Venezuela is feeling heat."Maduro, whose alleged electoral victories in 2018 and 2024 are not recognized by the U.S., stated in response to Trump's remarks on Wednesday, "No to regime change that reminds us of the failed wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya. … No to coups d’état carried out by the CIA."Blaze News has reached out to the White House for comment.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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