The Arms Race Is Back: UK To Expand Nuclear Arsenal By Over 40%, Citing “Ultimate Insurance Policy” Bringing an end to what was a prior policy of three decades of gradual disarmament, Britain will expand its nuclear arsenal by over 40%, according…

Russia Offers Europe Win-Win Vaccine Solution Via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The Sputnik V vaccine potentially fills the supply gaps that the EU is encumbered with. Immediately. It is now one year since the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic from…

Chinese Tech Giants Build Tools To Bypass Apple’s New Privacy Controls As Beijing works to bring China’s powerful tech giants to heel, the FT has published a report detailing how Chinese tech giants are working to override new privacy controls being introduced…

The first wave of the Covid pandemic eliminated six million jobs across the EU, particularly impacting sectors dominated by temporary contractors, young people and female employees, according to a study conducted by an EU agency. Eurofound, which works to provide the EU…

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee have demanded that Amazon cough up files and communications related to its alleged “viewpoint discrimination” against the right-of-center, penning a formal request to CEO Jeff Bezos. Sent by ranking Republicans on the judiciary panel’s antitrust subcommittee,…

Watch Live: ECB’s Lagarde Sharply Hikes 2021 Inflation Forecast Update: in what may have been the most anticipated notice of today’s Lagarde presser, the ECB president announced that staff inflation forecasts were revised sharply higher with 2021 Inflation now expected to rise…

A group of daring Russian hikers has gone viral after climbing up an active volcano in the Far Eastern region of Kamchatka. The daredevils went up to the volcano’s rim and looked inside, before cooking sausages on cooling lava. The tour group…

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Deploys In Mediterranean As Damascus Prepares To Push On The Northwest Submitted by SouthFront, The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier and its Carrier Strike Group have entered the Mediterranean Sea. This makes it, currently, the closest aircraft carrier…

Saudi Arabia will take the necessary measures to keep its oil resources and facilities safe and ensure the security of global oil supply, the Kingdom’s Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan, said on Wednesday. On Sunday, Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they had…

Biden Is Playing A Dangerous Game In The Middle East Authored by Cyril Widdershoven via OilPrice.com, Washington’s new Middle East policies looks like sandcastle. Targeting MBS means putting region at peril. The new media frenzy about a possible full-out confrontation between the…

Free Speech: And… It’s Gone Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, It’s no surprise to me that the war against speech is accelerating. There’s desperation in the air everywhere. From the barricading of the U.S. Capitol since January…

War Games Showed US Would “Lose Fast” Against China If It Invaded Taiwan: US General Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, A Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be devastating to the U.S. military as a result of Beijing’s aggressive military development in…

Around €1 million in Covid-19 relief funds aimed at businesses might have ended up in the pockets of hardline Islamists, German media reported, citing sources in the Berlin police who opened more than 100 probes into the fraud. The misuse of coronavirus…

The UK government has signed a deal with British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to produce up to 60 million doses of the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. “I can today announce that the vaccine taskforce has reached an…

Brace For A Huge Retail Sales Miss: BofA Card Data Shows Collapse In February Spending One month ago, ahead of the record-breaking February retail sales report which smashed expectations in a 5-sigma beat to consensus and saw a record jump in core…

Germans are voting in two state elections this Sunday, and the party of Angela Merkel may lose both of them, potentially setting the stage for defeat in September’s general election that will determine the next chancellor. Merkel will not be running for…

“I’m In A Cult!” – The Miseducation Of America’s Elites Authored by Bari Weiss via City-Journal.org, (emphasis ours) Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret… The dissidents use pseudonyms and turn…

The rumored deployment of American intermediate-range missiles in the Asia-Pacific region may trigger a brand new arms race and potential standoff with unpredictable consequences, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. Speaking to the press on Friday, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was responding to…

China Is Winning The Great 21st Century Tech War Authored by Gordon Chang via The Gatestone Institute, China believes it is on track to take over the world. At the ongoing “Two Sessions” in Beijing, the Communist Party has publicly told us…

