Washington’s New National Security Strategy Details How Trump 2.0 Will Respond To Multipolarity Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Trump 2.0 just released its National Security Strategy (NSS). It can be read in full here, but for those with limited time, the present piece will summarize its contents. The new NSS reconceptualizes, narrows, and reprioritizes US interests. Focus is placed on the primacy of nations over […]

Indonesia Remains The World’s Most Generous Nation Started in 2012, Giving Tuesday, which takes place on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, is a day which aims to encourage people to do good. Described as “a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity”, the goal of Giving Tuesday is to encourage people to donate time or money or to use their voice for a good cause. While generosity may seem like a […]

Pro-Israel Forces Intensify Effort To Control American Discourse Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing […]

Americans Worry Most Among Developed Nations About Food Security Concerning nations surveyed in Statista’s Consumer Insights, Americans were among those most worried about food and water security. Indeed, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, while for most European nations, worry about the topic peaked during the coronavirus pandemic and the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war, concern has remained elevated in the United […]

Out Of Sight: Following The Money Trail Of Missing Child Border Crossers Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, On the campaign trail, Vice President JD Vance repeatedly chastised the Biden administration for allegedly losing track of some 320,000 minors who had crossed the border unaccompanied. “Our government, under the policies of Kamala Harris, has lost thousands of innocent children to sex trafficking, to drug […]

Embarrassing: Canada Very Belatedly Removes Syria’s Ruling HTS From Terror List The fact that Syria’s head of state got his start working for ISIS, and was a founding member of Syrian al-Qaeda, continues to produce embarrassing headlines.  One full year after former president Bashar al-Assad was overthrown and fled to Moscow, Canada has very belatedly removed President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s militia group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham from […]

Zelensky ‘Systematically Sabotaged’ Ukraine Anti-Corruption Efforts, NYT Concludes  Via The Cradle Over the past four years, the Ukrainian government “systematically sabotaged” oversight of the country’s state-owned companies and weapons procurement processes, “allowing graft to flourish,” a freshly published New York Times investigation has revealed. The investigation details how the government of Volodymyr Zelensky sidelined […]

Where Are America’s Dry Counties? While the U.S. ended federal Prohibition in 1933, local restrictions on alcohol still persist across the country to this day. As Visual Capitalist shows in the map below, based on work by Wikipedia user Mr. Matté, many counties remain “dry,” banning the sale of alcohol entirely, or “moist,” allowing only limited sales. Where Alcohol is Still Restricted The data, crowdsourced from […]

General Flynn: Strategic Assessment Of Marxist-Style Color Revolution Targeting America Authored by Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET), The American people have just taken their first full breath after surviving an attempt to smother the Republic through a Marxist-inspired cultural campaign carried out largely through the administrative state, media, academia, and politicized elements of the national security bureaucracy. Most citizens […]

CDC Advisory Panel Votes To End Hepatitis B Shot Recommendation For Newborns The vaccine industrial complex is likely fuming this morning after a federal advisory panel voted to end the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive a hepatitis B shot at birth. The vote marks a major victory for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” effort to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule amid […]

21 States Are At Risk Of Losing SNAP Funding Amid Fraud Investigation Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The federal government said it would withhold Supplemental Nutrition Aid Program (SNAP) funds for states that do not report user data.  The news came from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins earlier this week, following months of requests and investigations into […]

Newsom Pleads With Dems To Be More “Culturally Normal” Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, California Governor Gavin Newsom is dishing out advice to his fellow Democrats: pretend to be normal while he plots a White House run. Newsom, who’s been eyeing a 2028 presidential bid after loser Kamala Harris’ electoral wipeout, took to the stage at The New York Times DealBook Summit in New York City, urging his party to […]

Ken Griffin Dumps Last Penthouse In Crime-Ridden Chicago Hedge fund manager Ken Griffin is on the verge of dumping his final piece of real estate in crime-ridden, far-left–controlled Chicago, and he hasn’t looked back since moving Citadel’s global headquarters to Miami. Bloomberg reports that Griffin’s penthouse at 800 N. Michigan Avenue, located in Park Tower, one of the premier luxury residential buildings along Chicago’s […]

