Iraq-Syria Pipeline to Bypass Hormuz Could Be Revived Within 3 Years By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice An old Iraq-to-Syria oil pipeline that bypasses the Strait of Hormuz could be up and running within three years, a senior Syrian official has said. The Hormuz crisis that cut off most of Iraq’s crude oil exports has accelerated plans by Iraq and Syria to rebuild a damaged oil pipeline to ship crude oil from the Iraqi fields […]

One-Way Attack Drone Found At Major German Airport: The Threat Has Arrived A one-way attack drone was discovered on the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle Airport, one of Europe’s most important freight hubs. The German airport hosts transport company DHL’s largest air hub and serves as the operating base for Ukraine’s massive Antonov heavy-lift cargo aircraft. Exklusive Aufnahmen – Das ist die Drohne vom Flughafen Leipzig […]

BMW Job Cuts And The Emerging German-French Industrial Strategy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Will German policy paralysis and French protectionism save Germany’s automakers? Unlikely, since Paris and Berlin are pursuing similar ideological goals. Everything points toward the expansion of a green state-run economy. On that, there is agreement. The concerns of private enterprise are secondary. Given the dramatic situation, automakers […]

This Is The Income Needed To Be ‘Happy’ Around The World In most countries, the average worker still earns less than the income researchers associate with peak reported well-being. Research on income and well-being has identified a “satiation point,” an income level beyond which additional earnings no longer improve reported happiness. But how close does the average worker come to reaching that threshold? An analysis […]

Why On Earth Are They Doing This? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The Spanish Red Cross is treating the military-age men who swam around the border fence and stormed Ceuta like victims of an earthquake. Volunteers in red vests are lining up on the sand at Playa del Trampolín, handing out bread, milk, biscuits, water, cans of tuna and pastries to the thousands who remain after last week’s deliberate mass invasion […]

The West Is Winning The Information War While Russia Prevails On The Battlefield Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson I stumbled across something pretty bizarre today when I queried one of the AI-search engines about Russia’s capture of territory in Ukraine in 2026. Here is what the Chinese KIMI claimed: The evidence from multiple sources — including Ukrainian official claims, Western think tanks, and Ukrainian […]

End Of Cheap Food? Five Forces Set To Drive Grocery Bills Even Higher UBS analysts identified five long-term forces likely to keep global food inflation “structurally higher” above its pre-pandemic average of about 2.5%, crushing consumer hopes that price pressures will simply fade. “While food inflation globally has fallen from the COVID peak, a new debate is emerging: is the c2.5% LT average obsolete?” London-based managing […]

US Lifts Sanctions On Iraqi Airline Blacklisted Over IRGC Ties Via The Cradle The US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lifted sanctions on Iraq’s Fly Baghdad Airlines and two of its aircraft on Wednesday, clearing a carrier Washington had blacklisted in January 2024 over alleged support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force.  The Baghdad-based carrier was delisted from the Specially Designated […]

China Is Betting AI, Hypersonic Missiles And Quantum Technology Will Define The Next Era Of Warfare As China races to modernize its armed forces, its strategy is increasingly centered on developing technologies that could offset America’s traditional military advantages instead of matching the U.S. system for system, according to the South China Morning Post. That philosophy dates back to Unrestricted Warfare, a book published in […]

Former Haitian Police Officer And Naturalized US Citizen Pleads Guilty To Gun Running Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, A naturalized U.S. citizen and former Haitian National Police officer pleaded guilty to smuggling at least 140 firearms to Haiti. Soldiers patrol amid the sound of gunshots heard in the distance in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 17, 2024. Odelyn Joseph/AP Photo Jean Robert Casimir, 53, of […]

Louisiana Has The Highest Car Ownership Burden In America For many Americans, owning a car is a necessity, but the financial burden varies dramatically by state. In the least affordable places, annual vehicle expenses consume nearly one-quarter of the typical household’s income. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, ranks every state by annual car ownership costs as a share of median household income, based on […]

Declassified Documents Show FBI Probed Whether Trump Fired Comey At Russia’s Direction Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Newly declassified documents show the FBI probed President Donald Trump’s termination of the agency’s director as part of an effort to substantiate allegations that Trump colluded with Russia. Former FBI Director James Comey in Berlin, Germany, on June 19, 2018. Carsten Koall/Getty Images The […]

Fresh Panic As Pentagon Has Used ‘Virtually All’ Its Long-Range Precision Missiles On Iran US forces “used up virtually all” of their precision, long-range missiles during the course of the Iran war, and during the earlier heavy US-Israeli campaign of Operation Epic Fury, Reuters reported Tuesday. This has raised serious “concerns about the military’s ​readiness for future conflicts,” informed sources told the outlet. In […]

