Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald

“The Iran War becomes more senseless, and profoundly more dangerous, with each passing day. This was a war that, as we documented shortly before it began, was never explained to the American people in any meaningful way. That is likely why a large majority have opposed this war from the start, with opposition growing each week. Now, in the war’s sixth full week, we stand on the precipice of dangers unseen for at least two decades. All of this was not only predictable but explicitly and repeatedly predicted. And this is presumably why Trump’s decade-old vows not to involve the U.S. in any new Middle East wars resonated with so many Americans.” (04/07/26)

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-is-now-as-dangerous

Source: Fox News
by Gordon G Chang

“‘No Kings’ and other protests are sweeping America this year. On May 1, communists and other leftists are planning to try and shut the country down with ‘general strikes.’ ‘Recent reporting indicates that these protests are neither spontaneous nor decentralized,’ wrote Sen. Josh Hawley to then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in February, seeking an investigation into ‘radical left-wing organizations and individuals funding anti-ICE protests—including those with possible ties to the Chinese Communist Party.’ At the center of Chinese funding is Neville Roy Singham, an American tech billionaire living in Shanghai, who is implementing Xi Jinping’s euphemistically stated goal of ‘telling China’s story well.’ Singham, an avowed communist, operates an ‘international Revolutionary Front’ of about 2,000 groups.” (04/07/26)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gordon-chang-lot-anti-american-protests-made-china

Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison

“The president has frequently demonstrated that he is a menace to the world and unfit to remain in office, and he has done so again. He ought to be impeached and removed. The fact that we know this won’t happen even after these monstrous, genocidal threats is an indictment of the Republican Party and of our entire political system. If they won’t remove the president, Congress must urgently cut off funding for this war.” (04/07/26)

https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/trumps-monstrous-threats-against

Source: The UnPopulist
by Laszlo Gendler

“Orbán’s tenure has evolved into an experiment in illiberalism within the European Union — an ‘illiberal state,’ in his own words — that he has sought to export as an election-proof model for nationalist allies like Donald Trump. But the experiment may be about to blow up, and the consequences could extend far beyond the borders of this small central European country.” (04/07/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/if-orban-loses-hungarys-election

Source: Isonomia Quarterly
by Barry Scott Zellen

While President Trump says he is still confident in a deal with Harvard – at least more so than he is in securing a ceasefire deal in Ukraine with Russian president Vladimir Putin – his faithful may rightfully ask: why cut a deal with an institution so incestuous, so inbred, so self-serving, and so infested with moral rot, as Harvard?” (04/07/26)

https://isonomiamag.substack.com/p/bringing-harvard-to-heel-the-trump

Source: TomDispatch
by Nan Levinson

“A couple of wars ago, when I gave readings from my book War Is Not a Game, I sometimes tried to liven things up by asking the audience to guess which of the names I mentioned were for video games and which were for actual U.S. military campaigns. It didn’t work when there were veterans in the audience — they were too familiar with both — but it did vividly point up the kinship of war and entertainment in our world. Now, welcome to Operation Epic Fury, the perfect name for an adolescent-id-on-steroids-style war. That name was, of course, chosen by Donald (‘How do you like the performance?’) Trump for his campaign against Iran, while his White House social-media team created actual mash-ups of games and reality to match.” (04/07/26)

https://tomdispatch.com/trumps-game-for-war/