Dollar Supremacy Strategy Or All-Time Grift? American AI Imperialism’s Reliance On The Middle East Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, The AI “revolution” needed capital, land, and loads of power. The rulers of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates were happy to provide all three. In 2024 before the arrival of Trump 2.0 the big American AI players began deepening their relationships with Persian […]

US May Subsidize Oil Giants To Rebuild Venezuela’s Energy Sector, Trump Says President Donald Trump said the US may subsidize American oil companies to help rebuild Venezuela’s energy sector, arguing the plan would strengthen Venezuela’s recovery and protect US economic interests after the removal of Nicolás Maduro, according to Bloomberg. In an interview with NBC News on Monday, Trump said US firms could have expanded […]

MAGA Wants Trump To Drag Hillary To Court As She Claims He “Urged Supporters To Attack Congress” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Hillary Clinton couldn’t resist slapping up a tweet today claiming that on this day five years ago, President Trump called on his supporters to attack the Capitol. Clinton wrote “Five years ago today, Donald Trump urged his supporters to attack Congress and the Capitol over a proven […]

Trump Says “Investigation Of California Has Begun” As Surgical Truth-Bombs About Corruption Likely Inbound The Trump administration’s tactical information operation delivered a surgical “truth bomb” on alleged large-scale welfare fraud tied to Somalia-linked daycare networks, triggering a nationwide uproar, amplified by citizen journalists, that culminated in Gov. Tim Walz’s abrupt exit from the governor’s race as he sought a third […]

Appeals Court Agrees To Fast-Track Challenge To $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal appeals court on Jan. 5 agreed to expedite a business group’s appeal of a court ruling that upheld the Trump administration’s decision to increase the fee for H-1B visas for employees in specialty occupations to $100,000. A U.S. flag and a U.S. H-1B Visa application form, in this […]

Iran Decries ‘Foreign Interference’ As Protest Death Toll Rises Significantly The Iran protests have been raging for well over a week, and the death toll from the growing unrest which has spread to the majority of the country’s 31 provinces has been rising, fresh reporting indicates.  The US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency is saying at least 35 people have been killed, based on numbers compiled by the group’s network of […]

Two Caribbean Nations Agree To Accept Asylum Seekers From US Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Caribbean nations of Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda announced on Jan. 5 that they agreed to take in third-country nationals who entered the United States illegally. An undated photograph of Rendezvous Bay, Antigua. Antigua and Barbuda Tourism Authority Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the […]

Chris Wright Takes Venezuela Pitch To Oil Executives In Miami The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to draw US oil companies into Venezuela, with Energy Secretary Chris Wright expected to hold discussions with industry leaders this week as Washington maps out plans to revive the country’s collapsed energy sector, according to Bloomberg. Wright will be in Miami for the Goldman Sachs Energy, Clean Tech & Utilities […]

Neither A Hyperpower Nor A Fortress Authored by R. Jordan Prescott via RealClearDefense, In January 2017, Donald Trump stated America First would be the foundation of his administration’s agenda. America First defies easy explanation, primarily because its invocation is a declaration of opposition, a rebuttal to proponents of globalization or overseas intervention. The first Trump National Security Strategy (NSS), issued in […]

“Are You Not Entertained?” Democrats Announce New Impeachment Games To Draw Midterm Voters Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Are You Not Entertained?” With the country’s economy improving and other issues losing traction with the public, Democrats are increasingly turning to the one thing lacking in Washington: impeachments. As they work to take back the House in the midterms, Democrats are again promising voters the […]

AI Expansion Highlights Dangers Of America’s Aging Power Grid Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), America’s artificial intelligence (AI) boom is colliding with an older, slower-moving entity: the nation’s aging electrical grid. An architectural rendering of Fermi America’s proposed 5,770-acre data center complex near Amarillo, Texas, illustrates its plans for 18 million-square-feet of AI data […]

Colombian President Says He Will ‘Take Up Arms’ If US Military Attacks Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday he will “take up arms again” if attacked, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning that drug traffickers in Colombia could be the next target for the U.S. military. (Left) President Donald Trump in the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. […]

Enemies Not Allowed To Control Large Oil Reserves: US Ambassador To United Nations Via Middle East Eye The US ambassador to the United Nations on Monday said that enemies of his country cannot be allowed to control vast oil reserves, such as the ones in Venezuela under President Nicolas Maduro. Mike Waltz spoke less than two hours before Maduro made his first court appearance, not far from UN headquarters in Manhattan. Maduro is […]

