From Holdout to Hunted: Kevin Reddington Seeks Phone Records & Interview with Holdout Clancy Juror

Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley

“Defense attorney Kevin Reddington appears to be moving from zealous advocacy to virtual stalking in the Lindsay Clancy case. Reddington is seeking phone records, surveillance, and criminal records of Michael Desronvil, the now-identified juror who held out in the 11-1 hung jury decision. Reddington’s demand follows his unprofessional attack on the juror on the courthouse steps after the trial. In his filing, Kevin Reddington seeks to question Desronvil after reviewing his records to see whether he lied on his juror questionnaire, violated court rules by using his cellphone in the jury room, and failed to pay attention during jury deliberations. The demand is highly unusual. Occasionally, defense counsel will raise later-discovered information on possible juror misconduct to challenge a criminal conviction.” [editor’s note: Amazing how a man of honor can be defiled and hunted for doing his proper job as a juror in a murder trial – SAT] (09/22/26)

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/09/22/from-holdout-to-hunted-kevin-reddington-seeks-phone-records-and-interview-with-holdout-clancy-juror/

How War Propaganda Justifies Conscription into Unjust Wars

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya

“Conscription is a form of indentured servitude. Murray Rothbard argued that everyone has a natural right to self-defense, but ‘we have no moral right to use coercion—the bayonet or the revolver—to force someone else to defend us.’ Rothbard argued that if we want men to stand in our defense, ‘the way to induce people to volunteer for hazardous jobs is to pay them extra as compensation.’ And yet, instead of offering a wage that would reward men who sign up willingly, governments rely on force to press conscripts into service.” (09/22/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-war-propaganda-justifies-conscription-unjust-wars

We need more of the hopeful sci-fi that ‘Star Trek’ gave us 60 years ago

Source: Los Angeles Times
by Rod Roddenberry

“A few years ago, I received a call I’ll never forget. Jeanette Epps, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, Zoomed into my living room from 250 miles above Earth. During our conversation, she told me that one of the reasons she chose her career was a television show my father created in 1966. She wasn’t alone. I’ve heard versions of that same story from countless people over the years. Engineers. Scientists. Astronauts. People who saw possibility on a television screen before they ever saw it in the real world. … I don’t think that was because of the ships, the gadgets or the aliens. It was because, underneath all of it, was a profoundly human belief that we are capable of becoming something better.” (09/22/26)

https://archive.is/JzHzY

Is Europe Restraining Israel – or Merely Protecting the Two-State Illusion?

Source: Antiwar.com
by Ramzy Baroud

“On September 8, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK announced their intention to introduce national restrictions, support European restrictions, or actively consider measures against trade in goods with illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Undeniably, the announcement represents a significant political and legal precedent. Dismissing it outright would be impulsive, particularly considering the participation of governments such as those of Canada and the UK, which have historically provided Israel with extensive political and diplomatic support. Yet celebrating the announcement as an earth-shattering event without examining its context, timing and potential effectiveness would be equally rash. Worse, it could contribute to weakening the public pressure that finally compelled Western governments to take even these limited steps.” (09/22/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2026/09/21/is-europe-restraining-israel-or-merely-protecting-the-two-state-illusion/

The Urgency of Recognizing the Ansar Allah Government in Yemen

Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies

“The Trump administration came perilously close to launching another bombing campaign against Yemen this weekend. According to a September 20 New York Times report, US commanders had approved their targets, American troops were loading bombs onto warplanes, and an attack on Yemen’s Ansar Allah forces was about to begin when President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course. For two weeks, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had been pleading with Trump to intervene as Ansar Allah (Houthi) forces swept through Saudi-backed forces’ positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. Trump initially resisted, but after another urgent call from the Saudi crown prince, he instructed the Pentagon to prepare for airstrikes. By Sunday, he had changed his mind again, at least temporarily.” (09/22/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-ai-nuclear-weapons

Blowback at the Bab el-Mandeb: How State Planning Lost the Red Sea

Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Karat

“The United Arab Emirates spent eight years and a fortune trying to own a stretch of water. It bought proxies, seized islands, built runways and naval bases along both banks of the Bab el-Mandeb, and sold the whole program to Washington as the wall that would keep Iran out of the Red Sea. In September the wall fell, and the water passed to Iran’s closest ally. The chokepoint that a decade of state planning was meant to secure is now held by the Houthis, allied with Tehran. There is no cleaner illustration of what happens when a government sets out to engineer a region from above.” (09/22/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/blowback-at-the-bab-el-mandeb-how-state-planning-lost-the-red-sea/

Why Riyadh Won’t Be Forced Into Israel’s Arms

Source: The American Conservative
by Eldar Mamedov

“The apparent hope is that Saudi Arabia will suffer enough to abandon its diversification strategy and join the Abraham Accords, bending the knee to the U.S. and Israel. But the neocons, whether they know it or not, face a big problem: Even before Trump rejected MbS’s request to bomb the Houthis, Washington had shown it can’t be trusted as a Saudi partner. Trump’s refusal to help MbS out of the Yemeni jam serves to further highlight that fact, making Riyadh less likely to tighten its security relations with the U.S. and its client Israel.” (09/22/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-riyadh-wont-be-forced-into-israels-arms/