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Ranking The World's Most Powerful Countries By Soft Power In 2026
04.03.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ranking The World's Most Powerful Countries By Soft Power In 2026 The 'hard power' versus 'soft power' framework of international relations has perhaps never been more prescient as President Trump flexes his ability to use military strength to induce an outcome of his liking, having tried (and failed) to achieve it via the more diplomatic arts of soft...
Germany's Corporate Tax Collapse Signals Economic Crisis
04.03.2026, 08:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Germany's Corporate Tax Collapse Signals Economic Crisis By Thomas Kolbe The ten-minute applause of delegates at the CDU party congress still echoed when the Federal Ministry of Finance spoiled the festive mood in Stuttgart. Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil’s (SPD) department reported a nationwide collapse of corporate tax revenue by 79 percent in...
The Fix Is In To Defeat Alberta Independence
04.03.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Fix Is In To Defeat Alberta Independence Authored by Bruce Pardy via The Brownstone Institute, Last week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. It will ask Albertans a slate of policy and constitutional questions. Independence, she said the next day, will be added to the ballot if the requisite number of signatures...
Jeffrey Sachs: 'Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation - He Lied To Us'
04.03.2026, 05:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Jeffrey Sachs: 'Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation - He Lied To Us' Columbia University economics professor Jeffrey D. Sachs appeared on Judge Napolitano's 'Judging Freedom' podcast Monday, where he railed against the US-Israeli attack on Iran and the 'CIA-led security state,' calling President Donald Trump a 'disgrace to our nation' because...
Israel Claims to Strike Iranian Nuclear Weapons Lab
04.03.2026, 04:32 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Claims to Strike Iranian Nuclear Weapons Lab Iran's nuclear complexes are seeing renewed attacks for both new buildings constructed since the 12-Day War, as well as long-existing infrastructure previously left alone. From what can be seen in recent satellite imagery, the U.S. and Israel are quickly finishing what they started last year. The...
Operation Epic Fury Sparks Homeland Terror Fears Amid Fallout From Biden's Illegal Alien Invasion
04.03.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Operation Epic Fury Sparks Homeland Terror Fears Amid Fallout From Biden's Illegal Alien Invasion Fears of Iranian-backed terror cells operating inside the U.S. are resurfacing (again) as concerns grow that President Trump's Operation Epic Fury could trigger retaliatory threats against the homeland, particularly since the Biden-Harris regime's open...
Asian Refiners Mull Slashing Crude Processing As Iran War Threatens Supply
04.03.2026, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Asian Refiners Mull Slashing Crude Processing As Iran War Threatens Supply By Michael Kern of OilPrice.com Asian refiners, particularly state-held majors heavily dependent on Middle East oil supply, are considering slashing crude run rates by up to 30% amid the war in Iran that is holding up millions of barrels of Middle Eastern crude stuck near the...
Senators Ask Treasury To Unilaterally Index Capital Gains, Bypassing Congress
04.03.2026, 03:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senators Ask Treasury To Unilaterally Index Capital Gains, Bypassing Congress Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott are asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to unilaterally implement a major capital gains tax cut -- by letting taxpayers adjust their cost basis to account for the effects of inflation. In a letter they intended to send on Tuesday, the pair...
Nancy Mace And Ilhan Omar Go Full Jerry Springer Over Iran
04.03.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Nancy Mace And Ilhan Omar Go Full Jerry Springer Over Iran Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Rep. Nancy Mace obliterated Ilhan Omar on X after the Somali-born Democrat raged about U.S. strikes on Iran during Ramadan, escalating calls to expose Omar’s alleged immigration fraud and boot her back to Somalia. The feud erupted over the weekend...
Tankers Burn From Strait Of Hormuz To Mediterranean Sea Amid Spillover War Risks
04.03.2026, 02:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Tankers Burn From Strait Of Hormuz To Mediterranean Sea Amid Spillover War Risks Times of Malta reports that the Russian-flagged LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz, identified as part of Russia's shadow fleet, suffered an explosion while transiting the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Libya. Multiple sources told the local newspaper that Arctic Metagaz experienced...
