Escobar: The New Great Game, Revisited Authored by Pepe Escobar via ‘Geopolitics Prime’ substack, It took only a few Yemeni missiles on Saudi refineries to wake up “leadership” vectors of the Ummah; not over 100,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza by the death cult. The Mecca Sunni NATO pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan remains a puzzle. Or dodgy sub-standard theatre – complete with photo ops and sparse intel […]

Where The World Is Burning In 2026 As of August 1, 2026, wildfires and landscape fires have burned 112.3 million hectares of land across the globe, an area roughly the size of South Africa. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Sofie Gilbert, uses data from the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) via Our World in Data to show where that burning is concentrated in 2026 as of August 1. The data includes prescribed […]

All ICE Enforcement Officers In Maine Equipped With Body-Worn Cameras, Sen. Collins Says Authored by Owen Evans via The Epoch Times, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Friday that all Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Maine have been given body-worn cameras and trained how to use them. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents walk outside the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, Calif., on July 27, […]

Forget Reminding Young People About ‘Boat People’: South America’s Rejection Of Socialism Is Happening In Real Time Andy Laperriere, Piper Sandler’s head of US policy research in Washington, wrote in a note on Thursday that explained both parties are moving left on economic policy as populist measures gain support across the political spectrum. His big-picture view is that “hard-left and socialist candidates” are damaging the […]

Judge Drops Case Against 6 Nevada Republicans Accused Of Falsifying 2020 Election Result Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Six Nevada Republicans, who were accused of submitting a certificate falsely declaring President Donald Trump had won the state’s 2020 presidential election, will not face a trial after a judge dismissed the case against them on Aug. 13. Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald walks on stage before […]

Trump’s DOJ Will Reportedly Support End Of National Firearms Act After 92 Years Why do Americans protected by the 2nd Amendment still need to get permission and approval from the ATF to have a rifle with a barrel under 16 inches, or a particular brand of stock, or a suppressor that, in most cases, doesn’t silence a firearm at all but simply makes shooting it easier on a person’s hearing?  Why, for 92 years, have citizens had to […]

House Committees Detail Harvard Ties With Chinese Entities In New Report Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A report released by House committees on Aug. 13 alleged that Harvard University prioritized financial ties over American national security and received more than $600 million from China, the most of any U.S. university. Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on March 29, 2026. Learner Liu/The Epoch Times The […]

Russia Admits Renewed Petrol Shortages After Recently Claiming Situation Was Stabilized Russia has shut down one major refinery at Orsk, around 800 miles from the front line, for six months after it came under drone attack this week. It has also suffered more terminal outages due to continued attacks on a vital Black Sea energy port. “Crude oil exports from Russia’s Sheskharis terminal at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were […]

Patriots Won’t Let Communists Take America Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,  Meet at the Liberty Tree… This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.” Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.   Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought […]

ICE Roundup Of Haitian Migrants Begins In Ohio It all started with complaints from residents in Springfield, OH that a surge of Haitian migrants was causing chaos and an odd disappearance of local wildlife and pets.  City officials and local companies where shipping the migrants in by the thousands and giving them jobs.  NGOs arranged for extensive handouts including housing, food and cash. Initially, all of this was done while […]

Your Grandfather’s Military Is Dead Authored by Byron King and Sean Ring via DailyReckoning.com, You may have already seen some of what I’m about to share in The Daily Reckoning. But given what we’re focused on here and the sheer amount of money now moving into this corner of the defense industry… I think it deserves a second look. The drone itself is only part of what’s happening here. Building a military around unmanned […]

Berkshire Adds Google, Delta, Trims BofA, Kroger As Abel Taps Into Record Cash Hoard While nowhere near as tumultuous as the transformational first quarter in Berkshire’s post-Warren Buffett era which saw over a dozen names rotated in and out, in the second quarter there were a few notable changes under Berkshire’s new CEO, Greg Abel.  In a quarter in which Abel spent a net $20 billion on other equities, and repurchased about […]

State Department Revokes Over 175,000 Visas Of Foreign Nationals Accused Of Crimes Via American Greatness, President Donald Trump’s State Department has revoked more than 175,000 visas held by foreign nationals accused of crimes since the start of last year, officials said this week, marking one of the administration’s most sweeping efforts yet to remove dangerous individuals from the country. State Department officials […]

