A Villainous Blueprint For Managed Poverty Authored by Veronique de Rugy via The Eoch Times, Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in “The Fountainhead” would scheme to seize the global economy’s commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don’t just appear in cartoons or in Rand’s novels. […]

These Are The Hardest Languages For English Speakers To Learn For English speakers, learning Spanish or Italian can take less than a year. Reaching the same level of proficiency in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, or Arabic may require nearly four times as much study. This wide gap reflects how closely a language resembles English in its vocabulary, grammar, sounds, and writing system. This visualization, created by Julie R. Peasley […]

Half Of Israelis Agree Deterrence ‘Weakened’ Following Wars In Iran, Lebanon: Poll Via The Cradle Israelis are raising doubts about their government and military’s ability to provide security after more than three months of renewed war against Iran and Lebanon.  According to a Maariv poll released on Friday, 50 percent of Israelis believe their country’s deterrence has declined following the recent escalation with Iran and […]

“Flying Beer Cooler”: Pentagon’s Next Kamikaze Drone Ushers In Era Of Cheap Mass-Produced Airpower Our focus on the rise of the “war unicorn” theme over the last four months, shaped by technological innovation seen in the war in Ukraine and the conflict in the Middle East, has allowed us, in countless notes, to inform readers very early that 2030s warfare has already arrived. In fact, hyperinnovation in Ukraine, now the world’s AI […]

Russian Governors Rush To Deny Fuel Crisis As Rationing Spreads Submitted by Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com Russia’s authorities and regional governors are racing to assure residents there are no fuel shortages amid an intensified Ukrainian drone campaign at Russian refineries and fuel supply roads. Ukraine has stepped up attacks this month on key fuel supply routes in its territories occupied by Russia, including Crimea and […]

America’s Hiring Map Has Flipped Since 2020 America’s hiring recovery has split into sharply different regional stories since 2020. Some states, including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, continue seeing elevated hiring demand years after the pandemic. Others, particularly across parts of the West Coast and Mountain West, have experienced steep declines in job openings. The map below, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy […]

Public Schools Are In A Downward Spiral Authored by Larry Sand via Heartland.org, After decades of steady growth, attendance in U.S. K-12 public schools has shifted drastically. Over the past five years, registration has fallen by 2.3 percent, or 1.18 million students, and schools show no signs of rebounding. Lower birth rates are the primary driver of the downturn. The number of births has decreased steadily in recent years, […]

Globe And Mail Caught Pushing Anti-Musk “Hate” Propaganda, Then Quietly Alters Headline To … Summary: Globe And Mail Changes Headline After X post Ratioed  “Reckless Propaganda”: Globe And Mail Op-Ed Tells Readers “How To Properly Hate” Elon Musk Ahead Of SpaceX IPO Globe And Mail Alters Headline  The hostile, juvenile, and editorially reckless propaganda, amplified by The Globe and Mail in the form of a Thursday op-ed just […]

Russia Is Single-Handedly Standing Against The West: Putin “It was they who carried out the coup d’etat in Ukraine, which forced us to take the people of Crimea under protection. When they started the war, they started bombing Donetsk using warplanes” – Putin in a fresh address to Russian service members came out swinging, giving a familiar lesson in recent history. And quite provocatively, he emphasized that Russia is now […]

Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, The libertarian movement can be divided into two basic groups: libertarians who call for reforming welfare-warfare state programs and libertarians who call for dismantling welfare-warfare state programs. I fall within the latter group. Why? Because I want to be free. Reform doesn’t get me freedom. At best it gets me a […]

“They All Believe That Taiwan’s Part Of China”, Former Reagan Advisor On Chinese Nationalism Iran is dominating headlines, but Washington’s favorite bipartisan monster abroad is never too far from the sights of the hawks. Just days ago, and while the U.S. is fighting a war, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell scolded Marco Rubio for pausing a weapons shipment to Taiwan. Last night, ZeroHedge hosted opposing think tankers to answer […]

The SPLC’s Real Scam Authored by David Harsanyi via The Epoch Times, It turns out that the most generous funder of white supremacist groups in the United States was likely the Southern Poverty Law Center. At least that’s what the Department of Justice’s superseding indictment against the SPLC alleges. The organization secretly paid informants to engage in the active promotion and funding of racist groups while denouncing and […]

