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US Property Foreclosure Filings Increase 14% Year Over Year Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, There were a total of 40,355 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings in May—down 5 percent month-over-month but up by 14 percent compared to the same period in 2025. “The increase marks the continuation of a trend of rising foreclosure activity on an annual basis,” real estate analytics company ATTOM said in a June ....


On 14 June, as diplomats edged towards what could have become the most consequential US–Iran understanding in years, a bomb fell on Beirut’s Ghobeiry neighbourhood. Buildings collapsed. Civilians were killed. Families who believed they were living through a fragile ceasefire window suddenly found themselves once again digging through concrete and dust. The strike was not [...]

Three Factors Leave Salty-Snack Demand Stale UBS analyst Peter Grom, who covers U.S. consumer staples including packaged food, beverages, and household products, served up a sour outlook for the salty-snack category , warning that the recovery investors had hoped for remains further out than expected. "Despite recent optimism around a potential recovery in salty snacks, our analysis would suggest the category remains challenged. While....

Original essay, Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund, by Leivick Hodes. Translation and commentary by Madeleine Cohen. INTRODUCTION Polish Bundist Leivick Hodes published “Facing the Future: Reflecting on Fifty Years of Zionism and the Bund” in late 1947 in the New York–based Bundist newspaper Unzer tsayt, of which he was an editor. 1 1 Leyvik Hodes, [...]

I thought I let you know that SKY(BSB now Comcast) ISP blocks AirVPN website now in the UK so now they are starting to stop you trying to use a VPN now when Windows supports you using one in Windows, wow no freedom ... 😞 You get a website has timed out error. I had to use a VPN extension in Google Chrome to load the AIRVPN Website then I could sign up again.

I thought I let you know that SKY(BSB now Comcast) ISP blocks AirVPN website now in the UK so now they are starting to stop you trying to use a VPN now when Windows supports you using one in Windows, wow no freedom ... 😞 You get a website has timed out error. I had to use a VPN extension in Google Chrome to load the AIRVPN Website then I could sign up again.

Trump Details Iran Deal At G7: No Nukes, Conditional Sanctions Relief Summary: Iran will not have a nuclear weapon under the new deal. The agreement includes strong policing and enforcement powers. Trump: Obama’s JCPOA was a horrible deal that led toward a bomb. Past U.S. payments to Iran were a failed bribe attempt. Sanctions relief will only happen if Iran complies with terms. Iran gets no money or relief just for s....

In April 2026, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a group of individuals and entities that are involved in recruiting former Colombian military personnel to fight in Sudan on behalf of the Rapid Support Forces militia. According to an official investigation carried out by different US agencies, hundreds of Colombian mercenaries have travelled to [...]

Dangerous Precedent Of Censorship And Sanitization": Biden-Appointed Judge Enjoins Removal Of Slavery And Climate Displays Authored by Jonathan Turley, George Santayana famously said that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. The same is true for judicial overreach. Those judges who yield to the temptation to counter policies that are not to their liking are likely to repeat such excesses of power. That is why the recen....

South Africans commemorated two significant events in May: Africa Day and Workers’ Day. These moments normally evoke political reflection on the importance of African unity and workers’ solidarity in challenging racialized capitalism over decades. Yet this year’s reflections were marred by Afrophobic and tribalist attacks on black African working-class migrants. The leaders and supporters of [...]

On 25 April 2026, Mali faced its most severe test in fourteen years. Coordinated JNIM and FLA attacks struck seven major population centres including Kati, Mopti, Gao, and Kidal, as documented in previous articles on African Arguments. Institutional silence is part of the structural picture. Inaction by the Alliance of Sahelian States (Alliance des états sahelien) is often [...]

Could Trump's Fable 5 Export Curbs Slow China's AI Model Race The biggest AI story to start the week is the Trump administration's decision to place export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, forcing Dario Amodei's frontier AI lab to restrict foreign access . The move comes as Chinese open-source models have been rapidly closing the compute gap with U.S. labs. Anthropic's latest release appears to have widened that ....

