Source: Foreign Policy
by Katherine Kelaidis

“Last September, under pressure from the Turkish government, Netflix agreed to release one of its new series only in Greece and Cyprus. Famagusta depicts the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The protagonists of the series — a co-production between Greek and Cypriot companies — are Greek Cypriots, and the show is broadly sympathetic to them. Turkish officials insisted that Famagusta was nothing more than pro-Greek propaganda and began a campaign to prevent global audiences from watching it. … Netflix’s decision was met with little furor outside of the Greek press, and the company did not respond to Foreign Policy’s request for comment about the move. It was part of a long-standing pattern of successful Turkish censorship of content that depicts either Turkish or Ottoman history in a negative light. Turkey not only blocks the release of such content domestically — but has maneuvered to do so abroad, as well.” (03/18/25)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/18/turkey-netflix-famagusta-censorship-cyprus-greece-ataturk-ottoman-history/

Source: Tenth Amendment Center
by Michael Boldin

“Think the American Revolution was just about taxes, tea parties, and representation? Think again. The real conflict wasn’t about a few policies. It was about power – a British claim to unlimited, centralized power ‘in all cases whatsoever.’ James Madison later called this the ‘fundamental principle’ on which independence itself was declared. And he was far from alone. John Hancock, Thomas Paine, John Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and many others all agreed. Yet, you won’t hear about this in government-run schools. Because teaching the truth means exposing the real problem: unlimited, centralized power.” (03/18/25)

https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/03/18/the-real-root-cause-of-the-american-revolution/

Source: In These Times
by Carrie Zaremba

“In January, Gaza took its first tenuous breath of stillness in more than a year. It is a moment of clarity, a reminder that our work is far from done. For the student movement, this is a call to recalibrate and push forward. We cannot mistake temporary stillness for resolution, nor recognition for accomplishment. Nothing short of full liberation can be our goal. By now, you know that universities have nothing to offer us but spectacle and scorn. The U.S. ruling class has spent decades perfecting its support of Zionism, with universities as central pipelines for research, propaganda and profit. For 467 days, while every university in Gaza was reduced to rubble and its hospitals were running out of room for the dead, U.S. higher education upheld these partnerships with military contractors, surveillance tech firms and Zionist think tanks disguised as cultural exchange programs.” (03/17/25)

https://inthesetimes.com/article/a-love-letter-to-the-student-movement

Source: Liberal Currents
by Sourodipto Roy

“Francis Fukuyama seeks to promote liberal democracy, but from underneath his own feet the specter of illiberalism reproduces itself.” (03/18/25)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyama-fails-to-answer-the-basic-questions-of-liberal-political-theory/

Source: New York Post
by Glenn H Reynolds

“The ability of a single federal judge to block government action nationwide — let alone a president’s exercise of foreign policy — is not well established. It was a rare occurrence before Trump’s first term. Chief Justice John Roberts has frequently expressed concern with the ‘institutional legitimacy’ of the federal judiciary. At times that’s seemed limited to gaining the approval of the editorial pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times. But he may need to consider what the rest of America thinks, lest he wind up on the 20% side of an 80/20 issue — an awkward place to be when you’re concerned about legitimacy.” (03/17/25)

https://nypost.com/2025/03/17/opinion/how-federal-judges-trump-hate-is-harming-the-courts/

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“President Trump’s vicious and malicious rendition of immigrants to El Salvador is just one more reminder of what America’s immigration-control system is doing to our nation and to the values on which our nation was founded. The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without due process of law. Due process of law is a term that stretches all the way back to Magna Carta, when the great barons of England forced their king, at the point of a sword, to acknowledge that his powers over people were limited, not omnipotent.” (03/18/25)

https://www.fff.org/2025/03/18/trumps-denial-of-due-process-is-tyranny/