Mercedes Warns Of Fresh Margin Squeeze As China Struggles Persist Mercedes-Benz warned that profitability in its car division could come under renewed strain this year, underscoring a difficult outlook as the luxury group contends with elevated costs, weak demand in China and global trade tariffs, according to Reuters. Shares fell as much as 5.7% after the announcement and were down 3.1% by mid-morning trade on Thursday. […]

NATO’s ‘Arctic Sentry’ Formalizes The Race For The High North Via RFE/RL, NATO officially launched its Arctic Sentry mission on February 11 to improve its military posture in the Arctic region, following recent tensions between the United States and Denmark over Greenland. The mission is intended to bring all of NATO’s Arctic activities under one command to counter increasing Russian and Chinese activity in the […]

Rise Of “War Unicorns” As Big Defense Primes Face An “Adapt Or Die” Moment “Rebuilding our military and reestablishing credible deterrence demands the Department of War (DoW) put our Acquisition System and Enterprise on a wartime footing and dramatically accelerate the fielding of new technology and advanced capabilities to maintain the military superiority of our Armed Forces,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced in his […]

US Strategy In Armenia And Azerbaijan Includes Nuclear And AI Via Eurasianet.org, Vice President Vance’s visit successfully broadened US economic and strategic engagement with Armenia and Azerbaijan, moving past the initial focus on the Middle Corridor trade route. In Baku, the US and Azerbaijan signed a Strategic Partnership Charter, pledging to expand cooperation in energy, aerospace, digital infrastructure, AI, and […]

Toyota Remains The World’s Most Reliable Car Brand, Rivian The Least Who makes the most reliable cars? This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, ranks the most reliable car brands in 2026 based on predicted reliability scores by Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports calculated predicted reliability scores for nearly every new car, truck, and SUV by analyzing data from its annual member reliability surveys. These […]

A Japanese Lesson For Troubled Britain Authored by Daniel McCarthy via The Epoch Times, The contrast between America’s great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn’t be more drastic. Japan has just given its commonsense conservative prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a two-thirds supermajority in the national legislature’s Lower House; her Liberal Democratic Party took the highest proportion of seats of any party […]

Russian Oil To Slovakia Via Damaged Druzhba Pipeline Still Halted As Accusations Fly Oil supplies via the vital Druzhba pipeline to Slovakia have reportedly been halted, and it’s flows have been suspended since initially being damaged on January 27. Ukrainian oil and gas company Naftogaz, as well as Ukraine officials, have alleged that Russia attacked its own facility in eastern Ukraine. But the precise facility was previously […]

“Bye-Bye Data Center”: German Town Rejects Multi-Billion Euro Construction Project Via Remix News, Germany is increasingly rebelling against multi-billion-euro data centers, reflecting a trend seen in other Western countries. This time, Groß-Gerau, a town outside of the mega internet hub of Frankfurt, is the latest to reject the construction of a major data center over fears of rising power costs, diminished water and […]

Member Of Trump’s ‘Religious Liberty Commission’ Fired After Heated Israel Debate In the latest skirmish in an ongoing clash among pro-Israel and anti-Israel conservatives, the chairman of the White House Religious Liberty Commission announced he’s kicked a Catholic off the panel after she used a hearing to challenge accusations of antisemitism leveled at opponents of Zionism and Israel. However, that Catholic — former Miss […]

A Warning To Seattle: Don’t Become The Next Cleveland Authored by Charles Fitzgerald via GeekWire.com, Consider a successful mid-sized American city. One with decades of population growth. Median household incomes on par with or exceeding New York City. A bustling port in a prime location. Bold civic architecture. A vibrant arts and cultural scene. And home to some of the world’s biggest and most valuable companies. That could […]

E. Coli At ‘Incredibly Dangerous Levels’ As DC Raw Sewage Spill Into Potomac May Be Largest In US History Raw sewage from a 60-year-old pipe has dumped roughly 300 million gallons of waste into the Potomac River in what is possibly the largest sewage overflow in U.S. history, according to environmental advocates and regional officials. A recently placed warning sign is seen at the sight of a massive pipe rupture, as sewage flows […]

Judge Boasberg Orders Government To Facilitate Return Of Deported Venezuelans Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Venezuelans whom he said should receive a hearing after their deportation under the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote in his Feb. 12 ruling that the government must parole those […]

Goldman Sacks Ruemmler As Epstein Scandal Claims Obama’s Former Lawyer What do Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Susan Rice, Jeffrey Epstein, the Rothschilds, and Goldman Sachs all have in common? Kathy Ruemmler… Goldman’s (soon to be former) top lawyer, after a batch of documents released by Congress and the DOJ revealed she was thick as thieves with Epstein. Ruemmler rose to the top ranks of Wall Street, becoming a key advisor […]

