The ‘Projects’ That Could Ignite The Next World War Authored by Madge Waggy, The Military, Industrial and Strategic Programs Reshaping the World in 2026 The most dangerous geopolitical developments of 2026 are not necessarily the weapons that have already been fired, but the systems being constructed in anticipation of the next crisis. Across Europe, the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East, governments are committing extraordinary […]

These Are The World’s Biggest Beer Brewers Beer is the world’s most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, but much of it comes from a relatively small group of companies. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Melissa Garside, ranks the world’s 40 largest beer brewers by production volume using data from the BarthHaas Report 2024/25. Together, these brewers produced 42.7 billion U.S. gallons of beer in 2024, equal to […]

Bill Gates Ignored Repeated Warnings And Met Epstein Thirty Times Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, An independent review has confirmed what many long suspected: Bill Gates and senior figures at his foundation met with Jeffrey Epstein roughly 30 times between 2011 and 2014, brushing aside repeated internal warnings about the reputational and ethical risks of associating with a man already convicted of sex crimes […]

Humanoid War Robot Gets Advanced AMD-Powered AI Brain At the start of February, we began tracking startup Foundation Robotics after publicly available news reports and X posts suggested it could become one of the first US companies to deploy humanoid robots on the modern battlefield. TIME later reported that the company’s robots had been sent to Ukraine for testing and evaluation, raising the prospect that these war bots could soon […]

Smokey Skies Does Not Mean Global Warming Authored by Anthony Watts via American Thinker, Every summer seems to follow the same predictable media script. Wildfires ignite somewhere in North America. Smoke drifts hundreds or even thousands of miles. Air quality alerts are issued. Television stations fill the screen with hazy skylines. Then, before investigators have even determined how the fires started, headlines begin linking […]

China Is Now Viewed More Favorably Than America Public opinion toward the world’s two leading powers has undergone a notable shift. Pew Research Center’s Spring 2026 Global Attitudes Survey reveals significant differences in how countries perceive China and the United States. The visualization below, created by Visual Capitalist’s Iswardi Ishak using Pew Research Center data, compares favorability toward both countries […]

Not Giving The Pentagon $1.5 Trillion Is the ‘Greatest Threat’ Facing The US, Hegseth Claims Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, during a Congressional hearing on Tuesday, said a failure to appropriate $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27) budget constitutes the “greatest threat” to US national security. Hegseth, joined by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan […]

From Porn Star To Politician: Amaranta Hank Sworn In To Colombia’s Congress A former adult film actress was sworn in as a Colombian senator on Monday, and she is vowing to fight for the rights of the country’s adult-content creators. Deyci Alejandra Omaña Ortiz, 33, who performed as Amaranta Hank before leaving the business, took her seat in Bogotá for the left-wing Historic Pact party, La Opinión reported. She won it as the […]

Over 148,000 Mail Ballots Rejected In California’s Primary Election, Data Show Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, Election data that was provided by California state officials for last month’s primary elections show that more than 148,000 mail-in ballots were rejected, an uptick of more than 40,000 from the 2024 primary. Election workers conduct ballot tabulation at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center during […]

New York City Says This Rideshare App May Owe Millions In Unpaid Congestion Fees New York City Council Majority Leader Shaun Abreu is calling on the MTA to investigate rideshare platform Empower, arguing the company may be sidestepping New York City’s congestion pricing system while gaining an unfair advantage over licensed competitors like Uber, Lyft and the city’s yellow taxi fleet, according to the NY Post.. The Post writes that […]

The Manufactured ‘Bipartisan’ Push For An AI Kill Switch Authored by Jordan Schachtel via American Greatness, The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced Thursday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas), seeks to hand the government unprecedented authority to order private companies to throttle, suspend, or shut down products in “kill switch” fashion, purely on their own arbitrary determination, with fines up to $20 […]

Forget Beef. This Protein Is Way Cheaper Building on Bank of America’s latest note, which cited Oklahoma State University agricultural economist Derrell Peel’s warning that the US cattle cycle is unlikely to improve anytime soon, beef prices are poised to remain elevated through at least next year. But two competitively priced proteins that consumers can switch to today remain largely overlooked. That overlooked protein is ground […]

Health Officials Urge States To End Mercury-Containing Dental Fillings Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Federal health officials on July 22 encouraged state Medicaid officials to stop covering dental fillings containing mercury. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 22, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent letters to the […]

