By 2050, The World’s Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia Across 150 years, familiar urban giants rise, fall, and give way to a new generation of megacities. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 15 most populous cities worldwide from 1950 to 2100 using population estimates from the European Commission’s JRC via Our World in Data. City boundaries were consistently defined based on […]

The West African Pipeline Is Inherently Geopolitical Authored by Andrew Korybko, The West never does anything without some benefit to itself in mind. The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) formally endorsed the offshore Nigerian-Moroccan Pipeline in late July. Construction on this $25 billion megaproject is expected to begin in 2028 and stretch over 4,000 kilometers along the West African coast for supplying the […]

Europe Scrambles For Innovation And Defense As US Decouples From “Global Order” For decades the European elites have pretended as if US integration into the progressive agenda is an afterthought on the way to a liberal Utopia.  The EU has long criticized Americans as backwards in their principles and politics, while at the same time being desperately dependent on American consumers, American innovation and American military […]

British Liberals Cheer Migrant Camps In Villages… As Long As It’s Not Their Villages Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, The same voices who demand “fairness” and insist every community must share the burden of mass illegal migration suddenly discover local democracy the moment the coaches might stop near their postcode. A Mail on Sunday poll has laid bare the gap between principle and practice. Just 15 percent of […]

The Specter Of ‘Economic Death’ Looms Over All Of Us In Late-Stage Surveillance Capitalism Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, I used to think the whole “debanking” panic was overblown. I really did. I’d roll my eyes at the Twitter threads and the think-pieces about how we’re all living in some dystopian soft-censorship nightmare. I’m a reasonable person, you know? I vote, I pay my taxes, I have a 401k that I check […]

US Airports Remain Busy Despite Surging Prices Following the historic slump in air travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, passenger volume at U.S. airports has gradually recovered, roughly matching pre-pandemic levels in 2023 and exceeding it in 2024 and 2025. In fact, 2025 was the busiest year ever at U.S. airports with an average of 2.48 million travelers passing through TSA checkpoints each day. Despite the latest surge in […]

Governments Don’t Like It When We Gather Without Their Permission Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Freedom of association is under attack… There are a number of ways in which Western governments are waging war against their citizens.  The United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and leftists in the United States do not believe in free speech.  These Western governments also spy on their […]

Arrest Warrants Issued For 6 DC Cops Accused In $440K Overtime Fraud A D.C. Superior Court judge signed arrest warrants on August 18, 2026, for six current and former members of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Fifth District, accusing them of fraudulently claiming overtime and regular-duty hours they did not work in 2024. The warrants target Peter Sheldon, Frantz Fulcher, Thomas Krmenec, Bernadette Richardson, Dorrie Smith […]

S.Korea Reaffirms Push For Military Independence After Trump Announced Scaled-Back Drills Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has reaffirmed his push for South Korea to regain independent control of its military from the US after President Trump announced the scaling back of joint US-South Korean military drills taking place this week. The US has had wartime operational control of South […]

Amazon ‘Prime Air’ To Expand Drone Delivery To Nearly 500 US Cities This Year Amazon’s Prime Air drone delivery service, first teased by Jeff Bezos in a 2013 60 Minutes interview as a way to get packages under 5lbs to customers in 30 minutes or less, represents the broader push toward autonomous aerial last-mile logistics that could bypass traffic and cut delivery times dramatically.  After years of regulatory hurdles with the […]

“Doom Loop” Engaged: US Debt Hits $40 Trillion As Treasury Enters The Endgame It took the US 200 years to reach its first $1 trillion in debt. It took 95 days to add its last. After several weeks of build up, today the Treasury announced that total public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, after jumping by over $60 billion in one day, and has now surged by $1 trillion in just over three months, and by a third of the […]

“Economic D-Day”: Trump Announces “Most Crushing Economic Operation Ever” Against Iran Summary: Trump’s Economic War against Iran Begins  Trump says “severe economic consequences” for any country that does businesses with Tehran Trump says “ECONOMIC D-DAY” begins against Iran UAE Cuts Ties As Iran Warns Gulf States Against Helping Washington; Kpler Says US Navy Gaining Ground In Hormuz ​​​​​​​”ECONOMIC D-DAY” […]

Trump Indicates Plans To Meet North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un Later This Year President Trump on Wednesday issued some surprisingly positive statements regarding North Korea and its expanded nuclear modernization ambitions, while fielding questions from reporters. The comments come days after the Commander-in-Chief ordered scaled back US-South Korean joint military drills, which are happening this week and are now expected to end early. […]

