How Will Key Countries Respond To Washington’s Attempted Restoration Of Unipolarity? Authored by Andrew Korybko, The US’ new National Security and Defense Strategies, which collectively articulate the “Trump Doctrine”, make clear that the US’ grand strategic goal is to restore its predominant position (unipolarity) over the world. Unlike during the short-lived unipolar era that followed the end of the Old Cold War, this […]

Hong Kong Graduates Face Toughest Job Market In Five Years Hong Kong’s graduate job market reached its weakest level in five years in 2025, as hiring dropped sharply and wages showed almost no growth, according to SCMP. University data revealed that job openings fell by 55 per cent from the previous year, declining to just over 30,000 positions, even lower than during the pandemic period. This marked a major shift from earlier […]

Netanyahu Tells US Envoys Iran Cannot Be Trusted If Deal Is Reached Via The Libertarian Institute Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday that Iran cannot be trusted, as Witkoff prepares for potential talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. “Ahead of Envoy Witkoff’s departure to meet with a representative of Iran, the Prime Minister clarified his […]

Silver Crashes 20% As China Opens, Gold & Bitcoin Also Plunging On the heels of today’s momentum collapse in the US, Silver prices have puked almost 20% in a matter of hours after Asian markets opened… …erasing the rebound gains of the last three days… The overall decline from when Trump’s announcement of Warsh’s nomination as the next Fed Chair is now back up to 40%. “Sentiment seems to have turned soggy across […]

The US Might Make The Sahelian Alliance An Offer That It Can’t Refuse Authored by Andrews Korybko, Its members might be told by the Bureau of African Affairs’ chief to let the US replace or at least “balance” Russia’s role as their top security partner under implied pain of US-backed Nigerian military pressure on anti-terrorist pretexts, French-backed terrorist advances, and/or US anti-terrorist strikes. The US’ Bureau […]

Vance To Lead Sweeping Anti-Fraud Task Force Investigating California Vice President JD Vance is poised to chair a new White House task force aimed at rooting out potential fraud and abuse in government programs in California, according to CBS News. Andrew Ferguson, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is expected to serve as the task force’s vice chairman and handle day-to-day operations, CBS News reports. President Donald […]

Will The New Fed Chair Fix The Money? Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, The choice of Kevin Warsh as the new chairman of the Federal Reserve has received mixed reviews, as can be expected. His professional connections lean establishment in every way, which is perhaps not what Trump’s base expected. More interesting is that Warsh is on record as an inflation hawk, a critic of zero-interest rate policies, and a […]

Security Expert: Illegal Minneapolis Checkpoints Trace Back To Marxist, Anarchist Movements The eruption of “Signal-Gate” revealed the organizational structure and command-and-control nodes of left-wing activists operating within encrypted messaging apps to unleash pressure campaigns against federal agents in Minneapolis. This structure is very revealing and, according to some security experts, is deeply rooted in revolutionary […]

Run It Hot: Trump, The Fed, & The Coming Currency Debasement Authored by Nick Giambruno via InternationalMan.com, The Trump administration has made no secret of its desire to push the monetary easing pedal to the metal, even as the engine is already near the red line. They intend to push the system as hard as possible today and worry about the consequences later. One reason may be to inflate the stock market ahead of the 2026 […]

Putin Notifies Xi Of New START Status As Trump Ready To Let Go Of Nuclear Arms Control With Russia President Putin in his Wednesday video call with Chinese President Xi Jinping underscored that the last major nuclear treaty with the United States is on the eve of collapse. New START is set to expire on Thursday. Putin notified Xi that Washington has not yet responded. “As you know, on September 22, 2025, we proposed to the […]

DHS Reports More Than 180 Vehicle Attacks On Law Enforcement Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Immigration officers have faced 182 vehicular attacks since President Donald Trump took office last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Feb. 3 statement. Out of the 182 attacks between Jan. 21, 2025, and Jan. 24, 2026, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers faced 114, up by 124 percent from […]

Ken Griffin Torches Trump Over ‘Distasteful Favoritism’ And Conflicts Of Interest, Opens Door To Political Run Citadel CEO Ken Griffin raised eyebrows this week when he left the door open to future public service or even running for office, while issuing some of his sharpest criticism yet of President Donald Trump. “I’d like to believe that at a future point in my life, I will be involved in public service,” Griffin said […]

