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Tariff Turmoil Delays Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders; Will This Derail Goldman’s Bull Call On Mario Kart-Maker We suspect Goldman analysts Minami Munakata and Haruki Kubota will soon update clients on today’s report from…

Ukrainian Special Ops Using US Tactical Vehicles Undisclosed By The Pentagon Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A combat unit of NATO-trained Ukrainian soldiers was photographed using a Flyer 72-LD…

Since 2014, the New York Times has published more than 500 articles about RT, a review by Johns Hopkins University has claimed The New York Times published over 500 RT-related articles over…

The European members of NATO had no plan for military-industrial mobilization prior to the conflict, the study has found Russia has been able to significantly ramp up its production of military hardware…

Alexander Ovechkin has scored twice to match hockey legend Wayne Gretzky’s number of goals Russia’s Alexander Ovechkin reached another major National Hockey League milestone on Friday night when he scored his 894th…

The diplomatic mission will soon be established in Niger, Foreign Minister Bakari Yaou Sangare has announced Niger has confirmed its intention to host a Russian embassy for the first time in over…

Escobar: How Trump’s Tariff Tizzy Is Burning Down The House Authored by Pepe Escobar, Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train. Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened…

We’re Giving Putin “Weeks, Not Months” To Decide On Ceasefire: Rubio United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio surprised NATO counterparts by telling them on Friday that it will become clear within…

Houthis Down Second MQ-9 Reaper Drone In 72 Hours Yemen’s Houthis have claimed another shootdown of a US MQ-9 Reaper drone. The Thursday announcement, if accurate, would mark the second such Reaper drone…

Witnesses Tell House Task Force To Reinvestigate JFK Assassination Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), WASHINGTON—A panel of expert witnesses that included renowned filmmaker Oliver Stone told the…

The drone footage depicts the bombing of a Houthi gathering, the president said US President Donald Trump shared footage on Friday of what he said was a strike on Houthi personnel in…

The US president has insisted that it is “a great time to get rich” US President Donald Trump has defended his controversial decision to impose sweeping tariffs on the majority of America’s…

Ukrainian and Western service members were killed in the attack on Friday, the Defense Ministry said Russia has said that it carried out a missile strike on military personnel in the eastern…

Sanders Leads Charge To Block Arms To Israel, Senate Votes Down Overwhelmingly On Thursday US senators voted overwhelmingly to reject two resolutions of disapproval on Washington’s massive arms transfers and other military assistance to…

Tolerance & Inclusivity? Leftist Mob On UC Davis Campus Destroys Conservative Group Display And Tent Authored by Jonathan Turley, A mob of roughly 30 masked protesters at UC Davis attacked a tent…

Creation Of Abundance Is A Corporation’s Purpose Authored by Terrence Keeley via RealClearPolitics, Does capitalism need to be fixed? Is it no longer fit for purpose in this modern era, given our…

Warsaw should control a wharf in Odessa, a top agriculture official has said Poland should acquire a section of Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odessa to transport grain, Polish Deputy Minister of…

Putin Envoy In D.C. Hails Trump’s Tariff Strategy: ‘Shift Toward Economic Sovereignty’ Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russia’s Direct Investment Fund and special Putin envoy who was sent this week to meet with…

Taibbi: How An Obama Executive Order Led To The Censorship Industrial Complex Authored by Ian Schwartz via RealClearPolitics, At Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing, Matt Taibbi explained how an Obama executive…

Loomered: Head Of NSA Fired As ‘Disloyal’ Partisans Purged From Trump Admin The head of the NSA, Gen. Timothy Haugh, was fired on Thursday as part of a purge of ‘disloyal’ partisans…

Here’s Why Trump Will Win The Tariff Standoff Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear in an interview with CNN that the era of trade imbalances…

Democrats Activate NGO Machine For Weekend Color Revolution Operation Against Trump The Democratic Party’s favorability among Americans has plunged to a record low. In an attempt to reverse this decline, the rudderless party…

Ottawa is ready to fill Washington’s “global economic leadership” role, Mark Carney has said Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has condemned US President Donald Trump’s new slate of tariffs, declaring that Ottawa…

The Russian capital has climbed past Hong Kong with 90 ultrawealthy residents, according to a Forbes report Moscow has jumped to second place among the world’s top cities for billionaires, after adding…

