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Scott Bessent kündigt die „Operation Küchenspüle “ an
26.08.2026, 08:47 Uhr. tkp.at - https: - Am Montag kündigte Finanzminister Scott Bessent einen groß angelegten wirtschaftlichen Angriff der USA gegen den Iran an. In einem Gastbeitrag in der Financial Times schrieb Bessent: „Im Morgengrauen beginnt ein wirtschaftlicher D-Day, die größte finanzielle Offensive, die jemals gegen einen Gegner mobilisiert wurde. Unser Ziel ist es, jede wirtschaftliche...
US Removes Syria, Including Al-Nusra Front, From Its List Of Terrorism Sponsors
26.08.2026, 08:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Removes Syria, Including Al-Nusra Front, From Its List Of Terrorism Sponsors Following a decade-and-a-half of a Washington-led full economic siege of the Syrian state, and after a fierce CIA-backed proxy war (Timber Sycamore) to oust Assad over that same period, this week has witnessed the huge milestone of the United States finally removing Syria...
DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025
26.08.2026, 03:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DEA Seized 47 Million Fentanyl-Laced Counterfeit Pills In 2025 Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) confiscated more than 47 million fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills and almost 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder in 2025. Just two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a lethal dose. Courtesy...
Macroeconomic Data Is Really A Tool For Government Intervention
26.08.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Macroeconomic Data Is Really A Tool For Government Intervention Authored by Frank Shostak via Mises Institute, It is common for commentators and economists to refer to something called the "economy," which sometimes performs well and, at other times, poorly. The "economy" is presented as an entity apart from individuals. Within this framework, the "economy"...
Limits On Border Patrol Arrests In California Lifted By Federal Appeals Court
26.08.2026, 02:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Limits On Border Patrol Arrests In California Lifted By Federal Appeals Court Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on Aug. 24 rescinded a preliminary injunction that limited U.S. Border Patrol stops and arrests in California's Central Valley. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that a federal district...
Judge Rules For Doctor Who Prescribed Ivermectin For COVID-19
26.08.2026, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Judge Rules For Doctor Who Prescribed Ivermectin For COVID-19 Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A doctor's lawsuit against Maine's medical board can proceed, a federal judge has ruled. An order from the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine that Dr. Meryl Nass undergo a psychological evaluation for allegedly spreading misinformation about...
Amazon's New Warehouses May Process Packages 2.5 Times Faster With Far Fewer Workers
25.08.2026, 21:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Amazon's New Warehouses May Process Packages 2.5 Times Faster With Far Fewer Workers Amazon is developing a new warehouse concept aimed at automating one of the most stubbornly manual parts of online retail: preparing a chaotic mix of packages for the final trip to customers’ homes, according to Business Insider. Known internally as Project Tetromino...
Here's How AI Is Impacting America's Mental Health Crisis
25.08.2026, 20:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Here's How AI Is Impacting America's Mental Health Crisis Authored by Autumn Spredemann via The Epoch Times, When Americans are feeling down, instead of calling a mental health professional, a growing number are reaching for their keyboards. Artificial intelligence chatbots have become confidantes, sounding boards, and even substitutes for therapists...
Netanyahu Claims 'Iran Tried To Assassinate One Of My Sons'
25.08.2026, 20:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Claims 'Iran Tried To Assassinate One Of My Sons' Previously, Iranian state media aired images which appeared to threaten President Donald Trump's son Barron Trump, and following this Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be seizing the moment. Netanyahu has claimed in a phone interview with Israel's Channel 14 on Monday that...
Treasury, IRS Propose Rules On Trump Account Investments
25.08.2026, 19:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Treasury, IRS Propose Rules On Trump Account Investments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Treasury and the IRS have issued proposed regulations clarifying which investments may be made by Trump Accounts. President Donald Trump speaks during the Trump Accounts summit at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington...
Why Even a Cornered Putin Won’t Press the Red Button
25.08.2026, 16:50 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Great powers have been humbled many times without escalating to nuclear war....
Rabobank: Bessent's Buyback Looks A Lot Like "Whatever It Takes", And Druck Isn't A Fan
25.08.2026, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Rabobank: Bessent's Buyback Looks A Lot Like "Whatever It Takes", And Druck Isn't A Fan By Michael Every of Rabobank US Treasury Secretary Bessent took out a tactical nuke in saying he could use $1trn from the Treasury General Account to fund Special Military Operation Twist bond buybacks vs. the $2bn per round increase we saw last week. That looks...
Oil Falls Further As US Prepares Return Of Diplomats To Mideast Embassies
25.08.2026, 15:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Oil Falls Further As US Prepares Return Of Diplomats To Mideast Embassies There continue to be clear signals that the White House is moving away from the potential for renewed military action and instead settling in for a long economic siege campaign targeting Iran, on a permanent basis. The avoidance of more bombs away and with all the risks and uncertainty...
