Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Karthik Sankaran
“Damage to a crucial Saudi pipeline has forced Riyadh to delay shipments to Europe, possibly into November.” (09/17/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/oil-pipeline-saudi-arabia/
Source: Washington Monthly
by Garrett Epps
“Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter an intriguing idea from a great legal mind.” (09/17/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/17/the-case-for-a-shadow-court/
Source: The Kyle Anzalone Show
“America’s Middle East Crisis Has Become a Catastrophe.” (09/16/26)
Source: Common Dreams
“When Sheena Hamlin found out she was pregnant with a daughter she named Ellie, she was ‘very excited’, until her doctors discovered at around 21 weeks that the baby ‘might survive birth, but that her lungs were so severely underdeveloped that she would suffocate almost as soon as the umbilical cord was cut’. ‘The alternative would be to terminate the pregnancy,’ explains a lawsuit filed in state court on Wednesday, but that ‘was not an option in Oklahoma’, where a pair of laws force patients whose ‘pregnancy will end in miscarriage, stillbirth, or the death of an infant shortly after birth’ to leave the state if they choose abortion. … she flew to Illinois for care shortly before Thanksgiving in 2024, and spent nearly $4,000 out of pocket. After the ‘devastating’ experience, the couple ‘underwent genetic testing and confirmed that Ellie had Meckel-Gruber syndrome’.” (09/17/26)
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul McDonnold
“Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.” (09/17/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-battle-for-the-future-of-space/
Source: The Moynihan Report
“Pod Save Us: Jon Lovett on the Left’s Identity Crisis.” (09/16/26)
https://www.themoynihan.report/p/pod-save-us-jon-lovett-on-the-lefts
Source: Independent Institute
by Craig Eyermann
“Trillions in deficits have pushed US national debt interest payments to record highs.” (09/16/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/16/living-fiscal-fantasyland/
Source: Common Dreams
by Stephen R Weissman
“In May 2024, a New York City jury convicted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of 34 felonies of falsifying business records with an intent to defraud, including an intent to ‘commit, aid, or conceal another crime’. Days earlier, Justice Juan Merchan had convened counsel for a pre-charge conference to discuss their recommendations for jury instructions. There, Trump’s defense team, led by Todd Blanche, failed to propose a key legal requirement for what the prosecution called the ‘most obvious’ other crime: conspiracy to promote an election through the ‘unlawful means’ of violating Federal Election Campaign Act contribution limits. Under reigning federal precedents, there could be no criminal violation of FECA unless the conduct was ‘willful’ (defined as ‘knowing it was unlawful’). Yet the defense put forth the term ‘willfully’ without saying what it meant!” (09/17/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/todd-blanche-incompetent
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party on Wednesday petitioned the electoral commission to block initiatives aimed at helping Israelis who live abroad return to vote in upcoming close-fought elections. Israel’s electoral law does not allow citizens residing outside the country to vote abroad, except for diplomats and emissaries sent by certain organisations. The Central Bureau of Statistics estimates there are 600,000 Israelis living abroad. Government opponents have been working for several weeks to encourage voters to come home to cast their ballots, hoping to strengthen the anti-Netanyahu camp in elections scheduled for 27 October. Initiatives include offering discounted plane tickets, assisting expatriates with the administrative procedures required to vote and organising their transport from the airport. Attorney Ilan Bombach, representing Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party, filed an appeal on Wednesday with the chairman of the Central Elections Committee demanding an end to these practices.” (09/17/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahus-likud-party-seeks-impede-israeli-expat-voting
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Charlie Robinson (Macroaggressions Podcast; Activist Post) on his newest book, The Octopus of Population Control, which deals with Eugenics.” (09/17/26)