Feds Told New Mexico To Back Off Epstein; Then They Did Nothing...
04.03.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Feds Told New Mexico To Back Off Epstein; Then They Did Nothing... Authored by José Niño via Headline USA, In September 2019, federal prosecutors asked New Mexico to shut down its active investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s desert compound. The state complied. The feds never held up their end of the deal. According to a report by The Albuquerque...
Los Angeles Superintendent Praised By Gavin Newsom Placed On Leave Following FBI Raid
04.03.2026, 01:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Los Angeles Superintendent Praised By Gavin Newsom Placed On Leave Following FBI Raid Los Angeles schools were thrown into chaos after the FBI raided the home and office of embattled Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in connection with a widening investigation into a $6 million deal between the nation's second-largest school system and an AI startup...
Hormuz Freeze Sends Brent-Dubai Spread to Multi-Year High
04.03.2026, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Hormuz Freeze Sends Brent-Dubai Spread to Multi-Year High By Julianne Geiger of OilPrice, Brent’s premium to the Middle East’s Dubai benchmark has blown out to its widest level since 2022, confirmation that the global oil market is squarely trading on disruption. As of Tuesday morning, Brent was trading around $83–$84 per barrel, up more than...
New Jersey Faces Structural Deficit Crisis And Democrats Blame Trump
04.03.2026, 00:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - New Jersey Faces Structural Deficit Crisis And Democrats Blame Trump When all else fails, blame Trump. It might be the only political strategy the Democrats have left but it doesn't work for everything. New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, who took office this year, warns that the state faces a serious structural deficit (spending exceeding revenues...
US Arranging Charter, Military Flights For Americans In The Middle East
04.03.2026, 00:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Arranging Charter, Military Flights For Americans In The Middle East Authored by Savannah Hulsey Pointer via The Epoch Times, The U.S. State Department is looking to help Americans in the Middle East find a way home. The State Department said on March 3 it is working to charter aircraft to fly Americans home following the start of the U.S.–Israel...
How China Sees the War in Iran
03.03.2026, 23:48 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Beijing is an unentangled superpower—but one with key interests at stake....
"Account Temporarily Unavailable": Facebook Outages Reported In U.S.
03.03.2026, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Account Temporarily Unavailable": Facebook Outages Reported In U.S. Facebook appears to be suffering widespread outages, as login attempts on the social media site produce the error: "Account Temporarily Unavailable." The full error reads: "Account Temporarily Unavailable. Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to...
Behind America's New Industrial Revolution
03.03.2026, 23:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Behind America's New Industrial Revolution Authored by Emel Akan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. economy grew faster than many predicted over the past year, outpacing other advanced economies, especially in Europe, where growth has nearly stalled. The manufacturing facilities of the Independent Can Company in Belcamp, Md., on June 25,...
Bill Pervs Out Over Epstein Memories, Hillary Goes Berserk, And They Both Lied: Top Viral Moments From Clinton Depositions
03.03.2026, 23:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bill Pervs Out Over Epstein Memories, Hillary Goes Berserk, And They Both Lied: Top Viral Moments From Clinton Depositions The House Oversight Committee dropped more than nine hours of raw video from Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closed-door Epstein depositions on Monday, where the pair were questioned over their longstanding relationship with Jeffrey...
From Whiskey To Weed: A Second Amendment Fight
03.03.2026, 23:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - From Whiskey To Weed: A Second Amendment Fight Authored by John R. Lott Jr. & Laura Lott via RealClearPolitics, Are regular marijuana users the modern equivalent of “habitual drunkards” at the Founding? What about someone who regularly takes a sleep gummy? In oral arguments before the Supreme Court today in United States v. Hemani, the federal...
