Authoritarianism Doesn't Arrive With A Coup... It Arrives With A Login

NATO Minus US: European Militaries Won't Add Up To Deter Russia Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s European nations would need to bolster standing militaries by at least 300,000 troops and significantly boost defense spending beyond 3.5 percent of gross domestic product - at least 250 billion euros - while reviving and integrating their industrial base to defend themselves against Russia without the United States. And they’d need to do that fast, according to a 2025 joint analysis by European think tanks Bruegel...

29 Health Systems Dropping Medicare Advantage Plans Authored by Sylvia Xu via The Epoch Times, Twenty-nine health systems are dropping Medicare Advantage plans in 2026, citing prior authorization denials, reimbursement issues, and deal renegotiations. A Medicare Advantage PPO card sits on top of a Medicare card, in this file photo. AP/Jenny Kane The number of terminated contracts this year is down from 40 in 2025 and 32 in 2024, Becker's Hospital Review reported on Sept. 4. Naples Comprehensive Health, one of America's top 50 hospitals, will go out of network with Centene's Wellcare and...

When Gülçin and I, in May of 2006, opened the Karia Princess for the first meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS), many questions, organizational as well as substantive, had been still unresolved in our minds. It took years of experimenting and learning: of defining, refining and fine-tuning the very product that now is the PFS and its […]