Economy & Finance

President To Sign Bill Allowing Return Of Whole Milk In Schools Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump will sign the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act on Wednesday, overhauling previous U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines that required milk served in school cafeterias to be fat-free or low-fat. President

Senators Want To Ban Chinese Students From Government Labs Eleven US senators wrote to Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday seeking to ban Chinese nationals from US national labs – contending that their access undermines the United States’ position in the artificial intelligence (AI) race.  The Department of Energy building in Washington on Nov. 13, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The

Tyrants Authored by Lars Møller via American Thinker, History is replete with revolutionary figures who transformed society through “vision”, “vanity”, and “violence” – a vicious triad covering the strategy of being ideologically uncompromising, outmaneuvering rivals, and eliminating political opposition, respectively. From Wikimedia Commons: Execution of Louis XVI (Charles Monnet, 1794) Maximilien Robespierre and Vladimir Lenin stand out

Zelensky Declares Permanent State Of Emergency For Energy Sector Already Ukraine’s power grid has long suffered, with rolling blackouts having been in effect across parts of the country for much of the past year, but this week things have gotten worse amid a harsh freeze. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that the government is

UK BANS Dutch Commentator For Criticizing Starmer While Welcoming Illegal Migrant Hordes Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, Under Keir Starmer’s Labour government, the UK has become a dystopian nightmare where criticizing the Prime Minister gets you banned from entry. Meanwhile, boatloads of illegal migrants wash across the Channel daily, rewarded with hotel stays and

China Orders Domestic Firms To Stop Using US, Israeli Cybersecurity Software On ‘National Security’ Grounds Via The Cradle Chinese authorities instructed domestic companies to stop using certain US and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns and the risk of sensitive data being transferred overseas, according to informed sources cited by Reuters on January 14. Chinese officials,

Jim Bovard: Germany’s Latest War On Freedom Authored by Jim Bovard “There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom

Iran & Israel Secretly Agreed Not To Attack Each Other Through Russian Backchannel There may have been some back-channel dealmaking and a ‘mutual understanding’ reached between Iran and Israel far behind the scenes as protests unfolded on Iran’s streets, and as President Trump began to make threats about striking Tehran. At a moment Trump seems to

How BRICS May Deliver Structural Shock To US Dollar System Authored by Pepe Escobar, The oligarchy that really controls the Empire of Chaos has hit the panic button, as the structural contours of Hegemony seriously wobble. The petrodollar is one of the key features of this Hegemony: a recycling machine channeling non-stop buying of US