Iraq Receives 5,000 ISIS Fighters From Syrian Prisons Via The Cradle Iraq has received close to 5,000 ISIS prisoners since the start of a US military campaign to relocate the extremist group’s fighters, of whom tens of thousands were previously held in Kurdish-run facilities in northern Syria. “The transfer of terrorist prisoners from Syria to Iraq is ongoing in coordination with the global coalition, and they are being held […]

Beijing Blasts Washington For Fabricating Excuses To Restart Nuclear Testing Given the collapse of the New START nuclear treaty this month, the timing of Washington’s latest and provocative charge leveled at Beijing is curious and interesting… The United States’ top nuclear arms has “accused China of carrying out an undisclosed nuclear detonation in 2020, arguing that recent secretive underground tests by China and Russia have […]

FTC Probing Pediatrician Group, Non-Profit Over Gender Dysphoria Treatments For Kids Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is examining statements from several organizations that have promoted drugs and surgeries for minors who believe they are a different gender, according to documents made public on Feb. 10. FTC officials sent civil demands for documents to the American Academy of […]

America’s Top Restaurant Winner Slaps Diners With Mandatory Tip And Woke Lecture On Receipt The top-rated restaurant in America (at least according to Food & Wine’s 2025 pick) is now buried under a pile of one-star reviews after deciding to lecture diners on receipts about the supposedly “racist” history of tipping, while auto-adding a non-negotiable 20% service charge to every bill, SFGate reports. A customer enters during a […]

Caring For Mom Is An Education In Scams And Fraud Authored by Nancy Rommelmann via RealClearInvestigations, It was summer 2021, and my mother’s desk was a mess, including a torn envelope from the IRS shoved in the back of a drawer. “Mom?” I asked. “Did you pay your taxes?” My mother, increasingly forgetful at 84, said she wasn’t sure. She told me to call her accountant of 30 years, who said the taxes hadn’t been […]

“Modern Money Only Works By Cheating”: If You’re Long Bitcoin (Or Not Long Bitcoin), Read This… For the OG ZeroHedgers, Hugh Hendry’s name will be well known and well respected. For others, the infamous Scot made his bones being the ultimate contrarian to the world’s order and making a killing through the great financial crisis for himself and his hedge fund partners. Google is your friend to find the many times we posted on […]

“They Thought They Were Untouchable”: US Seizes 134 Acres In Texas Used By Mexican Cartel Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, More than 134 acres in Texas that was being used by a drug cartel for smuggling activities has been taken over by U.S. authorities, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a Feb. 10 post on X. “We took the land and everything on it,” the post said. A video shared with the post […]

US, China Work To Preserve Fragile Trade Truce Ahead Of Trump’s April Visit: Report The United States and China are seeking to preserve their fragile trade truce before President Donald Trump visits Chinese President Xi Jinping for a high-stakes summit in Beijing this spring, according to the South China Morning Post. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in 2017. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg On the sidelines of the 2025 APEC summit […]

‘Diversity’ Judge Cuts Sadistic Rapist’s Sentence in Half Authored by Kevin Downey Jr. via PJ Media, A diversity judge just cut a sexual deviant’s sentence from 65 years down to 30. Why? Because Marxism. A Jefferson County, Ky., judge, Tracy Davis, decided to cut the sentence of convicted rapist Christopher Davis by 35 years because, despite his heinous crime, he is just a poor lad who “fell through the cracks” and “experienced […]

Local Police Are Finally Arresting Anti-ICE Agitators In Minnesota Something changed in Minneapolis, and fast. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons told lawmakers during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on Tuesday that local police arrested 54 anti-ICE protesters overnight, a development that would have been almost unthinkable just a few weeks ago. During his testimony, Lyons described a noticeable shift on the ground as […]

India’s Coal Use Could Double By 2050 By Charles Kennedy of OilPrice.com India’s coal demand could more than double by 2050 from current levels under current policies, a new report by NITI Aayog, the policy think tank of the Indian government, showed on Tuesday. Under the Current Policy Scenario (CPS), coal demand in India is forecast to rise even through 2070, according to the projections. In this scenario, long-term demand […]

Trump Pushes To End Senate ‘Blue Slips’ As GOP Confirms Judges At Record Pace In just the past week, the Senate confirmed half a dozen of Trump’s judicial nominees, continuing a streak that’s left Democrats visibly frustrated. Since the start of Trump’s second term, 33 judges have sailed through confirmation — already eclipsing his entire first-term total. By comparison, during Trump’s first year in office, the Senate […]

