LA Dodgers Pledge $1 Million In Aid To Illegal Immigrant Families Impacted by ICE Operations Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, The Los Angeles Dodgers said on Friday that it has committed $1 million in financial aid to support illegal immigrant families affected by recent federal immigration operations in Los Angeles. The Dodgers has refrained from directly referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) […]

Sun Celebrations: Solstice Traditions Around The World Today marks the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day in the southern, the summer and winter solstice. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, humans have been celebrating these events for millennia and on modern-day solstice days, ancient and new traditions mix around the world. You will find more infographics at Statista Some of the […]

Trump Confirms Strikes On Iran’s Nuclear Sites: Fordow, Natanz, And Esfahan “Successfully Targeted” Update (2005ET):  Hours after U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers departed Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri en route to the Indo-Pacific region, President Trump announced that U.S. forces had “successfully attacked” three nuclear sites in Iran—Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. The president wrote on his Truth Social: We […]

Gov. Hochul: ‘New York Is Providing $50 Million To Cover Legal Services’ For Illegal Aliens Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Governor Kathy Hochul (D-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that the state of New York will provide $50 million in taxpayer dollars to pay legal fees for illegal immigrants to help them fight back against the Trump administration’s popular deportation efforts. The governor highlighted the state’s […]

DAM IT! The Left Coast’s $600M Fish-Killing Grift NGOs and connected insiders have made a small fortune on “green” initiatives. As dam removal projects fail to deliver on the restorative promises of west coast governors, devastated agricultural communities are beginning to follow the green trail and ask,  “Cui Bono?” In a scathing critique, a video posted by @americaunwon on X (see below) exposes the disastrous […]

Highway Mayhem: Trucker From Sanctuary State Illinois Arrested After Baltimore Shooting Spree America’s highways have become not just a mess but a national security threat, as the Biden–Harris regime oversaw a four-year surge in migrants obtaining non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs). The situation has grown so dire that President Trump recently signed an executive order requiring all CDL holders to demonstrate […]

Trump Says US Intel Assessment Of Iran’s Nuclear Program “Was Wrong”, Tulsi Responds Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump said on June 20 that his director of national intelligence’s assessment in March that Iran had yet to decide on building a nuclear weapon was wrong. Trump made the remarks to reporters on Friday while standing next to Air Force One at the Morristown Municipal Airport in New […]

Container Ship Sinks In Arabian Sea Near Oman As Regional Conflict Worsens Oman’s Maritime Security Centre (MSC)—a 24/7 national operations hub overseen by the Royal Navy of Oman and coordinated by the Ministry of Defense—reported early Saturday on X that a container ship had sunk in the Arabian Sea off the country’s coast. The MV ‘Phoenix 15’, registered under the Comoros flag, sank approximately 20 NM southeast of […]

US-Based Monitor Assesses Rising Iranian Deaths From Israeli Strikes Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), a US-based organization that’s critical of Iran’s Islamic government, said on Thursday that since Israel began its attacks on June 13, at least 639 Iranians have been killed and 1,329 have been wounded. The Iranian government hasn’t released official numbers since Sunday, when […]

Obama Demands A Ministry Of Truth Former President Barack Obama is doubling down on his push to curb free speech in America, urging the federal government to tighten its grip on what citizens can say online.  “We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts,” claimed during an interview this week with historian and author Heather Cox Richardson. “That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media.” Obama […]

Fed Groupthink Is A Bureaucratic Disease Authored by Larry Kudlow via RealClearPolitics.com, The super big story is the Israel-Iran war, as we await President Trump’s decision on additional American assistance to Israel. There’s another war, though. As Breitbart’s John Carney put it, the Federal Reserve has gone to war against tariffs. Unlike the Middle East, this is a phony war. The Fed stubbornly refuses to lower its […]

Israel Strikes Iran’s Isfahan Nuclear Facility Amid Escalating Air War A primary nuclear facility in Iran’s Isfahan province was targeted by an Israeli airstrike, though local authorities have reported no radiation leaks. Smoke was visible early Saturday morning near a mountainous area in Isfahan city following overnight Israeli strikes on the site, which activated the country’s air defense systems, amid continued tit-for-tat […]

Alleged Minn. Assassin Says Gov. Tim Walz Wanted Him To Kill Sen. Amy Klobuchar Authored by Ken Silva vi Headline USA, The man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses reportedly wrote in a letter to the FBI that Gov. Tim Walz also wanted him to assassinate Sen. Amy Klobuchar, according to a bombshell report from the Minnesota Star Tribune. A Walz did not deny the allegation when commenting on the report. Tim […]

