Source: Brian Wilson Speaks
“Internationally known authority, Don Williams (Smithsonian Institute, ret.), returns to discuss the provocative question: who constitutes the ‘domestic enemies’ mentioned in the Oath all elected officials, military, and civil servants swear to uphold upon taking office.” (06/09/26)
https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/p/all-enemies-foreign-and-domestic
Source: AlterNet
by Nick Hilden
“Whatever one’s opinion on President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement that carried him to office, it’s impossible to deny that they have transformed the United States. The simple description of what’s driving that change, says senior defense analyst Brynn Tannehill, is ‘fascism.’ But as she elaborates, three psychological concepts are underpinning that autocratic impulse: social dominance orientation, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and Bonhoeffer’s Theory of Stupidity.” (06/09/26)
Source: JFK Facts
by Larry Hancock & Chad Nagle
“Researchers of President Kennedy’s assassination have long been familiar with an FBI memorandum dated Nov. 29, 1963, referring to ‘Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency.’ … the CIA faced a barrage of questions concerning Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush’s history with the Agency. The Republican National Convention, at which Bush (nicknamed ‘Poppy’) would receive his party’s nomination for president, was less than a month away. Having once served as a U.S. congressman and ambassador to the United Nations, Bush had also briefly held the directorship of the CIA. Had the GOP nominee concealed not only a longer professional affiliation with the Agency but a link to the murder of a Democratic predecessor 25 years earlier as well? Now, a witness from the night of Nov. 23, 1963, also mentioned in the FBI memorandum, has contacted the Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF) to try to lend clarity to the mystery with a signed statement.” (06/09/26)
https://jfkfacts.substack.com/p/george-poppy-bush-and-the-jfk-assassination
Source: NBC News
“The United States launched new attacks against Iran after President Donald Trump said Tehran shot down an American military helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz. A U.S. official said the Apache was hit by an Iranian drone. Tehran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said it hit back with strikes on U.S. targets across the Middle East, including bases in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait. Iran’s top diplomat said foreign forces near its territory ‘are at constant risk’ but did not mention any role in downing the helicopter.” (06/10/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/us-attacks-iran-rcna349305
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘This event would never have happened with the Militarily Top Secret Ballroom currently under construction at the White House,’ US president Donald Trump claimed the day after an armed would-be assassin attempted to charge through a security barricade at the Washington Hilton. ‘“It cannot be built fast enough!’ US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) agreed: ‘America has a problem. That problem is, it is very difficult to have a bunch of important people in the same place unless it is really, really secure.’ … Trump clearly didn’t believe his own claims concerning presidential security, or he wouldn’t have decided to catch 40 winks in front of thousands of angry basketball fans.” (06/09/26)
Source: Cato Institute
“When the President Sues the Government He Controls.” (06/09/26)
https://www.cato.org/multimedia/cato-podcast/when-president-sues-government-he-controls
Source: USA Today
“Results are rolling in for closely watched primary contests in Maine and South Carolina on Tuesday, June 9. In the day’s most high-profile race, Maine Democrat Graham Platner − for whom embarrassing revelations about his personal life are threaten to upend his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins − has won the Democratic Senate primary. Platner bested Gov. Janet Mills, who suspended her Senate campaign on April 30, and will face Incumbent Sen. Susan Collins who ran for the Republican nomination unopposed. … South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace’s bid for governor failed after she lost President Donald Trump’s favor by joining House Democrats to compel the release of Justice Department files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The president endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette. Evette will head to a runoff with Alan Wilson, and Mace conceded the race.” (06/09/26)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“Not since the notorious 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) provided for indefinite detention of American citizens, has the annual funding bill been as misused as this year. Embedded in the bill is an insult to every American who values our national sovereignty. The NDAA’s Section 224, the ‘United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative,’ would ‘integrate’ the Israeli military with our own, fusing technology, production, intelligence-sharing, and more. … It is hard to think of a more ‘America last’ position than handing the keys to the Pentagon (and our intelligence community) to a foreign country.” (06/09/26)
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A car bomb in the Moscow region killed a general in charge of heavy ammunition supplies for the Russian army, reports said. The car exploded in Balashikha, killing its driver. He was named in reports as Damir Davydov, head of the Russian defence ministry’s missile and artillery wing. A second car bomb was discovered and blown up by authorities in south-west Moscow, reports said. Throughout the war several audacious assassinations have taken place of senior figures involved in Moscow’s war effort, with Ukrainian security services either claiming responsibility or being blamed by Russian authorities.” (06/10/26)
Source: Reason
by Joel Miller
“For those of us who like to think literacy is a form of liberation, there’s a troubling counterpoint: Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler wasn’t interested in people thinking for themselves; he insisted they think like him. Propaganda, he recognized, is an assault on reflection: avoid abstraction, parrot slogans, abandon objectivity, and scapegoat your enemies. In forms like Mein Kampf, books contributed to the poison. But for the German theologian and anti-Nazi conspirator Dietrich Bonhoeffer, they could also serve as an antidote.” (06/09/26)
https://reason.com/2026/06/09/reading-the-quietest-way-to-disobey/