The high speed of 5G internet can now be experienced at over a dozen of the most well-known locations in Moscow, and the locals who spoke to RT didn’t seem to share the concerns of skeptics about the technology. 5G being available…

“We Are Hungry” – Violent Protests Erupt As Lebanon ‘Hyperinflation’ Accelerates Despite the government’s attempt to crack down on illicit trading, Lebanon’s currency collapse has accelerated and with it the economy and people’s living standards. It appears the Lebanese people have had enough,…

Getting Ready For Gold’s Golden Era Authored by Matthew Piepenburg via GoldSwitzerland.com, Worried about gold sentiment? Don’t be. The mainstream view of gold right now is an open yawn, and sentiment indicators for this precious metal are now at 3-year lows despite…

The Government’s War On Free Speech: Protest Laws Undermine The First Amendment Authored by John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to…

Journalist Anton Krasovsky says his documentary ‘Epidemic’ is being shadowbanned by YouTube. Failing to coax any sort of solution out of the platform, he is now turning to the head of Roscomnadzor, the Russian media regulator. Dear Mr. (Andrey) Lipov, A year…

Iran Lambasts EU For Lectures On ‘Acting Responsibly’ While Ignoring Israel’s Nukes Iran has lashed out at Europe and the United States’ silence and hypocrisy concerning the Mideast nation with by far the biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons. It comes after on…

US Preparing Cyberattack Against Russia Over SolarWinds Hack: Report Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, According to a report from The New York Times, the Biden administration is planning cyberattacks against Russia in the coming weeks. The cyber offensive could come with new sanctions…

Taibbi: The Sovietization Of The American Press Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging…

Via The Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of cartel members presented Joe Biden with its prestigious “Human Trafficker of the Month” award today, marking the third month in a row the new president has received the award. Democrat presidents are constant recipients…

Russia-China Joint Lunar Base Sparks Fears Of Space Arms Race Conventional wisdom states the world is in a bipolar era. Though we tend to disagree with that as a multipolar international system is in the works. Multiple superpowers align forces that are…

Fears Of A ​​​​​​​”Return Of The 1930s Dust Bowl” Rise As Record Drought Sizzles Southwest The United States Drought Monitor publishes weekly data that shows the Western U.S. is in a historic drought. The latest Drought Monitor map shows for Mar. 4, “Dry conditions…

The latest data from the United Nation World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) showed that 32 percent of destinations worldwide – 69 in total – are now completely closed for global tourism as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Of those, just over half…

Nursing students attending the University of Pennsylvania are required to refer to their “preferred pronouns” and ask those of an imaginary patient or be punished with point deduction in one course. In an integrated human anatomy class for those looking to graduate…

16 Countries Are Pushing United Nations To Condemn US Unilateral Sanctions Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and other countries subject to US sanctions are seeking support at the UN to push back against unilateral sanctions and the threat…

Real Madrid and Germany midfielder Toni Kroos has said he was perceived as a “Nazi” after he criticized former teammate Mesut Ozil over his bitter exit from international football. Ozil quit the German team in the aftermath of their ignominious exit at the…

“It’s Never Different This Time” – Creator Of Bond Volatility Gauge Warns Selloff Isn’t Over Ever since the 10-year yield eclipsed 1.25% last month, the market has been eying the steady ascent in yields with trepidation. Last week, the selloff in Treasuries…

The US military’s presence in Afghanistan is larger than the public has been led to believe, the New York Times has reported, as Washington mulls a full withdrawal from the country as part of a deal with the Taliban. Citing US, European…

A majority of Americans have expressed concern over cancel culture in a new poll released just as public figures like Piers Morgan have claimed to have fallen victim to the phenomenon. The Harvard Caps-Harris Poll, released Monday, found that 64% of Americans…

After the US bought a seat on a Russian spacecraft to send a NASA astronaut to the International Space Station, the chief of Russia’s Space Agency Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin claimed that American spaceflight is still “unstable.” From 2011 to last year, the…

