Source: Brownstone Institute
by Clayton J Baker, MD

“Whenever I suspect that my beloved profession has finally reached rock bottom in its utter subservience to the vaccine-industrial complex, I stand corrected by the report of some new-world-record, bathyspheric descent into depravity that some new group of physicians has managed to achieve. Independent journalist Jon Fleetwood reports that some of the largest and best-known pediatric hospitals in the United States are vaccinating thousands of children while under anesthesia for surgical procedures.” (10/29/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-medical-and-ethical-atrocity-of-perioperative-vaccination/

Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff

“For over three decades, the International Convention on Biodiversity has brought together governments and civil society to protect and preserve what the United Nations describes as ‘the living fabric of our planet’. This year’s gathering, taking place in Armenia from Oct. 19 to 30, is a sobering assessment of the mending that’s taken place so far. The 23 targets set at a previous session include extending conservation protections to 30% of the world’s land and water areas, restoring degraded ecosystems, and recovering threatened species – and doing all this in tandem with longtime or Indigenous human inhabitants of those areas. To date, 90% of countries have established biodiversity goals. And ‘implementation is underway across all targets’, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development. Technology transfers and scientific cooperation are taking place. Deforestation in the Amazon has fallen. And species such as the Central Asian saiga antelope and California condor have recorded notable comebacks.” (10/28/26)

https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/1028/The-boosts-and-busts-in-biodiversity-targets

Source: USA Today
by Rex Huppke

“While there are significant differences between the run-up to the 1980s farm crisis and what’s happening in farming today, understanding the history of that decade is crucial to recognizing the seriousness of the moment we’re in. I know the state of agriculture won’t be high on most people’s lists of most important issues, but the families who farm the land in America are a vital-if-nearly-invisible part of our everyday lives.” (10/29/26)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/10/29/1980-farm-crisis-economy-fuel-prices-2026/92347006007/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“When someone becomes an employee of the U.S. government, and especially the all-powerful national-security state branch of the government, he is expected to leave his conscience and sense of right and wrong behind. While he ostensibly takes an oath to support and defend the Constitution, that’s actually a sham. As a practical matter, every federal official is expected to loyally and patriotically support the actions of the U.S. government, including the dark-side actions of the U.S. national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA.” (10/29/26)

https://www.fff.org/2026/10/29/dark-side-powers-versus-conscience-and-morality/

Source: New York Post
by Miad Maleki

“‘It’s getting to be decision time’ on Iran, President Donald Trump said Sunday. ‘Do I finish it off, which would be very easy to do, or do I make a deal?’ he mused in a Fox News interview. On Tuesday, at a get-out-the-vote rally in Lubbock, Texas, he put the choice on a clock. ‘You’ll see Iran in a couple of weeks,’ he said — the window that opens after Election Day, Nov. 3. US and Israeli military planners have reportedly mapped out a short post-midterm campaign against Iran’s nuclear, missile and energy sites; some officials think three days of strikes could force concessions. I spent eight years at the Treasury Department tightening sanctions on this regime — and I want it gone. Which is why the next round of bombs should stay in the racks.” (10/28/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/10/28/opinion/the-islamic-republic-only-survives-on-war-dont-give-tehran-what-it-craves/