Futs Jump On Reports About Iran’s Willingness To Give Up Uranium Stockpile U.S. equity futures jumped around 4:00 a.m. ET after Bloomberg News reported that Iran had previously signaled a willingness to surrender its highly enriched uranium stockpiles in high-stakes negotiations, just before the U.S. launched Operation Epic Fury. Although the Bloomberg story relates to last week’s U.S.-Iran developments, the market is extremely […]

Anthropic In Chaos: CEO Tries To Salvage Pentagon Contract After Slamming Trump, Altman In Leaked Letter Things over at Anthropic are getting wild. On Friday, the Trump administration ‘fired’ the woke serial copyright infringer, industry disruptor and software-engineer-extinctor after a bruising dispute with the Pentagon came to a head over ethical concerns surrounding Claude’s military use – specifically, domestic surveillance […]

China Halts Diesel, Gasoline Exports As Paralyzed Hormuz Risks Energy Shock Less than one week into Operation Epic Fury, Beijing has ordered its top refiners to halt gasoline and diesel exports as the Strait of Hormuz remained paralyzed on Thursday morning. The move exposes how China is one of the biggest losers in a prolonged Hormuz shutdown, with Beijing appearing to brace for an oil shock. Beijing is scrambling after panicking […]

Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s Hedge Fund Reveals Big Bitcoin Miner Bets In New SEC Filing Authored by Christina Comben via cointelegraph, Leopold Aschenbrenner has built a US stock portfolio heavily concentrated in companies that supply the power and infrastructure behind the artificial intelligence boom. The former OpenAI researcher, who left the lab’s superalignment team to launch San Francisco-based hedge fund Situational […]

Map Shows Latest U.S. Robotaxi Deployment Goldman analysts, led by Eric Sheridan, updated clients this week on the latest developments in the North American autonomous vehicle rideshare market. They point out that the AV rideshare market continues to expand as Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Zoox roll out AV operations nationwide. Readers will notice that the commercial AV deployments this year, including Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Zoox (Tesla […]

Iran Signals ‘Prolonged War’ As US Strikes Go Deeper, Tanker Hit By “Large Explosion” Off Kuwait, Leaking Oil Here are some of the most critical developments unfolding in the US-Iran conflict:  A “large explosion” took place on a tanker 30 nautical miles south east off Mubarak Al Kebeer, on the coast of Kuwait. The tanker, which was at anchor in the Khor al-Zubair lightering zone – a critical area for loading Iraqi heavy fuel […]

Free Speech Victory In Germany After Top Court Issues Landmark Rulings For ‘Insults’ Via REMIX News, The wave of police searches and prosecutions in Germany may be facing a new hurdle after Germany’s top court, the Constitutional Court, issued two landmark rulings strengthening freedom of expression. However, Fatina Keilani, editor in Welt’s freedom of expression department, said that these two decisions have gone largely […]

US, Ecuador Launch Joint Military Operations Against Terrorist Organizations US Southern Command on Tuesday stated that the US military had conducted a joint operation with Ecuadorian forces against “designated terrorist organizations” in Ecuador, as the Trump administration continues to fight narco-terrorism.  U.S. Marine Corps. Lt. Gen. Francis Donovan looks on during a Senate Armed Services Committee Confirmation Hearing on […]

How Likely Is It That Pakistan Joins The Third Gulf War In Support Of Its Saudi Ally? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Pakistan could set into motion a sequence of events that restores its role as the US’ top regional ally, returns US troops to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase if they later team up against the Taliban, and therefore build a new regional order at the geostrategic crossroads of South and Central Asia. […]

China Is Scrambling Authored by Zineb Riboua via Beyond the Ideological, The men in Zhongnanhai do not rattle easily. Decades of patient statecraft, a foreign policy built on studied ambiguity, and an economy engineered to absorb external shocks have granted Beijing’s leadership a remarkable tolerance for turbulence. Operation Epic Fury, the American-Israeli air campaign now dismantling Iran’s military architecture, has […]

501 Afghans Sue Germany Over Revoked Resettlement Promises, Demand Entry Into Europe Authored by Thomas Brooke via REMIX, A total of 501 Afghan nationals are currently suing the German government after previously granted commitments to admit them into the country were withdrawn. The cases are directed against Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), which revoked earlier pledges by the previous federal […]

In “Historic Day For Nuclear Industry”, Novel Technology Reactor Gets First Federal Permit In A Decade To Start Building In a move that’s got America’s energy bureaucrats finally moving at something approaching market speed, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has handed TerraPower – the Bill Gates-backed outfit pushing the Natrium advanced reactor – the first commercial nuclear construction permit issued in nearly a decade. After […]

