POLITICS

KROGER, ALBERTSONS AGREE TO PAUSE MERGER AS FTC, STATE CHALLENGES PROCEED
BY: DAVE MICHAELS & PATRICK THOMAS ... Deal between the two grocery-store operators has faced regulatory scrutiny since it was announced in October 2022 … continue reading

MASSIVE CALIFORNIA RESIDENTIAL TOWER TO OFFER HOMELESS PRIVATE ROOMS, GYM, CAFE AND MORE AMENITIES
BY: NIKOLAS LANUM ... A massive residential tower in California will provide homeless people with a swanky new living space and luxury amenities, including a café, gym and TV lounge … continue reading

BUSINESSMAN-BACKED AI CANDIDATE STEVE RUNS FOR UK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
BY: SUJITA SINHA ... Steve Endacott, an entrepreneur hailing from southern England, has introduced AI Steve—a groundbreaking artificial intelligence set to contest … continue reading

CHINA'S AGEING POPULATION: A DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS IS UNFOLDING FOR XI
BY: LAURA BICKER ... Ask 72-year-old farmer Huanchun Cao about his pension and he reacts with a throaty cackle … continue reading

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN PHILIPPINES'S NORTH 'READY TO FIGHT'
BY: NICK ASPINWALL ... The remote island of Itbayat is in the eye of any conflict with China and its residents are preparing themselves … continue reading

80 PERCENT OF GLOBAL CO2 EMISSIONS COME FROM JUST 57 COMPANIES
BY: CHRISTIAN THORSBERG ... Many of these companies increased their fossil fuel production after the Paris Agreement was signed in 2016 … continue reading

IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE?
BY: TED SNIDER ... The Western media is suddenly teeming with signs of fatigue and even .... diplomacy? … continue reading

TIKTOK WILL NOT BE SOLD, CHINESE PARENT TELLS US
BY: JOÃO DA SILVA ... TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance says it has no intention of selling the business after the US passed a law to force it to sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in America … continue reading

DO YOU HAVE A HEART FOR ISRAEL?
BY: AMIR TSARFATI ... We need to have a heart for this nation [Israel]. We need a longing for them to find salvation, to find their peace between themselves and God, and to not have to go through the tribulation … continue reading

MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS COLLAPSING - GOOD RIDDANCE
BY: MICHAEL SYNDER ... Should any of us be surprised that the news industry is being hit by a massive wave of layoffs? Survey after survey has shown that the American people have lost faith … continue reading

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO CLAIM THE US IS A CHRISTIAN NATION & WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION SAY?
BY: PETER SMITH ... Many Americans believe the United States was founded as a Christian nation, and the idea is energizing … continue reading

FOREST CITY: INSIDE MALAYSIA'S CHINESE-BUILT 'GHOST CITY'
BY: NICK MARSH ... "I managed to escape this place," Nazmi Hanafiah laughs, slightly nervously. A year ago, the 30-year-old IT engineer moved to Forest City, a sprawling Chinese-built housing complex in Johor, on the tip of southern Malaysia. He rented a one-bedroom flat in a tower block overlooking the sea … continue reading

HOW MUCH AID HAS THE U.S. SENT UKRAINE? HERE ARE SIX CHARTS
BY:JONATHAN MASTERS & WILL MERROW ... Every year, the United States sends billions of dollars in aid — and much more than any other country — to beneficiaries around the world in pursuit of its security, economic, and humanitarian … continue reading

ARGENTINA: JAVIER MILEI SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER WEAKENING OR ENDING 350 SOCIALIST POLICIES
BY: FRANCES MARTEL ... rgentine President Javier Milei announced during a national broadcast on Wednesday night the signing of a Necessity and Urgency Decree (DNU), a form of executive order … continue reading

OPEN BORDERS SETTING UP AMERICA'S OWN SURPRISE ATTACK?
BY: MICHAEL SNYDER ... The U.S. Border Patrol has encountered 72,823 "special interest aliens" on America's borders over the past two years--many from the Middle East--according to an exclusive … continue reading

FORMER UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR VIKTOR SHOKIN RESPONDS TO BIDEN’S CORRUPTION ACCUSATIONS & REVEALS SHOCKING DETAILS ABOUT HIS DISMISSAL & BURISMA INVESTIGATION
BY: JIM HOFT ... An old video of Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor who was removed from office under pressure from then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, is making the rounds online again … continue reading

