Trump To “Make Phone Call” Over Thai-Cambodia Border Crisis As 500,000 Flee At a rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night, President Trump told the crowd he will be “making a phone call” to the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia to urge peace and help resolve their ongoing border dispute. “Who else could say, ‘I’m going to make a phone call and stop a war of two very powerful countries. We’re making peace through strength,” Trump told […]

No Wonder The World Seems Deranged… Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Why We Fail No wonder the world seems deranged – it is deranged by the immense strength of an Old Guard clinging onto power by any means available even as the world around them spins into incoherence. There are many reasons why we fail, but perhaps the most critical one is continuing to do more of what has failed. This has many potential […]

SpaceX Reportedly Targeting 2026 IPO That Could Rival Saudi Aramco’s Historic Listing SpaceX is preparing a record-breaking IPO targeting a valuation of roughly $1.5 trillion, with expectations to raise $30 billion or more and debut in the second half of 2026. If the Bloomberg report is accurate, the offering would surpass Saudi Aramco’s 2019 listing and become the largest public listing in history. The report says SpaceX […]

State Department Has Revoked 85,000 Visas Since January, Official Says Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has rescinded 85,000 visas across all categories since President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, a State Department official said on Dec. 9. The Department of State logo and U.S. flag, in this illustration created on April 23, 2025. Dado Ruvic/Reuters The official […]

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 […]

Homeownership Has Become A Luxury In Many US Cities: Report Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Homeownership is now considered a “luxury” in most of America’s largest cities due to a shortage of homes for sale, high property prices, and elevated mortgage rates, consumer services company Bankrate said in a Dec. 8 analysis report. A typical household, which earns nearly $80,000 per year, is far short of the […]

Trump On NATO: ‘They Call Me Daddy’ Among the more notable and amusing moments from President Trump’s newly published interview with Politico is when he stated that NATO officials refer to him as “Daddy” after being proven right on the need to bolster collective defense funding through increased European budgets. This tough approach, heavily vocalized during his first term – and subject of immense pushback from European leaders at […]

First Active British Soldier Dies In Ukraine In ‘Tragic Accident’ Britain’s military has announced the death of a member of the UK Armed Forces in what officials called a “tragic accident” on Tuesday. The accident happened during a weapons trial conducted by Ukrainian forces, and inside Ukraine. The Ministry of Defence’s official statement described that the soldier “was injured in a tragic accident whilst observing Ukrainian […]

Shellenberger: Civilizational Suicide Behind Europe’s Demand For Censorship Of X Authored on Dec. by Michael Shellenberger via X, Today Last week, the European Commission fined Elon Musk’s X €140 million for, it says, breaking laws requiring social media transparency. Specifically, said the Commission, which is the executive branch of the European Union, X broke the law by making its blue checkmarks available to anyone, […]

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’ […]