What Makes A Great Entrepreneur? Lessons From The Greats Authored by Rainer Zitelmann via RealClearMarkets, What personality traits distinguish successful entrepreneurs? This question has occupied academic research on entrepreneurship for decades, with scholars examining the relationship between personality traits and entrepreneurial success. When we want to understand or recognize something, we often do so by making […]

Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into ‘Jan 6’ Investigation Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to reject the BBC’s attempt to subpoena three members of his family as part of discovery in his defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. Trump’s attorneys filed a memorandum Aug. 21 opposing the BBC’s request for permission to use alternative methods to […]

Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A court on Aug. 18 effectively ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the last of 13 nationalities that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted during President Donald Trump’s second term. In total, more than a million foreign nationals living in the United States with such deportation protections are now up for […]

Karmelo Anthony Request For New Trial Denied After Disturbing Revelations The narrative of the innocent black kid standing up to “white bullies” is falling apart.  Karmelo Anthony, age 19, was convicted in June 2026 of murdering 17-year-old Austin Metcalf (who was also 17 at the time) by fatally stabbing him in the chest during a confrontation at a high school track meet in April 2025.  A Collin County jury sentenced him to 35 […]

WHO Says Pandemic Determinations Can Be Made Without ‘Evidence Of Illness’ Authored by Jon Fleetwood via Modernity News, The World Health Organization (WHO) says evidence that a person is actually sick is not required for a “laboratory-confirmed” human influenza infection with “the potential to cause a pandemic” to trigger mandatory international reporting. “Evidence of illness is not required for this report,” WHO states in its […]

The Fed Owns Over 50% Of All Bonds Maturing Between 10 And 15 Years From Now Submitted by Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Treasuries, Treaties, and Treatises Let’s start with Treasuries. We laid out the approach we would take if we were Warsh last weekend in Warsh’s Mark Antony Moment (a play on coming to “bury” inflation, yet having quite the opposite effect, at least in terms of interest rate policy).  After […]

Did Canada Just Sign Its Own Economic Death Warrant? Canadian Prime Minister and WEF globalist Mark Carney has been a disaster for Canada since he entered office.  There were many critics who believed the Trudeau regime could not be topped in terms of self destructive behavior, but one could easily argue that Carney is far more dangerous and far more devious. This week the Canadian government abandoned a nearly finalized trade […]

Azerbaijan Sues CNN Over Story On Cooperation With Israel In War On Iran Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a novel (and highly dubious) lawsuit filed in Delaware by the nation of Azerbaijan against CNN for a story claiming that it was cooperating with Israel in attacks on Iran. Republic of Azerbaijan v. CNN, Inc. borders on the legally frivolous, but it is likely politically advantageous to show Iran that it contests the […]

“Civilizational Suicide”: China’s Humanoids Sprint Ahead As Americans Fight Over Data Center And Socialism The five-day 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games at Beijing’s National Speed Skating Oval are well underway, and on Saturday, an AI-powered humanoid robot reached 14.5 meters per second, or 32.5 mph. china’s AI robot just hit 14.5 m/s pic.twitter.com/0K4wQ4g9pB — el.cine (@EHuanglu) August 22, 2026 More than 2,000 humanoid […]

The Great Burrito Debate And The Uncomfortable Solution To Inflation Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Recently one of the most important debates in the history of conservative discourse raged across the internet, with sides deeply divided and solutions rare or nonexistent. This debate went largely unnoticed by the rest of the country but it regards the deepest underlying foundations of our economic future. I am […]

Death Of Europe’s Industrial Base: VW CEO Set To Announce 50,000 Job Cuts Europe’s industrial demise has become impossible to ignore. The continent’s automotive manufacturing base is being hollowed out by high energy costs, regulatory pressure, and a flood of cheap Chinese electric vehicles, with Germany, once Europe’s industrial powerhouse, emerging as the epicenter of this terrible decline. Germany’s largest manufacturer by […]

Alfalfa Sprouts Linked To Bacterial Infections In 15 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A total of 55 people have been infected with E. coli and Salmonella across 15 states in an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Fresh homegrown Alfalfa or Lucerne Medicago sativa sprouts in white bowl. Courtesy of the CDC Of those 55 people, 46 were infected with Shiga […]