The Supreme Court Vs. The Experts Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, When the transgender issue presented itself decades ago, most people felt a sense of politeness and deference to the preferences of another person, however surprising or odd. It all seemed rather harmless, the habits of eccentrics for whom Western society offers remarkable tolerance. Sure, people might have felt private revulsion and even disgust, […]

Early Signs The Iran War Is Triggering Another Mideast Refugee Crisis The United Nations has warned that the Iran-Israel war could trigger a new refugee crisis in the Middle East, saying that if things keep escalating and people flea, there is no quick way back to their home countries. UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, says ratcheting tit-for-tat attacks are already triggering population movements in both countries, and that this […]

How Housing Bubble #2 Bursts? Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Corporate / private equity / STVR investors are all fair-weather owners of housing. Let’s indulge in some basic logic: 1. All credit-asset bubbles burst. 2. U.S. housing is a credit-asset bubble. 3. The U.S. housing bubble will burst. The only variables are how and when Housing Bubble #2 will burst. That’s today’s topic. I’ve been writing […]

Putin Says ‘All Of Ukraine Is Ours’ In Theory, Raises Possible Sumy Takeover While much of global diplomacy as well as media coverage is currently focused on the now over week-long aerial war over the Middle East between Iran and Israel, President Vladimir Putin issued important remarks on the future of the ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine before the annual St Petersburg International Economic Forum. He said in the Friday […]

Europe Admits “Trump Is Right”, China Is The Problem As Beijing Unleashes Global EV Dump While Donald Trump has been warning about China’s mercenary, mercantilist trade practices for much of the past decade – ‘ripping us off’ and hollowing out the middle class – (and who facilitated that?), Europe and Latin America, who until recently were screaming loudly to anyone who bothered to listen just how great BFFs they are with Beijing, […]

Norway’s Government Explores Crypto-Mining Ban Amid Energy Supply Concerns Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, The government of Norway is considering a temporary ban on crypto mining in the country in an effort to “free up power, network capacity and area for other purposes.” In a Friday notice, the Norwegian government said it would be conducting an investigation in autumn that could result in a temporary […]

Walmart Remains Price Discount Juggernaut Cash-strapped consumers are pulling back on spending—particularly on big-ticket items—as economic uncertainty and tariff risks continue to plague outlooks and squeeze household budgets. Goldman’s latest grocery pricing survey for June offers a clear framework for value-seeking shoppers: among all major supermarkets, Walmart remains the most competitively priced, especially for […]

The Censorship-Industrial Complex Has Now Become Self-Perpetuating Authored by ‘Eugyppius’ via ‘A Plague Chronicle’, I’ve covered a lot of speech crime indictments here at the plague chronicle. Before Covid, these things hardly ever happened. Occasionally you’d find the odd article about a dumb tourist who was cited for throwing a Nazi salute in public or something, but that was it. The whole area just didn’t matter. […]

Syria Makes First Bank Transfer Via SWIFT Since War All it took for Syria to get back in the global dollar regime was for Al Qaeda to take over.  Reuters reports that Syria completed its first international bank transaction through the SWIFT system since the onset of its 14-year civil war, its central bank governor said Thursday, marking a significant step in the country’s efforts to reintegrate into the global financial system. […]

NATO’s Procurement Corruption Scandal Might Delay Its Rapid Militarization Plans Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Member states might eschew the NATO Support and Procurement Agency’s services, thus delaying their military purchases, which could delay the bloc’s rapid militarization plans if enough of them do this so as to avoid having to pay more if they’re unlucky enough to be serviced by corrupt employees. […]

Escobar: Iran Now First Line Of Defense For BRICS & The Global South Authored by Pepe Escobar, This is as serious as it gets. Let’s survey the chessboard – from micro to macro… The crying shadow in the funeral dance,The loud lament of the disconsolate chimera. T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton Israel’s shock’n’awe on Iran – straight from the trademark US playbook – essentially failed, despite the initial combination […]

These Are The Biggest Tech Talent Hubs In The World The global tech talent landscape is becoming increasingly decentralized as fast-growing hubs across Asia, Europe, and beyond rival traditional strongholds like Silicon Valley in size. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, shows the top global tech talent hubs in the world by number of tech workers as of the year 2023. Data comes from CBRE Consulting’s Global Tech […]