Source: Independent [UK]
“Iran launched another blistering attack against Israel and American allies in the Gulf on Tuesday after dismissing Donald Trump’s claims that Washington and Tehran were holding ‘productive’ talks to end the war as ‘fake news.’ The Israeli military reported a fresh wave of missile attacks, triggering air raid sirens across the country …. Kuwait also responded to drone and missile attacks overnight, while Saudi Arabia intercepted a wave of more than 20 drones and Bahrain activated alert sirens. Explosions continued to rock Iran through the night, heard in Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan and Karaj. There was no sign of de-escalation after Iran rubbished Donald Trump’s claims that talks towards a ceasefire were ongoing with an unnamed ‘top person’ in Iran.” (03/24/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-trump-deadline-oil-strait-of-hormuz-b2944254.html
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“For those Americans who still believe that the U.S. government’s deadly, destructive, illegal, and unconstitutional war of aggression against Iran is about concern for the freedom and well-being of the people of Iran, what the U.S. government is now doing with its war on immigrants will help dispel such Americans of such a quaint notion. That’s because U.S. officials are in the process of deporting 400 Iranian immigrants to Iran as part of their war on immigrants. Yes, you read that right! U.S. officials are forcibly returning 400 Iranian immigrants to a country that the U.S. government and the Israeli government continue to bomb to smithereens. How is that action consistent with a supposed concern for the freedom and well-being of the Iranian people?” (03/23/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/23/the-war-on-immigrants-meets-the-war-on-iran/
Source: Reason
“It’s Time To Abolish the TSA.” (03/23/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/03/23/its-time-to-abolish-the-tsa/
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The US has banned new foreign-made consumer internet routers over [fake] national security concerns. In an update on Monday to a list of equipment seen as not secure enough for use, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added all consumer-grade routers made outside the US. … Any new router made outside the US will now need to be approved by the FCC before it can be imported, marketed, or sold in the country. In order to get that approval, companies manufacturing routers outside the US must apply for conditional approval in a process that will require the disclosure of the firm’s foreign investors or influence, as well as a plan to bring the manufacturing of the routers to the US.” [editor’s note: In other words, the US regime is suppressing price competition on behalf of some Trump crony – TLK] (03/24/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w149zo
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week at the age of 81. The New York Times eulogized him as a ‘button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.’ In reality, Mueller was simply a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext.” (03/23/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-late-robert-mueller-bill-of-rights-executioner
Source: Yahoo! News
“Ukraine has struck Russia’s largest western export terminal in an effort to stifle Moscow’s windfall from rising global oil prices. A wave of drones targeted the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk, which exports one million barrels of crude a day and serves as a hub for the Kremlin’s sanctions-busting ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers. Satellite images showed a huge fire and thick plumes of smoke above the facility near Finland, 570 miles from the Ukrainian border, after several fuel reservoirs were hit. Ukrainian drones struck Primorsk last September, but the considerably more explosive results of the latest attack have fuelled speculation missiles were used, specifically the new Flamingo weapon, which has a 1,150kg warhead. An oil refinery in the central Russian city of Ufa was also targeted and forced to suspend operations.” (03/23/26)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ukraine-strikes-russian-oil-export-175342141.html
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“I’d kind of assumed that the frontier AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, X) would reap the financial rewards of frontier AI development. But that might not be correct. AI might be more like electricity than Google. After all, who profited from electrification? It certainly wasn’t the inventors. Or their companies. The people who got rich from electricity were the ones who used it to make other things. Profits went to the factory owners who electrified their factories and the folks who sold light bulbs. The electric companies became utilities. I had assumed that the companies currently building AI would become the next Google and Bing. However, many believe that the actual models are more likely to become cheap and interchangeable, like electricity. Or Wi-Fi. Or railroads.” (03/23/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/why-ai-may-never-be-profitable
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“At least 66 people have died and dozens of others have been wounded after a Colombian military plane with 125 people on board crashed after takeoff in the south of the country, officials have said. The Lockheed Martin-built C-130 Hercules aircraft went down on Monday shortly after it had departed from Puerto Leguizamo, near the southern border with Ecuador and Peru, strewing burning wreckage on the jungle floor.” (03/24/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/colombian-military-plane-with-125-on-board-crashes-after-takeoff
Source: Law & Liberty
by Samuel Mace
“In democracies, rulers require the consent of the governed. Even within elite theories of democracies, some sort of common consent is necessary. The easiest way to secure such consent is to persuade the people that you are really one of them. Politicians from elite backgrounds work to appear as if they are unafraid of working a day in McDonald’s, or plead for the fortunes of a favourite football team. They are not ‘regular people,’ but they try to look like they belong. These efforts cut across ideology as attempts to cultivate authenticity emerge on both the left and right. But politics cannot be defined by personality alone.” (03/23/26)
https://lawliberty.org/the-quest-for-authenticity/
Source: New York Post
“The Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin to replace Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary on Monday, following a fiery hearing last week where Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) claimed his colleague was too angry for the promotion. In a 54-45 vote, the Oklahoma Republican senator was approved to lead the beleaguered Department of Homeland Security, where carrying out the president’s ‘mass deportations’ actions has led to low public approval in the second year of his term. … two Democrats — Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) — supported Mullin to helm DHS, along with 52 Republicans. Paul was the lone GOP ‘no’ vote on his confirmation.” (03/23/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/23/us-news/senate-confirms-sen-markwayne-mullin-to-replace-kristi-noem-as-homeland-security-secretary/
