Metal Shock: Gulf’s Largest Aluminum Producer Declares Force Majeure A little more than a week after Emirates Global Aluminum (EGA), the Gulf’s largest aluminum producer, halted operations at its Al Taweelah smelter following Iranian missile and drone strikes, EGA has now declared force majeure on parts of its contract book, signaling that supply chain disruptions are spreading beyond energy markets and into industrial metals. […]

The ‘Leading UK Scientists’ Letter Urging Abandonment Of North Sea Is Ideology Masquerading As Science Authored by Tilak Doshi via Tilak’s Substack, The Financial Times reported on Good Friday that “more than 65 leading UK scientists” had signed an open letter, published as a Google Doc, urging the Government to abandon new North Sea oil and gas drilling in favour of renewables. “Here is the scientific establishment […]

Trump ‘Preparing’ US Military If Talks Fail, Proclaims Iran Has ‘No Cards’ As Delegates Arrive In Islamabad Summary:  Iran makes clear Lebanon fighting must end or else Pakistan talks “meaningless” – as its delegation arrives in ‘locked down’ Pakistan. Speculation abounds related to ongoing Pentagon transport flights into Mideast region. Trump threatens more military action if Iran doesn’t ‘comply’, says Iran has ‘no […]

Visualizing America’s Slide In ‘Happiness Rankings’ Since 2011 The United States has steadily slipped in the global happiness rankings over the past decade. While it still ranks among the top 25 in the latest World Happiness Report, the U.S. is no longer close to the leading group of Nordic countries that consistently dominate the top spots. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Niccolo Conte, tracks the U.S. happiness […]

Who’s Afraid Of Emmanuel Macron? Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, French President Emmanuel Macron is doing that peculiar French thing again…acting tough while looking weak.   He gave a speech last Friday at Yonsei University in Seoul during which he demanded that nations not become “vassals” of China or the United States.  Macron wants South Korea to join Canada, Australia, and the European Union in […]

The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us As much as many centrists and libertarians are opposed to Donald Trump’s ongoing strikes against Iran, I have to say, the downstream result might end up becoming one of the most libertarian results I have ever seen. For decades, small government activists like those in the Ron Paul movement have been calling for a comprehensive US […]

Court Documents Reveal Confession Note Hand Written By Alleged Kirk Assassin In September of 2025, prosecutors in the Charlie Kirk murder case alleged that they had access to a hand-written note left by prime suspect Tyler Robinson for his trans boyfriend which contained a confession to the crime.  Tyler Robinson, 22, left a note under a keyboard for his roommate/romantic partner to discover, said Utah County Attorney Jeffrey […]

US Draft Registration Becomes ‘Automatic’ By Year-End: A Detailed Breakdown Authored by Edward Hasbrouck via AntiWar.com, On March 30th, the Selective Service System (SSS) sent the White House its proposed regulations for “automatic” [sic] draft registration for review and approval before they are made public. This is the first visible step in the transition from trying to get young men to sign themselves up for a military […]

Zelensky’s Interceptor Drones Deployed Across Eurasia, Now Shooting Down Iranian Shaheds Three weeks after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukrainian drone specialists were helping five Gulf states counter Iranian Shahed drones and build low-cost interceptor-based air defenses, he revealed Friday that Ukrainian military personnel had just recently shot down Shaheds in the Gulf theater. “Our teams are already working with […]

US Nuclear Fusion Startup To Build Radioactive Batteries For Use In Space Authored by Ameya Paleja via Interesting Engineering, Avalanche Energy, a fusion energy startup, has won a $5.2 million contract to build radioactive batteries that can power a laptop-class system for months. The contract is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Rads to Watts Program, which aims to build next-generation, compact, resilient […]

Airfares In Israel Skyrocket As Travelers Take Advantage Of Ceasefire, But Foreign Airlines Stay Away The Iran ceasefire has finally allowed Ben Gurion international airport to fully reopen after 40 days of severe war disruptions, and after the ‘new normal’ for people across Israel was to routinely scramble to find missile shelters. Foreign and international carriers had canceled flights to Israel since the US-Israeli attack […]

Immigration Board Denies Mahmoud Khalil’s Appeal Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, An immigration appeals board on April 9 denied Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil’s final appeal seeking to keep him from being deported from the United States. The former Columbia University student and leader of pro-Palestinian protests is now subject to an administrative final removal order, authorizing the Immigration and […]