How Operation Epic Fury Unfolded Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Pentagon had been choreographing a prospective massive attack on Iran since 1980, but it wasn’t until December 2025 that U.S. President Donald Trump, after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington, told military planners to give him that devastating option in case the fundamentalist Shia regime refused to […]

Why The GOP Could Defy Precedent And Win The Midterms Historically, the party in power almost always loses seats in midterm elections. There are only two exceptions to this rule. In 1934, under Franklin D. Roosevelt, and then in 2002, under George W. Bush. Are there signs that 2026 could be another precedent-shattering year? A new Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey conducted late last month suggests it could be.  The poll has the […]

Under Beijing’s Wing: Iran’s Arsenal Authored by Zineb Riboua via Beyond the Ideological, In 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was sold to the American public and to the world as the definitive answer to Iran’s nuclear threat. The agreement placed extensive restrictions on uranium enrichment, centrifuge capacity, and stockpile levels, but said almost nothing about the one thing that would actually deliver a […]

Tanker Hit By “Large Explosion” In Waters Off Kuwait, Causing Oil Spill In the most dramatic escalation yet involving shipping in the Persian Gulf, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), a British naval authority responsible for monitoring shipping safety in high-risk areas, said it received a report that around 1040pm UTC, a “large explosion” took place on a tanker 30 nautical miles south east off Mubarak Al […]

China-Linked Bulk Carrier Exits Strait Of Hormuz Without Incident Maritime tracking data shows a China-linked bulk carrier exiting the Strait of Hormuz without incident, a notable development that comes just hours after a report stated Tehran would permit Chinese vessels to transit the critical maritime chokepoint, despite much of the narrow waterway being paralyzed. Bloomberg data shows the bulk carrier Iron Maiden has […]

The Iran War Exposes The Farce Of American “Representative Democracy” Authored by Ryan McMaken  via MisesInstitute, The Trump administration has unilaterally—without any Congressional debate or vote, of course—forced Americans into yet another war. This time, the war is a large-scale military campaign against Iran. Was there any groundswell of public support for this war? Did the Congress vote to spend more American tax […]

Israel Officials Get Blunt On Iran Aims: ‘If We Can Have A Civil War, Great’ US mainstream media is issuing one headline after another that read like they are ripped straight off the plot of Homeland or some other subpar CIA counter-terrorism series. For example, Wednesday: Israel Is Blowing Up Iran’s Police State to Clear the Way for a Revolt. In a bit of incredibly naive and wishful thinking and fantasy, WSJ writes: […]

Who Will Be The 2028 Democratic Presidential Nominee? California Governor Gavin Newsom has released a new memoir, “Young Man in a Hurry”, in which the Democrat lays out stories from his personal and political life. From his sometimes turbulent upbringing to his 2004 act in favor of gay marriage, when he allowed over 4,000 same-sex couples to get married at San Francisco City Hall during his time as mayor long before such unions […]

Will Trump Seize Or Destroy Iran’s Oil Export Island? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier that the U.S. is “accelerating, not decelerating” Operation Epic Fury, with U.S. and Israeli forces conducting at least 1,000 strikes over five days against high-value IRGC assets and leadership. As those strikes have significantly degraded the IRGC’s capabilities on land, at sea, and in the air, the next big question is whether Iran’s […]

Degraded Schools Authored by Larry Sand via American Greatness, Many students are chronically absent or have dropped out of school. Nat Malkus, a senior fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, oversees the Return to Learn Tracker, which monitors chronic absenteeism in U.S. schools. His latest report, released in early February, includes data from 39 states and Washington, D.C. He states that after […]

Pam Bondi Subpoenaed In Epstein Investigation By House Oversight Panel House investigators are hauling in Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer for what lawmakers say is a troubling disappearance of documents tied to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 on Wednesday to subpoena Bondi for a deposition, escalating a fight with the Department of Justice over its handling of records from the […]

Senate Rejects Measure Aimed at Blocking US Attacks on Iran Update (1925ET):  The Senate rejected the measure that would block Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran without congressional approval.  The procedural vote over the war powers resolution, which was introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), was 47 to 53. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a bill cosponsor, was the lone Republican to support the measure. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) […]

The Global Race To Unlock Nuclear Fusion Authored by Felicity Bradstock via oilprice.com, Governments worldwide have been racing to unlock the secret to nuclear fusion energy for several decades, with the aim of producing abundant, clean energy. While several generation milestones have been achieved in recent years, accomplishing commercial-scale production continues to be extremely complex. However, with more recent successes, are […]