Can the U.S. Really Cut BRICS Countries Off From the Dollar Over Iran?
August 28, 2026
Washington says foreign institutions that keep facilitating Iran can lose access to the U.S. financial system. But BRICS now represents a huge share of the
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JPMorgan Is Financing the AI Boom While Its Own Strategists See a Dot-Com Warning Sign
August 27, 2026
JPMorgan has not predicted an imminent AI crash. But its strategists are seeing a market divergence reminiscent of the dot-com era as AI spending moves
Who Is Jennica Pounds? What We Know About DataRepublican and Her Pentagon Role
August 27, 2026
Jennica Pounds is the researcher behind the influential DataRepublican account on X. Her publisher describes her as a software engineer, data analyst and Utah small-business
The CIPA Lawsuit Problem Is Real. California Should Fix It Without Turning It Into a Big Tech Privacy Shield
August 24, 2026
California small businesses really are being hit with costly CIPA website lawsuits. But the Facebook campaign built around those businesses is pushing lawmakers beyond the
Did Israel Get the U.S. Into the Iran War? Yes—Here’s How and Why
August 24, 2026
Did Israel get the United States into the Iran war? The best-supported answer is yes. Netanyahu spent months pressing Washington to attack, Israel planned to
How to Hide From a Near-Perfect AI Hunting You—and Survive
August 21, 2026
If a near-perfect AI could watch cameras, search government and commercial databases, hack anything connected to your identity and impersonate everyone you trust, survival would
Did Trump Make Up the Campus Antisemitism Case? What the Whistleblower Evidence Shows
August 20, 2026
A career Justice Department civil-rights attorney says Trump officials built key campus antisemitism cases backward: federal money was frozen before investigations were complete, Brown was
Are AI Data Centers Draining America’s Water? What the Evidence Actually Shows
August 20, 2026
U.S. data centers consumed about 17.4 billion gallons of water directly in 2023, and federal researchers project that figure could rise sharply as AI infrastructure
Did Trump-Connected Insiders Really Say He Could Go Bankrupt After the Midterms?
August 20, 2026
Comedian Suzanne Lambert says she accidentally overheard Gentry Beach, Harry Sargeant III and Peter Marocco discussing Trump, money and the 2026 midterms. Many of the
Flock Cameras in Kentucky: Why Bowling Green Is a Small-City AI Surveillance Test Case
August 20, 2026
Bowling Green, Kentucky is becoming a revealing case study in how modern local surveillance systems assemble: Flock license-plate readers, hundreds of camera feeds, AI person-attribute