Russia Condemns US Attack On Iran, Warns Of Possible ‘Radiological Catastrophe’ As fully predictable, Moscow has blasted the major overnight and early morning US-Israeli strikes on Iran, calling the attack “a preplanned and unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent U.N. member state” and has demanded an immediate halt to the military campaign and a return to diplomacy. The Foreign Ministry in a […]

Economic Sentiment Belies Strong Economic Estimates Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Economic growth metrics for the United States have recently shown surprising resilience; however, consumers’ economic sentiment has not. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis’s advance estimate, real Gross Domestic Product expanded at an annualized rate of just 1.4%, well below expectations and a steep drop from […]

Iran Signals Ready To Deescalate After Defense Minister, IRGC Chief Killed In US-Israeli Strikes Update (10:00ET): Will the chaos be contained, after Iran unleashed retaliatory missiles on at least five regional countries, including Israel? Iran is quickly signaling that it’s not willing to escalate this further, hoping for a halt in the US-Israeli operation: Iran is attacking U.S. military facilities in the Middle East region […]

Iran Retaliates On US Bases In Five Countries Simultaneously As Tehran Bombed Iran launched retaliatory strikes targeting Israel and US assets across the Middle East, hitting sites in Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq – soon after the Trump-ordered ‘Operation Epic Fury’ started, which appears aimed at accomplishing regime change in Iran. Multiple explosions rocked Tehran, with additional blasts reported in […]

The Inflation Spark That Could Become A Deflation Shock Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Memory chips have quietly become the most important commodities in the global economy. DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) is considered the workhorse of the digital world. It functions as the operating memory when a device is turned on, and this memory is lost when a device is switched off.  These chips are used in almost […]

Pentagon Picks OpenAI To Replace Anthropic Update (2345ET): Sam Altman on Friday night announced that OpenAI and Department of War have struck a deal in which the DoW will be able to use the company’s AI for military applications, and has agreed to abide by the company’s red lines regarding safety (which were similar to rival Anthropic).  “Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass […]

Iran Strikes Should End In Regime Change, Senate Majority Leader Says, Ahead Of War Powers Vote Senate Majority Leader John Thune has made the maximalist hawkish US case on Iran, saying that any authorized strikes should result in nothing less than regime change in Tehran. “In my view, if you’re going to do something there, you better well make it about getting new leadership and regime change,” the leading Republican Senator […]

France’s Le Pen Says She Will Not Run In 2027 Election If Under House Arrest, Names Successor Via Remix News, In March 2025,  Le Pen was convicted on charges dating back years ago, in a move that was widely contested and seen as a highly political attempt to keep her from running in next year’s presidential election. Now, she says she has no intention of running if her ban from running is lifted, if it means she must wear an […]

Rare Local Ceasefire In Ukraine At Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant For Urgent Repairs The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed in a Friday announcement that a local ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia is in effect around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to urgently allow crews to restore the facility’s backup power supply. In a local, mutual agreement along the front lines, the UN nuclear watchdog confirmed both […]

92% Of Illegal Arrivals At Spain’s Canary Islands Are Men, And Half Of ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ Are Adults Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A European Parliament fact-finding mission to the Canary Islands has revealed that around half of migrants who claimed to be unaccompanied minors upon arrival were ultimately determined to be adults. The Committee on Petitions conducted the visit in September 2025 to assess the impact […]

China’s Biological Weapons Labs In America Authored by Gordon Change via The Gatestone Institute, China has been maintaining at least two facilities — one in California and the other in Nevada — that are part of a biological weapons program. A Declaration of Arrest Report, issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in connection with the detention of Ori Solomon on January 31, states that there is a “deeper […]

Are You Being Watched By Smart Glasses? Here’s How To Check Meta’s Ray-Bans are seeing growing adoption among everyday consumers, highlighting an affordability sweet spot for AI-powered wearables as Apple is expected to enter the space with its own smart glasses following its failed Vision Pro launch. Yet, as AI-powered glasses gain popularity, they introduce new privacy and security concerns, with one smartphone app emerging as an […]

The Clash Of Civilizations Restarts History Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Western globalists won’t last long. Thirty-five years ago, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama made a name for himself by advancing the proposition that the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union promised the ascendency and universalization of so-called Western liberal democracy.  As a Marxist-Hegelian […]

