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China and India are cautiously dancing their way back to cooperation despite persisting difficulties In mid-July, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar visited China for the first time in nearly six years, underlining…

Brussels could accept unfavorable terms to avoid a 30% tariff spike, the outlet has said EU officials are ready to “stomach” an unbalanced tariff agreement favoring the US in order to resolve…

Any government agency or corporation using SharePoint Server is reportedly at risk Hackers have exploited a major security flaw in Microsoft’s SharePoint software to breach document-sharing systems used by government agencies and…

Beijing has been grappling with tensions with both the US and EU  China’s economy grew by 5.3% in the first six months of this year compared to the same period of last…

Boniface Mwangi was detained on Saturday for allegedly facilitating terrorist acts and unlawfully possessing ammunition Kenya has charged rights activist Boniface Mwangi with illegal possession of ammunition over his alleged role in…

Jacob Zuma’s “reckless and provocative” act violates international diplomatic norms, the ANC has stated The secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC), Fikile Mbalula, has branded Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jacob…

Baku has the right to pursue litigation over the 2024 disaster, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Azerbaijan is entitled to file a lawsuit against Russia over a deadly 2024 air crash, Kremlin…

The US president has endorsed conducting a criminal investigation into the former Democratic leader over the Russiagate hoax US President Donald Trump has posted an AI-generated video depicting former President Barack Obama…

An F-7 military training jet slammed into a Dhaka school shortly after taking off At least 19 people have been killed and more than 50 injured after a Bangladesh Air Force (BAF)…

“Nobody” understands why Berlin is funding weapons for Kiev while domestic needs go unmet, AfD co-chair Alice Weidel said  Frustration is growing in Germany over increased aid to Ukraine while domestic spending…

China’s Rare Earth Chokehold Eases – Just Enough To Keep US Hooked China’s export controls on key rare earth elements (REEs) — particularly rare earth magnets essential for EVs, smartphones, fighter jets,…

“Plan On It!” Martin Armstrong Sees ‘100% Chance Of Nuclear War’ Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com, Six weeks ago, legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong was signaling a big turn toward war. …

The suspect was allegedly passing intelligence on Russian troops in Ryazan Region and a local military facility to the Kiev regime Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced the detention of a…

Can We Just Skip To Next Week By Peter Tchir of Academy Securities Can We Just Skip to Next Week? Last week felt a bit “boring” despite some headlines on the future…

“Effective Immediately”: Shipping Line Suspends EV Cargo Due To Lithium Battery Fire Concerns U.S. shipping and navigation services company Matson surprised customers in recent days by announcing new policies that halt all electric…

The three countries have already had “good consultations” on the UN sanctions snapback, the Foreign Ministry has said Russia, China, and Iran will hold talks on Tuesday to discuss Tehran’s nuclear program,…

Brussels has targeted two Chinese banks and several companies for allegedly enabling evasion of Ukraine-related restrictions The EU’s decision to include Chinese companies and financial institutions in the latest round of sanctions…

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…

Seven railway stations in cities such as Delhi, Mumbai and others, will soon be equipped with artificial intelligence-based systems New Delhi proposes to use artificial intelligence-based facial recognition systems, smart lighting systems,…

The Zelensky government was previously accused in the Western press of minimizing casualty figures to safeguard aid Ukraine’s official military casualty figures in the conflict with Russia may be vastly understated, according…

Sarepta Refuses FDA Request To Halt Elevidys After Three Deaths Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. has refused a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy…

Reddit Now Requires Age Verification In UK To Comply With Nation’s Online Safety Act Authored by Darren Smith via JonathanTurley.org, The news and social media aggregation platform Reddit now requires its United…

Built from scratch, the Alabuga plant produces thousands of Geran kamikaze UAVs, Zvezda reports Russian TV channel Zvezda has offered a rare peek into what it describes as the “largest drone assembly…

Democrats Demand Investigation Into Colbert’s Cancelation Authored by Jonathan Turley, In Washington, Democratic politicians are calling for a congressional investigation, while in New York, the Writers’ Guild is asking New York Attorney General Letitia…

