Source: US News & World Report
“International Criminal Court judges on Monday postponed hearings to determine the definitive charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to see if the octogenarian is fit enough to follow the pre-trial proceedings in his case. Duterte, 80, was arrested and taken to The Hague in March on murder charges linked to his ‘war on drugs,’ where thousands of alleged narcotics peddlers and users were killed. He has maintained his arrest was unlawful and tantamount to kidnapping. In August, his defence lawyers asked the court for an adjournment of all proceedings arguing that the former president was not fit to stand trial. Details of Duterte’s alleged health conditions were redacted in the public version of the request.” (09/08/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-09-08/icc-postpones-hearing-for-philippines-duterte-for-health-assessment
Source: The Corbett Report
“War Is A Crime.” (09/08/25)
https://corbettreport.com/war-is-a-crime/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Laurent Thynes
“New Yorkers appear to be on the cusp of electing a self-described socialist, Zohran Mamdani, as their next mayor. At first glance, his youth-friendly marketing comes off as rather gimmicky, as do some of his policy recommendations, such as free public buses and state-provided baby baskets. But make no mistake, his core agenda forms perhaps the most heavily interventionist platform the city has ever witnessed, and his proposed price controls could very swiftly bring about the return of the misery of the 1970s.” (09/08/25)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/zohran-mamdanis-price-controls-would-be-disastrous-new-york-city
Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“People who follow the news often claim to be ‘surprised’ or even ‘shocked’ by current events. That’s almost never my reaction. Sure, I can’t predict the details of the latest happenings. But the broad outlines of the news are tiresomely familiar. Heinous domestic murders. War in the Middle East. Blatant violations of the plain English reading of the Constitution. Chaotic socialist tyrannies in Latin America. Pampered First Worlders blaming their horrible plight (?) on hapless refugees. Civil wars in Africa. And always, people screaming at each other. Yet over the years, current events have genuinely surprised or even shocked me a few times.” (09/08/25)
https://www.betonit.ai/p/what-surprised-me
Source: United Press International
“Millions of commuters in Britain were unable to get to work or had their journeys disrupted Monday morning after the London Underground was shuttered by a strike by around 10,000 drivers, signals operators and maintenance crew. National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport workers walked off the job Sunday through Thursday in a dispute over pay and what they argue are excessive working hours due to staff cuts, closing the mass transit system’s eight busiest lines and impacting service on five others. The union is demanding a 32-hour work week, down from 35 hours.” (09/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/08/London-subway-strike/4381757320001/
Source: EconTalk
“How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher).” (09/08/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/how-teams-succeed-with-colin-fisher/
Source: Reason
by Stephanie Slade
“When the Israeli political philosopher Yoram Hazony appeared on The Ezra Klein Show in August, he worked hard to distance himself and his National Conservatism Conferences from the din of racist and antisemitic voices on parts of the American right. … ‘Blood and soil is literally a Nazi term …. We are not interested in a nationalism of blood.’ Yet on the first day of this year’s National Conservatism Conference (‘NatCon 5’) in Washington, D.C., Hazony gave a speech that didn’t just fail to clarify which elements of the extreme right should not be counted as natcons in good standing; it seemed explicitly to carve out space within the movement for those with antisemitic views. ‘Nobody ever said that to be a good natcon you have to love Jews,’ Hazony, who is Jewish, said. ‘Go take a look at our statement of principles. It’s not a requirement.'” (09/08/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/08/national-conservatism-has-a-bigotry-problem-whether-yoram-hazony-wants-to-admit-it-or-not/
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Of all Donald Trump’s cabinet picks, it’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who attracts the most vitriol, which is saying something. You could see just how much the Health and Human Services secretary is despised last week at a Senate committee hearing when Democrat after Democrat abused him with slurs like ‘charlatan’ and demanded he resign. There is an orchestrated campaign to force him out that includes the overplayed political ploy of ‘an open letter from nine former CDC leaders’ and another letter from 1,000 current and former HHS employees calling on him to step down. But why would he resign? He’s only just getting started on Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, which is popular with Americans of all stripes, especially Republicans, 73% of whom rated it favorably in the latest Insider Advantage poll.” (09/07/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/opinion/miranda-devine-why-the-food-industry-and-the-left-really-hate-maha-ambassador-rfk-jr/
Source: Common Dreams
“Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced a series of nine new measures — including a total arms embargo — aimed at pressuring the government of fugitive Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘to stop the genocide in Gaza.’ Sánchez, who leads the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), announced the steps during a speech in which he first acknowledged the historical suffering of the Jewish people, which includes the 1492 ethnic cleansing of Jews from Spain. ‘The Jewish people have suffered countless persecutions, deserve to have their own state, and to feel secure,’ Sánchez said. ‘That is why the Spanish government has condemned Hamas’ attacks from day one.’ However, ‘there is a difference between defending your country and bombing hospitals or starving innocent children,’ the prime minister continued. ‘This is an unjustifiable attack on the civilian population, which the [United Nations] rapporteur has described as genocide.'” (09/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/spain-arms-embargo-israel
Source: Quillette
by Brian Stewart
“Foreign-policy realism today still adheres to a circumscribed definition of national interest with little regard for what it views as lesser (and dangerously messianic) moral concerns. It casts a jaundiced eye on a foreign policy influenced by the impulse to ‘remake the world in its own image.’ It bitterly regrets that so many Americans stubbornly regard their homeland not merely as a country but also a cause. … In more practical terms, the realist persuasion holds that America’s longstanding grand strategy has become at once profligate in the use of military force and self-defeating. To so-called realists today, not only does the United States have no vested interest in an extensive system of defence commitments and forward military deployments, but these accoutrements of its global posture also tempt imperial overstretch while eliciting adverse behaviour from allies and adversaries alike.” (09/08/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/08/the-multipolarity-mirage-first-among-equals-emma-ashford-review/
