Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“Two things happened the week before Trump finally decided to end his will-he-won’t-he relationship with regime change in Iran. The first is that Benjamin Netanyahu told the Donald that Israel was going to whack the Ayatollah with or without him and that the results would be identical either way. Iran would retaliate by dumping literal tons of drones on the American bases that encircle it throughout the region and Trump would be duty bound to prove his manhood with blood. The other telltale thing that happened that week was that evidence surfaced from the heavily redacted Epstein Files that appears to show multiple sources corroborating the failed lawsuit of Katy Johnson; an anonymous plaintiff who accused our current president of raping her with Jeffrey Epstein at his side and then threatening to murder her if she spoke.” (03/15/26)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-ghost-of-ali-shariati-dances-with.html

Source: Town Hall
by Allen West

“I remember retiring from the U.S. Army and relocating the family to South Florida. That was a long drive from Ft Hood, Texas, to Ft Lauderdale, Florida, especially with two young daughters and two yap yap Pomeranian dogs. I decided we would depart at ‘Zero-dark Early’ so Aubrey and Austen would sleep, but when they awoke, the first words out of their mouths were, ‘Dad, are we there yet?’ Heck, I believe those two yap yap dogs were yapping the same inquiry. Needless to say, we had not even hit the Florida border, going along Interstate 10. This is a story that many parents and grandparents have experienced on a long drive with kids. But it also provides a very important lesson about how not to develop national security and foreign policy. ” (03/16/26)

https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2026/03/16/are-we-there-yet-n2672822

Source: Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald

“As the Israel Lobby gets more desperate watching the collapse of American support for their country, they also become more nakedly authoritarian to control US discourse.” (03/15/26)

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/cia-prepares-criminal-referral-of

Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Kimberlee Josephson

“There is a peculiar irony in modern American consumer culture: we celebrate abundance, low prices, and convenience — until we decide to sue the businesses that make those things possible. Somewhere along the way, buyer beware — a principle as old as markets themselves — has been replaced with the belief that disappointment equates with legal injury. Disputes over marketing messages and lawsuits about the labeling of menu items shows that some patrons are eager to become plaintiffs. Recent skirmishes over chicken are a case in point.” (03/15/26)

https://fee.org/articles/dont-bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you/

Source: The Realist Review
by Martin Sieff

“Three Dead Men’s Hands press down across the map of Europe accelerating the 21st century continent towards a suicidal thermonuclear confrontation with Russia that will pull in and annihilate North America as well. The hands are those of Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill — the three Anglo-American architects of the catastrophic 1919 Paris Peace Conference and Treaty of Versailles. For 70 years the Versailles Treaty and its following agreements were rightly reviled across Europe and the world as the fiasco and disaster that led directly to the rise of Adolf Hitler and to the even greater conflagration of World War II.” (03/15/26)

https://therealistreview.substack.com/p/paris-1919-a-peace-made-in-hell-driving