Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US has removed Syria’s Al Qaeda franchise from its list of designated terrorist organizations just days after the UK added nonviolent activist group Palestine Action to its own list of banned terrorist groups. The western empire will surely find ways to be even more hypocritical and ridiculous about its ‘terrorism’ designations in the future, but at this point it’s hard to imagine how it will manage to do so. … This move comes as Sharaa holds friendly meetings with US and UK officials and holds normalization talks with Israel, showing that all one has to do to cease being a ‘terrorist’ in the eyes of the empire is to start aligning with the empire’s interests.” (07/08/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/08/imperial-hypocrisy-about-terrorism-hits-its-most-absurd-point-yet/
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos is my guest. We discuss the good the bad and the ugly of current events as well as what we can be doing to maintain our freedoms.” (07/08/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-xvrd5-18fdaac
Source: Niskanen Center
by Zachary Parolin
“Poverty is typically understood as a shortage of resources relative to needs. Policy strategies aimed at reducing poverty tend to focus on the resources side of that equation, studying, for example, how cash transfers or minimum wage increases affect poverty through their increases in families’ incomes. This report, in contrast, shifts focus to the role of housing policy and local housing costs in influencing the needs side of the poverty equation. Policy strategies aimed at increasing housing supply and reducing housing costs should be viewed analogously to anti-poverty strategies focused on the direct redistribution of cash income.” (07/08/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/housing-policy-and-poverty-the-case-of-california
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Four men, including members of the Canadian Armed Forces, are facing charges in Canada over an alleged plot to create an ‘anti-government militia’ and ‘forcibly’ seize land, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says. Police say three of the suspects took part in military-style training, shooting exercises and scouting operations in the Québec City area as part of their alleged plot. The group are also alleged to have stored explosive devices, dozens of firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition, all of which were seized by the RCMP. All four have been arrested and are due to appear in Québec City court on Tuesday, police said.” (07/08/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly8d0jxm8po
Source: Liberal Currents
by Emily Chamlee-Wright
“To some observers, Harvard’s stand might seem like it’s just Ivy League self‑regard, an affluent institution protecting its perks. That reading gets the stakes backward. What is under attack is the rule‑of‑law scaffolding that lets any voluntary association — PTA or synagogue, start‑up or labor union — pursue its mission without waiting for White House permission slips or fearing punitive retaliation. A university that surrenders control over whom it may admit, hire, or teach ceases to be a university; it becomes a subordinate creature of politicians and the ever-changing whims of election results.” (07/08/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/harvards-fight-is-a-defense-of-democracy-and-civic-virtue/
Source: United Press International
“A federal judge has awarded Planned Parenthood a win over the Trump administration, halting a provision in President Donald Trump’s massive tax cuts and benefits bill that prevents patients from using Medicaid at its healthcare facilities. Judge Indira Talwani of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts issued her temporary restraining order Monday evening, ordering the Trump administration to take ‘all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and timeframes to Planned Parenthood Federation and its members.’ The ruling came hours after Planned Parenthood filed its lawsuit against a provision in Trump’s policy bill that puts in place a one-year ban on Medicaid payments to healthcare nonprofits that provide abortion services while receiving more than $800,000 in Medicaid reimbursements in fiscal year 2023.” (07/08/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/07/08/Planned-Parenthood-sues-Trump/8791751959304/
Source: The Dispatch
“State Power vs. Parental Rights.” (07/08/25)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/state-power-vs-parental-rights/
Source: Cobden Centre
by Elias Moises Sánchez Flores
“During my master’s programme at the University of Leeds, I engaged in a module titled Capitalism in Practice, which often unfolded as a Marxist critique of economic systems — an orientation some lecturers candidly acknowledged. In one exchange, I posed a simple but pointed question: does Marxism offer a coherent monetary theory capable of explaining financialisation and business cycles? The answer was illuminating, not for its content, but for its absence. One lecturer conceded that no clear Marxist framework addressed the institutional mechanisms behind credit cycles or the structural fragilities of modern monetary systems. To her, as to many, financialisation appeared as an inevitable byproduct of capitalism’s evolution — an abstract drift toward finance-dominated economies. Mainstream economics, when confronted with its crises — 1980s, 1990s, 2008 — labels them ‘market failures.’ I challenged that view.” (07/08/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/07/financialisation-as-statecraft-a-quiet-engine-of-boom-bust-and-wealth-transfer/
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Decent Americans are grieving the loss of so many lives, and so many young lives, in Friday’s Texas flooding — but unhinged lefties insist on politicizing the horror, working out their resentments or trying to blame President Donald Trump. A sick, racist former Houston mayoral appointee, Sade Perkins, called Camp Mystic, one hard-hit site, a ‘white-only girls’ Christian camp.’ What a thing to focus on. No one would care if the kids were minorities, Perkins suggested as she blamed Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and ‘your friendly MAGA Trump’ for … a natural disaster. Pediatrician Christina B. Propst similarly spewed hate, saying the victims ‘got what they voted for’ (she assumes!) and wishing safety for only ‘non-MAGA voters and pets.’ Such deranged venom is the upshot of years of race-based grievance-mongering on the left, along with radical dehumanizing of Americans who happen to think differently.” (07/07/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/07/opinion/the-lefts-response-to-the-texas-flooding-deaths-is-beyond-depraved/
Source: Common Dreams
“A Monday court filing by attorneys for migrants being held in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison contained what one expert called a ‘huge admission’ by Salvadoran officials that casts new doubt on the Trump administration’s claims that it can’t bring back the 130 men it sent to the facility. In a filing submitted to Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., lawyers for four of the migrants included a document that the Salvadoran government had sent to the United Nations in response to an inquiry about their detention at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT). Contrary to the Trump administration’s claims … officials representing the Bukele government said in the filing that ‘the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters.'” (07/08/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cecot