China’s Soybean Boycott – Key Questions Before Trump-Xi Meeting At the end of last week, new details emerged via a Wall Street Journal report outlining the Trump administration’s potential farm bailout, estimated to be in the range of $10 billion to $14 billion, aimed at cushioning farmers amid China’s pivot in agricultural purchases to Brazil. Trump blasted China last week, saying Beijing was “hurting” American farmers during the […]

Goaded By Tariffs, European Pharmaceutical Industry Pivots To The US Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, The U.S. tariff policy and its unmatched pharmaceutical market are pulling European drugmakers to invest more heavily, from new manufacturing plants to U.S. stock listings and discount pricing deals. Since early 2025, European drugmakers have stepped up their U.S. presence. In the most recent move, the United […]

Rare Blackout In Western Russia After Attacks From Ukraine After a huge overnight cross-border drone attack out of Ukraine, a sizeable chunk of Western Russia is experiencing a rare and significant blackout. The outages have mostly been experienced in Belgorod Region in western Russia, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, who says that 40,000 residents were left without power starting Sunday evening. Screenshot of video […]

Germany’s “Debt Boom”: Merz’s €500 Billion Gamble Is Keynesian Madness On Steroids Submitted by Thomas Kolbe  In Berlin’s government circles, anticipation is rising: the massive debt program is ready for launch. Soon, the 500-billion-euro credit package—disguised as a “special fund”—will hit the economy like a tidal wave, supposedly to free the country from its chronic recession. Looking back, Chancellor Friedrich […]

AppLovin Craters 15% After Bloomberg Reports SEC Investigating Company Over Its Data Collection Practices Shares of controversial short seller target AppLovin were leveled in late trading Monday, falling more than 15% one point after it was reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the company over its data-collection practices, according to a Bloomberg exclusive. Bloomberg writes that the probe, handled […]

Spanish Cops Uncover Fraud Network Of Fake Residencies & Sham Marriages Used By Illegals Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, The Spanish National Police has announced the arrest of 12 people in Vic for orchestrating fraudulent partnerships between Spaniards and illegal immigrants, part of a growing Europe-wide problem involving forged documents, sham marriages, and black markets for residency permits. According to […]

The Parents of Charlie Kirk’s Prodigal Assassin Authored by David DesRosiers, President, RealClearFoundation, Charlie Kirk’s murderer came from somewhere. We all do. Since the “In the beginning …” times, our species has wrestled with the fundamental logic – and perceived unfairness – of holding parents responsible for the sins of their children. Or the other way around. In the Old Testament book of Ezekiel, the […]

South Carolina Judge’s Beachfront Home Burns Down, Hospitalizing Three People A fire destroyed the Edisto Beach home of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diana Goodstein and her husband, former state Sen. Arnold Goodstein, on Saturday, sending three people to the hospital, according to the NY Post. The blaze broke out around midday, forcing Arnold Goodstein to leap from the first floor to escape. He and two others were later […]

Ukrainian Intelligence Says China Helping Russia Target Western-Funded Facilities In Ukraine Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Agency official Oleh Alexandrov has told the state news agency Ukrinform that China has been directly assisting Russia with intelligence for use on the battlefield in Ukraine. Specifically he said China is providing foreign intelligence to target those sites in Ukraine which benefit from foreign […]

Back To Square One? Hamas, Israelis Meet In Egypt To Hash Out Trump Peace Plan After President Trump issued weekend threats telling Hamas to move quickly on implementing his 20-point Gaza peace plan, along with previously warning there’d be “hell to pay” if they don’t free all 48 remaining hostages (living and deceased), it seems the sides are merely back to square one in a sense as delegations have been sent to Egypt. “A […]

Sen. Kennedy Just Exposed More Absurd Things Democrats Shut Down The Government For Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, The Schumer Shutdown dragged through the weekend, with neither side budging. Republicans pushed for a straightforward continuing resolution to keep the government funded through November, but Democrats chose to hold the line for their wish list of radical spending priorities—billions and billions of […]

Is Silver About To Tumble Like in 1980 & 2011 Submitted by Jesse Colombo of The Bubble Bubble Report With silver rallying strongly and rising more than 50% since the start of the year, a growing number of investors are starting to worry that a crash may be coming, similar to what happened after the major spikes in 1980 and 2011, instead of focusing on the incredible long-term opportunity that remains in front of us. But as one […]