US Accuses Chinese Exporters Of Masterminding “Great Transshipment Scam” Back in mid-2025, when Trump’s renewed trade war with China was all the rage, we said that much of this was hot air and theatrics for the simple reason that many Chinese exporters would find easy ways to evade US tariffs thanks to “transshipments”, or using intermediary countries as fake points of origin … Why China exports tumbled to the US and rose […]

Democratic Party Committee Advances Resolution Demanding ICE Be Abolished Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times, Democrats have edged closer to vowing to end Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Federal agents monitor protesters in front of Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Portland, Ore., on Oct. 4, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times At its summer meeting in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 13, the […]

Investors Sue Selena Gomez Over Mental Health Startup Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Singer and actor Selena Gomez was sued Thursday by investors who say the “Only Murders in the Building” star committed fraud by failing to fulfill duties to build and promote her mental health startup. The plaintiffs invested nearly $1.2 million in Wondermind Global, which was launched in 2021 to help users improve their […]

Flock Blinks: Surveillance Giant Slashes Data Retention After 50 Jurisdictions Walk, Cams Destroyed Flock Safety, the startup that blanketed America in automated license plate readers (ALPRs), announced Thursday that it is dialing back its expansive platform. The company is significantly shortening its data retention windows, requiring police to justify every search, and allowing cities to block neighboring jurisdictions from […]

Forget CDOs, Meet CCOs: This Isn’t A Tech Cycle… It’s 2008 With Silicon In July, the appropriately-named ‘Groundbreaker’ website laid out a structural diagnosis that most of the market still refuses to confront: the AI boom is not a technology cycle. It is a credit-driven real-estate-like cycle whose financing architecture depends on the second derivative. Levels (backlogs, gigawatts, revenue, token usage) and the first […]

Influential Wife Of Anthropic CEO Pitched Post-Conviction Epstein On ‘Luxury Porn’ Company, And Claude Has No Idea Anthropic has filed confidentially for what could be the largest public offering in history. Yet, one of the most influential voices shaping its chief executive holds no official position at the company, appears in no regulatory filings, and has been quietly scrubbed from the internet. She also pitched a porn company […]

America Enters FAFO-Land: Election Sabotage & Blue-State Mutiny As Communist Jihad Escalates Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Things Get Spicy “The left are incompetent biotrash who purge everyone too attractive, too capable or too intelligent to uncritically accept their retarded worldview.” – Aimee Terese on “X” And so, all of a sudden, having failed to subvert or assassinate the president they abhor, and foil […]

Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead at 41 Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor who recently resigned amid controversy, has been found dead at the age of 41. Emergency services were called to an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon, where Arday was discovered unresponsive. The London Ambulance Service arrived shortly after 3:00 p.m., deploying an ambulance crew, an advanced […]

Bessent: US Readies Economic Isolation Of Iran “Like The World Has Never Seen Before” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax Thursday night that the Trump administration will announce unprecedented economic measures against Iran next week, signaling that a sharp escalation in economic warfare is just ahead as negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain stalled. The warning comes as Tehran-linked Houthi rebel forces […]

No Illegal Immigrants Released At Southern Border In 15 Months: CBP Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, U.S. Border Patrol in July released zero illegal immigrants from the southern border into the United States for the 15th straight month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in an Aug. 13 statement. Illegal crossings last month remained “historically low,” CBP said. Apprehensions of illegal […]

Energy Drinks Overtake Coffee As Gen Z’s Primary Caffeine Source Filippo Falorni, Citi’s lead US equity-research analyst covering beverages and household and personal-care companies, published his latest survey of 2,400 US energy-drink consumers, revealing a significant generational shift in caffeine consumption. Energy drinks, led by category giants Red Bull, Monster, and others, have overtaken coffee as the primary caffeine […]

US Lost 25% Of Its Reaper Drones In Iran War, Officials Estimate Amid a recent avalanche of media headlines warning of significantly depleted US weapons stockpiles, The Washington Post is out with another fresh report Thursday which sounds the alarm, this time over advanced drones. The US military lost at least 45 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the Iran war, American defense officials were quoted as saying. The same officials estimate […]