Erdogan’s Ottoman Gambit: Turkey Prepares For New Regional Order Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, Turkey is simultaneously dumping US Treasuries, deepening Russia’s energy embrace, rolling out a tax regime to poach capital fleeing the Gulf… and squaring off against an Israeli political class that now speaks openly of Turkey as an enemy. It’s strategic. Turkey sold nearly all of its US Treasury holdings […]

Kazakhstan Restarts CPC Oil Exports After Week-Long Black Sea Shutdown Kazakhstan has resumed crude exports through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) on Monday after the operator reopened its Black Sea marine terminal and resumed accepting crude from producers following a week-long suspension triggered by drone attacks, Kazakhstan’s Astana Times reported.  Two tankers were loading crude from the Chevron-led Tengizchevroil […]

The ‘Southern Front’ Of The Ukrainian Conflict Is Heating Up Authored by Andrew Korybko, The most recent phase of the Ukrainian Conflict has been characterized by the “war of attrition” that the US has been waging against Russia through Ukraine after Trump decided to “escalate to de-escalate”. This has thus far taken the form of drone strikes against energy infrastructure, online retailers, and maritime shipping in the […]

How Total Surveillance Conquered The Last Sanctuary Of Human Privacy Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, The following investigation contains verified facts, classified document references, and eyewitness testimony that some readers may find deeply disturbing. We have cross-referenced all statistical claims with official government disclosures, Freedom of Information Act releases, and whistleblower documentation. However, […]

Awkward: Trump Hails ‘Tremendous’ Ally Turkey, Knocks Israel Before Hosting Netanyahu Less than 24 hours before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to meet with the US President at the White House Tuesday, and Trump not-so-subtly put the Israeli leader in his place while fielding questions from reporters aboard Air Force One. Trump was asked about Netanyahu’s very public and long-stated opposition to Washington […]

Houthi Threats Force Saudi Crude Tanker Onto Suez Route To Asia By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com The Houthi threats to shipping in the Red Sea and its chokepoint, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, have forced at least one oil tanker carrying Saudi crude to Asia to choose the much longer route through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean, and around Africa. The supertanker Olympic Luck, partially laden with Saudi crude at Yanbu on the […]

Feds Charge Atlanta Man Who Gave Border Agents ‘Self-Destruct’ Password For Phone A federal judge in Atlanta is weighing whether to throw out the evidence in what appears to be the first US prosecution of a traveler over a phone’s built-in “duress password” – a privacy feature that erases a device when the wrong code is entered. Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident and US citizen, was charged under 18 U.S.C. § 2232(a), which […]

Utility Profits In The Crosshairs Amid Affordability Concerns By Herman Trabish of UtilityDive,Last month, protesters angry over high electricity costs disrupted a Las Vegas conference of executives for the nation’s biggest investor-owned utilities — a vivid example of growing public outrage that has forced the industry to again defend their legally guaranteed profit margins.  As affordability concerns increase political […]

Inside America’s Left: Mapping The Five Factions Battling For Power Many transformations are unfolding within America’s political left, and its shifting factions can be difficult to track. The Democratic establishment is fighting to preserve its grip on power as progressives and reformist socialists gain ground in local elections, with some openly promoting the dismantling of capitalism and adopting increasingly hostile rhetoric […]

Washington Gets A Win After Post-Maduro Venezuela Withdraws From ICC Via Middle East Eye The US has welcomed a decision by the new Venezuelan government to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC). In a post on X, the US State Department hailed the move as marking a “partnership on American-led efforts to dismantle the corrupt and worthless ICC.” It pointed to an investigation by the court into former […]

Ex-Wife In Korea’s $645M “Divorce Of The Century” Gets Iced Out Of AI Boom A Seoul court has ordered SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won to pay his ex-wife 944 billion won ($645 million), in the largest divorce award in South Korean history. And while the figure is a record, it was calculated against a stock price more than two years old – before it went ballistic in the AI boom.  Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group. Lee […]

The Left Is Using Kids As A Trojan Horse For Total Online Surveillance Authored by Lewis Dovland via American Thinker, It is the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook. Anytime a Democrat politician looks into a television camera and declares a new policy is “for the kids,” history tells us it is time to do three things: grab your Bill of Rights, lock your wallet, and check your firearms. The political left has mastered the […]

Taxpayer Millions Couldn’t Stop Seven Save A Lot Grocery Stores From Going Dark In Crime-Ridden Chicago Save A Lot shuttered seven locations across Chicago’s crime-ridden South and West sides over the weekend, once again exposing the dysfunction of a metro area run by unhinged progressives. City officials poured millions of dollars into the grocery outlets in hopes of improving food access, only to watch the stores remain […]

