They’re Telling Us A Major War Is Coming… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The British government is dusting off a classified Cold War manual, telling households to stockpile tins and bottled water at home, while state media is putting out articles debating whether the country is mentally prepared for war. The classified Government War Book is being rewritten for the first time since 2004. The old document set out […]

14-Country Maritime Defense Alliance Moves Closer To Deploying To Red Sea, Gulf Of Aden With Saudi shipping traffic in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait under unprecedented peril, the recently-launched Multinational Maritime Defense Coalition is moving closer to deploying ships to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the Saudi Ministry of Defense announced on Friday.  Formed on July 30 at the initiative of Saudi Arabia, […]

Los Angeles Ranks Last Among 100 US Metros For Affordability And New Home Construction Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, Des Moines, Iowa, ranked first and Los Angeles ranked last in Realtor.com’s inaugural report grading the 100 largest U.S. metros on housing affordability and homebuilding activity. A sign is posted in front of a home for sale in Los Angeles on July 9, 2026. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images The results […]

Trump-Xi Summit Cheat Sheet: New Deals, Extended Trade Truce, But No Breakthrough? The White House released an itinerary for next week’s Trump-Xi meeting, including plans for Trump to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews. Ahead of the summit, Bank of America analysts outlined modest expectations, telling clients they see “little scope for a major trade breakthrough.” Bloomberg reports that Trump will welcome Xi […]

The Marriage Deficit Is An Economic Catastrophe Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times, The Beatles told us: “All you need is love.” They were right, but along with love must come marriage. But marriage rates have plummeted, especially among young men. A Pulitzer Prize-worthy story by Sean Salai of The Washington Times crunches all the numbers. To say they are worrisome would be a vast understatement. – In 2025, nearly […]

Syria Rejects Desperate Saudi Plea To Deploy Militants To Yemen Provocative rumors have been flying all week that Saudi Arabia has recruited Syrian militants to fight the Houthis in Yemen, at a moment the Iran-aligned rebel groups is said to be rapidly gobbling up more territory, especially along the Red Sea coast. The claim has been especially strong in Lebanese media, after prominent Al-Akhbar reported this week that hundreds of […]

As A Former Head Of MI6, It’s Clear That Britain’s Climate Policy Is Leaving Us Dangerously Exposed To Our Enemies Authored by Richard Dearlove via The Daily Sceptic, This is the transcript of a lecture given in London last night to the Global Warming Policy Foundation by Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, titled ‘Energy Security: Blowing in the Wind’. The full lecture is available to watch on YouTube. A summer of […]

Russia Seizes Assets Of Swiss Food Giant Nestle Russian authorities seized the remaining businesses and assets of Swiss food giant Nestle and three French groups, the latest move against Western firms in response to sanctions against Moscow.  A decree signed by President Vladimir Putin issued late Thursday transferred the Russian operations of Nestle, French retailer Auchan and the former Leroy Merlin DIY chain, now known as […]

74% Of Sex-Crime Suspects In Spain’s Basque Country Are Foreigners Via Remix News, Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the […]

Upcoming Trump–Xi Summit Is Really An AI Summit Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, When President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet at the White House on Sept. 24, the public agenda will be much larger than artificial intelligence (AI). Trade, semiconductors, rare earths, Taiwan, and other disputes will all be on the table. But AI is different. Trade agreements can be renegotiated. Tariffs can be […]

Minnesota’s Anti-ICE Relief Fund Shut Down Due To Rampant Fraud Officials in Hennepin County, Minnesota, shut down a $2 million relief fund for businesses claiming to be affected by federal immigration enforcement after officials discovered widespread fraud among applicants, forcing them to end the program. The county board created the fund to help businesses “harmed” by Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement […]

US Bans Palestinian Authority President From Attending UN, But Admits Iranians Via Middle East Eye The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) foreign ministry on Thursday condemned the US decision to bar Palestinian officials from attending the UN General Assembly for a second year in a row. The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, repeating a move that drew […]

China’s Stealth Fighters Take Shape As Great Powers Risk Sliding From Economic War Into Shooting War Against a backdrop of resource nationalism, Beijing surrounding Taiwan with a record number of ships and raising blockade risks, an ongoing trade war, and President Trump challenging BRICS, the US military is disrupting China’s access to cheap crude oil from countries such as Venezuela and Iran. This is merely the US response after […]

