Source: Brownstone Institute
by Bert Olivier
“Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher, is easily underestimated with regard to what his intellectual legacy can teach us in the 21st century. It is true that Gramsci – or rather, a caricature of Gramsci, as well as of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory – has been in circulation for some time (and of Martin Heidegger, too, although he and Theodor Adorno, of the Frankfurt School, did not see eye-to-eye), but these caricatures don’t do any of them justice.” (03/05/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/gramsci-hegemony-and-the-world-order/
Source: Associated Press
“President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued what he called a ‘last warning’ to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza, directing a sharply worded message after the White House confirmed that he had recently dispatched an envoy for unprecedented direct talks with the militant group. In a statement on his Truth Social platform soon after meeting at the White House with eight former hostages, Trump added that he was ‘sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.'” (03/05/25)
https://apnews.com/article/hamas-israel-trump-ceasefire-bdc21f862b073dd478e0960ebfbf71e3
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“As expected, Apple will withhold its most advanced data protection from customers in the United Kingdom of the iPhone rather than obey a UK order to provide a worldwide back door to such encryption.
This is probably Apple’s least worst choice given the alternatives confronting it. But that means British users of the iPhone won’t have this encryption at all. Had Apple obeyed, the back door would have been installed on encryption-equipped iPhones worldwide, not just in the iPhones of persons residing in the sceptered isle. The mandated back door would, of course, have been exploitable by cyberhackers contracted by enemy governments as well as by members of ‘good’ governments claiming really good reasons for needing to rummage through your iPhone at will.” (03/05/25)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2025/03/05/back-door-demand/
Source: Reason
“The Good Eats host talks about the virtues of Cap’n Crunch, why fusion cooking isn’t cultural appropriation, and how Martha Stewart’s perfectionism ruined dinner parties.” (03/05/25)
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/03/05/alton-brown-a-tv-chef-offers-food-for-thought/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“South Korea’s air force has apologised after one of its fighter jets accidentally [sic] dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise on Thursday, injuring 15 civilians and damaging several buildings. ‘Eight MK-82 general purpose bombs were abnormally released from an air force KF-16 aircraft, landing outside the designated firing range,’ the air force said, adding that the bombs weighed about 225kg each. … As the air force announced an investigation, South Korean media reported that the bombs had been dropped in error after a pilot inputted incorrect coordinates.” (03/06/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/south-korea-military-jet-bombs-dropped-civilians-live-fire-drill
Source: Eastern New Mexico News
by Kent McManigal
“Has your democracy been lost yet? Has someone stolen it? Silly questions for a silly era asked of silly people who worship mob rule as long as they are on the majority side. They have no problem ignoring the will of those who disagree with them; they only wring their hands when they end up on the losing side. America was never supposed to be a democracy. It was set up as a republic, limited in scope by a constitution that defined exactly what government is allowed to do to the population, regardless of what the majority wants. This failed. Republics, including those defined and limited by a constitution, turn into democracies because people, in overwhelming numbers, want to violate the rights of others and vote themselves goodies paid for with taxes.” (03/05/25)
https://www.easternnewmexiconews.com/story/2025/03/05/voices/opinion-democracy-no-more-than-mob-rule/230259.html
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter. The move follows the decision on Monday by the Trump administration to suspend military aid deliveries to Ukraine and comes after a dramatic breakdown in relations between the US president and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. US intelligence co-operation has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets. Three officials familiar with the decision confirmed that Washington had frozen intelligence channels with Kyiv.” (03/05/25)
https://archive.is/4jAw9
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“President Trump has made a post on Truth Social saying federal funding will be cut to universities which allow ‘illegal protests’ on their campuses, obliquely referring to pro-Palestine demonstrations against Israel’s genocidal atrocities. ‘All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,’ Trump said. ‘Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!’ Elise Stefanik, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the UN, made it clear that this was the Trump administration taking a position on ‘anti-Israel hate.’ ‘Antisemitism and anti-Israel hate will not be tolerated on American campuses,’ tweeted Stefanik with a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post.” (03/05/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/03/05/the-wests-support-for-israel-is-the-1-threat-to-free-speech/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“US President Donald Trump said he would temporarily spare [American car buyers] from a new 25% import tax imposed on Canada and Mexico, just a day after the tariffs came into effect. The announcement by the White House came even as Trump continued to blast Canada for not doing enough to stop drugs from entering the US. ‘Nothing has convinced me that it has stopped,’ Trump wrote on social media after a phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about the economic disruption caused by new trade tariffs. News of the relief helped to boost US shares, which closed higher after two days of declines that had wiped out gains the S&P 500 had seen since the presidential election in November. The tariff exemption is for cars made in North America that comply with the continent’s existing free trade agreement.” (03/05/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62zn47d5j1o
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe
“After Zelensky kicked things off by using a rhetorical question to challenge Vance on his appeal to the need for diplomacy, Vance fired back by calling Zelensky out for ‘forcing conscripts to the front lines because [he] has manpower problems.’ As far as I can tell, that was the first time a senior American government official has made any negative comment about the Ukrainian government’s use of conscripts in its war with Russia. Which is appalling, because abducting people and sending them to fight and die in a military campaign they clearly don’t believe in enough to join voluntarily is one of the worst, most tyrannical things a government can do. And Ukraine has been doing it with the enthusiastic support of American officials for years.” (03/05/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/other-thing-zelensky-got-called-out
