Qatar’s Energy Minister Says Bessent’s “Worthless” Hormuz Claim Is “Completely Wrong” Qatari Energy Minister Saad Al-Kaabi blasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday, saying he was “wrong” to claim the Strait of Hormuz would become “worthless” to the oil industry in two years. “I think this is completely wrong,” Saad Al-Kaabi said Sunday at the Qatar Economic Forum in New York. Speaking to Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow on […]

Westinghouse Eyes $50 Billion IPO As America Builds Valuations Faster Than Reactors Westinghouse, the nuclear business that helped blow a hole in Toshiba’s balance sheet, is preparing for a different headline: a potential valuation above $50 billion. Bloomberg reports that the American nuclear king could publicly file for an IPO as soon as October. It submitted confidential paperwork in July, and while nothing is set in stone […]

Investor Day Bust: Novo Nordisk Plunges As Wall Street’s Turnaround Hopes Fade Novo Nordisk shares tumbled as much as 7.7% in Copenhagen trading after Wall Street analysts questioned the Danish drugmaker’s turnaround efforts amid the loss of its GLP-1 lead to Eli Lilly & Co. At its capital markets day earlier in London, Novo outlined plans for more than five blockbuster launches and over $23 billion in new sales in the coming […]

Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock Military conflicts, economic wars, and resource wars are converging ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter. Export restrictions on critical materials and energy products are adding economic pressure worldwide, raising the risk that supply disruptions and retaliatory measures widen existing conflicts. With no clear path to de-escalation, the […]

VW Supervisory Board Recommends Another 4,100 Job Cuts At Porsche Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The hailstorm of bad news from Germany’s auto industry simply refuses to end. Again and again, heavy hailstones from corporate press offices crash down on anxious workforces at the automakers, ruining politicians’ election campaigns and destroying the last hopes of those still clinging to the promise of an electric car made in Germany. […]

Venezuela’s Oil Revival Faces “Decade Or Two” Climb Back To Record Output, Piper Sandler Warns President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine” positions energy security in the West as a key pillar of US national security.  The removal of socialist Nicolás Maduro and the subsequent massive Venezuelan oil deal represent the opening act in a longer-term effort to rebuild production and secure supplies closer to the Gulf of America.  Piper […]

Utah Valley University Faculty’s Sickening Post-Assassination Emails About Charlie Kirk Exposed New public records indicate that faculty members at Utah Valley University sent hostile messages regarding Charlie Kirk to the university’s administrators in the weeks following his assassination on the UVU campus, even though the university had previously issued public statements advocating civility and free expression. Utah Valley […]

European Central Bank President Blocked Binance’s EU Entry: Report Authored by Mathew Di Salvo via Bitcoin Magazine, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde stopped Binance from operating in the European Union, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The newspaper on Thursday reported that the top crypto exchange was on the cusp of operating in the trading bloc but then was told it couldn’t after the central bank […]

These Are The Countries Where Bond Yields Are Rising Fastest The 10-year Treasury briefly poked above 5% this week – peaking at 5.04% on Bloomberg’s tape, the highest since 2007 – before backing off. It’s the first time it has been there since the October 2023 spike, and this time it arrived with company: Japan’s 10-year is above 3% for the first time in three decades, Bunds are at their highest in a decade and a half, gilts are at […]

Meloni: Italy Set To Ban Face Coverings In School, Limit Foreign Students Per Class Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Italy is moving to ban face coverings in schools and limit the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced at a youth event on Sept. 19. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni waits to welcome Austria’s chancellor at the Palazzo Chigi in Rome on Feb. 10, 2025. Filippo […]

America Spends More On Defense R&D Than Any Other OECD Country – By A Mile On the OECD’s yardstick – defense R&D budget allocations per $1,000 of GDP – the United States spends $3.64. The next country on the list, South Korea, spends $2.06, and nobody else clears a dollar. Britain is third at $0.97, Germany fourth at $0.79, France fifth at $0.50. The average across the 20 countries ranked is $0.58; the median is $0.27. […]

All Eyes Are On Belarus Ahead Of The US’ Reported European Military Drawdown Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The potential pullback of some US forces from the Baltic States upon the completion of its force posture review could be followed by European NATO if Russia agrees to pull back some of its forces from Belarus in order to then establish partial buffers in the post-war European security architecture. NBC reported […]