“You’d Be Justified In Shooting”: Rep. Jerry Nadler Triggers Outcry Over Violent Rhetoric Against ICE Authored by Jonathan Turley, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., NY) is under fire this week for joining other Democratic members in reckless rhetoric to fuel the growing threats against federal law enforcement officers. Calling out the “fascism in our streets,” Nadler suggested that citizens could be justified in shooting masked agents, a […]

3 US Warships Dispatched To Haiti As Part Of Campaign Against Drug Traffickers Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Three U.S. warships have been sent to Haiti as part of Operation Southern Spear, a military operation in the Caribbean to counter narcotics trafficking. “At the direction of the Secretary of War [Pete Hegseth], the ships USS Stockdale, USCGC Stone, and USCGC Diligence have arrived in the Bay of […]

Red Wedding At WaPo: Hundreds Axed In Widespread Layoffs The Washington Post on Wednesday told employees that it was launching a widespread round of layoffs, which will amount to roughly 30% of all employees. Most affected will be the Sports, Local News, and International sections, according to the NY Times, citing two people with knowledge of the decision. Of the outlet’s roughly 800 journalists, more than 300 are getting the […]

Why The ‘Hype Phase’ Of Wind And Solar Is Over Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration has taken a sharp turn from its predecessor regarding wind and solar energy, curtailing many of the loans, grants, and permitting that the Biden administration had put in place. Without government subsidies and regulatory support, energy analysts are questioning whether these industries can stand on their own […]

Google Goes Wild After Hours After Beating Estimates, Projects Mindblowing CapEx Heading into today’s Alphabet earnings, we said that as a result of positioning (GOOGL positioning was 9.5/10 according to Goldman’s desk), it would be difficult for the stock, which was already priced to perfection, to impress an increasingly skeptical Wall Street, especially on the day when momentum saw its 4th biggest drop on record.  Well, that’s […]

DC Finally Breaks Longest Freeze Streak Since 1989 While Al Gore and the globalists were chatting up a storm at the World Economic Forum in Davos about cow fart-induced global warming, the eastern half of the U.S. was locked in a dangerous cold pattern not seen in decades. The Washington Post’s in-house weather team, known as the Capital Weather Gang, wrote on X that temperatures across the Washington, DC metro area finally edged […]

321 Quakes Hit San Francisco Bay In A Week – Is The San Andreas Fault Entering A Dangerous New Phase? Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, The west coast is shaking again.  In recent weeks we have witnessed so much seismic activity along the portion of the Pacific Ring of Fire that sits directly along the California coastline.  There had been hope that the shaking would settle down, but instead it appears […]

Supreme Court Allows New California Congressional Map That Favors Democrats Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 4 allowed California to use its newly redrawn congressional map in the upcoming midterm elections over the objections of Republicans who filed to block it. The decision in Tangipa v. Newsom came in an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its ruling. […]

Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ Visa Program Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, A national university faculty group is suing to shut down President Donald Trump’s “Gold Card” visa, arguing that the new, expedited pathway to permanent residency for wealthy foreigners is unlawful. In a lawsuit filed Feb. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the American Association of University Professors […]

Iran FM Says Nuclear Talks With US Still On For Oman, Contradicting Earlier Reports Update(1515ET): And now a reversal, after hours ago Axios reported that talks for Oman were canceled, as the two sides couldn’t come to agreement as to the scope of talks. But now Iran’s foreign minister has contradicted this report… IRAN’S ARACHCHI CONFIRMS NUCLEAR TALKS WITH US IN OMAN FRIDAY Axios itself is now reporting the opposite of […]

Major Medical Group Advises Against Gender Procedures On Children The admonition to “first, do no harm” is an ancient cornerstone of medical ethics. With that in mind, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons broke ranks with other medical organizations on Tuesday, recommending that member physicians refrain from performing gender transition surgeries on anyone under age 19. The major milestone in Western society’s nascent recovery […]

Trump Signals Openness To China, India Investing In Venezuela’s Oil, While Tightening Rules Authored by Sean Tseng via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump says he is open to China and India investing in Venezuela’s oil sector, but new U.S. rules show that any reopening of Venezuela’s oil trade will come with strict legal and financial conditions designed to keep Washington firmly in control. Speaking to reporters aboard […]

“I Deeply Regret”: Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman Deny Epstein Malarkey, And Here’s Some Weird Sh*t As the latest Epstein Files release continues to provide premium toilet reading and no arrests, tech billionaires Bill Gates and Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman are in full damage control mode, while President Donald Trump – whose name is all over the files as well, is back to asking if we can just move on. Other notables mentioned in the […]