Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“I hate this. I hate waiting for the next imperial act of war. I hate having to be aware of sunrise time in Iran so I can relax knowing they made it through another night without US airstrikes. I hate having to wonder which empire-targeted population is going to get hit next. The imperial murder machine has been so frenetically active these last few years. When I first started writing about the US empire it was the beginning of Trump’s first term, at a state of relative calm. There were mounting cold war tensions with Russia and the US-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen, a faltering dirty war in Syria and a half-assed coup attempt in Venezuela, but these frenzied nonstop regime change ops and brazen power grabs weren’t so much a thing back then.” (01/12/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/12/the-imperial-murder-machine-is-in-a-state-of-hyperactivity/
Source: The Hill
“Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, is questioning the ‘credibility’ of the Department of Justice’s investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and threatening to oppose President Trump’s nominees to the central bank until the matter is resolved. ‘If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question,’ Tillis said in a statement. He also vowed to keep Trump’s nominees to the Fed bottled up in the Banking Committee over the matter.” (01/12/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5684255-thom-tillis-doj-jerome-powell
Source: Liberal Currents
“The U.S. in Venezuela: The International Community and the Donroe Doctrine.” (01/12/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-answer-58-the-u-s-in-venezuela-the-international-community-and-the-donroe-doctrine/
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Developed-world consciousness is in demographic decline. If people in developed countries don’t have more babies, the developing world will inherit the earth. Does a dystopian future await?” (01/12/26)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/civilizations-silent-killer
Source: Orange County Register
by Sal Rodriguez
“In a normal world, the president and vice president would call for calm and note that proper investigations would take place. Matt Walsh would be unknown outside of crank religious right circles still fixated on “the gay agenda” or whatever. And Kristi Noem definitely would not be the head of Homeland Security and instead would have peaked with a term or two in the South Dakota House of Representatives. Alas, here we are. And it’s indeed because of the weird politics of today that Renee Good is dead.” (01/12/26)
https://archive.is/xyxGy
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Total bankruptcy filings in Calendar Year (CY) 2025 were 565,759, an eleven percent increase from the 508,953 registered during CY 2024, according to data provided by Epiq AACER, the leading provider of US bankruptcy filing data. While representing a substantial year-over-year increase, total bankruptcy filings remain lower than the pre-pandemic total of 757,816 recorded in CY 2019.” (01/26/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fear-fatigue-finances-americas-mood-222557372.html
Source: The Daily Economy
by Peter C Earle
“Meme-stock investment infusions rescued the company without redeeming its model. Did that borrowed time produce market discipline — or simply delay error correction?” (01/12/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/five-years-after-gamestop-what-the-squeeze-actually-changed/
Source: Show-Me Institute
“No Adult Left Behind, How Politics Hijacks Education Policy with Vlad Kogan.” (01/12/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/blog/education/no-adult-left-behind-how-politics-hijacks-education-policy-with-vlad-kogan/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Snider
“The United States decapitated the Venezuelan regime and is dictating policy in Venezuela, running the country like an American colony. But the regime remains in place. Washington has been forced to exercise its dominance overtly through thuggish economic and military coercion rather than covertly by installing the pro-U.S. opposition. There are at least four reasons for this failure. The first is past failures. Many of them.” (01/12/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2026/01/11/u-s-failed-to-install-the-pro-us-opposition-in-venezuela/
Source: Fox News
by William Barr
“The U.S. Supreme Court, by now all too familiar with lawfare, will consider a startling case on Monday, Jan. 12, chock-full of hard politicking and even the appearance of corruption. Small bayou towns and parishes in Louisiana, in partnership with plaintiffs’ firms, have filed dozens of lawsuits blaming American energy companies for coastal erosion stemming from energy production during World War II. The first of those cases reached trial this spring, with a jury in Plaquemines Parish returning a $750 million judgment against Chevron. The conduct of these cases recalls an old problem with a clear solution. States and localities have for decades weaponized their courts to derail lawful and legitimate federal objectives. … The answer is to remove these cases from Louisiana’s courts and adjudicate them in a fairer forum, namely federal court.” (01/12/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/william-barr-supreme-court-needs-stop-louisiana-grift-against-energy-firms