EU’s Own Goal By Playing Politics With Russian Vaccine Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The European public can see more clearly than ever that their unelected highly paid bureaucrats are risking pandemic recovery by playing politics with Russia’s…

The French government has said that the level of Covid-19 vaccine uptake among those working in healthcare settings “is not acceptable” and said it could make the jab compulsory if vaccination rates don’t improve. “For the last year our health workers have…

Goldman Now Sees Most Advanced Economies Reaching Herd Immunity In 3 Months The drop in global new infections has stalled in the past month, in part because more contagious variants are now spreading widely. This pattern can be clearly observed in the…

Twitter protested “attempts to block and throttle online public conversation” as its stock price dropped amid reports Russia was slowing it down, in an effort to force the Silicon Valley giant to remove illegal content. “We are aware of reports that Twitter…

Swiss Voters Approve ‘Burqa Ban’ Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, Swiss voters have narrowly approved a proposal to ban face coverings in public spaces. The measure comes just over a decade after citizens voted to ban the construction of…

Russia Reveals Total Number Of Soldiers Killed In Syria, Blasts “Morally Bankrupt” US Policies Via AlMasdarNews.com, The First Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma, Andrei Krasov, announced that 112 Russian soldiers were killed during the entirety of the armed conflict…

A Green Party politician has been labelled ‘deranged’ after she called for a 6pm curfew on men following the tragic murder of a London woman, with some urging the party to instead focus on the broadly popular green agenda. On Wednesday evening,…

Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths are falling in many countries – but some governments have been in no rush to return liberties and rights to their citizens. They must be held to account. Covid Freedom Index Even as billions are set to acquire…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has wished Joe Biden well after the US leader called him a “killer” and promised that Moscow would “pay the price” for interfering in the 2020 US elections in favor of his opponent, Donald Trump. Speaking on Thursday,…

Ukraine has so few foreign investors because the country is seen abroad as a place where they will get scammed. That’s according to the former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili, who now heads Kiev’s National Reform Committee. “[Official] foreign investment in Ukrainian GDP…

They are assuring us that we don’t have to be concerned about “inflation” because they have everything under control.  Do you believe them?  The value of the U.S. dollar has been steadily declining for a long time, and most Americans have grown…

Brace Yourselves For The Most Dramatic Shift In The Standard Of Living Ever Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, They are assuring us that we don’t have to be concerned about “inflation” because they have everything under control.  Do…

CDC Vs. Common Sense Authored by Peter Alexander via The American Institute for Economic Research, The death of Common Sense begins with the words initiated by the morass of Bureaucracy couched in safety and security. Indeed, and according to past President Ronald…

Resurrecting The Dead… Digitally: One Step Closer To The “Singularity” Authored by Robert Wheeler via The Organic Prepper blog, In 2017, Microsoft revealed it had patented a “chatbot” that could digitally resurrect the dead if actually built. The chatbot uses AI and machine learning…

Watch: Fauci Admits There Is No “Science” Behind Continued Lockdown Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, In a rare moment of truth of CNN Wednesday, Anthony Fauci admitted that there is no scientific reason why people who have had the COVID…

A Grim Look At The Exploding US Budget Deficit Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office paints a sorry picture of US government spending. Debt Will Be Double the Size of the Economy by 2051  The CBO estimates Debt…

Air passenger traffic will remain relatively low this year compared with 2019’s pre-Covid levels, but it will be better than in mid-2020, according to International Air Transport Association (IATA) director Alexandre de Juniac. He said in an interview with the Straits Times…

Dozens of demonstrators, including families with small children, held a “burn the mask” demonstration outside Idaho’s state Capitol building in Boise, demanding that face covering mandates amid the Covid-19 pandemic be rescinded. Video footage on social media shows demonstrators dropping masks into…

“Don’t Go Down The Rabbit Hole” – NYTimes Decries Critical Thinking, Tells Americans To Trust Google Instead Authored by Gavin Nascimento via The Free Thought Project, A new article from the New York Times claims that instead of engaging with someone that challenges your…

