Source: The Daily Economy
by Kimberlee Josephson
“With ‘abundance’ back in the policy lexicon, the real challenge is understanding what sustains growth: private enterprise, rule of law, and secure ownership.” (11/04/25)
Source: Fox News
by Liz Peek
“What if Sen. Bernie Sanders is right and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is wrong? What if the AI revolution causes mass layoffs of American workers, as the Vermont senator warned in a recent Fox News op-ed? And what if Powell is wrong that the softening labor market is due primarily to supply issues — lower immigration and a lower labor participation rate — rather than AI-produced ‘efficiencies?’ What will be the response of policymakers? What should it be? AI will soon become a political battleground. Democratic socialist Sanders, ever the class warrior, has already questioned whether AI will help all Americans or ‘only a handful of billionaires.’ Like the trade deals that sent millions of jobs overseas, Sanders worries that the massive investment flowing into AI could result in up to 100 million Americans losing their jobs over the next decade. He could be right; imagine the repercussions.” (11/04/25)
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he visited troops near the embattled city of Pokrovsk, as Kyiv scrambles to defend the logistics hub that Russia has tried to capture for months. … Hundreds of Russian soldiers have infiltrated the logistics hub, Kyiv said earlier this week. Others are closing in on its outskirts in a pincer-shaped movement, according to battlefield maps published by the Institute for the Study of War. The Russian army on Tuesday said it was ‘tightening the encirclement around the enemy’ in Pokrovsk and claimed to have captured a few dozen buildings in the town” (11/04/25)
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Reem Ibrahim
“This week, the UK Parliament passed the Renters’ Rights Act. It is the biggest shakeup to the British rental market this century, and is being sold as a big win for tenants. This could not be further from the truth. This legislation will wreak havoc on the already fundamentally broken rental market. It introduces de facto rent controls, crushes the supply of housing, and makes life harder for everyone trying to find somewhere to live.” (11/04/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank. Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers. Lambs. It’s not the most evil thing the Israelis have done. Not by a long shot. Hell, all of human civilization subjects animals to cruel abuses every minute of every day through the horrors of factory farming. But this particular incident shines a special sort of light into exactly what’s going on behind Israeli eyes over there in that sadistic society. Think about the hatred and savagery you’d need to summon up within yourself to gouge the eyes out of a living baby sheep. Think about the kind of person you’d have to become to do something like that to an innocent creature. Those lambs didn’t know they were Palestinian.” (11/04/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/04/they-tortured-lambs-in-the-west-bank/
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars. A Philippine air force helicopter with five personnel on board crashed in a separate incident in southern Agusan del Sur province while flying to help provide humanitarian assistance to provinces battered by Kalmaegi. … Before the typhoon’s landfall, officials said that more than 387,000 people had evacuated to safer ground in eastern and central Philippine provinces. Authorities warned of torrential rains, potentially destructive winds and storm surges of nearly 10 feet.” (11/04/25)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/04/typhoon-kalmaegi-philippines-aftermath/
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Lady Astor on Argentina’s elections and changes in Javier Milei’s Cabinet.” (11/04/25)
Source: The Dispatch
by Yascha Mounk
“Writing about the coronation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s nephew, Louis, as the emperor of the French, Karl Marx coined one of his most famous phrases: ‘Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ I have been thinking about this phrase a lot in recent weeks, as it has become increasingly clear what shape the Democrats’ response to Trump 47 is going to take.” (11/04/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-democrats-gavin-newsom-extremism/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Connor Echols
“A ballooning dispute over a recent interview has thrust a quiet right-wing debate about foreign policy into the open.” (11/04/25)
Source: Seattle Times
“Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the country, federal health officials said. The meals, sold at Albertsons, Kroger, Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe’s and other major stores, were recalled in recent months in connection with the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said grew last week. Federal health officials said the supplier, Nate’s Fine Foods Inc., had found Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can cause illness and death, in a sample of its pasta. Health officials said that a total of 27 people in 18 states had been affected by the outbreak, and that they were working to investigate the source.” (11/04/25)