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Killing Democracy To Save ‘Democracy’ Authored by Kurt Schlichter, Britain started arresting people for tweeting unapproved things, and France decided to arrest its leading opposition politician, so what happened in Germany was not…

Moscow earlier accused Kiev of continuing attacks despite Russia’s proposal for a 72-hour truce Ukraine is ready to declare a 30-day “full unconditional ceasefire” in the conflict with Russia beginning Monday, Foreign…

War Is A Growing Concern Across Europe VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated on May 8 each year to mark the formal end of World War II in Europe. …

Kiev was never promised accession to the US-led military bloc as part of a peace deal with Moscow, Mark Rutte has said NATO has never offered Ukraine the prospect of joining the…

The country’s domestic intelligence agency has suspended its ‘extremist’ designation for the party following legal and public backlash Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has temporarily suspended its classification of the Alternative for Germany…

Robert Fico has said Slovakia will oppose an EU-wide energy embargo on Russian fossil fuels Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico pledged to block any European Union attempt to impose a full energy…

Continued European support for Kiev will only bring more victims, destruction, and lost territory, Bulgaria’s Rumen Radev has said Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has openly criticized the EU’s continued military support for…

Islamabad has said the move is in retaliation for New Delhi’s strikes on its territory and the Pakistani-controlled part of Kashmir Pakistan has announced the launch of a large-scale military operation against…

Russia hopes Donald Trump will help bring more “wisdom” in discussions with Kiev, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “doing whatever is possible” to pursue peace in the…

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller held an impromptu press availability at the White House to discuss ongoing immigration enforcement and the deportation program repatriating illegal aliens. Miller also discusses…

Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka and three congressional representatives, Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver attempted a political stunt at a local ICE detention facility in Newark.  Mayor Ras…

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has won a $1.375 billion settlement from Google as a result of the state suing the tech company for continued privacy violations. [Press Release Here] TEXAS –…

Previously we watched Brussels organize pro-EU rallies in Great Britain (they lost), Hungary (they lost), the Netherlands (they lost), Poland (they won), Georgia (they lost), Moldova (they won) while Germany & France…

White House NEC Director Kevin Hassett gives an update on the current status of trade negotiations around the world.  After finishing a CNBC interview (also linked below) Director Hassett noted that Asia…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Most US States Return To Population Growth According to the latest data released by the Census Bureau, most U.S. states have returned to population growth in 2024.  While in 2023, eight states…

America Humbled Authored by Arthur Schaper via American Greatness, The United States, the American people, Donald Trump, and even myself: we have all been humbled over the last four years—or the last…

US Defense System Fails For 2nd Time This Week Amid Houthi Missiles On Israel In a potential sign of more escalation to come, Yemen’s Houthis (Ansarallah) have fired another ballistic missile directly…

Controversial Aid Plan For Gaza Revealed In New Document, Includes American CEOs & Banks Via Middle East Eye The organization set to administer Israel’s controversial plan to take control of humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza will…

US-Sanctioned Zombie Tanker Exposes Dark Trade Between Tehran And Beijing Just over a week after Bloomberg exposed the rise of “zombie” or “phantom” oil tankers—cargo ships that hijack the identities of scrapped…

Leaked: Science Mag’s Batsh*t Insane Interview With NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, “Jocelyn, you know, I just, I’m really uncomfortable with this conversation because…

Where The Money Went: USG Funding To Counter-Mis/Disinformation Initiatives Authored by Andrew Lowenthal via The Brownstone Institute, Last week, my non-profit liber-net unveiled a new database of US government awards to mis-dis-and-malinformation (MDM) and other content…

Robert Fico was the only EU state leader to defy Brussels’ pressure and visit Moscow on Victory Day Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin after attending…

China Auto Part Makers All Of A Sudden Triple In Thailand Chinese auto parts makers have tripled their presence in Thailand with the arrival of BYD and other car brands, transforming the…

Would The Left Finally Explain The Inexplicable? Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Somewhere between 10 and 12 million illegal aliens were invited into the United States by the Biden…

