NATO’s De Facto Expansion To The Caspian Sea Is Inevitable Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia still has time to propose Ukrainian-like security guarantees for averting another special operation… Politico recently published a piece about how “France and Turkey block NATO’s drive to deepen ties with Caucasus countries”, not because they’re opposed to it in principle, but due to Turkiye blocking the renewal of […]

Germany Puts Ukrainian Ex-Officer On Trial For Nord Stream “War Crime” As Defense Says Pipelines Were Fair Game Four years after the largest act of infrastructure sabotage in postwar Europe, Germany finally has a defendant. Just one. Serhii Kuznietsov, a 50-year-old former Ukrainian army officer, went on trial Wednesday at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, accused of leading the seven-person team that blew up three of […]

Does China Have Enough Water For Its Thirsty AI Data Centers? Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, According to China’s Ministry of Water Resources, China has nearly one-fifth of the world’s population but only about 6 percent of global freshwater resources. That presents planners in Beijing with a challenging problem: How to support 20 percent of humanity, more than 18 percent of global economic output, and an […]

“It’s A Pity…”: Zelensky Feels ‘Betrayed’ By Trump & Elon Musk Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he feels betrayed by President Trump in the wake of the US deal to buy Russian fuel from Moscow, which was announced last week. Zelensky went on a newly aired episode of Piers Morgan’s show, and he was asked point blank by the British show host if he had been “betrayed” by the Trump administration, to which Zelensky […]

People Who Bought MAGA Hats!? Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost Hoovered Up Data On At Least 639,000 Republican Voters, Donors Former special counsel Jack Smith’s office and the Biden Justice Department obtained spreadsheets on “over 639,000 individuals, at minimum” – Republican donors, supporters and voters – according to a new memo from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, first reported by Fox News Digital on Wednesday. […]

Asia Scrambles For Coal As Energy Crisis Sends Prices To Two-Year High Ahead Of Winter As the Northern Hemisphere winter quickly approaches, Asian thermal coal prices have climbed to two-year highs and could be on the cusp of a major breakout as utilities stockpile the dirty fuel amid disruptions to natural gas and crude product markets caused by the war in Ukraine and the Strait of Hormuz disruption. Newcastle coal futures, an […]

Mohammed bin Salman Is More At Risk Internally Than From Houthi Attacks Authored by Alastair Crooke As part of its “blockade-for-blockade,” “airport-for-airport” strategy, Ansarallah carried out a third attack on Riyadh International Airport on Saturday — 12 people (mostly civilians) were killed and more than 300 injured. This, in tandem with Iran’s escalating attacks on tankers, and expanding its maritime operations, […]

Trump Doubles Down On $5,000 Payments Tied To Midterm Results President Trump released a new video ad this week repeating his pledge of $5,000 for every adult citizen if Republicans keep the House and the Senate in the Nov. 4 midterms. “I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000,” Trump said in the video, posted to X. “Democrat policies won’t allow this to happen. In fact, the opposite.” TRUMP […]

No Quick Pump Relief: IEA Warns Diesel Squeeze Will Persist Into 2027 Goldman energy analyst Nikhil Bhandari warned last month that a deepening refining crisis could prolong diesel and gasoline pain at the pump well into 2027. Now, the International Energy Agency is reinforcing that warning, cautioning that diesel supplies could remain tight into the second half of next year. “The gasoil market balance will remain tight well into […]

Trump Admin Looking To Strip Ilhan Omar’s Citizenship, Then Deport Her; Passport Seized In Raid The Trump administration wants to strip Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) of her US citizenship and then deport her, according to US officials and others familiar with the case who spoke to the Wall Street Journal. What’s more, DHS agents who searched Omar’s Washington home early Monday secured her passport, along with her cellphone, personal […]

“I Come From Your Future”: A Frenchman’s Warning To All Americans Voting Democrat France’s welfare-state promises are colliding with a bill that keeps getting bigger. Far-left radicals rioting, fiscal crisis, and political uncertainty are exposing the upper limits of a system built on handouts, heavy taxation, uncontrolled borrowing, and mass migration.  For American voters heading into the midterms in the next several weeks, the […]

Report Alleges Houthis Building Advanced Missiles With Help From China It should come as no surprise that Iran maintains powerful allies even while under threat of US bombs, and as Washington sanctions have sought its complete isolation. Most obvious among these remain Russia and China – nations which have not necessarily sought to ‘hide’ or conceal political and even military support to Tehran. The last several weeks have seen a […]

Two Emirati Ships Sink In Hormuz In Under 24 Hours As IRGC Claims 5-6 Vessels Targeted Nightly Update(1240ET): While dozens of ships have come under attack by Iran in the Hormuz Strait and nearby areas since the war began, resulting in damage and fires aboard vessels, it remains much more rare for a tanker to sink at a total loss. However, the WSJ has confirmed Wednesday that two have completely sunk in the last 24 hours, the first […]

