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Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry
16.04.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump's Blockade Is Breaking Iran... And European Elites Are Angry Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In March I published an article titled “Global Energy Crisis Or Iranian Surrender In Five Weeks?” in which I outlined the “worst case” and “best case” scenarios for the war in Iran. In my best case scenario I argued in favor of...
Major Israeli PAC Flips: Tel Aviv Should Pay Out-Of-Pocket If It Wants US Weapons
16.04.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Major Israeli PAC Flips: Tel Aviv Should Pay Out-Of-Pocket If It Wants US Weapons via Middle East Eye The pro-Israel advocacy group J Street is now calling for an end to "direct" US military support to Israel, per a new policy document published this week. The group had previously backed Washington's continued provision of defensive weapons systems...
Foggy, Foggy War
15.04.2026, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Foggy, Foggy War By Michael Every of Rabobank With US stocks up, the Nasdaq with its longest winning streak since 2021, and screen oil down for a second day in a row, markets continue to price the starkly binary physical outcomes smack in front of us on the side that’s full of stardust. The IMF just warned of a potential world recession ahead if Hormuz...
Kering And Hermès Sink As War Batters Earnings; Goldman Warns Luxury Dip-Buying Is "Premature"
15.04.2026, 13:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kering And Hermès Sink As War Batters Earnings; Goldman Warns Luxury Dip-Buying Is "Premature" Goldman's Natasha de la Grense summed it up well this morning: "Money was waiting on the sidelines to buy luxury for a de-escalation play – that feels premature with three misses in three days." Disappointments from Kering and Hermès, both of which fell...
Italy's Anti-Israel Opposition Declares 'Victory' After Meloni Suspends Defense Pact
15.04.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Italy's Anti-Israel Opposition Declares 'Victory' After Meloni Suspends Defense Pact Italy has suspended the automatic renewal of its defense agreement with Israel amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, now 'paused' as a two-week ceasefire holds in order to give a chance for talks. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced the significant status change...
USA Rare Earth Actively Pursuing Acquisition Opportunities Around The World
14.04.2026, 21:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - USA Rare Earth Actively Pursuing Acquisition Opportunities Around The World At the Semafor World Economy forum, USA Rare Earth CEO Barbara Humpton explained that the company is actively pursuing acquisition opportunities worldwide across the entire critical minerals supply chain. This includes everything from extraction and refining to magnet production...
France Plans €10 Billion Push To Cut Reliance On Gas and Oil
14.04.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Plans €10 Billion Push To Cut Reliance On Gas and Oil France is shifting its response to rising fuel costs away from short-term relief and toward long-term electrification, according to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu. Instead of expanding fuel subsidies after oil prices spiked due to the Iran conflict, the government plans to redirect funding...
US Allies Loudly Reject Trump's Scheme To Blockade Hormuz: 'Not Getting Dragged In'
13.04.2026, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Allies Loudly Reject Trump's Scheme To Blockade Hormuz: 'Not Getting Dragged In' The United Kingdom and several other countries rejected Washington's plan to impose a blockade on Iranian ports and target ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz, which has gone into effect Monday. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made clear his stance that "we are not supporting...
Netanyahu Says Iran Ceasefire Could End At Any Moment, Backs Trump's Blockade - Tehran Blasts 'Piracy'
13.04.2026, 14:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Says Iran Ceasefire Could End At Any Moment, Backs Trump's Blockade - Tehran Blasts 'Piracy' Summary Iran's military says the planned US blockade on Gulf ports will be an "illegal" act tantamount to "piracy" as Trump is also weighing limited strikes on Iran. US military is to enforce the blockade in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, Reuters...
France's Gig-Economy Built On Migrant Labor As 99% Of Surveyed Delivery-Riders Are Foreign-Born, Two-Thirds Are Illegal
13.04.2026, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France's Gig-Economy Built On Migrant Labor As 99% Of Surveyed Delivery-Riders Are Foreign-Born, Two-Thirds Are Illegal Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A major new study has found that France’s food delivery sector is almost exclusively staffed by migrant workers, a majority of whom are living in France illegally. The Enquête report,...
