Search “Native American myths” and you’ll get a flood of results treating these stories like campfire horror content, monsters and spirits stripped of context and packaged for a scare. That’s a disservice to what these stories actually are. Long before survival manuals, weather apps, or bug-out bags, oral tradition was the delivery system for the knowledge that kept people alive in some of the harshest environments on this continent. A story that gets repeated for hundreds of years isn’t surviving because it’s entertaining. It’s surviving because it’s useful. This article breaks down what some of these traditions were actually teaching,…
Author: Tommy Grant
KYIV, Ukraine — Nine nations have joined Ukraine in a nascent anti-ballistic coalition to speed up production of Ukraine’s Freyja interceptor system and get it operational within a year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced at a meeting of defense allies in France on Monday.He first said a coalition of allies would work together to build the complicated weapon at last week’s NATO summit in Ankara, where U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to let Ukraine build its own Patriot interceptors after recognizing that, in Zelenskyy’s words, Ukraine is “a country that is ready to do this.”The initiative was launched as a…
KYIV, Ukraine — Nine nations have joined Ukraine in a nascent anti-ballistic coalition to speed up production of Ukraine’s Freyja interceptor system and get it operational within a year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced at a meeting of defense allies in France on Monday.He first said a coalition of allies would work together to build the complicated weapon at last week’s NATO summit in Ankara, where U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to let Ukraine build its own Patriot interceptors after recognizing that, in Zelenskyy’s words, Ukraine is “a country that is ready to do this.”The initiative was launched as a…
The U.S. military will begin enforcing a maritime blockade on Iran on Tuesday, the U.S. Navy-led Joint Maritime Information Center said on Monday. The blockade, covering all of Iran’s ports, oil terminals and coastal areas, will be enforced for all vessel traffic — regardless of flag — from 4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on July 14, the center said in an advisory. “Any vessel suspected of entering or departing the blockaded area without authorization is subject to interception, diversion, and capture. Non-compliant vessels may be legally compelled with force,” the statement said. The center said neutral transit through the Strait…
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIt’s 2 a.m. You wake up to the sound of glass breaking downstairs. You reach for your phone and dial 911—and nothing. No dispatcher. No “units en route.” Maybe the grid is down. Maybe home invaders are using a cell jammer. Maybe every line in the county is jammed. Either way, the help you’ve counted on your whole life isn’t coming. That’s the scenario we’re going to plan for today. Not because it’s a likely event to happen, but because there’s a greater-than-zero chance that someday, a full SHTF event (that’s prepper shorthand for…
Col. Frank Cohn, a veteran of the Second World War, Korea and Vietnam, died on July 4 at the age of 100, the Friends of the National WWII Memorial confirmed. He was one month shy of turning 101.Born in Breslau, Germany (present day Wrocław, Poland), the Jewish-born Cohn and his family found refuge in the United States in 1938. Cohn was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1943, just one month after his 18th birthday.Sworn in as an American citizen during basic training, Cohn was originally assigned to the 87th Infantry Division before receiving orders as an infantry replacement and…
Air Force officials continue to reinforce the necessity of focusing on fitness, dress and appearance standards to airmen in a Monday letter sent to the force.In the letter, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach argued that every airman needs to focus on fitness and appearance standards in an effort to strengthen the service’s readiness and should familiarize themselves with the updated physical fitness rules.“Fitness remains essential to every Airman’s ability to execute the mission under challenging conditions,” he wrote.Unless medically exempt from the waist-to-height ratio component of the force’s fitness assessment, airmen are required to upload their current…
Democratic senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand called on Monday for President Donald Trump’s administration to disclose within the next week the findings from a U.S. military investigation into a Feb. 28 strike at a girls’ school in Iran.Reuters first reported on March 5 that an initial, internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab on the opening day of the war with Iran.The group of more than two dozen U.S. senators, including the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Jack Reed, requested in a letter the U.S. military finalize its…
TriWest Healthcare Alliance officials notified 11,844 beneficiaries of a data breach that may have affected their protected health information. In a letter to one beneficiary dated July 2 and provided to Military Times, TriWest officials said they had discovered a security incident April 16, in which an unauthorized person gained limited, unauthorized access to TriWest information and downloaded it.“We are unaware of any misuse of your information,” officials stated in the letter, but they went on to say TriWest is offering a free credit-monitoring service for those who feel it’s needed.The unauthorized person obtained health- and other personal information, specifically…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The End of the American Dream. If you live in the western half of the United States, it is going to be really hot next week. I realize that I have been writing about extreme heat a lot lately, but I can’t help it because what we are experiencing right now is highly unusual. The “Monster El Niño” of 2026 will be causing a tremendous amount of chaos for many months to come, and agricultural production all over the globe will be greatly affected. Most people out there are not taking this…