Source: CounterPunch
by Kevin A Young

“‘Signalgate’ is how some are christening Trump officials’ unintended disclosure of plans for bombing Yemen via a Signal group chat on March 15. Since Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg broke the story, outraged critics have demanded a return to ‘the ethic of accountability that our nation holds sacred.’ The analogy to Watergate is fitting, but not in the way they intend. Congressional furor over Nixon’s misbehavior fixated on the pettiest of his crimes. The articles of impeachment in 1974 failed to mention his role in a war of aggression that killed between two and four million people.” (03/27/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/27/with-us-war-crimes-the-only-crime-is-breaching-secrecy-protocols/

Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Peter Kornbluh

“‘How could I have been so stupid as to let them proceed?’ President John Kennedy asked his advisers following the CIA’s infamous fiasco at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. Beyond the fact that the U.S. invasion of Cuba was an egregious act of aggression — violating international law and Cuba’s sovereignty — its failure was a catastrophic embarrassment for JFK, only weeks into his White House tenure. … Kennedy vented his desire to ‘splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.’ That concept was more than angry rhetoric; the president actually set in motion a secret set of deliberations on breaking up the intelligence, espionage and covert action functions of the CIA and subordinating its operations to the State Department.” (03/27/25)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/jfk-files-cia/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano

“Punishing speech and association is the most dangerous business because it is subjective and value-free and there will be no end to it. The remedy for hateful or threatening speech is more speech – speech that challenges the speaker. Why do folks in government want to silence their opponents? They must fear an undermining of their power. The dissenters might make more appealing arguments than they do.” (03/27/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2025/03/26/a-brief-history-of-the-freedom-of-speech/

Source: The American Prospect
by Daniel Boguslaw

“One week after the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson, an intelligence report compiled by a regional intelligence center made an admission that’s shocking in its simplicity: Rising health care costs are correlated to threats against executives and civil unrest. The two-page document obtained by the Prospect and compiled by the Connecticut regional intelligence center (one of dozens of fusion centers across the country that communicate intelligence between federal agencies and state law enforcement) is uncharacteristically forthright in its language and assessment that health care costs lead to instability, and that the reaction to suspect Luigi Mangione’s alleged action was largely positive. According to the dossier, ‘Healthcare expenditure in the United States increased from $2.75Trillion (T) in 2004, to $4.09T in 2018, in inflation adjusted dollars. 2019 and 2020, saw expenditures of $4.2T and $4.6T respectfully, which represents a 10.6% increase year over year and was largely influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic.'” (03/27/25)

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-03-27-intelligence-dossier-compares-luigi-mangione-robin-hood/

Source: Quillette
by John Lloyd

“The new European commitment to defence and Russia’s unshakeable wish to control Ukraine have revived an awareness that war is something with which comfortable and relatively wealthy states may still have to live.” (03/27/25)

https://quillette.com/2025/03/27/border-wars-and-the-return-of-fear-russia-ukraine-europe-china-taiwan/