Neither A Hyperpower Nor A Fortress Authored by R. Jordan Prescott via RealClearDefense, In January 2017, Donald Trump stated America First would be the foundation of his administration’s agenda. America First defies easy explanation, primarily because its invocation is a declaration of opposition, a rebuttal to proponents of globalization or overseas intervention. The first Trump National Security Strategy (NSS), issued in […]

“Are You Not Entertained?” Democrats Announce New Impeachment Games To Draw Midterm Voters Authored by Jonathan Turley, “Are You Not Entertained?” With the country’s economy improving and other issues losing traction with the public, Democrats are increasingly turning to the one thing lacking in Washington: impeachments. As they work to take back the House in the midterms, Democrats are again promising voters the […]

AI Expansion Highlights Dangers Of America’s Aging Power Grid Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), America’s artificial intelligence (AI) boom is colliding with an older, slower-moving entity: the nation’s aging electrical grid. An architectural rendering of Fermi America’s proposed 5,770-acre data center complex near Amarillo, Texas, illustrates its plans for 18 million-square-feet of AI data […]

Colombian President Says He Will ‘Take Up Arms’ If US Military Attacks Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Monday he will “take up arms again” if attacked, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s warning that drug traffickers in Colombia could be the next target for the U.S. military. (Left) President Donald Trump in the White House on Jan. 20, 2025. […]

Enemies Not Allowed To Control Large Oil Reserves: US Ambassador To United Nations Via Middle East Eye The US ambassador to the United Nations on Monday said that enemies of his country cannot be allowed to control vast oil reserves, such as the ones in Venezuela under President Nicolas Maduro. Mike Waltz spoke less than two hours before Maduro made his first court appearance, not far from UN headquarters in Manhattan. Maduro is […]

Trump Admin Expands Massive Funding Cuts To Blue States Amid Widening Fraud Scandal The Trump administration has taken decisive action against rampant welfare fraud beyond Minnesota, escalating a long-overdue reckoning for lax oversight under Democrat governance. Following explosive revelations of massive fraud schemes – many tied to the state’s Somali immigrant community – the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has […]

Stephen Miller Asserts US Has Right To Take Greenland, & Wouldn’t Even Have To Fight For It Stephen Miller, one of President Trump’s top aides who serves as his deputy chief of staff for policy, just poured more fuel on the fire in terms of the ongoing spat with Denmark over the future of Greenland and sovereignty. He said in fresh remarks that there won’t be any military intervention to take the Arctic territory as simply […]

Washington Post Won’t Say Why Trust In Vaccines Is Gone Authored by Roger Bate via the Brownstone Institute, The Washington Post recently published a detailed investigation showing that childhood vaccination rates across the United States are falling sharply, particularly for measles. Fewer counties now meet the 95 percent coverage level commonly associated with herd immunity, and millions of children attend schools in communities […]

Cuba’s Security-State Colonization In Americas, Proven By Delta Force Killing 32 Intel Agents Surrounding Maduro Submitted by The Bureau’s Michael Lima, For years, the Cuban regime has insisted that its presence in Venezuela was benign—limited to doctors, nurses, and sports trainers offering humanitarian solidarity. The deaths of 32 Cuban military and intelligence personnel while defending Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro have […]

UBS: “Copper Is The Commodity Everyone Wants To Own” Goldman’s “circular melt-up” call and its recent upgrade to the 2026 London Metal Exchange (LME) copper price forecast have so far proven correct, as the industrial metal surged above $13,000 a ton with traders continuing to price in tighter global supply and a broader risk-on mood across metals. Three-month LME copper futures rose as much as 3.1% to a record $13,387.50, […]

The End Of NATO? By Molly Schwartz, Cross-Asset Macro Strategist at Rabobank The Monroe Doctrine, proclaimed by U.S. President James Monroe in 1823, asserted American influence in the Western Hemisphere at a time when newly independent South American nations were emerging from European colonial rule. While the Doctrine, as a tool of policy, warns Europe to keep its hands off, it stopped short of declaring that the United States […]

Did DOJ Prosecutors Violate Trump’s Executive Order By Selling Forfeited Samourai Wallet Bitcoin? Authored by Frank Corva via BitcoinMagazine.com, It seems that the U.S. Marshall Service (USMS) has sold the $6.3 million worth of bitcoin that Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill paid the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) as a fee that was part of their guilty plea. In doing so, it has potentially […]

Hilton Moves Fast To Nuke “Rogue” Franchisee As Hotel Continues Banning DHS Agents Update (Tuesday): Hilton Hotels wasted no time in the past 24 hours in curbing a rogue franchisee under the Hampton Inn brand called “Hampton Inn by Hilton Lakeville” – just outside of downtown Minneapolis – after news broke Monday that the independently owned hotel had rejected reservations from anyone affiliated with the Department of Homeland […]