Futures Bounce As Brent Drops Under $90 On Renewed Iran Optimism
25.08.2026, 14:29 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Futures Bounce As Brent Drops Under $90 On Renewed Iran Optimism Global stocks rose as chipmakers rebounded, with falling bond yields adding support to risek sentiment after Brent crude slid below $90 a barrel, down more than 3% after a New York times reports that "evacuated foreign service officers could begin heading back to their posts as early...
Bessent Drops Iran Sanctions Hammer On Dozens Of Chinese Firms, Spares Big Banks As Beijing Threatens Retaliation
25.08.2026, 13:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Bessent Drops Iran Sanctions Hammer On Dozens Of Chinese Firms, Spares Big Banks As Beijing Threatens Retaliation The Trump administration's "Operation Economic Outcast" has expanded the sanctions campaign across China and Hong Kong, targeting dozens of individuals and businesses while intentionally holding off on sanctioning major Chinese banks that...
Iran Unveils Huge New Gas Discovery Amid US Economic Pressure
25.08.2026, 08:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iran Unveils Huge New Gas Discovery Amid US Economic Pressure Iran announced a huge new gas discovery in the southern province of Fars, with the oil ministry reporting estimates of 7.5 trillion cubic feet of gas, of which 73% is recoverable, or 5.7 trillion cu ft, OilPrice reported. Iran has the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves, after Russia...
Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers
25.08.2026, 08:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spain's Great Replacement: Half Of Unskilled Construction Workers Are Now Foreign Laborers Via Remix News, Spain's construction industry is undergoing rapid demographic changes. Foreign-born workers in unskilled construction roles now make up 52.6 percent of all workers, according to data from Randstad from the first quarter The data shows that foreign...
Society Collapse 2040: The Year The World Stops Working And Starts Dying
25.08.2026, 05:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Society Collapse 2040: The Year The World Stops Working And Starts Dying Authored by Milan Adams via Preppgroup, The Mathematical Warning That Refused to Fade Fifty-four years ago, a team of researchers at MIT fed population data, resource consumption curves, and pollution metrics into a mainframe computer the size of a shipping container. The machine...
Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization
25.08.2026, 04:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Central Banking: The Scourge Of Civilization Authored by George Ford Smith via Mises Institute, Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone? The money saved would be an enormous boost to its bottom line...
Massachusetts Citizenship Rule At Center Of Alleged Voter-Impersonation Case
25.08.2026, 01:16 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Massachusetts Citizenship Rule At Center Of Alleged Voter-Impersonation Case Authored by Arthur Zhang via The Epoch Times, After federal prosecutors charged a Chinese man for registering to vote and casting a ballot under his former landlord's name, experts are questioning Massachusetts' verification processes. A voter fills out his midterm-election...
Iryna Zarutska's Family Sues City Of Charlotte Over Fatal Rail Stabbing, Claims Inadequate Security
24.08.2026, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Iryna Zarutska's Family Sues City Of Charlotte Over Fatal Rail Stabbing, Claims Inadequate Security The family of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was fatally stabbed on a North Carolina light rail train last year, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Charlotte and a private security firm. A sreenshot from footage...
Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting
24.08.2026, 21:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Federal Appeals Court Rules In Favor Of James O'Keefe Over Undercover Reporting Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A U.S. appeals court has entered a judgment in favor of James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, and a Project Veritas reporter. A split panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit judges said on...
Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker In Red Sea, As Bab el-Mandeb Transit Is Up Slightly
24.08.2026, 17:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Tanker In Red Sea, As Bab el-Mandeb Transit Is Up Slightly Yemen's Houthis on Monday targeted the Saudi oil tanker Amzan in the Red Sea off Yanbu with a ballistic missile and drones, the Iran-aligned militant group announced. Soon after initial reports emerged, Saudi Arabia confirmed the attack, with Saudi shipping company Bahri...
Texas Governor Floats Prosecution Of Airports Over Muslim Foot-Washing Fountains
24.08.2026, 14:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Texas Governor Floats Prosecution Of Airports Over Muslim Foot-Washing Fountains Authored by Jeremy Lott via The Epoch Times, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, made his second push in two weeks to halt the Muslim foot washing facilities at his state's airports on Friday. "DFW [Dallas Fort Worth International Airport] stopped plans to install additional...
Interior Department Approves Colorado River Water Reductions In 3 States
24.08.2026, 12:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Interior Department Approves Colorado River Water Reductions In 3 States Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times, The Department of the Interior will cut the amount of water it allocates through the Colorado River to Arizona, Nevada, and California in 2027 and 2028. The cuts were signed off by Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Aug. 21 as...