Trump Floats Backing Anti-Tehran Insurgency As Alternative To US Boots On Ground
03.03.2026, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Floats Backing Anti-Tehran Insurgency As Alternative To US Boots On Ground It's only day four of the US-Israeli 'Operation Epic Fury' and there's already talks of a ground war and insurgency in Iran. Of course, the White House is still saying it doesn't plan to send US boots on the ground (though is 'not ruling it out'), while also proclaiming...
'They're Not MAGA': Trump Remarks On Tucker Carlson And Megyn Kelly's Iran Criticism
03.03.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'They're Not MAGA': Trump Remarks On Tucker Carlson And Megyn Kelly's Iran Criticism Authored by Steve Watson via modernity.news, President Donald Trump delivered a clear message to critics within conservative media circles Monday, asserting that ‘true’ MAGA supporters back his moves to neutralize the Iranian threat and prevent nuclear proliferation...
Insurers Are Keeping Ships Away From the Strait of Hormuz
03.03.2026, 21:48 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - As chaos spreads from Iran, global shipping is buckling under the strain....
'Toxic Indoctrination': Dept Of War Cuts Fellowships At 13 'Elite' Universities
03.03.2026, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Toxic Indoctrination': Dept Of War Cuts Fellowships At 13 'Elite' Universities Authored by Gabrielle Temaat via The College Fix, The U.S. Department of Defense announced the cancellation of its military education fellowships at 13 top universities on Friday, citing “toxic indoctrination.” “We are eliminating certain Senior Service College (SSC)...
Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech
03.03.2026, 21:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Visualizing Data Center Power Surge Before White House Meets With Big Tech Ahead of tomorrow's White House meeting, where representatives from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI are expected to pledge that their data-center buildouts will not drive higher power bills for households near those facilities, UBS analyst Arend Kapteyn...
In Stunning Flip-Flop, DOJ Suddenly Revives Bid To Sanction Law Firms
03.03.2026, 21:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - In Stunning Flip-Flop, DOJ Suddenly Revives Bid To Sanction Law Firms Update (1400ET): In a stunning flip-flop, just 24 hours after The Justice Department said it was dropping its appeal of four trial-court rulings that struck down Trump’s sanctions against law firms Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie and Susman Godfrey, the DoJ told a court...
US Launched Kamikaze Drones Against Iran, Reflecting Lessons Learned From Ukraine
03.03.2026, 20:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Launched Kamikaze Drones Against Iran, Reflecting Lessons Learned From Ukraine In the first 72 hours of Operation Epic Fury, U.S. forces conducted more than 1,700 strikes across Iran on high-value IRGC military assets and leadership. These strikes relied heavily on air-delivered munitions, including bombs, air-launched rockets, and missiles deployed...
Kalshi, Polymarket Face Trading Halt In Nevada After Court Rulings
03.03.2026, 20:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Kalshi, Polymarket Face Trading Halt In Nevada After Court Rulings Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Two US federal court rulings have increased the risk that Nevada regulators may seek to halt prediction-market trading in the state after a judge sent a dispute involving Polymarket’s parent company Blockratize and Kalshi back to state...
Blackstone Launching Public Vehicle for Data Center Acquisitions
03.03.2026, 20:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Blackstone Launching Public Vehicle for Data Center Acquisitions Amid overwhelming redemptions in other funds, Blackstone is preparing a publicly traded acquisition company dedicated to data centers, opening the door for “mom and pop" to jump into the AI boom, just as the market is panicking over who will find the trillions in data center spending...
Trump Accepts White House Correspondents' Dinner Invitation For First Time
03.03.2026, 19:49 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Accepts White House Correspondents' Dinner Invitation For First Time Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will attend the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner for the first time as president, after declining to attend during his initial term in office due to his...
Voters Head To Polls In First 2026 Primary Election: What To Know
03.03.2026, 19:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Voters Head To Polls In First 2026 Primary Election: What To Know Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, Today, voters in Texas and North Carolina will cast their ballots in the first major contested primary elections of the 2026 midterm elections. The elections in the two states have high stakes for the control of Congress in 2027. The Texas...