China Slaps Export Controls On Japan For Dual-Use Items, Rare Earths, Could Impact Semiconductors  More steady escalation between US-ally Japan and China has emerged, but things just got much more significant – moving from initial Chinese restrictions on things like seafood or cultural exchange events, to now Beijing announcing an immediate ban on all goods deemed dual use for Tokyo. Some rare earth elements are included in this, […]

Florida Made Nearly 20,000 Immigration Arrests In 2025 Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Nearly 20,000 immigration arrests were made in Florida in 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced during a Jan. 5 press conference highlighting his state’s immigration enforcement standards. Of that total number, 10,000 arrests were made as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s Operation Tidal Wave, and 7,674 were taken into […]

Resilience Of US Economy Showing “Signs Of Cracking” As US Services PMI Disappoints Following yesterday’s US Manufacturing ISM survey disappointment, this morning we get yet more soft survey data – this time a look at the Services sector via S&P Global. The final (December) US Services PMI data was a disappointment, printing 52.5 vs 52.9 expected… Source: Bloomberg While the print was a disappointment, it remains above 50 […]

Fairfax Financial Takes 22% Stake In Under Armour As UBS Sees “Turnaround Stock” Struggling apparel brand Under Armour, founded and currently led by Kevin Plank, has seen its market capitalization collapse after years of missteps, brand erosion, and tough global competition. However, a newly disclosed filing shows that a Canadian financial holding company has taken a sizable stake, alongside a recent, more constructive turnaround […]

Vistra Jumps After Buying 10 Nat Gas-Fired Power Plants For $4 Billion It didn’t take long for markets to get a reminder of the screaming shortage of energy assets needed to energize the AI revolution.  Late on Monday, electricity supplier Vistra agreed to pay $4 billion for 10 natural gas-fired power plants in the US Northeast and Texas to expand the electricity supplier’s generation capacity in fast-growing energy […]

Colombia & Brazil Bolster Armed Forces At Borders, Bracing For Venezuelan Refugee Influx After the weekend US military action in Venezuela, which triggered mixed reactions around the globe, Colombia and other nations in the region are preparing for a possible influx of refugees. Sunday saw Colombian Defense Minister Pedro Sanchez order the deployment of 30,000 troops to the Venezuelan border to strengthen security, and this […]

Global Stock Rally Fizzles, Futures Flat As Market Rotations Accelerate US equity futures are flat with small caps underperforming as geopolitics dominate headlines, including aftershocks from the Maduro seizure and a potential US/EU deal that provides a security guarantee for Ukraine potentially with American soldiers maintaining a presence in Ukraine. As of 8:00am ET, S&P futures are flat as a rotation into regional shares […]

EU’s Carbon Border Tax Goes Live And Trade Partners Are Not Amused Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism launched on January 1 aims to level the playing field for European steel, cement, and power producers by taxing the carbon content of imports from countries with weaker emissions rules. China has threatened retaliation, calling CBAM unfair and discriminatory. While […]

Leftists Petition To Deport Nicki Minaj For Attending Turning Point Event Is there something fundamentally wrong with a celebrity being conservative?  According to the political left, such a prospect calls for immediate and uncompromising punishment from the woke cult.  After all, conservative movie and music stars are rare for a reason – They get blacklisted. The cancel mob is still around despite numerous political defeats in […]

Congress Is Back: What To Watch Via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Following the holiday break, Congress returns this week with a lot to do.  The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Dec. 21, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times On the top of the agenda is funding the government to avert a government shutdown on Jan. 30.  Lawmakers are also expected to take up a resolution related to President Donald Trump’s military […]

Trump DOJ Admits Venezuela’s ‘Cartel De Los Soles’ Isn’t An Actual Organization A major plank in the Trump administration’s case for military intervention in Venezuela is looking thinner today, as the Department of Justice has retreated from the notion that captured President Nicolas Maduro was the head of an organized drug cartel called Cartel de los Soles. The DOJ now says the term “Cartel de los Soles” is merely descriptive of […]

Confusion As Sporadic Gunfire Erupts Near Venezuela’s Presidential Palace Soon After Rodriguez Sworn In Update(20:50ET): A mere hours after widespread American mainstream media reports named Maduro’s staunchly ‘loyal’ Vice Presedent Delcy Rodríguez a CIA/US military informer who cooperated with the Trump-ordered invasion which ousted and kidnapped the country’s sitting head of state to US soil, there are reports of heavy gunfire […]