Canada’s Refusal To Cooperate With DEA On Fentanyl “Superlab” Investigation Fueled Cross-Border Tariffs   President Trump’s new hemispheric defense strategy, stretching across North, Central, and South America, now includes the deployment of 4,000 troops and three guided-missile destroyers positioned in international waters off Venezuela, as part of a broader campaign to dismantle command-and-control hubs of narco-terrorists […]

How Great Powers Fall Apart Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, We’re humoring our self-delusion. How do great powers come undone? We can start with a destructive force without equal: self-delusion. Emperor Norton comes to mind in this context. In 1859, in the Gold Rush-enriched city of San Francisco, Joshua Norton, a bankrupt businessman, declared himself “Emperor of these United States” in a proclamation […]

Big Tech Could Soon Use Brain Chips To Read Your Innermost Thoughts: Study A new study out of Stanford University reveals that neural implants, also known as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), might not just help paralyzed individuals communicate – they could potentially lay bare your innermost thoughts to Big Tech. Published in the medical journal Cell, the research shows these devices can decode brain signals to produce […]

Which Western Security Guarantees For Ukraine Might Be Acceptable To Putin? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, He might hypothetically agree that the resumption of NATO’s present support for Ukraine (arms, intelligence, logistics, etc.) in the event of another conflict wouldn’t cross Russia’s red lines but he’s unlikely to compromise on the issue of Western troops in Ukraine once the present conflict ends. Steve […]

The Cost Of Attending An NFL Game Has Risen 40% In The Last 10 Years The economics of football are shifting, and fans are feeling the squeeze. According to new research from FinanceBuzz, the cost of attending an NFL game has climbed dramatically over the last decade, with tickets, concessions, and parking all contributing to the rising price tag. On average, it now costs $158 per person to attend a game in 2024 — up 40% since […]

Flag Wars Everywhere! Authored by Andrew Doyle via DailySceptic.org, One of the curious aspects of moving from the UK to the US is adjusting to the everyday cultural differences. There’s the tipping, the peculiar phrases (waiters often say ‘I appreciate you’ rather than ‘thank you’), and the kind of generalised politeness from strangers that in London I would naturally treat with suspicion. For me, one of the most notable […]

State Of Famine Officially Declared By UN As Israel Bombards Gaza City Even as the Netanyahu government has approved of restarting externally mediated negotiations with Hamas again, Israel is threatening to utterly destroy Gaza City if the remaining hostages aren’t returned. Israel’s defense minister issued a stark warning on Friday, saying Gaza City could face total destruction if Hamas does not quickly agree to Israel’s […]

Escobar: Even After The Headmaster’s Humiliation, Europe Insists That Peace Is War Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Empire of Chaos is at war, hybrid and otherwise, not only against BRICS, but against Eurasia integration… It took just one pic to imprint on posterity the utter humiliation of the EUrotrash political elites in Year 2025: the Coalition of the Twats, in the Oval Office, lining up like a bunch of frightened schoolkids, […]

What Are The Real Reasons Behind Washington’s Latest Show Of Force Against Venezuela? Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, The US Empire’s drums of war are once again beating loud and hard in Latin America… Three US destroyers equipped with the Aegis system, a defence technology designed to track multiple targets and neutralise air or sea threats simultaneously, will be arriving off the coast of Venezuela in […]

To Afford Seattle Rent, You Need Nearly $91,000 A Year Renting in Seattle now requires a much higher income than just a few years ago, according to new Zillow data sourced by Axios.. To afford the typical monthly rent in the metro area, a household must earn nearly $91,000 annually — about 23% more than five years ago. Zillow uses the standard guideline that rent should take up no more than 30% of household income. Based on […]

When Smartphones Get Smarter, Do We Get Dumber? Authored by Makai Allbert via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), As Mohamed Elmasry, emeritus professor of computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, watched his 11- and 10-year-old grandchildren tapping away on their smartphones, he posed a simple question: “What’s one-third of nine?” Illustration by The Epoch Times, Freepik, Getty Images Instead of taking a moment to […]

HHS Rolls Out ‘MAHA In Action’ To Spotlight Health Reforms Early in his tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to make transparency a key element of the department under his leadership. This week, HHS announced the debut of MAHA in Action, an online platform highlighting federal initiatives and state-led reforms implementing the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda. MAHA in Action offers […]

