Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 10/27/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Deploys Aircraft Carrier Strike Group Near Venezuela, US OKs Israeli Airstrike in Gaza, and More.” (10/27/25)
Having a Ball
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Live long enough and everything will happen, at some point. Even bizarre, incomprehensible things, such as Saturday’s Washington Post editorial, ‘In defense of the White House ballroom.’ In short, a defense of, ahem … Trump. The paper began by noting the ballroom was something of a Rorschach test, with Trump’s opponents viewing his actions as ‘reckless’ while his supporters see ‘a change agent unafraid to decisively take on the status quo.’ But the editors add that ‘it has become far too difficult to build anything in America,’ before concluding: ‘Trump’s undertaking is a shot across the bow at NIMBYs everywhere.'” (10/27/25)
Students trek across Serbia to campaign for station collapse victims ahead of anniversary
Source: SFGate
“Nine students from southwestern Serbia who have been trekking across the country for nearly two weeks said Monday they’re tired but determined to walk to the country’s north to keep attention focused on a deadly railway station disaster a year ago. They hope to reach Novi Sad on Nov. 1 when a major rally is planned to mark one year since a canopy collapsed in the northern city’s train station, killing 16 people. They believe the victims died because government corruption led to sloppy renovations at the station. The group, which has been joined by a handful of additional students since departing from the southwestern town of Novi Pazar on Oct. 16, headed out Monday from the central Serbian town of Ub after spending the night there.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/students-trek-across-serbia-to-campaign-for-21122430.php
The Neocons Have Finally Found a Way Into MAGA Hearts
Source: Antiwar.com
by Kelley Beaucar Vlahos
“‘Neocon’ may have become a dirty word, but after a few years, their agenda is back in play. And no doubt many of their players, too. After being banished to the wilderness for plunging the nation into a 20-year war, the neocons fell flat with the Trump base in Ukraine and lost the thread with MAGA in Israel. Venezuela and the Western Hemisphere are another matter. The neocons have evolved, and regime change is back on the menu. How? Rather than pushing ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ like George W. Bush’s famous second inaugural speech at the height of the Iraq War, neoconservatives have adopted the prevailing MAGA/New Right language of ‘America First’ to inject regime change back into fashion.” (10/27/25)
US Navy helicopter and fighter jet crash in separate incidents in area where they had no business being
Source: CNN
“A US Navy helicopter and a fighter jet both crashed in the same half hour on Sunday during separate routine operations over the South China Sea, with all crew members safely rescued, the Navy’s Pacific Fleet said. The Navy has launched an investigation into the cause of both incidents that occurred over strategic waters seen as a potential flashpoint for global conflict. … US President Donald Trump called the back-to-back crashes ‘very unusual’ and raised the possibility of a fuel problem while speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, en route from Malaysia to Japan on Monday. ‘They think it might be bad fuel. We’re gonna find out. Nothing to hide, sir,’ Trump said in response to a question.” (10/26/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/politics/navy-aircraft-crash-south-china-sea
Pink Flame of Liberty, 10/26/25
Source: Pink Flame of Liberty
“Fear and Loathing on the LNC — JC Edition.” (10/26/25)
Scott Bessent is wrong. Tariffs are taxes that hurt Americans.
Source: Orange County Register
by Matt Fleming
“Throughout his time as Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent has regularly fought against claims that the tariffs adored by his boss, President Donald Trump, are really just taxes on consumers. ‘Tariffs are a surcharge, not a tax,’ Bessent told a reporter this week. ‘They could be paid by the exporter, they could be paid by the country.’ Bessent likely thinks that’s a great point, but he shouldn’t drop the mic just yet. Regardless of the word games, Americans are suffering from the end result. We are paying higher prices as a result of Trump’s tariffs. According to analysis from the Tax Foundation, Trump’s tariffs have raised consumer prices by 4.9 percentage points. … make no mistake: tariffs are taxes.” (10/26/25)
TDS has morphed into something far more lethal: Trump Projection Disorder
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Democrats have lost their minds. This time last year, the conversation was about what is the acceptable number of apartment complexes in Colorado that we can tolerate being taken over by Venezuelan gangs of illegal migrants. Now the big issue is the president’s big, beautiful ballroom. The ‘No Kings’ folk are melting down. In just two days last week, there were 10,000 comments on The Washington Post’s website railing against the ballroom, which is being built at a cost to the taxpayer of zero dollars. ‘I can’t wait for the day they hold Trump’s funeral in that gaudy ballroom,’ was a typical ‘recommended’ comment from someone calling herself CindyintheSuburbs. Donald Trump is living inside their heads.” [editor’s note: He’s obviously living in Devine’s head. Alone, with nothing else in there – TLK] (10/26/25)
Mexico: Sheinbaum says she and Trump agreed to extend trade deadline
Source: Reuters
“Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday and that the two agreed to extend a looming trade deadline ‘for a few more weeks’ to discuss pending issues with Washington. The U.S. agreed in July to pause for 90 days an increase in tariffs on some [American buyers of] Mexican goods to 30% — from 25% — as the two countries continued talks aimed at reaching a new trade deal. That pause was set to end this week.” (10/27/25)
A False and Toxic Peace Spreads Across the Middle East from the West
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“To put it bluntly, this wasn’t a peace deal; it was an attempt to cover up an ongoing genocide by dressing the tombstones of the killing fields in shiny yellow ribbons, and Trump’s supposed opponents in the EU and on the mainstream liberal media backed it because they are all just as complicit in this heinous slaughter as the man they pretend to oppose in front of the cameras. While the US is by far the largest financier of Benjamin Netanyahu’s crusade against impoverished infants, kicking up $22 billion in military aid to his regime since October 2023, the rest of the ‘free’ world did their part too.” (10/26/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-false-and-toxic-peace-spreads-across.html