UK - All things fall apart. Orders, whether domestic or geopolitical, eventually collapse. So too do monetary cycles, typically rising and falling every 80 years or so. The big cycle that began in 1945 is coming to a close as the bond markets begin to crack. Bookmark this piece: a debt crisis is coming.

FAR EAST - Everywhere you look, you can see the decline of Western hegemony, as the world is increasingly multipolar. Ben Norton analyzes the rise of China, development of Global South economies, and increasing unity in Asia. A symbol of this was the historic ASEAN-GCC-China Summit held in Malaysia, which supplements BRICS in pursuit of dedollarization, South-South economic integration, and infrastructure construction.

USA - Senator Mike Lee (Republican for Utah) has proposed a constitutional amendment that would make all members of Congress ineligible to run for re-election “whenever inflation exceeds 3%” or when the deficit exceeds 3% of gross domestic product (GDP). The proposal revives an idea first suggested by Warren Buffett more than 10 years ago in which Buffett suggested he could “end the deficit in five minutes” by disqualifying lawmakers based on the nation’s economic health. In a post on X, Lee wrote, “It’s better to disqualify politicians than for an entire nation to suffer under the yoke of inflation.”

USA - President Trump has called for the California governor’s arrest as pro-immigrant protests spread to other US cities after violence in Los Angeles. Trump called Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor, “grossly incompetent” and claimed that “a civil war would happen if you left it to people like him”. LA faced a fourth consecutive day of unrest after violent clashes in San Francisco, where 60 people were arrested on Sunday, and demonstrations in Houston and San Antonio, Texas.

USA - What you need to know:

Los Angeles residents have protested against immigration raids in which hundreds of immigrants were rounded up and arrested.

President Trump deployed the National Guard to quell the protests, going over the head of Gavin Newsom, the California governor, who says the deployment was excessive and plans to sue.

California’s undocumented migrant population leads the US, and LA is a “sanctuary city”, meaning it has policies to protect undocumented immigrants from federal immigration enforcement.

Activists accuse law enforcement of arresting suspected illegal immigrants without warrants or documentation. Protests descended into violence in Los Angeles over the weekend as police faced off with demonstrators decrying workplace raids by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

ISRAEL - Screens and social media reshape our minds. Israeli expert warns digital overload in childhood rewires the brain; screen-induced attention loss, emotional gaps and physical decline linked to early device exposure. In today’s world, it’s nearly impossible to avoid screens. From smartphones and tablets to televisions and computers, children are exposed to digital devices from an early age — and often for hours each day. But while the convenience of digital entertainment is undeniable, experts warn it comes at a steep cost. Chava Treitel, head of R&D at the “Attention Revolution” initiative, paints a concerning picture of how screens — particularly those used during early childhood — can fundamentally alter brain development, shorten attention spans, and disrupt emotional and social growth.

USA - Historic volcanic eruptions and enormous earthquakes are happening on an almost daily basis now, but they have become so common that most of them barely even make a blip in the news cycle. The natural disasters that do tend to make a lot of headlines are the ones that cause a lot of deaths. But even those are quickly forgotten. For example, nobody really talks about the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that hit Myanmar on March 28th and killed thousands of people anymore. We literally have become numb to the death and destruction which is constantly going on all around us.

USA - An underwater volcano off the West Coast is predicted to erupt at any moment, and the world can watch it happen live. Axial Seamount, located roughly 300 miles off Oregon's coast on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest. Scientists monitoring the underwater beast recently set up a camera near its peak, allowing the public to tune in the moment it explodes. In November 2024, Oregon State University geophysicist William Chadwick started investigating the volcano when he noticed its surface had swelled to nearly the same height it reached before its last eruption 10 years ago. Its last eruption, in 2015, was a massive event that triggered roughly 8,000 earthquakes, unleashed lava flows hundreds of feet thick, and caused the seafloor to suddenly collapse by nearly eight feet. The Volcanologist told KGW: 'It’s at or almost at that inflation threshold where it erupted last time. So, we think it’s ready.' Despite its power, experts say Axial Seamount poses no threat to human communities. The volcano sits more than 4,900 feet below the Pacific Ocean's surface...

