Europe Is About To Commit Financial Self-Immolation & Its Leaders Know It Authored by Gerry Nolan via The Ron Paul Institute Italy’s decision to stand with Belgium against the confiscation of Russian sovereign assets is not a diplomatic footnote. It is a moment of clarity breaking through the fog of performative morality that has engulfed Brussels. Strip away the slogans and the truth is unavoidable: the seizure of Russian […]

Ford Takes Record $19.5 Billion Charge As EV Bet Implodes, Pivots To Grid Batteries Shares of Ford in New York have yet to hit a new high since the debut of the all-electric F-150 Lightning in April 2022. What was pitched as a flagship EV push has since devolved into an epic miscalculation, with the automaker now preparing to take $19.5 billion in charges, mostly in the fourth quarter, as it unwinds and overhauls its electric […]

Porsche To Ferrari: The EVs Drawing The Most Attention Ahead Of 2026 A December 2025 study of the electric vehicle market names the 2026 Porsche Cayenne Electric as the most anticipated EV set to launch next year. Conducted by B2B automotive platform eCarsTrade, the research analyzed more than 20 upcoming electric models and ranked them based on global search interest related to pricing, specifications, range, and release timing. […]

Britain’s New Spy Chief Warns Of ‘Aggressive, Expansionist, And Revisionist’ Russia Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, Britain’s new intelligence chief warned on Dec. 15 that the UK is operating in an era when “the front line is everywhere,” as she set out an assessment of global threats and described Russia as an “aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist” power determined to export instability across Europe and […]

Is China In A Better Position To Win The Rare Earth Mineral War During an October swing through Southeast Asia, US President Donald Trump struck same-day agreements with Malaysia and Thailand to deepen cooperation on critical minerals and rare earths, underscoring Washington’s push to diversify supply chains away from China, according to SCMP.  According to the White House, Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim agreed […]

Privacy For The Powerful, Surveillance For The Rest: EU’s Proposed Tech Regulation Goes Too Far Authored by Elen Irazabal Arana and Nikolai G. Wenzel via TheDailyEconomy.org, Last month, we lamented California’s Frontier AI Act of 2025. The Act favors compliance over risk management, while shielding bureaucrats and lawmakers from responsibility. Mostly, it imposes top-down regulatory norms, instead of letting civil society and […]

Aussie PM Invokes ‘Right-Wing Extremism’ After Islamic Terrorist Attack, Vows Crackdown On Guns In the wake of a Sunday mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 dead and more than two dozen injured, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has vowed to strengthen the country’s gun laws. The massacre, which occurred during a Hanukkah event, was reportedly carried out by a father-son pair, Sajid Akram, 50, and Naveed Akram, 24 […]

Brussels Slams Brakes On 2035 Combustion Engine Ban The European Commission is preparing to retreat from its planned 2035 ban on new combustion-engine car sales, yielding to pressure from Germany, Italy and automakers struggling to compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals, according to Reuters. The announcement is expected Tuesday. EU and industry sources say the ban could be delayed by five years or softened indefinitely, turning a […]

Germany’s Municipal Financial Crisis: The Green Transformation Backfires Submitted By Thomas Kolbe For years, politicians managed to hide the damage caused by the green transformation. Now, deep cracks are appearing in municipal finances amid the severe economic crisis gripping the country. Cities like Stuttgart serve as showcases for the future of the republic. For a long time, Stuttgart’s city treasurer was more than just a […]

Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, And Revolution Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, All human societies have informal social classes or formal social castes that separate groups of people within the same community.  Generally speaking, notions of aristocracy and hereditary nobility started on the battlefield.  Warrior chiefs of clans became minor kings after killing more rivals without dying […]

John Mearsheimer: Why Diplomacy Is Going Nowhere & Ukraine Is Doomed With Zelensky having much-belatedly dropped aspirations for Ukraine’s NATO membership, European officials are now openly admitting what pretty much everyone knew but was afraid to say. EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas has newly acknowledged in fresh remarks that Ukraine’s membership in the military alliance is now […]

FBI Hunting Down Members Of 764 Network: Dan Bongino Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The FBI is in the process of pursuing members of the 764 criminal network, Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in a Dec. 12 post on X. The 764 is a violent network, operating within the United States and around the globe, that methodically targets and exploits minors, according to the FBI. “These networks use threats, […]

