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Sen. Cruz Urges DOJ, FBI To Investigate Whether Foreign Adversaries Are Behind Gaza War Protests In US
18.05.2024, 05:41 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Sen. Cruz Urges DOJ, FBI To Investigate Whether Foreign Adversaries Are Behind Gaza War Protests In US Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has called for U.S. federal authorities to investigate whether foreign actors are promoting contentions within the United States, including recent protests over the war in Gaza taking...
Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For 1st Time, Pentagon Mulling
17.05.2024, 16:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Ukraine Formally Asks NATO To Send Troops For 1st Time, Pentagon Mulling The continued inevitable and disastrous slide into a WW3 nuclear-armed confrontation between Russian and the West continues as The New York Times reports NATO appears to actually be seriously mulling sending troops to Ukraine to serve in the role as 'trainers' at a moment Kiev...
US Wars Are Making Türkiye's Relationship With The West Politically Untenable
17.05.2024, 08:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Wars Are Making Türkiye's Relationship With The West Politically Untenable Authored by Conor Gallagher via NakedCapitalism.com, Turkish public opinion of the West dropped due to the Iraq War and has not recovered. There have been almost constant issues since, with both sides fanning the flames – the US with its arrogance and Turkish President...
America's Nuclear Zeitenwende
17.05.2024, 00:56 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - America's Nuclear Zeitenwende Authored by Charles Bell via RealClear Wire, Overshadowed by Hamas’s attack on Israel, the release of the congressionally mandated Strategic Posture Commission (SPC) report heralded the arrival of an American nuclear Zeitenwende – a sea change setting us on a new course. By issuing consensus recommendations for significant...
Netanyahu Says Rafah Op To Take 'Weeks, Not Months' As EU Warns Of Damaged Ties
15.05.2024, 17:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Netanyahu Says Rafah Op To Take 'Weeks, Not Months' As EU Warns Of Damaged Ties On Wednesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the controversial Rafah offensive, which has been criticized by a number of Western allies including Washington, is expected to "last weeks" and not not months or years. The Israeli leader appears to be...
Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister Robert Fico Has Been Shot
15.05.2024, 15:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Slovakia’s Populist Prime Minister Robert Fico Has Been Shot Slovakia’s populist prime minister Robert Fico has been shot, according to breaking news reports, after which he was rushed to the hospital and appears to be alive according ot early reports. According to emerging details in The Associated Press, Fico "was injured in a shooting and taken...
NATO's Newest Member Open To Hosting Nuclear Weapons
15.05.2024, 09:30 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - NATO's Newest Member Open To Hosting Nuclear Weapons Via The Libertarian Institute The Swedish Prime Minister has said his country would be willing to host nuclear weapons during a war. The North Atlantic Alliance has a nuclear sharing program that has US nuclear weapons deployed in five countries. The Polish leader recently said he hopes Warsaw can...
Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons
14.05.2024, 23:21 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Plotting 'Physical Attacks' On West, UK Intelligence Warns, Amid Spate Of Mystery Arsons A top British intelligence official has issued a new alarmist warning concerning the 'Russian threat' to the West. Anne Keast-Butler, who for the last year has headed up the UK's GCHQ, or signals intelligence operations (which is the equivalent of America's...
WTI Rebounds Off Tw0Month Lows After API Reports Crude Draw
14.05.2024, 22:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Rebounds Off Tw0Month Lows After API Reports Crude Draw Oil prices decline today as the last few day's rollercoaster continued after a hotter than expected PPI print, leaving WTI near nine-week lows. Crude has been on a downward path since April, with the geopolitical risk premium from tensions in the Middle East largely evaporating. Refinery run...
Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs
14.05.2024, 18:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Administration Quadruples Tariffs On Chinese EVs Authored by Terri Wu via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration announced on Tuesday that it will impose a 100 percent tariff—quadrupling the current 25 percent—on electric vehicles imported from China in 2024. In addition to EVs, the White House has significantly increased tariffs on Chinese...
US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation'
14.05.2024, 08:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Says Putin's Dramatic Cabinet Reshuffle Smacks Of 'Desperation' The Biden administration has reacted to Russian President Vladimir Putin's significant cabinet shake-up announced Sunday, wherein Putin tapped Andrey Belousov, a former deputy prime minister who specializes in economics, to move into the position of defense minister. Sergei Shoigu...
