“This is war.”—President Trump
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
Another day in the U.S.A. is another day of economic and political uncertainty. And where it starts and stops nobody knows. As we continue to note, two of our Top Trends for 2025 are the Trump Card and the Wild Card, both of which are being played day-in and day-out.
For many years, and for those who follow my work, I have attempted to explain that there is a deliberate and extremely methodical new order or “transition” happening worldwide.
Foot traffic in American brick-and-mortar stores was 4.3 percent less in early March than a year earlier, continuing a reduction in shopping that began early this year, research service RetailNext reported.
Legacy media still mostly spouts the lines of tech CEOs (at least the ones who haven’t politically transgressed) concerning both the inevitability and the general gee-whiz awesomeness of AI and fast approaching AGI and ASI.
Haaretz, a top newspaper in Israel, ran an editorial last week that placed blame squarely on the Israeli government for the Gaza ceasefire’s undoing—challenging the propaganda from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and repeated in the Western media that the collapse was the result of an obdurate Hamas.
Defense contractors in Asia stand to benefit from new contracts from European countries who look to bolster their militaries and turn away from relying on the U.S. to produce their weapons.
On 20 January 2025, Donald Trump gave his inauguration speech inside the U.S.’s Capitol Rotunda and said his “proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” but two months later, he took the opposite approach…
Germany is putting its (borrowed) money where its mouth is.
European countries see the potential of revitalizing their economies as they plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on military advancements amid what they see as a direct threat from a resurgent Russia.