Germany’s Climate Policy Has Moved From Politics To The Courts… And The Economy Is Paying The Price Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Germany is the political engine of the Green Deal, yet it continues to fall short of its own CO₂ reduction targets. Now Germany’s Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has ordered the federal government to tighten its climate targets by the end of March. The ruling follows a lawsuit filed by the […]

Visualizing The World’s Countries By Political System Nearly three-quarters of the world’s population now lives under autocratic rule, according to the V-Dem Institute’s 2024 Regimes of the World report. That’s the highest share since 1978. The map below, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, classifies every country into one of four political systems: closed autocracy, electoral autocracy, electoral democracy, or […]

Impoverishment Of Spaniards Is The Result Of Years Of Interventionist Policies Authored by Daniel Lacalle, Inflation, bloating GDP with public spending and immigration and hidden unemployment are the ingredients of the so-called “economic miracle” of the Sánchez administration. Spain closes 2025 with the consumer price index (CPI) rate above the euro area average and higher than all the large economies in Europe. […]

Russia Flexing Arctic Nuclear Muscle Along Finnish Border, Defense Minister Warns Arctic security is now central to Europe’s stability, Finland’s defense minister has said, warning that Russia is rebuilding Cold War–style military infrastructure along Finland’s border while fortifying its nuclear stronghold in the High North. He also made clear his view that United States military might is very much needed, at least in the […]

EU Prepares €4 Trillion Eurobond Push As Russia Eyes Dollar Comeback Submitted by Thomas Kolbe The European Union is steering purposefully toward the introduction of Eurobonds. At the preparatory EU summit at Alden Biesen Castle in Belgium, numerous signs suggest that the multi-billion-euro Draghi plan could soon be set in motion. At the same time, geopolitically, a possible Russian comeback is emerging as fresh trouble for […]

Voyages To The End Of The World: The Moral Costs Of Techno-Utopianism In their highly read First Things essay “Voyages to the End of the World,” Peter Thiel and Sam Wolfe use Francis Bacon’s utopian “New Atlantis” to argue that modern faith in unlimited technological progress has subtly redefined salvation as a human-controlled achievement rather than a divine gift, displacing religious understandings of human destiny with […]

US Air Force Moves To Quickly Restock 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters With tensions between Washington and Tehran soaring, the US Air Force has moved to restock its GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) bunker-buster bombs, which is the same weapons used in June during Operation Midnight Hammer, when several – some reports say over a dozen – were dropped on three Iranian nuclear facilities. Along with the ongoing US military […]

China’s Debt Model Creates Danger Of Stagnation Authored by Daniel Lacalle, The latest social financing figures from China show an economy that is increasingly relying on government debt while private demand for credit remains weak. The strength of the Chinese technology sector and its exporting companies gives enough room for leverage. However, behind the weak private sector credit demand lies an evident economic slowdown that […]

Kremlin’s Surprise Overture: Ready To Halt Airstrikes On Election Day If Zelensky Allows Vote Moscow just potentially created a big opening for Ukrainian elections to actually happen, with an unexpected overture: Russia is ready to ensure that there will be no airstrikes on election day in Ukraine if Kiev decides to hold elections, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin said an interview with TASS. However, the big […]

Indonesia To Send First 1,000 Troops To Gaza By April For ‘Stabilization Force’ Via Middle East Eye Indonesia is readying 1,000 troops to be deployed in Gaza as early as April as part of the UN-mandated International Stabilization Force, an army spokesperson said on Monday. A total of 8,000 Indonesian soldiers will be ready for deployment by June, while the final decision will be made by Indonesian President Prabowo […]

Kim Jong Un Gifts New Apartments To Families Of Soldiers Killed In Ukraine War Last summer North Korea began for the first time airing footage which provided public confirmation that it was receiving many of its soldiers home in coffins after they served alongside Russian forces in the context of the Ukraine war. It’s believed that the some ten to fourteen thousand DPRK troops dispatched to assist Moscow had primarily fought in […]

A Venezuelan-Like Oil Blockade Against Iran Could Enable The US To Divide-And-Rule RIC Authored by Andrew Korybko, The cascading consequences of such a blockade, which might not ultimately be imposed due it entailing a high risk of war with Iran, could simultaneously weaken Russia, India, and China. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump 2.0 is considering imposing a Venezuelan-like oil blockade against Iran. It hasn’t […]

