Escobar: China, Hong Kong, & The Art Of Blinking Authored by Pepe Escobar, So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it. It all started with “tariff exemptions” – from smartphones and computers to auto parts – on products imported from China. Then it veered towards carefully manicured leaks implying tariffs “could” be reduced to […]

The Next Phase Of Surveillance? Getting Under Your Skin Authored by Aaron Kheriarty via The Brownstone Institute, Here’s the video link to my recent talk at Hillsdale College on AI and Transhumanism. I’m including below the text of the speech if you prefer to read rather than watch it. AI and Transhumanism Hackable Animals My friends, let me introduce you to Yuval Noah Harari, a man chock full of big ideas. He explained […]

“iPhone Moment” Nears For Humanoid Robots Brett Adcock, founder of Archer Aviation, who left the flying taxi company to pursue humanoid robotics and the deployment of Artificial General Intelligence, recently shared how his team at Figure AI developed a humanoid robot in just 31 months, achieving the robot’s first successful walk within a year.  Adcock recently spoke at the 2025 Abundance360 summit in Los Angeles and described […]

US War Games Simulate ‘Full-Scale Battle’ With China In Philippines Via The Libertarian Institute The US kicked off its largest annual military drills alongside the Philippines days ago this week, simulating a full-on war with China. A total of 17,000 troops from 20 countries participated in the drills, dubbed Balikatan 2025, including 9,000 American soldiers and 5,000 Filipino servicemen. US Marine Corps Forces Pacific […]

Labor Secretary Warns States Could Lose Federal Funding If Illegal Immigrants Get Unemployment Benefits Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer warned states of losing federal funding if they fail to comply with President Donald Trump’s directives on rewarding illegal immigrants with tax dollars, according to an April 25 statement issued by the Department of Labor. “Our […]

“Bloodbath”: Panic Ensues After Trump Admin Takes Wrecking Ball To DOJ’s Woke Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon – Trump’s hand-picked choice to lead the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, has been taking a wrecking ball to the woke government entity – forcing out ‘a majority of career managers and implementing new priorities’ that have radically altered its mandate, NBC News’ swamp scribe Ken Dilanian reports. Harmeet Dhillon “It’s […]

David Stockman On Why And How To Fire 42,000 IRS Agents… Authored by David Stockman via InternationalMan.com, The true scandal of current American fiscal governance needs be commented on. Or, better still, hammered upon good and hard. To wit, the American electorate apparently doesn’t give a shit about runaway government spending because as a practical matter the overwhelming share of voters don’t pay the taxes to fund it. […]

‘They Lied To A Whole Generation of Kids’ “We’ve got $1.7 trillion in student debt on the books and we’ve got 7.6 million open jobs right now – most of which don’t require a 4-year degree,” says a frustrated Mike Rowe in his ubiquitously velvetty tones. “And we’ve got 6.8 million able-bodied men who are not only out of the workforce, they’re not looking.”  It’s generational, Rowe tells Theo Von. It’s not about […]

The Death Of Globalization Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, With so much attention focused on U.S. stock markets, it seems timely to pivot away from stocks for the moment and consider the global perspective. Globalization may be dying in terms of trade and supply chains, but financial markets are inextricably linked in ways that relatively few understand. King Dollar Still Rules The dollar still dominates the […]

Putin Announces Kursk Region Fully Liberated From Ukrainians Russia’s top military leaders as well as President Vladimir Putin have on Saturday declared the full liberation of Russia’s Kursk region, after Ukrainian forces invaded and occupied huge swathes of it starting last August. The final fight was for the village of Gornal, which lies on the Ukrainian border. Fighting on the vicinity of the settlement became fierce earlier […]

“This is Not Normal”: Democrats Miss An Obvious Problem With The Arrest Of The Wisconsin Judge Authored by Jonathan Turley, “This is not normal.” Those words from Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., are undeniably true after the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan. However, the reason it is not normal is far more debatable. Dugan is accused of becoming a lawbreaker in seeking to obstruct an effort to arrest a man wanted by federal […]

Pakistan & India Exchange 2nd Straight Day Of Border Fire: ‘On The Brink’ Indian and Pakistani troops have exchanged border fire for a second straight day, in an increasingly volatile and highly dangerous crisis which could develop into full-scale war between longtime nuclear-armed rivals. BREAKING: Heavy exchange of fire reported as Pakistan Army responds forcefully to Indian forces’ firing in Leepa Valley, Azad Jammu and […]