Trump Admin Expands Massive Funding Cuts To Blue States Amid Widening Fraud Scandal The Trump administration has taken decisive action against rampant welfare fraud beyond Minnesota, escalating a long-overdue reckoning for lax oversight under Democrat governance. Following explosive revelations of massive fraud schemes – many tied to the state’s Somali immigrant community – the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has […]

Stephen Miller Asserts US Has Right To Take Greenland, & Wouldn’t Even Have To Fight For It Stephen Miller, one of President Trump’s top aides who serves as his deputy chief of staff for policy, just poured more fuel on the fire in terms of the ongoing spat with Denmark over the future of Greenland and sovereignty. He said in fresh remarks that there won’t be any military intervention to take the Arctic territory as simply […]

Washington Post Won’t Say Why Trust In Vaccines Is Gone Authored by Roger Bate via the Brownstone Institute, The Washington Post recently published a detailed investigation showing that childhood vaccination rates across the United States are falling sharply, particularly for measles. Fewer counties now meet the 95 percent coverage level commonly associated with herd immunity, and millions of children attend schools in communities […]

Cuba’s Security-State Colonization In Americas, Proven By Delta Force Killing 32 Intel Agents Surrounding Maduro Submitted by The Bureau’s Michael Lima, For years, the Cuban regime has insisted that its presence in Venezuela was benign—limited to doctors, nurses, and sports trainers offering humanitarian solidarity. The deaths of 32 Cuban military and intelligence personnel while defending Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro have […]

UBS: “Copper Is The Commodity Everyone Wants To Own” Goldman’s “circular melt-up” call and its recent upgrade to the 2026 London Metal Exchange (LME) copper price forecast have so far proven correct, as the industrial metal surged above $13,000 a ton with traders continuing to price in tighter global supply and a broader risk-on mood across metals. Three-month LME copper futures rose as much as 3.1% to a record $13,387.50, […]

The End Of NATO? By Molly Schwartz, Cross-Asset Macro Strategist at Rabobank The Monroe Doctrine, proclaimed by U.S. President James Monroe in 1823, asserted American influence in the Western Hemisphere at a time when newly independent South American nations were emerging from European colonial rule. While the Doctrine, as a tool of policy, warns Europe to keep its hands off, it stopped short of declaring that the United States […]

Did DOJ Prosecutors Violate Trump’s Executive Order By Selling Forfeited Samourai Wallet Bitcoin? Authored by Frank Corva via BitcoinMagazine.com, It seems that the U.S. Marshall Service (USMS) has sold the $6.3 million worth of bitcoin that Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill paid the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as a fee that was part of their guilty plea. In doing so, it has potentially […]

Hilton Moves Fast To Nuke “Rogue” Franchisee As Hotel Continues Banning DHS Agents Update (Tuesday): Hilton Hotels wasted no time in the past 24 hours in curbing a rogue franchisee under the Hampton Inn brand called “Hampton Inn by Hilton Lakeville” – just outside of downtown Minneapolis – after news broke Monday that the independently owned hotel had rejected reservations from anyone affiliated with the Department of Homeland […]

China Slaps Export Controls On Japan For Dual-Use Items, Rare Earths, Could Impact Semiconductors  More steady escalation between US-ally Japan and China has emerged, but things just got much more significant – moving from initial Chinese restrictions on things like seafood or cultural exchange events, to now Beijing announcing an immediate ban on all goods deemed dual use for Tokyo. Some rare earth elements are included in this, […]

Florida Made Nearly 20,000 Immigration Arrests In 2025 Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Nearly 20,000 immigration arrests were made in Florida in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced during a Jan. 5 press conference highlighting his state’s immigration enforcement standards. Of that total number, 10,000 arrests were made as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Tidal Wave, and 7,674 were taken into […]

Resilience Of US Economy Showing “Signs Of Cracking” As US Services PMI Disappoints Following yesterday’s US Manufacturing ISM survey disappointment, this morning we get yet more soft survey data – this time a look at the Services sector via S&P Global. The final (December) US Services PMI data was a disappointment, printing 52.5 vs 52.9 expected… Source: Bloomberg While the print was a disappointment, it remains above 50 […]

Fairfax Financial Takes 22% Stake In Under Armour As UBS Sees “Turnaround Stock” Struggling apparel brand Under Armour, founded and currently led by Kevin Plank, has seen its market capitalization collapse after years of missteps, brand erosion, and tough global competition. However, a newly disclosed filing shows that a Canadian financial holding company has taken a sizable stake, alongside a recent, more constructive turnaround […]