Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
by Ron Paul
“Trump’s repeated promises to not start new wars, especially in the Middle East, have turned out to be empty, and Republicans are set for a crippling defeat in the upcoming midterm elections. Iran had been warning for months – since the last US/Israeli surprise attack in June – that if they were attacked again they would not hold back on US bases in the region and that they would close the Straits of Hormuz. Trump and Netanyahu attacked anyway, and Iran has done what it said it would do. Now the Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is about to go out of control, and the global economy – along with the US dollar – seems about to implode.” (03/16/26)
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/just-get-out-now
Source: Macroeconomic Policy Nexus
by David Beckworth
“Why integrating the Discount Window into liquidity regulation could reduce reserve demand, shrink the Fed’s footprint, and strengthen financial stability.” (03/16/26)
https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/more-buffer-less-stigma-the-case
Source: SFGate
“Large parts of Cuba were without power on Tuesday after its third blackout in four months underscored the island’s deepening energy and economic crises and rising political tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump. Electricity was slowly being restored to hospitals and some of the island’s 11 million residents, but officials warned that its crumbling power network could fail again. Cuba’s aging grid has drastically eroded in recent years, leading to daily outages and an increase in significant blackouts. The government blames its woes on a U.S. energy blockade after Trump in January warned of tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to Cuba. Trump was asked during a meeting Tuesday in the Oval Office with the prime minister of Ireland about the U.S. seeking regime change in Cuba but deferred to his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.” (03/17/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/cuba-s-latest-blackout-underscores-its-deepening-22081499.php
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Is there a link between political violence and leaders’ rhetoric?” (03/16/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/16/nx-s1-5749271/is-there-a-link-between-political-violence-and-leaders-rhetoric
Source: Expression
by Chapin Lenthall-Cleary
“At moderate schools, those where the average student is close to the middle politically, a lot of issues are difficult for both sides to discuss. At hyper-liberal schools, those where the average student is strongly liberal, every issue is easy for liberal students to discuss — except for one: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict. … One generally assumes people are more comfortable sharing their views when surrounded by others who think the same way. So then why are liberal students at very liberal schools scared to talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?” (03/16/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/why-in-the-world-are-liberal-students
Source: In These Times
by Sarah Lazare
“With thousands of supporters behind them, roughly 100 faith leaders sang, ’Before this campaign fails, we’ll all go down to jail — everybody’s got a right to live,’ as they blocked a key road to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. It was an act of civil disobedience against federal immigration agents outside the busy Terminal 1 drop-off. Some of the faith leaders held signs showing photos of abducted members of Unite Here Local 17, which represents food service workers at the airport. It was late morning on January 23, and the crowd — including striking workers and union members, some of whom work at the airport — stayed outside in subzero temperatures to cheer on the faith leaders. Supporters passed around hand warmers and snacks to help sustain the crowd.’ (03/16/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minnesota-rises-with-civil-disobedience-and-mass-protest-sarah-lazare
Source: New York Times
“Paul R. Ehrlich, an eminent ecologist and population scientist whose best-selling book, ‘The Population Bomb,’ was celebrated as a prescient warning of a coming age of food shortages and famine … died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93. … In 1980, Julian Simon, an economist at the University of Maryland, challenged Dr. Ehrlich and two of his colleagues with what Stewart Brand, a founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, called ‘one of the great revelatory bets.’ Convinced that the growing population would make natural resources ever more scarce and thus drive up costs, Dr. Ehrlich accepted Mr. Simon’s challenge, betting that the prices of five key metals would rise in the 1980s. Mr. Simon believed that innovation would drive prices down. In 1990, Dr. Ehrlich and his colleagues conceded defeat and sent Mr. Simon a check for $576.07 — an amount that represented the decline in the metals’ prices after accounting for inflation.” (03/16/26)
https://archive.is/2qzRf
Source: Libertarian Institute
“The Age of Revelation, a Conversation w/Buck Johnson.” (03/16/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-age-of-revelation-a-conversation-w-buck-johnson/
Source: Independent Institute
by Richard K Vedder
“Are college athletics a financial liability?” (03/16/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/16/gone-with-the-wins-college-sports-fiscal-insanity/
Source: spiked
by James Heartfield
“The great German political philosopher, Jürgen Habermas, died last week at the age of 96, at home in Starnberg, Bavaria. Born in 1929, he lived through one of Germany’s most tumultuous eras. He was a member of the Hitler Youth as a boy and was sent, as a 15-year-old, to the western front to man anti-aircraft defences in the final months of the Second World War. After the war, he became a left-wing student firebrand while studying philosophy at the universities of Göttingen, Zurich and Bonn – from the last of which, he earned a doctorate in philosophy in 1954.” (03/16/26)
https://archive.is/KcG8A