Microsoft Failed To Disclose Key Details About Use Of China-Based Engineers In U.S. Defense Work, Record Shows Authored by Renee Dudley with research by Doris Burke via ProPublica, Microsoft, as a provider of cloud services to the U.S. government, is required to regularly submit security plans to officials describing how the company will protect federal computer systems. Yet in a 2025 submission to the Defense Department, the […]

These Are The US Cities Where Groceries Are The Most Expensive Grocery bills vary dramatically across the U.S., and some cities are feeling the pinch more than others. Adding to the strain are record meat prices, driving up up food price inflation 3% compared to June of last year. Meanwhile, vegetable prices are spiking as farmers struggle with labor shortages amid rising deportations. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s […]

Hunger Games: AI’s Demand For Resources Poses Promise And Peril To Rural America Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, HOLLY RIDGE, La. – More than three millennia ago, indigenous people built a massive ceremonial mound a few miles from here, an engineering marvel called Poverty Point and one of the oldest known building projects in North America. Today, this is ground zero for what may prove a defining feature […]

Trump On ‘Lowlife, Unpatriotic’ Bolton: ‘Going To Find Out’ If He Leaked Classified Info Update(1418ET): President Trump’s first comments since the early morning FBI raid on John Bolton’s Maryland home and D.C. office haven’t disappointed. Trump made clear he’s no fan, but that he didn’t personally get involved in the crackdown over allegations of mishandling or keeping classified documents.  “I’m not a fan of John Bolton. He’s […]

Ghislaine Maxwell Says Father Was Intelligence Asset, Trump ‘Was Never Inappropriate’: DOJ Transcripts The DOJ has just released transcripts and audio from two days of interviews last month with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, who said that President Trump was “never inappropriate with anybody” while he and Epstein were associates, and that her father was an intelligence asset.  “Did you ever hear Mr. Epstein or […]

Atlas Robot Moves Spot Parts From One Place To Another As Humans Keep Playing Tricks On It Authored by Daniel Patrascu via autoevolution, Thanks to the many ongoing projects in this field, we’re used by now to seeing humanoid robots performing all sorts of impressive, almost human-like tasks and movements. But it’s not until you see one performing something as mundane as moving things from one box to another, or arranging stuff on […]

Washington D.C. Has The Highest Unemployment Rate In The Nation The U.S. labor market remains resilient in 2025, but unemployment figures vary widely by state. While the national unemployment rate stood at 4.1% in June, some regions are experiencing far higher (or far lower) joblessness. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, highlights the unemployment rate by state using data from the Bureau of Labor […]

How Managers Are Using AI To Hire And Fire People Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is evolving rapidly, and some are warning that using AI to make executive decisions without careful consideration could backfire. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images AI is being used more and more in recruitment, hiring, and performance evaluations […]

India, Russia Set $100BN Trade Target, Rejecting US Pushback Via The Cradle India and Russia plan to increase their annual trade to $100 billion over the next five years – an increase of 50% – despite US opposition to the growing cooperation between New Delhi and Moscow, a top Indian minister announced on Thursday. During the first day of a three-day visit to Moscow on Wednesday, Indian External Affairs Minister […]

Trump’s Tariffs Will Reduce Deficits By $4 Trillion Over Next Decade, Says CBO Report Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, A report released on Friday by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will reduce federal deficits by around $4 trillion over the next decade. If Trump’s global tariff hikes continue, increased revenue could shrink primary deficits by $3.3 trillion […]

Dutch Foreign Minister Steps Down After Israel Sanctions Blocked, Caretaker Govt Fragments Dutch parliament is fiercely divided on whether it should take more measures which add teeth to recent actions calling out Israel for the mounting civilian death toll and starvation conditions in the Gaza Strip. Just last month, the hardline Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who actively assist in Jewish settler expansion […]

Shocking NEW Documents Expose Multi-Front Effort To Protect Clintons While Framing Trump Submitted by Peter Schweizer & Seamus Bruner of The Drill Down,  Newly unearthed documents show deep state government actors once again circling the wagons to protect Bill and Hillary Clinton — and suppressing evidence that implicated them. Last week it was the FBI, this week it is the IRS. In 2019, the IRS Criminal Investigations […]

U.S. Government Finalizes Deal For 10% Equity Stake In Intel, Will Release $8.87 Billion In Funding Update 8/22/25 1657EST: Bloomberg is reporting that the deal will see the U.S. government acquiring 433.3 million shares of Intel at $20.47 per share. The government will be “passive” owners with no board members and agrees to vote with the company’s board of directors. The government’s stake will be funded by $5.7 billion in award […]