Ex-CIA Analyst Warns Hegseth's Claim Of "Ironclad" Hormuz Blockade Deeply Misleading 

State Department Issues "Worldwide Caution" As US-Iran Tit-For-Tat Spirals Into Regional Crisis Summary State Dept. Issues Worldwide Warning  CENTCOM says two US troops killed in Iranian attack on Jordan base. Iran formally suspends MoU with the US, declaring agreement is over & commitments will no longer be fulfilled. Fighting escalates into seventh strait day of heavy bombings. Iran reportedly struck a US base in Saudi Arabia for the first time in four months. US strikes disrupt southern Iran's telecom network, knocking out 116 communication towers amid new infrastructure war. Iran pounds Kuwait's energy infrastructure, damaging power &...

Jack Smith's Secret Orders Targeting Patel And Wiles Should Alarm Us All Authored by Jonathan Turley, Former Special Counsel Jack Smith has long operated under Oscar Wilde’s rule that “the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”  Over the last few months, the public has learned of a wide array of secret orders targeting members of Congress, Trump allies, and others. Now, the Administration has learned that FBI Director Kash Patel and White House Susie Wiles were also targeted by Smith in 2022 and 2023 when they...

The World Is Becoming Increasingly Divided By Fertility The world is becoming increasingly divided by fertility. One group of countries now has too few births to naturally replace its population, while another continues to see population growth driven by higher fertility rates. This demographic divide has major implications for aging populations, labor markets, immigration, and future economic growth. This map, via Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins, shows which countries are above and below the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman, using projections for 2025 from the UN World Population Prospects 2024 Revision. While...