The bloc’s attempt to “ruin” Russia is a “life-threatening idea,” Gunter Verheugen has said The EU’s sanctions aimed at crippling Russia’s economy and isolating it politically have backfired, instead harming their architects,…

As China ramps up its air power, India is eyeing Russia’s most advanced warplane while racing to develop its own fifth-generation jet The British F-35B fighter jet which made an emergency landing…

Both sides have agreed to uphold their commitment to a permanent ceasefire during Qatar-hosted talks The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) and the M23 rebel group have pledged to sign…

The attack, which involved Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, also hit military airfields, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said Russian forces have carried out a coordinated overnight strike on Ukraine’s military-industrial complex and…

Analyzing The Ambiguity Over The American-NATO Arms Arrangement For Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The offensive dimension of Trump’s new three–pronged approach to Ukraine involves the sale of American weapons to NATO who’ll…

Watch: Rare Inside Look At Russia’s Secret Shahed Drone Factory Russian state media has broadcast new footage from a major drone production facility in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, where Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones, rebranded by Russia…

The Russian oil major says the measures threaten the South Asian nation’s energy security and will negatively impact its economy Rosneft has denounced the EU’s decision to impose sanctions on India’s second…

Vladimir Zelensky is reportedly cracking down on opponents and figures previously supported by Western funding Investigators from Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) have been subjected to raids by security officials, allegedly without…

Moscow has accused Britain and the EU of impeding efforts to settle the conflict UK Defense Secretary John Healey is set to urge Ukraine’s backers to launch a “50-day drive” to arm…

Sales of the plush toys have reached $17.6 million this year, e-commerce giant Wildberries has reported Russians have spent more than 1.5 billion rubles ($17.6 million) on Labubu toys this year, according…

The European ‘Surprise’ – Why We Misread The Continent’s Shifts Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, Europe’s political landscape continues to defy expectations, leaving analysts and policymakers scrambling to explain…

The Israeli prime minister’s next hearing is not expected before September due to court recess Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will miss scheduled corruption hearings this week after being diagnosed with food…

Israeli Settlers Accused Of Killing 117 Sheep Belonging To West Bank Bedouins In the latest ghastly tactic used to displace non-Jews from their West Bank villages and farms, Israeli settlers are accused…

Multi-Billion Dollar Boondoggle: Biden Admin Plan For Electric Mail Trucks Flops Massively A Biden administration effort to electrify the U.S. Postal Service has produced just 250 electric mail trucks in over two…

Run, Kamala, Run! (But Would She Lose?) Authored by Arthur Schaper via American Greatness, Former District Attorney, California Attorney General, US Senator, and Vice President Kamala Harris will make her big announcement…

Escobar: And It’s One, Two, Three; What Are We Fighting For? NATO’s Wars Authored by Pepe Escobar, All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column’s headline is coming from….

Army officials link spike in suicides to combat trauma from Israel’s ongoing “war on seven fronts” At least five Israeli soldiers have taken their own lives over the past two weeks, including…

Trump Again Threatens To Destroy New Iran Nuclear Assets As Tehran Teases Pullout From NPT President Trump has doubled (or tripled) down on his insistence that Iran’s nuclear capabilities were completely obliterated…

The Desperation To Stop Trump Wasn’t Political, It Was Survival Authored by Ada Nestor via ‘My Reflections From The Edge’ substack, It’s not enough to say they hated Trump. That’s the surface-level…

Israel Orders Evacuations In Central Gaza, Widening Military Offensive On Sunday, the Israeli military (IDF) issued new evacuation orders for parts of central Gaza, which even after years of war with Hamas…

Multiple hostile UAVs were intercepted over the Rostov and Moscow regions overnight, according to officials Russia’s air defenses destroyed dozens of incoming Ukrainian drones across multiple regions on Sunday night and early…

The Persistence Of Benefit Cliffs: A Behavioral Look At A Policy Problem Authored by Vladimir Snurenco via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), Benefit cliffs occur when earning slightly more—through a raise…

The US intel chief has vowed to hold those behind the “treasonous” Russiagate conspiracy accountable Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has accused former President Barack Obama and senior members of his…