“Everyone’s Grandma Is Selling The Silver Chandelier, Forks, Knives” As Scrap Volumes Overwhelm Refiners Silver’s explosive January rally, which briefly pushed futures prices above $120 per ounce, has since fizzled, with futures trading around $82 as of Thursday morning. Even so, the frenzy has sparked a sharp increase in scrap silver volumes flowing to refiners, as people rush to sell silver coins, sterling dinner sets, […]

Inpex Warns Of Looming LNG Crunch in Asia By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com, Japan’s Inpex expects an LNG supply shortfall in the Pacific coastal region, including Asia, in 2035, as demand will nearly double from current levels, the oil and gas major said in its 2025 earnings report on Thursday.  Global LNG demand is expected to increase to about 700 million tons per year in 2035, up from the current level of around 400 […]

Two Israelis Arrested, Indicted After Using Classified Iran Info For Polymarket Bets The Israeli government has announced the arrest and indictment of an IDF military reservist and a civilian with classified clearances who placed bets regarding military operations on the popular Polymarket prediction market. A joint statement by Shin Bet and the Israeli Police, which teamed up to conduct the investigation, said bets were made […]

American Colleges Received $5.2 Billion In Foreign Funding In 2025, Education Department Reveals Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), American colleges and universities received more than $5.2 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts last year through more than 8,300 transactions, the Department of Education said in a Feb. 11 statement. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus […]

Microsoft AI CEO Warns Most White Collar Jobs Fully Automated “Within Next 12-18 Months”; Anthropic Fears Potential For ‘Heinous Crimes’ The man leading Microsoft’s AI sprawling efforts is sounding the alarm over imminent mass labor disruptions, warning that the overwhelming majority of white-collar professional work could vanish to automation far sooner than most business and policy leaders are willing to admit – something we’ve […]

Confirmed: US Covertly Sent Thousands Of Starlink Terminals Into Iran Amid Unrest The Trump administration has confirmed what was already long suspected -the US sent Iranian protesters thousands of Starlink terminals amid last month’s raging economic protests and unrest. The mainstream media had claimed the whole time that the demonstrations were both purely peaceful and completely spontaneous, but a Thursday Wall Street Journal […]

Half Of Gen Z Brings Parents To Job Interviews: Survey Authored by Oscar Mackey via The College Fix, 80% said their parents have communicated with their manager at least once… Over 50% of college-age job seekers had their parents sit with them at an in-person interview, a January survey by Resume Templates found.  What’s more, over 35% of surveyed individuals reported parents either writing a cover letter or performing a […]

India’s Richest Man Sees Company Shares Dip After OFAC Request On Iranian LPG Allegations Shares of Adani Enterprises Ltd fell as much as 3.5% in Mumbai earlier this week before trimming losses, after the company disclosed that a US agency has sought information over alleged imports of Iranian petroleum products. In a stock exchange filing, the flagship of the Adani Group said it received a request on Feb. 4 from the US Treasury […]

China’s Central Bank Keeps Buying Gold… And Dumping US Debt Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times, China’s ferocious appetite for gold is influencing the global metals market, and that demand is what will keep driving up metal prices, according to Michael Howell, founder of CrossBorder Capital. The People’s Bank of China’s gold holdings totaled 74.19 million fine troy ounces by the end of January, up from 74.15 […]

US Forces Pull Out Of Syria’s Tanf Base, Hand Over To Jolani Regime After many years of being there, American forces have withdrawn from the Al-Tanf Garrison, a base in southern Syria near the borders of Iraq and Jordan, according to fresh reporting in AFP. US troops had long operated out of Tanf to pressure the Assad government as part of the long-running US-backed regime change project. The US primarily trained the Syrian Free […]

Victor Hanson On Our Super Bowl Satyricon Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, In recent years, Americans have known what to expect from our Neronian Super Bowl halftime shows: mediocre music veneered over with gaudy, flashily lit, but ultimately empty and meaningless sets. As seen again this year, the usual array of supporting dancers twerk and simulate intercourse, in sync with the main singer, mindlessly […]

Dollar Detente? Kremlin Memo Explores Rejoining US-Led Financial System The Kremlin apparently has a highly ambitious proposal for finally mending relations with the United States and wooing the Trump administration to its side regarding resolution to the Ukraine war. It centers on Russia weighing a return to the dollar-based settlement system as part of a broader economic reset with the White House, according to an internal […]