US Steps Up Africa Push As China Expands Economic, Security Footprint Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration says it has helped close 37 commercial deals worth $25.67 billion in Africa as Washington moves to compete with a much larger Chinese economic footprint across the continent. “China continues to flood Africa with exports,” Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Frank Garcia told Fox […]

What Happened To The So-Called AI Job Apocalypse? Authored by Joe Bertolami via RealClearMarkets, A recent report from Stanford reviewed the latest employment data and found that, so far, AI has not resulted in large scale job destruction. Meanwhile, new hiring data from the Economic Times reveals that AI is actively fueling unprecedented job creation, with AI skills now powering nearly two-thirds of new Global Capability Center […]

CDC Reports COVID-19 Activity Is Increasing Across US The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said COVID-19 activity is “increasing” across the United States although its levels are still considered “very low” overall. “As of August 26, 2026, we estimate that COVID-19 infections are growing or likely growing in 48 states, declining or likely declining in zero states, and not changing in two states,” the CDC said […]

The Monumental Mistake Of Raising Rates In September Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Three members of the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise rates in July. However, the Committee held the federal funds target at 3.5%-3.75% by a 9-3 vote. Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and J.P. Morgan all expect a September hike. Across the Atlantic, the European Central Bank raised rates by 25 basis points in June and is expected to raise […]

Barclays Warns Next Commodity Shock Is Taking Shape: What You Need To Know Wall Street coverage of a record-breaking Super El Niño is only growing as agricultural commodities break out. Yet the rally extends well beyond the agricultural complex, with industrial metals and other critical materials showing signs of tightness in physical markets. Whether it is veteran commodities strategist Jeff Currie turning bullish or UBS urging […]

Who Is Legally Liable When An AI Agent Goes Rogue? Authored by Andrew Fenton via CoinTelegraph.com, If your personal AI agent goes rogue and causes harm or financial damage in the real world, can you be held liable? Autonomous AI agents can behave in highly unpredictable ways. Give an AI Agent a goal such as passing a test of its capabilities, and it might just decide the best way to score highly is to break containment and hack […]

X Busts Suspected Chinese Bot Farm That Could ‘Manipulate Legitimate Debate’ Over America’s AI Boom Social media giant X said on Thursday that it identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese accounts – 200 of which were “posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.” In short: the bots were amplifying pitchfork grievances Americans already hold against data […]

You Should Feel Good About The Flock Debate Authored by Connor O’Keeffe In a year as chaotic, violent, and economically destructive as this one has been, it is interesting that, to many Americans, the great villain of 2026 is turning out to be a traffic camera. But, indeed, we are seeing visceral, cross-partisan opposition to so-called Flock cameras—named after the leading manufacturer of these automated license plate […]

Have We Really Learnt The Lessons Of The GFC? Authored by Richard Ryan via BondVigilantes.com, It is 20 years ago this month that I sat in a pitch and listened to an investment bank describe their latest stroke of genius. In 2006, the Constant Proportion Debt Obligation (CPDO) was hailed as a financial innovation that appeared to offer something for nothing: a AAA-rated security paying a meaningful premium over cash. It was a […]

Watch: Russian Military Conducts Test Of Huge Mobile ICBM Russia on Friday unveiled that it conducted a successful combat training launch of a mobile, solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the northwestern Arkhangelsk region – host to a key missile defense and aeronautical testing base in the Arctic region. “A training-combat launch of a mobile-based solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic […]

Mamdani Begs Capitalists At The Adult Table For Help  Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance There is something genuinely entertaining about watching a socialist discover the private sector. For years, Zohran Mamdani has treated capitalism less like the engine that keeps New York City alive and more like an unfortunate infestation to be taxed, regulated and occasionally yelled at from the sidewalk outside a billionaire’s apartment. […]

Russia Hits Kiev Ammo Dump Next To Homes; Ukraine Admits 90% Of Retail Food Logistics Wrecked A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian Defense Forces ammunition storage site in the village of Myla Friday evening, just west of Kiev. The resulting fire and hours of secondary detonations killed at least 37 people, injured dozens more, damaged around 50 residential buildings and a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced the […]

Trump Establishes Space Academy, Awards Medals Of Honor To Artemis II Astronauts Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order launching the U.S. Space Academy on Friday during a ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, where he awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor to four astronauts who crewed the Artemis II mission. Administration officials are directed to submit a […]

