How BRICS May Deliver Structural Shock To US Dollar System Authored by Pepe Escobar, The oligarchy that really controls the Empire of Chaos has hit the panic button, as the structural contours of Hegemony seriously wobble. The petrodollar is one of the key features of this Hegemony: a recycling machine channeling non-stop buying of US Treasuries then spent on Forever Wars. Any player even thinking of diversifying from this […]

Tesla Shifts Full Self-Driving To Subscription-Only As Musk Targets Pay Package Milestones Elon Musk announced early Wednesday that Tesla will eliminate the one-time purchase option for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software beginning in mid-February, transitioning the product to an exclusive monthly subscription. “Tesla will stop selling FSD after Feb 14. FSD will only be available as a monthly subscription thereafter,” Musk wrote […]

Risk For Thee, Safety For Me: Celebrity Activism Authored by Christian Vezilj via American Thinker, Hollywood has mastered the art of moral performance. Award shows have become political stages where actors speak with the confidence of prophets and the certainty of philosophers. But beneath the applause lines and emotional crescendos lies a contradiction that becomes impossible to ignore: the courage they demand from others is […]

China Blames Trump For Its Staggering $1.2 Trillion Trade Surplus Amid European Howls Of Outrage At the start of December, China stunned the world when it reported that its trade surplus had surpassed a record $1 trillion, with one month still left to go in calendar 2025. Fast forward to last night when China reported that in December, its trade balance rose from $112 billion in November to a whopping – and the second highest on […]

Stephen Miller: Feds Have Begun Work Of ‘Identifying, Disrupting And Dismantling The Insurgent Networks’ In Minnesota Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, Stephen Miller, a top White House official, said Tuesday evening that federal law enforcement now has the resources to protect its officers and begin the work of “identifying, disrupting and dismantling the insurgent networks” hampering Immigration and Customs […]

Oil, Precious Metals Tumble After Report Signaling No Imminent Action Against Iran With traders across the globe refreshing their X accounts every 3 seconds, expecting to see news of imminent “kinetic action” in Iran, what they got instead was a report from NBC which indicated that military action is far from certain, and at best could take days before it is launched. According to the report which cites multiple anonymous sources […]

Senate Passes Bill Allowing Victims To Sue Over Deepfake Porn Videos Authored by Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), WASHINGTON—The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Jan. 13 allowing victims to sue producers and distributors of deepfake porn videos. The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 8, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, or […]

Senate Defeats Bill To Block Military Action In Venezuela After Two R’s Flip, Vance Breaks Tie The US Senate killed a Democrat-led resolution that would constrain President Donald Trump (and the next guy’s) ability to wage continued military action against Venezuela. The War Powers resolution, sponsored by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), was on track to make it to a final vote until Sen. James Risch (R-ID) raised a point of […]

Denmark Says It’s Clear Trump “Has A Desire To Conquer Greenland” After WH Meeting Latest: DENMARK SAYS AGREED WITH US TO FORM WORKING GROUP ON GREENLAND RASMUSSEN: WE DIDN’T MANAGE TO CHANGE THE US POSITION RASMUSSEN: MEETING TOOK PLACE IN CONSTRUCTIVE ATMOSPHERE RASMUSSEN: IN US-GREENLANDIC TALKS `WE AGREE TO DISAGREE’ RASMUSSEN: EXPERT GROUP WILL MEET IN MATTER OF WEEKS Greenland’s Foreign Ministry says they will […]

Analysis: Havana’s Playbook Or Conspiracy Theory? Testing Washington’s Claim That Cuban Intel Fueled US Protests Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, In the aftershock of the Trump administration’s special-forces extraction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a new report from the Heritage Foundation advances a sweeping, Cold War–inflected thesis: that the real command post for much of Latin America’s authoritarian […]

Liberal Think Tank Urges Democrats To Ditch ‘Abolish ICE’ Rhetoric Ahead Of Midterms A center-left think tank is urging Democrats to abandon the “Abolish ICE” rallying cry, warning that the slogan threatens to sabotage any chance at immigration enforcement reform while playing directly into Republican hands. Demonstrators gather in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026 after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good. Third Way […]

Nano Nuclear Enters The Asian Market SMR developer Nano Nuclear announced a partnership with South Korean industrial company DS Dansuk to pursue the deployment of Nano’s Kronos throughout Asia. DS Dansuk will act as Nano’s partner to coordinate with other Asian companies involved in chemical processing and heavy manufacturing, and enable Nano to access the coveted nuclear industry in South Korea. Multiple American companies […]

