Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, And Revolution Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, All human societies have informal social classes or formal social castes that separate groups of people within the same community.  Generally speaking, notions of aristocracy and hereditary nobility started on the battlefield.  Warrior chiefs of clans became minor kings after killing more rivals without dying […]

John Mearsheimer: Why Diplomacy Is Going Nowhere & Ukraine Is Doomed With Zelensky having much-belatedly dropped aspirations for Ukraine’s NATO membership, European officials are now openly admitting what pretty much everyone knew but was afraid to say. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas has newly acknowledged in fresh remarks that Ukraine’s membership in the military alliance is now […]

FBI Hunting Down Members Of 764 Network: Dan Bongino Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The FBI is in the process of pursuing members of the 764 criminal network, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in a Dec. 12 post on X. The 764 is a violent network, operating within the United States and around the globe, that methodically targets and exploits minors, according to the FBI. “These networks use threats, […]

End Of An Era: Pro-Democracy Icon Jimmy Lai Found Guilty Of Sedition In Hong Kong The high profile trial of Hong Kong’s foremost pro-democracy media tycoon has just wrapped up, and it puts a symbolic cap on the end of an era in terms of prior large scale anti-China activism in the city. Jimmy Lai, who long spearheaded huge protests and local media criticism of Beijing, was found guilty on Monday in a landmark national security […]

Homan Urges Politicians To Stop Attacking ICE, Border Patrol Officers Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Politicians should stop attacking immigration officers trying to enforce laws while putting their lives at risk, border czar Tom Homan said during a press briefing on Dec. 13 that involved officials from the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). “I’m begging the politicians, the governors, the mayors who […]

Time For An AI-Tech Supply-Chain Channel-Check In Asia. Here Are Key Takeaways… Channel checks in Asia’s tech supply chain are critical and can be used as early signals or leading indicators when trying to gauge the AI bubble and/or global demand for tech, especially in North America and Europe. Goldman’s James Schneider told clients on Monday that his team visited two dozen companies deeply embedded in the IT supply chain across […]

“Offensive To Decency”: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away a Tennessee woman’s appeal of her state rejecting a personalized license plate for her car. The court rejected the petition in Gilliam v. Gerregano on Dec. 8 in an unsigned order without comment. No justices dissented. The petitioner, Leah Gilliam, is “an […]

China Blasts ‘Premeditated’ Provocations Of US-Allied Philippines At Disputed Shoal China continues to squabble and get in maritime incidents with US allies in regional waters of the Western Pacific. Lately it has been locked in a heightening dispute with Japan over Tokyo’s pro-Taiwan stance, but there’s been a new recent incident with The Philippines. Beijing on Monday accused Manila of staging a “deliberate” provocation and […]

Two Years Of Milei: A Resounding Success? Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we analyze the economic situation in Argentina, we must first understand the calamity to which the country was left by the socialist government of Alberto Fernandez and years of Peronism. According to UNICEF, Javier Milei has lifted more than one and a half million children out of poverty in just two years. He has restored economic growth and relaunched […]

Supertankers Bound For Venezuela Make U-Turns, Fearing US Interdiction, As PDVSA Hit By Cyberattack Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month’s US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker. Among these was a Russian tanker transporting crude for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, along with […]

Owners Of Inherited IRAs Face Dec 31 Deadline To Start Taking Withdrawals If you inherited an IRA in 2020 or later, you could be facing a Dec 31 deadline to start taking required minimum distributions from the account, under threat of IRS penalties.  The new rules spring from the December 2019 SECURE Act, which attacked long-beloved rules that previously allowed beneficiaries to stretch required distributions over their life […]

Clinton Judge Orders Destruction Of Key Evidence In Case Against James Comey A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Washington has stepped into the James Comey saga with an order that effectively tells the FBI to wipe a key evidentiary trail tied to the former director’s obstruction case, and to do it quickly. The move drops the Justice Department into a separation-of-powers storm at the same time it is trying to salvage its […]

