Rome Rebukes Rutte: Italy Rejects Claim US Flew Iran War Missions From Its Bases It’s no longer just a Trump-Meloni spat on the level of public rhetoric, but Italy is newly making clear that it is imposing real policy and limitations on the US, now clarifying that it had formally denied US use of its bases to strike Iran for past and future potential missions. This has been a long time in coming, as Italy already clearly restricted […]

Majority Of Poles Are Against Ukraine Joining The EU Via Remix News, Poles are divided in their assessment of Ukraine’s possible accession to the European Union. However, according to the latest IBRiS poll conducted for Radio ZET, the voices of those opposed to accession dominate. A total of 35.3 percent of those surveyed voted in favor of Ukraine’s admission to the European Union. Strong support for such a solution was […]

A Bridge To The Future: America’s 250th Celebration Time Capsule Authored by Walker Larson via The Epoch Times, On July 4, 2026, the United States of America has a date with the future. America250, the national, nonpartisan group tasked with organizing the celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, will establish a bridge with the year 2276 by burying a time capsule at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia […]

Trump’s War Economy Accelerates As Lockheed Wins $35 Billion Deal To Quadruple Missile-Interceptor Output President Trump’s war economy continues to gain steam as weapons production is kicked into high gear and stockpiling becomes a top priority for the Department of War. The latest evidence: Lockheed Martin has won a DoW contract worth up to $35 billion to quadruple production of THAAD missile-defense interceptors, according to […]

Exxon Wins Big As Supreme Court Revives Cuba Seizure Case The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Exxon Mobil can move forward with its lawsuit against Cuban state-owned oil companies over assets seized after Fidel Castro came to power, reopening a dispute tied to Cuba’s 1960 nationalizations, according to CNN. The 6-3 decision comes as President Donald Trump has taken a more aggressive stance toward Havana. Justice Brett Kavanaugh […]

Is Trump 2.0’s ‘Escalation’ Strategy Against Russia Starting To Take Shape? Authored by Andrew Korybko, The US is preparing to radically intensify the Ukrainian Conflict over the coming year… Trump’s decision to sign the “G7 leaders’ joint statement on geopolitical issues” calling for more arms to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia signaled that he’ll now “escalate to de-escalate” (E2DE) through a “war of […]

China’s Crackdown Threatens Hong Kong’s IPO Boom And Offshore Wealth China’s latest push to choke off capital flight is starting to hit Hong Kong right where it hurts, according to a new feature from Bloomberg. For years, the city has served as the main offshore escape valve for mainland wealth — the place where Chinese founders, executives and wealthy families parked money, opened private bank accounts, bought property and […]

Supreme Court Strikes Down Hawaii’s Gun Restrictions In Major Second Amendment Case Authored by Stacy Robinson & Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 on June 25 to strike down a Hawaii gun law that banned residents from carrying concealed weapons in privately owned public places, such as gas stations and shopping malls, without permission from the owners. The Supreme Court in Washington on June […]

Mark Carney Seeks “New World Order” That Excludes The US It’s rare to hear the phrase “new world order” spoken publicly in the post-pandemic world where globalists ultimately failed to implement their spectacular covid coup.  In 2020, they were everywhere in the media bragging about the takeover; reveling in the vast geopolitical and economic changes that would come with their “4th Industrial Revolution”.  Today, there’s barely a […]

YouTube Settles With Florida Teen Alleging Social Media Addiction Harms Ahead Of California Trial Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Google’s YouTube has settled a lawsuit brought by a 16-year-old Florida boy who says the platform’s features played a role in his social media addiction and harmed his mental health. A 12-year-old boy watches YouTube on his smartphone on March 27, 2026. Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images The […]

China Eyes Iran’s Postwar Reconstruction In Bid To Lock Up Future Oil Supplies Beijing is positioning itself to lead the post-war reconstruction effort in Tehran – a move analysts suggest could secure China long-term access to critical Iranian oil reserves. The diplomatic groundwork was laid during a recent meeting in New Delhi between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and the deputy secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security […]

Chicago Teachers Seek Billions In Special Session For “What We Are Owed” Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has long been one of the most radical labor organizations in the country from its insistence on teachers being subsidized in political protests to members praising the former Communist regime in Venezuela. Now, with the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the CTU is demanding yet another massive public […]

How Hakeem Jeffries Is In Big Trouble Politically After The Primaries Tuesday night in New York City was no routine Democratic primary. Instead, it turned into a referendum on the Democratic Party itself, and the party lost. Three socialist-backed candidates, backed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won their races. The Democratic establishment got slaughtered, and the man left holding the wreckage is House Minority Leader […]

