Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker

“Cocooning is different from nest building, which is a normal sense of wanting time to bond and learn and care. This is different. It is a pharmacological innovation that implies that the basic immune system is deeply flawed without the injection of industrial products and therefore a newborn can only be around other maximally injected people. The Covid and flu shots are known to register negative efficacy. None of these shots can prevent transmission, an indisputable fact. Moreover, every pharmaceutical carries risks. Four at once carries more risk than one. In effect, the new mother is exercising soft power, blackmailing her family by denying joy to them unless they give money to the shotmakers.” (09/15/26)

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-cocooning-racket-needs-to-end/

Source: New York Post
by John Hardie & Mark Montgomery

“Russia and Ukraine have ‘agreed’ not to strike each other’s energy infrastructure, President Donald Trump asserted Monday — perhaps aiming to accelerate a deal that reportedly remains under negotiation and which Moscow has previously resisted. While Kyiv quickly expressed readiness for an energy truce, the Kremlin has remained conspicuously silent. It’s not hard to guess why. Vladimir Putin knows that Ukraine, short on air defenses, is staring down the barrel of its hardest winter yet — and he wants to exploit that vulnerability. But there’s a way to blunt the Russian bombardment, and improve diplomacy’s chances in the process. Ukraine, unable to intercept enough Russian ‘arrows’, should be permitted to use the Starlink satellite internet service to take out the ‘archers’ inside Russia. Despite Trump’s efforts to revive peace talks by dispatching envoys to Moscow and Kyiv earlier this month, Putin appears determined to continue fighting.” (09/15/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/09/15/opinion/elon-musk-can-unlock-a-russia-ukraine-energy-truce-and-save-lives/

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“Have we learned nothing from history of blowback? Shouldn’t we be cultivating friends and trade partners rather than bullying ourselves around the globe in search of lower prices to run our cars? For decades, politicos obfuscate the fact that we involve our country in Middle Eastern foreign entanglements over oil, while they claim everything under the sun but the fact, other than what Trump has now plainly stated. We’ll use our military might to plunder anywhere and do anything for cheap oil. But the reality of doing this is much more complicated, regardless of whether you believe the rhetoric coming out of D.C.” (09/15/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/trump-says-stay-in-iran-and-keep

Source: RealClearPolitics
by David Clement

“‘Team Canada’ and ‘America First’ might be catchy slogans, but they survive on vagueness. The public’s willingness to go along for this ride quickly fades when those slogans are replaced by real costs and real job losses. The current back-and-forth ends up being nothing more than an exercise in national pride that ignores the fact that someone always loses when they face artificially higher prices at the checkout.” (09/15/26)

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/09/15/the_us-canada_trade_war_nobody_asked_for_154502.html

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Martin di Caro

“Sixty years after the film premiered, and 23 years after its screening at the Pentagon, its lessons are as relevant as ever.” (09/15/26)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/battle-of-algiers-pentagon-screening/