In January 2025, silver traded as low as $30 per ounce. Yesterday – just twelve months later – it surpassed $93 recording an all-time high. This isn’t a short-lived spike driven by speculation alone – its surge follows tightening physical supply, rising industrial demand, and growing geopolitical influence over critical materials. Its late 2025 rally – shooting from $45/oz on…
Historian Miguel Tinker Salas’s Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know uncovers the century-long architecture of Western intervention and the human cost of a state built on oil. The history of Venezuela is often reduced to a cautionary tale of a single charismatic leader or a sudden economic collapse, yet the reality is a far more harrowing chronicle…
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Video player not working? Use these links to watch it somewhere else! WATCH ON: / / / / / or DOWNLOAD THE MP4 Story #1: Withdrawing The…
Iran’s crypto economy surged past $7.78 billion in 2025, with Bitcoin emerging as both a financial lifeline for citizens and a strategic tool for the IRGC amid political turmoil and conflict. A new report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis shows that Iran’s crypto ecosystem boomed in 2025, with Bitcoin playing a growing central role for…
With sales of plant-based foods falling 4.5% in a year and vegan restaurant chains collapsing, the short-lived vegan boom – driven in part by climate concerns – appears to be over. The Telegraph has more. Signs of veganism’s decline appeared in a recent report by the Good Food Institute Europe, which found that sales of…
“Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car… My 6-month-old can’t even breathe.” — The harrowing reality of a police state that treats innocent families as collateral damage. Minneapolis, MN — If you want to know what the “War on Terror” looks like when it comes home to roost, look no further than the…
The relationship between energy consumption and national wealth is one of history’s most consistent patterns. From coal-fired Britain to oil-powered America to today’s renewable energy leaders, access to abundant, affordable energy has been the foundation of economic prosperity. This correlation isn’t coincidental — it’s mechanical. Energy powers industry, transportation, communication, and virtually every productive activity…
As waves of deadly demonstrations and counter-demonstrations hit Iran, MintPress examines the CIA-backed NGOs helping to stir the outrage and foment more violence. One of these groups is Human Rights Activists In Iran, frequently referred to as HRA or HRAI in the media. The group, and its media arm, the Human Rights Activists News Agency…
“The more contradiction you carry, the more reality resists you. Because you’re fracturing the signal with every step.” — SightBringer on “X” Don’t be too surprised if sometime later this day, Friday, the president invokes the Insurrection Act to tranquilize the city of Minneapolis, since aerial spraying of Olanzapine is probably out of the question….
Well, it looks like critical minerals are now worth fighting for. This week, after consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the White House declared the critical mineral supply including silver, copper, palladium, and platinum a threat to national security. For over five decades the world has quietly known oil to be a national security threat…
