'Changes Everything': The A-10 'Warthog' Proves Its Worth Again Over The Strait Of Hormuz

Secret Service Agent Assigned To Jill Biden Shoots Himself In The Leg At Philadelphia Airport Perhaps incompetence is contagious... A Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Jill Biden managed to become his own biggest threat, accidentally shooting himself in the leg at Philadelphia International Airport last week, according to Reuters. Thankfully, Biden wasn’t anywhere nearby, presumably because the universe decided one crisis at a time was enough. Photos: Daily Mail The report says that the incident, politely labeled a “negligent discharge” (bureaucratic code for oh sh*t), happened in an unmarked car just before 9...

Will The Iran War Trigger A Dollar Crisis? The oil spike has moderated and markets are mellow for the time being, but could the long-term economic consequences of this war just be getting started? U.S. allies have shown a lackluster response after President Trump’s request for assistance in reopening the Strait of Hormuz — a corridor carrying roughly 20% of global oil supply — and this may spell a trend of what’s to come. What happens when oil-producing Gulf states have had enough of our/Israel’s foreign policy machinations and, as a...

Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login Authored by Sam Lowry via dailysceptic.org, Authoritarianism doesn’t usually arrive with a coup. It arrives with a login, a compliance form, a penalty notice for keeping records in the wrong format. It comes with a quietly extended electoral term, a cancelled bank account, a prison sentence for a social media post. Each measure has a reasonable-sounding justification. The problem is the direction — and how far it has already travelled. Power is migrating from the visible arena of democratic politics to the...