“We Are At A Tipping Point”: Shale Giant Diamonback Says US Oil Output Has Peaked, Slashes CapEx Amid OPEC Price War The OPEC price war has made landfall in the US. Following our report earlier that Saudi Arabia has declared a new price war on OPEC+ quota-busters such as Kazakhstan, and non OPEC+ members such as US shale producers, today after the close Diamondback Energy, the largest independent oil producer in the Permian Basin, […]

ZeroHedge In The White House: Who Blew Up The Nord Stream Pipelines? Trump Responds A few short years ago, US intelligence under the Biden administration targeted ZeroHedge, accusing us of ‘mis-/mal-/dis-information’ for what was in reality us merely taking an independent, critical view of Washington policy regarding the Russia-Ukraine war and the Covid-19 pandemic. We were promptly smeared, de-monetized by Google, briefly banned on […]

Bangladesh Is Back At It Again With Another “Plausibly Deniable” Territorial Claim To India Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack, Bangladesh’s increasing alignment with China and Pakistan could imperil India’s Great Power plans… Bangladeshi Major General (retired) A.L.M. Fazlur Rahman, who serves as chair of the National Independent Commission of Inquiry investigating the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles massacre, posted […]

Beijing Stops Publishing “Hundreds Of Statistics” To Cover Up Economic Collapse Two weeks ago, when we first reported that as a result of the ongoing Trump trade war with China, “chinese factories are shutting down, laying off workers”, we said that as a result of this war of attrition in which the outcome of every incremental clash and battle will be used just as aggressively for media propaganda, “the fact that any marginal pain […]

Consuming Protein Is Now Right Wing… Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, If you consume protein, you’re now a right wing MAGA extremist bro, according to Vanity Fair. Yes, really. A recent article the moribund magazine published asks “Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein?” and provides the answer “blame MAGA,” further referring to “podcast bros” and RFK Jr.’s health push as reasons why protein […]

Trump Bans Federal Funding For Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon signed an executive order stopping federal funding for dangerous gain-of-function research in high-risk countries like China and Iran, as well as in nations with insufficient research oversight. Joined in the Oval Office by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and National Institutes of Health official […]

Centre-Left Labor Party Wins Australian Election, Opposition Leader Loses His Seat Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), In a result that mirrors that of the recent Canadian election, the Australian centre-right opposition has lost the election, and its leader, Peter Dutton, has lost his own seat. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gestures with his partner Jodie Haydon and son Nathan after […]

Chinese Space Program Copying Elon Musk’s Starlink Eric Berger, the senior space editor at Ars Technica, quoted a post on X from a China space observer detailing how Beijing appears to be copying Elon Musk’s Starlink space internet company, operated by SpaceX.  “The Chinese space program copying SpaceX? Well, I never …,” Berger wrote.  Berger quoted Blaine Curcio, founder of Orbital Gateway Consulting and an expert on […]

Trump Blocks Harvard From New Federal Grants Harvard University will no longer be eligible for government grants, the White House informed the acclaimed scandal-plagued, institution on May 5. Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Monday night to inform the university that it is not eligible for federal grants until it makes significant changes to its management, the official […]

USDA Secretary Details Astounding Spending On Nutrition Programs, Warns Chronic Diseases Will ‘Bankrupt’ America Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has issued a dire warning about the United States’ chronic disease crisis, declaring that poor nutrition is fueling a healthcare cost surge that threatens to bankrupt the nation.  During a recent Cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Health and Human […]

Toward A Negotiated Settlement Of The Trump-Harvard Showdown Authored by Peter Berkowitz via RealClearEducation, In the high-stakes clash between the Trump administration and Harvard – fraught with peril for the White House, for America’s oldest and most famous university, and for higher education in America – both sides have hardened their stances. In an April 11 letter, the Trump administration demanded supervision over […]

Tyson Foods Spots Potential Beef Crisis Low As Hard Work Begins For Ranchers During Tyson Foods’ earnings call on Monday, Brady Stewart—head of the company’s beef and pork supply chains—offered fresh insight into what may be the emerging bottom in U.S. cattle supplies, which have fallen to their lowest levels in over 70 years. His comments came in response to a question from one Wall Street analyst. Barclays analyst Benjamin […]