Israel Seeks ‘Compensation’ From Washington Over Saudi F-35 Sale Via The Cradle, Israel is expected to seek “compensation” from the US in the form of weapons systems that Washington has so far declined to sell to Tel Aviv, in response to US plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia in a $25 billion deal, Walla reported on 18 September. (Photo credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jerreht Harris) A source familiar with […]

Newsom Whips Out Wiener’s Dystopian “AI Kill Switch” Bill He Vetoed In 2024 Gavin Newsom spent Friday morning getting in on the scramble to control AI. Executive Order N-9-26 “advances the creation of an AI kill switch” and tells California to hustle on third-party oversight of frontier labs. All he had to do was dust off Scott Wiener’s kill switch bill he vetoed two years ago after the industry pushed back. SB 1047, Wiener’s […]

Trump Signs Memo To Remove Canadian Goods From US Federal Procurement Authored by Jason G. Antonio via The Epoch Times, U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a memorandum directing the removal of Canadian-origin goods from the federal civil procurement system, following through on a commitment he made earlier this month. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 21, 2026. Saul Loeb / […]

Flock Camera Ping Jails Innocent Woman For 13 Days Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A 23-year-old Palm Coast Florida woman spent 13 days in a Volusia County jail cell facing life in prison after Florida Highway Patrol troopers treated a Flock Safety camera hit like a confession. Lindsey Brooke Isaacs did not cause the crash. Her black Dodge Durango had no collision damage. A 911 caller had already described a maroon […]

Late Friday Trump Bombshell: US Makes Deal For ‘Permanent Control’ Over Greenland’s Security President Trump late in the day Friday issued a lengthy, and absolutely bombshell and historic (if true) Greenland-related post on Truth Social, after a long relative silence on what was early on a core priority of his administration. He has announced that United States has entered into a security agreement with Denmark and Greenland to […]

Senate Democrat Blocks Immediate Passage Of House-Passed Data Center Utility Rate Bill Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, A Senate Democrat on Sept. 17 blocked Republicans from moving to immediate passage on the Ratepayer Protection Act, a House-passed law that would encourage states to require data centers to pay for their own energy costs. The U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The bill […]

WW3 Near-Miss? AI Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Components Aboard Chinese Vessel Bound For Iran Could runaway artificial intelligence (AI) spark a future WW3? We don’t need movies like Terminator 2 and its SkyNet to help us imagine this, it’s 2026 and there is already a terrifying real-world precedent that could have kicked off a shooting war with nuclear-armed China. A human analyst within the US intelligence community utilized […]

Minnesota Authorities Arrest ICE Agent On State Assault Warrant In January Shooting Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent wanted on state charges of assault and false reporting was arrested Wednesday in downtown Minneapolis eight months after the shooting of a Venezuelan man during an immigration enforcement operation. Protesters gather at the Bishop Whipple Federal […]

Huge Parallel Pro-Iran Demonstrations Take Over Sanaa & Tehran  Parallel protests were held in Tehran and Sanaa on Friday – both involving Shia populations expressing defiance at the US-Saudi-Israel axis, at a moment the region is on fire and Iran and its proxies seek to assert dominance and control over global energy transit chokepoints. All the while American bases and forces are largely in retreat, as even Pentagon internal […]

Trump Signs Sweeping Russia Sanctions Bill Into Law, Shrugging Off Kremlin Update(1837ET): That was fast, and on what’s ended up being a busy late Friday afternoon at the White House – President Trump has signed the Russia sanctions bill into law, according to the White House. “The new law, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, lets the president impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest purchasers […]

No Benefits: Why Most Americans Hate The Idea Of AI Data Centers Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In recent months I’ve been asked by numerous readers to give my take on the AI data center issue and the debate it has ignited across the US. In response, I’ve jumped into a steep learning curve, but it seems to parallel information I’ve covered in previous articles on AI. From what I can tell, both political parties […]

Shocker: AI-Exposed College Majors Linked To Weaker Employment And Pay, Study Finds Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The rise of artificial intelligence coincides with a sharp deterioration in initial earnings and employment for graduates of the college majors most exposed to the technology, according to a new study. A job seeker meets with a recruiter during a job fair at the Carson Event Center in Carson, Calif., on June […]