The region South Asia is located at a strategic point of the world. Its strategic locations is compelling leading international powers not to ignore the pivot of this region. The countries like India, Pakistan and Afghanistan makes this region more worth able…

From Birch Gold Group Since the pandemic began a year ago, the term “new normal” has become part of the American lexicon. Not “new” as in better or improved. But rather “new” as in contrast to the way things used to be. Much…

Legislation vastly expanding the UK government’s powers to suppress peaceful protests for the sake of public order, promoted by Home Secretary Priti Patel, has been backed by the House of Commons after heated debate. Lawmakers voted 359 to 263 to pass the…

China may be increasing it’s navy and armed forces while taking advantage of that “accidental” plague by aggressively moving pieces around the board, but I don’t think Xi Jinping realizes how much diversity and inclusion training we’ve had pic.twitter.com/GPJlckTH52 — War Criminal…

A cold snap recently left millions in Texas in the freezing dark. Max Keiser talks with Tyson Slocum, director of Public Citizen’s energy program, to understand who’s to blame for the massive power outage. The Texas energy market is largely not under…

Signs Are Everywhere: Businesses Have Changed Permanently As A Result Of The Pandemic Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com, There is no return to the “old normal.” Employment adjusts too. But it will take years to sort out the issues these sudden…

In what may sound like an eerie, next evolution of dating apps like Tinder, researchers have developed an AI system which can learn and predict which faces individual humans might find attractive based on their brain waves alone. The joint team of…

Alrosa, the world’s leading diamond-mining company by volume, sold $361 million-worth of rough diamonds and $12 million-worth of polished gems in February, according to a report just published. Its sales of rough diamonds rose by 5.5 percent compared to the same period…

A protest against police brutality in Liege, Belgium, has spiraled into clashes and looting, after initially peaceful demonstration was hijacked by some 200 hooligans, who went on to wreck the city centre, police said. The demonstrators took to the streets of the…

In modern times and in public opinion, there is a time when extremism is talked about, and it is still considered a religious affiliation. The informatization of public opinion in various sectors has contributed to the fact that the phenomenon of extremism…

Thousands of protesters flooded Austria’s capital amid growing anger over the government’s remaining coronavirus restrictions. The rally resulted in scuffles and several arrests, according to reports. Austria’s Krone newspaper reported that around 15,000 people attended the Saturday rally. Demonstrators held placards reading…

Luongo: Capital Is Sensing “This Central Bank Impotency” Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, ‘n Guns blog, I don’t know what’s more ludicrous at this point, the amount of central bank intervention or the whining from the markets that there isn’t…

Health regulators in Norway have put the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine on hold and Italy has banned a batch of the jab as officials in Denmark and Austria investigate 1 fatality in each country among reported recipients. The decision to ban…

RT in Germany is planning to take legal action against the tabloid Bild, after the Berlin newspaper ran a sensationalist tale that relied on leaked Telegram chats from a former employee, who claimed he had to spy for the channel. In the…

​​​​​​​Dollar Bottom? USD At Major Crossroads The US Dollar faded 3.5-month highs on Tuesday morning as Treasury yields dipped, allowing more riskier currencies to rise. The latest surge in the dollar has put it at an important crossroad after stabilizing in the last three…

The Founders Warned Us About Abuses Like H.R. 1 Authored by Rob Natelson via The Epoch Times, H.R. 1, the bill that would seize control of federal elections from the states, comes with an unusual twist. It supposedly promotes “access.” But it…

“Profiteering Off Poverty” – The Side Of Baltimore The Media Won’t Show You Before President Trump and Republicans focused their energy on Baltimore City, showing how decades of liberal-run leadership transformed the once-thriving metro area into a “hell-hole,” readers may recall our reporting…

An internal government investigation has found that Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic and his family were illegally wiretapped over 1,500 times, and “high-ranking officials in the Ministry of the Interior” were involved. The findings were announced by Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin after a…

The Rights Of The Naturally Immune Authored by Thomas Harrington via The American Institute for Economic Research, There is an important issue that, in the midst of all the talk of vaccines, has not gotten nearly the attention it deserves: the civil…