"The Killer Chokepoint": China's Rare Earth Squeeze Is Reshaping The Global Economy

In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia) came within an inch of all-out nuclear war with each other. To resolve the crisis, President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev entered into an agreement in which the United States agreed not to invade Cuba in return for Russia’s decision […]

Europeans Should Embrace The American Revolution Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, The time has come for Europeans to declare their independence from ruling-class tyranny. We made it to our two-hundred-fiftieth birthday, America.  What’s next?  Let’s get back to work, so that our descendants can celebrate one thousand. Making sure the American Experiment endures is work, after all.  Protecting American ideals from our ideological enemies is never easy. Well before our nation declared independence from Great Britain, the American system repudiated the whole “ruling class” hierarchy that — to this day! — still oozes from the infected abscesses of the United Kingdom and...

USPS Pauses Pension Contributions Amid Looming Cash Shortfall Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has temporarily suspended its employer contributions to a government-wide pension plan after warning Congress that, without changes, it could run out of cash within the next year. On Thursday, USPS told the Office of Personnel Management—the federal government’s human resource division—that it would pause its biweekly employer contributions to the Federal Employees Retirement System, or FERS. The move is expected to conserve about $2.5 billion through Sept. 30, the end of the...