India's Nuclear Bet Is Starting To Pay Off
12.04.2026, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - India's Nuclear Bet Is Starting To Pay Off Authored by Haley Zaremba via OilPrice.com, India's fast breeder reactor in Tamil Nadu achieved criticality earlier this month, making it self-sustaining and only the second commercial plant of its kind in the world. The 500-megawatt plant advances India's goal of reaching 100 gigawatts of nuclear capacity...
Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact
12.04.2026, 04:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pakistani Warplanes Land In Saudi Arabia For Start Of Mutual Defense Pact Via The Cradle A Pakistani military force arrived at Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz Air Base on Saturday, as part of a strategic defense pact between the two countries, the kingdom's defense ministry has announced. The Pakistani force includes air force fighter jets and support...
Who's Afraid Of Emmanuel Macron?
11.04.2026, 13:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Who's Afraid Of Emmanuel Macron? Authored by J.B.Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, French President Emmanuel Macron is doing that peculiar French thing again…acting tough while looking weak. He gave a speech last Friday at Yonsei University in Seoul during which he demanded that nations not become “vassals” of China or the United States. Macron...
The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue
11.04.2026, 05:28 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Separation From Europe And NATO Is Long Overdue Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us As much as many centrists and libertarians are opposed to Donald Trump’s ongoing strikes against Iran, I have to say, the downstream result might end up becoming one of the most libertarian results I have ever seen. For decades, small government activists...
Trump Rebukes Carlson, Kelly, Owens, & Jones Over Iran Comments
10.04.2026, 16:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Rebukes Carlson, Kelly, Owens, & Jones Over Iran Comments Authored by Luis Cornelio via HeadlineUSA, President Donald Trump minced no words in a lengthy and fiery rebuke of podcast hosts Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones amid their criticisms over the U.S.’s military operations in Iran. President Donald Trump speaks...
Justice Department Counters Russian Military Intelligence Unit Attack On US Targets
08.04.2026, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Justice Department Counters Russian Military Intelligence Unit Attack On US Targets Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The Justice Department and FBI on Tuesday revealed they have conducted a court-approved technical operation to neutralize part of a network of small office and home office routers in the United States that...
Today Is "Bridge Day"
07.04.2026, 15:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Today Is "Bridge Day" By Benjamin Picton, Senior Market Strategist at Rabobank As traders return from the Easter break markets are again counting down to an ultimatum deadline set by President Trump. Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend to warn the Iranian regime to make a deal, threatening that Tuesday will be “Power Plant Day” and “Bridge...
Frankreich holt sein letztes Gold aus New York nach Hause – und macht dabei 13 Milliarden Euro Gewinn
07.04.2026, 10:52 Uhr. tkp.at - https: - Die Banque de France hat in den vergangenen Monaten einen bemerkenswerten Schritt vollzogen: Die letzte Tranche ihres Goldes, die noch bei der Federal Reserve Bank of New York lagerte, wurde verkauft und durch moderne, international standardisierte Goldbarren ersetzt. Diese lagern nun vollständig in den eigenen Tresoren in Paris. Damit befindet sich...
France's Debt Spiral: Tax Hikes Mask A Looming Crisis
07.04.2026, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France's Debt Spiral: Tax Hikes Mask A Looming Crisis Submitted by Thomas Kolbe On both sides of the Franco-German border, the same problem persists: overburdened and reform-averse politicians struggle against a rapidly accelerating debt spiral. Their preferred tool: higher levies. Last week, France’s Finance Minister Roland Lescure reported a revision...