End Of An Era: Pro-Democracy Icon Jimmy Lai Found Guilty Of Sedition In Hong Kong The high profile trial of Hong Kong’s foremost pro-democracy media tycoon has just wrapped up, and it puts a symbolic cap on the end of an era in terms of prior large scale anti-China activism in the city. Jimmy Lai, who long spearheaded huge protests and local media criticism of Beijing, was found guilty on Monday in a landmark national security […]

Homan Urges Politicians To Stop Attacking ICE, Border Patrol Officers Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Politicians should stop attacking immigration officers trying to enforce laws while putting their lives at risk, border czar Tom Homan said during a press briefing on Dec. 13 that involved officials from the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). “I’m begging the politicians, the governors, the mayors who […]

Time For An AI-Tech Supply-Chain Channel-Check In Asia. Here Are Key Takeaways… Channel checks in Asia’s tech supply chain are critical and can be used as early signals or leading indicators when trying to gauge the AI bubble and/or global demand for tech, especially in North America and Europe. Goldman’s James Schneider told clients on Monday that his team visited two dozen companies deeply embedded in the IT supply chain across […]

“Offensive To Decency”: Supreme Court Won’t Hear Free Speech Case Over Vanity Plate Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away a Tennessee woman’s appeal of her state rejecting a personalized license plate for her car. The court rejected the petition in Gilliam v. Gerregano on Dec. 8 in an unsigned order without comment. No justices dissented. The petitioner, Leah Gilliam, is “an […]

China Blasts ‘Premeditated’ Provocations Of US-Allied Philippines At Disputed Shoal China continues to squabble and get in maritime incidents with US allies in regional waters of the Western Pacific. Lately it has been locked in a heightening dispute with Japan over Tokyo’s pro-Taiwan stance, but there’s been a new recent incident with The Philippines. Beijing on Monday accused Manila of staging a “deliberate” provocation and […]

Two Years Of Milei: A Resounding Success? Authored by Daniel Lacalle, When we analyze the economic situation in Argentina, we must first understand the calamity to which the country was left by the socialist government of Alberto Fernandez and years of Peronism. According to UNICEF, Javier Milei has lifted more than one and a half million children out of poverty in just two years. He has restored economic growth and relaunched […]

Supertankers Bound For Venezuela Make U-Turns, Fearing US Interdiction, As PDVSA Hit By Cyberattack Fresh reporting in Reuters has tracked at least five supertankers which have changed course on Monday after initially heading to Venezuela to load crude oil, following this month’s US naval seizure of a Venezuelan tanker. Among these was a Russian tanker transporting crude for Venezuela’s state-owned oil company PDVSA, along with […]

Owners Of Inherited IRAs Face Dec 31 Deadline To Start Taking Withdrawals If you inherited an IRA in 2020 or later, you could be facing a Dec 31 deadline to start taking required minimum distributions from the account, under threat of IRS penalties.  The new rules spring from the December 2019 SECURE Act, which attacked long-beloved rules that previously allowed beneficiaries to stretch required distributions over their life […]

Clinton Judge Orders Destruction Of Key Evidence In Case Against James Comey A Clinton-appointed federal judge in Washington has stepped into the James Comey saga with an order that effectively tells the FBI to wipe a key evidentiary trail tied to the former director’s obstruction case, and to do it quickly. The move drops the Justice Department into a separation-of-powers storm at the same time it is trying to salvage its […]

10 Major Laws Taking Effect In California In 2026 Authored by Cynthia Cai via The Epoch Times, The new year is right around the corner, which means a new batch of laws will soon take effect. From banning masks for law enforcement officers and requiring gender-neutral restrooms in schools, to enhancing artificial intelligence regulations and completely banning plastic bags in stores, here is an overview of some major laws […]

National (Energy) Security Strategy The White House recently released its newly updated National Security Strategy, a roadmap “to ensure that America remains the greatest and most successful nation in human history, and the home of freedom on earth.” In the document’s opening statement among callouts of securing the border, massive military investments, and strengthening of NATO, Trump makes a specific call out for domestic […]

The Evidence Is Clear: Masks Don’t Do Anything… Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, We’re being hit with the “Super Flu” (allegedly), and that means everyone wants us to wear masks again. We went over this (a lot) in 2020. Then we went over it again in 2023. Masks don’t work, they never worked, and – prior to 2020 – the academic literature was very clear on this. In a 2016 literature review, […]

Free And Fair? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win her release from state prison.” – The NY Times “Election denier” is a curious term. It implies that anyone who even questions the validity of an election is not right in the head, maybe even. . . a heretic, a sociopath, a […]