Source: Washington Monthly
by Anne Kim
“Some of America’s biggest companies rely on public benefits to subsidize their employees. Why aren’t they defending their workers against cuts?” (03/08/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/08/the-corporate-conspiracy-of-silence-on-affordability/
Source: The Realist Review
by Martin Sieff
“One did not have to be Michel de Nostradamus to anticipate that this was going to happen. Nostradamus repeatedly warned about the immeasurable catastrophes that would flow from provoking the Iranian people into a wild, once-in-two-millennia jihad against the West. Not that such an eventuality was ever going to happen unless some Western leaders were stupid enough to martyr an Iranian Shiite leader during the holy month of Ramadan. Great thinking, guys.” (03/08/26)
https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/apocalypse-soon-war-on-iran-heralds
Source: spiked
by Paul Coleman
“For years, Brussels has been tightening its grip on online speech in a bid to exercise control over the political narrative. The European Commission’s €120million fine in December against X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) marked a major escalation. Now, X is fighting back at the EU’s top court. In so doing, it is taking a stand in defence of free speech for all Europeans.” (03/08/26)
Source: Orange County Register
by David Bier
“Amid ongoing congressional debates—culminating, of course, in a partial shutdown—over Trump’s mass deportation agenda, one fact in particular should capture both Democrats’ and Republicans’ attention: immigrants provide an enormous boost to the country’s long-term economic and fiscal health, reducing our massive deficit by a third.” (03/08/26)
Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Congress or a state legislature wants a law that it expects the Supreme Court to rule against. They pass the law anyway. Lower level judges that share the legislature’s view rule in favor of the law but eventually the case reaches one who does not. The state appeals, exhausts its options for appeals, stops enforcing the law. It passes another law doing the same thing in an arguably different way. This looks like a tactic by which a legislature can avoid control by the courts for an indefinite, perhaps unlimited, length of time. Gun control opponents claim states where gun control is popular, such as New Jersey, have employed it successfully to get around the 2nd Amendment. An example from the other side of the political spectrum could be Trump’s tariffs.” (03/08/26)
https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/p/the-exploitation-of-legal-delay
Source: The UnPopulist
by Tom G Palmer
“That the Trump administration is targeting ‘enemies within’ instead of Putin shows how much America has already succumbed to it.” (03/08/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/russia-resurrected-and-exported-a
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Watching Amazon Prime while the Iranians burn. / Stuffing our mouths with cheesysugarbacon / while the sky turns black over Tehran. / Laughing without smiling. / Laughing with full mouths and empty eyes / while their water mixes with oil and blood. / ‘Hoho this will hurt Trump in the midterms’ / the liberal chortles, masturbating furiously / while ruined parents pull ruined schoolbags / out of ruined schools. / Frolicking on lawns with hamburgers in both fists / doing patchouli tai chi / in clothes made by slaves / as black rain waters gardens / of severed limbs and blown-out eyeballs. / This is our culture. / This is our religion. / Praying to Pornhub while children scream, / telling ourselves it will all be worth it / when Iranian women can do OnlyFans / to pay for boob jobs and butt lifts / and go to Capitalist Heaven when they die….” (03/09/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/09/watching-amazon-prime-while-the-iranians-burn/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Yerevan Saaed
“As a tactic, arming the Kurds has real operational merit. But the question is whether the United States intends to convert Kurdish wartime service into a lasting institutional and political commitment after regime change. In Iraq, Washington largely followed through: Kurds secured constitutional recognition, a federal region, and their own Peshmerga forces. In Syria, the outcome was the opposite. When the U.S. withdrew political and military support, the Kurds were left exposed to the new regime in Damascus. Arms can flow, but whether a binding alliance follows is the only question that determines if this venture ends in some form of Kurdish self-determination or another cycle of mobilization, abandonment, and reprisal.” (03/08/26)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Walter Block
“Ordinarily, in the absence of such market interferences, free trade would be the policy most conducive to prosperity. We produce the products for which we have a comparative advantage, and interfere with the international division of labor as little as possible. However, matters change with marketing boards. Is it possible that a second economically illiterate regulation may benefit us by (partially) reducing the impact of the first? Yes, without marketing boards, free trade is the ticket to economic well-being. But with them, is there a case for tariffs on grounds of economic development? Here is the argument in favor of such a paradoxical hypothesis.” (03/08/26)
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“This war with Iran is an extension of the dynamics that have always driven US foreign policy. And nothing will stop this President from the path of destruction he has chosen — certainly not the Congress, which has long been ceding its constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch. Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson denies that the US is even involved in a ‘war.’ And Senate Republicans have blocked any war power limits to this operation, giving Trump a rubberstamp to do whatever the hell he wants. The warmongers among us serve the administration by labeling as ‘traitors’ those who oppose US intervention abroad. This has become a virtual rite of passage for critics in times of war.” (03/07/26)
https://notablog.net/2026/03/07/the-operation-was-a-success-but-the-patient-died/