Obamacare Enrollment Trails 2025 By Less Than Expected Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Plan selections in the Affordable Care Act Marketplace were 3.5 percent behind 2025’s number with two weeks left in open enrollment, but the drop-off has not been as severe as some analysts predicted. An Affordable Care Act sign sits in front of an insurance agency in Miami on Nov. 12, 2025. Joe Raedle/Getty […]

Is It Time To Realign State Borders? Authored by John Kudla via American Thinker, Let’s pretend you are a liberal living in a red state.  If you feel aggrieved about the condition of the world and believe that conservatives are to blame, you can find a few like-minded souls, print up some signs covered in half-clever phrases, and go protest.  In most cases, unless you chain yourself to a railing on the courthouse steps or […]

Need To Escape Socialism? Come To Florida! Authored by Jeffrey Folks via American Thinker, The difference between red and blue states is not just a matter of degree; it is a qualitative difference based on the loss of freedom in blue states and an entirely different attitude in the red states.  The best example is the contrast between what now exists in New York and Florida.  Whereas New York, especially New York City, is […]

Trump Appears To De-Escalate Iran Rhetoric, ‘Killing Has Stopped’ – Oil Tumbles There are reports that President Trump is listening to the non-interventionists in his cabinet, as he says Wednesday afternoon he’s been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, and with no plan for executions. WTI futures immediately dropped on the newswires:  WTI fell from USD 62.30 to lows of 59.80/bbl over 7 minutes. Brent fell from 66.80 to […]

“Everything’s On The Table”: JPM CFO Signals Possible Fight With Trump Over Credit Card Rate Cap Wall Street has benefited greatly from the Trump administration’s economic policies and “Make America Great Again” agenda and has largely been supportive of the president. That relationship abruptly fractured last Friday when the president called for a one-year cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. All it took was President Trump’s […]

Minnesota Stealing: Reason To Rethink Government Welfare Authored by Larry Elder via The Epoch Times, As for the estimated $8 billion in government (taxpayer) money stolen by crooks in Minnesota, people demand answers to many questions. But the 800-pound elephant/question goes unasked: Why is government in the business of welfare in the first place? Where in the Constitution does it permit the federal government to extract […]

Ukrainians Fight Back: Family, Friends, & Neighbors Start Standing Up For Men Being Dragged Off To War Via Remix News, In Ukraine, ongoing forced conscription and violent practices by the military are provoking civilians to finally resist in unprecedented fashion: passersby, neighbors, and family members are blocking the recruiters’ path as they try to drag civilians off the streets. Forced conscription is causing […]

Nuclear Reactors On The Moon By 2030 First it was data centers in space. Now it’s nuclear reactors on the moon. The global space race is heating up again, but it’s more than about just reaching the moon. International partners are teaming up to develop and establish remote posts on the moon utilizing nuclear reactors as the primary energy supply. The Russians are teaming up with the Chinese, the French are teaming up with the […]

In Some Minnesota Schools, The Focus Is Reading, Writing, And Resistance Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, In the Twin Cities, schools play a key role in fostering a culture where resistance and anti-authoritarianism thrive. A Minneapolis charter school located near where 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed last week by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent is centered on social justice […]

Trump Freezes All Visa Processing For 75 Countries: The Full List The US government announced Wednesday it will pause or suspend immigrant visa issuance for 75 countries, with Iran among the countries listed, at a moment President Trump is said to be mulling some kind of US military intervention after two weeks of protests – but which largely seemed to have died down at this point. The new visa pause order will take effect January […]

US Designates Chapters Of Muslim Brotherhood As Foreign Terrorist Organizations Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has followed through on its stated goal of designating three branches of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations, sanctioning the groups and their members in accordance with President Donald Trump’s plan to strengthen national security. Secretary of […]

Disruptions Reported At Major US Cellular Carriers, Downdetector Shows Downdetector, the website that tracks real-time outages and service disruptions across the internet, reported moments ago that users of Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Fios, and U.S. Cellular are experiencing disruptions and outages that began within the last hour. At a more granular level of the Verizon outage, reports indicate that outages and […]

Newsom Scrambles To Keep Billionaires In California, Vows To Kill Wealth Tax After a swath of billionaires publicly announced they are leaving the state of California over a proposed wealth tax, Governor Gavin Newsom went into a full blown panic – vowing to stop the proposed tax and “do what I have to do to protect the state.”  In an interview with the NY Times, Newsom said that he has been working ‘relentlessly’ behind […]