Taiwan Tech Insiders Warn Beijing’s Germanium Squeeze Is Hitting Production Nikkei Asia reports that China is restricting or delaying exports of germanium- and quartz-based materials to Taiwan, creating “painful supply-chain bottlenecks” across the island’s key aerospace, semiconductor, and optical companies. The supply disruptions reinforce the urgent need for the US and its allies to accelerate supply-chain decoupling and secure […]

“Iran Is Losing Its Grip On Hormuz”: Strait Traffic Explodes Nearly 400% Summary: Nearly 200 Ships Navigated Strait Last Week, Up From 150 the Previous Week Trump Views Hormuz As “an American Territory”  Axios: 40 Tankers Transited Hormuz Friday Night, But Real Crisis Is Diesel Hormuz Commercial Traffic Surges  Shortly after President Trump declared the Strait of Hormuz “an American territory” on Friday evening, the New York […]

Georgia Refuses To Adopt EU Sanctions On Iran Citing ‘National Interests’ Via The Cradle Georgia officially refused to implement the EU’s newest sanctions against Iran, Interpress news reported on this week, with Tengiz Sharmanashvili, a member of parliament for the ruling Georgian Dream party, saying Tbilisi backs international measures only when they serve Georgian interests. “If it goes against Georgia’s interests, we do not […]

Turkey & Israel On Brink Of Military Clash After Netanyahu Ordered Strikes On Syrian Airbase At a moment of the ongoing Iran conflict, Israel and Turkey are escalating their competing claims and rhetoric over Syria, to the point that full-blown war is being threatened. NBC writes of the irony of two American regional allies on the brink: “A pair of key American allies, an attack on a strategic military base and an intense […]

Spain’s Pools Hit By Disgusting ‘Brown Challenge’ TikTok Filth Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spain’s peak summer season has been disrupted once again by a revolting viral trend that has forced the closure of swimming pools and waterparks across the country, leaving families stranded and facilities scrubbed clean at public expense. At PortAventura World’s Caribe Aquatic Park on the Costa Dorada this week, […]

Escobar: How Trump Tried To Bribe The Head Of The IRGC Authored by Pepe Escobar, Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes. Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe. A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having “won” the war on Iran countless times, at least in the Vociferation […]

Visualizing Every US State’s Economy Matched To A Country America’s largest state economies rank alongside some of the biggest economies in the world. Even further down the list, many individual states produce hundreds of billions of dollars in economic output each year. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, pairs each U.S. state with the country closest to it in nominal gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025, using data […]

When The Rule Of Law Fails Authored by Madge Waggy, What follows emerges from seventeen months of examination into procedural collapses, constitutional erosions, and institutional betrayals that have accelerated beyond the capacity of conventional reportage to capture. Sources include former jurists who resigned rather than participate in predetermined outcomes, law enforcement officials who documented unlawful commands, and […]

Inside America’s Drone Arms Race: What Industry Experts See Ahead Of Procurement Supercycle Our coverage of America’s Group 1 to Group 3 drone industry has centered on Unusual Machines and Ondas, two companies positioned to reap the benefits from what could become a historic procurement cycle next year. The catalyst is the Department of War’s Defense Autonomous Warfare Group, which is preparing to direct $55 billion toward […]

Family Structure Determines Kids’ Success In School More Than Race Or Income, Researchers Say Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, While universities debate whether to skip standardized admissions tests and the University of Michigan waives first-term grades for some incoming students, new research suggests that relaxing standards might not be the best way to help kids who are struggling in school. A science teacher […]

US Navy Live-Fire Tests Drone Sailboat With Missile Launcher Once known primarily for capturing dramatic footage from inside hurricanes and tropical storms during the Atlantic hurricane season, Saildrone’s autonomous surface vessels have evolved into dual-use platforms that recently demonstrated the ability to deploy Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM). California-based Saildrone revealed in a press release that its unmanned […]

For Decades, The United States Ignored Latin America. All That Changed Under Trump. Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, In a pre-dawn raid in January, Delta Force soldiers burst in on a sleeping Nicolás Maduro, capturing the Venezuelan leader wanted on U.S. narco-terrorism charges. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Public Domain The dramatic end of Maduro’s control over a country emblematic of […]

IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Internal Revenue Service has announced interest rates for tax underpayments and overpayments for the fourth quarter of 2026, keeping them at 7 percent for individual taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service in Washington on Jan. 6, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times When taxpayers do not pay taxes, […]