“In case you haven’t noticed, things are going pretty bad for Donald Trump in the Middle East lately and they just keep getting worse. At the behest of his Zionist masters who have played that child molester like one of his own victims, Imperator Trump has dumped the entire weight of the greatest military industrial killing machine in recorded history into the Persian Gulf over the last six months. … And yet it is Donald Trump begging for mercy at the peace table right now while Iran smokes a cigarette and cracks its knuckles. The Donald is desperate to have the world believe anything otherwise but his desperation reeks even louder than his squealing bravado. ” (08/30/26)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Today in dystopia, ICE is planning to add police robots to the arsenal with which it will be patrolling US streets. … I guess it makes sense that the empire’s mad rush to normalize police robots would be spearheaded by the department responsible for persecuting immigrants; there’d be more domestic pushback if these dystopian machines were patrolling the streets targeting less marginalized populations. I still can’t stand how the western political/media class keeps calling these things ‘dogs’ to make them seem cute and familiar so that people won’t recognize them for the autonomous dissent suppression weapons they are intended to become. … Today in dystopia, a Pentagon employee has published a McCarthyite list of suspected leftists and socialists who can now be tracked with the help of an interactive map.” (08/30/26)
“While the exodus from Afghanistan was imperfect, the conduct of the boring Biden Pentagon deserves more credit. President Biden got the strategy in Afghanistan right. He was right. He was right for years—going back over a decade, to his time as vice president, when he reportedly considered resigning over then-President Barack Obama’s gargantuan troop surge there. … Though ‘nostalgia’ is not the right word for 2021 (that year was not a particularly great vintage) or the Biden presidency (ditto), this episode—the choice to leave Afghanistan for real—deserves commendation from someone, anyone.” (08/29/26)
“Sometimes a meeting is just a meeting. And sometimes it’s treason. The meeting in question was between the Democrats’ House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser. My first reaction to the news about the get-together was probably like that of most Americans: OK, two guys from opposite sides had a meeting. After all, people in Washington have meetings all the time. And perhaps Democrats and Republicans could get more done for the country if they often met privately instead of just shouting at each other during interviews and campaigns. Ah, but the rules — and common sense — go out the window if you are the leader of House Dems in the era of Trump. Then you must be on a total war footing at all times.” (08/29/26)
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins
“In an age of philosophical fragmentation, the voice of Henry B. Veatch stands as an indispensable corrective. Recognized as one of the leading neo-Aristotelian thinkers of the twentieth century, Veatch devoted his long and distinguished career to defending a vision of philosophy rooted in realism, teleology, and the conviction that ethics and politics must be grounded in the nature of things. His many articles and books represent a sustained and powerful argument against the dominant trends of modern and postmodern thought. Veatch revised and reinterpreted Aristotle’s ethical framework at a time when utilitarianism, subjectivism, skepticism, existentialism, emotivism, and positivism dominated philosophical discourse.” (08/30/26)
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“On average, the federal government is paying 3.4% on its $40 trillion of debt, and as interest rates rise, it has a major effect on our debt service payments, causing the government to either print more money or crowd out other spending—neither are good choices. Over the next year, the federal government needs to raise another $10 trillion as old debt is coming due, and this borrowing will likely be at our current higher interest rates, which very well could create a serious economic problem for America.” (08/30/26)
“To most Arab leaders, stability in a unified Syria is a necessary cornerstone for Middle East peace. Until late August, however, the country had not been very unified or stable for 15 years, even after the ouster of a dictator in 2024. More than 5.5 million people remain displaced within the country from past conflicts. For most Syrians, a simple everyday act such as using a Visa credit card has been nearly impossible. For 47 years, the United States isolated Syria because it was deemed a sponsor of terrorism. For the country’s largest ethnic minority, the Kurds, independence from Syria was an urgent goal. Despite recent moves toward democracy and the rule of law in Syria, unity and stability are still a ways off.” (08/28/26)
“We’d not want to claim this is a proof, rather a tendency. We all know that there is indeed that Laffer Curve, a rate at which tax collection peaks – either higher or lower rates reduce revenues. We, ourselves, think that we should in fact be aiming at the growth maximising rate, something much lower. We’d also insist that, over time, the growth maximising rate is the revenue maximising one. For economic growth works like that. But that does also require a time horizon well past the next election and so is not something that politics is ever going to consider. But, back to Laffer. We suggest that tax rates will rise, given the joy politicians take in spending ever more of our cash, until raising them further will collect no more money to be spent as the politicians desire.” (08/29/26)
“So how is it going? In the Republic, I mean. Pretty well, I’d say. President Trump just announced the Mother of All Oil Deals with Venezuela, the country he liberated from its narco Chinese puppet Nicolás Maduro at the beginning of 2026. … ‘BREAKING NEWS’, the president reported on social media, ‘The United States of America has just entered into an Agreement with the Country of Venezuela on, THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY! At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, and, through a partnership with private business, have secured majority U.S. control of more than 65 BILLION BARRELS of proven Oil Reserves in Venezuela, at no cost to the American Taxpayer. …’ This is good (nay, great, which is to say GREAT) news for America and ordinary Americans. It is bad news for Democrats.” (08/30/26)
“Relations between the United States and Canada continue to sour over the latest failed trade talks, with the imposition of 50% US tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods and the announced reciprocal “dollar-for-dollar” Canadian tariffs on US goods, disrupting the highly interconnected economies on both sides of the border. The US is Canada’s number-one trade partner, while Canada is the number-one trade partner for 26 states and a top-three partner of 19 more. That’s a whole lot of shaking going on, but the wider issue is the ever-increasing dismantling of government in the everyday lives of citizens and consumers, going on over four decades, and now hot-wired by instant messaging.” (08/28/26)