Drone Strikes On Amazon Data Centers In Middle East Reveal Urgent Need To Defend AI
03.03.2026, 18:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Drone Strikes On Amazon Data Centers In Middle East Reveal Urgent Need To Defend AI For the first time in modern warfare, Iranian kamikaze drones struck commercial data centers in the Middle East operated by Amazon. This marks a major escalation in the targeting of civilian digital infrastructure. Amazon wrote on its website that three Middle East data...
Zelensky Warns Iran War Could Starve Ukraine Of Critical US Arms
03.03.2026, 18:22 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Warns Iran War Could Starve Ukraine Of Critical US Arms This isn't the first time the world's attention has shifted away from the Ukraine war, but it certainly marks the biggest other conflict to erupt throughout the four-year long war in Eastern Europe. Every time there is a 'distraction' - President Zelensky takes pains to try and refocus...
Oil Tumbles As Trump Floats Insurance For Tankers
03.03.2026, 17:57 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Tumbles As Trump Floats Insurance For Tankers The price of crude instantly tumbled on Tuesday after the Trump administration floated providing insurance for oil tankers crossing through the strait of Hormuz. Ships have been frozen on either side of the strait after insurers instituted "war policies" that wouldn't pay out. Supertanker costs...
"I'd Be Angry, Too": Jamie Dimon Says Trump Debanking Suit Has No Merit, Then Rails Debanking Practices
03.03.2026, 17:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "I'd Be Angry, Too": Jamie Dimon Says Trump Debanking Suit Has No Merit, Then Rails Debanking Practices JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Monday that Donald Trump’s $5 billion lawsuit over the closure of his accounts “has no merit,” but added, “They have the right to be angry. I’d be angry, too.” Trump claims JPMorgan and other banks shut...
More Bark Than Bite: Kaine's War Powers Resolution Is An 'Imminent' Failure
03.03.2026, 17:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - More Bark Than Bite: Kaine's War Powers Resolution Is An 'Imminent' Failure Authored by Jonathan Turley, We now have a glimpse of the War Powers Resolution promised by Sen. Tim Kaine (D., Va.), which is reportedly scheduled for a vote in the Senate today or Wednesday. The resolution purportedly ends all combat operations against Iran … until you reach...
OpenAI Rewrites 'Sloppy' Pentagon AI Deal After Backlash Over Surveillance Risks
03.03.2026, 16:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OpenAI Rewrites 'Sloppy' Pentagon AI Deal After Backlash Over Surveillance Risks OpenAI - which millions of users trust with everything from legal documents to tax returns - is revising its newly signed contract with the US Department of War, just days after it was announced that they would replace Anthropic for use in government systems because the...
A Middle Powers Club Would Make the World More Dangerous
03.03.2026, 16:39 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Mark Carney’s tour of the Indo-Pacific this week is a rousing show of defiance, but it may have unintended effects....
Regime Change Will Not Be Easy: Tehran's Goal Is To Survive By Any Means Necessary
03.03.2026, 16:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Regime Change Will Not Be Easy: Tehran's Goal Is To Survive By Any Means Necessary By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank My Circus! My Monkeys! Europe was hit with the first strike to its energy supply chain after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and had to start diversifying its inflows from elsewhere. Now that Middle Eastern LNG...
US B-2 Bombers Belatedly Authorized To Use British Bases To Hit Deep Inside Iran
03.03.2026, 15:35 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US B-2 Bombers Belatedly Authorized To Use British Bases To Hit Deep Inside Iran In the modern era Britain has always been America's junior partner when it comes to launching Middle East wars, and so in the opening days of Trump's Operation Epic Fury targeting Iran, there was anger in Washington as the Starmer government appeared to waffle and was fence...
