Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“I don’t know who first coined the saying that an Israeli ceasefire means ‘you cease and we fire’, but it proves reliably accurate time after time. The IDF reportedly killed nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes today under the usual justification that they were traveling in some kind of unauthorized area in ways that made the troops feel threatened, blah blah. They did this all the time during the previous ‘ceasefire’ at the beginning of the year, using the exact same excuses. Just as we speculated the other day might happen, Israel has announced that it is going to cut the aid it allows into Gaza in half and cut off fuel and gas shipments, because Hamas hasn’t returned the bodies of all the dead Israeli hostages.” (10/15/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/15/the-trumpanyahu-administration-is-already-sabotaging-the-ceasefire/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Scott Drylie

“There will be thousands of genuine stories of hardship and frustration that will emerge from this shutdown. There will be waste, interruptions, and inefficiency. Still, from a whole-of-society perspective, shutdowns have historically been much ado about little. Government is not shut and it is usually only moderately and briefly down.” (10/15/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/a-government-shutdown-is-less-scary-than-its-dysfunction-as-usual/

Source: The Hill
by James D Zirin

“The history of masks dates to prehistoric times, where they served diverse cultural purposes. Masks were used in dramatic performance in ancient Greece, to protect against plague in the Middle Ages and for entertainment purposes throughout history.  Fictional masked figures include such superheroes as Batman, Zorro or the Lone Ranger. Also, there are villains like Hannibal Lecter or Darth Vader who wore masks to create a scary presence. Face it, masks are intended to be intimidating, even on Halloween. But the practice of mask wearing by federal agents making arrests or controlling crowds is a novelty, particularly when their actions are the subject of civil liberties court challenges.” (10/15/25)

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5554243-masked-ice-agents-chicago/

Source: Inequality.org
by Chuck Collins

“As a coeditor of Inequality.org, I get a lot of fan mail (and a few complaints). Greg B. recently wrote in, ‘None of my problems exist as a result of someone else being a billionaire’. My response to Greg: ‘An economy rigged to funnel so much wealth and power to the billionaire class is bad for you and everyone else. It undermines your life in some major ways.’ I wrote my new book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power are Ruining Our Lives and Planet, for folks like Greg to talk about how extreme wealth inequality disrupts our daily lives. Here are 10 ways you are being burned by billionaires, pulled from my book.” (10/15/25)

https://inequality.org/article/ten-ways-you-are-being-burned-by-billionaires/

Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Connor O’Keeffe

“[W]hen it comes to fighting back against progressivism, socialism, globalism, interventionism, or whatever you want to call the ideology of the political establishment, the American right has long struggled to do so meaningfully. The reason was best explained in a 1938 pamphlet by the Old Right writer Garet Garrett, called The Revolution Was. Garrett witnessed a conservative movement that was similarly staring down a powerful coalition of New Deal Democrats, crony business leaders, and outright socialists …. In his pamphlet, Garrett argued that the fundamental problem with the conservatives of his day was that they were looking in the wrong direction. … as long as the American right ignored the institutional changes that had already happened and, therefore, allowed them to remain in place, it was effectively a certainty that they would lose. That what they were advocating against would come to pass.” (10/15/25)

https://mises.org/mises-wire/right-needs-reject-conservatism