Submitted by SouthFront.org, On September 27, a new regional war in South Caucasus arose from the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. Pro-Armenian forces captured the region in the early 90s triggering an armed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Further development of the hostilities and the expected offensive by pro-Azerbajian forces were stopped by […]

Authored by Lawrence Franklin via The Gatestone Institute, The United States is in a “Tech War” with China, the victor will control the global dissemination of information. The winner will also write the world’s rules and standards for emerging technologies in the digital economy. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Chairman Xi Jinping threw down the gauntlet […]

After previously touting that his own daughter was among the first to take the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, standing in as a prominent early ‘guinea pig’ of sorts vouching for its safety, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he plans to receive it soon, according to a story in Newsweek on Monday. Without specifying precisely when he […]

Authored by John Quincy Adams via The Strategic Culture Foundation, About twenty years ago The Atlantic published a piece by Jeffrey Tayler named “Russia is finished” subtitled “The unstoppable descent of a once great power into social catastrophe and strategic irrelevance.” Not a very successful prediction was it? But what he did was fashionable at […]

Following a two-month period which already saw a very noticeable uptick in Chinese PLA military drills in the regions of the Yellow, South China, and East China Seas, Beijing has announced the start of five simultaneous military drills which it says are “directed at Taiwan”. It’s only the second time in recent months that this […]

Authored by Leo Thuman via Campus Reform, A University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student stepped down from leadership roles in the university’s graduate student union after admitting that she had dishonestly presented herself as a “person of color.” In a letter published on the website Medium on September 6, University of Wisconsin graduate student CV Vitolo-Haddad apologized and […]

By now, it is common knowledge that technology stocks, the FAAMGs, are in one of the biggest bubbles in capital markets history. Investors have quickly pivoted to these fast-growing tech firms, with an unprecedented concentration in AAPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOGL, and FB. With the US presidential election fast-approaching, momentum and valuation concerns have materialized for these high-flying stocks, as the world’s most sophisticated family […]

Update (2338ET): Following an appearance on Fox News’ “Hannity,” James O’Keefe released a second ballot-harvesting video featuring an apparent purchase of a ballot from a Somali resident of Minnesota. The video then features several allegations made by local Somalis regarding the alleged scheme – including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s direct involvement. “She’s [Ilhan Omar] the one […]

Authored by Omid Malekan via Medium.com, As you’ve probably seen, DeFi on Ethereum is now the hottest thing in all of crypto, further establishing the platform’s first mover advantage, and firing what should be perceived as a shot across the bow of traditional financial services. The success of the movement is attributable to three fundamental […]

The editor-in-chief of the Chinese Community Party run Global Times, Hu Xijin, has once again raised eyebrows with his typical bellicose and provocative statements and predictions. This time he took things to a new level, cryptically citing “information learned” — as if from an insider source or perhaps even Chinese intelligence — to suggest President Trump has a major ‘October Surprise’ in […]

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Researcher and attorney Michael P. Senger suggests that the Chinese government launched an aggressive propaganda campaign to exaggerate the severity of coronavirus in order to force the rest of the world into a draconian lockdown that would serve to benefit Beijing. In an article for Tablet Magazine, Senger details […]

Apparently unaware of the effect a multi-billion dollar gamma squeeze had on the NASDAQ over the last 6 months, ARK Invest’s Cathie Wood would rather attribute her success to something way more “woke”: diversity. The fund manager told Bloomberg this week that her firm’s success comes from the fact that almost none of her analysts […]

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, “Enormous Uncerntainty.” That is how SimplyWise stated the situation in their latest “retirement confidence survey.” Such is despite a surging stock market from the March lows, trillions in liquidity support from the Fed, and a rebound in economic activity. So, what’s the problem? Here is SimplyWise: The current public heath, economic, and […]

There’s been another horrific and bloody weekend in Chicago, after multiple weekends running of a surge in shootings and homicides. As of the start of Monday at least 49 people had been shot, including seven fatally, based on police tallies and local reports. Via Chicago Sun-Times This past weekend was particularly tragic as it included the stabbing death […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is preparing for the off-chance that neither President Trump nor Joe Biden will win an outright Electoral College victory – leaving the fate of the presidency to the House of Representatives. In such a scenario – which hasn’t happened since 1876 – each state’s delegation would receive a single vote […]

Authored by Roger Koops via The American Institute for Economic Research, 2020 is a year when many things besides people have died, or at least placed on indefinite life support. Music and most arts and culture (at least audience-based), education, a person`s livelihood, social trust and interaction, common sense and common decency, debate, and we […]

Armenia could trigger its collective defense pact with Russia, the latter which also has a sprawling military base at Gyumri in the northwest part of the country, but on Monday the Armenian Ambassador to Moscow, Vardan Toganyan, has said the escalation of fighting with Azerbaijan has not reached that point yet.  The Ministry of Defense of […]

