Guyana: The Little Caribbean Country With A Big Role To Play In Trump’s Regional Shift Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, With the U.S. capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro in a bold Jan. 3 military raid and a large naval force still prowling the southern Caribbean to ensure that Maduro’s successors cooperate with the Trump administration, other subtle, but key, developments in the region can be overlooked. […]

Where People (Don’t) Reach For Alcohol-Free Alternatives 2026 has arrived, and like every year, many around the world will be using this new beginning to take New Year’s resolutions, often centered around health: exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, or maybe drinking less. Dry January, a month-long break from alcohol, was officially launched as a campaign in 2013 by Alcohol Change UK, a charity specialising in […]

Watch: NYC Protesters Chant “Kristi Noem will Hang!” and “Save a Life, Kill an ICE” The fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis has sparked outrage, and, predictably, a wave of protests dominated by the far-left’s inflammatory rhetoric. While the incident itself remains under investigation, with federal authorities asserting that Good charged at agents with her […]

Monsanto Sues COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturers, Alleging Copyright Infringement Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Bayer and its Monsanto division are suing COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers, alleging they used technology Monsanto developed and patented in the 1980s in their vaccines. Bayer said in lawsuits that Pfizer, its partner BioNTech, and Moderna wrongly used technology Monsanto developed and used to make plants […]

US Control Of Venezuela Could Last For Years, Trump Says The White House issued two interesting, and somewhat perplexing new statements on Venezuela amid the post-Maduro ‘transition’. First, the White House said Wednesday that the US would be “dictating” future decisions made by the Venezuelan government – which is now officially headed up by Acting President Delcy Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s VP since 2018, and is seen as a […]

Kimmel Claims Trump Wants To ‘Kill Americans’ Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Talk show loser Jimmy Kimmel unleashed another unhinged rant against President Trump during a monologue Wednesday, peddling the absurd narrative that Trump is out to “kill” citizens through ICE operations.  Fresh off a justified self-defense shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Kimmel twisted the facts to fuel leftist outrage, […]

Doug Casey On The Death Of Privacy… And What Comes Next Via International Man International Man: In practically every country, the allowable limit for cash withdrawals and transactions continues to be lowered. Further, rampant currency debasement is lowering the real value of these ridiculous limits. Why are governments so intent on phasing out cash? What is really behind this coordinated effort? Doug Casey: Let me draw […]

Border Patrol Agents Shoot Two People In Sanctuary City Portland U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two individuals in the sanctuary city of Portland on Thursday evening, according to local media. The incident comes one day after the ICE-involved shooting of an “ICE Watch” left-wing activist in Minneapolis on Wednesday. While details surrounding the Portland shooting remain scarce, the risk of overnight protests or riots […]

Pilot Who Landed Plane After Panel Blew Out Sues Boeing, Claims Company Unfairly Blamed Him An Alaska Airlines pilot who was universally praised as a hero after safely landing a Boeing jet after a door plug panel flew off shortly after takeoff is suing the company because he says the plane maker wrongly tried to blame him and the rest of the crew. The section of a Boeing 737 Max where a door plug fell while Alaska Airlines Flight […]

Woman Killed In Minneapolis Was “ICE Watch” Left-Wing Activist Trained To Resist Fed Agents: Report Update (1858): The New York Post reports that Renee Nicole Good was an anti-ICE “warrior” and part of a network of left-wing activists who worked to “document and resist” ICE operations in Minnesota.   Key details from the NYPost report: Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her […]

Trump Seeks $6 Million Legal Fee Reimbursement For Dismissed Georgia Election Case Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump is asking the state of Georgia to reimburse $6.26 million in attorney fees and costs he incurred defending against his now-dismissed election interference case in the state. (Left) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis at the Atlanta Police headquarters in Atlanta […]

NBC News Analysis Of ICE Shooting Video Opens Door To Self-Defense On Wednesday morning, during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis, 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good accelerated towards an ICE agent with her car, and he responded with lethal force. Good was shot and killed. Democrats and media figures rushed to condemn the shooting as an unjustified murder.  Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey claimed to have watched the […]

Trump Launches His Own QE: Directs GSEs To Purchase $200 Billion In Mortgage Bonds First, Trump short-circuited the Fed’s rate-cut process. Now he is going after QE by launching his own version of it.  In a post on late Thursday post on Truth Social, President Trump said he was directing the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds, which he framed as his latest effort to bring down housing costs ahead of the November midterm […]

