Pakistan Has Never Looked So Important
Source: Persuasion
by Rashmee Roshan Lall
“There’s only one winner of the Iran deal—the country that made it happen.” (06/26/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/pakistan-has-never-looked-so-important
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Iraq: Officials, including lawmakers, arrested on corruption charges in overnight raid
Source: New York Post
“Several Iraqi political officials were arrested early Sunday on corruption charges, Iraq’s state-run Iraqi News Agency reported. It said the arrests were based on statement made by former Deputy Minister of Oil Adnan al-Jumaili, who was arrested last month, and ‘included members of Parliament whose immunity had been lifted.’ Iraqi security forces sealed off all entrances to the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone early Sunday and carried out raids inside the compound that houses key government institutions and foreign embassies. A security agency report obtained by The Associated Press said that seven people were arrested, among them five members of Parliament.” (06/28/26)
Serious Trouble, 06/26/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“At Least the Fancy Lawyers Are Still Getting Rich.” (06/26/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/at-least-the-fancy-lawyers-are-still
Trump’s Latest Election Power Grab Runs Through the Postal Service
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“A new USPS rulemaking will prevent mail-in ballots in states that won’t comply with the administration’s demands.” (06/26/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-election-power-grab
Trump to nominate former Oklahoma state trooper as ICE gang shot-caller
Source: United Press International
“President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he nominated former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to be director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Schroyer, a senior advisor at the Department of Homeland Security and retired U.S. Marine, will replace former acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, who announced in April that he would leave the agency on May 31. Trump announced that he is nominating Schroyer for the position in a post on Truth Social, touting his 29 years in law enforcement, including in previous partnership roles with ICE.” (06/27/26)
The Inner Life of Liberalism, episode 3
Source: The Inner Life of Liberalism
“Delight in Difference.” (06/26/26)
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/aaronpowell/episodes/003-Delight-in-Difference-e3ladg4
The Unfortunate Necessity of Court Packing to Stop America’s Authoritarian Drift
Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig
“A few years ago, court packing was a fringe idea with no realistic prospects. President Biden’s commission on Supreme Court reform pointedly declined to endorse adding seats, and no realistic vote count could reach 51 in the Senate—not only for expansion itself, but for nuking the legislative filibuster to bring it to a vote at all. That is no longer the case.” (06/26/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-unfortunate-necessity-of-court
The Poverty of the UN’s Degrowth Agenda
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vance Ginn
“Global initiatives promise justice through economic restraint. In practice, they would make societies poorer and opportunity scarcer.” (06/26/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-poverty-of-the-uns-degrowth-agenda/
Burkina Faso: Regime severs diplomatic ties with France
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Burkina Faso’s military junta has broken off diplomatic ties with France, accusing Paris of persistently acting against its national interests. Relations between Burkina Faso and its former colonial ruler worsened after Capt Ibrahim Traore seized power in a coup in 2022 and pursued largely anti-Western policies. In a televised statement on Friday, communications minister Pingdwendé Gilbert Ouédraogo said France was guilty of ‘ceaseless activism’ against his country and accused it of ‘neo-colonial ambitions.’ The French foreign ministry called the decision ‘hostile and unfounded’ and said it ‘illustrated the troubling drift by the Burkinabe government.'” (06/27/26)
The Myth of Nationalist Victory: The Articles of Confederation and the Bank of North America
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter
“It is not uncommon for people to conflate victory and liberty with centralization and inflation. Even in the case of the American Revolution—which was relatively decentralized—many at the time, and others since, argued that monetary inflation, standing armies and a state-centric approach to war, consolidation under a centralized national government, direct taxation, and central banking were all necessary to achieve victory and independence. The not-too-subtle implication is that liberty depends on big government.” (06/26/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/myth-nationalist-victory-articles-confederation-and-bank-north-america