Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Anti-mafia investigators in Italy have seized cash, companies and other assets worth more than €200m (£175m) in an operation they say targeted the network of notorious late Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro. The funds, described as ‘huge amounts of capital’ by the financial police in Palermo, are said to be proceeds from over four decades of drugs trafficking linked to the presumed former head of the Cosa Nostra group. Announcing their results in Sicily on Thursday, investigators released a video showing masked police officers, some in riot gear, barging down doors and scaling walls to raid a series of vast luxury villas surrounded by palm tree-lined lawns. Messina Denaro spent three decades on the run until his arrest in 2023 as he left a clinic where he was being treated for cancer. He died in custody soon after.” (05/28/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqpd4gqgveo
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“Doug Casey: America Is Headed for Civil War.” (05/27/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2764-doug-casey-america-is-headed-for-civil-war/
Source: Heartland Institute
“They Want to Dim the Sun to Save the Eart.” (05/27/26)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/they-want-to-dim-the-sun-to-save-the-earth-the-climate-realism-show-203/
Source: Independent Institute
by Benjamin Powell
“The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are negotiating a new housing bill as Americans have become increasingly concerned with affordability. Unfortunately, any federal housing bill would do little to make housing more affordable and could even worsen the situation.” (05/27/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/05/27/interstate-migration-not-congress-makes-housing-affordable/
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“It is now unlawful, upheld by a judge and jury, in Northern Ireland, to preach a sermon about God’s love within earshot of a hospital. Over the centuries, English kings, queens, nobles, and lower classes have arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned, fined, and even executed men (and women) for preaching something that the powers that be, including the established Church, didn’t want preached. The 78-year-old Cleve Johnstone was not killed: merely jailed and fined. Most folks believed that sort of nonsense went about a good 200 years (or more) ago.” (05/27/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/05/27/liberty-and-freedom-so-easily-lost/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“An Israeli air raid in northern Gaza has killed at least 10 people, including four children, health officials said, as Israel continues with its near-daily attacks despite a nominal ‘ceasefire’ being in place. More than 20 others were injured in the attack on a residential building in Gaza City late on Wednesday, officials said. … The air raid came hours after dozens of Palestinians attended the funeral of Mohammad Odeh, the head of Hamas’s armed wing, who was killed in an Israeli attack on Tuesday, as Israel continues its campaign to eliminate what remains of the group’s senior leadership. Odeh’s wife and son were also killed in the attack in Gaza City.” (05/28/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/28/israeli-attack-on-gaza-city-kills-at-least-10-including-four-children
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
“How the War on Terror Created the Age of Trump (W/ Matt Kennard).” (05/27/26)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-war-on-terror-created-the
Source: Libertarian Institute
“The Serenity of Christ and the Horrors of War w/Dave DeCamp.” (05/27/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-serenity-of-christ-and-the-horrors-of-war-w-dave-decamp
Source: Common Dreams
by Jawad Khalid
“The United States has indicted Cuba’s former president Raúl Castro on murder charges, deployed a carrier strike group to the Caribbean, and issued explicit threats of military intervention. Is the US moving toward another regime change operation in the Western Hemisphere? The rhetoric coming out of Washington suggests very much so. Cuba looks set to see a repeat of the Venezuelan playbook. President Donald Trump has said he will be “the one” to finally act on Cuba. The message from Washington is clear. Cuba is next. Latin America is empire’s favorite backyard, where the United States has consistently moved to remove governments that pursue independent foreign and economic policies not in line with American interests.” (05/28/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/regime-change-cuba-worried
Source: Pierre Lemieux
by Pierre Lemieux
“It was an error three centuries ago. Knowledge of the workings of society has progressed, but some did not get the memo.” (05/27/26)
https://pierrelemieux.substack.com/p/the-troubling-persistence-of-luddism