Iran Plunged Into Internet Blackout, Protests Spread, As Trump Issues Fresh Warning By all accounts, protests and unrest have been spreading rapidly in Iran, now over a week-and-a-half into economic and anti-government protests which have begun to grind the country to a halt. On Thursday the demonstrations have disrupted life in the capital in a big way, and there are reports of nationwide internet and cellular outages. […]

US Online Holiday Shopping Hits Record $257.8 Billion: Adobe Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), U.S. online holiday shopping was a record in 2025, fueled by a strong Cyber Week, according to new data released on Jan. 7 by Adobe. Shoppers on Black Friday at a mall in Bethesda, Md., on Nov. 28, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Consumers spent $257.8 billion from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31, representing a 6.8 […]

Tulsi Gabbard Reportedly Kept In Dark On Venezuela Operation As Nation’s Intelligence Chief Longtime Tulsi Gabbard supporters have wondered why she has seemed to be missing in action in terms of weighing in on Trump’s militarily invading Venezuela to oust longtime socialist leader Nicolás Maduro, given that as a prior member of Congress before taking up the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) position, she had been quite vocal […]

How Dare You Fight Back Against Communists! Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us When we examine the historic nature of communist revolution, we have to look beyond our disgust for their motives and consider their strategies and the reasons why they tend to succeed. Because it is simply a fact that the western experiment of individual liberty and self determination is being systematically eroded by a storm of socialist […]

India Is Set To Be The G20 Growth Leader In 2026 The latest OECD Economic Outlook (December 2025) revealed that the global economy has proved resilient last year, even though fragilities remain, with a range of risks including “elevated policy uncertainty and rising barriers to trade”. According to the organization’s forecasts, global GDP growth is projected to slow down from 3.2 percent in 2025 to 2.9 percent in 2026. As Tristan […]

Texas Issues Warning About Unsolicited Seed Packages From China Authored by Dorothy Li via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Texas has warned residents not to plant what it calls “mysterious seeds” that arrived in unsolicited packages from China, as authorities investigate thousands of such reports across the state. Packages containing unknown seeds from China. Texas Department of Agriculture State authorities first became […]

Black Harvard Dean Fired After Anti-White, Anti-Police Social Media Posts Resurface A Harvard University dean has been removed after a student-run news outlet, the Yard Report, dug up old social media posts slamming whiteness, the cops, and advocating for looting and rioting.  eh… Gregory Davis, the former Dunster House Allston Burr resident dean, wrote the posts in question between 2019 and 2024 – mostly on X. He became dean […]

Lebanese Army Says Plan To Limit Weapons To State Forces At Advanced Stage Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Lebanese armed forces said on Jan. 8 that their plan to restrict weapons to official security agencies had entered an “advanced stage,” after expanding their presence across southern Lebanon. Members of the Lebanese army secure the area near the site of an Israeli strike, after […]

Did Dr. Spock’s Parenting Advice Kill 60,000 Babies? Authored by Ross Pomeroy via RealClearScience, Dr. Benjamin Spock is remembered as one of the foremost authorities on raising children. His influential and prolific books, first published in the mid-1940s, advised parents to be more affectionate and flexible with their young kids, countering what was then the entrenched norm of being rigid and aloof. Though most parents today […]

FDA Says Many Fitness Wearables, AI Tools Exempt From Regulation The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 6 clarified that it will not regulate some artificial intelligence (AI) tools and wearables. In a guidance document, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said tools used to help make clinical decisions are sometimes exempt from FDA oversight, such as those not intended to analyze medical images. In a second document, the […]

Data Centers Were 40% Of PJM Capacity Costs In Last Auction: Market Monitor Submitted by Ethan Howland of Utility Dive Data center load accounted for $6.5 billion, or 40%, of the $16.4 billion in costs from the PJM Interconnection’s December capacity auction, according to the grid operator’s independent market monitor. About $6.2 billion of those costs is related to data centers that haven’t been built but could come online […]

One Fell Swoop: Lawsuit Eyes Death Blow To Racial Preferences Authored by RealClear Investigations’ Benjamin Weingarten, Opponents of affirmative action hoped that the Supreme Court had delivered a death blow to the controversial policy in 2023 when Chief Justice John Roberts declared for the court’s majority that “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” But as sweeping as that pronouncement was, it […]