Most Of The World’s Largest Trash Heaps Are In The US Most of the world’s largest trash heaps are in the United States. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to crowdsourced data verified by the collaborative online platform Waste Atlas, the former dumpsite Fresh Kills tops the list. The site is estimated to contain 220 million tonnes of waste, including debris from the September 11 attacks. It closed in 2001 and a […]

How To Mayweather Counterpunch The Democrats Authored by Steve Cortes via RealClearPolitics, The Democrats have shut down the government because they’re putting illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens. Do not listen to Chuck Schumer or any of his allies in the corporate media when they spin about this critical point. As Vice President JD Vance correctly points out: “It’s not something that we made up. It’s not a […]

Trump World Tower, Israeli Consulate In NYC Listed As “Protest Targets” Tomorrow Two years after the October 7, 2023, attacks that plunged Gaza into war, the Trump administration is pushing forward with a Gaza ceasefire plan that began with indirect talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators on Monday evening. According to CNN, the two sides are expected to continue meeting over the next few days with mediators from the U.S., […]

Clarifying Putin’s Comments About Poland’s Pre-World War II Policy Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Putin commented on Poland’s pre-World War II policy during the Q&A session that followed his speech at the Valdai Club’s latest annual meeting. Before clarifying what he said, readers should review this piece here about why Putin spent so much time talking about Poland in last year’s interview with Tucker, this […]

New Syrian Parliament ‘Overwhelmingly Sunni, Male’ Following Controlled Vote Via The Cradle Syrian religious minorities and women will be underrepresented in Syria’s new parliament following an election that was tightly controlled by self-appointed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and in which the Syrian public was not allowed to vote. Preliminary results of the election published on Monday show that of the 119 new lawmakers, only […]

The Progressive Flight From Reality Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, Progressivism isn’t just an ideology; it’s also becoming a mental health condition. Spiraling past the tendentious spin and lies that have long shaped American discourse on both sides of the aisle, the loudest voices on the left are losing the capacity to grasp reality. As a character in a recent Wall Street Journal cartoon put it: “You’ve […]

Mapping Extreme Poverty Across All American States In 2024, 6% of the U.S. population lived in extreme poverty, equal to 20.4 million people. While there are different definitions of extreme poverty, this is represented as those earning less than $8,160 in annual income, or half of the poverty line. As the federal budget makes cuts to food assistance and healthcare, levels of extreme poverty run the risk of worsening even further. […]

US Takes 10% Stake In Alaska Miner Trilogy Metals Trump’s Industrial Policy juggernaut continues. Moments after the close when we saw some abnormal moves in the stock of yet another North American small cap stock focused on mining strategic minerals, we quickly skimmed through Trilogy Metals’ just released presentation and told readers that yet another “Uncle Sam bear hug” deal was in the works, pointing out the company’s […]

Milken And Friends Build A $500 Million Monument To Their Version Of The American Dream Authored by Eric Salzman via Racket News, I almost fell off my chair a couple of weeks ago when I saw a Bloomberg article titled “The Junk Bond King Opens a Shrine to Capitalism Near the White House.” My thoughts instantly turned to an episode of “The Sopranos” in which Tony and the crew discuss building the Newark Museum of Science and […]

The Influence Of Influencers Most people trust the opinion of their social circle when making purchasing decisions. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, data from Statista Consumer Insights shows, many also trust the friendly people who freely share their lives with us on social media and at least feel like our acquaintances: influencers. You will find more infographics at Statista Influencers currently yield the […]

Unaccountable: The FBI’s Strange Refusal To Fix Key Crime Stat Authored by John R. Lott Jr. via RealClearInvestigations, Three years ago, RealClearInvestigations reported that the FBI was undercounting the number of armed civilians who had thwarted active shooters by a factor of three. Even though the FBI acknowledged the issue at the time, it never corrected the error involving the politically fraught issue. In the years […]

Bezos Sees Data Centers in Space – Predicts AI ‘Bubble’ To Pay Off Like Dot-Coms In a jaw-dropping vision of the future, Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos predicted Friday that “gigawatt-scale” data centers will be built in space within the next 10 to 20 years, powered by endless solar energy – and that they’ll eventually outperform their Earth-bound counterparts. “We’re going to start building these giant […]

$17,000 per Month: How Sky-High Prescription Prices Take Toll On Patients Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), “If I were 10 percent less mean or 10 percent less stubborn, I’d probably be dead,” Sarah, a multiple sclerosis patient, said when describing her year-long battle to obtain the medication that could alter the course of the incurable condition and extend her productive life for years. […]