Economy & Finance

China’s Rare Earth Chokehold Eases – Just Enough To Keep US Hooked China’s export controls on key rare earth elements (REEs) — particularly rare earth magnets essential for EVs, smartphones, fighter jets, and missiles — triggered a sharp drop in shipments to U.S. firms earlier this summer, disrupting production lines, including ones at Ford Motor Company. […]

Democrats Demand Investigation Into Colbert’s Cancelation Authored by Jonathan Turley, In Washington, Democratic politicians are calling for a congressional investigation, while in New York, the Writers’ Guild is asking New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) for a state probe. No, the issue is not the use of the autopen by Biden staff to carry out presidential

Sarepta Refuses FDA Request To Halt Elevidys After Three Deaths Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. has refused a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy Elevidys after three patient deaths, Bloomberg reported this weekend. The FDA disclosed that two teenage boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, both unable to

Reddit Now Requires Age Verification In UK To Comply With Nation’s Online Safety Act Authored by Darren Smith via JonathanTurley.org, The news and social media aggregation platform Reddit now requires its United Kingdom based users to provide age verification to access “mature content” hosted on its website. Users must prove they are eighteen years or

Watch: Rare Inside Look At Russia’s Secret Shahed Drone Factory Russian state media has broadcast new footage from a major drone production facility in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, where Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones, rebranded by Russia as the Geran-2, are being manufactured.  The defense ministry-produced video constitutes a very rare look inside one of Russia’s main secretive drone assembly plants,

Analyzing The Ambiguity Over The American-NATO Arms Arrangement For Ukraine Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, The offensive dimension of Trump’s new three–pronged approach to Ukraine involves the sale of American weapons to NATO who’ll in turn transfer them to Ukraine. This aligns with what Trump told NBC several days prior to the aforesaid announcement. According to Reuters’ sources, however, “Trump

Israeli Settlers Accused Of Killing 117 Sheep Belonging To West Bank Bedouins In the latest ghastly tactic used to displace non-Jews from their West Bank villages and farms, Israeli settlers are accused of carrying out a bloody livestock massacre on Friday, using knives, sticks and guns to kill 117 sheep belonging to Bedouins. Settlers stole

The European ‘Surprise’ – Why We Misread The Continent’s Shifts Authored by Tamuz Itai via The Epoch Times, Europe’s political landscape continues to defy expectations, leaving analysts and policymakers scrambling to explain outcomes that, in hindsight, seem foreseeable. From the UK’s Brexit vote to Giorgia Meloni’s rise in Italy, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) surge

Escobar: And It’s One, Two, Three; What Are We Fighting For? NATO’s Wars Authored by Pepe Escobar, All of you Vietnam vets and draft resisters will recognize where this column’s headline is coming from. Oh yes, this ain’t the late 1960s anymore, so it’s time to revamp it – no AI needed – and expand it: from

Multi-Billion Dollar Boondoggle: Biden Admin Plan For Electric Mail Trucks Flops Massively A Biden administration effort to electrify the U.S. Postal Service has produced just 250 electric mail trucks in over two years—far behind schedule and slammed by Republicans as a multibillion-dollar “boondoggle.” The nearly $10 billion project aimed to roll out 35,000 battery-powered USPS