USA - Megan Garcia first realised something was wrong with her teenage son when he quit basketball. Sewell Setzer, 14, had loved the sport since he was a young child. At 6ft 3, he had the height, the build, the talent, Ms Garcia said. But suddenly, without warning, he wanted out. Then his grades started slipping. He stopped joining in at family game night. Even on holiday, he withdrew – no more hiking, no fishing, no interest. Ms Garcia feared he was being bullied, or perhaps speaking to strangers online.

UK - Young women in the UK are now, for the first time, more likely to be in education, employment or training than young men. They are more likely to go to university. Their salaries are higher. They are increasingly dominant in many of the professions, including teaching, medicine and law. The world that is emerging, in other words, is one of power women — and powerless men. There has, for example, been much fretting over the rise in economic inactivity in the UK. But this has been, overwhelmingly, a rise in male inactivity. As Burn-Murdoch says, these high-flying career women and sofa-dwelling layabouts aren’t even meeting, let alone mating. The proportion of young South Koreans in relationships has dropped by 40 per cent since 2010, and fertility has fallen to match. In the UK and US, too, this “relationship recession” is starting to bite into the birth rate.

UK - We are living in a new era of threat. So writes the Defence Secretary, John Healey, in the just published UK Strategic Defence Review. This is a credible document, reflecting the serious team assembled to work on it. But it’s come under fire for promising much without explaining where the funding will come from. The strategic environment has pivoted fast. We live in a world where great power competition is a reality. It took time for governments across Europe to wake up to the level of threat. Radek Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, was an early proponent of higher defence spending. In a brilliant speech last summer at the Ditchley Foundation, he reminded his audience that: “We are in a pre-war moment. The question is not whether we will be attacked, but whether we will be ready.” The Poles have been preparing. They have been there before. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.

USA - President Donald Trump warned there will be "troops everywhere" when asked if he will take more action if protests, like those in LA, continue to rage. In a directive Saturday, Trump invoked a legal provision allowing him to deploy federal service members when there is ”a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” "We are going to have troops everywhere," Trump said after touching down on Air Force One in New Jersey on Sunday. "We are not going to let this happen to our country."

USA - On Friday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s behavior with Breitbart International News Editor Frances Martel. Martel said, “He’s known for advancing a technology that is only useful if you believe in the climate crisis. If you fully believe the dogma that the world is going to end in, you know, a couple of decades because of climate change, then his company is for you. The way that he has led his private life is actively anti traditional family.” She added, “He promotes the destruction of the traditional family. And he’s very, very close to the Chinese Communist Party, and he’s been very open about his disgust with America’s respect for workers and labor rights and his disgust with Americans prioritizing family life, religion, and the things that make life worth living over, making more money for shareholders.”

JAPAN - Within a few minutes of the doors opening, the farm produce co-operative in Atami, a seaside town south-west of Tokyo, had completely sold out of subsidised Japanese rice. “This will only last us a couple of weeks,” said 46-year-old Yujiro Osaki, one of the dozens of people who had queued up for a 3kg bag just a few dollars cheaper than the supermarket price for rice of the same quality. “It’s a ridiculous situation for Japan to be in.” For millions of consumers struggling with sharply rising food costs after years of stagnant prices, queues and the quest for better deals are now part of buying rice in Japan.

USA - The Roman Empire, once a beacon of power and prosperity, crumbled under the weight of internal mismanagement, with reckless spending and currency devaluation playing pivotal roles in its decline. Rome’s vast empire required an immense military to defend its borders and suppress rebellions. By the 3rd century CE, military spending consumed a significant portion of the budget, with soldiers demanding higher pay and bonuses to maintain loyalty. Emperors also expanded the bureaucracy, creating a bloated administrative system that drained resources. This unchecked spending strained the treasury, leaving little room for economic stability.