Falklands Emerge As US Leverage Tool Against Britain To Ramp Defense Spending A new report from The Telegraph says the Trump administration is using Britain’s sovereignty over the Falkland Islands as leverage to pressure the country into meeting NATO’s new defense-spending target.  What sounds like an “Art of the Deal” tactic by Trump has been described by a senior US official as a plan to push the UK toward NATO’s pledge to […]

DC Jury Nullification Even Protects International Gang Lords Authored by Julie Kelly via Declassified with Julie Kelly, “I’ve done this a long time and haven’t seen one quite like this one, I have to say.” So said U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, who has sat on the D.C. federal court bench since Ronald Reagan appointed him in 1987, last April. What exactly stumped the senior judge that day? Another pending mistrial in […]

Pezeshkian Says Iran To Increase Gasoline Prices, Coupled With Rare Admission About US Sanctions Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday issued a rare admission, describing that after six months of war initiated by the United States and Israel, the country’s economy is feeling significant pain. The statement came days after on Monday US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent unveiled Trump’s “Economic D-Day” plan against Iran, […]

They Know It Would Trigger Mass Unrest… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The sister of a young British mother butchered by a small-boat arrival has torn into the Labour government for going to court to keep the public from seeing who is committing what crime in this country. Alex Whyte told GB News she feels “sick, disgusted and completely let down.” Anger, she said, “doesn’t even cover what I feel, and it never […]

90 Americans Among Thousands Missing After Himalayan Glacier Collapse Kills 600 The latest figures from the catastrophic flash flood along the Nepal-Tibet border show that at least 2,000 people remain missing, including 90 Americans, while the death toll has topped 600 and continues to climb. A before & after satellite comparison (false color) shows the scale of the glacier collapse in Nepal. You can see not only the massive […]

Iran’s Ghalibaf Declares Persian Gulf Oil Flows For ‘All Or None’ Via The Cradle Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf declared on 28 August that either all Persian Gulf countries will be allowed to export oil freely or none will, adding that the security of West Asia depends on the withdrawal of US forces. “The equation of this war is clear: either all or none!” Ghalibaf said, adding, “In a region where we don’t […]

How Much Gas Prices Have Risen Since The Iran War Gas prices have climbed sharply across the U.S. following the outbreak of the Iran War, but the size of the increase varies significantly by state. Using AAA price data from February 18, 2026, as a pre-war baseline and prices as of August 20, 2026, this visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Sofie Gilbert, maps the percentage increase across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. […]

US-Backed SDF Leader Joins Sharaa Regime As Presidential Advisor After Kurdish Force Dissolved Via The Cradle Self-proclaimed Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has appointed Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi as a presidential advisor, following the dissolution of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in an integration deal with Damascus earlier this week. “President Ahmad al-Sharaa issued Decree No. 164 of 2026 on Thursday, […]

Burning Man: Richest Hippies Alive? Summer is music festival time and while one major event, Coachella, kicks off the U.S. season in April, Burning Man – starting this Sunday in Nevada – closes it out. The two events might seem like polar opposites in the music festival realm, but have more in common than meets the eye. Burning Man continues to be an icon of counterculture but attending the festival that relies on […]

‘Our Military Is Helpless’: Migrant Ambush Targeting Military Vehicles In Ceuta Was Pre-Planned, Police Claim Via Remix News, The attack targeting a military patrol in the Benzú area of Ceuta last night was a pre-planned ambush rather than a spontaneous clash, according to preliminary findings from the National Police. Now, military sources are speaking of soldiers who are unable to use physical force, have no weapons, and are […]

50 Survival Lessons From The Great Depression: The Horrifying Things Americans Did When Money, Jobs, & Hope Disappeared Authored by John Walter via John Walter, We publish this piece in the August of 2026, as the machinery of global commerce groans and sputters, as hollow men in expensive suits speak of “corrections” and “adjustments” while families count pennies in dimly lit kitchens. The photograph you see above – those gaunt […]

US Looks To Revive ‘Prize Courts’ For Iranian Oil Seizures The US government is exploring an unusual legal route for dealing with Iranian oil and ships captured as part of its blockade: bringing back a wartime maritime system that has barely been used for generations, according to Bloomberg. The Justice Department, working with the Pentagon, is preparing to use prize law, which historically allowed courts to decide whether vessels […]