Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 02/19/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Reps. Khanna and Massie To Force Iran War Powers Vote, Trump Preps Major Attack, and More.” (02/19/26)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
The cowboy who got rich selling veggie burgers
Source: Grist
by Frida Garza
“To see the future of food, look no further than Sam Cobb, the cattle rancher making soy-based Boca Burgers.” (02/19/26)
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/the-cowboy-who-got-rich-selling-veggie-burgers/
Is NATO creating an Arctic crisis to placate Trump?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Pavel Devyatkin
“Last week, NATO launched ‘Arctic Sentry,’ a new ‘multi-domain activity’ that, for the first time, places Allied operations in the Arctic under a single command structure. The move marks a significant scaling-up of NATO’s footprint in the Arctic. But unfortunately, as NATO’s regional military presence increases, the mechanisms for preventing that footprint from generating a crisis are not keeping pace. … Arctic Sentry arrives in a politically charged context. President Trump has ramped up tensions in the alliance by threatening to annex Greenland. The mission follows Trump’s meeting with Rutte in Davos, where they agreed NATO should do more for Arctic defense and ‘prevent the Russians and the Chinese getting more access to the Arctic region.’ Even after Europe dispatched a small, symbolic force to Greenland last month, the White House made clear that European troops there would not change Trump’s mind about annexation.” (02/19/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/nato-arctic-military-exercises/
Indebted to the Printing Press: Fiscal Dominance Is No Longer Theoretical
Source: The Daily Economy
by Alexander W Salter
“As debt-service costs surge, deficits pressure the Fed in ways that threaten long-term price stability. Pandemic stimulus has given way to structural imbalance.” (02/19/26)
Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Source: Mother Jones
“Even if the move fails in court, there will be consequences.” (02/19/26)
Ruling on Palestine Action ban casts even more doubt on UK’s troubling mass arrests of peaceful protesters
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“Last week, anti-Israel activist group Palestine Action won a victory in the courts as the High Court of Justice in London declared the government’s 2025 ban on the group disproportionate and unlawful. The ruling could have major implications for free expression in the United Kingdom given how widely and aggressively the ban on Palestine Action was imposed last year. Ultimately, the ban wasn’t just about the group itself or its conduct but a much broader range of speech about the group — all enforced under anti-terror legislation.” (02/19/26)
NPR Politics Podcast, 02/19/26
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages.” (02/19/26)
Orbán is Trump’s Immigration Idol
Source: Persuasion
by Charles Lane
“But unlike Hungary, America was built on an idea—one that won’t sustain ethnic nationalism.” (02/19/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/trump-wants-to-be-americas-orban
Fine Arts Commission approves Trump’s ballroom plan
Source: United Press International
“The Commission of Fine Arts has unanimously approved plans for President Donald Trump’s almost 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom plans, the first hurdle in starting the building project. The commission, whose members were all appointed by Trump, including his executive assistant, Chamberlain Harris, 26. The original architect of the ballroom recused himself from the vote. Trump fired all the previous members in October. But now, the project must win approval from the National Capital Planning Commission, which could vote on March 5.” (02/19/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/02/19/fine-arts-commission-trump-ballroom-plan/1711771522835/
UN Report: Israeli Forces and Hamas Committed Atrocity Crimes in Gaza
Source: US News & World Report
“Israeli forces, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups have both committed serious violations of international humanitarian law in Gaza and carried out atrocity crimes, a U.N. report published on Thursday said. Intensified Israeli attacks and the forcible transfer of Palestinians appeared aimed at a permanent demographic shift in Gaza ‘raising concerns over ethnic cleansing,’ the report by the U.N. human rights office said. The holding and mistreatment of hostages by the Hamas Islamist militant group may amount to war crimes, it said.” (02/19/26)