As France Yanks Last US-Based Gold Reserves, UBS Expects Demand From China To Persist
06.04.2026, 20:23 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - As France Yanks Last US-Based Gold Reserves, UBS Expects Demand From China To Persist When France repatriates its gold, it has historically been worth paying attention to (think De Gaulle's demands culminating in the 'Nixon Shock'). However, then (as now), there was no cliff-like event, it was a slow-building crisis and perhaps the news that Gold has...
'New Iranian Terror Group' Claims Responsibility For Attacks Across Europe
06.04.2026, 12:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'New Iranian Terror Group' Claims Responsibility For Attacks Across Europe A group that did not exist online or anywhere else before March 9, 2026, has suddenly claimed responsibility for a string of low-tech arson and attempted bombings at synagogues and US banks across Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and the UK. Police in Paris at the scene of...
Countries Losing Trust In The US
06.04.2026, 10:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Countries Losing Trust In The US Global perceptions of the United States are shifting. Data from the Munich Security Conference shows a clear decline in trust across advanced and emerging economies. This visualization, created by Visual Capitalist's Julia Wendling, in partnership with Inigo, provides visual context to these shifting perceptions and...
Tehran's Toll Booth For Hormuz Strait Divides Countries Into 3 Categories
05.04.2026, 00:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tehran's Toll Booth For Hormuz Strait Divides Countries Into 3 Categories The last several days have seen a limited number of foreign vessels successfully and safely cross the Strait of Hormuz for the first time, amid the ongoing de facto military blockage by Iran. A group of several vessels, namely French, Japanese, and Oman-linked ships were reported...
Two Takes on Modern France
03.04.2026, 21:23 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Plus, more international fiction releases in April....
Germany's Economy Minister Urges Nuclear Rethink As Energy Prices Surge, Growth Forecasts Slide
03.04.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Economy Minister Urges Nuclear Rethink As Energy Prices Surge, Growth Forecasts Slide Germany’s Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has openly called for a fundamental reassessment of the country’s long-standing rejection of nuclear power, warning that heavy dependence on gas has left Europe’s largest economy dangerously exposed to repeated...
France Approves Record Number Of Asylum Applications In 2025, Up 12% YoY
02.04.2026, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France Approves Record Number Of Asylum Applications In 2025, Up 12% YoY Via Remix News, The latest data released by the National Court of Asylum reveals a historic statistical milestone: asylum grants in France have reached an unprecedented peak. In 2025, a record 78,782 individuals were granted asylum, marking a 12 percent increase over the previous...
Futures, Bonds Surge On Optimism War May End, Oil Tumbles Below $100
01.04.2026, 14:33 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures, Bonds Surge On Optimism War May End, Oil Tumbles Below $100 Futures and bonds jump and oil fell, sending Brent briefly below $100 a barrel, as the de-escalation/technical/macro led relief rally continues on hopes of the Middle East conflict reaching an end soon after Donald Trump said he expects the war in Iran to end in two to three weeks...
Political Polarization Particularly Strong In The US
01.04.2026, 11:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Political Polarization Particularly Strong In The US The share of people who consider themselves on the far left or far right of the political spectrum is particularly high in the United States, according to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights. As Statista's Tristan Gaudiat details below, among U.S. respondents surveyed between January and December...
Israel Halts Arms Purchases From France In Rebuke For Iran War Stance
01.04.2026, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Halts Arms Purchases From France In Rebuke For Iran War Stance Israel on Tuesday took the drastic step of announcing that it will halt the acquisition of defense-related goods and services from France, according to an Israeli Defense Ministry announcement. "The Director General of the Israel Ministry of Defense. Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amir Baram has...
France, Italy Are Latest NATO Allies To Break Ranks, Block US Military Flights For Iran War
31.03.2026, 17:07 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - France, Italy Are Latest NATO Allies To Break Ranks, Block US Military Flights For Iran War First Spain, now France and Italy... France has blocked the United States from using its airspace to transport American weapons to be used in the war against Iran, a Western diplomat and two additional sources told Reuters Tuesday. "The sources said the refusal...
