The Telephone, Political Entrepreneurship, And Theodore M. Vail Authored by Joshua Mawhorter via Mises Institute, Originally, this article was intended to be an exploration as to how-after a period of initial patent monopoly and an all-too-brief episode of freer market competition-cronyism reestablished a telephone monopoly that would last for decades. While such an article is worthwhile and hopefully forthcoming, I was struck by […]

Rise And Fall Of “Climate Crisis” Info War As Dems Urge Politicians To Avoid Global Warming Talk The “climate crisis” headlines forced down the throats of the American people only began to emerge when socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and unhinged leftist Sen. Ed Markey introduced the Green New Deal in early 2019. That was the moment when global-warming headlines spiked and the NGO complex ramped up activist networks through […]

US Forces Sink Vessel Providing At-Sea Refueling For Cartel: SOUTHCOM Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, U.S. forces, on Aug. 28, sank a vessel in the eastern Pacific that the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said was serving as an at-sea refueling point for drug-trafficking boats. A vessel suspected of providing at-sea refueling for drug traffickers burns after being targeted by U.S. forces on Aug. 28, 2026. U.S. […]

These Are The World’s Safest (And Least Safe) Cities Doha ranks as the safest major city in the world in 2026, while Caracas sits at the opposite end of the ranking. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, compares the world’s safest and least safe major cities using Numbeo’s 2026 Safety Index. Scores are based on five years of user submissions covering perceptions of crime, personal safety, property crime, and […]

Central Asia Resists US Pressure To Choose Sides In AI Race Authored by Eurasianet via OilPrice, Kazakhstan is continuing to expand AI cooperation with China even after joining the US-led Pax Silica initiative. Uzbekistan says it wants access to both cutting-edge American technology and lower-cost Chinese AI models rather than choosing between them. Their positions illustrate the difficulty Washington faces in persuading Central […]

Russia Hits Kiev Ammo Dump Next To Homes; Ukraine Admits 90% Of Retail Food Logistics Wrecked A Russian drone struck a Ukrainian Defense Forces ammunition storage site in the village of Myla Friday evening, just west of Kiev. The resulting fire and hours of secondary detonations killed at least 37 people, injured dozens more, damaged around 50 residential buildings and a care home for the elderly and disabled, and forced the […]

Federal Court Rules Sexual AI Images Of Children Are Legal To Possess Perhaps sometimes it’s best for judges to ignore technical loopholes and rigid legal precedent for the sake of doing the right thing?  Maybe, in extreme cases where absolute evil is involved, our system could dismiss the “rights of artists” and enforce restrictions based on the potential long term damage to society as a whole?  Yes, the constitutional […]

What Do “Capitalism” And “Socialism” Really Mean? Authored by Vincent Cook via Mises Institute, The old debate between socialism and capitalism is back. It wasn’t that long ago when socialist economics had been repudiated even by former Soviet insiders, businesses like Wendy’s and Miller ran clever television advertisements poking fun at the once-mighty but by then grossly dysfunctional Soviet Union, and the remaining leftist […]

Pentagon Grabs 35% Equity Stake In Venezuelan Oil As Trump Vows To “Fill Up” The SPR Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez on Saturday evening unveiled further details of the grand US oil deal that was announced by President Trump on Friday, detailing that her country will receive about $19 per barrel of oil produced under the long-term energy deal. Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s #2 as VP before the former president’s overthrow by […]

Opportunity Lost? Gained? Squandered? Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Another week with so many competing narratives driving markets. The information flow was coming so fast and furious that it is difficult to believe that Economic D-Day kicked off the week (it already seems longer than that). Today, we will take a quick romp through how things seem to be playing out. Opportunities Lost? As anyone reading recent […]

State Department Revokes Visa Of Iraqi National On FBI Terror Watchlist Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, The State Department has revoked the visa of an Iraqi national who was placed on the FBI’s Terror Watchlist, ending her ability to enter the United States years after she received a high-profile award from the Biden administration. The U.S. Department of State in Washington on March 28, 2025.Madalina Vasiliu/The […]

The Mother Of All Mean Reversions: Commodities Have Never Been This Cheap Versus Stocks Across Wall Street, from Barclays and UBS to HSBC, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, a common view is taking shape: physical scarcity is emerging across multiple commodity classes, driving prices sharply higher and signaling a broader hard-asset squeeze. Last week, UBS strategist Sagar Khandelwal issued a similar call heard across Wall Street, telling […]

