Source: Liberal Currents
by Steve Kennedy
“For advocates of ‘parental rights,’ family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.” (03/16/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/parental-rights-and-the-authoritarian-family/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“My enemies are in Washington and Tel Aviv. In London and Canberra. My enemies are the western oligarchs and empire managers who are poisoning my society and making everything awful while slaughtering human beings with the help of my tax dollars. My enemies are the tyrants who are turning our civilization into a mind-controlled dystopia where it is increasingly illegal to criticize the abuses of my government and its allies, and increasingly difficult to find information which runs counter to the imperial narrative. My enemies are the empire apologists and the hasbarists. The propagandists and spinmeisters. Those who side with Israel and the United States against basic human interests. Imperial bootlickers always accuse me of writing ‘propaganda’ for ‘the enemy,’ with ‘enemy’ meaning whoever the US-centralized empire happens to be attacking or preparing to attack on any given day.” (03/16/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/16/my-enemies-are-not-in-iran/
Source: US News & World Report
“President Donald Trump’s administration has asked a judge to reconsider his ruling that has effectively blocked a criminal investigation into U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to court documents made public on Monday. Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in a ruling unsealed on Friday blocked subpoenas issued by federal prosecutors in January seeking information about cost overruns in renovations at the Fed’s headquarters and Powell’s testimony to Congress last year about the project. Boasberg concluded that prosecutors had improperly issued the subpoenas, saying a ‘mountain of evidence’ suggests the investigation — as Powell has argued — was intended to pressure the Fed chair to rapidly lower interest rates or resign as chair. The Justice Department in a new filing urged Boasberg to revisit his decision.” (03/16/26)
Source: The Tucker Carlson Show
“Glenn Greenwald: Iran War Updates, False Flags, and Netanyahu’s Plot to Imprison Americans.” (03/16/26)
Source: Law & Liberty
by Alex J Pollock
“The failure of pandemic-era forecasting calls for a return to monetary basics.” (03/16/26)
Source: The Contrarians
by Jennifer Rubin
“General Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Donald Trump that an attack on Iran would provoke its closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Every president contemplating war in the Middle East has known this and therefore avoided a full regional war. But Trump said he knew better and plunged into war. Of course, Trump was wrong — monumentally, predictably, and inexcusably wrong. Now, the Strait is mined and closed, the war rages out of control, oil prices have spiked, and the economy is teetering.” (03/16/26)
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/trumps-war-is-the-worst-conceived
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on Tucker Carlson’s claims that the CIA has spied on him and plans to refer him to the Department of Justice.” (03/16/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5782451-rising-march-16-2026/
Source: EconLog
by Asad E Butt
“When inflation was rising rapidly in 2022, it was predicted that a sustained period of high unemployment would be required to bring inflation back to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target. Such predictions are closely aligned with the findings of the classic Phillips curve, which hypothesizes a trade-off between inflation and unemployment. These predictions were strongly rooted in the sacrifice ratio — the rise in unemployment typically required to reduce inflation by one percentage point. Historical experience suggested that the sacrifice ratio would be substantial, but inflation declined significantly without a notable rise in unemployment. It remained low, fluctuating between 3.6% and 3.9% through 2021 and 2022. The sacrifice ratio turned out to be close to zero. The big question that these events raise is whether the economists overestimated the persistence of supply-side shocks and the sensitivity of inflation to unemployment.” (03/16/26)
Source: New York Post
by James A Gagliano
“After four separate terrorist attacks in the last two weeks on US soil, Americans are on edge. It’s taken me back to 2003 and a barren outpost in Khost, Afghanistan, where I interrogated a high-value target while serving with the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team. ‘You’ll go back to your country. But this struggle will follow you there,’ the detainee pronounced, through an interpreter. ‘We can be patient. You Americans certainly are not. We will wait you out. And the fight will continue.’ He was right. On March 1, a radical Islamist and naturalized citizen from Senegal shot up a bar in Austin, Texas, murdering three. On March 7, two teenaged jihadi wannabes from Pennsylvania (children of naturalized citizens from Afghanistan and Turkey) tossed homemade bombs at cops and protesters outside Gracie Mansion in New York City.” (03/15/26)
Source: The Bulwark
“Laura Loomer Publicly Humiliated Over Racist Statements.” (03/16/26)