The Chris Hedges Report, 10/07/26
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore).” (10/07/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Don’t believe government necessary
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Without government protection, irresponsible people would be on their own, facing those they violate: the property owners they cause harm to with their vandalism, trash, and theft. There are better ways of handling this than relying on a gang funded through theft and obsessed with making sure it faces no consequences of its own.” (10/07/26)
Some College Grades Need to Go Up
Source: Law & Liberty
by Joshua T Katz
“Campus free speech sees little improvement in FIRE’s annual report.” (10/08/26)
India: Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi detained over election chief protest
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been detained for the third time in two days during a protest demanding the resignation of the election chief over a controversial revision of voter lists. Gandhi and other opposition lawmakers were apprehended by police on Wednesday as they marched towards Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site in India’s capital, New Delhi. … Opposition parties, their student units and the “Cockroach” youth movement have been demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing the poll body he heads of benefiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.” (10/08/26)
Harrison Berger on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Did Trump Consult AI Before Going to War?” (10/07/26)
In Brazil, Absolutely Nothing Changes
Source: Persuasion
by James Bosworth
“Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, finished first in Sunday’s presidential election with 47 percent of the vote. He beat incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—known universally as Lula—on 45 percent, while his right-wing Partido Liberal (PL) also dominated the votes for both houses of Congress. Brazilians will now head for a runoff election between the two men on October 25. Despite being a country where citizens say they are angry at the status quo and want change, Brazil just voted in favor of… rerunning essentially the same political fight it saw in both 2018 and 2022. The country’s politics, in other words, is stagnant.” (10/07/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/in-brazil-absolutely-nothing-changes
You Can’t Run From Christian Nationalism
Source: Liberal Currents
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
“As the midterms approach, there has been much focus on how to break the Trump coalition. But one bloc is either written off as hopeless or folded into other categories, when it has long deserved its own strategy and approach. Without the support of white evangelicals, Donald Trump would have never become president and certainly would not have dominated our politics for a decade. And MAGA will never be defeated until liberals approach white evangelicals with a strategy focused on their distinctive characteristics.” (10/08/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/you-cant-run-from-christian-nationalism/
New US regime indictment charges Maduro with torture
Source: SFGate
“U.S. authorities charged former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro with conspiring to torture his fellow citizens in order to maintain his hold on power. The new indictment, unsealed Thursday, adds pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking offenses. Maduro, who was previously charged with participating in a conspiracy to send cocaine into the U.S., is now also facing allegations of human rights abuses during his reign as president of the oil-rich South American nation.” [editor’s note: Unless Venezuela is a US state or territory, there’s no US jurisdiction to try those allegations – TLK] (10/08/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/wife-of-ex-venezuelan-president-nicol-s-maduro-22467856.php
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/07/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Syria May Send Jihadists To Fight Ansar Allah in Yemen, Trump May Bomb Iran Before Midterm, and More.” (10/07/26)
These Minnesota parents were censored at a public meeting for saying school employees’ job titles
Source: Expression
by Matthew Harwood
“A local school board in Minnesota has taken censorship to absurd heights. During the public comment period at Foley Public School Board meetings, concerned citizens are forbidden from saying not only the names of school staff and officials but even their titles. These revelations come from Blake and Katy DeMarais, concerned parents of a disabled and nonverbal special education student in the district. Over the summer, the parents complained that the district was failing to provide educational services to their son, only to be censored in a public meeting. … the Foley school board trampled on the DeMaraises’ First Amendment rights. When a school board opens a meeting to public comment, it can’t censor its constituents for criticizing school staff, much less simply naming them or mentioning their titles.” (10/07/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/these-minnesota-parents-were-censored