We Are Not In A Recession… So Why Are We Borrowing Like It? Authored by Ken Buck via The Epoch Times, Despite a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility, lawmakers in Washington are continuing to run up the tab on America’s already maxed-out credit card. The U.S. annual deficit – the difference between the revenue that the federal government collects and what it spends each year – reached $1.8 trillion through the first 10 […]

Turkish State Takes Near-Total Control Of US-Sanctioned Bank Over IRGC Ties On September 4, the US Treasury unveiled sanctions against a Turkey-based bank and two of its subsidiaries, accusing them of moving tens of millions of dollars on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and facilitating Tehran’s movement of funds across the international banking system.  It did not take long for the Turkish […]

Apparently This Is Not Criminal Damage… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A Dutch ‘activist’ who climbed Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, sprayed it with “Zionist war criminal,” “Globalise the Intifada” and Hamas-style red triangles, then argued the graffiti didn’t count because it could be washed off, has walked out of Southwark Crown Court a free man. The bill for cleaning the monument ran into […]

Belarus Gets Partial US Sanctions Relief After Freeing More Political Prisoners In a rare development, Belarus – which forms a ‘Union State’ with Russia, has received partial US sanctions relief after it agreed to free 25 political prisoners.  President Trump’s envoy, John Coale, revealed to reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk: “We agreed to an interim deal, and as a show of goodwill Belarus will release 25 people and in […]

Britain’s Speech Police: How The State Learned To Fear Its People Authored by Paul Birch via The Daily Sceptic, Many of us in Britain still flatter ourselves that we live in a free country. Although the UK isn’t quite a police state (not yet anyway), neither is it a country in which the individual can any longer speak without glancing over his or her shoulder. The old compact of a liberal society was simple – the state punished […]

Russian Frigate Fires Flares At Danish Military Helicopter, Copenhagen Summons Ambassador There’s been another dangerous incident and major ‘close call’ involving a Russian ship in international waters off Europe. In this case, which unfolded Monday, a Danish military helicopter reportedly hovered near a Russian military frigate, seeking to monitor and photograph it. Illustrative, via Naval Technology Soon after, according to the […]

Turkey Takes On Houthis? Any Support To Saudis Faces Huge Blowback Via Middle East Eye Turkey’s new commitments to Saudi Arabia under the Mecca defence pact could increase the risk of Ankara being drawn into a confrontation with Yemen’s Houthis, a development that could have significant consequences for Turkish supply lines to the Horn of Africa. Although Turkey has yet to ratify the pact, expected in October, continued Houthi […]

9 Terrifying Truths About Long-Term Economic Crises Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, Why preparation matters less than adaptation, and why the next crisis will not resemble the last… My father kept his layoff notice from 1982 taped inside his toolbox until he died. The letterhead – blue, corporate, indifferent – arrived on a Tuesday in March, six months after his machine shop started losing contracts. By August, we were […]

J-50 Designers Reveal “Leapfrog” Technology For China’s Next-Gen Stealth Fighter China’s next-generation combat aircraft will be able to fly by themselves if a pilot loses consciousness, navigate without satellite signals and operate in self-reorganising large drone formations. That is the plan laid out by researchers from the Shenyang Aircraft Design & Research Institute, a top Chinese military aircraft design organisation, […]

How Trump’s Iran Operation Turned Into A Forever War Authored by Harrison Berger via Responsible Statecraft, As the United States has struggled to secure its four primary objectives in the Iran War – achieving regime change, dismantling long-range ballistic missiles, eliminating nuclear enrichment, and halting Tehran’s support for regional proxies – U.S. officials have rolled out a series of tried-and-failed theories for how to […]

Paramount Eyes California Exit, Hunts Nashville Offices As “Insane Communist Wackos” Ruin State Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison is exploring a potential California exit as the studio battles a multistate challenge to its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Politico reported late Wednesday that the studio is seeking roughly 400,000 square feet of office space in Nashville, signaling that its […]

Kirk Family Plans Wrongful Death Suit Against Utah Valley University, Others Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, Charlie Kirk’s family announced plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that security failures contributed to the fatal shooting of the conservative commentator last year. In a Sept. 9 legal notice, the plaintiffs assert that the defendants’ failures “led to the assassination” and that the […]

