Source: US News & World Report
‘Uganda said on Monday it had begun withdrawing its troops from Somalia as part of a phased drawdown that will end an almost two-decade deployment helping Mogadishu fight the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgency. Uganda has about 4,500 troops deployed in Somalia under the African Union-mandated AU Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM), according to state media, though it is unclear how many additional forces are deployed under a separate bilateral arrangement.” (11/02/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-11-02/uganda-says-it-has-started-withdrawing-troops-from-somalia
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Dave Benner from Liberty Vault joins us for a blunt end-of-week rundown on the war in Iran, the midterm backlash building around it, and why the administration’s promise that it won’t become a forever war is landing with a thud for a lot of voters.” (11/01/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-dave-benner-will-americans-vote-against-israel-on-tuesday/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Kyle Anzalone
“With all of President Donald Trump’s wars – Iran, Yemen, Ukraine, Nigeria, Somalia, Venezuela, and cartels – it’s easy to lose track of what is happening on the Korean Peninsula. However, since Trump returned to the White House, a series of developments on the Korean Peninsula have increased the risk that a relatively minor border incident could escalate into a much larger conflict. The first, and potentially most important, was a policy shift by Pyongyang that began before Trump returned to the White House. North Korea abandoned its longstanding goal of reunification with South Korea, moving toward treating the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) as an international border.” (11/02/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/kyle_anzalone/2026/11/01/trump-is-dealing-with-a-different-north-korea/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George Ford Smith
“The future’s inherent uncertainty is an absolute we face every moment of our lives, but how people deal with it varies as widely as the weather. No one can guarantee tomorrow but we all have to decide what to do today. It is from this condition that entrepreneurship arises.” (11/02/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/entrepreneurship-five-words
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Fury Erupts as GOP Leaks About His Rallies Take Humiliating Turn.” (11/02/260
https://newrepublic.com/article/217423/trump-fury-erupts-gop-leaks-rallies-take-humiliating-turn
Source: Liberal Currents
by Kiran Pfitzner
“The Trump administration has chosen to forget that airpower provides no way to force a favorable peace.” (11/02/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/are-you-tired-of-winning-yet/
Source: Common Dreams
by Chris Melody Fields Figueredo
“Heading into Tuesday’s midterm elections, the ballot measure landscape reveals a struggle over whether government will respond to people’s needs—and whether communities will retain the power to act through direct democracy when it does not. Economic anxiety, contested rights, and efforts to restrict direct democracy are converging around questions that reach beyond any individual proposal: Who benefits from policy change? Whose priorities will guide government? And what happens when elected officials advance an agenda their constituents reject? Recent elections suggest that voters are responding to more than a disconnect between their priorities and those of elected officials: they reveal a willingness to take power into their own hands when government fails to deliver.” (11/02/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/2026-ballot-measures
Source: CBS News
“Grocery store chains in at least three European countries reported unexpected temperature spikes Monday in refrigerators and freezers that ruined food — the second time in less than a month that similar incidents have raised concerns about cyberattacks on increasingly interlinked infrastructure. Netherlands-based food retailer Ahold Delhaize and Colruyt in Belgium both said an IT incident overnight had sent temperatures inside fridges and freezers in dozens of their stores in Belgium and Luxembourg soaring, while Swedish chains ICA and Coop reported similar spikes, with one outlet explicitly blaming a cyberattack, according to the Reuters news agency. The incidents come less than three weeks after several French supermarket chains said they were hit by a cyberattack that sent refrigerator temperatures surging as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit in hundreds of outlets.” (11/02/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/europe-grocery-store-refrigerator-freezer-cyberattack-hack-food-wasted/
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Andrew Day from The American Conservative about what’s happening with the Iran war.” (11/01/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/10-30-26-andrew-day-on-the-iran-war-eight-months-in/
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jonathan Small
“Voter concerns about affordability have been a major theme in political races, and understandably so. However, what is often unsaid is that many government policies are to blame for continued high prices. A panel of experts recently made that painfully clear to Oklahoma state lawmakers.” (11/02/26)
https://fee.org/articles/government-to-blame-for-higher-prices/
