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Poland, US Discuss Establishing Permanent American Military Bases Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, Poland and Pentagon officials are in discussions about possibly locating several American military bases in the country, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Paweł Zalewski said after a meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters in Brussels Aug. 27. Zalewski said he met with Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby about plans for the bases and defense policy. "The American presence in Poland can encompass various defense capabilities," Zalewski told Polish Radio after the meeting. "We believe it...

Federal Agents Dismantle Human Smuggling Stash House In Texas Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents busted a stash house used for human smuggling in El Paso, Texas, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) exclusively told The Epoch Times on Monday. U.S. Border Patrol agents monitor the southern border outside of San Diego, Calif. on May 27, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times The joint investigation, which resulted in the arrests of 11 illegal immigrant adults and one unaccompanied child found in the house on...

Gulf Energy Shock Spreads To Global Plastics As War Sparks Force Majeure Wave Building on our earlier "Global Demand Destruction" note, which mapped how the Gulf energy shock is spreading globally and the immediate effects of rationing, price controls, and fuel shortages, another second-order disruption is quickly emerging: supply chain disruptions in critical plastic feedstocks. Plastics are core to the modern economy, and a troubling new Bloomberg report indicates that several producers of monoethylene glycol (MEG) and purified terephthalic acid (PTA) have declared force majeure, as tanker flows through the Strait...