Shurk: Bush’s Islamic Appeasement Greatly Damaged America Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Last week, President George W. Bush sat down with his former secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to discuss the September 11, 2001, Islamic terror attacks on the United States. While reflecting on his actions twenty-five years earlier, Bush went out of his way to defend Islam: “I also made it clear that Islam was a religion of […]

Space Weapons Grabbed MSM Headlines, But USAF Secretary Hinted What Could Replace MQ-9 Reaper The Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference opened earlier this week at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink’s disclosure that the Space Force had launched “space control weapons” into orbit quickly dominated the news cycle. Beyond […]

Leftists Rally To Stop Trump’s Renovations To Crumbling Kennedy Center Why is it a bad thing to repair Washington DC’s crumbling landmarks and famous buildings?  It’s only a bad thing when Donald Trump is doing it.  This attitude has led to numerous delays and problems with overall renovations across America’s capital; from vandalism to direct interference with work crews to legal warfare as a way to stall various projects.  […]

Pentagon Releases UFO Files Examining Warp Drives, Stargates, & Cloaking Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon on Sept. 18 released its sixth batch of declassified and historical UFO files, including papers examining speculative concepts such as warp drives, cloaking devices, stargates, and wormholes. In July 2025 in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their […]

Bechtel Splits With TerraPower As Holtec Postpones IPO Bechtel and Bill Gates-backed TerraPower are parting ways over the next phase of the Natrium reactor project in Wyoming, adding a construction headache to a sector already digesting Holtec’s postponed IPO. According to a layoff notice reported by Washington Business Journal, the companies failed to reach an agreement and “have decided to move forward separately.”  […]

Trump Announces ‘AI Force’, Plans To Name AI Czar As US Pushes Tech Dominance Authored by AG News Staff via American Greatness, President Donald Trump announced plans to form an “AI Force” and appoint an artificial intelligence czar as his administration looks to promote the rapidly growing technology while using existing laws to address potential wrongdoing. Trump argued Democrats are attempting to create public doubts about AI […]

India’s Clean Energy Boom Halts Coal Power Growth Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, India’s coal power generation did not grow between the first half of 2024 and the first half of 2026, for the first such two-year period in over 50 years in which coal power has remained flat in the world’s second-largest coal consumer, a new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) for Carbon Brief showed. […]

Germany’s Merz Admits “Disaster” After AfD Victory As CDU Crash Out Of State Parliament Update: The situation for Merz’s party just went from “disaster” to full Titanic as projections signal the CDU will get just 4.9% of the vote – below the critical threshold required to enter parliament… This would be the first time the CDU failed to enter state parliament since the founding of the federal republic in 1949. Two days ago […]

Drug 10 Times Stronger Than Fentanyl Seized In San Francisco Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, San Francisco police have arrested four suspects, recovered multiple firearms, and seized over 20,000 counterfeit pills – some containing cychlorphine, a new synthetic drug that is up to 10 times stronger than fentanyl. The arrests resulted from a months-long investigation that started with the fatal overdose of a San […]

Trump Would ‘Probably Be Open’ To Meeting Iranian President, Who Will Address UN President Trump in a Sunday morning Fox News interview repeated some of his talking points about a big decision he is preparing to make regarding what comes next in the Iran war He told the outlet he’s currently in “deciding mode” on Iran and that “very big things” are coming, and once again suggested it would either involve major military escalation […]

“Not Enough Raw Material!” – Resource Wars Put Tungsten In Crosshairs As Western Rearmament Supercycle Looms Submitted by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black,  The UK just invested £71m to restart a tungsten mine, with an option on half the output. Other governments will follow. I should be pleased – I’ve spent years arguing the West needs to fund its own supply. The problem is I’ve seen what happens next. In 2008, Japan and […]

Iran’s Military Believes US Is Preparing To Resume Attacks Iran’s central military command has announced it believes the United States has made the decision to resume military attacsk on the Islamic Republic. Citing the country’s General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, state media IRIB states that “According to intelligence received, the US has once again decided – with the green light from certain regional countries – to resume […]

Trump Says His Planned DC Arch Would Host Drones And Snipers Via Headline USA, President Donald Trump said Sunday that the massive arch he wants to build between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery would become a “top grade military complex” able to host drones and snipers while storing ammunition. It is one more example of how Trump is insisting that his initiatives to beautify the White House and the city are […]