The Assisted Suicide Of Lofty State And Local Taxes
31.03.2026, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Assisted Suicide Of Lofty State And Local Taxes Authored by Rob Arnott via RealClearPolitics, We get the government we choose to elect, hence the government we deserve. Voting for ever-higher punitive taxes on the rich is arguably a form of civic suicide. Consider that a wealthy New Yorker can get a raise of almost 40% just by moving. That’s right...
Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Payrolls, PMI, ISM, Retail Sales And Fed Speech
30.03.2026, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Holiday-Shortened Week: Payrolls, PMI, ISM, Retail Sales And Fed Speech Looking at the week ahead, we should start to learn about the economic consequences of the conflict, as several data releases for March are out which cover the period since the strikes began on February 28. In the US, that includes the monthly jobs report on Friday -...
NATO Member Spain Closes Airspace To US Planes Involved In Iran Operations
30.03.2026, 15:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO Member Spain Closes Airspace To US Planes Involved In Iran Operations Given worsening US-Spanish relations over Washington's pro-Israel policies, this is a big step which is not entirely surprising - Spain has fully shuttered its airspace to US planes involved in attacks on Iran. This is an action significantly beyond its prior controversial policy...
How Gas Prices Compare Around The World
30.03.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - How Gas Prices Compare Around The World The war in Iran has driven up oil prices in many countries, with gasoline prices turning into a topic of discussion around the world. The increases have been particularly pronounced in emerging markets, with gasoline prices jumping by more than 50 percent in the Philippines and nearly as much in Nigeria (around...
6 Things To Know As Iran Conflict Hits 1-Month Mark
29.03.2026, 03:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 6 Things To Know As Iran Conflict Hits 1-Month Mark Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, A month has passed since U.S. and Israeli forces jointly launched a surprise attack on Iran, delivering the opening blow in an ongoing effort the U.S. military has dubbed Operation Epic Fury. Iranian forces have since retaliated with attacks on targets across...
French Police Foil Overnight Terror Plot: Suspect Caught Trying To Ignite Bomb Outside BofA Headquarters In Paris
28.03.2026, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Police Foil Overnight Terror Plot: Suspect Caught Trying To Ignite Bomb Outside BofA Headquarters In Paris French anti-terrorism authorities thwarted an attempted attack early Saturday morning when police arrested a suspect as he tried to ignite an explosive device directly in front of the Bank of America headquarters in Paris. The incident...
The European Union Hates Hungary, Loves Ukraine
28.03.2026, 13:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The European Union Hates Hungary, Loves Ukraine Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, What’s in a name? These days…not much. The European Union does not include Ukraine; nevertheless and notwithstanding the objections of E.U. members Hungary and Slovakia... ...the European supra-state insists on paying the salaries of Ukraine’s government...
European Conservative Lawmakers Warn Of 'No-Go Zones' Tied To Mass Immigration And Islamization
28.03.2026, 12:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Conservative Lawmakers Warn Of 'No-Go Zones' Tied To Mass Immigration And Islamization Authored by Thomas Brooke via Remix News, A new report backed by European conservative lawmakers is sounding the alarm over what it describes as the spread of “no-go zones” across the European Union, linking the phenomenon directly to mass immigration...
UAE Pushes For Hormuz Security Force, While Turkey Argues Against Gulf Entry Into War
27.03.2026, 16:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UAE Pushes For Hormuz Security Force, While Turkey Argues Against Gulf Entry Into War It's one of those things that sounds nice on paper, but when missiles and drones are inbound, no one is going to want to be on a military ship sitting in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz: the United Arab Emirates, which has been among the hardest-impacted Gulf states...
A Turning Point For Europe: Historic EU Parliament Votes Signal Rightward Realignment On Migration, Privacy, And Transatlantic Ties
27.03.2026, 07:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Turning Point For Europe: Historic EU Parliament Votes Signal Rightward Realignment On Migration, Privacy, And Transatlantic Ties On Thursday, the European Parliament in Strasbourg delivered what many are calling one of the most significant setbacks in recent memory for the EU’s traditional bureaucratic and centrist consensus. In a single day, MEPs...
