Source: Independent [UK]
“Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Tuesday that Kyiv has delivered fresh proposals to American negotiators aimed at ending the four-year war with Russia. US-mediated talks have been on ice since the war in Iran broke out in February. Efforts to bring Ukraine and Russia back to the table have not produced any material results since. But even with the war in the Middle East no closer to being resolved, the Ukrainian president said in his nightly address: ‘We have conveyed our proposals to the American side.'” (08/11/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-putin-zelensky-drone-strikes-north-korea-b3030836.html
Source: The Daily Economy
by Alex Tokarev, Gabriel F. Benzecry, & Kristin Tokarev
“ou’ve no doubt heard the horrifying stories of dictators who abused their people for personal gain or sheer cruelty. Stalin’s Great Purge, Mao’s engineered famine, and Pinochet’s brutal torture of dissidents are just a few notorious examples. If all dictatorships are hell, a difficult question remains: which offers the better odds of survival, or even prosperity? Is it a dictatorship that tolerates some free-market capitalism, or one built on socialism?” (08/11/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/whats-worse-authoritarian-capitalism-or-democratic-socialism/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Four leading human rights groups have launched a new lawsuit against the Trump administration’s campaign against the International Criminal Court. The new lawsuit filed on Tuesday charges that the administration’s wide-ranging sanctions against the international tribunal and organisations that cooperate with it risk treading on the constitutional rights of US citizens and groups. It adds to several previous legal challenges making similar claims. The four US-based groups – The American Friends Service Committee, the Centre for Constitutional Rights, Human Rights Watch, and the Open Society Institute – charge the sanctions ‘force them to curtail a wide range of human rights and legal work’. That, in turn, violates their constitutional rights, including their freedom of speech and their right to due process.” (08/11/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/11/rights-groups-launch-new-legal-challenge-to-trump-campaign-against-icc
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin
“Late last year, the United Kingdom, France, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and dozens more nations signed the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime, a treaty ostensibly intended to improve global cooperation to fight crimes taking place over computer systems. Canada joined them this summer. The United States remains a notable exception and says it is still reviewing the treaty. Three nations have since ratified it, and the treaty will enter into force 90 days after 40 states do so. As FIRE has long warned, the treaty opens the door to greater violations of free expression online — and new cybercrime bills popping up around the world show why.” (08/11/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/countries-are-hiding-censorship-cybercrime-bills-un-treaty-could
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jeremy Hunt
“For the 333 million Americans who don’t live in New York City, there are plenty of reasons not to care what goes on there. It doesn’t affect our day-to-day lives. New Yorkers democratically elected their socialist leader. It’s their bed, let them lie in it. Or as the mainstream media likes to put it, it’s probably just hyped-up right-wing hysteria. And of course, that’s exactly how the communists in our country want us to think. But right now may be the most important moment to push back. It’s incumbent on all of us to resist the normalization of socialism in America. Speak up now, so that what’s radical in New York today doesn’t become the norm in your neighborhood tomorrow. And to be clear, there are plenty of radical things going on in New York right now.” (08/11/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/socialism-moves-mainstream-warning-signs-here
Source: USA Today
“Unrelenting heat waves across the United States in July helped push the nation to its warmest month, breaking a 132-year-old record, federal officials say. The 76.9-degree average was 3.3 degrees above the 20th century average, according to the July climate summary released Aug. 10 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which tracks the nation’s weather and long-term climate. That temperature was a fraction warmer than records set in July 1936 and July 2012. Though daytime temperatures were blazing hot and disrupted many of the festivities around the nation’s 250th anniversary, it was the overnight temperatures that proved most extreme, soaring above the record set in July 2022 by 0.7 degrees. The U.S. records mirror a pattern seen across many parts of the world in July.” (08/11/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/08/10/july-heat-produced-warmest-month-record-us/91241077007/
Source: The Hill
“AOC is lying about wokeness—she enforced it ruthlessly!” (08/11/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6016110-rising-august-11-2026/
Source: Niskanen Center
by Mark Lerner
“The Federal Bureau of Investigations launched Sentinel in 2005 with an expanded budget and intensified project management discipline. With the active involvement of at least 18 concurrent oversight and governance bodies — the Government Accountability Office, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General, and numerous congressional committees among them — what could go wrong? Turns out, quite a lot. Sentinel rapidly degraded into an unusable product that threatened to waste hundreds of millions of dollars.” (08/11/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/sentinel-or-the-case-of-the-high-price-of-technical-delivery-risk/
Source: Washington Post
by Julia Cartwright
“On June 16, 1989, a bearded 26-year-old stood before a quarter million Hungarians in Budapest and demanded that Soviet troops leave his country. His fearless call for free elections helped bring down communism in Hungary. The young firebrand was Viktor Orban. Twenty-five years later, he proudly announced he was building an ‘illiberal state.’ What happened in between is a microcosm of what has happened to liberal democracy itself. That story gives Daron Acemoglu’s new book ‘What Happened to Liberal Democracy?’ its urgency.” (08/11/26)
https://archive.is/iEoeW
Source: New York Post
by Karol Markowicz
“Remember the early 2020s when cancel culture ran rampant, defunding police was a standard position on the left and we were all supposed to fall in line with their bad ideas, or else? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants us to pretend it all went away. AOC took to ‘This Week with Jonathan Karl’ on ABC to defend Francesca Hong, the latest Democratic Socialist star, running for governor of Wisconsin. In 2020, Hong said Thanksgiving should be canceled, claiming it’s ‘a time that’s incredibly painful for people’ in her community. Now that she wants to get elected, Hong suddenly called Thanksgiving her ‘favorite holiday’. AOC argued that Hong has ‘moved away’ from some of her more controversial positions then giggled that she agreed with NYC Councilman Chi Ossé, who had said, ‘Woke 1 was crazyyyy’. Tee-hee, woke 1, you guys!” (08/10/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/opinion/lefties-like-aoc-need-to-answer-some-questions-before-we-move-on-from-woke-1/