LET THEM EAT BUGS: CHALLENGING THE WEF’S CORPORATE-DRIVEN FOOD RESET
BY: COLIN TODHUNTER ... The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession … continue reading

CHICK-FIL-A HAS BEEN WOKE FOR YEARS. YOU JUST DIDN’T WANT TO BELIEVE IT
BY: SUZANNE BOWDEY ... When the rest of the world lost its corporate marbles, conservatives liked to think that there was one place that would never let them down … continue reading

CHINA IS THE NEW HOTSPOT FOR US CEOS
BY: ASSANDRA CASSIDY ... US execs are making their way to China to shore up business relations amid rising geopolitical tensions … continue reading

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HAPPENING TO CALIFORNIA?
BY: MICHAEL SYNDER ... It has often been said that “as California goes, so goes the nation” … continue reading

ONE CHART EXPOSES JOE BIDEN’S ‘PUTIN PRICE HIKE’ LIE
BY: JOHN NOLTE ... One simple, little chart proves His Fraudulency Joe Biden is lying when he blames inflation … continue reading

WHAT IS SOCIALISM?
BY: LESLIE GORNSTEIN ... What is socialism? And what do socialists really want in 2021? Now going into 2022! … continue reading

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL: APPLE SIGNED $275 BILLION CONTRACT WITH CHINA TO AVOID CRACKDOWN
BY: LUCAS NOLAN ... Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly signed a $275 billion deal with China in 2016 in order to prevent a crackdown by the communist … continue reading

MEDIA GASLIGHTS AMERICANS ON 'TRANSITORY INFLATION'
BY: HANNAH GROSSMAN ... Mike Rowe said, 'We're in a world where people are doing things that we can see, but we're being told that that's not happening' … continue reading

CHINA SAYS TAIWAN ‘HAS NO RIGHT’ TO JOIN UN, AFTER US NOD
BY: AL JAZEERA NEWS STAFF ... US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had previously called for Taiwan’s ‘meaningful participation’ at the organisation … continue reading

'I WANTED IT ALL OUT, DOWN TO THE NAILS, SCREWS, BOLTS': TRUMP TELLS GLENN BECK HE REJECTED GEN. MILLEY'S PLAN TO LEAVE MILITARY EQUIPMENT IN AFGHANISTAN
BY: BLAZE TV STAFF ... I wanted it all out, down to the nails, screws, bolts': Trump tells Glenn Beck he REJECTED Gen. Milley's plan to leave military equipment in Afghanistan … continue reading

MAJOR U.S. CITIES RACE TO “RE-FUND THE POLICE” AS UTTER LAWLESSNESS REIGNS FROM COAST TO COAST
BY: MICHAEL SNYDER ... The great liberal experiment of “defunding the police” turned out to be a completely and utter disaster. In major cities all over the United States, hundreds of millions of dollars of funding were stripped away from police departments … continue reading

‘INFORM THE WORLD HOW EVIL THIS REGIME IS’: SCHOLAR DETAINED FOR THREE YEARS IN TEHRAN RECOUNTS LESSONS FROM CAPTIVITY
BY: ALGEMEINER STAFF ... An American doctoral student who spent over three years held in an Iranian prison joined Algemeiner members for a conversation on Wednesday, where he shared details of his captivity and discussed what he saw as a “moral responsibility” to tell the world about the regime in Tehran … continue reading

ETHNIC PROFILING OF TIGRAYANS HEIGHTENS TENSIONS IN ETHIOPIA
BY: EMMANUEL FREUDENTHAL ... The fighting between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) wasn’t a surprise to Tigrayans living in Addis Ababa: They had seen it coming for years. What they didn’t expect was to be living in fear so far away from the front lines … continue reading

THE BIBLICAL BOOK OF ESTHER PLAYING OUT AGAIN TODAY
BY: ERIC GEORGATOS ... Four years of unconscionable, duplicitous, manipulative, manufactured attempts by the ruling class to get rid of the unacceptable outsider … continue reading

THE NEW MEDIA HAS BECOME LIKE THE OLD MEDIA—AND THAT MEANS THE USUAL BIAS
BY: RYAN MCMAKEN ... A Pew Research Center survey conducted in June finds that roughly three-quarters of U.S. adults say it is very (37%) or somewhat (36%) likely that social media sites intentionally censor political viewpoints that they find objectionable. Just 25% believe this is not likely the case … continue reading

