Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“The Palestinian Red Crescent on Thursday warned that aid trucks allowed into Gaza this week have not yet reached civilians and that the limited number of deliveries risks fueling chaos and violence. Israel announced this week it would begin allowing aid into the Palestinian territory after a nearly three-month blockade of food and supplies. However, the UN has expressed frustration with the scale and pace of deliveries as most trucks stuck are at the border crossing or awaiting Israeli permission to distribute supplies. … UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said about 90 trucks of aid were transported to multiple destinations within Gaza on Wednesday, and the World Food Program reported that a ‘handful of bakeries’ in southern and central Gaza had resumed bread production.” (05/23/25)
https://www.dw.com/en/some-aid-reaches-gaza-as-israel-lets-some-trucks-through/a-72637042
Source: The American Conservative
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Trump’s critics accuse him of trying to implement his hardline views on immigration policy under the false guise of a national security imperative. If Trump’s strategy were allowed to stand, critics contend, undocumented immigrants from Venezuela and other countries could be deported with little or no due process. They would be treated as members of an invading terrorist army. Advocates of a liberal immigration policy consider the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act as a mortal threat to their agenda. … It is mighty late for Trump’s opponents to take a stand regarding the limits of the president’s war powers.” (05/22/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/horrified-democrats-discover-the-imperial-presidency/
Source: The Fifth Column
“Kill the White People.” (05/22/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/506-kill-the-white-people
Source: The Hill
“The Supreme Court deadlocked 4-4 on whether to approve the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school Thursday, leaving intact a lower ruling that voided the Oklahoma school’s contract. ‘The judgment is affirmed by an equally divided court,’ the court wrote in its one-sentence, unsigned opinion. Only eight justices sat for the case, since Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused. The decision lets stand a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting the bid to establish St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which spurred a major constitutional battle over the role of religion in state-funded education.” (05/22/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5313724-divided-supreme-court-affirms-ruling-rejecting-public-religious-charter-school-in-oklahoma/
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“On May 20, Israeli forces bombed two homes in Gaza, where, Reuters reports, ‘children were among the 18 dead.’ The attack was justified, the Israeli regime claims, because — who knows? — there might have been a Hamas member hiding in one of the closets or something. To criticize those killings, we’re told, is ‘anti-semitic’ even though the dead were almost certainly all semites (Palestinian Arabs). And there are a LOT of such attacks. On May 21, a gunman killed two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC. Cue outrage — THAT attack, the Israeli regime tells us, was both unjustified and ‘anti-semitic.’ … As in George Orwell’s Animal Farm, ‘all animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others.'” (05/22/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19597
Source: SFGate
“Russia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their first face-to-face session since shortly after Moscow’s invasion in 2022 and days after U.S. President Donald Trump said they would start ceasefire negotiations ‘immediately.’ ‘There is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. ‘They are yet to be agreed upon.’ During two hours of talks in Istanbul on May 16, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, in what would be their biggest such swap. Apart from that step, the meeting delivered no significant breakthrough. Several months of intensified U.S. and European pressure on the two sides to accept a ceasefire and negotiate a settlement have yielded little progress. Meanwhile, Russia is readying a summer offensive to capture more Ukrainian land, Ukrainian government and military analysts say.” (05/22/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/no-new-direct-russia-ukraine-peace-talks-20340501.php
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“By any conventional measurement, Trump’s first 100 days have been tumultuous. This page — as it should — has taken a hard line against the implementation of the new tariffs and there is no backtracking from that criticism, even as many of Trump’s supporters have angrily reacted to the criticism. Furthermore, even Trump has thrown cold water on economic expectations with his recent ‘two dolls’ comments regarding how his tariffs have driven up prices for some goods. But Trump and his supporters claim that his economic regime of tariffs will have a ‘pain first, gain later’ effect, something we have also dealt with on this page. What Trump has not explained, however, is how his policies will affect the longer-term capital development that any growing economy desperately needs.” (05/22/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/regime-uncertainty-and-trump-new-deal
Source: WBUR [US state media]
“The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students. The school called the decision ‘unlawful.’ The Department of Homeland Security announced Thursday it had terminated Harvard’s certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. In a letter to the university, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Harvard of cultivating a ‘unsafe’ campus that fosters antisemitism. ‘It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments,’ Noem said in a statement. ‘Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.’ Harvard will no longer be able to enroll students with specific nonimmigrant statuses next school year.” (05/22/25)
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/22/trump-administration-revokes-harvards-ability-to-enroll-international-students
Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy
“America’s debt-addicted government just lost its triple-A credit rating from Moody’s, as it previously had from fellow rating agencies S&P and Fitch. Many in Washington shrugged the move off as minor or as unfair treatment of the Trump administration. The truth is more sobering: a flashing red signal that the United States is no longer seen as a ‘perfect’ credit risk and that politicians should stop pretending economic growth alone can bail us out. Yes, the mess is real, and it’s because habitual deficit financing—the very disease fiscally-minded Founding Father Alexander Hamilton warned against—has become business as usual.” (05/22/25)
https://reason.com/2025/05/22/americas-credit-is-falling-and-the-government-is-still-digging-deeper-into-debt/
Source: Bloomberg
“Applications for US unemployment benefits fell to a four-week low, adding to evidence that the job market remains healthy in the face of growing uncertainty tied to trade policy. Initial claims decreased by 2,000 to 227,000 in the week ended May 17, roughly in line with forecasts, Labor Department data showed Thursday. The period includes the government’s survey week for its monthly employment report. Continuing claims, a proxy for the number of people receiving benefits, rose to 1.9 million in the previous week.” (05/22/25)
https://archive.is/FFpX2
