Source: SFGate
“Shops and businesses shut down, and public transport halted across Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Tuesday after a call for a strike by a recently banned group, known for violent protests. The Joint Awami Action Committee ‘s call follows clashes on Sunday in the city of Rawalakot between the group’s supporters and security personnel that left seven dead. The violence erupted after the Supreme Court of Pakistan-administered Kashmir ruled that 12 legislative seats reserved for Kashmiri refugees living in Pakistan are constitutionally protected and cannot be abolished without a constitutional amendment. The JAAC, formed in 2003, demands greater political rights for the people of Kashmir and the abolition of the refugee seats. Residents of the regional capital, Muzaffarabad, and other towns told The Associated Press markets were largely empty and bus terminals deserted on Tuesday.” (06/09/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/a-banned-group-s-call-for-a-strike-halts-22297237.php
Source: Liberal Currents
“The Soy Pill (Niels Griedel) joins Ryan and Adam to discuss his political awakening, navigating the new media, whether Adam is legacy media or merely old new media, the value of philosophy or lack thereof, the existential problem of climate change and the politics it implies, and much more.” (06/08/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/pragmatism-not-philosophy-out-of-the-jaws-4-with-the-soy-pill/
Source: EconLog
by Jon Murphy
“Market failure, which I am defining here as a market not reaching the equilibrium condition where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded, is ubiquitous. Every time we walk into stores, we see market failure happening: shelves and shelves of goods sit, waiting for buyers. This is excess supply (surplus), a market failure. If the market were in equilibrium and perfectly clearing, then when you (the marginal consumer) walk into a store, you should see only the good(s) in the precise quantity you want to buy at the price that precisely equals your willingness to pay for the marginal unit. Nothing else should remain. … Obviously, such an outcome does not exist. Some of the goods we want exist in surplus. Some exist in shortage. And, consequently, the market has failed. But this failure is vital to the workings of the market, broadly called the ‘market process.'” (06/09/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/market-failure-and-the-market-process
Source: Common Dreams
by Brian Hudson
“The Republican revolt against President Donald Trump began over an issue that was never supposed to become a crisis: another war in the Middle East. In recent weeks, a group of Republican members of Congress has openly challenged the White House — not over taxes, immigration, or even the budget, but over the most fundamental power of any president: the authority to lead the country into war. When several Republicans chose to stand alongside Democrats and support efforts to limit the president’s war powers, something greater than a routine legislative vote took place. This was not merely a legal disagreement over the interpretation of the Constitution; it was a sign of a deeper fracture emerging at the core of a movement that was once united around Trump’s leadership.” (06/09/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iran-war-gop-identity-crisis
Source: US News & World Report
“A Congolese military court has sentenced an army colonel to death for taking part in a conspiracy to murder two U.N. experts in central Congo nearly a decade ago, in a case that continues to raise questions about state involvement. At his first trial in 2022, Colonel Jean de Dieu Mambweni received a 10-year term for failing to assist persons in danger and disobeying orders. Military prosecutors appealed, arguing that he bore greater responsibility. The High Military Court in Kinshasa agreed, finding Mambweni guilty on Friday of the war crime of murder for actively orchestrating the killings, and sentencing him to death, according to a ruling reviewed by Reuters and the sister of one of the victims. Congo has not carried out an execution since 2003, meaning the sentence will in practice become life imprisonment.” (06/09/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-06-09/congo-colonel-sentenced-to-death-over-murder-of-un-experts
Source: The Dispatch
“The Decline of Donald Trump.” (06/09/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/dispatch-podcast/the-decline-of-donald-trump/
Source: Seattle Times
“A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Haji Najibullah’s sentencing capped a daylong proceeding in Manhattan federal court that featured a dramatic few moments when the reporter, David Rohde, faced Najibullah and described how Najibullah took part in the abduction of him and two other men in 2008 in Afghanistan but was now ‘refusing to take responsibility as I look at him today.’ … The men were held for more than seven months before making a dramatic escape from a Taliban-controlled compound in Pakistan’s tribal areas. In April 2025, Najibullah pleaded guilty to providing material support for acts of terrorism and conspiring to take hostages. The bearded Najibullah, 50, who wore a black skull cap in court Tuesday, admitted that he provided material support including weapons to the Taliban from 2007 to 2009, knowing it would be used to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.” (06/09/26)
https://archive.is/3Gg7G
Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
“The Los Angeles Republican mayoral candidate was seen as a cutting-edge adopter of artificial intelligence, but it only cut down his chances of winning.” (06/09/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/09/spencer-pratt-ai-ads-los-angeles-mayor/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Eldar Mamedov
“A new report suggests someone wants to burn Baku’s plausible deniability, which puts it in hot water with its Iranian neighbor.” (06/09/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-azerbaijan/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“When the conduct of war is depicted as essentially a force for good, citizens who criticize wars risk incurring the wrath of their own governments. In Northern Opposition to Mr. Lincoln’s War, John Chodes recounts the hardships experienced by Indianans who criticized Lincoln’s war. The governor, Oliver P. Morton, ordered that his critics be arrested, subjected civilians to military trials, and imprisoned them in a detention camp. He shut down newspapers and imprisoned their editors. All this was ostensibly to rout out the traitors who did not agree that Lincoln’s war was necessary to hold the Union together.” (06/09/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/hazards-criticizing-lincolns-war
