“Has this ever worked? Kind of famously, yes — at least for a while. In the 1930s, as fascist movements stomped across Europe, popular fronts emerged to block the spread. In France and Spain, leftists, centrists and anti-fascist liberals joined forces to beat back the far right, sometimes literally. In the United States, the Communist Party helped bring broad, anti-fascist politics into public life, forming coalitions among Black writers, labor organizers and progressive cultural workers. As historian Bill Mullen writes in Popular Fronts, the period saw ‘an extraordinary rapprochement’ between Black and white members of the U.S. Left — not just in protest, but in culture, art and publishing. ” (10/29/25)
“We are masters at persuading ourselves of what we want to believe. This shapes not just our everyday choices but also our politics and moral reasoning. Crucially, because self-deception operates under the radar of our awareness, it’s much harder to pinpoint and correct than conscious hypocrisy.” (10/28/25)
“In both legal filings and in public, President Donald Trump and his team have made fantastical claims about the calamities that would befall the nation should the Supreme Court curtail his authority to implement global tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. They allege, in the government’s opening brief for a case that will be argued before the court in November, that an adverse decision would devastate the U.S. economy, the federal government’s fiscal position, and the president’s ability to effectuate trade and foreign policy. The goal, it appears, is to pressure the court into issuing a favorable opinion for prudential and institutional reasons, even if the law demands otherwise. Given the legal deficiencies in the Trump administration’s case, this shock-and-awe approach is understandable. Yet it suffers from a serious flaw: The underlying policy claims are ridiculous.” (10/28/25)
“On October 23, US president Donald Trump exercised his constitutional clemency powers to pardon Changpeng Zhao, co-founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance. As the usual suspects howl as if Zhao was some kind of hardened criminal, and hint darkly at the possibility of a corrupt motive on Trump’s part (I’m not discounting that possibility), it’s worth noting that the ‘crime’ Zhao pled guilty to and served four months in prison for wasn’t a crime by any sane definition of the word. … Hooray! Hooray! Along with the pardon of Ross Ulbricht, sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years for the ‘crime’ of operating a website, that’s two cheers for Trump in my book. I can think of at least two candidates for the third cheer, and hope Trump will deliver.” (10/28/25)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Anthony De Luca-Baratta
“Americans are feeling the sting of President Trump’s tariffs. Consumer goods ranging from coffee and watches to toys and televisions are experiencing a jump in prices. Meanwhile, socialist frontrunner and New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani attacks private enterprise and advocates for even more state control. Amid this storm, the old right needs to hold the line on economics against the rising tide of protectionism on its own side. If it fails, American businesses and consumers will continue to suffer, and Mamdani-style socialism will look more attractive, especially to young people.” (10/28/25)
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Bill Gates dials back the doomsday talk and spotlights human flourishing over rigid targets — yet his vision falls short of unleashing true market-driven innovation free from government strings.” (10/28/25)
“Why Ontario Premier Doug Ford thought it was a good idea to ‘poke the bear’ by running an ad highlighting President Ronald Reagan’s well-known defense of free trade is a mystery. President Trump does not take criticism well. Unless and until the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down his knee-jerk approach to tariff policies, any demonstration of how far Trump has strayed from free market economics is only going to result in retaliation. The difference between Reagan’s and Trump’s views on trade can be summed up this way: In Reagan’s free market world, tariffs are the rare exception to the rule. In Trump’s world, tariffs are the rule.” (10/28/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The ultimate expression of ‘everyone is twelve now’ theory is in the mainstream worldview promoted by western pundits and politicians which holds that the world is full of evil villains doing evil things simply because they are evil, and that these Bad Guys are opposed by the virtuous Good Guys of the US-led world order. You think Hamas killed Israelis because they’re a bunch of monsters who hate Jews? Of course you do, you’re twelve. You think Trump is trying to get rid of Maduro because Maduro is an evil dictator who wants to poison Americans with fentanyl? Hell yeah homie, you’re twelve. You think Putin invaded Ukraine because he hates freedom and democracy and wants to conquer the world? Bless your heart my twelve year-old buddy.” (10/28/25)
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Ever since people began coming to the realization that the U.S. national-security establishment, rather than a lone nut, orchestrated and carried out the assassination of President Kennedy, there have been those who have lamented that the conspirators were never brought to justice. Today, obviously, all of them are dead, and none of them was ever prosecuted for the assassination. The reality, however, is that even if it had been discovered soon after the assassination that the Pentagon and the CIA had orchestrated and carried out the assassination, no military or CIA official would have ever been punished for what he had done. The reason lies in the law of U.S. ‘national security,’ as established by the U.S. Supreme Court and the rest of the federal judiciary.” (10/28/25)
“Online audiences have become increasingly radicalised by predatory algorithms pushing conspiratorial, schizophrenic narratives and content creators are rewarded for feeding into them.” (10/28/25)
