Source: Antiwar.com
by M Reza Behnam

“Looking across the devastated landscape of the Gaza Strip, where surviving generations now carry the permanent physical and psychological scars of war, the ultimate indictment of our era is damning: The world watched the horror unfold in real-time, possessed all the legal, political and institutional mechanisms to stop it, and did nothing. For months, then years, the catastrophe in Gaza tested the fabric of international law, the integrity of global governance and the moral conscience of humanity. From the halls of the United Nations to the high courts of The Hague, what followed was not information failure, but a shameful surrender of political and moral will.” (10/05/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/reza_behnam/2026/10/04/how-never-again-lost-meaning-in-gaza

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

“Reports that more oil is getting through the Strait of Hormuz have been heralded as a win for the Trump administration, but experts say this kind of happy talk hides the fact that the war remains in a quagmire. As shipping costs rise and Iran continues to attack vessels, world markets — including fuel — will remain in peril for the foreseeable future. In other words, no matter how much narrative-shaping is attempted to alter American perspectives before the midterms, prices for consumers will not come down to so-called pre-war levels in time for any change.” (10/05/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/hormuz-oil-transits-war/

Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley

“‘Seven men drugged and gang raped a 20-year-old woman’. That verdict in the alleged Cornell rape case was delivered by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has joined a chorus of others in pronouncing the guilt of Cornell students accused of raping a fellow student. Mind you, not a single witness has testified under oath publicly and not a single charge has been brought. However, guilt is now being collectively declared from the usual figures and outlets who have never been late to mob justice. Ocasio-Cortez declared, ‘I want to be clear that the culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions across the United States and including Cornell University in this instance. It has got to stop’. We have been here before.” (10/05/26)

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/10/05/controversial-ag-appointed-special-counsel-as-democratic-politicians-declare-guilt-in-the-cornell-rape-case/

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem

“The title of Jim Ostrowski’s brief and latest book The Government Takes 80% reads at first like a libertarian’s exaggerated fever-dream of government rapacity over the economy. The government takes 80% of the average American’s productivity every year? It sounds ridiculous on its face. But he literally means it, that all levels of government take some 80% of the average person’s income between taxes and regulations in America today. And he demonstrates the estimate as generally true, despite all conventional wisdom to the contrary.” (10/05/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/yes-government-seizes-80-of-your-productivity

Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter

“War does not seem like a mere necessary evil to Hegseth. I’m not sure he sees even unjust war as evil at all. I think he likes it. Is this conservative? The late conservative sociologist Robert Nisbet didn’t think so.” (10/05/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/conservatives-dont-relish-war/