Have You Said “Thankyou” Once? By Benjamin Picton, senior macro strategist at rabobank US equities tanked yesterday in their most savage one-day selloff since the early days of Covid in 2020. The…

Trump Extends TikTok Deadline By 75 Days As Trade War With Beijing Erupts   In the hours before President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz on Wednesday afternoon, several corporate media outlets reported that a TikTok…

‘Do You See The Pattern?’ Authored by James Howard Kunstler, You Wouldn’t Want to Be Him on That Dreadful Day “Perhaps history is teaching us that today’s popular leaders like Donald Trump…

Copper Posts Biggest Weekly Drop Since Covid Crash As Tariff War Hammers Commodities President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff blitz—centered on reciprocal tariffs—followed by China’s retaliatory bazooka has triggered a growth scare in…

During one of the 2016 Republican debates the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Stassel challenged Donald Trump on the projected revenue from his proposed tax plan. In essence Stassel claimed some economists doubted the…

Republicans May Override Senate’s Nonpartisan Referee To Pass Trump’s Agenda: What To Know Authored by Joseph Lord and Jackson Richman via The Epoch Times, Republicans have set the stage to potentially override…

The US vice president has criticized EU policies on migration, defense, and democratic norms US Vice President J.D. Vance has taken aim at the EU’s leadership, warning that the bloc faces its…

How three men in Yalta decided the fate of the planet – and why it still matters Discussions about building a new global order have become increasingly frequent and urgent. Many argue…

JPM’s Longtime Mega Tesla Bear Warns About Brand Damage JPMorgan analyst Ryan Brinkman has earned the crown as Tesla’s most stubborn bear. For nearly a decade, his coverage has been a broken…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attending a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.  The timing puts Secretary Rubio in Europe just as NATO allies and European countries are reviewing the…

By hitting Moscow with never-before-seen economic warfare, the West has helped it thrive Another Trump-Quake has been shaking the world. In his attempt to, in essence, make America great again by eliminating…

“Who’s The President Of Syria Right Now, Roy?” Horton Blasts Regime-Change Narrative In the Biden Administration’s dying breath, they managed to help overthrow one last country in the Middle East: Syria, another…

Princeton Says Trump Administration Has Suspended Dozens Of Research Grants Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Trump administration has suspended several dozen federally funded research grants to…

Russell Brand Charged With Rape, Sexual Assault British comedian Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault over claims made by four women spanning 1999 – 2005. The…

The country’s top court has upheld a parliamentary impeachment, paving the way for a new presidential election The Constitutional Court of South Korea on Friday formally ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol…

Kirill Dmitriev met with White House officials this week to discuss steps to restoring bilateral ties The Kremlin said on Friday that a visit to Washington by President Vladimir Putin’s investment envoy…

“It’s Un-American” – 19 Democratic State AGs Sue To Stop Trump Blocking Non-Citizen Voting Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, A group of 19 Democratic state attorneys general filed a…

Trump Admin Sued Over Chinese Import Tariffs Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times, The Trump administration was sued by a nonprofit civil rights group on April 3, with the organization…

Zelensky Says NATO Membership Still In Ukraine’s Future, Contradicting Trump Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to test President Trump, this time contradicting the US leader on the question of Ukraine’s future membership…

Stocks Reverse Plunge, Jump After Trump Says Open To Deal With Vietnam, Tells Powell To Cut Rates Exactly one month ago we reminded readers, and the new generation of traders who may…

Indian and Bangladeshi leaders have committed to cooperation in their first meeting since the change of government in Dhaka Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the chief adviser of the interim Bangladeshi…

The security agency has apprehended a Russian serviceman allegedly recruited by Kiev’s intelligence services to stage an attack The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian bomb plot targeting military…

Karim Khan has denied the allegations and plans to cooperate with the investigation, his lawyers say UN investigators have expanded their inquiry into alleged sexual misconduct by International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief…

Watch Live: Fed Chair Powell Speaks As Emergency Rate-Cut Odds Rise; Trump Says “Stop Playing Politics!” With markets still in turmoil over tariffs, investors now turn their attention to what Fed Chair…

Over 100,000 police officers were victims of crimes in the country last year, according to official statistics More than 300 police officers in Germany become victims of criminals every day, Bild has…

