Source: Axios
“Some of the world’s largest music publishers filed a blockbuster lawsuit against Anthropic late Friday night, alleging ‘one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts [sic] of intellectual property [sic] in history.’ … The Sony/Warner lawsuit is notable because it’s broad. It alleges Anthropic unlawfully trained its models off ‘tens of thousands’ of music publishers’ copyrighted compositions, whereas other lawsuits have focused on a narrower set of works.” (08/29/26)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/29/anthropic-sony-warner-music-copyright
Source: Heartland Institute
‘The scenes coming out of Nepal of the glacier collapse and flash flood of mud, ice, and water are horrifying. The amount of devastation is almost hard to fathom, and the landscape is changed forever. Mainstream media outlets are blaming the disaster on climate change, and pointing to human activity warming the globe as the top cause. We will expose the truth.” (08/28/26)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/nepal-disaster-the-climate-realism-show-214/
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Trudy Rubin
“A U.S. president must work hard to rupture a relationship with a neighboring country that has been America’s closest economic, security, and people-to-people partner for decades. Leave it to Donald Trump. He has just started a new trade war with Canada that will hurt the U.S. economy, batter our auto industry, and undermine American farmers over his irrational love of tariffs and obsession with turning the Great White North into the 51st state.” (08/30/26)
https://archive.is/x4LtU
Source: The Dispatch
“The Wave Is Coming | Ruminant.” (08/29/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/the-wave-is-coming-ruminant/
Source: Asia Times
by Ronan Wordsworth
“Russia is not about to collapse. It still occupies a large part of Ukraine, continues to fire hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities, and retains an enormous advantage in population and resources over its smaller neighbor. Yet four and a half years after Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion, the war is beginning to look less like a contest Russia merely needs to endure and more like a trap from which it has no obvious escape, with no path to victory.” (08/28/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/08/bear-trap-russia-is-running-out-of-good-options-in-ukraine/
Source: The Atlantic
by Matteo Wong
“If there’s one thing America seems to agree on, it’s AI. Some three-quarters of Americans oppose a data center being built in their area, three-quarters of Americans think AI will hurt their job security, nearly 70 percent think the technology is advancing too quickly—the polls go on. Progressive and Republican candidates alike are bashing the tech industry to win primary elections. States and cities are halting plans for data-center development. Yet in cloistered San Francisco, where I live, staffers at OpenAI and Anthropic are developing this same feared technology at light speed and pulling down compensation packages that stretch to considerably more than $1 million. … so I noticed when a small group, with ties to both the Bay Area and Washington, started making noise, insisting that the AI race slow down and the technology be overseen not by executives and engineers, but by the broadest population possible.” (08/28/26)
https://archive.is/k0hSY
Source: Politico
“Iceland has voted against restarting accession talks with the European Union in a referendum held this weekend. A tally of votes on Sunday morning, reported by Iceland’s national broadcaster, RÚV, showed that Icelanders rejected the government’s bid to resume negotiations with the bloc, with 52.8 percent voting against and 47.2 percent in favor — a difference of some 12,600 votes. Turnout was high across the country of almost 400,000 people with 82.5 percent of eligible voters casting a ballot. While the ‘yes’ vote was widely supported in the capital, Reykjavík, the ‘no’ vote prevailed in rural areas. … Iceland first started talks to join the EU in 2009, in the aftermath of the financial crisis that devastated its financial sector. These talks were largely inconclusive before being definitively called off in 2015, with arguments over fishing quotas contributing to the collapse.” (08/29/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/icelanders-say-no-to-restarting-talks-to-join-the-eu
Source: The Hill
“Lindsey Granger gives her lens on a new report which reveals that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut a military program that had vast support among top military officials.” (08/28/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6043119-rising-august-28-2026/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Hayden Long
“Since the 2013 Edward Snowden leaks, surveillance and debates surrounding it have become part of the American experience. In recent years, Ring video doorbell users have successfully pushed back against the company’s policy of sharing data with police departments. A nationwide movement is demanding the discontinuation of Flock Cameras, a widely adopted automatic license plate reader that gathers data on anyone who drives past. However, another concerning surveillance trend has flown under the radar. Since 2023, local and state police departments across the country have purchased technology for real-time monitoring of smart devices from the Israeli firm Cognyte Solutions LP.” (08/28/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-surveillance-tech/
Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley
“Pennsylvania state representative and Democratic Socialist Chris Rabb is the latest Democrat to reaffirm his alliance with virulent antisemite Hasan Piker. What is most notable, however, is his attack on establishment Democrats as ‘institutionalists’, a new label reflecting the radical agenda for changing our constitutional system. It is a term that is now in vogue on the far left by those who want to tear down our institutions and scrap our Constitution. Across the country, attacks are growing on Democrats and independents who are viewed as insufficiently radical. Those of us who continue to celebrate the Madisonian democracy as creating the most successful and stable republic in history are now ‘cultists’ and ‘institutionalists’ who are trapped in ‘nostalgia’. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have drawn support from many who want a literal revolution.” (08/29/26)
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/08/29/f-that-noise-institutionalist-becomes-in-the-new-oligarch-label-for-the-far-left/