Evergrande Founder Gets Life But Homebuyers, Suppliers Bear The Costs Of China's Property Collapse
24.08.2026, 04:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Evergrande Founder Gets Life But Homebuyers, Suppliers Bear The Costs Of China's Property Collapse Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times, The sentencing of China Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison has brought a legal reckoning for one of the country's most spectacular corporate collapses. However, for hundreds of thousands of homebuyers...
Assassination Sing-A-Long: Hasan Piker Mocks The Murdered Charlie Kirk To Cheering Crowd
24.08.2026, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Assassination Sing-A-Long: Hasan Piker Mocks The Murdered Charlie Kirk To Cheering Crowd Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley, We have seen protesters on the left around the country mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, even reenacting his murder. Hate traffickers like Jennifer Welch have even justified his assassination. It is all shocking...
The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty"
24.08.2026, 01:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The AI Boom Runs On Tungsten, But Global Supplies Are "Running On Empty" Authored by Almonty Industries CEO Lewis Black [emphasis our own], Plenty to delve into with this edition: a stockpile order nobody can fill, two factory shutdowns that should be on your radar and the awkward truth about how few tungsten projects will ever produce a single...
Elon Musk's Huge Midterm Investment Widens GOP's Money Advantage
24.08.2026, 00:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Elon Musk's Huge Midterm Investment Widens GOP's Money Advantage Republicans already have a significant financial advantage heading into the 2026 midterm elections, but Elon Musk is preparing to spend up to $200 million to give them an even bigger boost. Wired reports that officials with knowledge of Musk's plans said the range could still change, and...
Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into 'Jan 6' Investigation
23.08.2026, 22:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Accuses BBC Of Turning Defamation Case Into 'Jan 6' Investigation Authored by Tom Gantert via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump is asking a federal judge to reject the BBC's attempt to subpoena three members of his family as part of discovery in his defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster. Trump's attorneys filed a memorandum...
Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities
23.08.2026, 21:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Temporary Protected Status Ends For 13 Nationalities Authored by Troy Myers via The Epoch Times, A court on Aug. 18 effectively ended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the last of 13 nationalities that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted during President Donald Trump's second term. In total, more than a million foreign nationals living...
Azerbaijan Sues CNN Over Story On Cooperation With Israel In War On Iran
23.08.2026, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Azerbaijan Sues CNN Over Story On Cooperation With Israel In War On Iran Authored by Jonathan Turley, There is a novel (and highly dubious) lawsuit filed in Delaware by the nation of Azerbaijan against CNN for a story claiming that it was cooperating with Israel in attacks on Iran. Republic of Azerbaijan v. CNN, Inc. borders on the legally frivolous...
The Great Burrito Debate And The Uncomfortable Solution To Inflation
23.08.2026, 16:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Great Burrito Debate And The Uncomfortable Solution To Inflation Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Recently one of the most important debates in the history of conservative discourse raged across the internet, with sides deeply divided and solutions rare or nonexistent. This debate went largely unnoticed by the rest of the country but...
Alfalfa Sprouts Linked To Bacterial Infections In 15 US States
23.08.2026, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Alfalfa Sprouts Linked To Bacterial Infections In 15 US States Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, A total of 55 people have been infected with E. coli and Salmonella across 15 states in an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Fresh homegrown Alfalfa or Lucerne Medicago sativa sprouts in...
Taiwan Tech Insiders Warn Beijing's Germanium Squeeze Is Hitting Production
23.08.2026, 14:53 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Taiwan Tech Insiders Warn Beijing's Germanium Squeeze Is Hitting Production Nikkei Asia reports that China is restricting or delaying exports of germanium- and quartz-based materials to Taiwan, creating "painful supply-chain bottlenecks" across the island's key aerospace, semiconductor, and optical companies. The supply disruptions reinforce the urgent...
Spain's Pools Hit By Disgusting 'Brown Challenge' TikTok Filth
23.08.2026, 13:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Spain's Pools Hit By Disgusting 'Brown Challenge' TikTok Filth Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity News, Spain's peak summer season has been disrupted once again by a revolting viral trend that has forced the closure of swimming pools and waterparks across the country, leaving families stranded and facilities scrubbed clean at public expense. At...
Escobar: How Trump Tried To Bribe The Head Of The IRGC
23.08.2026, 05:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Escobar: How Trump Tried To Bribe The Head Of The IRGC Authored by Pepe Escobar, Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy. And bribes. Mike Pompeo, former aspiring Tony Soprano, admitted: “We lie, we cheat, we steal.” And we bribe. A Transition Protocol source, as we revealed live, is unequivocal: The President of the United States – despite having...
Inside America's Drone Arms Race: What Industry Experts See Ahead Of Procurement Supercycle
23.08.2026, 03:36 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Inside America's Drone Arms Race: What Industry Experts See Ahead Of Procurement Supercycle Our coverage of America's Group 1 to Group 3 drone industry has centered on Unusual Machines and Ondas, two companies positioned to reap the benefits from what could become a historic procurement cycle next year. The catalyst is the Department of War's Defense...