The ‘KidFlix’ streaming service has been shut down in an international operation, according to a press release One of the world’s largest child sexual abuse platforms, with nearly two million users, has…

Petitioners are demanding that the US tech company set up a fund for Ethiopian victims of violence incited on its platform A Kenyan court has ruled that Facebook’s owner, Meta, can face…

Kiev used UAVs and artillery to hit Russian energy facilities, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said Ukraine has launched six new attacks on Russian energy infrastructure over the past 24 hours,…

Everything Is Crashing After China Retaliates With 34% Tariffs On US Goods For a few hours it seemed like we could even stabilize, if only a bit, ahead of today’s scheduled main…

South Korea’s Top Court Ousts Impeached President Yoon Over Martial Law Declaration In a tensely-awaited but ultimately unanimous decision, South Korea’s Constitutional Court on Friday finalized the ouster of President Yoon Suk…

US Payrolls Unexpectedly Soar To 228K, Above Highest Estimate After today’s shocking retaliation by China, which hiked tariffs on US goods by 34%, the jobs report was an afterthought. To be honest,…

Moscow is also making weapons “in prodigious numbers,” US General Christopher Cavoli has reported NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe Christopher Cavoli has projected that Russia will have little difficulty reaching its…

EU Could Fine Musk’s X $1 Billion Over Illicit Content, Disinformation Authored by Stephen Katte via CoinTelegraph.com, European Union regulators are reportedly mulling a $1 billion fine against Elon Musk’s X, taking…

The tech billionaire’s work for the administration of US President Donald Trump is “not even close to done,” the vice president has said US Vice President J.D. Vance has claimed that Elon…

Unlike Brussels, Moscow can bide its time amid the emerging trade war, the former Russian president has said The US imposition of “reciprocal” tariffs on EU exports has doomed the bloc’s economy,…

Sweeping duties could complicate American weapons manufacturing and overturn international partnerships, the outlet has said   US President Donald Trump’s tariff agenda could threaten American arms production, and if fully enacted, upend…

Russia Warns Against US Strikes On Iran Nuclear Sites: ‘Catastrophic & Illegal’ Via The Cradle The Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday that US threats of attack against Iran are “unacceptable” and could result…

Goldman Launches DOGE Tracker To Monitor Real-Time DC Economic Impact Our conversation with a few institutional desks suggests a growing interest in the downstream economic impact of DOGE-related federal agency restructurings across…

China Strikes Back: Slaps 34% Tariff On US Goods After Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ U.S. equity futures took another leg lower, the VIX spiked to 36, Treasury yields slipped (UST10Y Beijing retaliates: China…

The move follows President Donald Trump’s “reciprocal” duties on all Chinese goods China will impose a 34% tariff on all imports from the US starting April 10, the country’s Finance Ministry announced…

The US president has attributed the criminal conviction of the right-wing politician to “lawfare” by “European Leftists” US President Donald Trump has accused the French political establishment of employing lawfare against right-wing…

Poland Inks $2 Billion Air Defense Deal With US Poland unveiled this week that it has signed a new defense deal with the United States valued at nearly $2 billion. This is…

Charity Involved With Adolescence Suggested Boys Engaging In “Locker Room Banter” Can Lead To “Genocide” Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, The charity which met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer over…

Putin Launches Largest Military Call-Up Since 2011 As Europe Rattles Sabers If Europe’s goal was to ruin Donald Trump’s chances of brokering a practical diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict, they may…

The Democratic Alliance says a 0.5% VAT increase will have a devastating impact on the country’s people A major member of South Africa’s ruling coalition has filed a lawsuit against the government,…

Polish President Blasts Hate-Speech Law, Bemoans Push For ‘Communist’-Style EU Via Remix news, As Polish presidential elections near and the term of current President Andrzej Duda comes to an end, the head…

The Waqf Bill, 2025, was approved by the nation’s parliament, with both houses voting in favor of amendments despite property rights concerns India’s legislature has passed a controversial law regulating traditional Islamic…

The US president earlier said the Ukrainian leader understood that Kiev was never going to join the bloc Ukraine could still become a member of NATO despite opposition to the idea from…

How Nikolay Gogol invented Russian horror Nikolay Gogol invented the horror story – or at least Russian horror. This statement might seem bold, but it’s not far from the truth. As we…

