Source: Reuters
“Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis attacked energy facilities and cities in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and underscoring the risk of the Iran conflict escalating into a wider regional war. … The Houthi attacks came after Iran warned that energy infrastructure across the Gulf, including U.S. oil and gas interests, was vulnerable in the wake of a tit-for-tat exchange of attacks on ships in and around the Gulf last weekend. The attacks sent oil prices climbing to more than six-week highs.” (09/08/26)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-says-it-plans-new-gulf-exclusion-zone-threatens-us-with-new-missiles-2026-09-08/
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“President Donald Trump’s latest temper tantrum over Canada, including the renaming of Lake Ontario as Lake America after the collapse of trade negotiations, is premised on the claim that ‘Canada has been ripping off the United States for decades.’ At least, that’s what the White House insisted in an August 25 press release about the tariff dispute. But, if that’s true, why are Canadians poorer than Americans and falling further behind? A new study from Canada’s Fraser Institute points out that while our northern neighbors started the century with high hopes for their economic prospects, the years since have shown them lagging Americans. If Canadians are taking advantage of us, they’re doing a remarkably poor job of it.” (09/07/26)
https://reason.com/2026/09/07/if-canada-is-ripping-off-the-u-s-why-is-it-falling-behind/
Source: EconTalk
“Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou).” (09/07/26)
https://www.econtalk.org/meritocracy-exams-and-the-knowledge-that-matters-with-daisy-christodoulou/
Source: NBC News
“Two people were killed and at least 10 injured after Russia struck the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with drones and missiles overnight on Tuesday, local authorities said. The attack comes after a pause over the weekend as U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff arrived in Kyiv for their first official visit in a renewed push to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The main targets of the overnight attack were Kyiv and the southern Odesa region.” (09/08/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/ukraine/russian-drone-missile-strikes-ukrainian-capital-kill-2-people-ending-p-rcna596538
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Apparently, the Pentagon is actively purging any dissent it finds within its ranks, even when it’s for constitutional reasons. Reminds me of the Oathkeepers before the org went a bit rogue, in my opinion. So federal investigators subjected around 50 senior military officers assigned to the U.S. Joint Staff to polygraph lie detector interrogations. Not for espionage or treason, but to find whistleblowers — though the White House will say it is to ferret out traitors. The polygraph sweep was ordered after leaked Pentagon records revealed that six four-star military commanders formally expressed dissent against extended foreign operations, warning that ongoing strikes are ‘unsustainable’ and have severely depleted domestic weapons stockpiles, putting our country at risk. But rather than deal with these warnings by senior military leadership, they were met with a hunt to find and punish any whistleblowers.” (09/06/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/pentagon-polygraph-purge-why-hunting
Source: Associated Press
“Britain is set to ban goods from Israeli [squats] in the occupied West Bank in response to an expansion program that is imperiling efforts to establish [sic] a Palestinian state, the U.K. government said Tuesday. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband is due to give details in the House of Commons later, after saying last week that he would ‘reset’ U.K. relations with Israel. Before the announcement, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said that it ‘isn’t intended to be a boycott of all Israeli goods.’ He said that the measures were ‘specifically targeted at the expansion of these [squats], which are illegal under international law, in the West Bank.’ … Senior Israeli ministers condemned the U.K. government’s impending announcement. … The move also was criticized by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said that it was ‘discrimination against the Jewish people.'” (09/08/27)
https://apnews.com/article/uk-west-bank-israel-settlement-sanctions-b4d7354221bfe0c48e4bfce7a3b7624b
Source: Antiwar.com
by Richard Edain
“The jury took just two hours. Tony Greenstein – Jewish socialist, anti-Zionist – had faced fourteen years under the Terrorism Act for three social media posts and a blog article opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The Crown called it ‘inviting support for Hamas.’ The jury called it something else. Section 12 of the Terrorism Act makes it an offense to invite support for a proscribed organization. Greenstein’s reference to a ‘Gaza ghetto uprising’, it argued, amounted to support for Hamas. Three social media posts and a blog article. The bill the State was demanding for those words – fourteen years.” (09/07/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/richard_edain/2026/09/06/how-britain-tried-to-rig-the-trial-of-a-genocide-opponent-and-lost/
Source: USA Today
“A federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. Constitution does not guarantee the right to clean drinking water in a Sept. 4 decision rejecting Jackson, Mississippi, residents’ lawsuit over the city’s lead-contaminated water system. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling dismissing residents’ 2022 lawsuit. The plaintiffs, Priscilla Sterling, Raine Becker, Shawn Miller and John Bennett, alleged that the city knowingly allowed residents to drink unsafe water. They argued that the water contamination violated their constitutional right to bodily integrity under the 14th Amendment’s due process clause. In the majority decision, Judge Kurt Engelhardt wrote that while the deprivation of clean water was ‘grievous,’ it did ‘not infringe upon any deeply rooted constitutional right.'” (09/07/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/07/court-constitution-right-clean-water/91649488007/
Source: USA Today
by Cristine Soto DeBerry and Greg Srolestar
“In the spring of 2020, the nation was roiled by protests as people reacted to disturbing video footage showing Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kill George Floyd, a Black man he arrested and subdued who posed no plausible danger to him or anyone else. … Some of the calls for changes in 2020 went beyond what most Americans were ready to accept. It’s understandable how a call to ‘defund the police’ was easily turned into a political weapon, especially as crime increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. But in the years since, we’ve seen a growing backlash to any change to policing … This lack of effective accountability is particularly troubling as police killings remain stubbornly high, with most data showing more than 1,000 people killed by officers each year. According to Mapping Police Violence, there were just six days in 2025 when police did not kill someone.” (09/07/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/09/07/police-reform-ice-killings-floyd-woke/91406489007/
Source: Axios
“The war in Iran has now cost U.S. consumers $100 billion in higher energy prices, and the bill is rising another $1 million about every two minutes, per a real-time estimate from Brown University as of Monday morning. … The Iran War Energy Cost Tracker from Brown’s Watson School says higher gasoline and diesel prices have cost the average U.S. household more than $760 since the war began Feb. 28. Most of that is gas, though the diesel burden is rising faster of late. On Friday, diesel hit an all-time record high, and it’s continued to rise every day since. As of Monday morning it’s at $5.90 a gallon, per AAA, up about 60% from a year ago.” (09/07/26)
https://archive.is/dSLMW
