Turkey Plans Drone Facility In Pakistan Turkey, long a pioneer in military drone development and production, plans to set up a facility in Pakistan to assemble combat drones, part of Ankara’s drive to boost its defense industry in international markets, Bloomberg reported citing Turkish officials. Talks over the project, which would see Turkey export stealth and long-endurance drones to be put together in Pakistan, have […]

Rosneft Oil Cargo Wanders For Weeks As Sanctions Mount By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com A cargo of crude oil from sanctioned Russian giant Rosneft has made an 11-week-long meandering trip around Europe and Asia in search of buyers and although it has anchored off a sanctioned Chinese import port, it’s not certain it has reached its final destination yet. The Fortis tanker with about 700,000 barrels of now sanctioned Russian […]

Germany Plans Largest Single-Year Investment In Arms, Equipment In Its History At a moment the Russia-Ukraine war grinds on, and as Trump-led efforts to find peace have been frustrated – largely as Zelensky and his backers have balked at agreeing to any territorial compromise as the bases of a deal – Germany is busy transforming its military with an aim to boost Bundeswehr numbers and meet NATO targets. That news dominated […]

Europe’s Brown New Deal Authored by Dmitry Orlov via ForumGeopolitica.com, As living standards in Europe decline, the elites are inventing a fictional enemy: Russia. With staged provocations and historical distortions, they want to divert people’s anger and justify higher military spending. The result of the Green New Deal is steadily decreasing living standards throughout Europe stemming from the root cause of lower amounts of […]

Modern Warfare: Lessons From Ukraine Authored by Adam Sharp via DailyReckoning.com, Before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, we had very little insight into what modern warfare would look like. How would hypersonic and cruise missiles perform? What impact would drones have on the battlefield? How important is artillery in modern warfare? How relevant are tanks? And what about electronic warfare? All these questions have […]

Western Colleges Help Build China’s Digital Dragnet With Taxpayer Funds, Study Warns Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, Over the past five years, some of the world’s most technologically advanced campuses in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom — including MIT, Oxford and McGill — have relied on taxpayer funding while collaborating with artificial-intelligence labs embedded in Beijing’s security state, including […]

Israel Launches New Wave Of Huge Airstrikes On Lebanon Israel’s military has confirmed it carried out new waves of air attacks in southern Lebanon that damaged several homes and buildings, which the IDF said primarily targeted Hezbollah training camps. The largescale attacks occurred despite what’s supposed to be a agreed upon truce in effect going all the way back to November 2024. Prior to that, Hezbollah had been engaged in […]

‘Iryna’s Law’ And The Bad Decisions That Make It Necessary Authored by Daniel McCarthy via The Epoch Times, What will it take to get crime under control in our subways and public transit systems? On Monday, Dec. 1, news broke of another passenger set on fire in New York City’s subway—although this story wasn’t all it seemed. The homeless man who at first said he was the victim of an attack turned tight-lipped when police […]

Mississippi Has The Highest Credit Card Delinquency Rate, Florida The Lowest The map, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, highlights how credit card delinquency varies widely across the U.S. in 2025. These figures represent the share of credit card accounts that became 30 or more days past due from Q1 to Q2. The data for this visualization comes from WalletHub. Southern States Lead in Delinquencies The Deep South stands out […]

New York Archdiocese Agrees To Mediation For Settling 1,300 Claims Of Sexual Abuse Authored by Melanie Sun via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Roman Catholic Church in New York and more than 1,300 people who have accused its priests and lay employees of sexual abuse have agreed to enter mediation to resolve the claims. Archbishop of New York cardinal Timothy Dolan holds his homily during a Mass in his own titular Church […]

Oil Trading Giant Warns Of Looming “Super Glut” Due To Supply Surge Echoing what has become a now daily refrain by commodity bears everywhere, Saad Rahim, chief economist of commodity-trading giant, Trafigura, said that the oil market faces a “super glut” next year as a burst of new supply collides with weakness in the global economy. According to Rahim, new drilling projects and slowing demand growth would weigh further on […]

Conrad Black: Trump’s Approach To Curbing Crime Is Proving Effective Authored by Conrad Black via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), There’s no doubt that President Donald Trump’s campaign to reduce urban crime is fundamentally popular. The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose crime, particularly violent crime that threatens them in their homes or while engaging in daily activities on city streets and sidewalks. Some […]

