Economy & Finance

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 […]

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

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,

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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