Everyone will be welcome in Canada, Mexico, and the United States for the FIFA World Cup next year.” Those were the words of FIFA President Gianni Infantino following a meeting of the 54 Confederation of African Football (CAF) member association presidents in Nairobi, Kenya, last year. For anyone paying attention, it is clear that Infantino’s words were [...]

On June 10, The Associated Press declared progressive Randy Villegas the winner after a tight race with moderate Jasmeet Bains, a California State Assembly member heavily backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and pro-Israel groups. Villegas will face Republican incumbent David Valadao in November. These were not the results the DCCC wanted. Hans Nichols of Axios reported that on June 9, when [...]

May Day, 2024, was a day of celebration for over 3,500 graduate student research and teaching assistants at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn): we had just won our National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election in a landslide and formed the largest new private sector union in Philadelphia in over half a century. By October, we [...]

Once I knew a women whom internet mountebank Eliezer Yudkowsky had convinced of the proposition that neither consciousness nor self identity existed. She told me she did not exist. She held that her viewpoint. perceptions. thoughts. habits. passion. volition. and memories were not caused by her nor owned by her nor related to her. These (…)

What Could Break The Bull Market This Summer Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, Key Takeaways After nine straight up weeks, the bull market pullback we flagged finally arrived, and it stopped cold at the 50-day moving average. The selloff reset an overbought tape without breaking trend. RSI fell from above 70 to the low 40s, and Thursday’s bounce came on broad participation. Our Money Flow Bread....

Like most of America’s wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing control over the region’s energy resources and preserving oil currency policies; practices that have fueled its expansive economy since the end of the Second World War.    Ultimately, this conflict, which has sent shockwaves [...]

While technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus.” — Pope Leo XIV The artificial intelligence industry likes to refer to its massive “hyperscale” data centres as “campuses.” That’s complete bullshit. A data centre hosts no students, no laughter and no libraries. The poet William Blake would have [...]

Apollo Picks Austin Over New York As Wall Street's Migration South Continues It's not just Citadel that's moving out of New York. Apollo Global Management has chosen Austin, Texas, as its second headquarters, according to sources familiar with the decision. The firm, which manages about $1 trillion in assets, evaluated Austin, Miami, Palm Beach, and Nashville before CEO Marc Rowan selected Austin, according to Financial Times . The ....

Top Iran analyst Dr. Hassan Ahmadian tells Drop Site that Donald Trump was forced to seek a deal on Iran’s terms after meeting the “hard rock” of Iranian resistance. Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill spoke to Ahmadian, Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at Tehran University on Friday, following President Trump’s announcement that a deal with [...]

America's Largest Wind Farm To Begin Operations This Month Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The SunZia Wind Project, the largest wind farm in the United States, is scheduled to kick off operations this month, roughly three years after construction activities began on the project, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a June 12 statement. “The wind farm, located in New Mexico, has a total net summ....

U.S.-Iran Deal Doesn't Mean A Swift Return Of Oil And Gas Flows Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com , A U.S.-Iran agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but shipping and production will not immediately return to normal. More than 10 million bpd of Middle Eastern oil production has been shut in, and some fields may take months to restart fully. Iraq faces a slower recovery than Saudi Arabia or the UAE because its sou....

First LNG Tanker Crosses Hormuz After Deal Announcement As Most Ship Managers Remain Cautious An LNG carrier successfully passed through the Strait of Hormuz early on Monday, the first tanker carrying energy products to clear the chokepoint since the U.S. and Iran announced a deal to reopen the Strait later this week, according to OilPrice.com While tanker owners and operators remain cautious about rushing to send vessels to the area....



White House Suspects NY Times Reporters Have Situation Room Recordings Senior Trump administration officials are convinced that two New York Times reporters have somehow obtained recordings of White House Situation Room meetings, which would represent an astounding breach of security, Axios reported on Sunday.  "We're afraid   some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded," a White House official told Axios . ....

