US Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Red Sea In Disastrous ‘Friendly Fire’ Incident In the early morning hours of Sunday (local), two US Navy pilots were shot down over the Red Sea in an apparent friendly fire incident. This comes after more than a year of war against Yemeni Houthi rebels, who have targeted international transit in regional waters. The incident is highly unusual given that US and Western allied coalition ships have come […]

Post-Cold-War Geopolitics Worse For Global South Authored by Jomo Kwame Sundaram via via Substack, The new geopolitics after the first Cold War undermines peace, sustainability, and human development. Hegemonic priorities continue to threaten humanity’s well-being and prospects for progress. End of first Cold War The end of the first Cold War has been interpreted in various ways, most commonly as a US triumph. Francis […]

Aide To California Politician Arrested, Accused Of Conspiring With Chinese Spy To Infiltrate US Politics Authored by Eva Fu via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The FBI on Dec. 19 arrested a close associate of a local California politician, accusing him of scheming together with a recently sentenced Chinese spy to amplify China’s influence in the U.S. political circle. The Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington on Aug. 12, […]

Elderberry: The Immunity Defender That Helps You Fight Cold And Flu Authored by Sina McCullough via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Elderberry has been revered for centuries as a go-to remedy for respiratory infections, fever, and inflammation—both acute and chronic. The herb was detected in the charred remains of ancient settlements, leading some researchers to speculate that elder trees may have intentionally been cultivated […]

Syria’s Central Bank Gold Miraculously Still In The Vault, Reuters Claims In an astonishing turn of events, amid the recent turmoil and shifts in power that have engulfed Syria over the past 3 weeks, one key component of the country’s wealth which has remained unscathed in the fog of war, at least according to Reuters reporter Timour Azhari, is the Syrian central bank’s gold reserves in Damascus – all 25.8 tonnes of gold worth […]

Escobar: Putin’s Q&A And Thee Forever Wars Riddle Authored by Pepe Escobar, He spoke for four and a half hours, virtually non-stop, reviewing the results of 2024, mastering all the facts. His Direct Line received over 2 million questions, from Russia and around the world. And he had to crown the performance with a flourish, in an “I did it, my way” vein: “I believe that not only did I simply save [Russia], we moved away […]

In Latest Threat To German Democracy, Dangerous Fascist Elon Musk Tweets Six Words About AfD Authored by Eugyppius via eugyppius.com, German democracy, which has existed undeterred since 1949 but is somehow always shaken to its foundations whenever anybody sings the wrong song or holds a televised debate with the wrong person, is once again on life support. Christian Lindner, head of the market-liberal Free Democrats, did […]

Winners And Losers From Last Night’s Government Funding Package After a week of predictable drama, President Joe Biden signed a government funding bill on Saturday, averting yet another government shutdown because of our government’s terminal addiction to spending money we don’t have. As we noted earlier, the package limps the government along to March 14, when this is Trump’s problem, and includes $100 billion in disaster aid […]

​​​​​​​”Deportation Now!”: Germans Outraged After Deadly Christmas Market Attack Update (2000ET): Germans took to the streets on Saturday night in Magdeburg to protest a deadly Christmas Market attack carried out by a 50-year-old immigrant from Saudi Arabia. The car-ramming attack on Friday night claimed five lives and left 200 people injured. 🇩🇪German media is LYING about the Christmas market attack🇩🇪 […]

FDA Updates Recall On Blood Pressure Medication Due To Possible Carcinogen Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A third blood pressure medication was recalled across the United States in the past several weeks, according to a notice updated on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) website on Dec. 16. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in White Oak, Md., on June 5, 2023. Madalina […]

It’s The Denominator, Stupid! Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, Wrapping your head around Bitcoin’s inexorable rise. In every issue of The Bitcoin Capitalist there is a section called “This Month’s FUD”, where I look at the “Death of Bitcoin” narratives that emerged over the last few weeks and mercilessly debunked them. It’s not hard, because most, if not all Bitcoin FUD vectors are belaboured retreads […]

Death By A Thousand Talents: University Pays $700,000 To Settle With NASA Over Lead Researcher’s Undisclosed China Ties Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The University of Delaware on Dec. 16 settled with NASA after allegedly failing to disclose a professor’s ties to and support from the Chinese regime. In 2020, NASA awarded the university a grant to establish a research center focused on the use of […]

US Scraps $10M Bounty On AQ-linked Jolani After One Visit From State Dept Officials On Friday we featured a tongue-in-cheek headline, but which is sadly all too literal and true: Syrian Leader With $10M Bounty On His Head Meets With Delegation From Country That Put The $10M Bounty On His Head. US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf led the delegation along with Daniel Rubenstein, who is expected to […]

