Next Switzerland Talks ‘Stalled’ After Past Days’ Flare-Up In US-Iran Fighting (Update1500ET): An expected next round of US-Iran talks in Switzerland has been ‘stalled’ by the latest fighting flare up in the Strait of Hormuz, after US forces bombed Iran’s coast a couple times – and following more Iranian ‘retaliation’ on Gulf states, as well as against at least two international vessels in the Strait. WSJ is reporting Sunday: The […]

“Navigation Extremely Limited”: Top Shipper Warns IRGC Mines Complicate Hormuz Normalization The top executive of Japan’s largest shipping company told the Financial Times in an exclusive weekend interview that the path toward normalization in the Strait of Hormuz remains far more complicated than anticipated. He warned that shipping volumes may stay well below prewar levels for months, as IRGC-laid mines are forcing vessels into […]

Are The Epstein Survivors Being Exploited Yet Again? Authored by Nick Bryant, On February 8, 2026, the advocacy group World Without Exploitation launched a 40-second public service announcement during the Super Bowl featuring Jeffrey Epstein survivors demanding the full release of federal files related to Epstein’s sex trafficking network. The Epstein survivors held up pictures of themselves when they were initially abused by […]

Heat Dome Halts German Trains After Track Sealant Liquifies Europe’s heat wave is now quickly morphing from a public health crisis into an infrastructure nightmare, with power prices surging, more than 1,000 excess deaths reported across France, and extreme temperatures bringing parts of Germany’s rail infrastructure to a halt. The local German outlet Leipziger Zeitung reports that after a week of sweltering temperatures above […]

Baghdad’s Green Zone Locked Down As Officials Arrested In Corruption Sweep Beyond Sunday’s Iranian drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait, launched in response to earlier U.S. airstrikes, Hormuz shipping traffic remains stable but well below last week’s peak, when 57 vessels transited the strait on Wednesday. With maritime flows stable through the critical waterway, attention now shifts to Iraq, where a widening […]

Five Dynamics That Make Sense Of An Increasingly Chaotic World Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, These dynamics and the incentives they generate lead to systemic crisis and collapse. As I noted in What Once Explained Everything Now Explains Nothing, the simplicity of either-or ideologies appeal to us. Identifying with an ideology is like having a favorite sports team: yea for our team! Our team good, other […]

Sadiq Khan Said There Were No Grooming Gangs In London; Police Investigating 4,000 Cases Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The London mayor who once insisted there was “no indication” of grooming gangs now faces explosive new scrutiny after a police review uncovered thousands of previously sidelined child sexual exploitation files. The Metropolitan Police has identified more than 4,000 potential child sexual […]

Saudi Aramco Helicopter Crash Kills 14 In Ras Tanura , Cause Unknown One week after a mysterious explosion – attributed to a “technical incident” – at Qatar’s massive Ras Laffan industrial city killed dozens and set back restoration and recovery efforts at the giant LNG production facility by weeks if not months, a helicopter belonging to Saudi ​oil giant Aramco crashed on Sunday ‌in Ras Tanura on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast on […]

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 […]

Why Are Europeans Leaving Their Own Countries? While immigration often dominates discussions about Europe’s changing population, another migration trend receives far less attention: many countries are also losing their own native-born citizens. This visualization, created by DataPulse using Eurostat data via Visual Capitalist, ranks selected European countries by the net migration of native-born residents in 2024. Only […]

IPO Market For AI Freezes Up While The Nuclear SPAC Market Runs Hot  While it looks like OpenAI’s IPO has been put on ice as they try to paint SpaceX as the scapegoat, there’s still one sector that simply can’t launch the IPOs and SPACs fast enough.  After an announcement earlier this year that saw nuclear industrial company Holtec file privately for an IPO, one of the leading reactor developers X-energy debuted on the public […]

Even Einstein Admitted He Was Wrong… We Apparently Can’t Expect As Much From Al Gore Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, When it comes to scientific theories, even some of history’s most respected and renowned people and institutions have graciously admitted when they were wrong when confronted with irrefutable evidence. It took 359 years, but eventually the Catholic Church conceded in 1992 that the church […]

These Are The Car Brands With The Fewest Problems In 2026 Drivers reported more vehicle problems this year than ever before, but some automakers continue to stand out for reliability. This graphic, created by Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, ranks the car brands with the fewest reported problems in 2026 based on J.D. Power’s Problems Per 100 Vehicles (PP100) metric. Lower scores indicate fewer owner-reported issues and better […]

UK Parents Face Five-Year Jail Terms For Questioning Their Child’s Gender ‘Transition’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, While schools have been given the green light to socially transition four-year-olds and exam boards slip pro-trans propaganda into Spanish GCSE materials, the government has published a draft bill that threatens parents, teachers and doctors with up to five years in prison for so-called conversion […]

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 […]

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 ….. […]