9.3 Million Americans Work Multiple Jobs To Make Ends Meet Imagine getting home from your nine-to-five job to have dinner with your family, maybe read a bedtime story and put your kids to bed. But instead of winding down on the couch afterwards, you get ready and start your second workday. That’s the daily reality for millions of Americans, for whom one job is no longer enough to pay rent, put food on the table and cover other […]

Five Takeaways From The US’ “Special Military Operation” In Venezuela Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, It was astoundingly successful and will likely serve to coerce the rest of the hemisphere into strategically capitulating to the US… The US launched a half-hour-long “special military operation” in Venezuela on Saturday morning that culminated in Delta Force’s capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Several […]

Trump Says Triumphal Arch Construction Just Two Months Away President Trump has announced that construction of a “triumphal arch” in Washington DC will begin within two months. Nicknamed by some as the “Arc de Trump,” its 2026 construction is meant to commemorate the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July.   “It hasn’t started yet. It starts sometime in the next two months,” […]

America’s New “Value Menu” Economy Should Worry You Authored by Peter Reagan, The hottest restaurant items of 2025 aren’t gourmet burgers – they’re value meals. When eating out turns into a budgeting exercise, it reveals something deeper about inflation, the rising cost of living and the quiet erosion of our quality of life… Restaurants have been a constant of human life for centuries, from roadside taverns serving […]

Democrats Now Claim They Are The “Real” American Patriots Leftists have never understood the phrase “If you can’t beat em’, join em'”.  Instead, they believe that if they can’t defeat their political opponents in terms of logic, reason, morals, facts or the law, then their next best bet is to co-opt the enemy’s message and image without actually adopting their values.. Voters witnessed the first tinges of this strategy in 2024 […]

Maduro And His Wife Indicted In US Federal Court; To “Finally… Face Justice For His Crimes” Authored by T.J.Muscaro via The Epoch Times, Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were indicted in the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced early on Jan. 3. “Nicolás Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and […]

America’s Low-Wage Workers Aren’t All High-School Dropouts Despite a strong labor market and rising nominal wages, there are still millions of people taking home less than $20 per hour on average. Education plays a major role in determining earnings, but it does not guarantee high wages—or even employment. This chart, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, shows the share and number of U.S. low-wage workers earning less than […]

Russia, Iran, China Outraged At US ‘Flagrant Armed Aggression’ On Venezuela As EU Shrugs The international reaction to America’s bombing campaign against Venezuela, during which time US special forces did a grab and nab of longtime President Nicolás Maduro has been predictably mixed. Global leftist leaders condemned a US attack in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Brazil, Russia, Colombia, […]

How Global Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 45 Years Over the past four decades, the global economic hierarchy has undergone profound change. Some economies have grown steadily, others have surged, and a few have slipped down the rankings as new players emerged. In the following visualization, Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte charts the world’s top economies from 1980 to 2025. The data for this visualization comes […]

Turkey To Launch First Overseas Deepwater Exploration Project Off Somalia Via The Cradle Tukey is planning to send a drilling vessel to Somalia this February to begin its first deep water exploration project abroad, Energy Minister ‌Alparslan Bayraktar said on Friday. The minister said the operation with the Cagri Bey drilling vessel will focus on offshore areas in Somalia’s waters, but did not elaborate further. Ankara […]

Far-Left Radicals Attack F-35 Stealth Jet’s UK Supply Chain Far-left activists targeted a critical supply chain node supporting the F-35 stealth fighter jet program, an attack that directly undermines Western national security interests and raises questions about whether foreign adversaries provided material support. Stu Smith, an investigative analyst and researcher focused on extremism, influence networks, and transnational […]

Germany’s Family Businesses Warn: Taxes, Energy Costs, And Bureaucracy Are Killing Competitiveness Submitted by Thomas Kolbe At the turn of the year, the Foundation for Family Businesses, together with the ifo Institute, presented a corporate survey on tax policy and location attractiveness. The result is unequivocal: Germany is too expensive and no longer competitive as a business location. There is nothing new under the sun. In […]

Maduro “Effed Around & Found Out”; Trump Says ‘We Will Run Venezuela’ Until Safe Transition After Operation ‘Absolute Resolve’ Summary: Operation ‘Absolute Resolve’: US forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an early morning raid and sent him to the US to face criminal charges. No servicemembers or military equipment was lost US Attorney General Pam Bondi said on X that Maduro and his […]

