Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter

“NATO partisans in both Europe and the United States are perpetual optimists about Ukraine’s prospective fortunes in its war against Russia. Lately, there has been yet another inundation of such accounts in Western news media outlets. Many of them emphasize that Moscow’s latest military offensive against Ukrainian ground forces has come to a halt with inconclusive results. The lack of a decisive breakthrough, members of Ukraine’s fan club contend, means that Russian president Vladimir Putin has again failed in his quest to conquer Eastern Europe’s resilient ‘democratic’ frontline state. That version of recent developments contains just enough truth to gain credibility among gullible opinion shapers and political leaders in the United States and in most other NATO countries.” (06/04/26)

https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/06/03/nato-propagandists-again-proclaim-that-ukraine-is-on-the-verge-of-winning-the-war/

Source: Common Dreams
by Harry Seavey

“The war in Iran has forced many Americans to confront what their tax dollars make them party to. After the US has killed hundreds of Iranian children in school and bombed the country’s civilian infrastructure, more and more Americans are considering tax refusal. It’s a tradition older than the republic itself. Quakers resisted military taxes in the colonies, sometimes at the price of seized property. Thomas David Thoreau was jailed for refusing a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican-American War. And hundreds of thousands resisted the telephone tax during the Vietnam War, when the National War Tax Resistance counted 192 centers in 45 states. Call that ‘freedom.’ In an age of ascendant religious liberty, a fortunate class of Americans enjoys it in special measure. Employers, schools, religious institutions, and corporations have won exemption after exemption from ordinary legal duties they claim violate their religious faith.” (06/04/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-doesn-t-honor-anti-war

Source: Washington Monthly
by David Atkins

“It sounds too weird to be true, but in the Trump era, frequently, the dumbest explanation is often the right one.” (06/04/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/04/maga-believe-voter-fraud-conspiracy/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson

“When the communist regimes of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990 and 1991, followers of the Austrian School of Economics knew that socialism’s lack of a coherent method of economic calculation certainly led to the demise of these regimes. Economists had known for years of the chronic shortages, shoddy workmanship, and all of the other negative aspects of economic life in those countries and why no one who understood socialism was surprised at these results.” (06/04/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-calculation-and-southern-california-beach-girl

Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod

“You cannot defeat misogyny by behaving like a misogynist.” (06/04/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defending-graham-platner-in-all-the-wrong-ways/

Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead

“We are losing ground economically. We are losing credibility abroad. We are losing tourists, workers, stability, trust, constitutional guardrails, and whatever remained of the illusion that the government answers to ‘we the people.’ The tourism economy is taking a hit, with international visitors increasingly reluctant to come to the United States. Even migration—the lifeblood of America’s economic growth, innovation, labor force and national renewal—is now moving in the wrong direction. Fewer people are coming in, more Americans are leaving, and by some estimates the country has already crossed into negative net migration. That is not the mark of a nation ‘winning.’ It is the mark of a nation people are increasingly choosing to escape.” (06/03/26)

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/if_this_is_winning_america_cant_afford_much_more_of_it