Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent huffily denounced Iranian leaders on Friday after being moved to a US military base amid alleged security concerns from a threat linked to Iran. ‘F the Iranian leadership,’ Bessent said during an appearance on CNBC. He actually said the letter ‘F’, like a little kid describing something he heard a grownup say. ‘I’m not gonna be cowered that they have initiated death threats against me,’ Bessent added. … Bessent has repeatedly admitted to deliberately fomenting the violent unrest in Iran at the beginning of this year, saying the US actively crushed the Iranian economy with the explicit goal of driving a desperate, immiserated population to civil war against their government.” (11/14/26)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/11/14/us-treasury-secretary-cries-about-alleged-iran-threat-after-targeting-iran/

Source: Law & Liberty
by Nadya Williams

“Over his lengthy career in writing essays, short stories, novels, and poems, Berry kept coming back to the same point: we are all created for relationships—with our Creator, of course, but also with each other and with the places where we dwell. It is good for us—body, mind, and soul—to have healthy roots in our communities. It is good for our physical bodies to be close to the sources of our food, and good for our minds and souls to live lives that are peaceful and not frantic. Yes, the farming life is one of hard work, but at its best, Berry argued, that hard work is filled with dignity, love, and joy. And this is how he lived his own life of farming and writing.” (11/13/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/wendell-berrys-farewell/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Does María Corina Machado, the leading figure in Venezuela’s opposition movement, have much longer to live? In other words, will she fall victim to a state-sponsored assassination at the hands of government assassins in the Venezuelan national-security establishment and the U.S. national-security establishment? Both the Venezuelan and U.S. national-security establishments wield the omnipotent power of assassination. Venezuelan military-intelligence officials know that if they were to assassinate Machado, nothing would happen to them. The same goes for Pentagon and CIA officials. They too know that if they assassinated Machado, nothing would happen to them.” (11/13/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/11/13/are-maria-corina-machados-days-numbered/

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Rev. John F Naugle

“Many years ago, during my undergraduate years at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, someone pointed out to me the black dot which was on the spines of some of the older books in the stacks of our library. This black dot indicated that the book formerly had been held in closed stacks because it had been placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (‘Index of Prohibited Books’), the Church’s official list of books which were judged to be dangerous to faith or morals. … This memory came to mind a few days ago at the Brownstone Conference and Gala as I discussed with Jeffrey Tucker his recent article about how nearly impossible it is to gain access to our own government’s Vaccine Safety Datalink.” (11/13/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-secret-cult-of-vsd/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Jp Cortez

“Lower fees and faster permitting could marginally ease housing costs, but the legacy of cheap credit continues to constrain the market.” (11/13/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/years-of-cheap-credit-built-a-housing-market-trap/