Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies

“Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between the Suez Crisis in 1956 and the US war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of ‘end of empire’ moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis. In 1956, the British Empire was still resisting independence movements in many of its colonies. The horrors of British Mau Mau concentration camps in Kenya and Britain’s brutal guerrilla war in Malaya continued throughout the 1950s, and, like the United States today, Britain still had military bases all over the world.” (05/11/26)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/suez-canal-strait-of-hormuz

Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker

“It doesn’t appear as though the jump in energy prices has yet had much effect on the labor market, as the economy added 115,000 jobs in April. Year-over-year wage growth was 3.6 percent, which is likely to be roughly even with the inflation rate that will be reported next week. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.3 percent, with little change for most demographic groups.” (05/11/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/11/on-the-april-jobs-report/

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Do senior Democrats not understand how our government is designed? … when something violates the constitution it matters not at all whether it passed with 99.9 percent support or the slightest majority.” (05/11/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/05/11/cracy-crats-the-const

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Marcos Giansante

“There is a recurring temptation in political economy to reduce social order to a problem of conflict. If human interests are not perfectly aligned, the argument goes, stability must rest on mechanisms that prevent clashes, enforce boundaries, and ensure compliance with rules, especially those governing property. This view — while internally consistent — overlooks a more fundamental insight: social coordination does not depend on the absence of conflict, but on individuals adjusting their plans within a framework of dispersed knowledge.” (05/11/26)

https://mises.org/power-market/coordination-not-conflict-what-hayek-got-right-about-social-order

Source: The American Conservative
by Peter Van Buren

“The Iran War may prove to be little more than a blip on the world’s radar. Or its real significance may lie less in who wins militarily than in whether it accelerates global recognition that the United States is no longer willing or able to enforce the international order it created after 1945. There is a strong argument that, even as the missiles continue to fly, the war is not that significant. It appears today the most likely outcome will be a return to something like the status quo in the Middle East. … The opposite argument requires focusing on a longer sweep of history, in which the Iran War may be a significant marker in the slow-motion end of the global system set in place by the United States after the Second World War.” (05/11/26)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/welcome-to-the-new-world-order/