US Gas Prices Slip Below Politically Sensitive $4 Level For First Time In Months Summary: GasBuddy's U.S. Gas National Avg. Falls Below $4 per gallon  AAA's U.S. Gas National Avg. still slightly Above $4 per gallon (expected to fall)  US-Iran Peace Deal Sends Brent and WTI Tumbling  Patrick De Haan, a petroleum analyst at GasBuddy, wrote on X that the national average price of gasoline has finally slipped below the politica....

Nvidia To Raise $20BN In Debt From First Bond Sale Since 2021, As AI Debt Frenzy Goes Parabolic Over the weekend, we published a length report analyzing what we dubbed " the $1.8 trillion off-balance sheet time bomb at the heart of the AI supercycle ",  which focused on the recent surge in popularity of off-balance sheet SPVs, as well as $1 trillion in long-term purchase commitments, and $800bn in lease commitments, which support the A....

Protests In Los Angeles As Iranian Soccer Team Arrives For 1st World Cup Match Iranian Americans protested against the regime in Tehran as the Iranian soccer team arrived in Los Angeles for their first World Cup match against New Zealand on June 15. As the team arrived at the Los Angeles Galaxy’s training ground in Carson, a small group of Iranian Americans shouted, “Down with terrorists!” The Iranian national team, which travele....

So, What Do We Know? By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist At Rabobank A deal is struck and the parties are reportedly set to sign on Friday of this week. Markets are jubilant after an agreement was confirmed by US, Iranian and Pakistani sources, but not without first being threatened by Israeli strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon which prompted a telling-off by Donald Trump on Truth Social where he told everyone “don’t blow it”. ....

Drinking The Court-Packing Kool-Aid: Buttigieg Joins The Calls To Take Over Supreme Court Authored by Jonathan Turley, Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg apparently got the message this week that he cannot hope to win the Democratic nomination without promising radical measures, including the packing of the Supreme Court. After denouncing the current Court as “rogue” for not ruling as the left has demanded, Buttigieg ....



Key Events This Week: First Warsh FOMC, Iran Deal Signing, Retail Sales And More After 107 days and a seemingly endless number of false dawns, we finally have a deal between the US and Iran to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. It was announced on Sunday afternoon - Trump's birthday, shortly before futures opened for trading and ahead of today's Iran game in the World Cup - and the MoU will be signed in Switzerland on Friday. A....



G7 Protesters Smash Windows, Set Tesla On Fire In Geneva Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times , Protesters smashed windows at a United Nations agency and set fire to a Tesla vehicle on June 14 during a protest march in Geneva, Switzerland, against the holding of the G7 summit, just across the border in the French town of Evian-les-Bains. A Tesla car burns during a protest against the G7 summit, across the border in Fra....


This picture is from a different article to the one in my piece I have talked a fair bit on my blog. on social media. in sermons. and in other contexts about how many men whose wives work. and especially who work fulltime. are heading for disaster. Most of these men don’t want to hear it. Many people just can’t comprehend why you would even challenge people on this issue. Some of their wives get angry at it being mentioned. I don’t care. it....

I woke up this morning. already angry from yesterday. and what angered me today was the total lack of critical questions posed from our side. Because nobody else does it. I will take it upon my seasoned shoulders to do it myself. Let’s see it piece by piece. “Peace deal”. There isn’t any. There is (…)

US Industrial Production Disappoints In May Despite strong ISM Manufacturing data, US Industrial Production disappointed in May , rising just 0.1% MoM (vs +0.3% exp), but April's print was revised up to +0.9% MoM. Put together, that lifted the YoY rise in industrial production to +1.67% - its highest since Nov 2025 ... Manufacturing excluding motor vehicles and parts was also flat in May, according to the Fed report. Mining o....


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