The Shooting In The Strait Ain’t Over, But… Authored by Larry Johnson via Sonar21.com A little over a week since the US and Iran signed the MoU, some ships that had been trapped in the Persian rushed to travel through the corridor, with many trying to use an alternative route on the southern side of the Strait along the Omani coast. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) had coordinated this alternative routing with Oman – […]

Young Americans Expect To Buy A Home Later In Life (Or Not At All) For decades, homeownership has been a key milestone of adulthood in the United States. In recent years, however, the middle-class ideal of homeownership and suburban comfort, once an embodiment of the American Dream, has gotten out of reach for many families, as elevated home prices, high mortgage rates and a period of stagnant real wages have left many families […]

Beijing’s Trojan Horse Rolls Into Canada: National Security Expert Warns Carney’s Chinese EV Deals Embeds Sabotage Risk Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper (emphasis our own),  China keeps finding inventive ways to burrow into the West, and Canada’s new appetite for Chinese electric vehicles may be the most consequential opening yet. That is the warning at the center of a report published this week by the Macdonald-Laurier […]

Newsom Scrubs ‘$100 Million’ Slippery Slope From National ‘Billionaire Tax’ Pitch – And He’s Coming After Inheritance Too California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) on Friday called for a national tax on billionaires. Except, in the original version, it was anyone with a net worth of at least $100 million – as quoted by multiple outlets, citing a post from Newsom’s Substack account.  As originally reported by Politico: His plan […]

DOJ Asks Supreme Court To Approve No-Bond Immigration Detention Policy Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to approve its policy of detaining illegal immigrants who have been in the country for years without releasing them on bond. D. John Sauer, then the U.S. solicitor general nominee, testifies during his confirmation hearing in Washington on Feb. 26, 2025. Chip […]

Military Depoliticization, Hegseth, And DEI Authored by ‘Cynical Publius’ via American Greatness, As I read and hear the usual cavalcade of woke, retired Democrat generals and admirals like McRaven, McCaffrey, Franken, and others falsely claiming that Pete Hegseth is “politicizing” the senior ranks of the U.S. military, inside my head, I am screaming in rage at the impunity with which they spread this pernicious and wholly […]

California’s $20 Million Attempt To Silence Medical Speech Authored by Danielle White via RealClearPolitics, In a trial set to begin June 24, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking a court to do something that should alarm every American, regardless of where they stand on abortion: punish nonprofit organizations with ruinous fines for speaking about a lawful medical treatment. The target is not fraud. These charities […]

Tehran Retaliates Against Bahrain, Kuwait After US Bombing Campaign Along Iranian Coast Update(2300ET): Earlier the IRGC warned: “If any aggression is repeated, the response will be broader.” That broader response has come in the overnight into Sunday hours: Tehran attacks Bahrain, Kuwait after US bombs Iranian coast, Al Jazeera reports: Air raid sirens blare in Bahrain as Kuwait’s military says its air defenses are […]

Trump Signs Regenerative Agriculture Order To Boost Food Supply Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on June 25 to promote regenerative agriculture practices in an effort to support farmers and boost the nation’s food supply security. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a Rose Garden Club dinner with American farmers at the White House on June 25, 2026. Mandel […]

A Civil War May Be Brewing In The Democratic Party Tuesday’s primary results weren’t just a bad night for the Democratic establishment. They were a warning shot that the party’s socialist insurgency has arrived, is organized, and intends to win. And the problem for them is that they have no idea what to do about it, which could spark a civil war within the party. On election morning, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins former […]

US SNAP Payment-Error-Rate Hits High Of 10.62% Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The national payment error rate for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) hit 10.62 percent for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, far exceeding the 6 percent threshold set by Congress. “While this is a modest decrease from FY 2024, the FY 2025 rate still shows significant waste at the state level,“ the U.S. Department of […]

“Iran Is Not Really A Threat To The US”; Curt Mills On Pulling The Chips Off The Table Re:Hormuz President Trump’s Iran agreement remains under pressure after a fresh round of retaliatory strikes by the U.S. in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Iran allegedly targeted a commercial cargo ship with attack drones, U.S. forces responded by striking Iranian missile, drone, and radar sites. So the ceasefire is shaky but it seems ….. […]

Russiagate Prosecutor Calls Audible On ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearWire, Although Donald Trump’s defenders describe the Russia hoax and other efforts to frame the president as a “grand conspiracy,” RealClearInvestigations has learned that the man now leading the probe of that scandal is pursuing multiple conspiracy prosecutions that are smaller and more manageable, according to several sources with […]

