Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“When you scratch the surface of the Zionist propaganda, Iran actually looks downright boring compared to their head-chopping Salafi neighbors. While Saudi Arabia can directly finance throwing commercial airliners into Manhattan’s skyline like tomahawks without so much as a yawn of resignation from America’s warmonger class, Iran mostly resigns itself to furnishing regional militias with cheap rockets and drones. Even their support for Hamas pales in comparison to the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Qatar who actually houses much of their leadership, but Israel isn’t blowing Doha apart and America is literally protecting them with boots on the ground. Iran’s supposed nuclear weapons program only deepens my argument. All available intelligence suggests that Iran shelved whatever militant nuclear ambitions they once had back in 2003 when the US dispatched their most unpredictable rival in the region, Saddam Hussein.” (06/29/25)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/06/irans-anti-modern-revolution-still.html

Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp

“‘John Marshall has made his decision’ regarding relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, US president Andrew Jackson supposedly said of the US Supreme Court’s chief justice in 1832. ‘Now let him enforce it!’That sentiment comes to mind when considering the Supreme Court’s June 27 decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. The court ruled that the government of Texas doesn’t run afoul of the First Amendment by requiring websites to verify users’ ages if those sites serve content the regime deems ‘harmful to minors.’ … I’m a big fan of VPNs and other tools for circumventing government control of what we can access on the World Wide Web. I’m also old enough to remember the US government’s war on encryption in the 1990s. Short version for you youngsters: The government lost that war. Paxton and his co-belligerents will lose this one, too.” (06/29/25)

https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19723

Source: Orange County Register
by John Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

“While the U.S. wages war abroad—bombing Iran, escalating conflict, and staging a spectacle of power for political gain—a different kind of war is being waged here at home. This war at home is quieter but no less destructive. The casualties are not in distant deserts or foreign cities. They are our freedoms, our communities, and the Constitution itself. And the agents of this domestic war? Masked thugs. Unmarked vans. Raids. Roundups. … What ICE — an agency that increasingly resembles a modern-day Gestapo — is doing to immigrants today, it can and will do to citizens tomorrow: these are the early warning signs of a system already in motion.” (06/28/25)

https://archive.is/1689K

Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson

“Socialism is a word with some heft on both the left and the right. Just as Republicans started calling themselves ‘populists’ and ‘nationalists’ and whatnot when they decided that they were sick of standing with Paul Ryan and preferred kneeling before Donald Trump (‘a matter of taste,’ as the secretary general of NATO might put it), some Democrats call themselves ‘socialists’ and join organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America as a way of saying, ‘I hate Republicans more than Chuck Schumer does.’ Republicans sometimes use ‘socialist’ roughly the same way … but lately they just use it to mean ‘hated un-person’ …. However it is misused today, ‘socialism’ is a word with a meaning and a history, and I am just silly enough to continue to believe that these things still matter a little bit.” (06/27/25)

https://thedispatch.com/article/zohran-mamdani-socialism-new-york-city/

Source: The Daily Economy
by Walter Donway

“‘Public interest’ media always sponsors a particular (state-approved) perspective at the expense of others. NPR’s voluntary donors can support a more ethical enterprise.” (06/27/25)

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/pbs-and-npr-a-free-press-doesnt-need-a-government-budget-line/