Death Toll Revised Lower: Trump Admin Accused Of Playing Politics With Iran War Casualties The US administration and Department of War has just reduced the total number of American service members killed during the Iran war from 18 to 14. Removing the four most recent deaths, which occurred in Jordan and in Iraq last week, appears to be politically-driven as a way to keep official casualties lower related to President Trump’s […]

Why Were Americans Funding Jobs For Transgender Workers In Nepal? Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, Former HIV outreach worker and biological male Rubi Lama lost a job he’d held for nine years when U.S. funding vanished from a health program in Nepal. He tested people, counseled those at risk, and helped sex workers avoid infection. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Months later, unable to find other work, he joined them along a […]

Black Dems Up In Arms As Party Considers Giving Nevada First 2028 Primary It’s always fun watching the party that cherishes identity politics being torn apart by identity politics.  That’s once again the case, as the Democratic National Committee endeavors to lay out its sequence of primaries for the 2028 presidential race. As a DNC panel convenes in Washington this week, there’s substantial momentum behind the idea of taking the […]

Confirmed Deaths In Ebola Outbreak Eclipse 1,000 Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Ebola outbreak spreading in Africa has killed more than 1,000 people, authorities said on July 23. A doctor provides care to a patient with Ebola virus disease at an Ebola treatment center in Bunia, Congo, on July 13, 2026. Benediction Murhabazi /AFP via Getty Images The number of confirmed deaths from Ebola in Congo in recent […]

LA Is Finally Cleaning Up Its Infamous “Graffiti Towers” Before The Olympics Arrives For years, the unfinished Oceanwide Plaza towers have stood as one of downtown Los Angeles’ most notorious landmarks. Not because of their architecture, but because of what they became. After construction stalled, the empty high-rises were transformed into a massive canvas for graffiti artists, attracting vandals, urban explorers and thrill-seekers […]

“I’m Not Racist”: Musk Slams Snooty Leftist Interviewer, Says “I Support The Normal People” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, During a terse exchange, Elon Musk told the virulently leftist editor-in-chief of The Economist that civil war in Britain is inevitable on current trends – driven by rapid migration of people whose beliefs clash with Western civilisation. In response, Zanny Minton Beddoes accused Musk of […]

“The Polycrisis Of 2026 Whirls Like A Demon-Infested Storm Overcoming This Human Project…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Struggle session “. . .there is no saving the Left. There is only saving America from them.” — Sasha Stone The polycrisis of 2026 whirls like a demon-infested storm overcoming this human project of ours like a medieval panorama of the world’s end. Everything is fraught, tilting toward hazard, […]

Financial Repression: How The US Government Will Quietly Confiscate Your Wealth Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, When I first heard the term “financial repression,” I thought it had to be a joke. Why would governments and central banks use a term with such a negative connotation? Even people who are financially illiterate can understand that financial repression is a bad thing. Simply put, financial […]

US Bombing Campaign Effectiveness In Doubt As Iranians Rebuild At Rapid Pace Neocon war hawks thought that Iran’s defense capabilities could be obliterated through shock and awe style heavy bombing raids, such as during the opening days and weeks of Operation Epic Fury, but just like pretty much every other assumption about how things would go in the little Iran “excursion” – they are once again proven wrong. Several fresh reports […]

‘Caution Is Warranted’: Ed Dowd Warns Wall Street’s AI CapEx Party Is Ending Authored by Ed Dowd via ‘Beyond The Narrative’ substack, The signs are piling up faster than the hype can spin them. AI capex has been the rocket fuel for markets, but the second derivative is turning. Factors ending the party: Private credit stalled — flows reversing, redemptions surging, industry effectively paused. Enterprise demand cracking […]

SpaceX Reportedly Turns Away Falcon Customers As Starship Gamble Comes Into Focus Yet another corporate media report based on anonymous sources is likely to draw an immediate response from Elon Musk. He has repeatedly used X this year to challenge reporting on Tesla and SpaceX. Bloomberg reports that SpaceX has begun turning away satellite operators seeking dedicated Falcon 9 launches after 2028 and is no longer accepting future […]

A Quantum Roadmap Would Push Bitcoin Much Higher Authored by Ciaran Lyons via CoinTelegraph.com, Bitcoin developers need to swallow their pride and outline a clear plan to harden the blockchain against quantum computing attacks, according to Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards. He says the day they finally bite the bullet, the price will respond very quickly. “If the Bitcoin core team says in two or three months: […]