Texas Law Allowing Ivermectin To Be Sold Over The Counter Goes Into Effect Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, A Texas law allowing ivermectin to be sold over the counter went into effect Dec. 4, but rollout appears slow as pharmacies wrestle with how to proceed. House Bill 25, signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in August, allows pharmacies to sell the antiviral drug without a prescription. Ivermectin […]

The GRANITE Act: How Congress Can Strike Back Against Foreign Censors Authored by Preston Byrne, Please find below the draft text of the GRANITE Act, a bill I have offered to New Hampshire legislators for consideration for enactment in that state. It could serve as a template for a U.S. fightback against global censorship, if adapted for federal use. It doesn’t really require a ton of explanation. The gist is simple: the only […]

Generational Betrayal: HUD Reveals Biden Gave Illegal Aliens FHA-Backed Mortgages HUD Secretary Scott Turner told Fox Business on Friday that illegal aliens received federally backed mortgages during the Biden–Harris regime years. Turner characterized this as a significant policy failure by the previous administration and evidence of what he called misplaced priorities that favored illegals over American homebuyers. “You know, […]

Nearly Two-Thirds Of Americans Say College Degree Isn’t Worth The Cost: Poll Authored by Gabrielle Temaat via The College Fix, Nearly two-thirds of Americans don’t believe that a college degree is worth its price tag, according to a recent NBC News survey.   Sixty-three percent of registered voters said a four-year degree is “not worth the cost because people often graduate without specific job skills and with a large […]

Journal Retracts ‘Ghost Written’ Monsanto Study Claiming Glyphosate Is Safe Over the past year massive scandals involving academic research have come under the microscope, after dedicated researchers uncovered rigged studies that made it through peer-review with flying colors, and are now being retracted.  On Friday, the Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology journal announced that it has retracted a review, safety […]

Impeachment Mania Returns In Time For The Midterm Elections Authored by Jonathan Turley, The military has long had a saying that “when you only have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.” When it comes to impeachment power, Democrats have long acted as if every problem is a high crime and misdemeanor. After two impeachments against President Donald Trump (including what I labeled as an infamous “snap impeachment“), […]

Southern Oscillation Index Plunge Triggers “Big Winter Storm Signal,” Meteorologist Warns Folks across the Mid-Atlantic, especially in the Washington, DC-Baltimore metro area, woke up to a rare December winter scene: a few inches of fresh snow on the ground. With a solid cold pattern locked in through the middle of the month, this early-season snow is something the region hasn’t seen this early in the cold season in many years. […]

Is A Backdoor Gold Standard Coming? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, For decades, I’ve been vexed over a monetary issue. How can we transition from the present fiat money system to a sound-money standard like we once had in the United States and the world? Clearly the gold standard was superior whereas we now have a fiat standard that has mired the world in debt and big government. A central-bank digital […]

Anti-Free-Speech War Escalates As EU Unleashes DSA On Musk’s X For years, many in the free speech community (most vehemently, Jonathan Turley) have warned about the threat of the European Union to free speech, particularly in the enactment of the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU has virtually declared war on free speech and is targeting American companies. That war just began with the first DSA fine. Not surprisingly, […]

Germany Scales Back Offshore Wind Auctions After Latest Flop By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com Germany moved to reduce the capacity it will auction in its offshore wind tender in 2026, following the flop in the latest auction without a single bid made.   The German Parliament approved legislation narrowing the capacity in the 2026 tender to just 2.5 gigawatts (GW) to 5 GW, compared with an earlier plan of auctioning off 6 […]

French Soldiers ‘Open Fire’ On Drones Threatening High-Secure Nuclear Submarine Base A major security breach of French military airspace has been revealed Friday at a moment European officials have been hyping the ‘hybrid warfare’ threat from Russia, which has of late centered on many dozens of ‘mystery’ drone breaches in EU airspace especially near sensitive locations like airports. French Marines opened fire on five unidentified […]

UK Sanctions Russia After Inquiry Holds Putin Responsible For 2018 Novichok Poisonings Authored by Guy Birchall via The Epoch Times, The UK issued new sanctions on Russia on Dec. 4, after a public inquiry into the death of a woman poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok in the UK in 2018 held Russian President Vladimir Putin responsible for her demise. London also summoned the Kremlin’s ambassador for a response to the […]