(José Niño, Headline USA) In the debut episode of Headline Geopolitics, deputy editor José Niño sat down with Dr. Arta Moeini, Managing Director of the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy, to explore the unraveling of the liberal international order and the rise of multipolarity. They also dug into the fallout from the recent 12-day war…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Al-Monitor reported on Tuesday that talks between Israel and Syria have included discussions on the possibility of US troops deploying to areas of southwestern Syria that Israel captured following the regime change that ousted former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Immediately after Assad was overthrown in December 2024, Israel invaded southern Syria, capturing a…

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(Headline USA) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking of staging a UFC match on the White House grounds with upwards 20,000 spectators to celebrate 250 years of American independence. “We have a lot of land there,” said Trump, a UFC enthusiast who has attended several of its mixed martial arts matches in recent months…

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(Headline USA) Famed Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. has been arrested for overstaying his visa and lying on a green card application and will be deported to Mexico, where he faces organized crime charges, U.S. federal officials said Thursday. The arrest came only days after the former middleweight champion lost a match against influencer-turned-boxer Jake…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) President Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and said after the call that he didn’t “make any progress” on the issue of the Ukraine war. “We had a call, it was a pretty long call, and we talked about a lot of things, including Iran. And we also talked about…

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(The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday granted a Trump administration request to deport eight noncitizens to South Sudan, a country where they have no ties. The high court stopped an order allowing the foreign nationals to appeal removals to “third countries” where they say they could be in danger of violence or…

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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Are interest rates too high? A lot of people think they are, and a growing chorus of voices is calling on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to cut rates. Are they right? Does the central bank need to step in, slash interest rates, and loosen monetary policy? The honest answer to…

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(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) The pace of central bank gold buying picked up slightly in May. Globally, central banks officially added a net 20 tonnes of gold to their reserves in May, according to the latest data compiled by the World Gold Council. This compares to 14 tonnes in April. While the pace…

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(David Morgan, Money Metals News Service) There’s an old truth we forget at our peril: when money loses its integrity, freedom soon follows. Throughout history, the erosion of honest currency has marched in lockstep with the erosion of civil liberties. The connection is not coincidental; it’s causal. Because money is not just a medium of exchange; it…

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(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) A report from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz estimates that the US used 93 interceptors from its THAAD missile defense system to defend Israel from Iranian missiles during the 12-day US-Israeli war against Iran. At $13 million per interceptor, that means the US launched an estimated $1.25 billion worth of THAAD munitions during the…

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