Source: Foreign Policy
by Bob Davis
“To understand U.S. trade policy, it’s best to think of chaos theory: the search for a pattern behind seemingly haphazard events. Donald Trump is the chaos agent in this case, threatening countries on a whim with sky-high tariffs like the Queen of Hearts thundering, ‘Off with their heads.’ But beyond the seeming disorder, there is more of a Washington consensus on trade policy than is often not commonly recognized — and it dates back to the late Obama years.” (04/06/26)
https://archive.is/GW8Ce
Source: Common Dreams
by Jeffrey D Sachs
“Donald Trump and his partner in war crimes, Benjamin Netanyahu, are jointly waging a war of murderous aggression against Iran, a nation of 90 million people. They are in the grip of three cascading pathologies. The first is personality: both are malignant narcissists. The second is the arrogance of power: men who possess the power to command nuclear annihilation and feel, in consequence, no restraint. The third, and most dangerous of all, is religious delusion: two men who believe, and are told daily by those around them, that they are messiahs doing God’s work. Each pathology exacerbates the others, so that together they put the world in unprecedented danger.” (04/06/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-trump-psychopaths-war-criminals
Source: NDTV [India]
“Your birth weight may be more important than your current adult weight when it comes to your risk of stroke later in life. A new study hints that people who were born with a low birthweight may face a higher risk of stroke in young adulthood, even if they are not overweight or underweight as adults. This suggests that what happens in the womb and during early birth can leave a long-term mark on the brain’s blood-supply system, which may show up as higher stroke risk several years later. The study is set to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO2026) in Istanbul, Turkey (12-15 May). Dr Lina Lilja and Dr Maria Bygdell of the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, who are study authors and colleagues say that low birthweight can be included in stroke risk assessment for adults.” (04/06/26)
https://www.ndtv.com/health/your-birth-weight-may-play-a-role-in-your-stroke-risk-than-your-current-adult-weight-says-new-study-11319692
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Donald Trump’s ‘Bay of Pigs?'” (04/06/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1XxygmbXnDvGM
Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie
“In December 1968, three very brave men went around the moon in the first manned flight of the Saturn 5 rocket. Four years later in 1972, the last astronauts of the Apollo programme visited the moon. Now, 58 years after that first flight, and 54 years since the last one, it is happening again and people are asking if the world is better now that it was then. The answer is an emphatic YES. The most dramatic event has been the decrease in extreme poverty.” (04/06/26)
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/myda7mk96sukrw68mz7hsi9c8uz4i5
Source: The American Conservative
by Spencer Neale
“Strange bedfellows defined the coalition that carried Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 and 2024. Evangelicals, libertarians, nationalists, and traditional Republicans, groups with little agreement on core policy, laid down their knives on those November Tuesdays to rally behind a whimsical, big-city showman who built, and often mismanaged, his inherited empire. Trump was their champion — a comedian, a performer, but, most importantly, a fighter. If MAGA was anything, it was a coalition bound less by shared policy goals than by a shared sense of grievance and a love for the game. And we were played. I should know. I voted for the man. His faults now exposed for the world to see are, in part, my own.” (04/06/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/maga-champion-need-not-apply/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Caleb Whitmer
“Beyond the partisan melodrama, the ongoing welfare fraud scandal proves how dangerous ‘cataclysmic money’ can be for communities.” (04/06/26)
https://lawliberty.org/after-the-flood-in-minnesota/
Source: New York Times
“Inside the Race to Save a U.S. Airman in Iran, and Artemis II Heads Behind the Moon.” (04/06/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px840_ofOvI
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Mark Thornton
“The mysterious Giffen has once again risen from the ashes. In this iteration, it’s silver in the red-hot precious metals market. This so-called anomaly makes for a great story and interesting explanation, but it does not represent a genuine exception or a valid attack on the fundamental laws of economics. It is another example of the questionable scholarship of the Grand Wizard of Mainstream economics, Alfred Marshall.” (04/06/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/elusive-giffen-good-once-again
Source: Paul Krugman
by Paul Krugman
“Terrorism, according to ICE — yes, that ICE — ‘involves violence or the threat of violence against people or property to further a particular ideology.’ The official website goes on to declare that ‘Terrorists do not care who they hurt or kill to achieve their goals.’ If you haven’t read Donald Trump’s Truth Social post from Sunday, above, take a minute to do so. Don’t rely on sanewashed descriptions in the media. And then tell me that Trump doesn’t perfectly fit his own officials’ definition of a terrorist.” (04/06/26)
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-terrorist-in-chief
