Futures Rise, Oil Slides On Iran Ceasefire Optimism After Best Month For Stocks Since 2020

The US has launched another airstrike in Somalia, according to a press release from US Africa Command, as US media continues to ignore the bombing campaign. AFRICOM said in a release on Friday that its forces launched an airstrike against al-Shabaab on April 30, about 30 miles northeast of Kismayo, putting the attack in Lower […]

Americans Are Getting Behind On Their Debts At A Very Frightening Pace Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, U.S. households are now 18.79 trillion dollars in debt. In 1980, U.S. households were just 1.4 trillion dollars in debt. Over the past several decades we have witnessed a household debt binge that is unlike anything that we have ever witnessed in our entire history. But if consumers could handle that debt load, there wouldn’t be such a high level of concern. Unfortunately, just like we witnessed prior to the...

UN Security Council Passes Iran War Resolution, Yet With No Mention Of US Or Israel Many independent pundits have long complained of the emptiness of the United Nations as some kind of 'moral authority' - given it often claims to be just this. The vacuous nature of UN statements connected to war is on display once again as the Security Council (UNSC) issued a formal condemnation of the Iran war on Wednesday, but without mentioning either the United States or Israel at all. For this reason, Iran quickly slammed the vote,...