US Chemical Companies “Net Beneficiaries” Of Middle East Energy Disruption Crisis Bloomberg News headlines indicate that Iraq has begun shutting down oil output at Rumaila, the world’s largest “supergiant” oil field, while other Gulf states have idled some of the world’s largest refineries and major energy hubs following Iranian drone strikes. This signals that a massive energy disruption is set to hit global energy markets as the […]

Edinburgh Leader Hails City Diversity After Migrant Stabbing Spree Hospitalizes Two Authored by Thomas Brooke va Remix News, In the wake of Monday’s stabbing spree by a suspect reported by one national newspaper to have been a Somali immigrant, the leader of City of Edinburgh Council has praised the capital’s diversity and said she wants the city to “stay that way.” Cllr. Jane Meagher spoke out after a man was arrested […]

Visualizing The Generation Gap In TV Consumption Perhaps the main threat to “traditional” television isn’t that Americans stopped watching video content, it’s that video is everywhere. Young Americans in particular tend to get their video fix in the “snack aisle”, i.e. on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, where shorts, reels, highlight clips or whatever the algorithm serves up next are taking up a growing share of […]

Could War In Iran Spark A 2016-Style Migrant Crisis? Hungary’s PM Orbán Warns Of Worst-Case Scenario Via Remix News, The migration crisis for Europe brought on by the war in Syria could repeat itself with Iran, but with Iran’s population dwarfing Syria’s, the crisis could be much worse, warns Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Ahead of Hungary’s April elections, Orbán has campaigned on peace, specifically staying […]

Ranking The World’s Most Powerful Countries By Soft Power In 2026 The ‘hard power’ versus ‘soft power’ framework of international relations has perhaps never been more prescient as President Trump flexes his ability to use military strength to induce an outcome of his liking, having tried (and failed) to achieve it via the more diplomatic arts of soft power persuasion. Simply put, soft power reflects a country’s ability to shape […]

Germany’s Corporate Tax Collapse Signals Economic Crisis By Thomas Kolbe The ten-minute applause of delegates at the CDU party congress still echoed when the Federal Ministry of Finance spoiled the festive mood in Stuttgart. Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil’s (SPD) department reported a nationwide collapse of corporate tax revenue by 79 percent in January 2026 compared to last year. At the same time, revenue from assessed income […]

The Fix Is In To Defeat Alberta Independence Authored by Bruce Pardy via The Brownstone Institute, Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. It will ask Albertans a slate of policy and constitutional questions. Independence, she said the next day, will be added to the ballot if the requisite number of signatures is met in the petition drive, which is likely. Albertans will get their […]

Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation – He Lied To Us’ Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs appeared on Judge Napolitano’s ‘Judging Freedom’ podcast Monday, where he railed against the US-Israeli attack on Iran and the ‘CIA-led security state,’ calling President Donald Trump a ‘disgrace to our nation’ because ‘he lied to us.’ Watch: Sachs, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, […]

Israel Claims to Strike Iranian Nuclear Weapons Lab Iran’s nuclear complexes are seeing renewed attacks for both new buildings constructed since the 12-Day War, as well as long-existing infrastructure previously left alone. From what can be seen in recent satellite imagery, the U.S. and Israel are quickly finishing what they started last year.   The IDF announced it has struck a covert underground compound outside Tehran where […]

Operation Epic Fury Sparks Homeland Terror Fears Amid Fallout From Biden’s Illegal Alien Invasion Fears of Iranian-backed terror cells operating inside the U.S. are resurfacing (again) as concerns grow that President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury could trigger retaliatory threats against the homeland, particularly since the Biden-Harris regime’s open border policies flooded the nation with millions of illegal aliens, including some […]

Asian Refiners Mull Slashing Crude Processing As Iran War Threatens Supply By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Asian refiners, particularly state-held majors heavily dependent on Middle East oil supply, are considering slashing crude run rates by up to 30% amid the war in Iran that is holding up millions of barrels of Middle Eastern crude stuck near the Strait of Hormuz.   The de facto halted shipments via the Strait of […]

Senators Ask Treasury To Unilaterally Index Capital Gains, Bypassing Congress Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott are asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to unilaterally implement a major capital gains tax cut — by letting taxpayers adjust their cost basis to account for the effects of inflation. In a letter they intended to send on Tuesday, the pair will argue that it’s within Bessent’s authority to make such a move, without the […]

