Russia Halts Ammonium Nitrate Exports As Global Fertilizer Crisis Set To Worsen

The US Is Still A Decade Away From Breaking China’s Rare Earth Hold The U.S. is still at least a decade away from meaningfully reducing its dependence on China for the most critical rare earth minerals, despite billions of dollars in new investment and political pledges to move faster, according to a new report from Bloomberg. While Washington has pushed to build domestic mining, refining, and manufacturing capacity, analysts say China is likely to retain its dominance over heavy rare earths—particularly dysprosium and terbium—until at least the mid-2030s. Those minerals are essential...

Why Does America Have A 'Diversity Visa'? Authored by White Papers Policy Institute and James Fulford via American Greatness, The Diversity Lottery means you can receive immigrants from almost any of these countries on the watch list for human trafficking for the sole reason that “diversity is our greatest strength.” Lucky you! The Immigration Act of 1965 abolished the National Origins quotas of the 1924 Act, which had favored European immigrants. As a result, America has had a flood of non-European immigrants . . . and Europeans were, in effect, discriminated against...

Seven members of Iraq’s armed forces were killed on Wednesday in what was likely a US airstrike on a base the Iraqi military shares with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), a coalition of mostly Iran-aligned Shia militias that the US has targeted since the start of the war with Iran. The Iraqi Defense Ministry said […]