Kenyan Court Rejects Plan For US Ebola Quarantine Center Amid Growing Outbreak Authored by Brett Wilkins via Common Dreams A day after US officials said Kenya had approved a request to open a quarantine center for Americans exposed to a rare strain of the Ebola virus, a court in the East African nation on Friday temporarily blocked the plan amid a growing outbreak in neighboring Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The […]

Why The SAVE Act Matters Authored by Stu Cvrk via American Greatness, American self-governance rests on one indispensable foundation: that elections reflect the will of eligible citizens, counted accurately, administered transparently. Republicans and election integrity advocates argue that this foundation has been progressively undermined – not necessarily by a single grand conspiracy, but by a systemic pattern of loosened […]

US Military Hasn’t Identified A Single Confirmed Mine In Strait Of Hormuz, Officials Tell NBC Just a few hours after President Trump boasted that the US Navy had detonated “numerous” Iranian sea mines, NBC News reported that, even after three months of warfare, the US military has yet to confirm the presence of even a single mine in the strategically critical Strait of Hormuz.  Citing two US officials and a “person familiar with […]

What To Own Before A Bond Market Crisis Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance As I wrote last week, foreign Treasury selling with yields already on the rise has perked up my attention. For decades, investors have treated U.S. Treasuries as the ultimate safe haven. In nearly every major panic, money rushed into government bonds, not away from them. But with deficits surging, interest costs climbing, and foreign demand for […]

Moscow Signs Military Partnership With Taliban In Full Circle Since CIA’s Operation Cyclone Via The Cradle Russia and the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan have reached a military and technical cooperation agreement, Russian news outlet Interfax reported this week.  The deal was concluded during the International Security Forum held in Moscow. According to the report by Interfax’s correspondent, Taliban Defense Minister […]

Iran Poised To Finalize Hormuz Strait Management Plan, Brushing Aside Trump’s Threats Iran’s state Tasnim is saying the US naval blockade remains in effect, despite days of headlines of a ‘finalized’ US-Iran deal, which were clearly premature – though both sides still signal they are close to agreeing on a Memorandum of Understanding. But this is toward simply extending the ceasefire by 60-days in order to get back to the table, in […]

Crypto And AI Could Be Dirty Words On 2026 Midterm Campaign Trail Authored by Aaron Wood via CoinTelegraph.com, The AI and crypto industries have made headlines over the past year thanks to the impressive war chests amassed by corporate political action committees (PACs). Profligate spending during the last federal elections in the US has led to unprecedented policy changes favoring the crypto industry, with indications that a […]

“Brief Exchange”: Top U.S., Cuban Military Leaders Meet At Edge Of Guantanamo Base Three weeks after CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with officials in Havana, reopening a political backchannel between Washington and the Cuban government, a rare military-to-military meeting unfolded at the edge of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. U.S. Southern Command wrote on X that Marine Gen. Francis Donovan, head of U.S. Southern Command, […]

Leftist German Party Leader Forced To Correct Lies About AfD Leader, Pay Her Legal Fees Via Remix News, Alice Weidel, co-leader of the anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, has successfully sued the Left Party leader and won a retraction after she spread falsehoods about Weidel on live television. In mid-May, Ines Schwerdtner, the federal chairwoman of the Left Party, claimed during an interview on Welt TV that […]

UK’s Ofcom Investigates Airing Of Trump Interview Calling Climate Change A “Hoax” Authored by Jonathan Turley, I have been writing about the decline of free speech in the United Kingdom for years, including in my book The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.  One of the most critical components of the British censorship system is Ofcom, the Office of Communications, which regulates the broadcasting, internet, […]

The Case For Air Conditioning Is Growing In Britain A recent spell of extreme heat has intensified debate over whether UK homes should be designed with built-in cooling systems, according to FT. Air conditioning remains uncommon in Britain, with fewer than 5% of homes equipped with it, reflecting a long-standing view that cooling is a luxury rather than a necessity. FT writes that current building standards favor passive methods […]

Norway Lobbies To Persuade EU To Drop Arctic Drilling Ban Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Norway, Western Europe’s top oil and gas producer, has intensified lobbying at the European Union to persuade the bloc to remove or tweak its moratorium on Arctic oil and gas drilling. Norway, which is not a member of the EU but is the biggest gas supplier to European markets, has sent nearly a dozen of its ministers to […]

Both Sides Agree Iran Deal ‘Close’ But Not Finalized, As Trump Promises ‘Final Determination’ Soon Summary NYT: President Trump’s meeting in the Situation Room lasted about two hours, but the president did not reach a decision on any new deal with Iran. Trump repeats conditions on Iran for lifting US naval blockade, oil pushed lower. Fars responds: “Mix of truth & lies.” Trump vows to ‘unearth’ and gain control of nuclear […]

