Hezbollah Believes It Lost Up To 4000 Fighters Killed, Far Surpassing 2006 War Reuters has cited Hezbollah and Lebanese sources to say that Hezbollah believes the number of its fighters killed by Israel over the last year of fighting could be as high as 4,000. A fragile ceasefire has held for the last three days, and the Shia group backed by Iran has been burying its dead this week. Ground fighting has been most intense in the last […]

Divide & Conquer: Political Riptides Threaten To Overwhelm The Nation Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. […]

Zelenskyy Offers To End ‘Hot Phase’ Of War In Exchange For NATO Membership Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he’s willing to end the “hot phase of the war” with Russia – including ceding captured territory – in exchange for NATO membership that includes Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to Sky’s Stuart Ramsay “If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the […]

India’s GDP Growth Slows To Two-Year Low Two weeks ago, when looking at the recent sharp drop in Indian stocks and the concurrent slide in earnings expectations, we asked whether the Indian stock bubble – one of the most resilient of the past decade – had finally burst. Today we got another confirmation that the answer appears to be yes, when we learned that India’s economy grew at its slowest pace in almost two years, […]

The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections On Jay Bhattacharya Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute, Early in the Covid period, the skeptics of government closures and universal quarantines were denounced as favoring a policy of “let it rip.” The phrase has been in use since the 19th century. It is apparently drawn from experience with steamships. When you released power to its maximum extent, it made a ripping […]

Looming Trump Tariffs Spark Wave Of Freight Frontloading From China Anticipating that President-elect Donald Trump will fulfill his promise of a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico and Canada and an additional 10% tariff on imports from China, importers are frontloading freight before the tariff wall takes effect in less than two months. Bloomberg reports that international cargo flights out of the world’s second-largest economy […]

Syrian Jihadists Mount New Assault On Aleppo After Surprise Advance Authored by Jaston Ditz via AntiWar.com, The Syrian proxy war never really ended, but it certainly had quieted down for a time, with various factions confined to various areas, and the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seeming stuck in Idlib Province. Today the war is flaring up again in a big way. HTS forces have pushed eastward out of Idlib into the western […]

Trump Taps Chris Rufo To Help De-Wokify Ivy Leagues Receiving Federal Funding President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in higher education. In a significant move, key conservative figure Christopher Rufo has been invited to present a proposal to slash federal funding for universities that maintain such programs. Rufo, a senior fellow at […]

Playing Nuclear Chicken Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, We continue to climb steadily up the World War III escalation ladder. Last week, Biden foolishly gave Ukraine the green light to strike deep into Russian territory using U.S. missiles. Now Russia has responded, as Putin promised they would. On November 21st Russia launched a new hypersonic missile known as the Oreshnik. It is a unique weapon designed to […]

Meta Plans $10 Billion Undersea Global Fiber Network In “W” Formation To Avoid Sabotage A new report from TechCrunch reveals that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—one of the largest drivers of internet usage globally, accounting for about 10% of all fixed and 22% of mobile traffic—is planning to secure its own undersea fiber-optic cables to “avoid areas of geopolitical tension.” This move comes […]

Massive Trump “Fight, Fight, Fight” Statue Under Construction Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, An Ohio artist has been commissioned to create a two story high bronze statue of president Trump in the iconic pose he struck after surviving the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania earlier this year. Breitbart News reports that the statue, expected to be completed by Trump’s inauguration in January, was funded by […]

3 US Aircraft Carriers To Be In Asia During Trump Inauguration In a historic convergence, three US aircraft carriers will be in Asia by next week after months of absence amid concerns of Chinese activity in the lead up to the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the Nikkei reported. The USS George Washington arrives in Yokosuka, Japan for the first time in over nine years on Nov. 22 USS George Washington, with a crew of […]

“Dumb-Shit Grandstanding” – What Part Of ‘Mandate’ Don’t You Understand? Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them.”  – Jeff Childers You have every reason to believe that this arrogant, malicious, leviathan government, and the vicious intel / lawfare blob at its […]