Magnesium Could Relieve Fibromyalgia And Migraines, And How It Works Authored by Zena le Roux via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Fibromyalgia is a difficult condition to diagnose and even harder to…

FAA Greenlights 5x More Starship Launches As Mars Mission Looms  The Federal Aviation Administration has approved 25 Starbase launches for SpaceX in 2025, clearing the way for the world’s largest rocket to…

The 3 Pillars Of The American Idea Authored by Robert Curry via RealClearHistory, Unalienable rights and self-evident truths are the two core ideas of the American founding.   Expand the number of core ideas…

Going Around… Coming Back Around Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “I hope Ed Martin’s 1st assignment at DOJ is to investigate Thom Tillis’ corruption.”  – Rogan O’Handley (aka’ DC Draino’ on X)…

The Trump Administration’s Biggest Wins And Biggest Fails So Far Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us, Back in 2016 I predicted a resounding win for Donald Trump in his election campaign against…

NIH and CMS To Study Autism Using Medicare And Medicaid Data Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare…

War Between India & Pakistan Would Be ‘None Of Our Business’: Vance Vice President J.D Vance has weighed in on the escalating fighting breaking out between nuclear-armed Pakistan and India over the…

India-Pakistan Fighting Suddenly Escalates To Most Expansive In Decades Friday has seen the border conflict between India and Pakistan escalate once again, with The New York Times describing that it has escalated…

Russia remains an unbreakable barrier against Nazism, Russophobia, and anti-Semitism, the president has said The entire nation supports the troops taking part in the military operation against the Kiev regime, Russian President…

Jaguar Begins Search For New Ad Agency After Woke Disaster Five months after Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) effectively “Bud Light’d” itself with a woke social media campaign, the British automaker is reportedly…

Kiev’s troops have committed over 5,000 attacks during the ceasefire, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said Ukrainian forces have attempted four cross-border incursions into the Russian regions of Kursk and Belgorod…

The Russian president called the country one of Moscow’s “key partners in Africa” Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized wartime ties and soaring trade figures during a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah…

A detailed look at the military vehicles and weapon systems showcased on Russia’s Victory Day Parade – and how they’re performing on the battlefield This year’s Victory Day parade was quite a…

$373M In DEI Funding At US Universities In Four Years Authored by Catherine Salgado via PJMedia.com, Educayshun has become mere propaganda at hundreds of American schools and universities. In fact, Defending Education…

Fear Of Economic Collapse Forced China To Negotiate With Trump, Quietly Reach Out First: Reuters Report Three weeks ago, when we first reported that as a result of the ongoing Trump trade…

Kari Lake Strikes Deal For OAN To Provide News Content To Voice Of America Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) will…

Soviet flags and symbols were banned at memorials marking Nazi Germany’s defeat Hundreds of people took to the streets of Berlin on Friday to commemorate those who fought for the Soviet Union…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a press briefing from the Brady Room at the White House.  Anticipated start time 1:00pm ET. Livestream Links Below. . Posted in Press Secretary –…

Russian AI technology was used to recreate an image of Yuri Levitan and to have him read the now iconic message RT has released an AI-generated video of legendary Soviet radio announcer…

One of the least understood dynamics about how the DC silos operate, pertains to review and investigative work done by government officials into government misconduct.  In essence, special counsels, special investigators and…

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And…

Watch: Anti-Musk Activists Crush Tesla With Tank In Politically-Motivated Stunt Unhinged activists from the British political group “Led By Donkeys” took their anti-Tesla hate campaign to a disturbing new extreme—renting a tank…

In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post…

Inside CBDC’s Anti-Trump Rebrand Authored by Kit Knightly via Off-Guardian.org, The planned rollout of a planet-wide network of “interoperable” digital currencies has shifted gears this year. Digital Currency is still the endgame,…

White Smoke All Around By Elwin de Groot, Rabobank head of macro strategy White smoke! We have a new *American* Pope, the first, Leo XIV. And we also have the first trade…

