Futures Jump As Blowout TSMC Earnings Reboot Tech Trade US equity futures are higher led by Tech stocks which bounced back on Thursday after chipmaker TSMC revived confidence in the durability of artificial-intelligence demand, as signalling a strong outlook with $56BN in CapEx spending in 2026 (a 25% increase), restoring confidence in global AI growth and sending Europe’s ASML to a record high. Silver dropped for the first time […]

TSMC’s Bullish AI Outlook Prompts Goldman To Say ‘Anyone Hoping For A Pullback Will Get Disappointed’ Europe’s semiconductor stocks moved higher on Thursday, with ASML Holdings surging to a record high after Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) reported a 35% jump in fourth-quarter profit and signaled plans to boost capital spending by nearly 40% this year. TSMC, a supplier to tech giants including Nvidia and Apple, […]

Witkoff Announces Start Of 2nd Phase Of Gaza Peace Plan Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Presidential peace envoy Steve Witkoff, on Jan. 14, announced the start of the second phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan. Displaced Palestinians walk through floodwaters following heavy rains in Gaza City on Dec. 15, 2025. Omar al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images In an X post on Wednesday, Witkoff said […]

Left-Wing Chaos Continues In Minneapolis As Federal Vehicles Looted The killing of the left-wing activist (legal observer) by an ICE agent in Minneapolis has become the catalyst that Democratic Party-aligned dark-money-funded NGOs and militant far-left groups have been waiting for to spark street chaos, hoping to shift public sentiment toward defunding ICE. This is an informational war that Democrats are seeking to win, and in […]

US Navy Sailor Sentenced To Nearly 17 Years In Prison For Selling Military Secrets To China Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A former U.S. Navy sailor who had been found guilty of providing the Chinese communist regime with sensitive U.S. military information in exchange for money was sentenced to 200 months in prison, the Justice Department said on Monday. The Department of Justice in Washington on Feb. […]

Are Deportations Making Affordability A Winning Issue For The GOP? Democrats entered 2026 confident they could make “affordability” the rallying cry that would win back suburban voters and propel them back into the majority. But an inconvenient political twist has upended that plan: Donald Trump is the one actually delivering on affordability – and doing it in ways his opponents are almost certain to despise. The foundation of […]

President To Sign Bill Allowing Return Of Whole Milk In Schools Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump will sign the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act on Wednesday, overhauling previous U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines that required milk served in school cafeterias to be fat-free or low-fat. President Donald Trump speaks as Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. […]

Senators Want To Ban Chinese Students From Government Labs Eleven US senators wrote to Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday seeking to ban Chinese nationals from US national labs – contending that their access undermines the United States’ position in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.  The Department of Energy building in Washington on Nov. 13, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times The DOE notably oversees 17 national […]

Tyrants Authored by Lars Møller via American Thinker, History is replete with revolutionary figures who transformed society through “vision”, “vanity”, and “violence” – a vicious triad covering the strategy of being ideologically uncompromising, outmaneuvering rivals, and eliminating political opposition, respectively. From Wikimedia Commons: Execution of Louis XVI (Charles Monnet, 1794) Maximilien Robespierre and […]

Zelensky Declares Permanent State Of Emergency For Energy Sector Already Ukraine’s power grid has long suffered, with rolling blackouts having been in effect across parts of the country for much of the past year, but this week things have gotten worse amid a harsh freeze. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that the government is declaring a state of emergency in the energy sector after repeated Russian strikes […]

UK Bans Dutch Commentator For Criticizing Starmer While Welcoming Illegal Migrant Hordes Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Under Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the UK has become a dystopian nightmare where criticizing the Prime Minister gets you banned from entry. Meanwhile, boatloads of illegal migrants wash across the Channel daily, rewarded with hotel stays and taxpayer-funded perks. Dutch commentator Eva […]

China Orders Domestic Firms To Stop Using US, Israeli Cybersecurity Software On ‘National Security’ Grounds Via The Cradle Chinese authorities instructed domestic companies to stop using certain US and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns and the risk of sensitive data being transferred overseas, according to informed sources cited by Reuters on January 14. Chinese officials, speaking through the […]

Jim Bovard: Germany’s Latest War On Freedom Authored by Jim Bovard “There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom can be squashed throughout the western world. Germany was the […]

Iran & Israel Secretly Agreed Not To Attack Each Other Through Russian Backchannel There may have been some back-channel dealmaking and a ‘mutual understanding’ reached between Iran and Israel far behind the scenes as protests unfolded on Iran’s streets, and as President Trump began to make threats about striking Tehran. At a moment Trump seems to have climbed down (at least for now) from the threatened drive to intervene […]

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 […]