Source: Town Hall
by Debra J Saunders
“‘The fastest way to end the Humanitarian Crises in Gaza is for Hamas to SURRENDER AND RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!!!’ President Donald Trump wrote Thursday morning on Truth Social. Amen. While in Scotland on Monday, Trump had voiced a very human concern about the children of Gaza, when he said, ‘I mean, some of those kids are — that’s real starvation stuff. I see it, and you can’t fake it. So we’re going to be even more involved.’ His remarks come ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September. So begins another pressure campaign from the all-bow international community to weaken Israel’s self-defense in a war Hamas started on Oct. 7, 2023, by murdering some 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages.” [editor’s note: The Israeli regime was holding, and continues to hold, far more than 250 hostages; why don’t they count? – TLK] (08/02/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2025/08/02/memo-to-all-demanding-palestinian-statehood-hamas-still-has-hostages-n2661295
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Companies denied votes on a record number of resolutions during this proxy season after US regulators made it harder for shareholders to demand changes related to climate, diversity and labour rights. The US Securities and Exchange Commission granted 195 ‘no-action’ requests for companies to exclude a shareholder proposal from its proxy materials this year compared with 147 in 2024. That is a nearly 33 per cent increase and the highest number of omissions since ISS-Corporate started tracking the data in 2007.” (08/03/25)
https://archive.is/rvPpM
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Thomas Chatterton Williams on the Age of False Certainty.” (08/02/25)
https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-2020
Source: SFGate
“The Senate left Washington Saturday night for its monthlong August recess without a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, calling it quits after days of contentious bipartisan negotiations and Trump posting on social media that Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer can ‘GO TO HELL!’ Without a deal in hand, Republicans say they may try to change Senate rules when they return in September to speed up the pace of confirmations. Trump has been pressuring senators to move quickly as Democrats blocked more nominees than usual this year, denying any fast unanimous consent votes and forcing roll calls on each one, a lengthy process that can take several days per nominee.” (08/02/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/senate-heads-home-with-no-deal-to-speed-20799620.php
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey
“Trump’s 15% tariffs, as unpredictable as they are, and overall the highest since the 1930s, have jacked up costs for businesses and American consumers. For example, Procter & Gamble raised prices on a quarter of its products. Manufacturers, hit with pricier imported parts, shed 11,000 jobs in July, the third straight month of losses. Corporations can only hide the cost of tariffs for so long before they start to hit the shelves for consumers; once the inventory front-running dissipates, Americans are in for a sticker shock. Thanks, Trump and Navarro! Meanwhile, Trump’s immigration restrictions have shrunk the labor pool, stifling industry sectors like construction, tourism, and hospitality, vital to Florida’s economy.” (08/02/25)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/trumps-tariffs-and-immigration-crackdowns
Source: Common Dreams
by Ralph Nader
“After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University, titled ‘I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,’ the Palestinian-hater, Times columnist Bret Stephens, immediately jumped into the Netanyahu‑style rebuttal mode. His column was titled ‘No, Israel is Not Committing Genocide in Gaza.’ His cruel and specious assertion, contradicted by many genocide scholars, was that if the Israeli regime was truly genocidal, they would have committed ‘hundreds of thousands of deaths’ in Gaza instead of the mere 60,000 deaths reported by the Hamas‑run Health Ministry. Get real, Mr. Stephens, the Israeli military has destroyed the lives of at least one out of four Palestinians there, or about half a million at least, from the daily bombing since October 7, 2023, of civilians and their infrastructure.” (08/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bret-stephens-genocide-denial
Source: New York Times
“Russia is escalating its efforts to curtail online freedom, taking new steps toward a draconian state-controlled internet. The authorities are cracking down on workarounds that Russians have been using for access to foreign apps and banned content, including through new laws signed by President Vladimir V. Putin this week. … the Kremlin is building out a domestic ecosystem of easily monitored and censored Russian alternatives to Western tech products. That includes a new state-sanctioned messaging service, MAX, which will come preinstalled by law on all new smartphones sold in Russia starting in September. The idea, experts say, is to migrate more Russians from an open internet dominated by the products of Western tech giants to a censored online ecosystem, where Russians primarily use software under the gaze and influence of the state.” (08/03/25)
https://archive.is/eLtst
Source: The Fifth Column
“‘Pimp-o-nomics: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Male Gaze’ w/ Robbie Soave.” (08/02/25)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/517-pimp-o-nomics-how-i-learned-to
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Jack Hunter
“Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene has bucked her president, called for yanking aid to Israel, and was the first Republican to call what is happening ‘a genocide.'” (08/01/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/marjorie-taylor-greene-gaza/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Hamas has reaffirmed that it will not agree to disarm unless a sovereign Palestinian state is established [sic], in response to one of Israel’s key demands in talks about a ceasefire in Gaza. The Palestinian armed group said it was responding to remarks it attributed to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff that Hamas had ‘expressed its willingness’ to lay down its weapons. Israel considers the disarmament of Hamas one of several key conditions for any deal to end the conflict. Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas to secure a ceasefire and the release of hostages stalled last week.” [editor’s note: The state of Palestine was established in 1988; what Hamas wants is a totalitarian theocratic state under its control, which is why, ever since it won one election in 2006, it has refused to let Palestinians in Gaza vote again – TLK] (08/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce35nx49reko