UN Adopts Slavery Resolution Calling For Reparations Despite US, European Objections
27.03.2026, 04:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - UN Adopts Slavery Resolution Calling For Reparations Despite US, European Objections Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.N. General Assembly on March 25 adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations. U.S. First Lady Melania Trump...
The US Shows A Way Out Of Germany's Energy Trap
26.03.2026, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The US Shows A Way Out Of Germany's Energy Trap Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Big developments are underway in Tennessee and Alabama. Over the next five years, the joint Japanese-American project will bring several so-called small modular reactors (SMRs) of the BWRX-300 type online. Almost one percent of U.S. electricity production—slightly more than...
EU and Australia Seal Trade Deal Amid Strategic Resource Concerns
25.03.2026, 10:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU and Australia Seal Trade Deal Amid Strategic Resource Concerns Submitted by Thomas Kolbe It took an astonishing eight years before the European Union and Australia were able, at the beginning of the week, to agree on a joint trade agreement. What EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese presented...
'Guard Your Mind': The Techno-Libertarian Manifesto
25.03.2026, 04:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Guard Your Mind': The Techno-Libertarian Manifesto Via zeptabot substack, Introduction The modern nation-state is not natural nor permanent. It’s a technological product of the industrial era’s logic of mass warfare, bureaucracy, and centralized taxation. That logic is breaking down. In a world of cyberspace, mobile capital, and digital commerce...
Future Drop As Oil, Yields Rise On Relentless War Newsflow
24.03.2026, 13:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Future Drop As Oil, Yields Rise On Relentless War Newsflow Futures are lower but well off session lows, as overnight headlines induced another bout of aggressive choppiness: those headlines include strikes on Iranian gas facilities, Saudi and UAE considering entering the war, Iranian lawmaker ruling out US negotiations, and then reports of Iran / Egypt...
Trump Admin Strikes Deal With Energy Firm To Nix Offshore Wind Plans
24.03.2026, 00:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Admin Strikes Deal With Energy Firm To Nix Offshore Wind Plans Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times, A global energy corporation based in France has ceded leases off North Carolina and New York where it planned to spend nearly $1 billion to build offshore wind turbines back to the U.S. Department of Interior and will instead redirect that...
Key Events This Week: PMIs, Productivity And Consumer Sentiment
23.03.2026, 16:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Key Events This Week: PMIs, Productivity And Consumer Sentiment As has become customary for Monday, we have seen a dramatic surge in risk assets (3rd Monday in a row) on what at least superficially appears to be de-escalation after Trump announced strikes against Iran's power plant would be delayed by 5 days as a result of talks with Iran, talks which...
French Election: Socialists Secure Paris, LePen's Populists Make Historic Local Gains
23.03.2026, 04:44 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - French Election: Socialists Secure Paris, LePen's Populists Make Historic Local Gains Marine Le Pen’s National Rally delivered its strongest performance ever in French local elections on Sunday, capturing dozens of municipalities and installing an ally as mayor of Nice - while socialists predictably held onto key urban centers, including Paris,...
Georgia Governor Signs Bill Suspending State Gas Tax For 60 Days
22.03.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Georgia Governor Signs Bill Suspending State Gas Tax For 60 Days Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill on March 20 suspending the state’s gasoline tax for 60 days, the first such move taken by a U.S. state since the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran began in late February. Georgia Gov. Brian...
EU Considers Electricity Tax Cuts, Subsidies Amid Iran War Surge In Energy Costs
22.03.2026, 13:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - EU Considers Electricity Tax Cuts, Subsidies Amid Iran War Surge In Energy Costs Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The European Union is weighing electricity tax cuts and targeted subsidies to shield consumers and industry from surging energy costs amid the ongoing Iran war, European Commission President Ursula von...