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appears on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo to walk through the documents that she has retrieved and made public. {GO DEEP} DNI Tulsi Gabbard outlines how…

Many people are questioning why Tulsi Gabbard is able to discover and expose activity by the Obama administration and the Intelligence Community, yet prior office holders did not. Last year, when asked…

The response from Chairman Tom Cotton and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to the action of DNI Tulsi Gabbard was predictable. The SSCI has now framed the Intelligence Authorization Act for…

Apparently, the best the Democrats could come up with to defend themselves against the truth provided by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, was to put Connecticut Representative Jim Himes on TV to push a…

Democrats Continue To Flounder As Approval Ratings Sink To All Time Lows How low can they go?  Democrat Party politicians are proving that the gutter is truly the limit and even their…

Gabbard To Release More Obama Russiagate Files, ‘Cannot Fathom’ How Durham, Mueller Missed Evidence Of ‘Years-Long Coup’ Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she’ll release more information next week to follow up on…

Will Gen Z Realize Its Future Runs On Fossil Fuels? Authored by Alex Rosado via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), American innovation requires our energy sector to use all available resources,…

Russia is going up, while Germany is going down, the US journalist told Bild The German people should be angry at their own government that ruined their country rather than at Russian…

Illegal Migrant Accused Of Decapitating Illinois Woman Captured By ICE The problem of leftist activist judges is growing more worrisome by the day, and one has to wonder how may crimes these…

Army Special Operations Command Issues Terror Threat For Retired DoD Officials In Florida On Thursday, the United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) issued a “Duty to Warn” notification concerning a credible terrorist…

Insurers Request Huge Obamacare Rate Hikes, Many Over 20% Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Medical care costs are surging already. A big leap is coming. Health Care Shock Coming The Wall…

The “appetite” in the UK for supporting Kiev is waning, Boris Johnson has said Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is “quite sad” about what he describes as waning…

Grappling With Existential Panic Over AI Authored by Mark Jeftovic via EasyDNS.com, If There’s an SOP, You’re SOL Some time over the Christmas holidays, I experienced what I called a moment of…

A Delta flight en route to Atlanta was forced to return to LA International Airport due to the incident A Delta Air Lines Boeing aircraft bound for Atlanta was forced to return…

Japan PM Ishiba Vows To ‘Stay On’ Despite Ruling Coalition Facing Major Loss; Exit Polls Show Update (1015ET): The governing coalition of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is likely to lose a majority…

Europe’s Online Censorship Laws Could Restrict Americans Too, Analysts Say Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), For many Americans, talk of a crackdown in Europe on “hate speech”…

Watch: Delta 767 Engine Erupts Into Flames After LAX Takeoff Last month’s deadly Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner crash remains very vivid in the public’s memory, especially after dramatic footage went viral…

Many in the bloc remain in a state of “militaristic ecstasy,” spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said The EU is demonizing Russia in order to keep the Ukraine conflict running as Brussels still…

Full Assault On The Media Machine: Trump Slashes USAID Submitted by Thomas Kolbe After fierce internal disputes and the resignation of Elon Musk as a government advisor, the United States has now…

Overreliance on foreign-made technologies and oil and gas revenues could pose a risk to the country, the president has said Russia would inevitably lose its sovereignty if it relies solely on oil…

France, Germany, and the UK are threatening to reimpose sanctions on the Islamic Republic unless it agrees to a deal in August Iran, France, Germany, and the UK have agreed to resume…

The Federation of Indian Pilots has filed a notice against Reuters and the WSJ for allegedly misrepresenting the probe and blaming the crew for the tragedy The Federation of Indian Pilots has…

Green Agenda Fallout: Democrat-Led Northeast Now Has Highest Electricity Prices In Nation  Reeling from their 2024 election loss, Democrats are scrambling to reconnect with the working class—yet their brilliant strategy of embracing socialist and…

Trump Pledges To Prevent US Central Bank Digital Currency Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A central bank digital currency (CBDC) will not be allowed in the United…

A lot of work needs to be done for the Russian and US presidents to get together, Dmitry Peskov has said A face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US…