Congresswoman Warns Incoming Socialists Are “National Security Threat,” Wants Their Access To Intel Limited Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, (R-N.Y.), said two members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) who appear headed to Congress could pose a national security risk, and she wants House leadership to keep them away from sensitive intelligence. “These people are extreme, they’re radical, they are dangerous, and they really […]

“F**k You!” Hollywood Civil War Erupts As Ari Emanuel Goes Nuclear On Legendary Kingmaker Hollywood power broker Ari Emanuel unleashed a profanity-laced tirade against fellow entertainment mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, accusing the Democrat megadonor of double-crossing him in business and putting his own interests ahead of the Democratic Party. Appearing on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast, Emanuel (who Ari from Entourage was […]

Judge “Highly Likely” To Grant Apple Injunction As OpenAI Fires Back With Its Own Theft Allegations The judge overseeing Apple’s trade-secret case against OpenAI said Wednesday he is “highly likely” to grant an injunction barring use of the iPhone maker’s proprietary information, a potential setback for the ChatGPT maker’s push into consumer hardware, Bloomberg reports. Ahead of the hearing, however, OpenAI delivered its own […]

Russia Arrests Japanese Journalist On Espionage Charges, Tokyo Summons Ambassador Relations between Russian and Japan have been on a downward spiral of late, as Tokyo continues cozying up to the US military as well as NATO, and amid a long-simmering dispute over the Kuril Islands, which Japan identifies as its own Northern Territories. Russia on Tuesday arrested a Japanese journalist, which the Kremlin says is actually a spy […]

Not ‘The Onion’: Harper’s Magazine To Honor NPR CEO Katherine Maher With First Amendment Award Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org, Harper’s Magazine appears to be competing with The Onion in satire this week. It is awarding its First Amendment prize to NPR CEO Katherine Maher. It is akin to awarding a Second Amendment prize to Gavin Newsom. Maher has long been the very symbol of advocacy journalism and bias. […]

America Looks Richer Than Ever. What Happens When The Fed’s Asset Bubble Bursts? Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, It is now abundantly obvious that the FOMC and its clumsy rate-pegging and credit printing tools are not remotely fit for purpose. The real impact is dramatically displayed in the graph below. It shows that after 1987 the growth rate of household assets relative to earned income (i.e. excluding […]

Pizza Losing Value War As Cash-Strapped “Proteinmaxxing” Consumers Flock To Chicken Domino’s Pizza shares fell 3% in the early US cash session after the quick-service restaurant chain reported weaker-than-expected same-store sales growth in the US and internationally, despite earnings and revenue that beat Bloomberg Consensus estimates. US same-store sales rose .3%, below the .72% Bloomberg Consensus estimate. International […]

Useless Without Transmission: DOE Backs $581 Million TVA Grid Expansion On the same day we asked how much of the grid’s bill is really AI’s, the Department of Energy offered a partial answer. @TVAnews and @ENERGY are supporting readily-available, affordable energy that powers Tennessee and the nation. @POTUS is lowering costs for over 2 million families and businesses while bringing new innovation and employment to the […]

Dowd: “Investment Bubbles Are A Feature Of Capitalism, Not A Bug” Authored by Ed Dowd via Ed Dowd’s Beyond The Narrative Substack, On Friday October 9th Bloomberg published an article titled “Jeffries’ Chris Wood Sees ‘Massive Capital Destruction’ in AI.” His view is that the most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom is massive capital destruction in the US, with market share shifting to cheaper open-source Chinese models. Wood […]

Bank Of America Tumbles After Trading Miss Across The Board Last night we said Bank of America would use its brand new and “unexpected” $1.2 billion (non tax-deductible) money-laundering penalty as cover for an ugly quarter. This morning it tried to do just that. Just hours after Treasury fined the bank more than $1.21 billion for willfully failing to report over $5 billion in suspicious transactions (and for having “prioritized […]

ZeroHedge Debate: Sankey Predicts 2028 Oil Futures Will Feel The Pain Soon The damage inflicted on global energy infrastructure during the Iran war could have consequences lasting well beyond the conflict itself, according to veteran energy analysts Paul Sankey and Arjun Murti, who joined Erik Townsend for last night’s ZeroHedge Debate. An oil tanker unloads crude oil at a crude oil terminal in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province, China […]

CVS To Pay $315 Million Over Claims It Filled Unlawful Opioid Prescriptions Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, CVS Pharmacy Inc. and related entities agreed Tuesday to pay $315 million to resolve Justice Department allegations that the company illegally filled opioid and other controlled-substance prescriptions and billed many of them to Medicare and other federal health programs. The sum settles claims that the […]