Hegseth Orders Cyber Command, Intel Agencies To Counter Foreign Threats To Midterms

Why China's Population Decline Is Irreversible Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times, China’s demographic collapse is so advanced that even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent a massive population decline because there are simply too few women of childbearing age. The ageing crisis facing China is well documented and widely reported. The crisis stems from a combination of longer life expectancies and a reduction in births below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. The result is a smaller workforce, a smaller pool of taxpayers, a smaller...

President Trump on Tuesday night held his first meeting with Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez, just hours after delivering a speech to the UN General Assembly, where he boasted about taking over Venezuela’s oil industry by force, saying “to the victor belong the spoils.” In a post on X, Rodriguez shared a photo of her […]

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 And 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 By Michael Every of Rabobank Depressingly, today marks the start of the fifth year of the Ukraine War: a battered Ukraine is still standing against a bruised Russia; the US is still aiming for a peace deal so it can pivot to Asia; and Europe --even as it knows it has to look after both Ukraine and its own conventional defenses after decades of having this provided for it-- is still trying to get its act together. Despite its rhetoric, with...