Source: Common Dreams
by Les Leopold

“Socialism is alive and well, and it is growing, though maybe not in the way you expect. The federal government provides more than $700 billion in contracts to private sector corporations. It also forgoes approximately $1.5 trillion in tax receipts to provide tax breaks for corporations to encourage job-creating investments, or so we are told. The net result is that corporations avoid paying their fair share [sic] while we, the taxpaying public, make up the difference. As if that public support for private enterprise isn’t enough, now President Trump is taking it to the next level by acquiring 10 percent of Intel’s stock in exchange for the $8.9 billion the government is providing the company via the Chips and Science Act. From one angle, this certainly is an improvement over the big bank bailouts …” (09/02/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-goes-socialist

Source: Quillette
by John Aziz

“One of the most remarkable aspects of Mamdani’s rise is the long shadow of his father’s intellectual project. Mahmood Mamdani is a world-famous antinationalist academic at Columbia University, who argues that every sovereign country is built on exclusion and sustained by domination and violence. He has called for a political future in which every nation state including the United States would be ‘deconstructed.’ Nationalism is the dominant political form of the modern world. Nation states set the rules for citizenship, command armies, print money, and provide the legal frameworks within which our lives unfold. Yet this has not always been the case, and there is no guarantee that it will always remain so. For that reason alone, it is worth engaging seriously with the case against nationalism — a case that has been pressed by both the Right and the Left.” (09/02/25)

https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook

“CNN’s investigation features several photographs and videos of the journalists Israel killed this week working on the balcony and stairwell …. When they targeted a ‘Hamas camera,’ they knew that, in reality, that camera was being used by a Reuters journalist, Hussam Al-Masri. … And when Israel struck 10 minutes later with two coordinated missiles, it knew that the main victims would be the emergency workers who went to rescue survivors from the first strike and journalists – al-Masri’s friends – who were nearby and rushed to the scene. Nothing was a ‘mishap.’ It was planned down to the minutest detail. But here is where we get to the main problem with CNN’s coverage. In picking apart Israel’s patently bogus claims, the investigation treats those claims with a seriousness they in no way merit.” (09/02/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2025/09/01/even-the-medias-gaza-investigations-hide-the-real-story-of-israels-atrocities/

Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard

“On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston declared, ‘Most wildfires are caused by human activity, so to reduce the risk, we’re keeping people out of the woods until conditions improve. I’m asking everyone to do the right thing — don’t light that campfire, stay out of the woods and protect our people and communities.’ Canadian politicians are exploiting wildfires the same way that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exploited COVID to lockdown the entire nation.” (09/01/25)

https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/09/01/canadian-hikers-get-the-covid-style-tyranny-treatment/

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“The unhinged hostility to Donald Trump’s successful [sic] crime [sic] crackdown in Washington, DC, puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking? Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is ‘a major problem,’ according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week. The other 19% must be either criminals or blue-city politicians — or both.” [editor’s note: At least the occupation troops picked up some litter and raked some leaves in between abducting drunk sandwich throwers and marching around tourist areas to be seen – TLK] (08/31/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/08/31/opinion/democrats-head-scratching-reaction-to-trumps-dc-crime-crackdown-puts-them-at-odds-with-voters/