Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Sina Azodi
“For presidents wary of protracted ground wars, airpower can appear to provide decisive action while minimizing American casualties and long-term commitments. Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has bombed Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia and Venezuela, and has kidnapped a country’s leader, at almost no cost to the United States. Time and again, however, modern warfare has demonstrated the limits of this notion.” (02/24/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/coercion-through-iran-airstrikes/
Source: Common Dreams
by Miles Mogulescu
“The US Supreme Court’s rejection of President Donald Trump’s singular policy on tariffs is a reason for some celebration. During the past year, using the so-called ‘shadow docket,’ the Roberts Court had ruled in Trump’s favor on an emergency basis 24 out of 28 times. But the mainstream media, and even much of the progressive media, is misinterpreting the tariff decision as demonstrating the Roberts Court’s independence and judicial neutrality. For example, the New York Times lead article by its chief legal correspondent Adam Lipnick was headlined, ‘The Supreme Court’s Declaration of Independence,’ … But the Roberts Court is not independent. Rather, when there’s a conflict between big corporations and Trump, it will side with the corporations.” (02/24/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/roberts-court-pro-corporate
Source: Politico
“Slovakia’s opposition is suing Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico over his decision to halt emergency power supplies to Ukraine amid a growing diplomatic spat over a key Russian oil pipeline. The chairman of the center-right Freedom and Solidarity party, Branislav Gröhling, said his party had filed a criminal complaint against Fico, accusing him of abuse of his office, treason, terrorism and the ‘violation of duties in the management of other people’s property,’ according to Slovak newspaper Dennik N. … Slovakia has been providing emergency electricity exports to Kyiv to help support its energy sector, which has been crippled by a months-long Russian bombardment. On Monday Bratislava cut off those exports in retaliation for what it claims to be Ukraine’s refusal to resume flows of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline …. Ukrainian authorities insist the pipeline was damaged in a Russian airstrike in late January and is undergoing repairs.” (02/24/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/slovakian-opposition-sues-fico-over-ukraine-power-blockade
Source: New York Times
“ICE Whistle-Blower Says Training Is ‘Broken,’ and OpenAI Faces Questions About Mass Shooter.” (02/24/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP6ACQ_Ljrc
Source: The American Conservative
“John Kiriakou on Epstein, Propaganda, and Heroin.” (02/24/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-tac-interview-john-kiriakou-on-epstein-propaganda-and-heroin/
Source: Liberal Currents
by Bill McKay
“Elon Musk’s destruction of USAID has faded from public consciousness in America, despite leaving death and destruction in its wake.” (02/24/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-has-done/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Thomas Eddlem
“The general MAGA reaction that Pretti and Good got what was coming to them is telling about how Republican politics in America has descended into a form of right-wing Leninism. After a man is flat-out murdered in the streets, on his knees, they reply, ‘But hey, look how the victim kicked off a $65 tail light on a police cruiser last week!’ How, even if you feel very strongly about enforcing federal immigration laws, does that even enter into the conversation in a rational world intent on keeping government within its constitutional boundaries? It’s a lot like a woman getting raped and all people on the sidelines afterward can talk about is how she had been caught shoplifting the week before. It’s entirely beside the point.” (02/24/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/rise-of-the-right-wing-leninists
Source: Expression
by Nate Honeycutt
“Americans’ confidence in U.S. colleges and universities remains near historic lows. Although some have suggested that public opinion about higher education may be stabilizing or rising, our latest survey finds little evidence of meaningful recovery.” (02/24/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/the-decline-of-confidence-in-higher
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Rules for Radicals, Prologue w/John Weeks.” (02/24/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/rules-for-radicals-prologue-w-john-weeks
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“The Trump era of crude, vulgar might as the sole indicator of worth does not augur well for human rights advocates demanding investigations and prosecutions into the victims of Epstein’s predation. Even before President Donald Trump got the keys to the White House, there was impunity, complicity and permissiveness in the depravities of Club Epstein, a state of affairs tolerated, even encouraged by a ruling class bankrupted and soiled.” (02/24/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/24/not-forgetting-the-victims-club-epstein-and-crimes-against-humanity/