Watch: Weird Chinese AI Videos Mock Trump And Vance Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Weird AI videos and pictures depicting President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are being virally shared on Chinese social media as a response to the ongoing tariff trade war. The videos, widely shared across platforms like TikTok, Douyin, and X, depict Trump as (ironically) a Communist dictator and Vance as “eyeliner man,” […]

“Fit, Not Fat”: Hegseth Vows Course Correction As Report Finds Two-Thirds Of Reserve Troops Are Overweight Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed his dismay on April 25 after a new report found that more than two-thirds of U.S. military reserve personnel are overweight. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth participates in a morning physical training session with troops […]

Major Iranian Port Paralyzed: 700 Injured, 5 Dead After Massive Explosion Update (1338ET): Iranian state-owned news media Press TV reported that at least four people died and 700 were injured after a fuel tanker exploded for unknown reasons at Shahid Rajaee port in Hormozgan Province. A separate report from the Associated Press said the explosion that rocked Iran’s second-largest container port—located on the Strait of […]

House GOP Seeks Federal Pension Cuts, Including Lavish Benefit For Early Retirees Already rattled by the Trump administration’s efforts to slash its bloated ranks, the US government employee workforce is about to be hit with a new source of agitation, as House Republicans are proposing to cut benefits and increase premiums associated with federal employee pensions. As is typically the case where the timing of potentially […]

America’s Mom-And-Pop Truckers In Dire Straits As Bad News Mounts  Submitted by American Truckers United’s Gord Magill,  The American trucking industry continues to face a growing number of challenges in 2025, with economic turbulence downstream of President Trump’s tariff reforms merely the latest bump on a very poorly maintained road. Many within the freight, logistics, and supply chain industries are predicting the ride to […]

NATO Chief Lobbies Trump Not To Pressure Ukraine Into Peace Deal NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte after meeting with President Donald Trump and Norway’s PM Jonas Gahr Støre on Thursday proclaimed that all Western leaders, including Trump, are on the same page viewing Russia as a “long-term threat” to NATO territory. Rutte was optimistic about Trump helping to potentially end the Russia-Ukraine war, saying that “huge steps” have […]

“We Need An Uprising”: Democratic Rep. Calls On People To “Threaten” Congress And “Take To The Streets” Authored by Jonathan Turley, U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., is the latest Democratic politician to use rage rhetoric to rally voters despite an alarming increase in political violence on the left. Calling for an “uprising,” Wilson also lashed out at the Laken Riley Act. Wilson was visiting the ICE Krome Detention […]

Trump, Zelensky Have Impromptu Face-To-Face Meeting In St. Peter’s Basilica President Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky met on the sidelines of Pope Francis’ funeral in Rome on Saturday. By the looks of it, they had an impromptu face-to-face right there at St. Peter’s Basilica and in the ornate surroundings of the Vatican, also as confirmed by Zelensky himself in a social media post. Ukrainian Presidential Press Office […]

Epstein Victim Virginia Giuffre Dies By Suicide According To Family Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent victim, Virginia Giuffre, died by suicide on Thursday according to her family – weeks after she said she had ‘days to live’ and was in renal failure following a collision with a bus. Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, has died, her family said. Pic: Reuters The 41-year-old died in Neergabby, Australia, […]

Is Walking Away From Ukraine The Best Option For Trump And The US? This week Vice President JD Vance reiterated the Trump Administration’s position that “walking away from Ukraine” and the peace negotiations after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that Crimea be “liberated” as part of the terms.  Zelensky argued that the “war against the entire free Europe” began with Crimea and must end with the return of […]

Dutch King Says Country Must Prepare For War, Pushes For Drone Development Via Remix News, As EU leaders rally for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine and push the idea of a European military no longer dependent on America, the Netherlands’ monarch has joined the chorus.  “We may have taken it a bit too much for granted that we would always have freedom and peace,” King Willem-Alexander said at the Lieutenant General Best […]

Trump Unleashes More Anger, Frustration At Zelensky For Not Signing Rare Earths Deal On Friday there’s been more public, out in the open tension on display between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump once again chastised the Ukrainian leader for apparently refusing to sign the controversial rare earths deal.  US administration officials had last week previewed that they expected it to be signed this week, which […]

US Eyes Nuclear Power Deal With Armenia Via Eurasianet.org, The US Embassy in Armenia has indicated that the United States is working to secure a deal for Westinghouse Nuclear to build Armenia’s next nuclear reactor. Armenia is seeking to replace its aging Metsamor nuclear facility and has been exploring expanded civil nuclear energy cooperation with the United States since mid-2024. Russia’s Rosatom, which […]