US Think Tank's AGI Endgame: Strike China's Data Centers
The future belongs to artificial general intelligence (AGI). China and the United States are pursuing different strateg...
Bessent's Iran post backfires; Navy robs payroll to pay for war
Talk about a boomerang. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took aim at Iran in a post on X on the 27th, local time. Th...
Kremlin Snubs CIA Director’s Secret Mission
CIA Director Ratcliffe slipped into Moscow on August 25 for a secret meeting with Russian officials. But first, the US ...
The Floating Prison: US Sailors Driven to the Edge
The US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spent more than nine months deployed to the Middle East. During that stretc...
Trump's Midterm Nightmare: 55% Disapprove as War and Inflation Bite
The midterms are less than three months away. A new Financial Times poll, out August 16, shows over 53% of registered v...
Ghost Worship by Proxy: LDP Top Brass Stand In for Takaichi at Yasukuni
Deep Throat Japan announced its unconditional surrender 81 years ago. Yet to this day, its top officials are still "wor...
Zuck to Washington: Open Up or Lose to China
Mark Zuckerberg just dropped a 6,500-word manifesto. The Meta CEO, whose company owns Facebook, published 'The Future i...
FCC : Spearhead of Trump’s China Policy
The FCC was once a sleepy backwater. It auctioned spectrum. It licensed TV stations. Then came Trump. Reuters reported ...
Trump’s $3B Mining Bet Meets a Talent Gap Reality
Donald Trump summoned the titans of global mining to the State Department on August 7. He came with a $3 billion checkb...
Trump Cancels Iran Strike, Israel Learns on Truth Social
Trump said a deal was in sight. On August 2, the US president said an agreement had already been reached on the Strait ...
US backyard on fire? After Brazil, another turns to China
Chile's President Kast sat down with China's ambassador Niu Qingbao last Friday. The meeting at the presidential palace...
China Holds Global Lead as Trump Moves to Block New Humanoid Robots and Inverters
The US government on Tuesday, July 28 local time, announced a ban targeting new Chinese robots and inverters. Reuters r...
Takaichi War Denial Clip Explodes Online
A 24-year-old "dark history" clip of Prime Minister Takaichi has resurfaced on Japanese social media. In it, she commen...
Cell Shortage Idles India's Solar Boom
India wants to build its own solar industry from the ground up. But it still can't cut the cord from Chinese suppliers....
"Nixonmaxxing" Takes Over: The Right Rebrands a Disgraced President
Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace back in 1974. The Watergate scandal made him the poster child for American political...
UK Seizes British Steel for Pennies: Analysts Slam "Robber Logic"
On July 16, the UK government announced the passage of legislation to "nationalize" British Steel, a subsidiary of Chin...
Trump Sells Access to His Own Posts -- $100K a Month
Trump Media & Technology Group is moving into a new business: selling privileged access to data. The company, controlle...
Trump's Kharg Island Threat Collapses as USS Boxer Breaks Down
A mysterious rumor circulates through Washington's political and business circles as we speak. The ace warship Donald T...
Duck vs. Cognac: EU-China Trade War Hits the Menu
Brussels has evidently decided that targeting electric vehicles, steel, and chemicals just isn't enough. In a bizarre e...
Fukuyama: The US Could End Up Ceding Global Leadership to China
Francis Fukuyama once told the world history was over. Now he admits it never stopped moving, and America's grip on the...
