5-13-25 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. Kerry Lutz: The Trump Ultimatum - China’s Last Trade Deal

2. Todd Sheets: Trump, Zelensky & the Great Global Reset

3. Scott Powell: Trump Can Do the Impossible - Simultaneously Strengthen America's Financials and Its National Security

4. Kenneth Rapoza: India's Zero-for-Zero Reciprocal Tariff Offer Must be a Non-Starter

5. Daniel Greenfield: Gov. Newsom Suddenly Decides to Ban Homeless Camps

6. Robert Spencer: Is Trump Breaking with Israel?

The Trump Ultimatum - China’s Last Trade Deal

By Kerry Lutz, Host of Financial Survival Network

The AP calls it a "promising tariff reduction deal." CNN calls it "a cooling of tensions." I call it what it is: a 90-day white-flag window before China gets crushed. Forget the polite headlines. This deal isn't about soybeans - it’s about sovereignty. This isn't a trade agreement - it's an ultimatum. And if Xi Jinping doesn't play it right, he won't just lose Taiwan or the West. He might lose everything - including his grip on power. Let's go behind the curtain. The Biden administration, bogged down by bureaucrats, was spinning its wheels. Trump - whether officially back or not - took the wheel of economic diplomacy like a bulldozer with a GPS. This agreement? It has his fingerprints all over it. [more...]

Trump, Zelensky & the Great Global Reset

By Todd Sheets, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

Trump's one-on-one with Zelensky in the Vatican in late April, commentary from both the left and the right seemed to center around two key criticisms: 1) The administration is repeating Chamberlain's mistake with Hitler and Nazi Germany by seeking to appease Russian president Putin, and 2) Trump's actions are destroying the "special" relationship with Europe that helped win World Wars I and II and the Cold War. All of this has exposed a Great Global Reset, a necessary change in America's role as the world's policeman. The following are three key areas that will help us understand how we arrived at this historic moment. First, we'll review what I've called the Aggressor/Defender Ratio, a key measure of relative geopolitical strength. Second, we'll explore the evolution of our relationship with Europe; and third, we'll discuss America's changing role. [more...]

Trump Can Do the Impossible - Simultaneously Strengthen America's Financials and Its National Security

By Scott Powell, Author of Rediscovering America

The implications of President Trump's Executive Order "A Plan for Establishing a United States Sovereign Wealth Fund," are revolutionary. What is likely to be unveiled soon is a masterful plan that will add tremendous wealth to the asset side of the U.S fiscal ledger. In fact, it will strengthen the U.S. balance sheet, adding the value of enormous previously undeclared natural resource assets to offset the $36+ trillion in national debt liability. And it will strengthen U.S. defensive capabilities and war deterrence by restoring the posture of being able to sustainably project unquestioned superior U.S. military power. [more...]

India's Zero-for-Zero Reciprocal Tariff Offer Must be a Non-Starter

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

Trump said he has dozens of trade talks going on. India says it's ready to go to zero tariffs on key items like car parts and steel. Here is why this is a non-starter. Tariff reciprocity was always a terrible idea. India, home to 607 million workers making around $550 per month in mid-level manufacturing jobs, would happily replace American steel workers and high-paid pharmaceutical lab workers in a zero-for-zero trade deal. A top paid laboratory technician in India makes about $35,000 a year. That’s a small fortune in India. The U.S. is mainly reliant on India for generic drugs today. Their labs lead in FDA recalls and are often subject to Warning Letters and import bans, which are rare largely due to the fact that the FDA does not want to risk supply. The U.S. must not sacrifice the chance to rebuild industrial capacity in exchange for another empty trade promise to import more American goods, as if these promises will actually materialize. [more...]

Gov. Newsom Suddenly Decides to Ban Homeless Camps

By Daniel Greenfield, Author of Domestic Enemies

The takeover of California neighborhoods by homeless camps has been one of the most obvious features of the deterioration of public life. These camps moved beyond Skid Row and into nicer areas. Berkeley has been battling them lately and making headlines for it. But the only response by California officials was to raise more billions through taxes and 'bond issues' and then steal the money... while telling everyone to pay more. But after all those billions, Newsom is suddenly proposing to ban homeless encampments. What’s going on this time? This is his last term as governor. He's going to be out soon and he's trying to do what he can to move his name to the top of the list for 2028. [more...]

Is Trump Breaking with Israel?

By Robert Spencer, Author of Antisemitism: History and Myth

Is President Trump really preparing to recognize a Palestinian state? The news hit like a thunderbolt on Saturday, amid an avalanche of stories claiming that Trump is angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and is changing course from his previous wholehearted support of Israel's defense against Hamas and the other jihadist entities that are determined to destroy it. As is so often the case in such matters, however, there was decidedly less to the story than there initially appeared to be. The Jerusalem Post picked up the story from the American news agency, The Media Line. The distancing from the claim began in the headline: "Gulf diplomatic source claims Trump will announce U.S. recognition of Palestinian state." As the story unfolded, the claim became even more tenuous. [more...]