Apple Wants To Buy Memory From China As Soaring Chip Prices Spark Inflation Shock Last Thursday, in the aftermath of Apple’s biggest one day plunge since Liberation Day, and second biggest single-day drop ever… …. when the company lost over a quarter trillion dollars in market cap after the company’s unprecedented price increase announcement  which for some products was as much as 50% as Apple decided to pass on soaring […]

Ukraine Closes Week Of Record Drone Attacks On Russia By Hitting Important Weapons Plant Ukraine announced Saturday that it used its Flamingo cruise missiles overnight to strike Russia’s Titan-Barrikady weapons plant, which reportedly manufactures parts for its powerful Oreshnik missile. The military plant is in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad, which is a major industrial city in southwest Russia. Writing on X, President Zelensky […]

Supreme Court’s Alito Offers Unusual Response To Sotomayor’s Dissent In Immigration Case Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, At a recent Supreme Court sitting, Justice Samuel Alito took the unusual step of responding from the bench to Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s spoken dissent from an immigration-related opinion he wrote. This combination photo shows Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Sept 16, 2024, in New York, left, and Justice […]

Trump Shares New US Passport Design On Truth Social Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Friday shared on social media a rendering of what he said was the new U.S. passport design, underscoring a message of welcome paired with a call for good behavior while visiting. The new U.S. passport design shared by President Donald Trump on his Truth Social on June 26, 2026. @realDonaldTrump via Truth […]

Trump Admin Allows Release Of Anthropic’s Mythos To Certain US Companies Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, American artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on June 26 that the government has authorized it to release Claude Mythos 5, its most advanced AI model, to certain U.S. organizations, reversing a previous order that suspended access over security concerns. Anthropic logo is seen in an illustration photo. […]

Hezbollah Supporters Block Roads, Encircle Govt Buildings In Beirut Over Israel Deal: ‘They Sold Us Out’ Mass protests broke out in Beirut on Friday into Saturday, with supporters of Hezbollah voicing their outrage at the Lebanese government having just signed a ‘trilateral peace framework’ with Israel and the United States, despite the IDF occupation of southern territory and sporadic Israeli bombings persisting.  Hundreds of […]

Friedman Was Right, Just Mostly Misquoted… Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Milton Friedman’s famous one-liner that anchors half the inflation debates on financial television leaves out the part where the actual economics live. Once you put it back in, the doomist case gets a lot smaller. Per Bylund recently wrote a sharp piece for The Daily Economy arguing that CPI and GDP have become Goodhart’s Law […]

Federal Court Clears Way For Gulf Of America Energy Development Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, A federal court has quashed a lawsuit objecting to federal supervision of oil and gas operations in the Gulf of America following the government’s steps of exempting those activities from the Endangered Species Act (ESA), citing national security reasons.  The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland […]

Feds Nab Iranian In Montenegro Over Alleged $3.4BN Cyberattack Campaign Targeting US Institutions In the years leading up to President Trump coming into office and ordering Operation Epic Fury targeting the Islamic Republic for regime change, which failed to accomplish this (early-stated) goal, Iran had frequently been accused of orchestrating major cyberespionage campaigns targeting the United States and its allies. But rarely was […]

EU Joins US-Led Pax Silica Alliance To Secure AI Supply Chains Authored by James Xu via The Epoch Times, The European Commission, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands have joined the U.S.-led Pax Silica partnership, expanding a group focused on securing supply chains for artificial intelligence and other critical technologies. Semiconductor chips on a circuit board of a computer on Feb. 25, 2022. Florence Lo/Illustration/Reuters […]

Zelensky Telegraphs 40-Day Pressure Offensive On Russia, Fueling Fears Of Slide Toward WW3 The Ukraine war is quite obviously escalating, especially regarding Ukrainian leaders seeking to “bring the war” to Russian soil, amid nightly drone attacks which have come in the hundreds and even thousands of late. President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to seize on the momentum of repeat drone hits on Russian refinery and energy […]

When Extremists Run The Government Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Two can certainly play the “extremist” game… Politicians, government bureaucrats, central bankers, spy agencies, and mainstream news outlets lie to us every day.   For some people, the previous sentence is patently obvious.  For others, that sentence represents “fringe” thinking.  For certain law enforcement agencies in North […]