US Government Offers $5 Million For Capture Of MS-13 Leader, FBI Top 10 Fugitive Authored by Rachel Acenas via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A reward of up to $5 million is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the highest-ranking MS-13 leader in Honduras, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday. Yulan Andony Archaga Carías. FBI Yulan Andony Archaga Carías, 43, is a Honduran national and a […]

Trump Slams ‘Radical Left Lunatics’ Who Are Doing ‘Impeachment Thing Again’ As Dems Distance From Theander Congressional Democrats are apparently furious that one of their members, Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI), introduced articles of impeachment against President Trump, alleging that various actions such as deporting suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Barego Garcia, cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency without […]

US Electricity From Fossils Fuels Dips Below 50% For The First Time Ever Authored by Robert Rapier via OilPrice.com, For the first time, fossil fuels provided less than half of U.S. electricity generation in a month (March 2025). The shift is driven by increased renewable capacity (wind and solar), seasonal demand, and the decline of coal. The trend is expected to continue, driven by policy and economics, but grid […]

Ukrainian Launches Drone Attack On Moscow & Key Black Sea Port Ahead Of Victory Day Events Russia says its military repelled a fresh drone attack on Moscow, with the capital’s mayor Mayor Sergei Sobyanin describing that anti-air defense systems intercepted “four drones flying towards Moscow.” International reports highlight that the attack appears “intended to unsettle Moscow’s preparations for events marking the end of the […]

Trump Admin Says It Will Pay Illegal Immigrants $1,000 To Self-Deport Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that illegal immigrants who use the CBP Home app to initiate their own deportation procedures will receive a $1,000 bonus stipend. In a statement on Monday, the agency said illegal aliens will “receive both financial and travel assistance to facilitate travel […]

From One Fake Left-Wing Hysteria To The Next Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream. For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either: […]

There Will Be Boundaries Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “Fascism is when Dad says ‘no'”  – Aimee Terese on “X” It’s vain and futile to suppose that the disordered minds of Western Civ’s entrenched Wokester Jacobins might ever be subject to polite persuasion about anything they believe. They believe only in the power of pushing their fellow citizens around, and so, alas, the only persuasion that might conceivably work […]

Watch: CNN Can’t Even Get Mexican Cartel Members To Bash Trump Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, CNN ran an interview with a member of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico and asked him to send a “message to Donald Trump,” but failed to get the response they were looking for. The network sent reporter Isobel Yeung to the home turf of the most monstrous drug trafficking organisation in the world where she sat with a […]

Ron Paul: The Empire Strikes Back Authored by Ron Paul via the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, News this week that Elon Musk will soon be departing his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is a grim reminder of what happens when you challenge big spending DC. Unfortunately, the lesson once again is that when you challenge the empire, the empire eventually strikes back. President Trump rode into office […]

Trump Says Mexican President “Afraid Of The Cartels” After Rejecting US Army To Hunt Them Down President Trump has responded to comments by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who said that she rejected an offer by President Trump to let the US Army hunt cartels on Mexican soil. On Saturday, Sheinbaum told supporters in Eastern Mexico about Trump’s offer; “In one of the calls, the U.S. President Donald Trump said it was […]

Israel Unleashes Massive Strikes On Yemen With 30 Jets, After Ben Gurion Airport Attack In the wake of the unprecedented Sunday direct hit on Israel’s Ben Gurion international airport by a ballistic missile launched by the Houthis of Yemen, Israeli leadership has vowed to hit back hard. “The attack on Ben Gurion Airport has removed all restrictions from our perspective,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has stated. He […]

CBS Nominated For Emmy For The Editing Of Controversial Harris Interview Authored by Jonathan Turley, The 46th News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations are out, and it seems that everyone is talking about just one of them. The “Outstanding Edited Interview” category is hardly a common draw for public or even industry attention. However, one of this year’s nominees is CBS for its primetime special featuring then-Vice […]

Indonesia Suspends Sam Altman’s WorldCoin Project Over Suspicious Activity Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s digital identity project, World, formerly known as Worldcoin, faces challenges in Indonesia after local regulators temporarily suspended its registration certificates. The Indonesian Ministry of Communications and Digital (Komdigi) has halted the Electronic System Operator […]