World Brief with Zach McCormick

Send us Fan Mail Did Maduro’s capture just change the global financial order? Potentially yes, here’s why: While Venezuela has played host to Russian, Chinese, Iranian, Hezbollah and Tren De Aragua agents for some time, it is also home to a shadowy network of finance that extends from London to Langley and which has been instrumental in facilitating the ‘black market’ for sanctioned nations (and g...

Send us Fan Mail Will the silver surge save younger generations and the middle class? Yes. Here’s why.  Gen Alpha, Z and the Millenials are almost completely priced out of everything from homes to quality groceries and yet it’s upon their shoulders that the next phase of the economy depends. Silver’s surge signals a possible correction to this lopsided situation which could allow these younger gen...

Send us Fan Mail s England getting rid of jury trials? Yes. According to a plan put forward by justice minister David Lammy, England will no longer allow accused to have a trial by a jury of their peers for minor and mid-tier crimes.  Supposedly this move is needed to clear backlogs and prevent more serious cases from being delayed by the less serious ones. strangely, the proposal would not apply...

Send us Fan Mail Did Wikipedia just get dethroned? Maybe, Grokipedia has just launched as a direct competitor to the original online, open source encyclopedia, but only time will tell if it kicks Wikipedia off its pedestal.  Elon Musk has touted Grokipedia for seeking “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. To accomplish this, Grokipedia will purportedly use its AI namesake to act...

Send us Fan Mail Did Amazon’s web servers just take out a massive chunk of the internet?  Yes, and this isn’t an exaggeration. On October 20, 2025 a major outage in Amazon’s web server business (known as “AWS”), caused nearly every major online service to fail or malfunction.  Major names like Snapchat, Signal, WhatsApp, Lloyds of London, the Bank of Scotland, Venmo, Coinbase, Roblox, Fortnite, Hu...

Send us Fan Mail Is the Silver Squeeze going to jack up iPhone prices?  Probably, and it wouldn’t just be smartphones that see a jump.  So what’s going on? Basically people are suddenly afraid that real silver is running out. This affects electronics because silver is used in just about every electronic device we use. If the price of silver goes up then so too will the electronics that use it.  Bu...

Send us Fan Mail After only 27 days on the job, French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has just announced his resignation. But it’s the reason why that has many so concerned.  That’s because the French government (led by the embattled French President Emanuel Macron), promised its people far more than it could ever deliver and now it can’t pay the bill. This has led to hundreds of thousands of wo...

Send us Fan Mail Last week the Vietnamese Central Bank closed 86 Million bank accounts for, among other things,  not turning over biometric data. Is this a sign of things to come? For the deep dive head over to the substack at WorldBriefZMC

Send us Fan Mail Will the UK force citizens to get digital IDs? Probably.  Reports suggest that Prime Minister Starmer will announce Friday that every single adult in the UK must get a digital ID.  There have been some suggestions that the scheme WON’T be mandatory in the literal sense - but that one will be required  to access the internet, housing, employment, banking, transportation or any othe...

Send us Fan Mail Are people becoming allergic to red meat? Yes, it’s called “Alpha- Gal Syndrome” (AGS) causes people to become violently ill when red meat including beef, pork and lamb are consumed. The affliction is purportedly spread by “lone star ticks”  and there is no cure.  Listen to this episode to find out more and for the deep dive head over to our substack at WorldbriefZMC .

Send us Fan Mail Is it illegal to call someone a “muppet” in England? Yes, yesterday a man was arrested by British police for, allegedly, calling someone a “muppet”. For more, take a look at our Substack at WorldBriefZMC . 

Send us Fan Mail What’s the real reason for the backlash to the Cracker Barrel Rebrand? It’s not what you may think -- it might be fatigue from non-stop corporate authoritarianism. Take a listen and tell us what you think. For a deep dive and a comment on Cracker Barrel’s last PR stunt (the ‘great syrup debacle’),  take a look at our Substack at WorldBriefZMC and be sure to subscribe and vote in t...

Send us Fan Mail In a quiet announcement released on Friday, the World Economic Forum(“WEF”),  announced that its CEO, Larry Fink, has taken over as interim “co-chair” of the infamous organization.  Deep dive on Substack at WorldBriefZMC .