US-Vatican Relations Extremely Strained As Pentagon Denies It Berated Pope’s Diplomat Washington’s attack on Iran alongside Israel has come under repeat condemnation from the Vatican, leaving US relations very strained. What hasn’t helped things are widespread allegations that US officials berated the Vatican’s top diplomat in Washington. Pentagon and Vatican officials are denying reports that US authorities gave the Holy See’s […]

Watch: Rogan Encapsulates Why Missing Scientists Are No Conspiracy Theory… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In his latest episode, podcaster Joe Rogan lays out the massive financial motive behind the silencing of experts on zero-point energy and plasma tech, while his guest declares an apocalyptic convergence of UFO secrets, AI, and global chaos. Rogan encourages listeners to confront a pattern the establishment […]

‘She Was Too Drunk To Consent’ (Twice): Swalwell Odds Crater After Sexual Assault Allegations Rock California Gubernatorial Race Eric Swalwell’s chances of becoming California’s next corrupt governor cratered on Friday after detailed sexual assault allegations from a former district-office staffer were published in the San Francisco Chronicle.  The stunning drop – visible in real time on platforms such as Polymarket, where […]

New ATF Rule Should Dismantle Billion-Record Gun Registry Via Gun Owners of America, The Trump administration will soon release a rule dealing with ATF’s illegal registry. It will change the Biden-era requirement that gun dealers permanently keep all firearm transaction records.  Ending the permanent retention of these records is could be a huge step in the right direction, since the Biden ATF’s entire plan was to use […]

“Move To California”: Nvidia CEO Becomes Unofficial Pitchman For Struggling Left-Wing State The California exodus is a very simple byproduct of one-party Democratic rule, with unhinged progressive politicians abusing their tax base through high taxes, overregulation, and experiments with extreme progressive policies that have transformed parts of some metro areas into crime-ridden hellholes. Average people, billionaires, and […]

Gen Z Americans Grow More Skeptical And Angry About AI, Survey Finds Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Young Americans are using artificial intelligence (AI) regularly, but their distrust and resentment toward the technology are also growing, according to a new Gallup survey. The survey, released Thursday, found that more than half of Generation Z respondents ages 14 to 29 said they use generative AI either daily or […]

“Terrifies Billionaire Class”: Pro-China Party Of Socialism & Liberation Plans General Strike On U.S. Economy  The Party for Socialism & Liberation (PSL) is promoting a May 1 “general strike” aimed at disrupting economic activity across the U.S., framing it as a coordinated effort to pressure the Trump administration. “The prospect of a nationwide shutdown terrifies the billionaire class, and it is what can really stop […]

Mainstream Media Claims Roger Stone Persuaded Trump Not To Fire Tulsi Gabbard Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, President Trump was reportedly on the verge of firing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — until longtime adviser Roger Stone stepped in at the last minute. According to an Axios report citing ‘advisors’, Trump had grown frustrated with Gabbard’s congressional testimony on threats […]

Xi Hosts Taiwan Opposition Leader In Rare Meeting: ‘We Will Not Become A Chessboard For External Intervention’ All eyes remain fixated on the impending US-Iran talks in Islamabad, but big things are also happening Friday in Beijing, and they have direct impact on another potential global flashpoint: Taiwan. While Washington potentially gets bogged down in another Middle East quagmire (if talks don’t go well and there’s no […]

White House Warns Staff As Iran Bets Add To Growing Insider-Trading Concerns Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, The White House warned staff against improperly using confidential information to place bets in futures markets after suspicious oil trades ahead of President Donald Trump’s March 23 Iran announcement drew scrutiny, according to Reuters. Reuters reported on Thursday that the White House sent the […]

Half-Way Into Fiscal 2026, US Budget Deficit Is 11% Lower Than 2025, But It’s About To Get Much Worse While not as dire as previous years, the US budget deficit remains a ticking time bomb. There was some good news and some not so good news, when the Treasury reported the monthly revenue and outlays for the month of March.  First the good news: The US federal government reported that the March budget deficit rose $4 billion or […]

“We’re Really In Uncharted Territory…” Authored by James Howard Kunstler, Games Nations Play “I am sick of serving in Congress with immoral freaks who abuse their office and bring dishonor to the institution.” – Rep Anna Paulina Luna You have entered the season of chaos. Better get used to it. The center quit holding a long time ago, and now even the margins are quivering. Buckle up and batten down. It will probably get […]

Trump Rebukes Carlson, Kelly, Owens, & Jones Over Iran Comments Authored by Luis Cornelio via HeadlineUSA, President Donald Trump minced no words in a lengthy and fiery rebuke of podcast hosts Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones amid their criticisms over the U.S.’s military operations in Iran.  President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order barring transgender female athletes from […]