Pentagon Strikes Iranian Island Target, In First US Military Action In Weeks Update(1615ET): Things have been quiet for many days and weeks on the military front when it comes to the Iran war, but on Sunday there are some emerging reports of new but limited US strikes. According to the latest late Sunday from Axios: Senior American official: Earlier today, American forces attacked two Iranian launchers on Larzac Island. […]

AI’s China Syndrome: Who Will Control The World’s Newest Energy? Authored by J.T. Young via Substack, Ceding leadership in AI to China’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP), what could go wrong? Just about everything. Yet that is precisely what some here in the U.S.-and all in Beijing-want to occur. America is currently being swept by misguided attempts to curtail AI’s development and the development of the data centers on which AI’s […]

‘No End In Sight’: Democrats Make Trump Foreign Policy A Central Issue After 6-Months Of Iran War Via Middle East Eye US Democrats on Friday slammed the Trump administration for dragging out the war on Iran to its six month anniversary, warning Republicans would pay the price in the upcoming midterm elections. The joint US-Israeli attack on Iran, beginning on February 28, was initially meant to last a few weeks, by President […]

“Profound Game-Changer”: Musk Launching New Turbine Blade Factory To Solve Shortage Threatening AI Boom SpaceX is making an aggressive push into the power generation market, with The Information reporting that Elon Musk is preparing to address one of the most critical bottlenecks threatening America’s data-center buildout: the shortage of advanced gas turbine components, particularly the blades and vanes needed to power massive […]

Iceland Voters Reject Reopening Talks To Join European Union Iceland voters on Saturday rejected a proposal to reopen negotiations to join the European Union, after the island nation of some 400,000 people chose to maintain independence after shelving its membership bid more than a decade ago. Supporters of the ‘No’ campaign wave Icelandic flags during a rally against reopening Iceland’s European Union accession negotiations in […]

Druckenmiller Warning: The Bond Market Already Priced It Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Recently, Stanley Druckenmiller wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal. The “Druckenmiller warning” hit on August 24, and within a day, the financial press turned it into a soap opera. Some of the headlines were “Mentor scolds protégé,” and “Billionaire slams the Treasury […]

CIA Director Pushed Trump-Putin-Zelensky Summit During Moscow Visit: Report Yet another take has been issued, and more alleged details, on CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s Tuesday trip to Moscow, which took place amid great secrecy and still even days later has only been subject of immense speculation. Axios is reporting over the weekend that the CIA chief proposed a trilateral meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, US […]

Fly British Flags In UK And Face Jail… But Pakistan And Palestine Flags Get A Pass Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Britain’s largest local authority has spent a year treating the Union Flag and the St George’s Cross as a public-order problem. On Saturday the picture sharpened again: the legal squeeze now circulating around Birmingham’s flag war is being described as a ban aimed at England and the United Kingdom, […]

El Nino Fuels Atlantic Hurricane Drought As Dolly Eyes Florida The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season has yet to produce its first hurricane, putting the Atlantic Basin within reach of its latest start on record. There’s a big reason for this: The intensifying El Niño is largely responsible for the strong wind shear that disrupts tropical system development. Four named tropical storms have formed through late August, including […]

Taxpayers Lost $65 Billion On Obamacare Fraud Last Year Taxpayers spent $65 billion on health insurance premiums for people who either didn’t exist or didn’t qualify for benefits in two federal programs in 2024, according to an Aug. 26 report from Paragon Health Institute. Expanded Medicaid and Obamacare, the signature programs of the Affordable Care Act, improperly enrolled a combined 14.3 million people that year, researchers […]

Poland, US Discuss Establishing Permanent American Military Bases Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Poland and Pentagon officials are in discussions about possibly locating several American military bases in the country, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Zalewski said after a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels Aug. 27. Zalewski said he met with Pentagon policy chief Elbridge […]

Canada Is Poaching America’s Top Scientists Canada is taking advantage of growing uncertainty within the US academic system by offering hundreds of millions of dollars to researchers willing to move north, according to Bloomberg. The Canadian government has committed C$504 million, or roughly $362 million, to support 64 scientists and scholars joining universities across the country. Three quarters of the recruits currently work […]

An Illegal Migrant Tried To Saw Off A Man’s Head; You Won’t Believe What The BBC Did Next… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, A leaked internal email shows a senior BBC executive reaching for the language of “solidarity” after a Sudanese asylum seeker was charged with trying to brutally murder a Northern Irish man in the street. The corporation’s instinct was not to dwell on the victim, but instead to soothe colleagues […]