Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Today we’re going to talk about gas prices, which are high everywhere but especially where I live in California. It’s a long and involved story, but I hope you stick with it! And tell a friend; it shouldn’t be this hard to understand the truth amid all the disinformation. Send them to prospect.org/aftermath for all of our stories about the consequences of the Strait of Hormuz crisis. I mean, who knows? Meetings keep getting set up and blocked; the latest is that the Trump administration is mulling over an Iranian offer to open the strait and then postpone nuclear talks. This would call into question why we ever went to war in the first place; opening the strait isn’t a concession but the state of the world before the attacks began on February 28.” (04/28/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/04/28/aftermath-california-gas-prices-are-up-not-just-the-war/
Source: ABC News
“The Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful criminal enterprise, suffered another blow Monday when the Mexican military captured one of its top leaders in the northwest of the country, two months after the cartel’s leader was killed. Audias Flores Silva, also known as ‘El Jardinero,’ or The Gardener, was seen as a possible successor to the killed leader and the United States had a $5 million reward out for information leading to his arrest. The CJNG regional commander was captured while he was hiding in a roadside ditch near the community of El Mirador in the state of Nayarit, Mexican officials said Monday. No one was killed or injured during his arrest, according to Mexico’s government.” (04/27/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/mexicos-military-captures-top-cartel-leader-blow-jalisco-132441441
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The Income Trap: Why Earning More Isn’t Making You Wealthy with Edward Brady.” (04/27/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/the-income-trap-why-earning-more-isnt-making-you-wealthy-with-edward-brady
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“Besides being immoral, political assassins repeatedly fail to achieve their intended objectives.” (04/27/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/04/27/political-violence-never-works-dont-murder-people/
Source: Reason
by Joe Lancaster
“Calls for more aggressive security measures evoke the post-9/11 security theater that brought us the TSA.” (04/27/26)
https://reason.com/2026/04/27/the-correspondents-dinner-shooting-is-no-excuse-for-more-security-theater/
Source: Reuters
“A Ukrainian drone attack has caused a ‘large-scale fire’ at Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery on the Black Sea, forcing the evacuation of nearby buildings, local officials said on Tuesday. The Rosneft-owned refinery delivers oil products mainly for exports but operations have been halted since April 16 following an earlier drone attack, industry sources said. Ukraine did not immediately comment on the reports. Kyiv has stepped up strikes on Russia since March, with U.S.-brokered talks on the war in Ukraine on pause and Washington mainly focusing on the Iran war.” (04/28/26)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/drone-attack-causes-fire-russias-tuapse-refinery-authorities-say-2026-04-28/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Michael Holmes
“The modern international order rests on a contradiction rarely examined in full daylight. Western states present themselves as guardians of international rules, democracy, and self-determination, yet the historical record of their behavior abroad tells a different story — one written not in treaties or speeches, but in classified cables, deniable operations, and shattered political systems. Covert Regime Change, first published in 2018, matters because it documents, with unusual rigor, how this contradiction became a governing method. Lindsey A. O’Rourke, Associate Professor at Boston College, does not ask whether covert intervention occasionally went wrong. She demonstrates that it became a routine instrument of statecraft, one whose predictable consequences were political collapse, mass violence, and long-term instability.” (04/27/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/michael_holmes/2026/04/26/rule-by-secrecy-how-covert-regime-change-shaped-our-world
Source: Reason
“The Shooter’s Manifesto Was Uncomfortably Normal.” (04/27/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/04/27/the-shooters-manifesto-was-uncomfortably-normal/
Source: ABC News
“For generations, cops have obtained warrants to lawfully seek information from a specific suspect in a crime. The Supreme Court on Monday is considering whether investigators can also use so-called ‘geofence warrants’ to do the reverse — scanning cell phone data of thousands of innocent individuals in hopes of finding a suspect to apprehend. The landmark case is the first time the justices will consider whether [sic] the controversial practice of digital dragnets, which have grown in popularity among law enforcement with advances in technology, violate constitutional protections against unreasonable searches.” [editor’s note: There’s no ambiguity in “particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized” – TLK] (04/27/26)
https://abcnews.com/Politics/supreme-court-weighs-geofence-warrants-cellphone-data/story?id=132358022
Source: The Hill
by Harlan Ullman
“During the second Iraq War, General David Petraeus famously asked in his book: ‘Tell Me How This Ends.’ No question could be more relevant to Operation Epic Fury and the ill-advised and potentially disastrous undeclared war against Iran. Since the Korean War, no administration other than George H.W. Bush’s learned the lesson that while the U.S. military was proficient at winning battles, the U.S. was incapable of winning wars. The first Iraq War and operations Desert Shield and Storm were textbook examples of how to respond to armed aggression. And those who criticized the first President Bush for not marching to Baghdad in 1991 found out how catastrophic that would have been when his son, President George W. Bush, did precisely that. At some stage, someone will write the definitive story of how this misguided and misjudged misapplication of American blood and treasure occurred.” (04/27/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5849801-trump-iran-negotiations-strategy/
