What’s missing from the headlines as of late? ANY talk of recession… its just gone.
Category: 13 January 2026
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DOLLAR’S VALUE RETREATS AS WHITE HOUSE INVESTIGATES FED CHAIR
On 12 January, the U.S. dollar ended a five-day streak of gains in its value on news that Donald Trump’s justice department has opened a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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BASED TECH
Call it a backlash against the DeHuman downsides of AI, the encroachments of ever-more granular surveillance and data scraping, or a desire to simply have tech that just works without unneeded complication.
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IRAN BLAMES U.S., ISRAEL FOR DEATHS TIED TO ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
The Iranian government blamed outside agitators tied to the U.S. and Israel for the violence that has broken out during the country’s anti-government protests and told local news outlets that Tehran has “experienced firsthand how the urban terrorist criminals committed ISIS-like violence.”
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TRUMP: I DON’T NEED INTERNATIONAL LAW, GUIDED BY ‘MY OWN MORALITY’
President Donald Trump gave an interview to The New York Times last week shortly after the U.S. invasion to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and was asked if there are any “limits on his global powers,” and he responded: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
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U.S. ALLIES TRY TO FIGURE OUT THE ‘DONROE DOCTRINE’ AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THEM
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to invade Venezuela and arrest the country’s president to face drug charges in New York, and his tough talk about intervening in other regional countries like Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, and even Greenland, have allies wondering if the administration’s new policy will be hyper-focused on the Western Hemisphere, while neglecting allies in other regions.
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OIL THEFT: TRUMP SAYS U.S. WILL CONTROL VENEZUELAN OIL SALES ‘INDEFINITELY’
Chris Wright, the U.S. energy secretary, said last week that the Trump administration plans to oversee Venezuela’s oil output “indefinitely” and will “sell the production that comes out of Venezuela into the marketplace,” just days after the U.S.’s kidnapping of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro.
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TRUMP STARTS THE YEAR OFF BY CARRYING OUT MORE AIRSTRIKES IN SOMALIA
The Trump administration started 2026 where it left off in 2025 by launching airstrikes into Somalia to target al-Shabaab fighters on the first four days of the new year.
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OFF WITH THEIR HEADS 2.0: U.S. REGULATORS SEE MASSIVE DROP IN FINES FOR WHITE-COLLAR CRIMES
Times are good if you’re a money-launderer in the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
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REGIME CHANGE WAR: TRUMP THREATENS MILITARY ACTION IN IRAN, OSTENSIBLY TO PROTECT PROTESTERS
U.S. President Donald Trump sent a clear message to Iran over the weekend that his military stands ready to intervene if Tehran begins killing protesters who have reportedly taken to the streets against the country’s leadership.