Source: Students For Liberty
by Thiago Freitas

“From Prague to Hanoi, from Warsaw to Addis Ababa, the twentieth century bore witness to the same grim experiment repeated across continents: the centralisation of economic life, the suppression of prices, the abolition of private enterprise in the name of collective salvation. And in nearly every case, the experiment eventually ended, sometimes through the convulsions of revolution, sometimes through the quieter capitulation of reform. The queues shortened; the lights came back on; the paperwork of survival gave way, slowly, to something resembling ordinary commerce. And Cuba? Well, Cuba alone remains: a living museum of twentieth-century ideology, where the exhibits still breathe and queue for bread. What was elsewhere a painful chapter has here become the entire book, its pages still being written in darkness.” (02/27/26)

https://studentsforliberty.org/blog/the-darkened-republic-on-the-consequences-of-collectivised-despair/

Source: CounterPunch
by David Altheide

“U.S. immigration policy and NATO commitments have a lot in common. “Gonzo governance” describes a style of political rule that delegitimizes social institutions in favor of leadership promoting the politics of fear that is chaotic, personality-driven, spectacle-oriented, and often indifferent to conventional standards of objectivity or institutional restraint. The term draws loosely from Hunter S. Thompson’s immersive, boundary-blurring reporting style that mixed fact, interpretation, and theatricality. In governance, however, this aesthetic becomes consequential when fueled by social media. It can create a climate in which disruption itself is the governing method. When paired with gaslighting—a psychological tactic in which people are made to doubt their own perceptions of reality—the result is a powerful and destabilizing political dynamic.” (02/27/26)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/27/gonzo-gaslighting/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Robert L Bradley Jr.

“Decades of subsidies, regulation, and unmet promises have left nuclear power costly and uncompetitive.” (02/27/26)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/nuclear-power-needs-realism-freedom/

Source: In These Times
by Jake Johnson

“President Donald Trump announced in the early hours of Saturday morning that the United States has launched a massive military operation aimed at toppling the Iranian government as blasts were reported in Tehran, including near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel, under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is taking part in the assault. Unnamed Israeli security sources told Channel 12 that Israel and the Trump administration are ​’going all in’ against Iran as Trump instructed Iranians to ​’stay sheltered’, warning that ‘bombs will be dropping everywhere’. People were seen seeking cover in Tehran as the United States and Israeli bombs began to fall.” (02/28/26)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-netanyahu-war-iran