Source: The American Conservative
by David Brady
“According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, the military interventions we collectively know as the Global War on Terror (GWOT) led to the deaths of over 900,000 people and cost the United States more than $8 trillion. Afghanistan and Iraq ended in failure. Most Americans (at least, those not named Marc Thiessen or Bill Kristol) believe that the post-9/11 wars in the Middle East were a mistake. Indeed, this was a major part of Donald Trump’s initial appeal: ‘They lied,’ he said of the GWOT’s architects in 2016. We are now a quarter of a century on from the horrific events of September 11. And looking back, it is more important than ever to understand what caused them, and why bin Laden seemed to have gotten what he wanted out of the attacks.” (09/08/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/did-bin-laden-defeat-america/
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“The number of ships sailing through the Panama Canal could be cut further due to drought caused by the El Nino weather pattern, the new administrator of the waterway said on Monday. Panama has declared a nationwide emergency over El Nino, a phenomenon developing over the Pacific Ocean that is affecting worldwide weather patterns and pushing up global temperatures. This year’s El Nino is expected to be the strongest since record-keeping began four decades ago. Panama’s restrictions come even as use of the canal has risen …. Each ship requires about 200 million litres of water, which is then discharged into the sea. In 2023, El Nino forced a reduction in daily transits from 38 to 22 due to the dramatic reduction in reservoir levels.” (09/08/26)
https://archive.is/WMLgN
Source: Antiwar.com
“Saudi Strike on Yemen Prison Kills 7, US, Japan, South Korea Start Military Drills, and More.” (09/07/26)
https://rumble.com/v7f80ry-saudi-strike-on-yemen-prison-kills-7-us-japan-south-korea-start-military-dr.html
Source: Reason
by Ily Somin
“Labor Day is a great time to remember that we can make workers vastly better off by empowering more of them to vote with their feet, both within countries and through international migration.” (09/07/26)
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/07/help-workers-by-breaking-down-barriers-to-labor-mobility-4/
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“The primaries are over, and the November general election looms. Suddenly, the Islamo-socialist podcaster Hasan Piker (who is now infamous for blaming America for 9/11 and warning Jews that ‘someone’s going to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against American Jews’) is persona non grata on the Democratic stump. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee in the Michigan Senate race, once enlisted Piker to jump-start his lethargic candidacy. Now that he is locked in a close general-election race against a strong Republican, El-Sayed dismisses the antisemite, who has suddenly outlived his usefulness, as a mere ‘social media person in California’. Clinton-era Democratic politicos like Rahm Emanuel and James Carville insist that Democrats have ‘divorced’ themselves from the hard-left Democratic Socialists. Really? If that divorce were real, why would so many Democrats be cheering a potential Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presidential run in 2028?” (09/08/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/08/the-democratic-chicken-or-the-socialist-egg/
Source: Common Dreams
“Policy experts in the US and Middle East on Tuesday were among those responding to an “astonishing” new investigation from Haaretz, which detailed how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was alerted weeks before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack that a ‘major event’ was being planned by the Palestinian group – an assault that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and which Israel has responded to by slaughtering more than 73,000 Palestinians so far in Gaza. Highlighting revelations contained in an upcoming book called Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment, by journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval, the Israeli newspaper reported that Netanayahu dismissed a warning about the attack from United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed, which came in a phone call in September 2023.” (09/08/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/did-netanyahu-know-about-oct-7
Source: Asia Times
by Greg Barton
“In September 2026 we live in a world of uncertainty and change. Geopolitics, technology and the physical world are experiencing rapid transformation that fascinates and terrifies in equal measure. Much of this would have occurred without September 11, but there is a sense in which that day changed all these things. The collapse of 80 years of global order cannot be said to have simply resulted from the world’s biggest terror attack, but it certainly played a role in triggering a series of responses that changed all the nations involved. Could the September 11 attacks have been foreseen and prevented? Absolutely. … One clear way the September 11 attacks changed the world was as a catalyst for a decades-long global ‘War on Terror.’ This war never had a clear strategic plan or an agreed endpoint.” (09/07/26)
https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/not-stopping-9-11-was-catastrophic-but-bigger-mistakes-came-later/
Source: The News International [Pakistan]
“Sapporo is shifting some production from Canada to the United States after President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariffs hit beer brewed in Canada for the US market. The Japanese brewer plans to move production of non-alcoholic beer currently made in Canada for American consumers to the US by the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reported. … Sapporo is considering buying or building a brewery on the US West Coast or using a contract brewer to support the shift.” (09/08/26)
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1415333-sapporo-beer-moves-some-production-from-canada-to-the-us-after-trumps-tariffs
Source: Fountainhead Forum
‘Eric Kohn on China’s persecution of Jimmy Lai and the fall of Hong Kong.” (09/07/26)
https://rumble.com/v7f81cs-ff-483-eric-kohn-on-chinas-persecution-of-jimmy-lai-and-the-fall-of-hong-ko.html
Source: The UnPopulist
by Brink Lindsey
“Every Labor Day, Americans participate in a holiday whose meaning has gradually thinned out—stripped down to a three-day weekend, end-of-summer sales, and only a passing nod to ‘workers.’ American thinking about work and freedom used to run much deeper than that. At the Founding, and for the decades that followed, working for wages wasn’t seen as a normal fact of economic life. Rather, it was widely regarded as a form of dependence, a glorified form of servitude. That suspicion of wage labor shaped one of the 19th century’s defining political movements. Today, on Labor Day, its logic is worth closer examination. I’m proposing that we go back to the future, reviving the ‘free labor’ vision of Abraham Lincoln and fellow early Republicans.” (09/07/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/is-wage-labor-freedom-or-servitude