OpenAI Plans Delaying IPO Until 2027, Blames SpaceX One month ago, during the height of the tokenmaxxing craze – when companies were spending ridiculous amounts of money, in many cases without knowing they were even doing so, just to test out the latest agentic craze – first OpenAI and then Anthropic rushed to announce they will follow in the footsteps of the SpaceX IPO, and were planning (or rather hoping) to go public in the next […]

Qualcomm To Design China-Specific Data Center Chip In Compliance With US Export Curbs Qualcomm unveiled its data center chip lineup on Wednesday, becoming the latest chipmaker to enter the AI processor race in an attempt to challenge market leader Nvidia. CEO Cristiano Amon told Nikkei Asia the company is eyeing the China market for its data center products, including designing chips specifically for Chinese customers that are in […]

Adani Targets 10 GW Nuclear Power Capacity In India By 2035 By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Adani Group, the conglomerate of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, could become India’s biggest private nuclear power capacity developer within a decade, targeting 10 gigawatts (GW) by 2035, as India opened its civil nuclear power sector to private investment.  “Our entry into nuclear energy through Adani Atomic Energy is another […]

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin’s Mail-In Voting Restrictions, National Voter Database For Midterms A federal judge in Boston has blocked key parts of President Donald Trump’s March executive order that sought to impose new limits on mail-in voting and create a nationwide list of eligible voters using federal citizenship data. The ruling, issued June 25 by Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, prevents the […]

Hegseth Hails First Test Of America’s ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense Shield Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon has carried out the first milestone test of the Golden Dome for America missile defense program, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on June 23 that an autonomous targeting system and directed-energy technology successfully intercepted a series of simulated incoming threats. Declaring the […]

Mayor Blames “Slavery” As Chicago Wrestles With Deadly Crime Spree The city of Chicago, long run by Democrats, has an infamous black crime problem.  Over the course of Father’s Day weekend around 47 people were shot and 8 people killed, with a 105% increase in violent crime compared to 2025.  On “Juneteenth”, a drive-by mass shooting in Princeton Park injured at least 12–14 people with over 100 shell casings recovered.  The […]

Generational Crisis! Nearly A Third Of US Adults Under 35 Are Still Living With Their Parents Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Americans that are over the age of 55 control approximately 73 percent of all wealth in the United States. Americans that are age 55 or younger control just 27 percent of all wealth in the United States. Never before in history has there been a generational divide of this […]

Cargo Vessel Comes Under Apparent Iranian Attack Near Oman, Crude Jumps, After IRGC Warned It Controls Hormuz Strait Summary: Iran tightens control over Hormuz: The IRGC says ships must obtain authorization to transit the strait or face enforcement action. Shipping disruptions emerge after increased flows: A tanker near Oman was reportedly attacked, and several vessels turned back after Iranian warnings, sending oil prices […]

“Unlike Anything I’ve Seen In 40 Years”: Explosion In Data-Centers And Memory Costs Fueling Third Inflation Wave We’re finally starting to see hints of relief when it comes to inflation. Prices at the pump are starting to come down, monthly core CPI momentum has slowed, used cars were down around 2% YoY, and food inflation is starting to moderate. On the other hand, there’s America’s massive explosion in artificial-intelligence […]

Venezuelan Quake Disaster: 45,000 People Reported Missing On Independent Monitoring Platform Summary 45,000 Reported Missing On Independent Monitoring Platform US Phase One Of Humanitarian Response Begins Buildings collapsed in several districts of Caracas Venezuela declared a state of emergency after the earthquakes  Secretary of State Marco Rubio Deploys First Responders  Trump Says “U.S.A. stands ready, willing, and able […]

How Wall Street Launders Dogsh*t Into Retirement Funds Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance One of the more embarrassing habits of modern finance is its insistence on pretending the stock market has some integrity left. Capital, we used to think, flowed to the most productive businesses. Prices reflected fundamentals. Risk was priced. The market, in the long run, separated signal from noise and rewarded cash generation over fantasy. […]

China’s YMTC Global NAND Market Share Surges To 13%, Now Tied With Sandisk Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC), China’s largest maker of NAND flash memory which is breathing down Sandisk’s neck in global sales, and which is widely expected to IPO soon after China’s DDR giant CXMT goes public in the coming weeks, has increased its global NAND flash memory market share from 8% in the same period in 2025 to 13%, Kuai […]