President Trump issued a series of big claims to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. For starters, he asserted that Iran wants to "desperately" meet but said "we" have no interest, and that the US military is not finished at all with Iran, and so there's no interest in talking at the moment.

22 July 2026

A sterile fly production continues as the United States New World screwworm infections reach 41. Screwworm is a flesh-eating parasite that can be deadly and impact the meat supply if it is severe enough.

22 July 2026

The United States'  first war chief, Pete Hegseth, is demanding more money for the war with Iran. Hegseth is the US Secretary of War and has, so far, lived up to his title.

22 July 2026

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have vowed to take “an eye for an eye” after the Saudi Arabian government-backed strikes on the Sana’a Airport. Houthi rebels have declared a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia, marking the biggest escalation between the two sides in years. This blockade comes a week after the bombing of the airport.  Forces loyal […]

22 July 2026

Over the weekend, I traded notes with Marc Faber—global investor and editor of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. One snippet from our chat set the tone:

22 July 2026

I really don’t understand the tremendous apathy that I am witnessing right now. Everyone can see that commercial oil inventories are rapidly being depleted. As I discussed yesterday, the global oil market had about 400 million barrels of excess inventory before the war, and now we have “close to nothing”. But at least we still have the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, right? Yes, that is true, but that is being rapidly depleted as well. In fact, when you add the dwindling commercial oil inventories in the U.S. to the oil that is left in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, we only have 43 days of supply remaining…

21 July 2026

United States ruler Donald Trump is backing his war-mongering efforts by saying things went worse in other wars. His full retreat into "whataboutism" is nothing more than a defensive coping mechanism designed to rally the base and save face. 

21 July 2026

As the tenth day of renewed strikes begins, the United States is mulling a plan to ignite a much wider war with Iran than it currently is engaged in. Media outlets in the US claim that Washington's war mongers are planning to enter into an all-out war with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

21 July 2026

The Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus that is currently spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo is continuing to spread, as health care workers struggle to contain the outbreak. At least 930 people have died, although that number is likely larger and expected to continue to increase.

21 July 2026

"I'm not living in Communist America… I've read the quotes from the DSA platform, from their own mouths. Don't tell me I'm not seeing what I am seeing," Bill Maher told ABC News' Jonathan Karl in an exclusive interview that aired on Sunday.

21 July 2026