Trump Delinks Saudi Nuclear Energy Deal From Israel Normalization The United States is no longer linking negotiations for a Saudi nuclear energy program with a normalization deal for Riyadh to recognize Israel…

The Serbian and Slovak leaders came to Moscow despite “frenzied” EU pressure, Dmitry Peskov has said The Kremlin has praised Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico for defying…

Ground Stop Issued At Newark Airport  New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) has again been thrown into turbulence. Earlier, air traffic control radar screens briefly went dark—for the second time in weeks—and…

The country’s security service claims it dismantled a Hungarian spy network in the westernmost region of Transcarpathia The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said it dismantled a Hungarian military intelligence network…

The parade on Red Square finished with Su-25 jets painting the sky above in the colors of the Russian flag The Victory Day military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat…

Now Trump Says GOP ‘Probably’ Shouldn’t Tax The Rich, But Would Be ‘OK’ If They Do On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that President Donald Trump has been urging GOP lawmakers to raise taxes…

The elderly woman was accused of wearing Soviet symbols banned by Kiev as she brought flowers to a WWII memorial Ukrainian police have detained an elderly woman who went to lay flowers…

It is Kiev and Washington that must decide that they want the conflict to end, the Belarusian leader has said Russia has long been ready not only for a truce, but also…

With views spanning the political spectrum, the new pontiff may frustrate culture warriors on both sides of the Atlantic For the first pope in history from the United States, only his citizenship,…

Trump Appoints Judge Jeanine Pirro As Interim US Attorney For DC Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced on May 8 that Judge Jeanine Pirro, best known…

Trump Says “80% Tariffs On China Seems Right” Ahead Of Weekend Trade Talks Update (0745ET): President Trump posted on Truth Social, “80% Tariff on China seems right!” while noting that the final…

FBI Investigating Alarming Incidents Amid “Poor Culture Of Safety” At NIH’s High Security Pathogen Lab Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle, The FBI launched an investigation last week into…

Trump Calls For 30-day Cease-Fire In Russia-Ukraine War Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on May 8 urged Russia and Ukraine to enter into a 30-day unconditional…

The military bloc’s deputy commander for Ukraine support told a meeting, “If rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy” NATO’s deputy commander for Ukraine support has been dismissed over a rape-related remark he…

British Airways Owner To Order 53 Airbus And Boeing Long-Haul Planes International Airlines Group (IAG), owner of British Airways and Aer Lingus, will place an order for 53 new Airbus and Boeing…

Futures Gain Ahead Of US-China Trade Talks US equity futures traded modestly higher pointing to a third day of gains, until just before 730am ET when Trump decided to play bad cop…

The new measures target up to 100 oil tankers that the West claims are part of a Russian “shadow fleet” The British government has announced its “largest-ever” sanctions package against Russia, according…

The 145% tariff on Chinese imports could reportedly be cut while negotiations to clinch a trade agreement are ongoing The administration of US President Donald Trump is mulling a plan to reduce…

Several EU countries closed airspace to the respective leaders who were en route to the Russian capital Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has shared footage of him shaking hands with Slovak Prime Minister…

The two presidents have shared “heartfelt words” through their aides, a senior official has told Russian media Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have congratulated each other on Victory…

Russia will honor the Soviet sacrifices and continue to fight against ideas such as Nazism, the president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised the sacrifices of the Soviet people in…

For Africans, Victory Day was not just about the fall of Hitler, but about the idea that brutal regimes could fall at all Victory Day, marked every year in May, is remembered…

The proposal reportedly calls for creating a new 39.6% tax bracket for those earning $2.5 million or more US President Donald Trump has proposed raising tax rates on the country’s highest earners,…

The decisive battles against Nazism were, however, fought on the territory of the Soviet Union, the Russian president has emphasized The opening of the European front during World War II “brought victory…

The ambassadors of neighboring countries have already been informed about the chancellor’s decision, Die Welt has reported New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will declare a national emergency to tackle the country’s issues…

Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Swiftly Deporting Illegal Immigrants To Libya Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting illegal…

India’s Defense Budget Outgrows Pakistan’s Pakistan and India have long been at loggerheads over territory in the region of Kashmir and this week saw tensions explode again as India launched air strikes…

Goldman Thinks Nintendo’s Switch 2 Will Blow Away Estimates, Sees No Supply Constraints Nintendo’s first sales forecast for its highly anticipated Switch 2 console came in at 15 million units for the…

The Lithuanian prime minister has expressed concern that “small groups of people” could stage provocations on May 9 Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has urged the people of his country not to…

Trump’s Victory Day Decision Aligns With The Trend Of The Times Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Historical revisionism and nostalgic nationalism typify modern-day discussions of World War II… Trump announced that he’s “hereby…

The country remembers the lessons of World War II and rejects efforts to justify executioners and slander the true winners, the president has said Russia has always been an “impenetrable barrier” to…

Brussels Sues Five EU Countries For Failing To Enforce Digital Censorship Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix news, The European Commission announced on Wednesday that it is referring five member states to…

Ukraine’s Parliament Ratifies US Minerals Deal In Hopes Of Securing Future Arms The minerals deal is now official and legally binding for Ukraine as on Thursday Ukraine’s parliament voted in favor of ratifying…

The US vice president suggested Washington could try to encourage New Delhi and Islamabad to de-escalate the situation Washington will not interfere in the conflict between New Delhi and Islamabad, US Vice…

The Chinese leader has said Beijing hopes for a fair and lasting settlement between Moscow and Kiev Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for the root causes of the Ukraine conflict to…

These Are The Most Reliable Used-Car Brands In 2025 In today’s environment, buying a new car has become a stretch for many households – fueling demand in the used-car market.  But not all…

China Panics Ahead Of Trade-Talks, Shuts Down Its Economic Data Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, There is a social contract of sorts among all governments of the world to…

Israeli-Made Suicide Drones Launched By India Against Pakistan, Some Intercepted Via Middle East Eye Pakistan shot down Israeli-made drones launched by India into its airspace on Thursday, following a series of Indian strikes across the…

The ongoing escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors is one of the deadliest in recent years, particularly for ordinary people In the serene village of Mendhar, nestled in the mountains of Poonch…

Ancillary to the takeover of the Columbia University library ¹yesterday that led to the subsequent arrest of dozens of campus chaos agents, Acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman has announced a decision…

Gold Reconsidered: A Strategy To Facilitate 21st Century United States Excellence By Vincent Lanci Summary: This report explores gold’s reemergence not merely as a store of value, but as a strategic monetary…

Columbia University Lays Off Nearly 180 Staff After Federal Grant Revocations Authored by Rudy Blalock via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Columbia University announced on Tuesday that it will lay off nearly…

In ‘Weird’ Austin, A Double Shot Of Academic Counter-Revolution Authored by John Murawski via RealClearInvestigations, AUSTIN, Texas — Lacking three crucial components – students, faculty, and facilities – the two educational experiments…

When Will The US Lose Its Last WWII Veterans? As today marks the 80th anniversary of the official end of World War II in Europe, the number of people who witnessed the…

FDA To Ramp Up Unannounced Inspections At Foreign Facilities Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be conducting more unannounced inspections…

The day marking the triumph in the Great Patriotic War is one of Russia’s most revered holidays Military parades and other ceremonial events paying tribute to the valor and sacrifice of the…

Vice President JD Vance appears on Fox News to discuss the current status of negotiations and contact points to engage both the Russians and Ukrainians in a ceasefire. From the response by…

Kim Jong-un personally inspected the operational reliability of the “nuclear trigger” system North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has overseen a military exercise simulating a nuclear counterattack, according to the Korean Central News…

As anticipated, President Trump has moved Acting USAO Ed Martin to an internal position within Main Justice where he will oversee a review of the Dept of Justice weaponization efforts that took…