Economy & Finance

Renewables Now Make Up 1/4 Of US Electricity Generation In 2025, the share of renewables in U.S. electricity generation has surpassed 25 percent. Over the course of the past 20 years, their share has continuously risen from just 8.6 percent in 2007. At the same time, as Statista’s Kathraina Buchholz details in the infographic below, coal […]

The Baltic States Plan To Form Their Own “Military Schengen” Authored by Andrew Korybko, This will one day link with the existing “military Schengen” between the Netherlands, Germany, and Poland, which Belgium and France plan to join, for creating a contiguous zone of free military movement between the Pyrenees and the approach to St. Petersburg.

Saudis Lead Arab Fury After Huckabee Floats ‘Greater Israel’ Vision Blowback was swift across the Arab world after US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declared it would be “fine” if Israel took over the entire Middle East, words featured in a Tucker Carlson interview from Jerusalem published days ago. Governments from Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi

Trump Declares War On Euro Censorship Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, As European governments ramp up their assault on online freedom, the Trump administration is striking back hard with Freedom.Gov—a portal designed to equip European and British citizens with tools to shatter digital barriers imposed by overreaching bureaucrats. The move exposes the hypocrisy of so called

Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together Authored by Andrew Korybko, Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their grand strategy

AWS Engineers Allowed An AI Tool to Act…Then The Cloud Unit Went Down Amazon’s cloud arm has experienced two recent service disruptions tied to the use of its own AI-powered coding systems, stirring debate inside the company over how quickly such tools should be rolled out, according to FT. One incident in mid-December led to

China Is Cracking Down On “Stock Market Influencers” As AI Surge Overheats Market Chinese regulators are tightening oversight of aggressive influencer promotions for investment products, worried that an AI-driven tech surge — encouraged by state policy — is overheating the market, according to Nikkei. In late January, media reports said the China Securities Regulatory Commission

Trump Admin Proposal Could Bring Drastic Changes To Asylum Process Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing an “overhaul” of the asylum process, according to a Friday announcement. The proposed 220-page rule, which is likely to face legal challenges, aims to reduce the number of immigrants

Iran Floats Joint Oil Investment, Sanctions Rollback Wish-List Ahead Of Next US Talks The Trump administration may have finally blinked, also knowing that yet another US-led war in the Middle East remains deeply unpopular among the American people. No attacks have come this weekend, as some were predicting last week, as President Trump appears to

Waste Of The Day: The Story Of Robosquirrel Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearInvestigations, Topline: Dr. Frankenstein was able to bring his monster back to life using just rusty tools and a cramped workshop. Researchers in California needed taxpayer funding from the National Science Foundation for their own reanimation experiment, with results that were not