What It Means To Be A Former Liberal Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, I’ve never liked the word liberal applied in the way it is today. The word itself has a noble heritage. It meant being for freedom generally and opposed to despotism and dictatorship by church or state. Our Founding Fathers were considered liberals in a classical sense. They wanted free speech, free elections, free enterprise, free […]

Russian Airlines Suspend Flights To Cuba, Begin Evacuation Of Citizens, Over Fuel Crisis Another major blow has hit Cuba as its economy gets decimated by US-led sanctions, and as Trump’s embargo of vital Venezuelan oil for the island continues rolling downhill (Mexico had quickly followed suit by halting its oil to Cuba as well). Amid the fuel shortage which has caused mass disruptions and flight stoppages at the main hub José […]

Trump Admin Can End Protected Status For Nationals Of 3 More Countries: Appeals Court Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration can move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Nepal, Honduras, and Nicaragua, a U.S. appeals court ruled Monday. Illegal immigrants from Nicaragua, Ecuador and other nationalities at a door on the border wall waiting to be […]

Watch: Bondi Explodes Over Epstein During Shouting Match With Massie And Top Dems The Trump admin couldn’t hand Democrats a fatter pitch than how they’ve handled the Epstein release…  On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi clashed repeatedly with Democrats during a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing, deflecting pointed questions about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files before the session devolved […]

NYU Prof: Trump’s Whole Milk Push Is ‘Dog Whistle To Far-Right’ Authored by Matt Lamb via The College Fix, When President Donald Trump signed a law that allowed for the National School Lunch Program to distribute whole milk again, he was actually sending out a signal to neo-Nazis, so says a New York University professor. In January, President Trump celebrated the bipartisan “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act of 2025,” which […]

Epstein’s Island And The Gateway To The Psychology Of Evil Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Conspiracy theorists are almost always right. We have been proved right time and time again and we will continue to be right about many things that the corporate media used to call “fringe.” For those out there who are like me; people who have been trying to warn the public about these threats for 20 years or more, I just […]

Historic Negative Jobs Revisions: 1 Million Fewer Jobs Added In 2025, Only 15,000 Avg Jobs Monthly Ahead of today’s jobs report, we warned that (another) massive negative revision was coming to the US labor market, predicting it would be “1 million plus.” We were right. Recall that alongside today’s jobs report, the BLS would release its annual benchmark revision to the establishment survey and a methodological update to the […]

FDA Refuses To Review Moderna’s Application For Experimental Flu Shot Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to review Moderna’s experimental flu shot, the company announced Tuesday. Already submitted and accepted for review in the European Union, Canada, and Australia, the experimental shot’s application being denied by the FDA is another sign of President Donald […]

Real Estate Services Stocks Crash In Latest “AI Scare Trade” FIrst it was SaaS (in particular, and Software in general), then Private Credit, then Insurance Brokers, then it was financials/brokers that were hammered yesterday… and today’s it’s the turn of real estate service stocks to tumble as investors followed the bouncing AI disruption ball and freaked out over the sector’s vulnerability to the newest crop of artificial […]

Apple Slides On Report Latest Attempt To Re-Launch Siri Runs Into “Snags” Apple is sliding on a Bloomberg report that its long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into new snags during testing in recent weeks, potentially pushing back the release of several highly anticipated functions. After planning to include the new capabilities in iOS 26.4, an OS update slated for March, Apple is now working to spread them […]

Public Trust In US Government Nears Historic Lows The United States has fallen to its lowest-ever rank in Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and business people. In 2025, the U.S. fell down one spot to 29th place (out of 182) with a score of 64/100 on a 0 to 100 scale, where 0 means highly […]

Hours-Long Netanyahu Meeting Concludes Away From Cameras, Trump Committed To Iran Talks Update(1443ET): President Trump met with Netanyahu for a reported 3-hours at the White on Wednesday, away from the cameras and with no press briefings either before or after. Trump later indicated that nothing definitive was reached on the Iran matter other than “I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue.” “If it can, I let the Prime […]

‘No Privacy’ CBDCs Will Come, Warns Billionaire Ray Dalio Authored by Martin Young via CoinTelegraph.com, American billionaire and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has warned that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are coming, offering benefits but also potentially allowing governments to exert more control over people’s finances. “I think it will be done,” said Dalio on CBDCs in a wide-ranging interview on the Tucker […]