Authored by Jonathan Turley, It appears that Judge Amy Coney Barrett has gone from a “cult member” for being a devout Catholic to a possible “white colonizer” for adopting two Haitian children.  Where most of us saw a loving interracial family at the White House ceremony on Saturday,  Ibram X. Kendi, the new director of the Center […]

TikTok-owner ByteDance greeted news of last night’s court ruling blocking a White House executive order with relief. But as we noted, while the ruling will at least delay a Trump Administration order to strip the app from app stores owned by Google and Apple, the court battle will likely continue, particualrly as the Nov. 12 […]

The Nikola One semi truck has been at the center of much of the controversy surrounding Nikola. Namely, it is now becoming famous for being the semi that the company has admitted it rolled down a hill in a video where it described the semi as “in motion”, leading many to believe the truck was […]

Authored by Dr. T.P.Wilkinson via GlobalResearch.ca, In 1973, the world economy was brought almost to a halt by a supposed shortage of oil. The ostensible trigger for this alleged shortage was the so-called Yom Kippur War in which the armed forces of the Anglo-American Empire’s settler-colonial offshore enterprise in Palestine, also known as the State […]

A couple of Canadians were living in Charlie Brooker’s dystopian science fiction television series called Black Mirror on Thursday (Sept. 24) when a Boston Dynamics robot ‘dog’ came walking down the street.  The whole encounter was caught on video by Canadian Twitter user @bIoodtear. The 18-second video was straight from the Black Mirror episode titled “Metalhead,” where a four-legged robotic dog started killing people. However, […]

Via Priceonomics.com, With the coronavirus pandemic and related shutdown, 2020 was the year that many Americas discovered delivery services for their essentials. E-commerce, grocery delivery, and food delivery have all seen ​unprecedented growth ​in usage this year. For cannabis consumers, delivery has long been a popular service, but coronavirus has made this method more important than […]

The Colorado Secretary of State is under fire after mailing postcards to dead people and non-citizens, urging them to go online and register to vote. According to CBS4, at least a dozen people are confirmed as receiving the postcards who shouldn’t have – while the number of unconfirmed erroneous mailings is of course unknown. “Which […]

Authored by Ben Norton via TheGrayZone.com, Western government-funded intelligence cutouts trained Syrian opposition leaders, planted stories in media outlets from BBC to Al Jazeera, and ran a cadre of journalists. A trove of leaked documents exposes the propaganda network. Leaked documents show how UK government contractors developed an advanced infrastructure of propaganda to stimulate support […]

Today in “news you definitely don’t need to get in the middle of an already tumultuous 2020”, some Texas residents are being told not to drink their water due to it potentially being tainted with a “brain-eating microbe”. An advisory was issued for Lake Jackson, Freeport, Angleton, Brazoria, Richwood, Oyster Creek, Clute and Rosenberg to not […]

Authored by Jonathan Church via Quillette.com, A review of Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody, by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, Pitchstone Publishing (August 25th, 2020), 352 pages. In November 1964, the American historian Richard Hofstadter published an essay in Harper’s Magazine about the paranoid style in American politics, arguing […]

Despite Kim Jong-Un offering a nearly unheard of apology for last week’s shooting death of a South Korean fisheries official after he was found to have breached the disputed border in waters of the western coast, tensions are still running high which could set off further conflict.  North Korea’s military says it is searching for […]

Update (2015ET): Judge Nichols has – at least temporarily – blocked the White House’s TikTok ban, and sparred Google and Apple from an order to remove the app from their app stores at midnight. Trump’s ban on Tiktok is temporarily blocked by federal judge — Saleha Mohsin (@SalehaMohsin) September 28, 2020 Just in: Trump’s TikTok […]

Submitted by Mark Glennon of Wirepoints What’s are the real chances of dying if you are infected with COVID-19? You’ll probably be surprised how low they are according to new numbers from the Center for Disease Control. We’ll state those numbers simply for those of you who aren’t crazy about math. The CDC’s new estimate, […]

Former Deutsche Bank AG traders Cedric Chanu and James Vorley were convicted for manipulating gold and silver prices on Friday after three days of deliberation by a Federal jury in Chicago. The two were accused of making fake trade orders between 2008 and 2013 to influence the prices of precious metals. Their trial was a […]

Via AlMasdarNews.com, Iran has defied the U.S. threats and sanctions by increasing their oil shipments in the month of September, Reuters reported on Friday, citing details from TankerTrackers. Details from TankerTrackers and two other unnamed firms revealed that the exports are rising, “although the figures fall into a wide range of between 400,000 bpd and […]