The US president’s advisers reportedly insist any new engagement should be conditioned on a full ceasefire in Ukraine conflict US President Donald Trump’s advisers are urging him to not call his Russian…

Media Eviscerated For Claiming Jailing Marine Le Pen Is ‘Good For Democracy’ Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, TIME Magazine is facing backlash for declaring that the conviction of French populist politician…

Moscow has said it is ready to help build joint armed forces for Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has reaffirmed Moscow’s commitment to bolstering the defense capabilities…

As the Deep State Intelligence Apparatus continues its long-standing position in opposition to President Trump, perhaps the Trump administration finally hit back at one of the lead elements. General Timothy Haugh has…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spins a tale of Automaker Stellantis temporarily shutting down auto plants in Canada and Mexico as an outcome of President Trump’s tariffs.  Unfortunately, the gaslighting by Carney…

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…

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…

President Trump holds an impromptu press conference aboard Air Force One heading back to Florida from Washington DC.  President Trump answered dozens of questions about current events. . . Posted in President…

Errol Musk says his family looks up to the Russian leader for his calm leadership and logical speeches Errol Musk has said that his son Elon and their family admire Russian President…

The US president has insisted that he will succeed in his mediation efforts The leaders of Russia and Ukraine are ready to make a peace deal, US President Donald Trump claimed on…

Iran Lacks The Leverage For A Fair Deal With The US Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It’ll therefore either have to accept a lopsided one or prepare for a major war…

The two fleets practiced convoy defense, drone countermeasures, and ship-to-ship resupply in joint exercise Indra Navy 2025 Russian and Indian warships have completed joint exercises in the Bay of Bengal as part…

Trump Teases Bombshell DOGE Finding: ‘What They Found Is Incredible’ President Donald Trump teased another explosive revelation from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as Democrats and legacy media escalate their ongoing…

Certain countries and politicians don’t want to see good ties between Moscow and Washington, Kirill Dmitiev said Certain countries want to throw a wrench into the normalization of Russian-American relations, President Vladimir Putin’s…

Israel Seizes Rafah In Expanded Operation, Hundreds Of Thousands Flee The Israeli military (IDF) has expanded its Gaza operations over the last 24 hours, and has announced a new focus on establishing…

All The Ukrainian Known Knowns Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Aside from the rhetoric, there is a growing consensus among Western diplomats, military analysts, military officers, heads of state,…

Trump’s Pardon Only Covers Defendants’ Jan. 6-Related Crimes: Appeals Court Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump’s pardon for people convicted of charges related to the Jan. 6,…

CA Congressman Seeks To Codify Independent Contractor Status Authored by Victoria Churchill via RealClearPolitics, Republican Congressman Kevin Kiley of California has introduced legislation designed to protect independent contractors amid uncertainty from the…

“No Signs Of Slowing” Active Listings Continue To Surge Across DC Housing Market The latest housing data for the Mid-Atlantic region—comprising Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District…

The Globalist Authoritarians Are Playing With Fire Authored by Kurt Schlicter via Townhall.com, What happened with Marine Le Pen, the most popular politician in France who was just banned from standing for…

Bill Banning Geoengineering And Weather Modification Passes Florida Senate Authored by Debra Heine via American Greatness, he Florida Senate passed a bill prohibiting geoengineering and weather modification by a vote of 28-9,…

Rare Firefight Erupts Between Israeli Troops & Jolani Militants In Syria’s South Rare overnight clashes erupted in southern Syria between Islamist militants and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which has occupied swathes…

The energy truce was an important step towards ending the hostilities, Kirill Dmitriev has said The US-brokered energy truce was a major step towards ending the Ukraine conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s…

The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination ™, and that is likely the…

Will Hoarders Spark Run On Imported Goods? These Are The Most-Exposed US Retailers Ahead of President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff rollout on Wednesday afternoon—particularly the 25% tariff on vehicles and auto parts…

Intel, TSMC Tentatively Agree On Chipmaking JV In ‘America First’ Era  Intel shares are up 5% late in the cash session following a report from The Information that sheds light on ongoing talks…

Matt Taibbi Files $10 Million Libel Suit Against Dem Rep. For Accusing Him Of ‘Serial Sexual Harassment’ Journalist Matt Taibbi is suing Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove for libel, after the California Democrat claimed…