Source: Persuasion
by Kevin Carroll

“Since 9/11, U.S. intelligence personnel—from analysts and law enforcement agents to interrogators and case officers—have often endured a grisly task: studying execution videos filmed by al-Qaeda or the Islamic State to positively identify the executioners. I was one such intelligence official. In 2006, I downloaded a photograph of a man killed with a headshot by a naval Special Mission Unit and showed it to every source of mine in Iraq. I needed to determine if the deceased was al-Qaeda’s emir for western al-Anbar, a terrorist who killed a young Marine lieutenant friend of mine.” (10/14/26)

https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-moral-bankruptcy-of-livestreaming

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Sharyl Attkisson

“In 2021, I reported on my national television program, Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson that the largest Amish community in the US, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, had rejected masking, vaccines, isolation, testing, and all the other CDC recommendations for Covid…and apparently fared none the worse for having done so. … This attention to the Amish approach and its apparent success obviously didn’t please public health officials and industry advocates who were heavily pushing different narratives. They wanted the public to believe that anyone who wasn’t socially distancing, staying home, getting vaccinated, shutting down the works, and taking government-favored prescription drugs were putting themselves and others in grave danger.” (10/14/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/how-a-flawed-covid-study-tried-and-failed-to-discredit-the-amish/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Antón Chamberlin

“GM’s production cuts and layoffs show why factories, equipment, and workers cannot adjust overnight. Industrial policy can leave lasting economic costs.” (10/14/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/electric-vehicle-subsidy-u-turn-leaves-factories-and-workers-stranded/

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Ninos P Malek

“In a free market, businesses must satisfy customers to earn profits. Persistent losses can signal that resources would be better used elsewhere. Rather than rescuing failing firms with taxpayer money, the free-market perspective is to allow the market process to work. As I sometimes jokingly tell my students when explaining this principle, it’s time to say, ‘Bye-bye, die-die!’ to businesses that fail to satisfy consumer needs. (Figuratively speaking, of course.) Some call government favoritism crony capitalism. I dislike that expression because it still associates the problem with capitalism.” [editor’s note: Free markets and capitalism (“a mixed, state-regulated, industrial economy”) are opposites, and “crony capitalism” is a redundancy – TLK] (10/14/26)

https://fee.org/articles/stop-calling-it-capitalism-when-its-government-favoritism/

Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley

“Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a major case pitting privacy advocates against media companies. By any measure, Salazar v. Paramount Global is a blockbuster case in the making. At issue is the use of viewing habits by companies offering free subscriptions and material to the public. These companies make money by then using that history for tailored marketing programs. Michael Salazar is arguing that a Blockbuster-era law should prevent such sharing of his viewing history, a ruling that would have a massive impact on media and entertainment companies. Salazar involves a law passed 40 years ago after a controversy during the confirmation hearings of Robert Bork, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan.” (10/14/26)

https://jonathanturley.org/2026/10/14/borked-or-just-business-supreme-court-hears-argument-on-major-challenge-to-the-sharing-of-viewing-records-on-free-sites/