Leftists Triggered By Trump Policy To Potentially Execute Child Sex-Traffickers
14.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Leftists Triggered By Trump Policy To Potentially Execute Child Sex-Traffickers Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Leftist outlet The Huffington Post is upset that Donald Trump has suggested that the death penalty should be extended to drug kingpins and child sex traffickers. In an article headlined “There’s A GOP Plan For An Execution...
Turkey Treating Over 1,000 Wounded Hamas Members In Hospitals: Erdogan
13.05.2024, 21:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Turkey Treating Over 1,000 Wounded Hamas Members In Hospitals: Erdogan The NATO country with the second largest military in the alliance has just admitted to aiding and abetting a US-designated terror organization. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in surprisingly frank statements acknowledged that Turkey is currently treating over 1,000 Hamas...
'Unusually Aggressive' Anti-Trump Grand Jury In Arizona Went Rogue With Indictments
13.05.2024, 11:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - 'Unusually Aggressive' Anti-Trump Grand Jury In Arizona Went Rogue With Indictments The Arizona grand jury that recently indicted 18 people for allegedly trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the results of the 2020 election with so-called 'fake electors' went completely rogue and took 'aggressive steps to haul in witnesses,' to the...
Baltic NATO Country Says It's Ready To Send Troops To Ukraine
12.05.2024, 16:51 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Baltic NATO Country Says It's Ready To Send Troops To Ukraine A Baltic NATO country has belatedly jumped on board and backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea of putting Western boots on the ground in Ukraine. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė said in an interview with the Financial Times this week that her country is prepared to...
First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter?
11.05.2024, 21:12 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - First F-16s To Arrive In Ukraine 'Within Weeks' From West, But Will It Matter? A high-ranking UK military source has told London's daily Evening Standard newspaper that F-16 fighters will be delivered by the Western allies to Ukraine "within weeks". The official indicated that the aircraft are due to arrive by June, or at least July at the latest...
Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation
11.05.2024, 03:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is The End Near? Victor Davis Hanson Ponders Threat Of Annihilation Authored by Rob Bluey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Victor Davis Hanson tackles a topic related to military history in his new book, “The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation.” (Courtesy of The Heritage Foundation) Victor Davis Hanson is well known for his...
Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
10.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Is China's Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? By Simon Watkins of OilPrice.com Since the mid-1990s, China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities prices it required to power such growth, including oil and gas. In 2013, it became the world’s largest net importer of total petroleum and other...
Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report
09.05.2024, 20:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Trump Mulls Deploying Special Forces To Assassinate Mexican Drug Lords: Report Conservative think tank Center for Renewing America floated the idea a year and a half ago that "It's time to wage war on transnational drug cartels." This comes as the drug death catastrophe in the US eclipses the entire Vietnam War every six months. The vast...
Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption"
09.05.2024, 18:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Handling Of Israel War Has "Tremendously Increased The Risk Of A Fresh Eruption" By Michael Every of Rabobank Yesterday saw the Riksbank in Sweden cut rates by 25bp to 3.75% for the first time since 2016 (as Brazil cut 25bp to 10.50% as expected, yet the BoJ opened the door to another tiny June hike). Rate cuts, and a month before the ECB is...
Biden Accused Of Helping Hamas As Israelis Fume Over Threat To Halt Weapons
09.05.2024, 17:04 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Accused Of Helping Hamas As Israelis Fume Over Threat To Halt Weapons Israeli leaders are furious after the evening prior CNN published an interview with President Biden wherein he laid out that the US will withhold all offensive weapons from Israel if it moves forward with a full-scale invasion of Rafah. In a message to both Israel's "enemies...
Biden’s Escalation Fears Have Dangerous Consequences
09.05.2024, 12:02 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Pressuring allies not to retaliate against attacks raises the risk of spiraling conflicts....
Putin Doesn't Bluff
09.05.2024, 01:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Putin Doesn't Bluff Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Two weeks ago, the Congress passed (and President Biden signed) four key pieces of legislation related to national security. Three of the bills provided assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. They received the most attention. The one that got the least attention was a mixed bag...
Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis
09.05.2024, 01:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republicans Ready Sanctions On World Court If It Issues Arrest Warrants For Israelis Via The Cradle Republican members of the US House of Representatives are preparing a sanctions package targeting International Criminal Court (ICC) officials as a "precaution" against potential arrest warrants of Israeli officials for war crimes committed in Gaza, according...
Brazen Election Interference: Illinois Democrats Retroactively Change Law To Knock Out Republican Challengers
08.05.2024, 15:31 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Brazen Election Interference: Illinois Democrats Retroactively Change Law To Knock Out Republican Challengers By Mark Glennon of Wirepoints As an alternative to a primary election, Illinois law allowed for a party to get its candidates on the ballot for General Assembly spots by party slating procedure, along with collection of a requisite number of...