How The Left Will Defend Its Censorship Regime Against Trump Authored by Bradley Smith via RealClearPolitics, The reelection of President Donald Trump could serve as a historic turning point for free speech in America. President Trump has said he will investigate censorship practices by the federal government, end the rampant disrespect for First Amendment rights on our college campuses, and take on Big Tech’s Orwellian policing […]

US, UK Sanction Georgia’s ‘Kremlin Friendly’ Government Starting weeks ago Washington had threatened the Republic of Georgia with “consequences” amid accusations of rigged elections, after the ‘Russia friendly’ Georgian Dream Party swept parliamentary elections. And this month, 53-year old Mikheil Kavelashvili of Georgian Dream party was named president after 224 out of 225 members of Georgia’s electoral college voted him in […]

Massachusetts Is The Most Expensive State To Raise A Kid In, Mississippi Cheapest Although costs vary from family to family, two working parents spend an average of around $23,000 per year raising one child in the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, illustrates the cost of raising a child by state, based on data compiled by SmartAsset as of February 2024. Methodology SmartAsset used the MIT […]

Santa Claus Rally Or Did The Fed Steal Christmas? Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Powell & A Government Shutdown Hits Stocks Last week, we noted the ongoing market churn that could last into this week’s Fed meeting. To wit: “That certainly seemed the case this past week, with the market trading being fairly sloppy. Attempts to push the market higher were repeatedly met with sellers, and we saw a […]

Ukrainian Drones Pummel Russian City Over 600 Miles From Front Line Ukraine’s drone and missile attacks deep inside Russia have already been a near daily occurrence, but now these projectiles are reaching further and further into Russia, often utilize Western-supplied weapon systems. “Ukraine brought the war into the heart of Russia Saturday morning with drone attacks that local authorities said damaged residential buildings in the […]

Dem Rep. Crockett: Hispanic Voters Have “Slave Mentality” And “Can Barely Vote” Authored by Jonathan Turley, One of the most consistent elements of the identity politics practiced by the left is its selectivity. Whether in politics or higher education, the outrage that comes from allegedly racist or insensitive comments is confined to targets on the right. A case in point is the deafening silence after a diatribe by Rep. Jasmine […]

Chinese Ship Suspected Of Undersea Baltic Cable Sabotage Sails Off  Two days after Swedish police and Chinese authorities boarded the Yi Peng 3, a 225-meter bulk carrier suspected of sabotaging undersea fiber optic cables in the Baltic Sea last month, the vessel restarted engines early Saturday morning and resumed transiting the Danish Straits. Sal Mercogliano, a professor at Campbell University and the host of the What Is Going […]

Cocoa Biggest Commodity Winner Of Year As Food Inflation “Enters Dangerous Territory” One theme we’ve harped on this year has been the reignition of global food prices, which show little sign of abating as the new year quickly approaches. Among the most impressive rallies has been in the cocoa market, outpacing all major commodities in 2024 amid tightening global supplies. Prices for orange juice and coffee have also surged, […]

US Had Foreknowledge Of HTS Offensive To Topple Assad, Prepped Its Proxies To Join Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US had foreknowledge of the offensive led by the al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and helped another rebel group join the fight, The Telegraph reported this week. The report said the US notified the Revolutionary Commando Army (RCA), a US-funded […]

Government Shutdown Averted As Biden Signs Stopgap Spending Bill Update (1120ET): President Joe Biden signed funding legislation to keep the US government operating until mid-March, avoiding a year-end shutdown and kicking future spending decisions into Donald Trump’s presidency. The legislation went to Biden early Saturday morning after the Senate voted 85 to 11 to approve the measure, which sailed through the House hours […]

Houthi Hypersonic Missile Renders Iron Dome Useless, Slams Into Tel Aviv Area Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched its second hypersonic missile attack on Israel in just days, striking the Tel Aviv area early Saturday morning. The attack marked a rare instance where a hypersonic weapon overwhelmed Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, underscoring the challenges posed by these new ultra-fast missiles.  “Between the Yemeni Armed […]

Trump Reportedly Plans To Continue Aid To Ukraine But Will Raise NATO Spending To 5% President-elect Donald Trump is expected to continue sending military aid to Ukraine, despite Trump earlier on the campaign trail mocking Zelensky for being the “greatest salesman on earth” for his getting tens of billions of US taxpayers’ money with ease. A new Financial Times report has cited European officials who say Trump’s team told them he […]