8 Examples That Demonstrate That The Islamization Of America Is Steadily Progressing Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream, In Islam, there is no separation between mosque and state. The goal is to use the state to make everyone submit to Islam. If you want to see what this looks like, just check out almost any country in the Middle East that has a Muslim majority. They don’t believe in freedom of speech or […]

Judge Ordered Off Karmelo Anthony Murder Case As Defense Pushes For New Trial Judge John Roach has been ordered to recuse himself from further proceedings in the Karmelo Anthony murder case, as the defendant seeks a new trial. On August 19, 2026, Visiting Judge Sid Harle ruled that Roach must step aside. Retired District Judge Michael Chitty has been appointed to handle a hearing scheduled for August 20 on whether Anthony should […]

Your Bank Data Could Become A Profit Center – And You’ll Pay the Price Authored by Morgan Sweeney via The Center Square, A forthcoming federal rule on open banking may allow banks to charge new fees for access to consumer data, a move critics say would harm consumers and runs counter to other parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda. Open banking allows consumers to authorize banks and other financial institutions to securely […]

‘Quality Over Quantity’: Reddit Is Mostly Wiped From ChatGPT Citations Nature is healing, with the latest data from the AI search visibility platform Promptwatch showing that OpenAI’s ChatGPT citations from Reddit have plunged in recent weeks to nearly zero. “It looks like Reddit is almost wiped from ChatGPT sources; the query fanout changes had a big impact, and in the past couple of days it seems to be almost completely removed […]

The DSA’s War On Wealth Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, Communism is on the rise in the United States and has now entered otherwise mainstream Democratic Party politics. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is on track to increase the number of its members in Congress from two to at least six in January, possibly more. That’s not including Sen. Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a democratic socialist. […]

Meet The Pro-Trump Billionaire Who Paid $40 Million For Fugly Ferrari EV A Florida billionaire was revealed Tuesday as the deep-pocketed buyer who shelled out a jaw-dropping $40 million for Ferrari’s one-of-a-kind Luce EV, the Italian supercar that critics mercilessly roasted for looking straight-up fugly. The Ferrari Luce ‘Tailor Made’ on display at RM Sotheby’s auction event. RM Sotheby’s The buyer: Dr. Herbert Wertheim, an […]

Newsom’s High Speed Train To Nowhere Is Not Arriving Anytime Soon Authored by Jonathan Turley via jonathanturley.org, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been frantically trying to restart a presidential campaign that appears moribund, with polls showing him losing in some states to figures such as Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In his absence, his multibillion-dollar high-speed train also seems to be going nowhere […]

California Retail Theft Blitz Leads To 97 Arrests And $1 Million In Stolen Merchandise A coordinated crackdown on organized retail crime across California ended with 97 arrests and the recovery of thousands of stolen products, according to KTLA. Over nine days in early August, California Highway Patrol investigators worked alongside more than 100 law enforcement agencies as part of the National Organized Retail Crime Blitz. The […]

Harvard To Pay $53 Million To Families Of Donors Whose Body Parts Were Sold Off Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times, Harvard University has agreed to pay $53 million to resolve lawsuits brought by the families of those whose loved ones’ body parts were donated to its medical school only to be sold on the black market by its morgue manager. A flag hangs on campus at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on Sept. 4, 2025. […]

The $1.5 Million Rich Kid Socialist: NYC-DSA Co-Chair Gustavo Gordillo Lives The Revolution From Daddy’s Townhouse Gustavo Gordillo wants you to believe the system is broken. He wants landlords punished, private property redistributed “from landowners to the landless,” and double-digit returns on investment declared unconstitutional. He wants New York City to stop being a “playground for the rich.” He wants grocery stores that can’t […]

The Cruelty Of DEI Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times, This past week ended with shock and sadness at the news that Jason Arday ended his own life in the midst of an investigation over his intellectual credibility. He was the vaunted education sociologist at Cambridge University, media darling and beneficiary of a big book contract, the toast of the town, and the subject of countless hagiographic profiles in media […]

China’s Tungsten Chokehold Turns Almonty Into a Critical-Metal Lifeline Almonty Industries has evolved from a junior miner into an established tungsten producer and a pure play on the China decoupling theme, the incoming defense rearmament supercycle in the West, AI infrastructure, and, of course, critical-mineral scarcity. As Western governments race to rebuild a tungsten supply chain outside China, Almonty’s producing assets and […]