Los Angeles Mayoral Candidates Spar Over Response To Rise In Homelessness Authored by City News Service via The Epoch Times, Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger in the Nov. 3 election, Councilmember Nithya Raman, criticized one another on July 24 over the increase in homelessness in Los Angeles. Homeless tents are seen in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles on June 11, 2026. Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images Homelessness […]

Mitch McConnell Pokes Head Out Of Shell With New ‘Proof Of Life’ Pic From Rehab Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday ‘said’ he’s undergoing physical therapy, but that he hasn’t been medically cleared to leave rehab after being admitted to the hospital after his June 14 fall.  “I’m still working hard to get back to my full schedule of work in the Senate and in Kentucky, keeping up with intense physical therapy per my doctors’ […]

YouTube, Instagram, And The Future Of Ministry Authored by Van Mylar via RealClearReligion, Meta is testing Instagram on television. Pinterest has acquired a connected-TV ad-buying platform. Social media content is becoming one of the most-watched video types on American television. And YouTube is leading the way, with tens of millions of Americans now watching YouTube on the biggest screen in the house. YouTube’s move into […]

Putin Admits Escalation: Enemies Unable To Defeat Russia On Battlefield, Resort To ‘Open Terrorism’ This month has witnessed a string of major Wildberries warehouses and logistics hubs go up in flames due to wave after wave of Ukrainian drones strikes. The Russian online retailer, which is by far the largest and widely deemed the ‘Russian Amazon’ – is bracing for likely more attacks to come. Ukraine’s long-range drones strikes have […]

Renewables ‘Can’t Keep Up’ With Data Center Pace. As Usual, The Left Wants Government To Step In… Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, The political left is worried that the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S. – a controversial but necessary development considering our competition with China – is increasingly accompanied by the corresponding construction of stand-alone natural gas plants to provide […]

Court Rules Illinois’ In-State Tuition Benefits For Illegals ‘Unconstitutional And Invalid’ Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A federal court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in a lawsuit challenging Illinois’ laws that offered education benefits to illegal immigrants while denying the same for out-of-state Americans. In a July 24 order, the District Court for the Southern District of Illinois […]

Cracker Barrel Dumps CEO After Woke Logo Fiasco Shares of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store have yet to fully recover from outgoing CEO Julie Masino’s brief “woke” rebranding effort last year. The family-dining chain quickly restored its iconic “Old Country Store” logo and nostalgic aesthetic. Still, the failed overhaul now appears to have cost Masino her job after exposing a serious failure of brand stewardship. The Cracker Barrel […]

Will The “Fat Lady” Finally Sing For Fauci? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “The Fauci diary is amazing. He monologues like a Scooby Doo villain.” – El Gato Malo on “X” Remember Covid-19? Seems like long ago in a world that time forgot. Well, you get to revisit the whole sketchy business on Wednesday, July, 29, when Dr. Anthony Fauci is called to testify about it to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs […]

BMO Says Return Of Mexican Cattle Is “Clear Positive” For Two Beaten-Down Meatpackers Following the USDA’s announcement that it will begin lifting the year-long ban on Mexican live cattle imports on Aug. 24, BMO Capital Markets senior equity research analyst Andrew Strelzik called the decision a “key positive” for publicly traded meatpackers Tyson Foods and JBS. The restrictions were imposed to combat the New World screwworm, a […]

BofA Downplays China’s DUV Tool Production Report, Sees Only “Modest Threat” To ASML ASML Holding NV shares in Amsterdam suffered their steepest decline in more than a year, breaking below the crucial 50-day moving average after The Information reported that a Chinese state-backed company had begun producing immersion deep-ultraviolet (DUV) lithography machines. The Information did not cite the Shanghai-based company that plans […]

US Treasury Sells $139BN In Two Polar Opposite Auctions: A Stellar 2Y And A Dismal 5Y Ahead of Wednesday’s FOMC decision (where according to SOFR futures, the odds of a rate hike are a significant 38%, even as most traders expect no action by the Fed), we had the week’s first two coupon auctions take place according to an abbreviated schedule, with the sale of $69BN in 2Y notes taking place at 11:30am, followed by $70BN in 5Y notes. […]

Flashback: Fauci Funded Technique To Hide Evidence Of Genetic Engineering According To RFK Jr. Four years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made an accusation that got him shadowbanned, “fact-checked,” and dismissed as a crank: that Anthony Fauci’s NIAID had bankrolled the development of a laboratory technique whose primary utility was erasing the fingerprints of human engineering from a manipulated virus – and that the technique was then […]