Send us Fan Mail Is there a connection between the Roman Emperor Nero and the LA Wildfires? Yes. Nero infamously “fiddled” while Rome burned to the ground and then took the land and built a palace on it. Now, something similar may be happening to some victims of the LA wildfires. California law was changed this year to allow the local government to use public funds to buy up the homes and land of...

Send us Fan Mail Its August 11, 2025 this is your News Flash Once in a thousand years floods in Wisconsin, explosion at chemical plant in Pennsylvania, tropical storm Erin in the Atlantic target east coast.   If you know anything about these events please leave a comment below. 

Send us Fan Mail Is it illegal to hike on public land?  Yes, in parts of Eastern Canada.  In Nova Scotia - which shares a border with Maine- it is now a criminal offense to hike, camp or drive through the woods on “Crown Land” (public property), from August 5 and October 15, 2025. Violators may be fined as much  as $25,000 for violations of the proclamation and at least one man has already been ti...

Send us Fan Mail Could a “Digital ID” stop illegal immigration? Yes, if you’re in the UK or so it has been claimed.  According to the British think tank Labour Together, that’s precisely what the “Britcard” would do. The organization, whose ideas have been echoed by British Prime Minister Kier Starmer, thinks that a digital ID that ties everything from citizenship status to health and finance reco...

Send us Fan Mail Will you need ID to watch videos on YouTube? Yes, even in the US, starting August 13th, 2025, if the AI thinks you’re under 18 you might have to provide an ID for full access.  In a move that mirrors the ID verification laws that have recently taken effect in the UK and EU countries, YouTube has announced that it will use AI to determine whether a viewer is 18 or older (purportedl...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re in the US, could you be arrested for violating a foreign country’s online speech laws? Yes at least in theory. Through a process called extradition, a foreign country (like the UK for example), could decide that you’ve violated their new “Online Safety Act”  (OSA), and have you arrested in the US.  What’s more, under the terms of the treaty, the UK could have your assets...

Send us Fan Mail If you ask this question: "Is the American home buying system normal?" Objectively, the answer is "no". For the most part, the current system — which revolves around 30 year mortgages —  was created by central banks to conceal their inflationary policies and make property seem affordable — the old “who cares what the price is if the payments are low?” trick (a...

Send us Fan Mail  Xfinity (whose parent company is Comcast), now offers a service called “WiFi Motion” which allows users (in select areas) to monitor motion inside their home using nothing more than the WiFi signals.  Functioning like radar, the system depends upon special internet routers which have new high-performance processors.  These powerful chips have the capacity to use AI and machine le...

Send us Fan Mail Can wait times at pizza restaurants predict war? Yes but only in certain locations and at certain times of the day.  For example a popular account on X called the “Pentagon Pizza Report” follows real-time customer traffic numbers at the restaurants around the Pentagon (the “nerve center” for the American military) and these numbers seem to correlate to heightened states of militar...

Send us Fan Mail  “Professional agitators” definitely get paid for stirring up trouble but it’s not clear who’s actually paying THEM.  Following apparent top-level security briefings on the subject, President Trump branded the 2025 LA Anti-ICE riots as being fueled by “agitators”. While some dismissed these claims, they appear to have been corroborated by LAPD Chief of Police Jim McDonnell in a pr...

Send us Fan Mail Warfare Just Changed Forever Over the weekend the Ukraine used off-the-shelf drones hidden in semi-truck trailers to strike Russian Nuclear-capable bombers deep inside Russia.  The operation, code-named “Spider’s Web” used drones that cost less than $500 each to destroy $100 million aircraft and according to initial reports destroyed or disabled as many as 41 airframes. This could...

Send us Fan Mail Lost Secret Nuclear US Icebase in Greenland  Is there a lost American nuclear-powered ice-base hidden in Greenland? Yes. But the reactor isn’t there anymore. Camp Century as it was known, had been frozen in time until it was recently rediscovered by NASA during a  high altitude radar survey of the region.  Like something out of an adventure novel, Camp Century was built in 1959  u...