How Global Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 45 Years Over the past four decades, the global economic hierarchy has undergone profound change. Some economies have grown steadily, others have surged, and a few have slipped down the rankings as new players emerged. In the following visualization, Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte charts the world’s top economies from 1980 to 2025. The data for this visualization comes […]

Turkey To Launch First Overseas Deepwater Exploration Project Off Somalia Via The Cradle Tukey is planning to send a drilling vessel to Somalia this February to begin its first deep water exploration project abroad, Energy Minister ‌Alparslan Bayraktar said on Friday. The minister said the operation with the Cagri Bey drilling vessel will focus on offshore areas in Somalia’s waters, but did not elaborate further. Ankara […]

Far-Left Radicals Attack F-35 Stealth Jet’s UK Supply Chain Far-left activists targeted a critical supply chain node supporting the F-35 stealth fighter jet program, an attack that directly undermines Western national security interests and raises questions about whether foreign adversaries provided material support. Stu Smith, an investigative analyst and researcher focused on extremism, influence networks, and transnational […]

Germany’s Family Businesses Warn: Taxes, Energy Costs, And Bureaucracy Are Killing Competitiveness Submitted by Thomas Kolbe At the turn of the year, the Foundation for Family Businesses, together with the ifo Institute, presented a corporate survey on tax policy and location attractiveness. The result is unequivocal: Germany is too expensive and no longer competitive as a business location. There is nothing new under the sun. In […]

US Forces Strike Venezuela, Trump Reveals Maduro Has Been “Captured” The Venezuelan capital of Caracas was hit with overnight shock and awe after military operations resulted in extensive infrastructure damage and power outages. The scope of the operation is not yet clear, but a US official told Reuters Saturday morning on condition of anonymity that the strikes were indeed being carried out by the US military. Initial reports […]

“Then It Is War”: Elon Musk Responds After Somali TikToker Threatens His Life A Somali TikToker (account now defunct), first highlighted by Libs of TikTok, mocked Americans about alleged Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota and pushed dangerous rhetoric suggesting Elon Musk was “about to die.” Such statements fit a broader alarming pattern surrounding the Democratic Party’s normalization of assassination culture against Musk and […]

Ex-CIA Analyst: Neocons Prematurely Celebrate Over Protests In Iran Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson Western media, especially those outlets firmly aligned with the neoconservative view, are quick to jump on reports of protests in Iran as a sign that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to implode. Events today in Iran provided another spurt of arousal among neocons longing to bring back the Shah and eliminate the […]

Beijing Wants Babies: Condoms, Contraceptive Drugs Hit With Double-Digit Tax To Boost Birth Rate In an effort to reverse China’s sagging birth rate, Beijing has removed a three-decade tax exemption on contraceptives starting Jan. 1, when condoms and contraceptive pills will now incur a value-added tax of 13%, the standard rate for most consumer goods.  The move comes after 2024 data marked the third consecutive year that birth […]

Russia Expands Biometric ID System… Again Authored by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, The commercial enterprise that controls Russians’ biometric data has introduced new ways to use your face as a form of ID, resulting in unprecedented levels of safety and convenience in the Russian Federation. Russians young and old are already reaping the benefits of their country’s “digital transformation”—including very, […]

Back To Our Roots. If Baby Boomers Did It, So Can We… Peak winter in the Lower 48 typically occurs around mid-January, while the U.S. growing season generally begins in late March or early April. With affordability increasingly top of mind and food inflation proving sticky, it is worth remembering that our grandparents – or even our parents, in some cases – turned to “victory gardens” during World War II, which supplied about 40% […]

Setting Up The 2026 Midterms Authored by J.T.Young via American Greatness, Ten months ahead of November’s midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevails will greatly shape the next two years. And possibly even longer. Midterm elections are always important. Besides gauging the country’s political mood, they have proven integral to maintaining America’s political […]

US Reissues Urgent ‘Do Not Travel’ Warning For Russia, As NYT Confirms CIA’s Escalating Involvement The US State Department has once once again re-issued an urgent advisory warning Americans not to travel to Russia. The renewed travel advisory also tells any American citizens currently in Russia to depart immediately. It cites the danger associated with the ongoing war with Ukraine, as well as the significant risk of wrongful […]