Nancy Mace And Ilhan Omar Go Full Jerry Springer Over Iran Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Rep. Nancy Mace obliterated Ilhan Omar on X after the Somali-born Democrat raged about U.S. strikes on Iran during Ramadan, escalating calls to expose Omar’s alleged immigration fraud and boot her back to Somalia. The feud erupted over the weekend when Mace trolled Omar and fellow Squad member Rashida Tlaib, sending them […]

Tankers Burn From Strait Of Hormuz To Mediterranean Sea Amid Spillover War Risks Times of Malta reports that the Russian-flagged LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz, identified as part of Russia’s shadow fleet, suffered an explosion while transiting the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Libya. Multiple sources told the local newspaper that Arctic Metagaz experienced a “series of explosions” and that it “was a case of deflagration; […]

Feds Told New Mexico To Back Off Epstein; Then They Did Nothing… Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, In September 2019, federal prosecutors asked New Mexico to shut down its active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s desert compound. The state complied. The feds never held up their end of the deal. According to a report by The Albuquerque Journal, former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas revealed […]

CIA Moves To Arm Kurdish Forces To Foment Govt Collapse In Iran: Officials Here are the most critical developments unfolding in the US-Iran conflict:  CIA working to arm Kurdish forces to spark uprising in Iran, sources say: CNN State Department securing military aircraft, charter flights to get Americans out of Middle East Iran International is claiming (unverified) Iran’s Assembly of Experts chose Mojtaba Khamenei as […]

Los Angeles Superintendent Praised By Gavin Newsom Placed On Leave Following FBI Raid Los Angeles schools were thrown into chaos after the FBI raided the home and office of embattled Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in connection with a widening investigation into a $6 million deal between the nation’s second-largest school system and an AI startup. Days later, the district’s board put him on paid administrative leave (he makes […]

Hormuz Freeze Sends Brent-Dubai Spread to Multi-Year High By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice, Brent’s premium to the Middle East’s Dubai benchmark has blown out to its widest level since 2022, confirmation that the global oil market is squarely trading on disruption. As of Tuesday morning, Brent was trading around $83–$84 per barrel, up more than 7% on the day, while Dubai crude sat near $68, barely moving. The spread between […]

New Jersey Faces Structural Deficit Crisis And Democrats Blame Trump When all else fails, blame Trump.  It might be the only political strategy the Democrats have left but it doesn’t work for everything.   New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who took office this year, warns that the state faces a serious structural deficit (spending exceeding revenues annually) of roughly $3 billion, despite a projected surplus of $7.2 billion […]

US Arranging Charter, Military Flights For Americans In The Middle East Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The U.S. State Department is looking to help Americans in the Middle East find a way home. The State Department said on March 3 it is working to charter aircraft to fly Americans home following the start of the U.S.–Israel military strikes on Iran. “The State Department is actively securing […]

“Account Temporarily Unavailable”: Facebook Outages Reported In U.S. Facebook appears to be suffering widespread outages, as login attempts on the social media site produce the error: “Account Temporarily Unavailable.” The full error reads: “Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes.” Users on the […]

Behind America’s New Industrial Revolution Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. economy grew faster than many predicted over the past year, outpacing other advanced economies, especially in Europe, where growth has nearly stalled. The manufacturing facilities of the Independent Can Company in Belcamp, Md., on June 25, 2025. Ryan Collerd/AFP via Getty Images Analysts say President Donald Trump’s […]

Bill Pervs Out Over Epstein Memories, Hillary Goes Berserk, And They Both Lied: Top Viral Moments From Clinton Depositions The House Oversight Committee dropped more than nine hours of raw video from Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closed-door Epstein depositions on Monday, where the pair were questioned over their longstanding relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Here are a few of the most memorable moments:  1. Bill Clinton Smirks […]

From Whiskey To Weed: A Second Amendment Fight Authored by John R. Lott Jr. & Laura Lott via RealClearPolitics, Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of “habitual drunkards” at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep gummy? In oral arguments before the Supreme Court today in United States v. Hemani, the federal government argues that they are the same. In August 2022, FBI agents searched […]

Trump Floats Backing Anti-Tehran Insurgency As Alternative To US Boots On Ground It’s only day four of the US-Israeli ‘Operation Epic Fury’ and there’s already talks of a ground war and insurgency in Iran. Of course, the White House is still saying it doesn’t plan to send US boots on the ground (though is ‘not ruling it out’), while also proclaiming the US wants regime change in Tehran, and the dismantling of the Islamic Republic […]