Source: SFGate
“Turkey and Britain on Monday signed a deal worth 8 billion pounds ($10.7 billion) for 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets. The agreement to enhance Turkey’s air capabilities was signed in Ankara during British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s first visit to the country. It marks the first new order of U.K. Typhoons since 2017. ‘Our countries may sit at either end of Europe, but we’re strong partners, working more closely together now than ever before,’ Starmer said during a signing ceremony alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ‘This will bolster security across NATO, deepen our bilateral defense cooperation and boost economic growth here and in the United Kingdom, securing 20,000 British jobs,’ Starmer added. ‘I am proud that British typhoons will form a vital part of the Turkish Air Force for many years to come.’ Erdogan hailed the agreement as ‘a new symbol of the strategic relationship between us as two close allies’.” (10/27/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/british-pm-starmer-arrives-in-turkey-to-discuss-21121857.php
Source: The Peaceful Revolutionist
by David S D’Amato
“It may be that there is today no feature of our legal or our economic system more misunderstood than patents. They are the premier example of a policy where there is a fathomless breach between its public reputation and its real purpose. These special state-granted powers are among the most freedom-limiting counterfeit rights the modern age has ever produced, and they should be abolished completely, with not a one left. We can’t even open a conversation about something like ‘free markets’ or ‘economic freedom’ before that step has been taken.” (10/26/25)
https://dsdamato.substack.com/p/the-engines-of-state-capitalism-part-a50
Source: In These Times
by Rebecca Burns
“Rodrick Johnson, 67, had just returned home from a trip to the hospital and was trying to get some rest. But in the early hours of September 30, bright lights suddenly flooded his apartment. A fleet of Black Hawk helicopters descended on his five-story building — a 130-unit apartment complex at 7500 South Shore Drive — shortly before armed, masked men stormed past the doors of the ground floor. ‘The next thing I knew, they were kicking my door in,’ Johnson says. He and dozens of his neighbors were marched outside at gunpoint during the multiagency raid carried out by some 300 federal agents in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. Black and Latino residents were zip-tied, separated by race and detained inside cargo vans, as South Side Weekly reported in the raid’s aftermath.” (10/27/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/eviction-by-ice-on-chicago-tenants-landlord-renters-immigrants
Source: Seattle Times
“A 24-year-old Honduran man who was fleeing federal immigration agents in Virginia died on a highway after being struck by a vehicle. The death of Josué Castro Rivera follows recent incidents in which three other immigrants in Chicago and California were killed during [gang abduction attempts] under the Trump administration’s crackdown. Castro Rivera was headed to a gardening job Thursday when his vehicle was pulled over by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, brother Henry Castro said. [Gang members tried to abduct] Castro Rivera and the three other passengers, and he fled on foot, tried to cross Interstate 264 in Norfolk and was fatally struck, according to state and federal authorities.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/YBsJf
Source: LP Alliance
“The SIC JC Appeal.” (10/26/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Pm5hS-CX4
Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin
“Donald Trump continues to order strikes on boats carrying supposed drug traffickers in the Carribean and the Pacific, killing an estimated 43 people so far. I have previously written about why these attacks are both illegal and unjust. … Drug smuggling is, at most, a criminal law issue, not an act of war. And, in many cases, the people targeted either were not actually smuggling drugs or were not on their way to the US (US law cannot and does not forbid mere possession of drugs in international waters). … This equation of drug overdoses with terrorist attacks overlooks the fundamental moral and legal difference between deaths that occur as a result of violent attack and those that occur because consumers voluntarily imbibed a dangerous drug.” (10/26/25)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/26/why-fentanyl-smuggling-isnt-war-and-cannot-justify-extrajudicial-killing/
Source: Washington Post
“President Javier Milei pledged that Argentina’s new Congress would be the most reformist in its history, following his party’s decisive win in legislative elections …. The vote came under global scrutiny after President Donald Trump tied a financial bailout for Argentina to Milei’s performance in the polls. Milei, a close ideological ally of Trump, was elected in 2023 with similar populist messaging, promising to slash Argentina’s bureaucracy, tamp down runaway inflation and take on its political elite. With more than 98 percent of ballots counted, Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party had won more than 40 percent of votes for the lower house compared with slightly over 24 percent for Fuerza Patria, the main opposition. His party also won more than 42 percent of votes for the senate, while Fuerza Patria won about 23 percent.” (10/26/25)
https://archive.is/gJxrG
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“‘TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A.,’ US president Donald Trump whined in an October 23 Truth Social post (all-caps treatment, of course, his). ‘Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED.’ The egregious behavior in question? Telling the truth about tariffs in a $75 million ad campaign. Or, rather, having the late US president Ronald Reagan do so, in his own words …. Trump would like you to believe that [tariff] revenues are magic free money, paid by unspecified philanthropists from other countries and somehow accruing to your benefit when the US Treasury collects them. In fact, tariffs come out of YOUR pocket …” (10/25/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20098
Source: Serious Trouble
“Insider Betting.” (10/25/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/insider-betting
Source: decrypt
“Bitcoin and the broader crypto market surged over the weekend, fueled by potential de-escalation in the U.S.-China trade war. Bitcoin gained 3.5% on Sunday, rising from $110,960 to $115,400, before cooling slightly. … the report maintained a bullish view for the fourth quarter, with Tiger Research analysts forecasting a $200,000 target for Bitcoin, driven by global liquidity expansion, continued institutional inflows, and the Fed’s rate-cutting stance.” (10/26/25)
https://decrypt.co/346027/bitcoin-reclaims-115000-as-us-china-trade-hopes-lift-markets
