The Chris Hedges Report, 10/15/25
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“Drug Trafficking and Murder In the Special Forces (w/ Seth Harp).” (10/15/25)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/drug-trafficking-and-murder-in-the
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
Health Care News Podcast, episode 606
Source: Heartland Institute
“Why Obamacare Was Never Affordable — A Candid Look at the 2025 Health Care Stalemate.” (10/15/25)
Yes kings? Republicans revel in Trump’s imperial presidency
Source: Semafor
by David Weigel
“”No Kings’: How is that objectionable?’ Indivisible’s Ezra Levin, a ‘No Kings’ organizer, asked in an MSNBC interview. ‘How could anybody say that’s anything other than the most American thing since apple pie?’ Republicans can say as much. That’s because, with a few libertarian exceptions, they see a lot to like about Trump stripping power from the legislative branch of the US government. Trump is undoing post-Watergate norms that took away the president’s right to impound congressionally-appropriated money, strike enemies without congressional approval, and govern without the distraction of politicized investigations — and most Republicans would respond: What’s wrong with that?” (10/15/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/15/2025/yes-kings-republicans-revel-in-trumps-imperial-presidency
Pentagon’s press badge policy unites journalists by offending the Constitution
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Adam Goldstein
“Journalists from FOX News, ABC, and over a dozen other news organizations are refusing to sign the Pentagon’s new policy for press credentials, saying in a joint statement that it ‘threatens core journalistic protections.’ They’re right about that. At least a couple of the policy’s provisions burden fundamental newsgathering with vague restrictions that invite government overreach.” (10/15/25)
https://www.thefire.org/news/pentagons-press-badge-policy-unites-journalists-offending-constitution
France: Lecornu survives no-confidence votes
Source: The Hill
“French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two votes of no-confidence Thursday that could have toppled his fragile new government and plunged France deeper into political chaos. The National Assembly votes clear the way for the embattled Lecornu to pursue what could be an even greater challenge: getting a 2026 budget for the European Union’s second-largest economy through Parliament’s powerful but bitterly divided lower house before the end of the year. Lecornu’s survival also spares any immediate need for President Emmanuel Macron to again dissolve the National Assembly and call snap legislative elections, a hazardous option that the French leader had signaled that he might take if Lecornu fell.” (0/16/25)
The Daily, 10/15/25
Source: New York Times
“The Border Czar and a Bag of $50,000.” (10/15/25)
Ron Paul Liberty Report, 10/15/25
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“‘War Secretary’ Hegseth Takes Aim At US Media.” (10/15/25)
https://rumble.com/v70c9xm-war-secretary-hegseth-takes-aim-at-us-media.html
“Does Trump Deserve Credit for the Ceasefire?” Is the Wrong Question
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“Sunday talk show anchors this week pressed Democrats on ‘How much credit does President Trump deserve for this deal,’ if the cease fire was ‘a clear win’ for Trump, and if ‘this peace deal came together now because President Trump was more effective at pressuring Prime Minister Netanyahu than former President Biden.’ We will learn nothing from a cramped debate designed to flatter one man’s ego and buoy his hollow, self-indulgent quest for a Nobel Peace Prize. And we will steer attention away from the far more tragic yet instructive strategic failures on all sides that produced so much needless death and suffering and likely have set back the cause of peace for decades.” (10/15/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/15/does-trump-deserve-credit-for-the-israel-hamas-ceasefire/
Trump confirms he has authorized CIA covert operations in Venezuela
Source: CBS News
“President Trump confirmed Wednesday that he has authorized the CIA to go into Venezuela and conduct covert operations. Asked by CBS News senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe why he did so, the president said he had two reasons: First, ‘they have emptied their prisons into the United States of America’ and ‘allowed thousands and thousands of prisoners’ and ‘people from mental institutions, insane asylums’ into the U.S. Trump has frequently alleged — without citing evidence — that other countries are deliberately sending people from prisons and mental institutions to the southern border. He also cited the ‘drugs coming in from Venezuela.'” (10/15/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-confirms-he-authorized-cia-covert-operations-in-venezuela/
System Update, episode 531
Source: System Update
“Trump Escalates War Efforts Towards Venezuela; New Book Details Secret Horrors of Factory Farms.” (10/15/25)