Why CPI Ignores Homes, Stocks, And The Cost Of Getting Ahead Authored by Karl-Friedrich Israel via The Daily Economy, The median-priced home in America now costs $440,600, while the median household earns roughly $84,000 a year. That gap has left a growing share of Americans priced out of buying altogether, while those who already own homes and hold stocks have watched their wealth compound. The renter-owner wealth gap is now the […]

Lavrov Warns That If NATO Attacked Russia, War Would Be “Very Short” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has again responded to allegations of European officials that Moscow seeks to expand the war beyond Ukraine. We earlier detailed how recent drone spillover from the conflict, including explosive-laden drones coming out of Belarusian territory and threatening the Baltics, has resulted in Western officials increasingly alluding […]

Bill Gates Calls For Globalist Crackdown On AI Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Bill Gates has a new emergency. With the climate apocalypse no longer selling, the Microsoft co-founder is touring the press circuit warning that artificial intelligence is an “alien intelligence,” that no government on earth is ready for it, and that the only fix is an international organization to police the technology. President Trump […]

Vance Seeks To Assure Trump Base Iran War Entering “Much Different Phase” Vice President JD Vance – who was said to have opposed launching Operation Epic Fury from the beginning – has issued some fresh statements on the future of the Iran conflict which sound a bit off-rampy. He could just be voicing his own wishful thinking, however, in proclaiming the conflict will soon enter “a much different phase” in the coming months. He […]

TikTok Mob Now Stalks Clancy Holdout Juror’s Family Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The same online machine that turned a confessed child killer into a cause has a new target. After hanging Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, the lone holdout juror’s family says TikTok extremists have them trapped indoors, leaving notes at his mother’s house and refusing to let them live in peace. The juror’s brother told the New York […]

DOJ Uses Never-Before-Used Terror Court to Deport Afghan Woman Over Election Day ISIS Plot The Justice Department has used a national-security court that sat unused for three decades to deport an Afghan woman from the United States who supported an ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day in 2024. AG Todd Blanche On Friday, officials announced that Nazira Haji Zada, 47, a permanent resident from Fort Worth, […]

Who Aligns The Aligners? Brief Legal Thoughts On The “AI Safety” Fights To Come Authored by Preston Byrne via Preston Byrne, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, has published an essay – We Must Pace The Frontier – in which he writes: I have worked on AI for the last twelve years because I believe it could dramatically raise the quality of human life. I’ve written often about these incredible benefits: I believe that AI could cure […]

Mysterious Illness Striking Young Workers In The South Doctors at Harris County’s public hospitals have spent more than a decade treating an unusual group of dialysis patients, men in their 20s and 30s who work outdoors and whose kidneys have failed without a clear medical explanation, Fox News reports, following a Texas Monthly investigation. A review of county hospital records found that roughly one in six emergency dialysis […]

BRICS Summit Takes Aim At US Influence Over The Global Economy Authored by Eurasianet via OilPrice.com, BRICS demanded greater developing-country influence at the IMF, World Bank and WTO but avoided directly naming the United States in its criticism. The declaration urged “maximum restraint” in the Middle East and made no mention of Ukraine, illustrating the compromises required to maintain consensus. Kazakhstan […]

US Interceptor Inventory Took Another Big Hit Last Week, As CBO Pegs War Cost At $38 Billion+ America’s already-diminished inventory of air defense interceptor missiles took another significant hit last week, as dozens more were expended to defend US troops in Jordan from an Iranian attack. This latest incident illustrates Iran’s use of crafty and increasingly technologically-advanced attacks to further sap US munitions supply and […]

House Panel Votes To Hold Billionaire Leon Black In Contempt For Ghosting Epstein Investigators Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Businessman Leon Black, who skipped a deposition regarding his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, should be held in contempt of Congress, a House of Representatives panel recommended on Sept. 15. Former Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black (R) arrives for an […]

Dario Amodei’s Brain Trust Of Bad Ideas Authored by Jordan Schachtel via American Greatness, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to shape the future of artificial intelligence – and, by extension, the future of civilization. Yet in doing so, he seeks input and advice from an ideologically uniform group of individuals and institutions. In a series of sprawling essays on his website, Amodei has outlined his expectations for a world […]

Houthis Issue Video Of Saudi F-15 Shootdown, As Ground Clashes Intensify In Yemen Update(1135ET): The Houthis have released new footage which appears to confirm the earlier Saudi F-15 jet shootdown, with aircraft falling in the Marib area. The footage shows militants celebrating near the wreckage. Below is the clip as released by Ansar Allah officials, which has since been given confirmation by some foreign and international […]