Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“For a third time, the US House has voted to end the war in Iran, approving a war powers resolution that would halt President Donald Trump’s ability to continue military action without congressional approval. The roll call late Tuesday, 220-204, was similar to earlier efforts this summer, with a few more Republicans joining all Democrats voting to bring an end to the conflict. … Congress has tried repeatedly to alter the trajectory of the war against Iran, but efforts to limit the Trump administration’s military action remain a long shot so long as the president can fend off or veto the measures.” [editor’s note: Joint resolutions are binding and can’t be vetoed, and one has already passed; since the votes aren’t there to impeach and remove the crook, he’ll continue his crimes – TLK] (09/16/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/16/us-house-votes-to-end-iran-war-7-republicans-join-in-favour
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ron Paul
“President Trump has justified tanking the US economy by claiming the attack on Iran was essential because they were about to get a nuclear weapon. Our intelligence community disagreed, but he refused to listen and took his cue from Netanyahu instead. It turns out Iran actually does have a ‘nuclear weapon.’ That weapon is the ability to control the world’s oil flows at a margin high enough to cripple the economies of any country seeking to conquer it.” (09/15/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2026/09/14/the-crippling-effects-of-unnecessary-war
Source: Politico
“Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Tuesday introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an extraordinary attempt by members of the president’s own party to oust a Pentagon chief. The articles are for high crimes and misdemeanors, including the war in Iran, the Trump administration’s boat strikes in the Caribbean and Hegseth’s alleged suppression of free speech in his fight with Democrats over their calls for troops to refuse illegal orders. Massie’s effort is unlikely to succeed in a GOP-controlled Congress. But the nature of the resolution means the House will be forced to vote on it this week, setting up a politically complicated vote for Republicans right before the midterm elections.” (09/15/26)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/15/congress/massie-hegseth-impeachment-01077453
Source: spiked
by Frank Furedi
“I have studied scaremongering and the culture of fear for almost three decades. It’s clear to me that the current AI doomsday narrative recycles several older panics simultaneously. Just as with the invention of the nuclear bomb, humanity feared an invention it could not control. When computers and the internet were created, we feared technological displacement. And there is the older philosophical fear that humanity’s own intelligence could be the source of its undoing. Each time, a rational assessment of the potential risks is shoved aside in favour of a narrative of an impending apocalypse. Yet when it comes to AI, I have found the evolution of this carefully staged exercise in scaremongering different in some respects.” (09/15/26)
https://archive.is/61Z3z
Source: WSMV 4 News
“The intelligence services of the Russian Federation are plotting to carry out targeted killings in the United States and in European nations supporting Ukraine, federal authorities said Tuesday as they announced charges against five people who remain at large. An indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said a network of the intelligence services has paid and attempted to pay individuals in the United States and in other countries to surveil targets to be killed with plans to then kill them. … James C. Barnacle, Jr., head of New York’s FBI office, said the FBI disrupted the plans ‘through relentless work’ as members of the Russian Intelligence Services and their affiliates ‘conspired to intimidate, threaten, or murder people on U.S. soil and around the world.'” (09/15/26)
https://www.wsmv.com/2026/09/16/fbi-disrupts-russian-plot-carry-out-targeted-killings-us-soil-indictment-says/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Vincent Geloso
“On the right, the postliberal right or ‘beefsteak socialists’ (brownish on the outside, red on the inside) propose to use tariffs as devices for reorganizing industries, promoting civic virtues, and protecting workers from ‘globalists.’ … On the left, the Democratic Socialists of America are no longer a mere ragtag bunch of campus activists. They have great electoral visibility and competitiveness. … Normally, we could dismiss them all as cranks on the margin. However, the problem is that their views and policy proposals are frequently advanced in public.” (09/15/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/left-and-right-are-competing-to-control-the-economy/
Source: Fox News
by Steve Hilton
“California should be the most fun place in America. Look at what we have. Beaches, lakes, mountains, parks, incredible weather, great food and music, and people from every part of the world. It should be almost impossible to make California boring. But the politicians and bureaucrats who run our state are doing their best! California was not built by killjoys. It became the world’s great magnet for artists, inventors, rebels and misfits because this was the place you came to create, experiment and live freely. Try doing something fun today. Want to put on a band at a small venue? You can end up dealing with separate rules for entertainment, dancing, sound, alcohol and zoning. Want to organize a block party? Get ready to deal with police, fire, health, public works and alcohol officials.” (09/15/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/californias-killjoy-bureaucracy-killing-states-rebel-spirit-freedom
Source: Deutsche Welle [German state media]
“Sweeping travel restrictions on Chinese citizens came into effect on Tuesday, including exit bans for people considered to have endangered China’s ‘industrial or technological security.’ The new exit-and-entry rules, which were passed in July, apply to citizens deemed to have violated technology import and export regulations, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence. The State Council in Beijing said the new rules were formulated to ‘safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests.’ The regulations apply not only to people within China but also to Chinese citizens deemed to have committed criminal acts abroad.” (09/15/26)
https://www.dw.com/en/china-tightens-travel-rules-over-tech-security/a-79270217
Source: Law & Liberty
“The Fourteenth Amendment is at the heart of many of the most controversial issues that will land before the Supreme Court today. In his new book, David Upham argues that many of the legal theories about it are not deeply rooted enough in the history or text of the amendment itself.” (09/15/26)
https://lawliberty.org/podcast/the-official-fourteenth-amendment/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Karat
“This is the ordinary grammar of attribution in the sabotage era. A government states that its services and their partners have reached a judgement, allied governments affirm the judgement, the proof stays classified; and the citizen is invited to supply the trust that the missing evidence would otherwise earn. It may be that the classified material is overwhelming. It may be that it is thin. The structure is identical either way, which is precisely the problem. A public asked to accept an attribution on faith has no way to tell a strong case from a convenient one.” (09/15/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/beware-contrived-scares-and-false-flags
