Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“In the ongoing debate about enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, civil rights activists allege that the Trump administration is intimidating black people to impede them from voting. They invoke the history of the Reconstruction era, arguing that ‘voters, especially voters of color, are intimidated and fearful of engaging in the democratic process.’ For historical context, it must be noted that during Reconstruction a vast majority of black people voted for the Republican Party, which they regarded as the party that brought them emancipation and voting rights. They felt they owed their allegiance to the Republicans and were encouraged in this belief by the Union Leagues. The history of that era is commonly recounted as if all the violence emanated from one side—the Democratic Party. The Republican Party is absolved of all moral blame.” (10/20/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/lessons-political-violence-1876-presidential-election
Source: The Next Move
by Garry Kasparov
“In late summer 1944, as the Allies clawed France back from Nazi occupation, Adolf Hitler is reported to have asked one of his generals, ‘Is Paris burning?’ The führer’s question was more of a demand; Hitler wanted to deploy scorched-earth tactics in the French capital to slow the Anglo-American advance. Fortunately, the German dictator’s underlings punted and Paris was spared. Today, however, Paris is in flames, along with several other French cities. Rioters have torched cars and buildings and smashed homes and storefronts. Like Hitler before him, Vladimir Putin needs the West ablaze in order to postpone military defeat. With Russia, nothing comes out of the blue. The timing—coinciding with Donald Trump’s final, complete betrayal of Ukraine, ahead of the November US midterms and presidential elections in France next spring—is no accident.” (10/20/26)
https://www.thenextmove.org/p/french-riots-russian-playbook
Source: Fox News
“Democratic Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s mother urged voters not to cast their ballot for her daughter, calling her ‘a liar’. ‘I love my daughter. But when I saw her lying about her opponent — it’s not easy for a mother to say this — but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar.’ … Acton, a former Ohio Department of Health director, issued a statement from her brother. The release containing the statement described the woman as the siblings’ ‘estranged and abusive mother.’ ‘It’s not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy has stooped to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at twelve years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point,’ Philip Stearns said in the statement. ‘After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy’s rapist until he died.'” (10/20/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/midterm-elections-2026-trump-north-carolina-early-voting-october-20
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“GOP Senators Freak Out As Trump Eases Russia Sanctions!” (10/20/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OGwbnjXVqEKB
Source: The American Conservative
by James P Pinkerton
“The Anglo leader looked across the globe and saw a Muslim nation, which had already been stirring things up, potentially threatening a vital waterway. At the same time, Israel had its own beef against that country, and was pushing for a joint first-strike. So together, the two governments launched a military attack. But things did not go well. Casualties were low, but the political blowback was shattering. Is this a sketch of the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran? Some might so assert, and that can’t be helped. Yet these are the outlines of the Suez Crisis of 1956.” (10/20/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/these-conservatives-fought-an-ill-fated-war-but-recovered-and-won-the-next-election/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I don’t really fit in with any group. Too woo-woo spiritual for the Marxists. Too angry for the Buddhists. Too political for the nondualists. Too much of a liberal-hating commie for the witches. Too radical for the socdems or demsocs. Too grown up for the anarchists. If hippies were real I guess I’d be one of those. Like, if it had been more than psychedelic-fueled idealism that collapsed into vapid yuppiedom as soon as the drugs wore off. I’d be a hippie if there were something more substantial to it than navel-gazing escapism, because at least in theory they try to synthesize the political and the spiritual.” [editor’s note: Most anarchists are more “grown up,” emotionally at least, than Johnstone’s 40s going on 14 – TLK] (10/20/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/10/20/i-love-you-guys/
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“France will impose new curfews in areas where they are required, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said Tuesday after the first night of partial curfews in major cities including Paris. Lecornu said the targeted curfews had helped keep the peace overnight after a turbulent weekend that saw protesters take aim at state institutions. … Lecornu has told French lawmakers that authorities would mobilize a ‘massive’ security presence next weekend, after organizers announced plans for new protests. … The prime minister also accused what he referred to as small ultra-left and extreme-left groups in certain locations of forging an ‘insurrectionary plan’ that fueled the violent rioting over the weekend for which the government could provide evidence.” (10/20/26)
https://www.dw.com/en/french-authorities-impose-partial-curfews-in-paris-nice/live-79707186
Source: The American Conservative
“GOP Headed for Midterm Wipeout? w/ Gabe Fleisher.” (10/20/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/tac-right-now-gop-headed-for-midterm-wipeout-w-gabe-fleisher/
Source: The Dispatch
by Marian L Tupy
“On Friday, Alex Gibney’s nearly four-hour documentary, Musk, opened nationwide. The film presents Musk as a deeply flawed man whose wealth and power have become dangerous. There is plenty of evidence for the first part of that judgment. But the documentary raises a larger question. How much offensiveness should society tolerate from people who push the technological frontier forward? My answer is quite a lot.” (10/20/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/elon-musk-innovation-tesla-spacex-politics-doge/
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“The Nobel prize in economics for 2026 was awarded to Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford. According to the Nobel committee, the laureates had developed macroeconomic models that significantly improved our ability to implement effective stabilization policies. The committee is of the view that on the basis of these models, well-timed fiscal and monetary policy measures can reduce the economy’s peaks and troughs. The models developed by the laureates are based on the ideas of English economist John Maynard Keynes. In the Keynesian framework, the output that an economy can generate with a given pool of resources i.e. labour, tools and machinery, and a given technology without causing inflation, is labelled as potential output.” (10/20/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/10/nobel-prize-for-keynesian-economics/
