Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 08/03/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“US To Expand Military Presence in Somalia’s Bosaso, ‘Board of Peace’ Walks Back Gaza Deal, and More.” (08/03/26)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Germany’s AfD Is Closer Than Ever to Power
Source: The UnPopulist
by Tim Ganser
“How a country shaped by its fascist past is on the verge of watching the far-right party close in on control.” (08/03/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/germanys-afd-is-closer-than-ever
Call Off the Iran War. Just Walk Away!
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“The war which was supposed to last a couple of weeks and ‘pay for itself’ is entering into its sixth month and the price tag so far is above $100 billion. A war that was started to thwart an Iranian nuclear threat that according to US Intelligence didn’t exist has become a war to open a waterway – the Hormuz Strait – that was open before the war started. … There is no path to victory in the war. It is now only about how to manage defeat.” (08/03/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/call-off-the-iran-war-just-walk-away
Status of US-Iran talks uncertain as ship struck in Hormuz
Source: Reuters
“Conflicting signals from the United States and Iran over the status of talks to end their five-month-old war boosted uncertainty on Tuesday, with the latest attack on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz highlighting risks to global energy flows. U.S. President Donald Trump said the talks were under way on Monday, warning of a ‘last chance’ for Tehran to sign a good deal, but Iran denied that negotiations were being held or planned. … One cargo vessel broadcast it had been hit by an unknown projectile near the strait off Oman’s coast, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said.” [editor’s note: I don’t think the status is “uncertain.” On this issue, at this time, the Iranian regime is clearly more credible/believable than the US regime – TLK] (08/04/26)
The New Big Three
Source: The Realist Review
by James W Carden
“Surveying the devastation wrought by the wars in Ukraine and Iran, the Nigerian writer and former secretary general of African workers, Owei Lakemfa, concludes that ‘humanity is moving back to the pre-World War era when there were no agreed universal rules, might was right.’ Today, writes Lakemfa, ‘strongmen, and nations roam around as terrorists and bandits playing God. The strongest is the Zelensky, Netanyahu, and Trump triumvirate.’ This is how the world outside of NATO and Tel Aviv sees things. This might spur a normal country run by normal people to question the wisdom of its current course. Needless to say, in 2026, the US is no such country.” (08/03/26)
Reason Roundtable, 08/03/26
Source: Reason
“Is Democratic Socialism Going National?” (08/03/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/08/03/is-democratic-socialism-going-national/
At least 27 killed as Russian, Ukrainian regimes trade heavy attacks
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“At least 16 people have been killed in Russia and 11 in Ukraine, according to local officials from each side, as both countries continue to exchange attacks. Early on Tuesday, Russian state news agency TASS said that five people had been killed in a drone attack …. Veniamin Kondratyev, the governor of Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, said seven people, including three children, were killed and nearly 40 wounded when drone debris fell on the resort village of Arkhipo-Osipovka …. Sergey Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed head of Russian-occupied Crimea, who reported that the death toll on the peninsula had risen to four people …. In Ukraine, three people, including an emergency response worker and his eight-year-old son, were killed in a Russian attack on a petrol station in the Kryvyi Rih district of the Dnipropetrovsk region …. Additionally, eight people were killed, including two children, in an overnight attack in Zaporizhzhia.” (08/03/26)
Liberal Toleration and Ordinary Vices
Source: Liberalism.org
by Shal Marriott
“Liberalism, which fundamentally defends a baseline commitment to pluralism, is at its core dedicated to the idea that we can agree to disagree. Toleration is represented not only through the political debates we engage in—it means that we, as individuals, are tolerant of one another. In a public sphere that is filled with polarized discourse, where the stakes of the present moment seem so exhaustingly high, and one’s own views are in need of a firm defense, an appeal to toleration becomes even more difficult. This makes it worth revisiting one of the age-old subjects of debates within the liberal tradition: what ought we, as liberals, to tolerate?” (08/03/26)
https://www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-toleration-and-ordinary-vices
Bitcoin nears $64,000 as traders look past Strategy’s BTC sales and Coldcard sweeps
Source: CoinDesk
“Bitcoin neared $64,000 in Asian morning hours Tuesday, up 2% over 24 hours and 1% on the week, recovering the $63,000 level it lost during Monday’s session. The low came near $62,250 before a steady bid carried it to just above $64,100 overnight. Ether lagged near $1,865, up marginally on the day but still down 1% over seven days, the only major in the red on the weekly view. XRP rose almost 1% to $1.08 and is up 2% on the week. BNB added 1.5% to nearly $591 and leads the majors over seven days at almost 5%.” (08/04/26)
A Fantastic (and Very Funny) Act of Civil Disobedience
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“When [Samuel] Tunick arrived at the airport, he was taken aside for special interrogation, where his luggage and his diary were subjected to careful search. They then asked for his cell phone, claiming that Tunick was suspected of possessing child pornography. It was a lie. According to an article at CNN.com, during a court hearing last week, officials admitted that they had no reason to suspect that Tunick possessed child-abuse material. They just made it up, knowing that nothing would happen to them if they were caught lying to an American citizen. Here comes the funny part. Tunick turned over his cell phone to them and gave them the password — well, not his regular password but instead a special password. When they punched in the special password, it activated software that automatically wiped the entire cellphone clean. All data gone. Poof! That is absolutely awesome.” (08/03/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/08/03/a-fantastic-and-very-funny-act-of-civil-disobedience/