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 […]

Germany’s Merz Secures Pensions Bill, Ending Embarrassing Internal Rebellion Germany’s Bundestag on Friday finally approved a contentious pension reform package which was subject of weeks of internal revolt within Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s own Christian Democratic Union party. But this brings to an effective end yet another challenge in his turbulent first seven months in office. The lower house passed the legislation, which […]

Just How Dystopian Could Starmer’s Britain Become? Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, Scaling back trial by jury, further attacks on lawful speech, the nationwide deployment of deeply flawed facial recognition systems… The list just keeps growing longer.  We first asked this question — Just How Dystopian Could Starmer’s Britain Become? — just over a year ago. At that point in time, with the  […]

“Widespread Misconduct”: Trump Admin Orders All Beneficiaries Of Nation’s Largest DEI Program To Surrender Financial Records The Daily Wire has learned that the Small Business Administration has ordered all 4,300 firms in its 8(a) “socially disadvantaged” program, which receive no-bid federal contracts, to turn over their financial records, including general ledgers, bank statements, payroll files, subcontracting agreements, and […]

Escobar: How The BRICS+ ‘Unit’ Can Save Global Trade Authored by Pepe Escobar, The Unit project, first revealed by Sputnik in 2024, is emerging as the most viable option for breaking the US dollar’s stranglehold on global trade and investment. In his book co-written with top economist Sergey Bodrunov, Regulations of the Noonomy (international edition published this year by Sandro Teti Editore in Rome), leading Russian […]

NY Times Sues Department Of War Over New Media Rules The New York Times on Friday sued the Department of War over new rules for media outlets which restrict reporters’ movements around the Pentagon, require ID badges, and restrict the solicitation of “criminal acts” (encouraging someone to leak).  The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, on March 3, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters “The policy, in violation of the First […]

Health Department Investigating School That Vaccinated Child Without Parental Consent Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Dec. 3 that it has launched an investigation into a school that officials said illegally vaccinated a child without parental consent. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Washington on Dec. 2, 2025. Andrew […]

Trump’s New National Security Strategy Stuns Mainstream In Saying Europe Faces “Civilizational Erasure” Within 20 Years The Trump administration’s just published new National Security Strategy has generated a lot of ‘shock’ and discussion since it appeared online early Friday. One of its more ‘controversial’ elements is the stark contrast in outlook on Europe in comparison with prior years’ national security strategy documents. […]

China’s Teapot Refiners Boost Crude Buying After New Import Quotas By Michael Kern of Oilprice.com Helped by the newly-issued crude import quotas, China’s independent refiners are buying sanctioned Iranian crude again and raising their processing rates, making room for Iran’s oil to move out of floating and bonded storage and potentially easing the year-end glut on the market.  Chinese teapot refiner The independent refiners […]

FBI Pipe Bomber Breakthrough Exposes Biden Era Failures After Four Years More than four years after pipe bombs appeared outside the RNC and DNC headquarters on January 5, 2021, and less than a month after The Blaze fingered a former Capitol Police officer in a now-retracted report (that their sources still stand by), the Trump administration announced the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on Thursday. Cole has […]

Major Climate Crisis Study Retracted Over “Inaccuracies” As Doom Narrative Collapses A widely hyped climate-doom study published in Nature in April 2024, and then amplified by left-wing corporate media outlets (CNN, Bloomberg, you name it), desperate to push the “green” narrative and weirdly obsessed with driving Americans into a state of severe climate shock, has now been embarrassingly retracted. On Wednesday, Nature retracted […]

FDA Appoints Doctor Who Led COVID-19 Vaccine Death Investigation As Top Drug Regulator Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The doctor who led an investigation into deaths following COVID-19 vaccination is now the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top drug regulator, the agency announced on Dec. 3. Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg during a meeting in Atlanta, Ga., in a file image. Megan Varner/Reuters Dr. Tracy […]

The Average Wait For A Doctor’s Appointment Is 31 Days – How To Get Seen Sooner Authored by Sheramy Tsai via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), It starts with a call. A sore knee, a lingering cough, a changing mole – nothing urgent – but not quite ignorable. The receptionist is polite, but the first available appointment is three weeks away. For millions of Americans, health care begins with a wait. For many, walk-in clinics have […]

USA Or China: Goldman Breaks Down Who Will Win The AI War Even after the latest US-China trade truce, the superpower race for technological dominance remains red hot – and will only intensify through the end of the decade. The battle is over who controls the technologies that will dominate the 2030s: AI chatbots, advanced chips, drones, humanoid robots, clean tech, EVs, satellites, reusable space rockets, hypersonic weapons, […]

Two Cities, Two Crime Strategies: What I Learned Living In Both Authored by Don Tracy via RealClearPolitics, I’ve watched two American cities make opposite choices about the same problem. As a young man, I worked in Memphis: first as a traveling salesman, then as a law student, and finally as an attorney at a Memphis law firm. As an associate lawyer, I dreamed of escaping the daily grind by writing a great American novel. A […]

Top Obama DEA Official Charged With Laundering Money For Mexican Drug Cartel A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) official appointed as deputy chief of the Office of Financial Operations during the Obama administration – and who still holds a security clearance – was indicted on Friday on charges of agreeing to launder $12 million for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) – which was designated a Foreign Terrorist […]

India Steps Up Purchases Of Sanctions-Free Russian Crude By Irina Slav of OilPrice.com India’s Bharat Petroleum Corp. and India Oil Corp. have bought Russian crude from non-sanctioned companies, with Bharat Petroleum ordering a cargo of 2 million barrels of Urals crude for January delivery, from companies other than Rosneft and Lukoil, Reuters has reported, citing unnamed trader sources. The price tag for the cargo featured a […]

SpaceX Trademark Filing Signals “Starlink Mobile” May Soon Take Aim At AT&T, Verizon SpaceX has taken one step toward becoming a direct competitor to AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile. Its Starlink subsidiary quietly filed to register the “Starlink Mobile” trademark on Oct. 16, signaling plans to enter the wireless carrier business. For context, Elon Musk spoke at the All-In Summit in early September and made it clear he wants to […]

The War On Pete Hegseth Authored by ‘Cynical Publius’ via American Greatness, I have had enough. I can no longer sit still while the Deep State does its very best to smear Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and have him removed from his post via lies, rumors, propaganda, and innuendo. It feels exactly like version 2.0 of the “Trump/Russia Collusion” disinformation campaign, and it needs to be called out for what it is. Enough. I […]

World Risks ‘Disintegration Of The International Order’ As Macron Fails To Woo Xi Into Pressuring Putin “We are facing the risk of the disintegration of the international order that brought peace to the world for decades, and in this context, the dialogue between China and France is even more essential than ever,” Macron said on Thursday while on a tour of China. It was his fourth state visit, and part of a renewed effort to woo […]

Watch: Biden Called For Strike Force To Crush Drug Cartels In 1989! Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Democrats are melting down over Trump’s targeted strikes on narco-terrorists, yet a freshly resurfaced clip shows Joe Biden demanding the same aggressive action decades ago, proving their opposition is pure partisan sabotage as cartel poison floods America unchecked. A 1989 C-SPAN clip of then-Senator Joe Biden has […]