Is The US Military Campaign Against Iran Part Of Trump’s Grand Strategy Against China? Authored by Andrew Korybko, The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity. Trump claimed that the US’ military […]

US-Israel War On Iran ‘Decided ⁠Weeks Ago’ Under Cover Of Nuclear Talks: Report Via The Cradle The unprovoked US-Israeli war against Iran launched on Saturday had “been planned for months, and the ⁠launch date ⁠decided ⁠weeks ago,” even as the US and Iran carried out indirect nuclear negotiations, an Israeli defense official told Reuters. Washington and Tel Aviv renewed negotiations in February over Iran’s nuclear […]

Joe Biden Accuses Trump Of Planning To ‘Steal’ The Midterms, Claims Credit For Border Security Former President Joe Biden made one of his rare post-presidential appearances Friday in Columbia, South Carolina, stepping onto a stage at a downtown art museum to accept a lifetime achievement honor from the state’s Democratic Party.  During the speech, Biden claimed that Donald Trump is rigging the 2026 midterms before a single vote […]

I Do Solemnly Swear: How Profanity Has Taken Hold Of American Politics Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Respectfully, f–k off.” Those words by California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s spokesperson, Izzy Gardon, summed up the current race to the bottom of American politics. Democrats appear in a competition of the profane where voters are now subject to a virtual carpet-bombing of f-bombs and other indecent language. Gardon’s […]

Trump Admin Seeks Months-Long Pause For Tariff Refunds Just days after Senate Democrats introduced a bill seeking tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down many of President Trump’s (IEEPA-backed) tariffs, the Trump administration says it needs months of additional time to weigh its steps, as a wave of refund requests pours in from importers seeking billions of dollars in tariffs. The bill, sponsored by 22 Senate […]

The Iran Question Is All About China By Zineb Riboua, author of Beyond The Ideological Iran is most often discussed as a nonproliferation problem, a sponsor of terrorism, a regional spoiler. Each of these framings captures a real problem, but none captures what matters most. The nuclear file, the militia archipelago stretching from Lebanon to Yemen, the question of Gulf security architecture: these only acquire their full meaning […]

Mid-Atlantic Braces For Another Winter Blast Before A Spring Warmup Winter in the Mid-Atlantic region is certainly winding down, and March is always an unpredictable month. Early next week, a fast-moving Alberta Clipper is forecast to bring yet another round of wintry weather to the region before a spring warm-up arrives by mid-month. Marko Korosec, lead forecaster at SWE, wrote in a new weather note that the Alberta Clipper is set […]

Trump Vows ‘American Energy Dominance’ In Texas Rally Ahead Of Primary Elections Authored by Travis Gilmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—President Donald Trump promised “American energy dominance” during a rally Friday at one of the nation’s biggest export hubs for energy and liquid natural gas (LNG) products.  President Trump speaks about the American energy industry at the Port of Corpus […]

Israel Suffers Significant Casualties In Iran War Retaliation In a rare moment, Israel is confirming at least nine people killed and over 40 injured after an Iranian ballistic missile slammed into a residential area west of Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon. The missile impact was in Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem, and according to Israeli media destroyed a synagogue and even caused damage to a bomb shelter beneath surrounding homes. […]

Hot Headline, Cooler Reality: What The PPI Really Shows According To Peter Navarro Authored by Peter Navarro via RealClearEnergy, The January Producer Price Index landed with a predictable media spin: “hotter than expected” and therefore proof that tariffs, Trump, and the so-called “new protectionism” are reigniting inflation. That narrative collapses under even modest scrutiny of the underlying data.  Start with the […]

War Stocks Back In Focus As ‘Operation Epic Fury’ Drains Tomahawk Supplies The scale of the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran this weekend was massive, involving hundreds of fighter jets, bombers, and air-delivered munitions across more than 100 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked targets. Our focus has shifted to U.S. munitions stockpiles, which were already dwindling after four years of the Russia-Ukraine war. The conflict so far […]

Equity Futures Slide, Oil And Gold Jump, But No Panic The widely anticipated Sunday night open of futures trading is here, and it is a bit anticlimatic. Yes, futures are broadly lower, oil and gold are higher, but there is no panic, and as Bloomberg’s Mark Cudmore writes, most non-energy moves are relatively contained and almost everything has pared back from the opening extremes.  To wit, oil is up 8.5%. but it was up as much […]

The Microreactor Race Is On Authored by Duggan Flanakin via RealClearEnergy, For the past half century, successive Presidential administrations and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have thwarted the development of advanced reactor designs that might fulfill President Eisenhower’s vision for the “peaceful uses of atomic energy.” Westinghouse’s eVinci microreactor, a cross-section of which is shown here. Westinghouse […]