10 Major Laws Taking Effect In California In 2026 Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, The new year is right around the corner, which means a new batch of laws will soon take effect. From banning masks for law enforcement officers and requiring gender-neutral restrooms in schools, to enhancing artificial intelligence regulations and completely banning plastic bags in stores, here is an overview of some major laws […]

National (Energy) Security Strategy The White House recently released its newly updated National Security Strategy, a roadmap “to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history, and the home of freedom on earth.” In the document’s opening statement among callouts of securing the border, massive military investments, and strengthening of NATO, Trump makes a specific call out for domestic […]

The Evidence Is Clear: Masks Don’t Do Anything… Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, We’re being hit with the “Super Flu” (allegedly), and that means everyone wants us to wear masks again. We went over this (a lot) in 2020. Then we went over it again in 2023. Masks don’t work, they never worked, and – prior to 2020 – the academic literature was very clear on this. In a 2016 literature review, […]

Free And Fair? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win her release from state prison.” – The NY Times “Election denier” is a curious term. It implies that anyone who even questions the validity of an election is not right in the head, maybe even. . . a heretic, a sociopath, a […]

Anger Mounts As Police Release Video That “Shows Nothing” In Brown University Shooting Brown University has roughly one surveillance camera for every nine undergraduate students. Yet, despite that high level of surveillance, local authorities have not released a single clear, front-facing image of the shooter, who yelled “something unique” before killing two and injuring nine in a classroom that focused on the intersection of […]

Watch: Ukrainian Sea Drone In Direct Hit On Docked Russian Submarine In what appears an unprecedented first of the war, Ukraine is touting that it deployed a new underwater drone, named “Sub Sea Baby”, to sink a Russian Kilo-class submarine docked at the Black Sea Novorossiysk port. While not specifying the date and time of the attack, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Monday the operation was a success as it struck the […]

Population Collapse, Fiat Money, And The Future Of The Global Economy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The fundamental problems of our society can largely be traced back to the collapse of reproduction rates. These are a symptom of dysfunction in the machinery of the social factory. People are losing faith in the future. The dramatic decline in birth rates is no longer exclusively a Western phenomenon. China, long the epitome of […]

US Gov’t Foils Terror Plot By Far-Left Group Plotting New Year’s Eve Bomb Attack Our warning that the radical left protest industrial complex is not peaceful, but instead amounts to “civil terrorism,” was on full display during the Los Angeles riots this past summer. Now, Marxist-aligned NGOs, funded by leftist billionaires and some receiving foreign support, wage continuous color revolutions against President Trump, attempt to […]

D.C. Appeals Court Pauses Boasberg’s Contempt Hearings On Trump Deportations Via American Greatness, A federal appeals court has granted an emergency motion sought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to halt contempt hearings scheduled to start this week over the deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg had scheduled contempt hearings for Dec. 15 and 16, over the Trump […]

Wealthy U.S. Investors Embrace AI Tools… But Don’t Let Them Run Their Retirement Accounts Despite the rapid expansion of AI-powered investing tools in 2025, most affluent American investors remain reluctant to hand over control of their retirement savings to chatbots. A new survey from InvestorsObserver shows that even as artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in portfolio analysis, market research, and trading platforms, […]

Mexico Bends The Knee, Agrees To Fulfill US Water Treaty Commitments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The United States and Mexico reached an understanding in which Mexico will meet its obligations under the 1944 Water Treaty and provide water to American farmers and ranchers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in a statement on Dec. 12. “Under the 1944 Water Treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver […]

The Wealth Gap Widens: Survey Shows Rich Now Means $2.3 Million Net Worth Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, The benchmark for wealth in America has undergone a dramatic transformation. According to a report by Fortune, Americans now place the threshold for being considered wealthy at an average of $2.3 million – a 21 percent surge since 2021 that underscores how inflation and escalating expenses have fundamentally […]

“It’s Outrageous”: US Military Plane Nearly Collides With JetBlue Flight Off Venezuela A US military aircraft narrowly avoided a collision with a JetBlue passenger jet in skies near Venezuela after crossing into the commercial plane’s flight path without activating its transponder, according to air traffic control audio reviewed by The NY Times and others. The JetBlue flight had departed from Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island […]