Get Ready for Trump Trade Wars 2.0
07.05.2024, 23:28 Uhr. Foreign Policy - https: - Past is prologue, to the chagrin of experts, economists, and allies....
Israeli Ground Forces Enter Rafah, Tank Unit Shuts Down Vital Border Crossing
07.05.2024, 16:48 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Israeli Ground Forces Enter Rafah, Tank Unit Shuts Down Vital Border Crossing Overnight it's been confirmed that Israeli ground forces have begun moving into Rafah, with IDF tanks having seized Gaza's vital Rafah border crossing in the last hours. The IDF plans to monitor all aid going into the Gaza Strip, but international aid organizations warn this...
Journalism's Latest Draft Recasts Ukraine Narrative
07.05.2024, 11:01 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Journalism's Latest Draft Recasts Ukraine Narrative Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics, Journalism may indeed be the first draft of history but that old chestnut can be misleading. Where it suggests a set-in-stone version of events, that first draft is really an unfolding detective story, revised and rewritten as we dig out better answers...
DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story
07.05.2024, 00:20 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - DHS Shuts Down Expert Group That Denied Hunter Biden Laptop Story Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, The Biden administration has agreed to shut down a national security experts’ group as part of settling a lawsuit accusing the group of being politically biased in favor of Democrats. On Sept. 19, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security...
Russia Warns It Can Hit UK's Military "Beyond" Ukraine Amid Nuclear Saber-Rattling
06.05.2024, 18:50 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russia Warns It Can Hit UK's Military "Beyond" Ukraine Amid Nuclear Saber-Rattling We reported earlier Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his armed forces to conduct tactical nuclear weapons drills in order for the country to be fully 'ready' to deter threats against it. A specific date for these nuclear drills has yet to be publicized...
Saudi Arabia's Price Hike May Signal Oil Bottom
06.05.2024, 17:25 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Saudi Arabia's Price Hike May Signal Oil Bottom One of the recent positives for bonds and non-energy stocks could have run its course after Saudi Arabia raised the price of its flagship crude to Asia for a third consecutive month, according to Bloomberg markets live reporter Garfield Reynolds Over the weekend, state-owned Saudi Aramco raised the...
OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June
06.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - OPEC+ Likely To Extend Production Cuts In June By John Kemp, senior energy analyst at Reuters Saudi Arabia and its allies in OPEC⁺ are likely to keep oil production unchanged for a further three months when ministers review output allocations on June 1. The tightening of petroleum supplies and depletion of inventories widely anticipated at the start...
US Pushing G-7 To Accept Long-Term $50 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine
05.05.2024, 17:05 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US Pushing G-7 To Accept Long-Term $50 Billion Aid Package For Ukraine As part of the latest in the Western allies' (some of them at least) controversial push to confiscate Russian sovereign assets and give them to Ukraine, the Biden administration is leading talks among G7 nations to commit to a new military aid package for Kiev worth up to $50 billion...
Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO
04.05.2024, 14:46 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Zelensky Tells Commanders Ukraine Must Defeat Russia To Join NATO Ukraine's President Zelensky has reportedly told his top military commanders that Ukraine must win against Russia if it hopes to one day be admitted into NATO. Russian state media has captured and translated key lines of the speech. "I believe that we will be in NATO only if we win. I...
Russian Troops Enter Air Base Hosting US Soldiers In Post-Coup Niger
03.05.2024, 21:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Russian Troops Enter Air Base Hosting US Soldiers In Post-Coup Niger US diplomats and the Pentagon have been in retreat from the West African nation of Niger, while also scrambling to maintain some influence there, following the junta seizing power in a coup in July 2023. Niger's military toppled the US-friendly government of President Mohamed Bazoum...
Republicans Move To Prevent Biden Resettling Palestinian Refugees In The US
03.05.2024, 18:17 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Republicans Move To Prevent Biden Resettling Palestinian Refugees In The US Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Modernity.news Republican lawmakers are moving to prevent the Biden administration resettling Palestinian refugees in the United States, asserting that it represents a “national security threat” since large numbers of them support Hamas...
"This Conversation Didn't Happen": Matt Gaetz Demands Investigation After CIA Program Manager Gets Loose Lips About Trump
02.05.2024, 19:55 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - "This Conversation Didn't Happen": Matt Gaetz Demands Investigation After CIA Program Manager Gets Loose Lips About Trump Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has called for an investigation into claims made by a CIA "senior intelligence officer with a top-secret" during an undercover encounter with a journalist working for James O'Keefe of O'Keefe Media Group...
