A Pentagon review panel examining the Biden administration’s disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan says it has recovered highly relevant classified documents that were allegedly “stashed and hidden away in safes” where investigators would not find them. War Department spokesman Sean Parnell, who leads the Afghanistan Withdrawal Special Review Panel, announced the discovery in a video message. The statement was released ...Read More »

The United States’ Agency for International Development’s Inspector General’s office announced Wednesday that it has referred more than 100 current or former employees of a United Nations relief agency to the State Department over their participation in the October 7 terror attacks in Israel. The referrals include three people they suggested be debarred by the department, including a former United ...Read More »

The European Central Bank is moving ahead with the digital euro and expects to begin a 12-month pilot during the second half of 2027. Thirty-six banks and payment providers have already been selected to participate, legislation is expected to be completed by the end of 2026, and the ECB intends to be ready for a potential first issuance during 2029. ...Read More »

Cut or tariff Canada’s oil exports to the US? Horrible idea. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith does a fantastic jobs breaking it down: “I cannot think of a more disastrous policy decision than cutting off or taxing Alberta’s oil to the United States.” > US will respond with a 50%–100% tariff on fuels supplied to Ontario and Quebec. > US refineries ...Read More »

Something massive is moving beneath the surface… Oil is shifting closer to home, borders have been shut down, the grid is being hardened, military bases are being given power that cannot be easily cut, communications are moving into space and the industrial backbone underneath all of it is being rebuilt at the same time alliances begin rearranging across the world… ...Read More »