Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“It’s cute how the Zionists think they’ll be able to manipulate and propagandize the world into liking Israel again. Yeah, saturate all online platforms with weird-faced influencers telling us Israel is awesome. That’ll make us forget those years of genocidal atrocities. Sure, buy up the social media platforms that young people are using so you can censor criticism of Israel. That’ll convince them that Zionism is cool. Go on, take control of CBS and make Bari Weiss the boss. That’ll make us forget all those videos of mutilated Palestinian children. Right, use Zionist oligarchs and influence operations to manipulate governments and institutions into crushing free speech which opposes a genocidal apartheid state. That’ll get everyone supporting the genocidal apartheid state. Propaganda is an effective tool of mass-scale psychological manipulation, but it isn’t magic. It isn’t going to miraculously erase what people know in their bones to be true.” (10/06/25)
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs & Sybil Fares
“President Trump’s 20-point plan offers some constructive proposals on hostages, humanitarian aid, and reconstruction. Yet it is marred by an unmistakable colonial framework: Gaza is to be overseen by Trump himself, with Tony Blair and other outsiders cast as trustees for Palestinian governance — while Palestinian statehood is deferred indefinitely. This logic is not new. It reprises the century-long Anglo-American approach to Palestine since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, when Britain acquired the Mandate over Palestine, and through successive U.S. interventions, direct and indirect, in the region since 1945. A real peace plan must eliminate the colonial scaffolding.” (10/06/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Pedro Urso
“Rather than viewing the environmental agenda as an obstacle to growth, it should be seen as a strategic alliance for development. Sustainability, when integrated into market logic, does not restrict, but expands, the possibilities for the enrichment of nations. Through innovation and economic openness, poor countries can adapt to climate change and thrive, transforming themselves into global providers of sustainable solutions.” (10/06/25)
“I love elk, but I confess that I use elk mating to develop a larger point: that rational decision making happens in a setting — mating battles — Darwinians might not expect. If elk have evolved even limited rational capacity, contrary to what many Darwinians presume, why not expect lower-order species, such as voles and even ants, to exhibit limited rationality? If my evolutionary perspective is accepted, Darwinian theory needs a revision to accommodate economic thinking. Rational decision making, dictated by scarcity constraints, can (at least marginally) divert species from their Darwinian evolutionary paths.” (10/06/25)
“The president and his appointees are using the military to commit serious crimes. Unfortunately, they appear to have some willing executioners to do their dirty work. It doesn’t really matter why they are doing it or what they think those crimes will get them. The president is openly trampling on U.S. and international law and killing people because he feels like it.” (10/06/25)
“The Biden administration spent four years placing a record level of new regulatory impediments on the nation’s airlines. An analysis by the Office of Management and Budget estimates that Biden’s Transportation Secretary, Pete Buttigieg, nearly tripled the number of transportation-related rules and regulations. There’s no evidence that all this added red tape made airline travel safer or reduced flight delays. Biden should have learned from the airline deregulations of the late 1970s, which liberated airlines from government controls on pricing and flight routes.” (10/06/25)
“‘What began as a quiet October Friday in Virginia politics,’ reports Markus Schmidt for the Virginia Mercury, ‘erupted into a full-blown national scandal when screenshots of private, three-year old text messages showing Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones fantasizing about shooting then-House Speaker Todd Gilbert and his children were made public.’ With 280,000 people having already voted in Virginia’s race for attorney general, polls show Jones leading. ‘Like all people,’ Jones excused himself, ‘I’ve sent text messages that I regret.’ Have all of us sent texts such as these?” (10/06/25)
