“It is a fitting description of so many of the political leaders we have had in the last twenty-five years. It is no accident that this has been an era defined by almost constant warfare. War is the ‘solution’ favored by the cruel and stupid. Our men of narrow hearts and little minds in high places resort to the same failed policies year after year, and they produce the same miserable results every time. They hallucinate or fabricate threats, overreact to the imaginary threats, and then needlessly kill a lot of people to ‘solve’ a problem that never existed.” (04/16/26)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
President Trump’s and Vice-President Vance’s criticisms of Pope Leo on matters of war and peace bring to mind important points that others have historically made about America’s current system of militarism, imperialism, warmongering, and the destruction of the liberty and well-being of the American people at the hands of their own government.” (04/16/26)
“Every April, Americans spend more than 7 billion hours filing taxes and roughly the same amount of time arguing over them, almost entirely on the basis of several common myths. Here are the five most consequential.” (04/16/26)
“What Israel and the US seek is not a peace deal but an agreement to turn the government in Beirut into something like the Palestinian Authority.” (04/16/26)
“U.S. military forces struck a vessel Wednesday in the eastern Pacific Ocean, [murdering] three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs. No U.S. personnel were harmed, the U.S. Southern Command said in a social media post. Several such strikes have been announced in recent days as the Trump administration continues its aggressive anti-cartel actions in international waters. At least 178 people have been [murdered] in the strikes since the effort began in early September, months before the U.S. raid in January that captured then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.” (04/16/26)
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“You’re most likely reading this article from a country that is not China. So, naturally, you might think that China’s censorship laws have nothing to do with you. Not so fast. The interconnectedness of global commerce has created crevices for authoritarian censorship to seep in, and the latest news out of the Victoria and Albert Museum offers a perfect illustration of how it unfolds. The Victoria and Albert Museum, the United Kingdom’s famed art institution, joins the growing list of institutions that have consented to censorship rules imposed by the Chinese government in order to print goods more affordably in the country.” (04/16/26)