Family Structure Determines Kids' Success In School More Than Race Or Income, Researchers Say
23.08.2026, 03:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Family Structure Determines Kids' Success In School More Than Race Or Income, Researchers Say Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times, While universities debate whether to skip standardized admissions tests and the University of Michigan waives first-term grades for some incoming students, new research suggests that relaxing standards might not...
For Decades, The United States Ignored Latin America. All That Changed Under Trump.
23.08.2026, 01:52 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - For Decades, The United States Ignored Latin America. All That Changed Under Trump. Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times, In a pre-dawn raid in January, Delta Force soldiers burst in on a sleeping Nicolás Maduro, capturing the Venezuelan leader wanted on U.S. narco-terrorism charges. Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images...
IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments
23.08.2026, 00:42 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - IRS Announces 7 Percent Interest Rate For Overpayments And Underpayments Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Internal Revenue Service has announced interest rates for tax underpayments and overpayments for the fourth quarter of 2026, keeping them at 7 percent for individual taxpayers. The Internal Revenue Service in Washington on...
Fauci's Lawyers Set Up Legal Defense Fund
22.08.2026, 23:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Fauci's Lawyers Set Up Legal Defense Fund Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s lawyers have created a fund for people to donate for his legal expenses. The fund “has been established to help pay the costs of the ongoing legal representation of Dr. Fauci,” according to its website. Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director...
"Stop Gaslighting Me!": Florida Socialist Who Beat Vindman Gets In Shouting Match With Democrat Party Chair
22.08.2026, 18:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "Stop Gaslighting Me!": Florida Socialist Who Beat Vindman Gets In Shouting Match With Democrat Party Chair As regular readers know, establishment Democrats have been freaking out over the rise of socialist candidates - whose policy positions are virtually identical, except the socialists are getting elected saying the quiet part out loud - giving...
Court Reduces $50 Million Judgment Against Alex Jones Over False Sandy Hook Hoax Claim
22.08.2026, 17:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Court Reduces $50 Million Judgment Against Alex Jones Over False Sandy Hook Hoax Claim Authored via Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A Texas appeals court on Aug. 21 drastically reduced a judgment owed by Infowars host Alex Jones, shrinking the amount from $50 million to around $6 million, over his commentary falsely calling the 2012 Sandy Hook school...
Normal Interest Rates: What The Debt Panic Gets Wrong
22.08.2026, 16:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Normal Interest Rates: What The Debt Panic Gets Wrong Authored by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, A 5% long bond isn’t the crisis, it’s the receipt, and the fifteen years when money was free did far more damage to growth than normal interest rates ever will. This past week, two charts crossed my desk, arguing the same thing from opposite...
Diesel Crack Spread Madness Deepens As Jefferies Finds No Easy Exit From Russia's Refining Crisis
22.08.2026, 15:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Diesel Crack Spread Madness Deepens As Jefferies Finds No Easy Exit From Russia's Refining Crisis Refined-product markets have emerged as the epicenter of the global energy crisis, with commodity desks across Wall Street, including Goldman, Citi, Bank of America and Jefferies, warning that disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and Ukraine's ongoing long-range...
A Call To Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box As Path To Paradise
22.08.2026, 14:11 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - A Call To Power: Islamic Leaders See Ballot Box As Path To Paradise Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations, The call to prayer is sounding across America. From Hamtramck, Michigan, to Paterson, New Jersey, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, rooftop amplifiers remind growing numbers of Muslim faithful five times a day of their duties with the Arabic...
Russia Says Ready For 'New Ideas' From US On Ending Ukraine War
22.08.2026, 04:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Says Ready For 'New Ideas' From US On Ending Ukraine War The Kremlin has newly said it is ready for dialogue with Washington and open to ideas for ending the conflict in Ukraine, but still says it will not compromise on Russia's core aims. A senior Russian diplomat has stressed that any future talks must align with President Vladimir Putin's...
The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce
22.08.2026, 03:47 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling The Family's Will To Reproduce Authored by Felix Yang via the Mises Institute, The total fertility rate needed to sustain a population is 2.1. Averaged over 2020-2024, South Korea's stands at 0.78, Taiwan's at 0.89, and Hong Kong's at 0.79. Mainstream demography still treats these as cultural anomalies...
Wealth Exodus: Australians Flock To Property Investment Over Business
22.08.2026, 02:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Wealth Exodus: Australians Flock To Property Investment Over Business Authored by Rex Widerstrom via The Epoch Times, Fewer Australians are putting their capital into businesses, with the drop most acute among the wealthy, new data from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows. Instead, more wealth is flowing into property. A...