Trump Nominees Targeted With Bomb Threats As Radical Groups Plan Massive Protests For Inauguration Day Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, You didn’t think that the radicals would just give up and go home after Donald Trump won the election, did you?  It took a little bit of time for the shock of Trump’s election victory to wear off, but now it appears that they are ready to cause widespread chaos.   […]

Putin Says Trump ‘Not Safe’ After Assassination Attempts, Slams Mudslinging Against His Family Russian President Vladimir Putin while at the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan spoke to reporters and made mention of US President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday. He said that he doesn’t believe Trump is safe after no less than two attempts on his life. Putin described “the absolutely […]

“This Week, The Second Trump Trade War Started” By Philip Marey, Rabobank Senior US Equity Strategist Tortilla wrap with bacon This week, the second Trump trade war started. On Monday, there was some market relief after Trump’s announcement on Friday that he would nominate Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. However, that changed on Tuesday after Trump made his tariff threats to Canada, Mexico and China. Mexican President […]

Smith & Wesson Deplatformed From Facebook As Musk Welcomes Gun Industry To X In an X post, the US firearms manufacturer Smith & Wesson described how it was “suspended indefinitely” from Facebook over the social media platform’s “ever-changing community guidelines on firearms.”  “Despite our extensive efforts and resources spent on trying to adhere to Facebook’s ever-changing community guidelines on firearms, our account […]

Boris Johnson Calls For NATO Troops On The Ground In Ukraine Yet Again After months of rumors surrounding possible peace talks in Turkey that might have ended the war in Ukraine not long after it reignited in 2022, multiple sources confirmed that British Politician and former PM Boris Johnson showed up in Kyiv to dismiss the negotiations and told the Ukrainians “let’s just fight”.  These sources include David Arahamiya, the leader […]

Epps Loses Defamation Case Against Fox News Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, Just months after a judge dismissed Nina Jankowicz’s much-hyped defamation lawsuit against Fox, a federal district court judge in Delaware, Judge Jennifer L. Hall, has dismissed Ray Epps’s defamation lawsuit. The Jan. 6 rioter said the network falsely identified him as an FBI informant. U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer L. Hall […]

Ukraine Not In Strong Position To Negotiate With Putin, NATO Chief Admits The last six months has seen more and more Western officials and mainstream media outlets acknowledge reality in Ukraine – that Russian forces are on the advance, with Kiev forces outgunned and most importantly outmanned. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in fresh comments this week admitted the same. He said in a Fox News interview that Ukraine is not in a […]

Watch: Billionaire Eats Banana ‘Art’ He Just Paid $6.2 Million For Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news, Billionaire Justin Sun, who paid $6.2 million for a banana duct taped to a wall, followed through on his promise by eating the fruit. Yes, really. The crypto entrepreneur bought the piece of ‘art’ – ‘Comedian’ by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, during an auction at Sotherby’s in New York where he […]

French Govt Collapse Imminent As Le Pen Piles On Pressure Over Budget Vote While French bond spreads have compressed modestly overnight (as French Finance Minister Antoine Armand announced that he is ready to amend the 2025 budget proposal to avoid a government collapse), they remain extremely elevated (at their highest since the European financial crisis in 2012) as rising tensions threaten the country’s economic stability. […]

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax Authored by Richard Maybury via The Mises Institute, Each year at this time, schoolchildren all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating. It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and […]

European Federation Of Journalists Announces They Are Leaving Elon Musk’s X European news organizations really seem to hate free speech. The European Federation of Journalists (which claims to represent over 320,000 members) has followed The Guardian and the German Journalists Association in an announcement that they will stop publishing on Elon Musk’s X social media platform staring on January 20, 2025 – The inauguration for Donald […]

Futures Rise As Dollar Slides, Ending 8-Week Winning Streak US equity futures gained for the second day ahead of a shortened trading session after the Thanksgiving holiday, with Treasuries also rising and the dollar slipping amid mounting (if naive) speculation that president-elect Donald Trump will temper his most extreme trade policies drove the dollar to its biggest weekly loss in three months. As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 […]