Intercepted Iranian Missile Injures 5 Americans At Kuwaiti Air Base; Tehran Identifies Two Key MOU Sticking Points Summary Iran is pushing forward legislation formalizing control/management of Hormuz Strait shipping, which flies in the face of Trump warnings & conditions. An Iranian Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile targeted Kuwait’s Ali Al Salem Air Base, a key operational hub for the U.S. Air Force. BBG says missile […]

When The Grid Dies: How A Single Blackout Could Unravel A Modern World Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, For decades, infrastructure analysts, military planners, and emergency preparedness experts have warned that modern civilization is built upon a dangerously fragile foundation. Electricity is no longer merely a convenience of industrial society; it is the bloodstream of every institution sustaining modern life. Water […]

How A 24 Mile Fence Once Divided California’s North Coast And Sparked A Four Year Political Fight For two weeks in 1976, a white nylon fence ran across the hills of Sonoma and Marin counties and disappeared into the Pacific Ocean, according to SF Gate.  Called “Running Fence,” the installation stretched 24 miles and stood 18 feet high, supported by more than 2,000 steel poles. It was created by artists Christo and […]

Biden’s Weaponized DOJ Ruined Tate Adamiak’s Life. Top Gun Rights Group Calls On Trump To Pardon Via Gun Owners of America, In 2022 during the Biden Administration, federal agents arrested Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, a U.S. Navy sailor with no violent history or criminal record. Tate’s crime? He was a firearms enthusiast. If that sounds like an exaggeration, it’s not. Biden’s weaponized DOJ charged Tate with violations of the […]

Repeat Speeders In Washington Could Soon Have Cars Electronically Restricted Washington state has approved a new law targeting drivers with serious speeding violations by requiring them to use speed-limiting technology before regaining limited driving privileges, according to Slashgear.  The measure, House Bill 1596 — also called the BEAM Act — was created in response to a fatal 2024 crash that killed Boyd Buster Brown, Eloise […]

Iranian Opposition News Outlet Got $800 Million In Debt Relief: Report Via Middle East Eye An $870m debt-relief deal suggests that Iran International, an Iranian opposition outlet, has ties to Saudi Arabian investors, according to a Financial Times report on Thursday. The links stem from documents related to a debt-for-equity swap that Iran International conducted in December to shore up its finances. Iran International has spent […]

Meet America’s Largest Doomsday Bunker Community Vivos xPoint, a survivalist bunker community built on a former military munitions depot in South Dakota, was created as a refuge for people preparing for disasters such as nuclear war, pandemics, or societal collapse, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal. Marketed as “The Largest Survival Community on Earth,” the development offers long-term leases on converted […]

Maryland’s Glock Ban Aims At The Gun, Not The Criminal Authored by David Manney via PJ Media, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed SB 334 into law Tuesday, putting the state on a collision course with gun owners, firearm dealers, and 2nd Amendment groups. The law targets “machine gun convertible pistols,” mainly Glock-style semiauto handguns that use a cruciform trigger bar. Maryland lawmakers argue criminals can convert those […]

‘We Outright Grabbed The Wallets’: Bessent Boasts $1BN In Iran State Crypto Seized To Date Washington’s economic war on Iran and its ‘shadow’ banking network continues, as on Friday Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the US has seized $1 billion in Iranian cryptocurrency assets as part of the economic component of President Trump’s Operation Epic Fury. The billion dollar figure represents the running total seized to date, […]

Why Stable Systems Fail: The Illusion Of Institutional Control Authored by Luc Lelièvre via The Mises Institute, There is a persistent belief in modern political life that systems fail because they become fragile. Institutions, it is assumed, weaken under pressure and eventually break down. This intuition is not just incomplete—it is backward. Systems do not fail when they become fragile; they become fragile because they have […]

US Service Members Targeted Via Commercial Location Data, Pentagon Tells Senators Adversaries have used commercially-available location data to attack individual US service members in war zones, according to a report furnished by the Department of Defense to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, and first reported by Reuters. Wyden is a Democratic member of the Senate intelligence committee.  Responding to four questions Wyden had posed about […]

The Loophole That Put Drunk Truckers Back On The Road Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A federal database built to flag and remove drunk and drugged truckers from U.S. highways used the equivalent of an “honor system” as its last line of defense between a family in a minivan and a substance addict steering an 80,000-pound mass of steel. Trucks fuel up at the Love’s Truck Stop in Springville, Utah, on Dec. 1, 2021. George […]