“Power is felt, attributed, invisible, all-important, descriptive, without shape, and so much more. There is personal power, governmental power, and the collective power of the people. Power can be bought, sold, traded, bestowed, even rescinded. It can be good or bad, positive or corrupt. However you might wish to describe power, one thing is clear: how it’s used depends on the society in which we live. At present, of course, our society is one in which President Donald J. Trump is the quintessential seeker of power, a man who needs power the way most of us need food. And as it happens, he has at his beck and call not just the entire military establishment, but ICE (and so much more). With him in the White House, power is distinctly in fashion.” (03/03/26)
“ast week, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a referendum for October 19. It will ask Albertans a slate of policy and constitutional questions. Independence, she said the next day, will be added to the ballot if the requisite number of signatures is met in the petition drive, which is likely. Albertans will get their chance to say if they want to leave Canada. But Canadian federalists can relax. The Alberta premier is one of them. The referendum is the fix to defeat Alberta independence. It will undermine the separatist cause and split the independence vote.” (03/03/26)
“By most measures, cannabis legalization is a resounding success for the 24 states (plus D.C.) that have implemented it. That’s why no state has ever repealed its legalization laws, and public support for the policy remains near all-time highs. Nonetheless, the policy still has its critics. Among them are the editors at the New York Times who, in a recent editorial, opinedthat states have rushed to legalize the substance ‘without adequately regulating it.’ In truth, however, state marijuana markets are highly regulated — and many of the options they proposed are either redundant or would inadvertently strengthen the illicit marketplace.” (03/03/26)
Source: Fox News
by US Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA)
“As a principled opponent of military adventurism since America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, I was devastated this weekend when we learned that once again, American servicemembers will be coming home in body bags. Trump announced, ‘There will likely be more before it ends. That’s the way it is.’ No. That’s not the way it is. That must not be the way it is. As Trump now refuses to rule out sending ground troops to Iran, I believe we must do everything in our power to stop this horrific war of choice before more Americans are killed. That is why this week, I am forcing a vote in the House of Representatives on a bipartisan resolution with my Republican colleague, Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky, to end this illegal and unconstitutional conflict.” (03/03/26)
“On 23 February 2026, police in Heilbronn, a city in south-west Germany, opened a criminal investigation into a retired man. His alleged crime? Calling chancellor Freidrich Merz ‘Pinocchio’. No threats. No incitement. Just a blunt, rather amusing suggestion that Germany’s national leader tells lies. Welcome to Germany in 2026, where mocking a politician is now a police matter.” (03/03/26)
“The Court limited one statutory pathway while leaving others intact. The opinion strengthens the major questions doctrine and clarifies how far emergency powers can stretch.” (03/03/26)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“War is the worst thing in the world. Westerners talk about it like it’s a fucking video game, like ‘hurr durr, we just go in there and achieve our objectives and win,’ when really war means shredding human bodies to bits. Children burning to death in front of their parents. People holding their own guts in their hands as their life slowly slips away. People getting trapped under rubble and dying excruciatingly slow deaths of suffocation or dehydration. People picking up pieces of their beloved family members. Westerners are able to hold this compartmentalized video game mentality about war because war isn’t something that happens to us. We’ve never had bombs dropped on our neighborhoods. We’ve never had the experience of seeing a severed hand on the ground after an explosion and trying to figure out who it belonged to.” (03/03/26)
“This first experiment with government-issued bills of credit presents a natural historical test case for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), particularly its claims about chartalism and the state’s role in originating money. This took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1690. Given that the US is MMT’s favorite example of a ‘monetary sovereign,’ the first issuance of government paper money in the Western world ought to be significant. Given the claims of MMT and the relatively recent, extant history of colonial America, there is surprisingly little MMT writing that addresses the Massachusetts case (though my research was, of course, limited).” (03/03/26)
