Source: TomDispatch
by Rebecca Gordon

“Warning: dangers in the mirror are often closer than they may appear. In other words, the next few paragraphs may seem to be hyperbole but are, in fact, expressions of reality (animated by a cold fury). On September 8, 2025, the Supreme Court did its best to murder what’s left of civil rights [sic] in this country. As Charlie Savage of the New York Times reported, in an unsigned 6-3 ruling, it overturned a lower court’s order forbidding ICE and the Border Patrol in Los Angeles from stopping, interrogating, and detaining people based on any of four factors: ‘apparent race or ethnicity; the fact that they speak English with an accent or speak Spanish; their presence at particular locations like farms or pickup sites for day laborers; and the type of work they do.'” (09/25/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/going-backwards-on-rights-with-trump/

Source: Cobden Centre
by Ryan McMaken

“American policymakers have the opportunity to allow home prices to fall and to make homes available to millions of Americans who have been priced out thanks to decades of easy-money-fueled asset price growth. Americans policymakers have an opportunity to allow a flowering of new competition and new efficiency in the economy as the old incumbent firms that now subsist on debt and speculative manias actually make way for new entrepreneurs and new dynamic economy. But, as we saw this week, the Fed will do everything it can to stop that from happening. Even as price inflation continues to grow, the Fed is telling us it has to print more money to ensure that ‘number go up’ in terms of asset prices and GDP.” (09/25/25)

https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/09/with-its-latest-rate-cut-the-fed-serves-wall-street-and-the-regime/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“The only real benefit to this latest western ‘recognition’ of Palestine is that it drew out high-profile Israeli politicians to explain to western liberals in plain English that the entire state of Israel stands opposed to their vision of a two-state solution. Former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz has a new op-ed in The New York Times where he explicitly states that opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state is ‘the heart’ of a national consensus among Israelis across the mainstream political spectrum, and that this isn’t an obstacle that will go away once Netanyahu is out of power. ‘Too often, Western leaders view our policies in this war not through the lens of national security, but through the prism of individuals — and, in particular, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,’ Gantz writes.” (09/25/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/25/the-two-state-solution-is-a-western-liberal-fairy-tale/

Source: The Hill
by Mikayla Novak & Stefanie Haeffele

“Recent discourse presents a story of society in turmoil or even on the verge of collapse. Although it is understandable after the traumatic events we witnessed this month, the refrain has in some ways become almost business-as-usual. And traditional American liberties, personal and economic, are wrongly getting much of the blame. We believe freedom still strengthens communities large and small.” (09/25/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5519760-freedom-strengthens-communities-liberty/