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Authored by Hekmat Aboukhater via The Mises Institute, As the Washington drawbridge lowers for a second Trump administration, the world attempts to glean any insights that might indicate the direction of his second term. At the top of the list of concerns is the topic of sanctions. As of 2024, the US is actively sanctioning […]
Vice President J.D. Vance cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate on Friday night to confirm Pete Hegseth as President Trump’s Secretary of Defense. This marks only the second time in U.S. history that a vice president’s vote was required to confirm a Cabinet official. VP Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote to confirm Hegseth late Friday […]
Authored by Mehab Qureshi via CoinTelegraph.com, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who had been serving a double life sentence without parole, publicly thanked US President Donald Trump after receiving a full pardon. This marked the first time Ulbricht had spoken publicly since being released from a maximum-security prison in Arizona, where he was held for more than […]
The OECD’s latest Education at a Glance report has found that England has the highest university tuition fees in the world on the bachelor level. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz details below, the average tuition cost for nationals for a year at an English university even surpassed that of the United States by as much as 37 percent when adjusting […]
Authored by Liz Heflin via Remix News, Facing losses, huge debts, and layoffs, Gazprom is now turning to Russian citizens to help it out of its financial woes, writes “Rzeczpospolita.” Gazprom’s management is reportedly demanding that the Kremlin raise gas prices threefold on the domestic market. Alexey Sakharov, head of Gazprom’s strategic department, spoke about […]
Despite efforts to reduce dependence on China for critical materials, Europe remains heavily reliant on Chinese resources. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Bruno Venditti, shows the percentage of EU raw material supply sourced from China for 12 raw materials used in various industries. Bloomberg published this data in May 2024 based on European Commission research. China’s Dominance in […]
Via Remix News, Switzerland is excelling at removing immigrants slated for deportation, achieving the highest rate in Europe in 2024 with a 60 percent deportation rate and boosting its own progress by 18 percent over 2023. In total, Switzerland was able to remove 7,000 asylum seekers in 2024, said Beat Jans, the federal councilor responsible […]
Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, The Trump administration has appointed a new Middle East policy chief in the Pentagon who believes the US should scale down its military presence in the region. Michael DiMino, a former CIA analyst, was sworn in early this week as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle […]
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Arctic has been considered a politically neutral zone, marked by the peaceful international cooperation of scientists. But, as Statista’s Anna Fleck reports, as the Arctic ice melts and more land and sea becomes accessible, opportunities for resource extraction and maritime trade routes are opening up, making it increasingly attractive to vying […]
Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times, Second Amendment advocates are celebrating, and gun control activists are decrying the apparent closing of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The Trump administration has not confirmed that the office, opened by an executive order from then-President Joe Biden in 2023, is closed. The office’s […]
