Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Joe Kent

“For the last eight months, the Iran war has been a topic of fierce debate: is the war in our national interest? Was Iran an imminent threat? Should we stay the course or escalate? … The American people settled the debate. It’s time to end the war in Iran. This is irrefutable, as Vice President Vance has admitted. Over 70% of voters blamed the Iran war and our off balanced relationship with Israel for the out of control inflation that affects their daily lives and have zero tolerance for more wars of choice. With this clear message from the American people, Trump must immediately end the war – today.” (11/06/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ending-war-elections/

Source: Common Dreams
by Peter Kuznick & Ivana Nikolić Hughes

“The 1984 British movie ‘Threads’ opens with ordinary scenes in Sheffield, England, where a young couple learns they are expecting a baby. Their personal story intertwines with news of a growing conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, centered on Iran. We next learn that a nuclear weapon is used in an attack, followed by another. Before long, Sheffield itself is the site of hydrogen bomb detonations, with our protagonists either perishing in the explosions or subsisting under devastating conditions of starvation, civil unrest, radiation-induced and infectious diseases, and freezing temperatures over the coming days, weeks, months, and years. The film ends with the 13-year-old daughter of the young couple from the start of the film giving birth to a deformed clump of flesh months after being raped in a lawless and collapsed society.” (11/07/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/save-ourselves-from-nukes

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“The Democrats elected in 1974 were elected to punish Republicans for the crimes of Richard Nixon. But some of them thought that the post-Watergate world was a wide-open ideological field in which they had decades to frolic. Six years later, Ronald Reagan won the presidency, and four years after that, he was reelected in a 49-state landslide (recount Minnesota!) with nearly 60 percent of the total vote nationwide. The lesson for the take-out-the-trash Democrats of 2026: A political moment is not the same thing as a political trend.” (11/06/26)

https://thedispatch.com/article/midterms-democrats-idological-trigonometry/

Source: Asia Times
by Jeffrey D Sachs

“Voters across the United States were loud and clear on Tuesday in their historic drubbing of Trumpism. The election was a decisive rejection of Trump’s war on Iran and its staggering costs at home. While savoring their victory and the historic opportunity to restore America’s constitutional order, the Democrats should take the anti-war message of the election to heart, because they suffered the same verdict two years ago, when voters rejected the Biden administration’s wars in Ukraine and Gaza.” (11/06/26)

https://asiatimes.com/2026/11/us-democrats-please-take-note-peace-is-good-politics/