US Treasury Sanctions 14 Targets For Helping Iran Obtain Weapons Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Treasury Department on April 21 announced that it is imposing sanctions on 14 targets “for their involvement in helping the Iranian regime obtain weapons,” in contravention of international sanctions. “As the regime attempts to reconstitute its production capacity, the United States will continue to deplete […]

Conservative-Targeting SPLC Indicted By Trump DoJ For Fraudulently Funding KKK & Other Extremist Groups The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted on federal fraud charges that accused it of illegally raising millions of dollars to pay informants in white supremacist and other extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. An Alabama grand jury returned an indictment on April 21 with 11 counts of wire fraud, […]

NewMexit: Secession In The Southwest? Authored by Stephen Anderson via The Mises Institute, Lea and Roosevelt counties in the US state of New Mexico (NM) in 2026 are seeking to secede and join the state of Texas. “There was a state representative or two from New Mexico who were expressing frustration with the government in Santa Fe,” Texas State Representative Carl Tepper said. “They have expressed an interest in being […]

‘Eliminating Energy Blockade Top Priority’ As Cuba Confirms Direct Talks With US Cuba confirmed on April 20 that it recently held direct talks with U.S. officials in Havana, marking a rare diplomatic engagement as tensions persist over Washington’s long-standing economic restrictions on the communist nation. Alejandro Garcia del Toro, deputy director general for U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in […]

FBI Officially Investigating Reports Of Deaths, Disappearances Of US Scientists Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The FBI said it is leading federal efforts to investigate potential connections in reports of dead or missing U.S. scientists in recent years, coming days after President Donald Trump expressed alarm. “The FBI is spearheading the effort to look for connections into the missing and deceased scientists. We […]

Israel Says Hezbollah Fired Rockets, Breaching Lebanon Ceasefire Just as the Iran ceasefire seems on the brink of collapsing (though unilaterally extended late in the day Tuesday by Trump), so does the Lebanon one as well, as on Tuesday Israel accused Hezbollah of firing a new rocket volley at its IDF forces, effectively breaking the ceasefire. The Israel Defense Forces said Hezbollah targeted its troops in southern Lebanon, seeing […]

Democratic Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick Resigns Ahead of Ethics Committee Sanctions Hearing Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Fla.) resigned from Congress on Tuesday, stepping down hours before the House Ethics Committee was set to recommend a punishment for the 25 violations of campaign finance law and House rules it found her guilty of last month. The third-term Florida Democrat […]

A Reckoning Is Underway At The FDA Authored by Maryanne Demasi via The Brownstone Institute, For months, a quiet battle has been unfolding inside the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It began with an analysis of child deaths after Covid vaccination, followed by strategic leaks to major media outlets, and has now erupted into the open with a memo from the regulator’s own vaccine chief. In September, it […]

Whistleblower Says CIA Hid 2020 Election Threats To Help Biden For years, Democrats and the mainstream media treated 2020 as settled history: the system worked, the election was secure, and accusations of fraud were conspiracy theories. However, a newly declassified intelligence memo, paired with fresh whistleblower allegations, points in a less convenient direction.  Behind the scenes, U.S. intelligence warned well before the […]

This AI Warning Is A Myth; The Danger Is Not… Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times, You know this story. Drop a frog into boiling water, and it will scramble out immediately. But place that same frog in cool water, heat it slowly, and degree by degree, it will never notice the danger until it is too late. Most of us accept this without question. The problem is that the story is not true. It traces back to a German […]

Israeli Soldiers In Lebanon Who Sledgehammered Statue Of Jesus Arrested As Bibi Does Damage Control Earlier this week we featured commentary on a disturbing viral photograph: IDF Under Fire After Troops Caught Destroying Statue Of Jesus With Sledgehammer. The destruction of the statue took place in the Maronite Christian village of Debel, which is roughly 54 miles to the southeast of Beirut and situated just north of the border […]

Trump Blinks Again, Unilaterally Extends Iran Ceasefire After Pakistan Talks Fail To Launch Summary Trump unilaterally extends ceasefire after Vance calls off trip to Pakistan – says Iranian port blockade to remain in place. Tasnim says Iran’s ‘final decision’ is to not attend talks. Trump warns: ‘Expect…bombs’ & urges Tehran “release women” said to be on death row. Overnight, US forces conducted a right-of-visit, […]

All The Dream-Houses Of The Left Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The Left’s political imagination builds heroes, villains, and entire histories untethered from reality, substituting narrative for fact until it collapses under scrutiny. Pseudo-Heroes It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump […]