DEMOCRATS HAVE FAILED URBAN BLACK AMERICANS
BY: OSITA NWANEVU ... The Republican critique of misrule in American cities has some merit, and it’s not clear that Joe Biden’s party is prepared to meet the need. On the first night of the Republican National Convention on Monday, viewers were treated to a taped speech by Kimberly Klacik, a young … continue reading

THE REAL PANDEMIC GAP IS BETWEEN THE COMFORTABLE AND THE AFFLICTED
BY: LIBBY WATSON ... Beneath society’s plutocratic layer, America is not as united in the face of crisis as we like to pretend. The stories from the front lines of this country’s abandonment of the poor in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic are not in short supply … continue reading

9 WAYS THAT SOCIALISM WILL MORALLY BANKRUPT AMERICA
BY: THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ... 1 Socialism is being marketed to young people as kind, selfless, and community-focused, 2. Many people are unaware of Socialism’s dismal record, and 3. Young people are not being taught America’s founding principles, so they are unprepared to combat the narratives they hear in their schools and colleges … continue reading

THE RUSH TO PATENT, CONTROL, PROFIT FROM THE CORONAVIRUS DATES BACK TO 1999, IMPLICATES THE CDC, DR. FAUCI
BY: LANCE D JOHNSON ... The rush to patent, control and profit from coronaviruses dates back to 1999 and implicates the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and virus researchers such as Ralph Barrick and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leader of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) who helped drive the U.S. into a spin cycle of shutdowns, behavioral controls, and restricted liberties that all lead to one controlling end: mandatory, experimental vaccinations for every person by 2021 … continue reading

EMIRATIS WELCOME ISRAELIS TO THE UAE IN HEBREW
BY: LAUREN MARCUS ... Emirati Khalifa Al-Makhmoud speaks in a Hebrew language video aimed at Israelis. Young Emiratis speaking in Hebrew welcome Israelis to visit the UAE in a Hebrew language video … continue reading

POLITICAL TROLLS ADAPT, CREATE MATERIAL TO DECEIVE & CCONFUSE THE PUBLIC
BY: GIANLUCA STRINGHINI & SAVVAS ZANNETTOU ... Trolls get creative when looking to deceive. Russian-sponsored Twitter trolls, who so aggressively exploited social media to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, didn’t stop when Donald Trump was elected president. Even after the election, they remained … continue reading

LEBANON WAS TORN APART BY A CIVIL WAR AND THE U.S. IS GOING DOWN A SIMILAR PATH
BY: VIGILANT CITIZEN ... In 1975, Lebanon descended into a violent civil war that destroyed this once vibrant and prosperous country. Here’s how the U.S. is following in its footsteps. 45 years ago, a horrific civil war broke out in Lebanon. My parents, like millions of other Lebanese people, fled the country … continue reading

THE ABCS OF TRADE: IF IT CAN’T BE MADE IN AMERICA, IT SHOULD BE MADE ANYWHERE BUT CHINA
BY: ZACH MOTTL ... Tariffs are depriving Beijing of money it needs to expand brutal regime. The annual 2019 trade figures for the United States came out last week, heralding some encouraging news. America’s enormous international trade deficit actually declined slightly from 2018. This was the first decrease … continue reading

DEBUNKING FALSE STORIES - MARTIAL LAW ISN’T ‘IMMINENT’
BY: SARANAC HALE SPENCER ... Viral social media posts and videos have falsely claimed that “martial law [is] imminent” in the U.S. Those bogus reports are being pushed in some cases by those who sell emergency and survivalist products … continue reading

MORE THAN 8-IN-10 AMERICANS CALL MASS MIGRATION A ‘THREAT’ TO U.S.
BY: JOHN BINDER ... More than eight-in-ten American adults call mass migration at least a “threat” to the United States, a survey finds. The latest Pew Research Center survey reveals that the overwhelming majority of Americans see the mass migration of people from one country to another as a threat in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis … continue reading

HOW BIASED YOUR FAVORITE NEWS SOURCE IS
BY: KEVIN DICKINSON ... The New York Times was a failing newspaper before changing its business model to muckraking on Trump. Fox News had to drop its "Fair and Balanced" motto because that's false advertising. CNN should be renamed the "Know-Nothing Network." Info Wars' listeners are freakin' certifiable … continue reading

AMERICA IS ONE ELECTION FROM SOCIALISM!
BY: DON BOYS ... Americans were jubilant during the 1920s as the stock economy expanded quickly, more than doubling between 1920 and 1929. It seemed the stock market could not go down. Greedy, speculative Americans even borrowed money to purchase stocks. Everything was positive and people lost their perspective throwing concern … continue reading