China Panics, Urges Ceasefire To Reopen Strait Of Hormuz As Beijing Is Addicted To Cheap Iranian Crude
03.03.2026, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Panics, Urges Ceasefire To Reopen Strait Of Hormuz As Beijing Is Addicted To Cheap Iranian Crude Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at Tuesday's regular press briefing in Beijing that all parties in the Iran conflict must ensure the safe transit of commercial shipping through the critical maritime energy chokepoint of the Strait...
"From Orderly Selloff, To Panic": Stocks, Bonds Plunge As Oil, Dollar Soar On Iran War
03.03.2026, 14:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "From Orderly Selloff, To Panic": Stocks, Bonds Plunge As Oil, Dollar Soar On Iran War US equity futures are down sharply, along with all global markets, as the Iran war expands and escalates (attack on US embassy in Saudi Arabia; uncertainty over duration of Strait of Hormuz closure; targeting non-military infra / businesses) rattling markets and sending...
Supreme Court Sides With Parents Over Kids' Gender Disclosure In California
03.03.2026, 14:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Supreme Court Sides With Parents Over Kids' Gender Disclosure In California Golden State groomers were dealt a devastating blow on Monday after the Supreme Court sided with parents challenging school policies in California that restrict when educators may disclose changes to a student’s name or pronouns, handing parental rights advocates an early...
Israel Opens Second Front On Day 4 Of Trump's Iran War As IRGC Refuses To Back Down
03.03.2026, 14:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israel Opens Second Front On Day 4 Of Trump's Iran War As IRGC Refuses To Back Down Israeli and US forces pressed forward with their assault on Iran, striking targets across the country, including Iran's state broadcaster and central military command centers, as the official death toll has climbed to 787 Iranians killed since the start of the Trump-ordered...
Iran Expands Strikes On Gulf Energy Infrastructure As More Oil Hubs Hit
03.03.2026, 13:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Expands Strikes On Gulf Energy Infrastructure As More Oil Hubs Hit One day after a reported Iranian drone strike forced Saudi Arabia's largest oil refinery offline, with high-resolution post-strike satellite imagery showing visible damage, multiple reports on Tuesday morning suggest additional energy infrastructure in two Gulf states has also been...
European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In The Way
03.03.2026, 13:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In The Way Authored by Adina Portau via RealClearPolitics.ocm, Last week, Elon Musk’s X launched a landmark legal challenge against a $140 million fine issued by the European Commission last December under the Digital Services Act, an EU censorship law. The case was filed at the General Court of...
'DEPART NOW': US Tells Citizens To Flee Middle East, But Most Airspace Closed
03.03.2026, 12:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'DEPART NOW': US Tells Citizens To Flee Middle East, But Most Airspace Closed As Iran's response to Israeli and US warfare causes havoc across the Middle East, the US government is urging its citizens to immediately evacuate if they're in any of 14 countries in the region --something far easier said than done. "The [State Department] urges Americans...
Persian Gulf Goes Dark For Container Shipping And There's No Detour Left
03.03.2026, 12:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Persian Gulf Goes Dark For Container Shipping And There's No Detour Left By Stuart Chris of FreightWaves Ocean lines flee Strait of Hormuz as Iran targets Persian Gulf ports While tanker vessels came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, container lines were suspending operations to Persian Gulf ports following the joint Israel-U.S. attack on Iran. Media...
Will Soaring War Risk Send Civilian Ammunition Prices Higher?
03.03.2026, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will Soaring War Risk Send Civilian Ammunition Prices Higher? President Trump signaled on Sunday that Operation Epic Fury could extend for four weeks, shifting our focus beyond the likely decline of certain air-delivered munition stockpiles to the question of whether a prolonged conflict begins tightening small-arms ammunition supplies and spilling...
Vienna Is Nice This Time Of Year... Right?
03.03.2026, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Vienna Is Nice This Time Of Year... Right? Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Vienna, once hailed as one of Europe’s safest capitals, is grappling with a wave of violent crimes linked to unchecked migration, alongside a deepening crisis in schools where German is becoming a minority language. Parents are fleeing public education, random...