Domestic Flights To Resume In Iran Tuesday, Even As Ceasefire’s End Looms Large The two-week Iran ceasefire ends Wednesday, and President Trump is saying he doesn’t plan to extend it if a second round of talks in Pakistan fail. These Islamabad talks, it should be noted, have not so much as even gotten off the ground. President Trump has further said “lots of bombs” will fall if there is no deal, and if Iran doesn’t hand over its […]

Gold Vs An Erupting Financial Volcano Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via VonGreyerz.gold, Below, we look soberly at the historical case of gold in the backdrop of current headlines and a global financial system nearing an eruption moment.  Although the catalysts of oil, war, bond dysfunction, and bloated stocks may seem modern and unique, the current case for gold is as timeless and constant as nature itself. Volcanic […]

No Protection From Gulf Shock: World’s Biggest Condom Maker Warns Of Price Hikes The first-order effect of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the resulting shutdown of the Hormuz chokepoint was the disruption of global energy flows, from LNG to crude to refined products. The second-order effect was a spike in petrochemical prices and a widening shortage of key industrial inputs. Now the third-order effects are beginning to hit everyday […]

The Latest AI Developments In 60 Seconds As the tempo of AI newsflow approached the frenzied rollercoaster pace of geopolitical headlines during the biggest oil shock in decades, it’s becoming easy to get lost in all the latest developments and drama surrounding OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, government blacklists, the AI circle jerk, sentinent killer robots, and so on… To help readers keep on top of things, we are launching a brief […]

California School Excludes White Kids From Segregated ‘Social Justice’ Field Trip Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a stunning display of racial exclusion dressed up as “equity,” a California school district barred white students from a taxpayer-funded field trip centered on “social justice.” Albany Unified School District (AUSD) organized the overnight trip to Virginia exclusively for “young men and […]

US Senator Urges Delay Of CLARITY Act Senate Markup Until May: Report Authored by Brayden Lindrea via CoinTelegraph.com, A US senator has reportedly urged Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott to delay the markup for the crypto market structure bill until May, as banking and crypto representatives need more time to resolve disagreements over stablecoin yield provisions. US Republican Thom Tillis of North Carolina told reporters Monday […]

AI “Circle Jerk” Returns: Anthropic To Spend $100 Billion On AWS In Amazon Deal Circular AI vendor financing is back and back in a big way… As we noted last fall, when we walked readers through the stunning math behind what we called the AI “circle jerk,” this latest iteration centers on Amazon and Anthropic, with the left-leaning AI company now committing to spend more than $100 billion over the next decade on AWS […]

Watch Live: Warsh Blasts Fed’s ‘Fatal Policy Error’ On Inflation, Pledges Strict Independence As Tillis Confirms Hold On Fed Chair Nomination Latest:  Warsh labeled the Fed’s 2021-2022 response a “fatal policy error” on inflation. He demands a new policy framework, tools, and major communications reform. Warsh rejects forward guidance and refuses to preview future rate moves. Price stability exists when no one talks about […]

ActBlue Employees Invoked Fifth Amendment 146 Times During House Probe Authored by Bryan Hyde via American Greatness, The House Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees has released a joint interim staff report on its investigation into alleged donor fraud by ActBlue. According to Breitbart, the report released Monday says five current and former employees of the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue took the Fifth […]

Trump Cryptically References US Intercepted Chinese ‘Gift’ To Iran President Trump made an interesting and somewhat cryptic China reference in a series of Tuesday morning Iran-related statements, given to CNBC. He stated that US forces recently intercepted a vessel carrying what he described as a “gift” from China to Iran as Tehran seeks to rebuild its military during a ceasefire. via Flickr The ship had “a gift from China” which […]

Oil Spikes, Stocks Suddenly Dump During Warsh Hearing It’s unclear what exactly is driving but the markets are reverting back to old habits this morning with oil spiking… …dragging Treasury yields higher… Stocks are tanking… And so is gold… There were no obvious geopolitical headline catalysts for the move – though uncertainty remains high about the next 24-48 hours in the Middle East. Some have suggested the […]

Wheat Spread Blows Out As Drought Chaos Plagues America’s Breadbasket Hard red winter wheat (HRW) futures widened to their largest premium over soft red wheat (SRW) in more than two years as severe drought intensified across key breadbasket regions in the Great Plains and Midwest. This means traders are pricing in weather impacts and tightening expectations for higher-protein wheat supplies. It is important to note that HRW is a […]