Pelosi Appears To Have Picked Their Candidate For President In 2028 Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) may be retiring from Congress at the end of this term, but she’s not done trying to shape presidential races. The 85-year-old former House speaker has turned into what one former aide calls “a Gavin fan-girl,” deploying her legendary donor network and political capital to boost California Gov. Gavin Newsom as a 2028 White House […]

Why Your Personal Data Are Floating Around On The Darknet, Which Just Keeps Growing Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In June 2025, police in Europe shut down a darknet marketplace for drugs called Archetyp Market, which had more than 600,000 users, and the following month the FBI announced that Operation Grayskull had led to the sentencing of 18 offenders to a total of 300 years for offenses relating […]

“Meat Grinder”: Behind The Burnout And High Turnover Rates In The AI Industry Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, Across the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain, insiders describe a precarious, high-turnover workforce with limited support and stability. This “invisible” human labor that labels data, evaluates outputs, and filters harmful material has become a revolving door of talent that navigates […]

The Obama Administration’s Prostitution Scandal And The Ruemmler-Epstein Connection Remember Obama’s 2012 Colombian prostitution scandal? Turns out, Jeffrey Epstein was involved… Newly released Department of Justice documents from the Epstein files have exposed a previously unknown connection between a 2012 White House advance-team scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, and Kathryn Ruemmler – the former Obama White House counsel who […]

New Coalition Aims To Ban Vaccine Mandates Across US Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A new coalition composed of 15 groups, including an organization founded by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is taking aim at vaccine and mask mandates across the United States. Children’s Health Defense, the Kennedy-founded group, and other members of the Medical Freedom Act Coalition say they want every state to […]

The End Of Multiculturalism And The Liberal Utopian Fantasy The first and most important thing to understand about multiculturalism is that it is not an end goal.  Rather, it is a vehicle; the median step in a much larger agenda to erase sovereign cultures and strong national identities.  Once a population no longer has a cultural framework and a set of shared principles to hold onto, they are less likely to care when the borders […]

Coffee Tied To Lower Dementia Risk, Harvard-MIT Study Finds New research published in JAMA reveals a strong reason to feel even better about being three to four espressos deep before the cash market opens in New York.  Here’s the short version of the findings: Caffeinated coffee was linked to lower dementia risk. Comparing the highest vs lowest consumption groups, the study reported a hazard ratio of 0.82 (95% CI, 0.76 to […]

Epstein-itis Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “If you tolerate the intolerable, you’re communicating that it’s okay to mistreat you.” – Aimee Terese on X Did you think the American zeitgeist – our collective spirit plus our thinking – could not get crazier? Gird your loins. It’s getting worse by the hour. The Jeffrey Epstein files suggest that people will do anything and that people will believe anything. Pizza, […]

NASA Awards Next 2 Private Astronaut Missions To International Space Station Authored by T.J. Muscaro via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), NASA has awarded its next two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in as many weeks, marking a further expansion of the private sector in low Earth orbit and continuing Administrator Jared Isaacman’s intention to make the most use of the orbiting outpost. In this […]

Ship Orders From South Korea Are Surging Thanks To U.S. Fees On Chinese-Made Ships South Korea is tightening the race with China in global shipbuilding after U.S. plans to curb Chinese-built vessels disrupted order flows and redirected demand , according to Nikkei.  Worldwide new orders fell 27% in 2025 to 56.42 million compensated gross tonnage (CGT) — the first annual drop in two years — according to U.K.-based Clarksons […]

Strait Showdown: Iran Launches “Smart Control” Exercise At Oil Transit Point Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) kicked off naval drills Monday in the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, according to state media. The exercise, dubbed “Smart Control of Hormuz Strait,” is being carried out by IRGC naval forces under the direct supervision of the Guards’ top command, state television reported, with semi-official […]

Why Firing 9% Of The Federal Workforce Didn’t Move The Needle Authored by James Hickman via SchiffSovereign.com, In January 2025, the federal government employed about 3 million people. By November, that number had fallen by roughly 270,000 workers — a reduction of about 9%. According to the Cato Institute, that was the largest peacetime federal workforce reduction EVER. More than 150,000 employees took the “Fork in the […]

Waste Of The Day: Secret Settlements Get Taxpayer Money Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Eight Massachusetts state agencies and 13 colleges spent $6.8 million to settle grievances, partly in secret, brought by their own employees from 2019 to 2024, according to a Jan. 16 report from State Auditor Diana DiZoglio.  At least 80 of the 263 settlements contain confidentiality language such as a […]