ICE New Orleans Reports 11,000 Deportations In January Look no further than the reason unhinged Democrats want to rein in, or even abolish, ICE: these left-wing politicians have championed nation-killing open borders under a globalist framework, flooding their sanctuary cities with illegal aliens to build a new voter bloc. That voter bloc then translates into voting power, and ICE is now reversing that power through deportations […]

Will China Come To Iran’s Rescue? Via Middle East Eye As tensions between Iran and the US-Israeli alliance approach a critical juncture, a question echoes through global capitals, newsrooms and policy circles: will China come to Iran’s rescue? And if so, what would that assistance look like? The answer defies the binary expectations of traditional military alliances. China is unlikely to dispatch troops or engage directly […]

Israel Launches Wave Of Strikes On Lebanon In Precursor To Potential Iran War Some analysts fear Israel is testing out a precursor for another multi-front war as the US appears poised to attack Iran. Technically a ceasefire has been in effect in southern Lebanon, but the IDF military has been testing – or more like blowing straight past – these truce barriers. The Israeli Army carried out at least eight airstrikes in eastern […]

Google Disrupts China-Tied Cyber Campaign That Hacked 42 Countries Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said on Feb. 25 that Google and its cybersecurity partners disrupted a global espionage campaign that the group confirmed had hacked 42 countries and suspects infected at least 20 more. GTIG has tracked the group as UNC2814/Gallium since 2017 and suspects it to be Chinese. […]

AI Can Now Unmask Anonymous Internet Users, New Study Finds It looks like AI can now unmask any anonymous account on the internet. That’s according to a new study by Simon Lermen (MATS), Daniel Paleka (ETH Zurich), Joshua Swanson (ETH Zurich), Michael Aerni (ETH Zurich), Nicholas Carlini (Anthropic), and Florian Tramèr (ETH Zurich), published on arXiv. In the paper, “Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs,” the […]

A Montreal Narco Network Busted For Allegedly Smuggling Super Fentanyl Into America Submitted by The Bureau’s Sam Cooper, An elite Montreal-based narco network allegedly exported carfentanil and next-generation synthetic opioids 100 times deadlier than fentanyl to American consumers via the dark web, leading to the arrest of four yesterday, after 13 months of joint surveillance by U.S. federal agencies and Quebec police, and a […]

Lululemon Founder Blasts Board Again Amid Stock Collapse Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson blasted the board in a fiery message to shareholders earlier and ramped up calls for activism as the athletic apparel retailer is set for a lost year, lagging behind competitors, losing market share, and entangled in multiple see-through-leggings quality-control controversies with customers. The nearly 70% collapse in Lululemon’s […]

Soaring Electricity Demand Meets Gas Turbine Shortage Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, AI-driven power demand is surging far faster than expected, but a shortage of heavy-duty gas turbines is creating a bottleneck. Turbine makers like Siemens, GE Vernova, and Mitsubishi are ramping up production, but expansion projects could take up to 5 years. Without enough gas capacity, AI growth could slow or grids may turn […]

Vance Says ‘No Chance’ Strikes On Iran Would Become A Prolonged War Just to underscore how close we are to witnessing an American military attack on Iran, this is the current scene at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport… I don’t think that people understand how unusual this picture is #Iran https://t.co/72itsQunEn — Nadav Pollak (@NadavPollak) February 27, 2026 On Thursday Vice President JD Vance issued some curious […]

Bad Bets: Massive EV Subsidies Not Paying Off Authored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations, The future was supposed to have arrived this year in a cluster of counties just east of Atlanta in the form of a state-of-the-art factory that would churn out 400,000 electric vehicles a year. But when JoEllen Artz looks about her lifetime neighborhood, all she sees are holes. “Those shovel holes they made in the ground? […]

Democrats Slam Democrats For ‘Rigging’ Democrat Primaries The party that won’t stop lecturing America about democracy is once again rigging its own primary by endorsing – thereby biasing voters – towards certain candidates over others. On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) endorsed 12 candidates through its “Red to Blue” program to help Democrats win back the majority in the House of […]

Border, Ballots, Birthrights: Top Supreme Court Cases To Watch Authored by Joseph Lord, Stacy Robinson, Troy Myers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Supreme Court is poised to hear arguments on major constitutional and legal issues over the next several months. The Supreme Court in Washington on Feb. 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times Birthright Citizenship One of the term’s most consequential cases arises from a […]