Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño

“When a resurfaced clip of Joe Biden’s 1989 speech went viral in December 2025, it created an awkward moment for Democrats attacking President Donald Trump’s military campaign against alleged drug boats. In that speech, delivered as the official Democratic Party response to President George H.W. Bush’s address on the crack cocaine epidemic, then-Senator Biden declared with unmistakable clarity what he wanted the United States to do. … That 1989 rhetoric now reads like a blueprint for exactly what the Trump administration has done since September 2025, when U.S. forces began destroying vessels that the Pentagon claims are operated by cartel-linked organizations—starting in the Caribbean off Venezuela and expanding to the eastern Pacific in October.” (06/15/26)

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-bipartisan-roots-of-trumps-war-in-latin-america/

Source: Common Dreams
by Matt Duss

“The following is a statement released in response to news of an interim agreement between the US and Iran for a ceasefire in the war started by the US and Israel on February 28, 2026. With news of a ceasefire agreement to end the disastrous and unnecessary US-Israeli war on Iran, the tragic failure of Donald Trump’s Iran policy has now played out exactly as anti-war critics warned it would. Trump said that his war on Iran would be quick, decisive and force the regime to totally capitulate or collapse. We warned it would become a quagmire that would fail to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program, ignite a regional conflict that could threaten the global economy, further strengthen the Iranian regime’s hold on power and cost thousands of lives — including American servicemembers. We were right.” (06/15/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-iran-war-disaster

Source: The Daily Economy
by Emmanuel Rincon

“For centuries, some of the most prominent advocates of socialism have spent their lives condemning the accumulation of wealth while privately amassing fortunes of their own. In many cases, they have even used revolutionary rhetoric as a vehicle to gain power and extract wealth from productive sectors of society. From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin, from Fidel Castro to Hugo Chávez, many of these figures denounced private wealth and entrepreneurship, despite the fact that few, if any, lived according to the austere principles they publicly promoted. Instead, many enjoyed lives marked by privilege, luxury, and the very economic advantages they claimed to despise. This pattern is not confined to communist regimes. In the United States, self-described socialists have often criticized wealth accumulation — until they themselves became wealthy.” (06/15/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-long-tradition-of-wealth-extracting-socialists/

Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey

“I think we all believe in secure elections that protect every eligible citizen’s vote. Florida has made some practical changes. Some people call these changes voter suppression, while others say they render our elections safer. In April, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Florida SAVE Act. This law requires people registering to vote to prove their citizenship using REAL ID data. It also updates ID rules for in-person voting, requiring paper ballots to maintain a clear record, and increases penalties for violations, including those involving foreign interference.” (06/15/26)

https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/florida-save-act-voter-suppression

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Thiago VS Coelho

“Civilization does not usually fail because every participant is stupid, vicious, or indifferent. It fails because people are placed inside systems where the locally-prudent action sustains a globally-absurd result. ‘Moloch’ is Eliezer Yudkowsky’s name for these impersonal traps: arrangements in which nearly everyone would prefer a better world, but no individual can safely move there alone. The broad failures fall into three recurring types. First, the decisionmaker is not the beneficiary. A regulator, hospital administrator, licensing board, journal editor, or politician makes a rule whose costs are borne mainly by others. Second, there is asymmetric information. Someone knows the relevant fact, but cannot credibly transmit it through the institutional fog. Third, society is stuck in an inferior equilibrium: everyone responds rationally to the incentives in front of him, while the system as a whole remains inferior to another possible arrangement.” (06/15/26)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/moloch-regulatory-state