Sorry, Zohran, We’re Kind Of Done With The “Warmth Of Collectivism” Authored by Sasha Stone via sashastone.com, In his swearing-in ceremony, the new Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, said, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” MAYOR MAMDANI: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” pic.twitter.com/3LIOVHdKSy — Fox News […]

OnlyFans Model Gets Baptized, Reconnects With Jesus After Sex Spree  A viral video shows OnlyFans content creator Lily Phillips taking part in a baptism ceremony, saying she has “found Jesus” and now feels “closer to God.” British adult OnlyFans content creator Phillips is known for a series of sensational stunts, including reportedly outdoing fellow OF creator Bonnie Blue by sleeping with more than 1,100 men.  The baptism […]

SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, & The Race To Scale Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, The shift to Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) is driven by rising global electricity demand, especially from AI data centers, and the limitations of intermittent renewable energy sources, positioning nuclear as the essential source of 24/7 “firm” baseload power. SMRs bypass the financial risks of […]

America’s Top New Year’s Resolutions For 2026 Exercising more is top of mind for many Americans making resolutions for 2026. As Anna Fleck reports, data from a recent survey by Statista shows that close to half of U.S. adults are committing to the fitness goal. You will find more infographics at Statista Vows to save more money, eat healthier, spend more time with family and friends and lose weight were the next most […]

Dropping The Façade: Propaganda, Power, & The Absurdity Of Empire Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, Whenever you see a coordinated full-frontal assault, a blizzard of the same rhetoric all focused on an end result with a particular narrative attached, you know that it is pure unadulterated propaganda. Recall the Covid scam and every channel parroting the same lines… “Safe and effective” and […]

Brookfield Enters Data Center Game With Its Own Nuclear Power In the latest sign that the AI data center buildout party is reaching dizzying heights, The Information reports that private equity firm Brookfield is launching its own cloud computing business to challenge the hyperscaler oligopoly of Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. The real highlight may not be the fact that a non-tech company is crossing over from facility leasing to […]

MN Lawmaker: Walz Team Threatened Whistleblowers With “Racism” & “Islamophobia” Slurs To Hide Somali Fraud Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Minnesota State Rep. Kristin Robbins has unleashed a stunning revelation, confirming that credible whistleblowers came forward with evidence that Gov. Tim Walz and his administration used threats of “racism” and “Islamophobia” labels to suppress exposures of massive […]

FBI Thwarts ISIS-Inspired New Year’s Eve Terror Plot In North Carolina The FBI said it foiled an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve terror attack in North Carolina. Suspect Christian Sturdivant, 18, was arrested on Dec. 31 and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson said at a Jan. 2 press conference. Sturdivant […]

Maduro Open To US Talks On Drug-Trafficking Authored by Rachel Roberts via The Epoch Times, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said he is open to talks with the United States to combat drug trafficking, but did not comment on last week’s U.S. strikes on a docking facility. Maduro made his comments in an interview aired Thursday on Venezuelan state television, repeating his claim that the United States is trying to force a […]

Kathy Hochul Caves On ‘No Tax On Tips’ Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill made a straightforward promise: more money in workers’ pockets. The plan eliminated the federal tax on tips and overtime pay for linemen and factory workers, and created a new deduction for seniors relying on Social Security. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called it “the most pro-worker, pro-family legislation in a generation.”  However, several […]

5 Things To Know About Trump’s Education Policy Rollout Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump prioritized education reform during his 2024 campaign and went to work quickly after taking the oath of office. President Trump, joined by female athletes, signs the “No Men in Women’s Sports” executive order in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 5, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty […]

A Lot Has Gone Terribly Wrong… Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Forecast 2026: In The Vortex Of The Whirl “Whirl is King” – Wm Shakespeare 2026 is the 250th anniversary of our country’s conception. A few years later when the Constitution was ratified, we became a republic — “if you can keep it,” Ben Franklin cracked to anxious citizens waiting outside the great hall in Philadelphia. Our country was predicated […]

Court Reinstates School District Employees’ Free Speech Lawsuit Over Anti-Racism Training Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A divided federal appeals court voted to revive a lawsuit by school district employees who say they were forced to self-censor and make statements they disagreed with to finish so-called anti-racism training. On Dec. 30, 2025, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit voted 6–5 in […]