Washington, DC Has The Highest Share Of Renters In America, Nearly Double National Average About one in three U.S. households rents, a ratio that has stayed surprisingly steady over the past six decades. But with mortgage rates soaring from 2.7% in 2020 to almost 7% today – and home prices continuing to climb – the share of renters has edged up. Today, it takes $121,400 to afford a typical home, or 43% higher than the average […]

Aussie Data Centers Could Swallow 40 Million Litres Of Water Per Day, That’s About 80,000 Households Authored by Jerry Zhu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Australia’s utility industry warns the country’s current water supply is not enough to accommodate the explosive growth of data centres and artificial intelligence (AI). A photo of the Global Switch data centre in Ultimo of Sydney, Australia taken on May 9, 2025. […]

“Godless Demons”: Teen Commits Suicide After “Sextortion” As International Crime Ring Targets American Children Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 15-year-old West Virginia boy as part of a broader examination into sextortion networks that have increasingly targeted American teenagers, resulting in what experts describe as a national crisis of online predation, the New York Post reported. Bryce Tate, 15 Bryce […]

Trump Warns Of ‘Severe’ Tariffs On Canadian Fertilizer If Needed Authored by Jennifer Cowan via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump says he is considering “very severe” tariffs on fertilizer imports from Canada as the United States readies a $12 billion aid package for farmers grappling with the repercussions of the ongoing trade war. Trump mentioned the increased levy on Canada while responding to reporters’ […]

US Army Looks To Build Small Refineries For Critical Minerals By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The U.S. Army will develop small-scale refineries to ensure domestic supply of critical minerals for defense and military purposes as the United States and the Western allies look to reduce their dependence on China.  “We need to come up with a way to ‌make our own (critical minerals) domestically that we can actually monitor […]

Tony Blair ‘Dropped’ From Trump’s Gaza ‘Board Of Peace’ Via Middle East Eye Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is no longer being considered for a seat on a “board of peace” for Gaza chaired by US President Donald Trump. According to the Financial Times, Blair’s name was dropped under pressure from several Arab and Muslim states. The status of the “board of peace” remains unclear and while the idea has received wide […]

Rich People, Poor Morals: Wealthy Are The Most Likely To Rip Off Self-Checkout Machines Rich people, poorer morals? A new LendingTree report claims the shoppers most likely to rip off the self-checkout machine aren’t the desperate — they’re the well-off, according to the NY Post. Americans making over $100,000 a year are twice as likely to steal at self-checkout compared to low-income shoppers. A hefty 40% of six-figure […]

Question Everything Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, The average person in the First World receives far more information than he would if he lived in a Second or Third World country. In many countries of the world, the very idea of twenty-four hour television news coverage would be unthinkable, yet many Westerners feel that, without this constant input, they would be woefully uninformed. Not surprising, then, […]

Adam Schiff Laments Trump Wasn’t Jailed Sooner As DOJ Turns On Him Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., lamented that the Biden administration did not move more quickly to incarcerate President Donald Trump, suggesting that even more aggressive action could have thwarted his 2024 electoral prospects.  Schiff, who himself is facing a federal investigation into allegations of […]

Goldman Reminds Clients Where Travel & Leisure Cracked First Ahead Of 2008 Crisis Goldman analysts led by Lizzie Dove examined how different segments within travel and leisure reacted to, and ultimately recovered from, the 2008-09 recession. Her analysis offers a valuable framework for identifying where consumer stress tends to appear first inside the travel space and whether today’s warning signs in a K-shaped, bifurcated […]

Clinton-Appointed Federal Judge Tosses Trump’s Order Halting Wind Energy Projects Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A federal judge on Dec. 8 vacated President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order that halted federal permitting and leasing for wind energy projects, saying it violated U.S. law. U.S. District Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys […]

Zelensky Says ‘Ready For Elections’ After Trump Indicated He’s An Obstacle To Peace Update(1435ET): Is this finally the end of the road for Zelensky? President Trump has really ramped up the pressure, in a fresh Politico interview signaling that the Ukrainian leader must begin to accept reality and make compromises, starting with holding elections. According to a fresh audio statement being circulated, Zelensky has newly responded […]

Trump Threatens Tariff Increase On Mexico Over Rio Grande Water Dispute President Donald Trump weighed in on a decades-old border water dispute on Monday, saying he would impose a 5 percent tariff hike on Mexican imports if the country fails to swiftly deliver the water it owes from the Rio Grande. The ultimatum is designed to help struggling U.S. farmers, especially in Texas, amid alleged treaty violations over the past five […]