Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 12/08/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“IDF Chief Says Gaza’s ‘Yellow Line’ Is a ‘New Border,’ US Bombs Somalia 7 More Times, and More.” (12/08/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
It’s Time to Make America Truly Tribal Again
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“Way back in the 1700s there was this fucked up little place called Florida, or at least that’s what the Spaniards called it. The original natives of the region had multiple different names for this untamable swampland but most of them were wiped out by slaughter and disease from the Conquistadors who declared the wild mess, Florida. They didn’t last long though. In fact, those butchers only managed to build and populate a few colonialist missions before their glorious Catholic empire collapsed in the tall grass surrounding them and, in spite of such efforts, most of Florida remained a verdant wilderness teeming with all kinds of shit that freaked white people the fuck out- snakes, alligators, mosquitos, humidity … But there was one tribe of Indians just wild enough to call this no-man’s-land home.” (12/07/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/12/its-time-to-make-america-truly-tribal.html
Cult(ure) of Abuse
Source: The Reframe
by AR Moxon
“Man, I don’t know. Lately it’s hard to know where even to start or where to begin. Do I have to list all the news stories? Either you’re aware or you aren’t. Many aren’t. I don’t know what to do with that fact, but it seems like a choice, though an understandable one. Awareness carries a high cost these days. It’s exhausting. It’s meant to be exhausting, I think. This is how supremacy works. The costs of reparation are very high, and the cost of awareness comes first of all.” (12/07/25)
https://www.the-reframe.com/cult-ure-of-abuse/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
Trump: Nice merger deal ya got there … be a shame if anything happened to it
Source: NBC News
“President Donald Trump said Sunday that the proposed $72 billion merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery ‘could be a problem’ because of the amount of market share the resulting company would have. … Trump said he would consult ‘some economists’ before the deal get his stamp of approval. ‘I’ll be involved in that decision, too,’ he said. Historically, presidents have not often gotten involved in antitrust approvals when companies seek to merge. Neither Netflix nor Warner Bros. own any broadcast stations, so the deal would not require approval by Federal Communications Commission. However, it may still require approval by the Justice Department’s antitrust division.” (12/07/25)
Fountainhead Forum, episode 397
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Cassie Clark on the unique history and culture of North Carolina.” (12/07/25)
Ignorance and Indignation
Source: Quillette
by Brian Stewart
“Obama veterans never understood the Middle East, and they never will.” (12/07/25)
Trump Is Repeating One of Biden’s Big Mistakes
Source: The Atlantic
by David Axelrod
“Donald Trump recaptured the White House in part by relentlessly exploiting Joe Biden’s failure to heed widespread concerns about the rising cost of living. Now, bizarrely, President Trump is walking himself — and his party — into the same perilous trap by denying the economic reality that working families are living.” (12/07/25)
China: Trade surplus tops $1 trillion for first time amid pivot to counter US lull
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“China’s annual trade surplus in goods has topped $1 trillion for the first time, with plunging exports to the United States amid a tariff war more than compensated for by shipments to other markets, new data shows. Figures released by China’s General Administration of Customs on Monday showed the trade surplus for the first 11 months of the year hit $1.08 trillion in November, as exports climbed 5.9 percent year-on-year that month, reversing a 1.1 percent decline the month prior. The leap came despite a continued slump in exports to the US, which fell 28.6 percent to $33.8bn last month, the data showed.” [editor’s note: As Don Boudreaux occasionally reminds us, exports are the price paid for imports. Consumers in a country “enjoying” a “trade surplus” are getting a worse, not better, deal – TLK] (12/08/25)
Dave DeCamp on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Dave DeCamp on the Boat Strikes, Somalia and Trump’s Al Qaeda Friend.” (12/07/25)
The Constitution and the Trump Tariffs
Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Rob Natelson
“Are tariffs always taxes? When does a statute granting powers to the president go too far? These are some of the questions the Supreme Court will address in two consolidated tariffs cases: Learning Resources, Inc v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections. This essay unpacks the principal constitutional issues for you. It examines those issues through the lens of the Constitution’s original meaning, irrespective of any mistaken later interpretations.” (12/07/25)
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/12/07/the-constitution-and-the-trump-tariffs/