‘Impossible To Negotiate With Ukraine’ After School Dormitory Strike, Kremlin Informs UN The last year of the Ukraine war has been marked by both warring sides remaining far from the negotiating table, instead opting for a battlefield solution, also as a deadly tit-for-tat drone and aerial war continues to unfold. This week things just got even worse concerning the distant prospect of restarting direct peace talks, something […]

“Preserve All Records”: DOJ Puts Democrat-Run Maryland On Notice In Election Integrity Probe Submitted by Maryland Freedom Caucus,  Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced on X last night that she has ordered Maryland’s State Board of Elections to preserve their records concerning the utter debacle of mail-in ballots during the state’s primary election season. It’s the wrong time to send voters the wrong […]

Nvidia CEO Urges Super Micro To “Enhance Compliance” Amid AI Chip-Smuggling Probe In a rare public comment that Nvidia is growing more sensitive to downstream risk, CEO Jensen Huang was quoted by Bloomberg News as saying Super Micro Computer must strengthen internal compliance controls after Taiwanese authorities detained three people accused of smuggling banned AI chips to China.   “Ultimately, Super Micro has to run its own […]

When Unfairness Is Systemic, The Consequences Are Flight, Resistance, Revolt Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Now that we’ve drained the aquifers of a stable society, the replacement form of “wealth” is a delusional credit-asset bubble that generates the illusion of “wealth.” Let’s weave together two threads that look different: systemic unfairness and civilizational psychosis. As I often note, social species […]

“Some Progress Made” In Iran Peace Talks, Mediators Claim; Trump Says ‘Solid 50/50’ On ‘Blowing Them To Kingdom Come’ Summary Mediators believe they are edging closer to a deal to extend the US ceasefire with Iran by 60 days Rubio from India: “There’s been some progress made. Even as I speak to you now, there’s some work being done.” Trump says he’s a “solid 50/50” whether he would be able to make a […]

Tulsi Gabbard Resigns As Director Of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is stepping down from her role as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to support her husband, Abraham, as he battles an extremely rare form of bone cancer, according to Fox News. Gabbard informed President Donald Trump of her decision during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday. Her last day at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […]

No Wonder Men Are Opting Out Authored by Bettina Arndt via DailySceptic.org, The warning signs have been there for decades. Back in 1983, American author Barbara Ehrenreich wrote a powerful book — The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment — arguing that a male revolt was underway. Since the 1950s, she suggested, men had begun rebelling against the breadwinner ethic, inspired by Playboy culture, […]

Ukraine Regained Territory After Cutting Russia’s Black Market Starlink Terminals According to a newly declassified U.S. defense intelligence assessment first reported by Bloomberg, Moscow’s frontline command-and-control structures suffered a catastrophic blackout earlier this year due largely to coordinated crackdown that disabled thousands of black market Russian Starlink terminals. The Pentagon document highlights just how […]

Highlights From 2nd Batch Of Declassified UFO Files Include A UAP Shootdown The Pentagon’s second batch of declassified UFO files released on May 22 includes videos such as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) being shot down over the Great Lakes and audio of astronauts witnessing a series of unexplained phenomena. ​Dozens of documents were cleared for release on Friday, adding to the previous document dump on May 8, which […]

Delivery Hero Confirms Uber’s Takeover Bid In Push For Global Food-Delivery Empire Summary: Delivery Hero Confirms 33 Euro Takeover Bid  Uber Speculation of Delivery Hero Takeover  Uber Builds Large Stake in Delivery Hero  Delivery Hero Confirms Takeover Bid  Delivery Hero has confirmed that Uber has proposed buying the German food delivery company for 33 euros per share, in line with earlier takeover reports. […]

40,000 Evacuated In Southern California As Chemical Tank Threatens Leak Or Explosion Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, Roughly 40,000 people in Garden Grove, a Los Angeles suburb, were evacuated on Friday after a chemical storage tank was determined to be at risk of failing and spilling thousands of gallons of toxic material or exploding. The malfunctioning tank holds methyl methacrylate, a flammable and volatile […]

Trump Speaks With Qatar Emir As Pakistani-Led Iran Peace Push Intensifies US-Iran de-escalation hopes drove crude oil and rates lower and put a bid in equities by the end of Friday’s trading day, amid speculation that President Trump would stay at the White House over Memorial Day weekend instead of attending Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson’s wedding celebrations in the Bahamas. “As Iran/oil/rates pressure eased on […]

Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range Ukrainian forces have borrowed a page from China’s hypersonic glide-weapon testing and applied it to the Eastern European theater, using one-way attack drones against Russia. Instead of launching the Hornet strike drone from a ground-based catapult, Ukrainian operators tethered it to a high-altitude balloon, extending its range.  Defense news website […]

Morocco Launches Mass Deportations To Block Europe Migration Route: EU’s ‘Externalization Strategy’ Via Middle East Eye Since April 14, Morocco has been conducting large-scale deportation operations targeting sub-Saharan Africans migrating to Europe, reportedly arresting over 100 per day, local sources told Middle East Eye. According to Moroccan human rights groups, around 800 people were detained during coordinated raids in the […]

Lukashenko Offers To Meet With Zelensky ‘Anywhere’ After Russia Sent Belarus More Tactical Nukes We reported earlier this week that for the first time Russia’s ‘Union State’ ally Belarus hosted multi-day drills involving a “rehearsal” of Russia’s use of tactical and strategic nuclear weapons. The exercise ran from Tuesday to Thursday and was presided over by Presidents Lukashenko and Putin, and saw hundreds of Russian missile […]

‘Great Replacement’ Fears Soar In Belgium Via Remix News, A major social study commissioned by VRT, known as the “Photo of Flanders,” reveals that a majority of Flemish people are afraid they are being slowly replaced by migrants, with this study now joining similar ones in France and Germany, which reveal serious fear across Europe about the ongoing Great Replacement. The VRT survey shows that 56 percent of respondents […]

Iran Says ‘No Deal’ Will Materialize If US Insists On Enriched Uranium Handover Summary Iran Foreign Ministry says “no deal” will be reached if the US makes enriched uranium handover demand (Al Jazeera). Rubio confirms that there’s been no deal and that “we’re not there yet” – amid broader late morning pushback against morning optimistic, premature headlines. Saudi sources report Pakistan army chief & a Qatar delegation […]

Escobar: The Russia-China Spaceship Rushes Towards Planet Multipolar Authored by Pepe Escobar, The New Silk Roads/BRI and its derivations such as the Northern Sea Route/Arctic Silk Road remain alive and kicking SHANGHAI – This is it. The Russia-China strategic partnership, the leaders in the process of Eurasia integration, the leaders of multipolar bodies BRICS and the SCO, have formally endorsed and boosted the drive towards […]

These Are The Best (And Worst) Countries For LGBTQ+ Travelers In order to help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartacus started publishing the Gay Travel Index in 2012. In the 2026 edition, the ranking compared 217 countries and territories based on the situation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people in each location. As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, according to the index, […]

The Marxist In The Machine Authored by Raw Egg Nationalist via American Greatness, Our fears for the future of robot intelligence almost inevitably end in spectacular fashion, with nuclear explosions and slaughter on a planetary scale. An abiding memory of my childhood is going over to the neighbors’ house and watching Terminator 2 on VHS with my friends Ethan and Nathan, who were both older than me. I must have been about five […]