Discerning the Times

By ELINA SHIRAZI, US SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 12 May 2026 President Donald Trump is departing for Beijing to face off with President Xi Jinping, a high-stakes meeting shadowed by a deadlocked conflict with Iran that has left China positioned as a precarious and powerful middleman. The visit, originally schedul...

May 11, 2026 by Michael Snyder One day it will happen. As millions of people living in Southern California go about their daily lives, a cataclysmic earthquake will suddenly strike. The geography of the California coastline will be permanently changed, and the ground on the western side of the San Andreas fault will drop by several feet. …

Ghalibaf says only option is to accept ‘rights of the Iranian people’ laid out in ceasefire proposal; Pakistan reportedly hosting Iran’s military aircraft despite mediator role By Lazar Berman, Stav Levaton, Jacob Magid and Reuters Today, 6:01 am Iran’s chief negotiator in talks with the US said on Monday the Islamic Republic is “ready to deliver a we...

May 6, 2026 by Michael Snyder January, February and March were insanely dry. In fact, in all of U.S. history conditions have never been so dry during the first three months of the year. Just think about that for a moment. Not even during the Dust Bowl days of the 1930s were conditions this dry. Many were …

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz May 11, 2026 ufo-nephilim scene (Image generated by AI) For decades, files stamped “Top Secret” have sat locked away in government archives — files describing fighter pilots chasing objects that defied physics, astronauts noting strange lights near the moon, and military officers watching metallic orbs hover silently over conflict zones. Now, under …