Biden Calls US Allies Japan & India 'Xenophobic': "They Don't Want Immigrants"
02.05.2024, 19:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Calls US Allies Japan & India 'Xenophobic': "They Don't Want Immigrants" President Biden chose a strange moment to lash out at allies and humiliate them, given his administration is busy trying to build international consensus against Russia as it continues the war in Ukraine, and on sensitive flashpoint issues like the Israel-Hamas conflict....
Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran?
02.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Will The West Get Ever Serious About Sanctions On Iran? Author3ed by Con Coughlin via the Gatestone Institute, (Image source: iStock/Getty Images) If attempts by Western leaders to impose further sanctions against Iran in retaliation for its direct attack against Israel are to have any validity, they will need to be a great deal more effective than...
Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy
01.05.2024, 23:45 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden's Dollar Weaponization - Growing Backlash Could Kill The Economy Authored by Peter Reagan for Birch Gold Group, President Biden’s decision to participate in the Ukraine-Russia conflict back in February 2022 has taken a new and dangerous turn this year. The U.S. dollar could suffer dramatically as a result. Before we explore that new development...
WTI Extends Losses After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build
01.05.2024, 16:37 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - WTI Extends Losses After Bigger Than Expected Crude Build Oil prices extended losses overnight (3rd day lower in a row) following API's report showing an unexpected crude build. Rising stocks would add to bearish headwinds for prices driven by hopes that peace (or some such variant of it) may break out in the Middle East. “The potential for a cease-fire...
The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector
01.05.2024, 11:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Four Key Reasons Why The US Will Never Stop Targeting Russia's LNG Sector Authored by Simon Watkins via OilPrice.com, LNG has become the most important swing energy source in an increasingly insecure world. Energy exports remain the foundation stone of Russia’s essentially petro-economy. Russia's LNG industry is closely associated in Russia with...
Pentagon Chief Engaged In Pressuring EU Countries To Give Up Their Patriot Systems
01.05.2024, 10:15 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Pentagon Chief Engaged In Pressuring EU Countries To Give Up Their Patriot Systems America's top defense official is engaged in efforts to pressure European countries to give up their own US-made anti-air defenses for Ukraine. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday he's been actively encouraging countries to donate their Patriot missile systems...
US, Philippines Working On Intel Sharing Deal Amid Clashes With Chinese Vessels
01.05.2024, 06:02 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - US, Philippines Working On Intel Sharing Deal Amid Clashes With Chinese Vessels Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The US and the Philippines are working on a new intelligence-sharing deal as tensions are soaring between Manila and Beijing in the South China Sea. The Defense Post reported that US and Philippine officials discussed the potential...
Senate Passes Ban Of Russian Uranium Imports, Risking "Havoc" And Soaring Prices In Uranium Markets
01.05.2024, 05:40 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Senate Passes Ban Of Russian Uranium Imports, Risking "Havoc" And Soaring Prices In Uranium Markets With shares of CCJ tumbling earlier today after the company reported soggy Q1 earnings, despite its recent initiating coverage report by an enthusiastic Goldman Sachs which sees the Uranium company at the forefront of the "Next AI trade" and slapped it...
China Threatens To Retaliate Against US Over Taiwan Aid And TikTok Ban
30.04.2024, 20:10 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - China Threatens To Retaliate Against US Over Taiwan Aid And TikTok Ban Authored by Eric Lundrum via American Greatness, On Monday, the Chinese government threatened to retaliate against the United States after a $95 billion foreign aid package was signed into law, which included aid for Taiwan and a provision to ban the Chinese social media app TikTok...
Falling From Grace
30.04.2024, 03:03 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Falling From Grace Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those...
Biden Looks To Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War With 10-Year Agreement
29.04.2024, 16:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - Biden Looks To Prevent Future President From Ending Ukraine War With 10-Year Agreement Soon on the heels of President Biden last week signing into law a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine's defense, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday indicated that he's working with Washington on a bilateral security agreement which would last ten years. "We...
The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term
28.04.2024, 20:00 Uhr. ZeroHedge News - https: - The Gloves Will Come Off In A Second Biden Term Authored by David Keltz via American Greatness, If you believe, correctly, that the entirety of Joe Biden’s presidency has been one unmitigated disaster after another - not only for the American citizenry, but for the United States’ standing on the world stage and for our allies around the globe who...