Beyond Phishing: The New ‘Deepfake’ And QR Code Credit Card Scams Of 2026 Authored by Adam H. Douglas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The newest credit card scam warning signs look different from old-school phishing emails. In 2026, face-tampered QR codes (“quishing”) in public places are a growing trend. Or an urgent phone call from what sounds exactly like your bank, but is actually an AI-generated voice clone. Man holds […]

Iran Blowback: At Least 22 Killed Trying To Storm US Consulate In Pakistan Mass anti-American protests have broken out in areas of the Middle East especially with large Shia Muslim populations. This is happening in parts of Pakistan, but also across Iraq – given the majority of Iraq is Shia, and shares deep sympathies with the Iranian religious establishment. The blowback to the Trump-ordered attacks on Iran has begun, especially […]

Is Credit Whispering, Or Screaming? By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Is Credit Whispering? Or Screaming? For the past couple of years, it has been relatively safe to assume credit is well behaved and relatively range bound. It is unclear if that remains the case. We may be in a situation where the AI spend, the AI displacement, and the Working Poor are forming a storm of some sort. How severe remains to be seen, but for the […]

“We Will Not Negotiate”: Iran Security Chief Denies WSJ Report Summary: Iran seeks to resume discussions with the United States, spearheaded by Iranian security chief Ali Larijani OR NOT: Larjiani has denied a Wall Street Journal report that he reached out to Washington. Trump said he had three or four potential candidates to lead Iran, but they were all killed in the initial attack.  Trump on Iran ops: “We have hit […]

DOJ Charges 30 More People For Minnesota Church Invasion Via Headline USA, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced charges Friday against 30 more people who are accused of civil rights violations in a January protest inside a Minnesota church where a pastor works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Bondi said on social media that 25 people were in custody and more arrests would follow. The new indictment comes a month […]

Joe Biden Makes Insane Claim That He Reduced Illegal Immigration It’s time for a fact check.  Former President Joe Biden is back after a year largely absent from the public eye, and he’s just as incoherent as ever.  Biden left the White House in disgrace after a dismal first term when his own party supplanted him as the primary candidate for the 2024 elections against Donald Trump.  His cognitive decline became obvious after his […]

The Trump Administration Ditches Another Rogue DOJ Official Authored by Tudor Dixon via American Greatness, The second Trump administration is very different from the first. As 45th president, Donald Trump was saddled with disloyal officials who constantly undermined his agenda. The Ukraine impeachment scandal, among other events, was the result of this internal subversion. But the second term sets a new standard for loyalty. […]

Oil Soars Over 10% In OTC Trading, Whether That Sticks Depends On How Long The War Lasts With war in the middle east raging, and the world’s most important oil transit choke point – the Straits of Hormuz which accounts for 20% of daily global oil transit – “effectively” halted after at least three ships were attacked in the vicinity of the waterway – even as Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told Al Jazeera TV his country […]

Robert De Niro Could Face 5 Years In Prison Over Trump “Get Rid Of Him” Threats Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Bill O’Reilly has called for the Secret Service to haul in Robert De Niro for an “intensive interrogation” following the actor’s repeated threats against President Trump, warning that De Niro could face up to five years behind bars if convicted under federal law. The demand comes amid growing […]

OPEC+ Agrees To Boost Oil Output As US War On Iran Disrupts Shipments On Sunday, OPEC+ agreed to boost oil output by 206,000 barrels per day for April just as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and Tehran’s retaliation disrupted oil flows from key members of the producer group in the Middle East. It had debated options ranging from 137,000 bpd to 548,000 bpd, according to five sources. The agreed increase, which brings an end to a […]

Lone-Wolf Terror? Senegal-Born Shooter Wearing “Property Of Allah” Shirt Kills 3, Wounds 14 At Austin Bar Shocking new details are emerging about 12 hours after the horrific mass shooting at a downtown Austin, Texas, bar early Sunday, with New York Post sources indicating that the deceased shooting suspect, Ndiaga Diagne, a U.S. citizen born in Senegal and living in Texas, allegedly carried out the attack that left three people dead […]

CNN Forced To Admit Dems Are Tanking On Immigration Despite Anti-ICE Propaganda Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Fresh analysis lays bare the Democrats’ crumbling position on immigration, with voters trusting Republicans more than ever to handle border security—even as radicals ramp up their attacks on ICE and deportations. CNN data analyst Harry Enten highlighted the stark shift during a recent segment, noting […]