How Bad Is Foreign Influence In America’s Nonprofit Universe? In February, the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing titled “Foreign Influence in American Nonprofits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond.” While Democrats deflected and tried to make the hearing about MAGA and free speech, the underlying topic remains important. 🧵Senate Hearing Raises Alarms Over FOREIGN INFLUENCE Looting American Pockets 📢 […]

India Set To Miss Budget Deficit Target As Oil Shock Strains Public Finances Submitted by Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com India may be on track to miss its target for budget deficit for the first time since 2021 as the oil supply shock pressures government coffers. The government of the world’s third-largest crude oil importer is preparing to exceed its own deficit target from early this year as the Middle East crisis is […]

Qatar Tried Secret Deal-Making With Iran To Protect World’s Largest Gas Complex By the middle of March during Trump’s Operation Epic Fury, Iran was flexing its retaliatory might, and the Gulf region was shocked to see the largest natural-gas production facility in the world, Qatar’s North Field, badly damaged – with a key section forced offline and severely damaged. The Washington Post has just provided some new information which […]

A Conservative Audit Of The Left’s Ruling Assumptions Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness, There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, […]

The Most Important AI Experiment You’ve Never Heard Of Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, In May 2026, a group of scientists set out to answer an important question that had never been properly tested: What does artificial intelligence (AI) actually do when it is put in charge? Until now, AI systems have always been evaluated on specific and defined tasks. Nobody had placed multiple AI systems together in a shared […]

Gabbard Drops Receipts Detailing US-Funded Biolabs In Ukraine Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified a set of internal intelligence slides documenting a long-running US program that has funded a worldwide network of biolabs that handle dangerous pathogens – including dozens in Ukraine.  Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing […]

Mother Of All ‘Ifs’: Trump Officials Claim Iran Deal Delivers Peace, Inspections & Hormuz Reopening; Iran Says Indeed ‘Close’ Summary Araghchi: A deal, if reached, will be signed remotely by both sides and then announced. The UAE had agreed to release a total of $10b, more than $3b of which had already been delivered (Reuters). Bloomberg latest: US Senior admin officials says Iran deal accomplishes core US objectives and deal […]

The Mullahs & The Lefty-Left Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Until you are willing to harm the left more than they are willing to harm you, they will win. It’s really that simple.” – Aimee Terese on X You’ll just have to stand by on whether this war with Iran is over or not, since the Shia true believers’ practice of Taqiyya is a permission structure for lying to infidels (us) when necessary — like, to […]

Federal Government Pauses Funding To Los Angeles Homeless Agency Citing Fraud Allegations Authored by City News Service via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on June 11 suspended federal funding to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), cutting off millions of dollars to the L.A. region, over allegations of fraud and widespread mismanagement. HUD Secretary Scott Turner […]

SpaceX Blasts Past $2T, Musk’s Wealth Tops Trillion As Record IPO Ignites Space Economy Summary:  Musk Becomes A Trillionaire  SpaceX IPO Opens Up $150, above $135 IPO price SpaceX IPO Shares To Trade 29% Higher Than IPO Price  Liftoff: SpaceX Gray-Market Trading Signals 35% IPO Pop Vanda SPCX IPO update: SpaceX is on track to become the biggest IPO debut for retail investors in recent history. Coinbase […]

India Accuses West Of Double Standards Over US Russia Oil Sanctions Submitted By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The on-and-off U.S. sanctions on Russian oil and the flipping U.S. position regarding India’s oil purchases from Russia highlight the double standards of the Western nations, Indian Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. India turned en masse to Russian oil in 2022, when the U.S. and the EU imposed […]

DOE Declares Southeast Grid Emergency As Sweltering Heat Boosts AC Demand As the U.S. men’s national soccer team kicks off its first match against Paraguay in Southern California on Friday night, large swaths of the country are trapped in what feels like a wet sauna, with dangerous heat and humidity forcing households to crank up their air conditioning and straining power grids from the Southeast to the Northeast. On Thursday, the […]

Gabbard Rescinds Intelligence Committee Reports On Mysterious Syndrome Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has retracted intelligence community reports on mysterious health problems known as Havana Syndrome, according to a memorandum released on June 11. Gabbard found that the intelligence community assessments of the anomalous health incidents, released in […]