President Trump has again pointed attention to Joe Biden’s apparent slowness from ageing, or even the possibility of dementia, ahead of Tuesday night’s debate, calling on Biden to agree to take a ‘test’. In a Sunday morning tweet Trump specifically demanded “a Drug Test of Sleepy Joe Biden prior to, or after, the Debate on Tuesday […]

Authored by L.Brent Bozell III via The American Mind, A fact-check solution to a constitutional crisis… The war between conservatives and Silicon Valley is on. The scions of social media are no longer hiding their disdain for an entire movement. They know the outcome of this high-stakes presidential election could jeopardize their rule over the […]

Some times, people just can’t catch a break. Such was the case of Argentinian lawmaker Juan Emilio Ameri, who has resigned after getting caught on a live camera pulling down his girlfriend’s top to kiss her newly enhanced breasts. Ameri sat through parts of a virtual session of congress seemingly unaware that his camera was turned […]

Authored by Jonathan Turley, A tape has surfaced of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden bizarrely claiming that he “started” at a historically black college in speaking to supporters in South Carolina during the primary. Biden has never made any mention of going to Delaware State University and it is not clear why the many reporters in attendance […]

Summary: COVID-19 deaths near 1 million Global cases hit 32.8 million France, Italy oppose new lockdowns Deaths climb in Iran Moscow cases hit 4 month high Dr. Fauci says therapeutics could be “bridge” to COVID-19 vaccine * * * US cases continued to accelerate over the weekend, with cases climbing 0.7% on Saturday, in line […]

Authored by Adam Taggart via PeakProsperity.com, The year 1971 saw the trajectories of nearly every major trend relative to our way of life shift massively. That year is such a noticeable inflection point in so many data sets, that an intriguing website WTFHappenedIn1971.com has been created to drive the point home. The website is a parade of […]

After Metropolitan Police claimed they would only crack down on marchers flagrantly violating social distancing rules (though the hated “rule of six” had been suspended due to the gathering’s “protest” status), German professor Dr. Heiko Schoening was arrested by a gang of British officers – he was filmed being loaded into a paddy wagon –  […]

Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, An Orderly Sell-Off Over the last couple of weeks, we have been discussing the ongoing market correction. As shown below, the sell-off has been orderly and not one of a “panic” induced decline. The market did retrace from the top of the 2-standard deviation range to the bottom, which is […]

Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, On March 20, I published an article called Why Assume There will be a 2020 Election? where I laid out the existential threat of a new Wall Street military Coup which would not only render elections obsolete, but would impose a new fascist hell onto America and the […]

It was a week ago that Beijing made clear it won’t be signing off on the messy and mired in confusion proposed Oracle-TikTok deal, citing that it would harm its “national security interests,” which is exactly the same reason given by Trump for trying to shut TikTok down in the first place. China’s state-run Global Times is out with […]

Authored by Mike Whitney, “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” – Joseph Conrad Here’s your political puzzler for the day: Which of these two things poses a greater threat to the country: An incompetent and boastful president who has no previous government […]

It doesn’t look like California is going to get the message that there’s such a thing as “too much government” anytime soon – so, if you were holding out hope, this might just be the time to give up.  While the state continues to struggle giving its citizens basics, like masks to survive the ongoing pandemic […]

Several people were injured on Saturday after a car plowed through a group of Trump supporters who were counter-protesting a Black Lives Matter rally in Yorba Linda, California. The driver raced down the street as people carrying Thin Blue Line and American flags chased her, only to be faced with a line of police cars. […]

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign released a “Platinum Plan” that outlines promises he is making to black Americans over the next 4 years, if he remains the U.S. president. As The Epoch Times’ Mimi Nguyen Ly details below, the plan seeks to uplift black communities through, in part, an investment of about $500 billion. The […]

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has unveiled a $28 billion program to send the first woman to the moon in 2024 as part of its Artemis program. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine released a statement Monday (Sept. 21), announcing the new mission to put a human back on the lunar surface would be the first […]

Authored by Ben Zeisloft via Campus Reform, Northwestern University journalism professor Stephan Garnett referred to African-American speakers at the Republican National Convention as “a grand display of buffoonery.” In an exclusive interview with Campus Reform, Garnett doubled down, comparing Black Americans who support Trump to Jews supporting Hitler. In an op-ed for MaxNewsToday titled “Black RNC Speakers Don’t Represent […]

“Unemployment is at a record high and many cannot or simply are not paying rent and mortgages…  “We are being contracted by frustrated property owners and banks to secure foreclosed residential properties.” –Civvl A new startup company called Civvl is placing Craigslist ads across the country for gig workers to evict those who have fallen […]

Singer John Legend (real name John Roger Stephens) says that Americans might “have to start thinking about going somewhere else” if President Trump is reelected. Legend joins a long tradition of Hollywood liberals who vow to leave the country over President Trump but then don’t. “At some point, if that project [to destroy democracy] was […]