The new tool will be part of the Grok chatbot developed by the billionaire’s xAI project Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, plans to launch a new app…

The US intel chief recently claimed “overwhelming evidence” Obama officials fabricated Russia interference claims to smear Donald Trump back in 2016 US President Donald Trump has praised National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard…

Western powers have artificially stoked anti-Russia sentiment since the late ‘90s as NATO expanded eastward, Oliver Boyd Barrett says US National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s revelations about the role of former President…

Banning Alternative Für Deutschland: A Nightmare Scenario Authored by ‘eugyppius’ via ‘A Plague Chronicle’, What will happen if Germany’s largest opposition party is prohibited and why it is in everybody’s interest for…

Beach, Nature, Or City Trip? Where People Vacation Vacation preference varies among nations – while some prefer to head to the beach, other are more likely to book a city trip or…

A lot of work needs to be done for the Russian and US presidents to get together, Dmitry Peskov has said A face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US…

Moscow earlier suggested that Berlin is becoming “dangerous again” while accusing it of supporting the West’s militarization Ukraine should consider striking Russian airfields and weapons factories deep inside the country to alleviate…

Imagine a scenario in which a depraved regime turns killing into a game. In this hypothetical scenario, Russian soldiers now earn points for every Ukrainian life they take, every kit they destroy…

Phonk has quietly become the soundtrack of global internet cool – even as its creators remain obscure and under-credited Not long ago, ‘internet music’ meant something soft, silly, or ironic. Think ‘Nyan…

Puerto Rico’s new law includes a prison sentence of 15 years, a $50,000 fine, and the revocation of all licenses and permits for violators Puerto Rico has enacted a new law banning…

Officials have sought to tackle “obscene overspending” in the media sphere A federal judge has ordered the administration of US President Donald Trump to restore funding for state-run Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty…

Brussels could reportedly force rental and corporate fleets to switch to EVs by 2030 The EU is drafting legislation that could force rental and corporate fleets to switch to electric vehicles (EVs)…

The Trump-Russia collusion story was always a targeted false smear intended to generate a special counsel and hamstring the surprising winner from the 2016 election, Donald Trump.  The Russia-Collusion narrative was always…

Tulsi Gabbard does an excellent job explaining exactly why the information about who constructed the Trump-Russia collusion narrative needs to be in the spotlight.  In this interview DNI Tulsi Gabbard outlines how…

The superhumans are coming – and so is the danger For the past 500 years, the West has reigned as the world’s dominant civilization. Though its grip has loosened in recent years,…

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…

More than a third would either flee or rely on foreign mercenaries instead of fighting, a CENSIS survey shows Only 16% of Italians are willing to fight for their country in the…

US Revokes Visas For Brazilian Judge, His Allies Over Bolsonaro Prosecution U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced late Friday that he has revoked the visas of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre…

The Czech president signed an amendment essentially equating communism with Nazism The Czech Republic has amended its criminal code to outlaw the promotion of communism, placing it on par with Nazi ideology….

America’s Armchair Revolutionaries: How The Left Is Rediscovering Marxism As The Ultimate Virtue Signal Authored by Jonathan Turley, During the Cold War, Soviet communists reportedly referred to American liberals as “useful idiots.”…

Closing Of Epstein Investigation Unpopular With Voters On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his Attorney General Pam Bondi to release files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including Grand Jury testimony, for…

EPA Slashes 23 Percent Of Its Workforce, Eliminating Scientific Research Arm Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Friday that it will…

What Is Your Marginal Tax Rate? Authored by Anne Johnson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The highest tax rate you’ll pay on your income is called the marginal tax rate. The…

The sweeping electoral reform would benefit the ruling Labour Party, according to critics The British government is set to lower the voting age to 16, granting more than 1.5 million teenagers the…

Moscow believes the Ukrainian leader seeks to portray himself as legitimate Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has once again called for a personal meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, claiming that only such a…

Most Energy Predictions Are Wrong – Not This One Authored by Gary Abernathy via The Empowerment Alliance, ABC News, June 18, 2025: “U.S. oil prices hovered near a five-month high on Wednesday…