China’s Power Demand Hits Records As Heatwave Grips Key Regions By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com Electricity demand in much of China hit a record this week due to scorching summer temperatures, driving grid loads to all-time highs, the State Grid Corporation of China said today, as cited by Reuters. On Monday and Tuesday, the company said, electricity loads reached a record in the country’s northern, northeastern, and eastern […]

Federal Operation Takes More Than 800 Dangerous Truckers Off US Highways Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, Federal authorities took more than 800 dangerous truckers off America’s roads in a three-day enforcement action, officials revealed Tuesday. In the operation, they targeted unqualified foreign drivers and unsafe commercial vehicles. A truck drives through the Port of Oakland in Oakland, Calif., on Nov. 14, 2025. […]

Tit-For-Tat: China Hits Back At US With Tighter Drone Export Controls Sino-US relations are showing renewed signs of deterioration ahead of President Xi Jinping’s expected visit to the US in late September. Beijing is retaliating against a series of recent U.S. trade restrictions. The Financial Times reports that the Commerce Ministry is set to review exports of drones, critical components, and related dual-use technologies on a […]

Argentina’s Milei: Ending the Debt State By Holding Politicians Personally Accountable For Fiscal Excess Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Only contrast reveals one’s own mistakes. Javier Milei is the antithesis of Germany’s political class, and the comparison could hardly be starker. While Germany continues to expand the state, Argentina is slashing subsidies and radically reducing the size of its public bureaucracy. While Berlin piles […]

Japan Looks To Palantir For Battlefield AI Japan is preparing to introduce AI into the command-and-control systems of its Self-Defense Forces as part of a wider military modernization effort aimed at improving operational speed and interoperability with the United States, according to Nikkei.  Under the proposal, multiple U.S.-developed AI platforms would support commanders by processing battlefield data, assisting with tactical […]

OpenAI, Anthropic Models Created Fake Profiles, Tried To Trick Humans During Cyber Tests Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Artificial Intelligence (AI) models from Anthropic and OpenAI carried out unsanctioned actions targeting multiple people and organizations during a cyber evaluation, according to the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Illustration of Anthropic on June 18, 2026. Riccardo Milani/Hans Lucas via AFP […]

Jim Cramer Just Sold His Bitcoin And Bulls Couldn’t Be Happier Looks like $100,000 bitcoin may be on deck, because Cramer is selling. The ultimate inverse indicator Jim Cramer says he is selling all of his bitcoin, warning that rapid advances in quantum computing could threaten the cryptocurrency’s security within the next three to four years, according to Cointelegraph and Coindesk. The CNBC host made the decision after […]

DHS Confirms Over 3 Million Total Deportations, Highlights Arrests Of Five More “Worst Of The Worst” Criminal Illegals Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Monday arrested five more “worst of the worst” criminal illegal aliens convicted for heinous crimes, including voluntary manslaughter, criminal indecent exposure, aggravated assault, and fentanyl trafficking. […]

Iran-Oman Hormuz Route ‘Agreed To’ As Iran Warns Against US ‘Interference’ Summary Iran says Hormuz route is agreed: Tehran says it has finalized a shipping route with Oman, blaming U.S. actions for delaying a final agreement. Tehran claims victory: Iranian officials say the deal would lock in Iran’s wartime gains and strategic leverage over Hormuz. Mixed messages: Trump says a deal could come within days, while Iran insists the […]

Sandisk Tumbles After Revenue, Earnings Forecasts Miss Estimates Sandisk was one of the largest public holdings of the hedge fund of 24-year-old former wunderkind, Leopold Aschenbrenner, and its July collapse from $2300 to $1000 was chief the main reasons why the former OpenAI employee had to liquidate his extremely overlevered hedge fund and sell all positions at a 10% discount to Citadel to meet a volley of endless margin calls. […]

They Really Don’t Care Authored by Todd Hayen via Off-Guardian.org, This might not apply to all sheep-types, but many of the ones I have encountered simply do not care. This could be the reason we can’t seem to get through to them with the facts we are constantly shoving down their throats. Of course, the ones I’ve talked to may just be saying they don’t care to shut me up, but I really don’t think so. They seem pretty […]

FAFO: Democrat Candidate Threatening Beachgoers Gets Knocked Out Cold On Beach A Democrat hopeful gunning for a seat in Congress is sitting behind bars on $1 million bail after police described a chaotic beachside confrontation on Maui that involved a knife, repeated threats, and the candidate left unconscious in the sand. Kirill Basin, the 40-year-old primary challenger to Rep. Jill Tokuda in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District, […]