“Then It Is War”: Elon Musk Responds After Somali TikToker Threatens His Life A Somali TikToker (account now defunct), first highlighted by Libs of TikTok, mocked Americans about alleged Somali-linked fraud in Minnesota and pushed dangerous rhetoric suggesting Elon Musk was “about to die.” Such statements fit a broader alarming pattern surrounding the Democratic Party’s normalization of assassination culture against Musk and […]

Ex-CIA Analyst: Neocons Prematurely Celebrate Over Protests In Iran Authored by former CIA officer Larry Johnson Western media, especially those outlets firmly aligned with the neoconservative view, are quick to jump on reports of protests in Iran as a sign that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to implode. Events today in Iran provided another spurt of arousal among neocons longing to bring back the Shah and eliminate the […]

Beijing Wants Babies: Condoms, Contraceptive Drugs Hit With Double-Digit Tax To Boost Birth Rate In an effort to reverse China’s sagging birth rate, Beijing has removed a three-decade tax exemption on contraceptives starting Jan. 1, when condoms and contraceptive pills will now incur a value-added tax of 13%, the standard rate for most consumer goods.  The move comes after 2024 data marked the third consecutive year that birth […]

Russia Expands Biometric ID System… Again Authored by Riley Waggaman via Off-Guardian.org, The commercial enterprise that controls Russians’ biometric data has introduced new ways to use your face as a form of ID, resulting in unprecedented levels of safety and convenience in the Russian Federation. Russians young and old are already reaping the benefits of their country’s “digital transformation”—including very, […]

Back To Our Roots. If Baby Boomers Did It, So Can We… Peak winter in the Lower 48 typically occurs around mid-January, while the U.S. growing season generally begins in late March or early April. With affordability increasingly top of mind and food inflation proving sticky, it is worth remembering that our grandparents – or even our parents, in some cases – turned to “victory gardens” during World War II, which supplied about 40% […]

Setting Up The 2026 Midterms Authored by J.T.Young via American Greatness, Ten months ahead of November’s midterms, political and economic crosscurrents are colliding. Which of these conflicting trends prevails will greatly shape the next two years. And possibly even longer. Midterm elections are always important. Besides gauging the country’s political mood, they have proven integral to maintaining America’s political […]

US Reissues Urgent ‘Do Not Travel’ Warning For Russia, As NYT Confirms CIA’s Escalating Involvement The US State Department has once once again re-issued an urgent advisory warning Americans not to travel to Russia. The renewed travel advisory also tells any American citizens currently in Russia to depart immediately. It cites the danger associated with the ongoing war with Ukraine, as well as the significant risk of wrongful […]

Sorry, Zohran, We’re Kind Of Done With The “Warmth Of Collectivism” Authored by Sasha Stone via sashastone.com, In his swearing-in ceremony, the new Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, said, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” MAYOR MAMDANI: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” pic.twitter.com/3LIOVHdKSy — Fox News […]

OnlyFans Model Gets Baptized, Reconnects With Jesus After Sex Spree  A viral video shows OnlyFans content creator Lily Phillips taking part in a baptism ceremony, saying she has “found Jesus” and now feels “closer to God.” British adult OnlyFans content creator Phillips is known for a series of sensational stunts, including reportedly outdoing fellow OF creator Bonnie Blue by sleeping with more than 1,100 men.  The baptism […]

SMRs Explained: Real-World Economics, Fuel Bottlenecks, & The Race To Scale Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, The shift to Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) is driven by rising global electricity demand, especially from AI data centers, and the limitations of intermittent renewable energy sources, positioning nuclear as the essential source of 24/7 “firm” baseload power. SMRs bypass the financial risks of […]

America’s Top New Year’s Resolutions For 2026 Exercising more is top of mind for many Americans making resolutions for 2026. As Anna Fleck reports, data from a recent survey by Statista shows that close to half of U.S. adults are committing to the fitness goal. You will find more infographics at Statista Vows to save more money, eat healthier, spend more time with family and friends and lose weight were the next most […]

Dropping The Façade: Propaganda, Power, & The Absurdity Of Empire Authored by Chris Macintosh via InternationalMan.com, Whenever you see a coordinated full-frontal assault, a blizzard of the same rhetoric all focused on an end result with a particular narrative attached, you know that it is pure unadulterated propaganda. Recall the Covid scam and every channel parroting the same lines… “Safe and effective” and […]