Source: The Pamphleteer
by Davis Hunt
“Save the cities, save the country … Reclaiming American cities, by whatever means necessary, needs to be a part of every candidate’s platform at the federal and state levels. Currently in Nashville, you have a state government actively working around a dysfunctional Metro government to implement things like license plate readers (supported by locals) and cut a deal with the Boring Company for a tunnel connecting downtown to the airport (more on that below). But these are shallow solutions compared to the systemic issues plaguing the city, which, without international immigration, would be shrinking. The number one way to ensure that families will stay in a Metro area like Nashville is to aggressively reform the public schools and double down on funding the police department. The state of Tennessee has made efforts to pursue both of these recently.” (07/29/25)
https://pamphleteer.co/newsletter/state-vs-city/
Source: SFGate
“The prime minister of Iraq has kept his country on the sidelines as military conflicts raged nearby for almost two years. This required balancing Iraq’s relations with two countries vital to his power and enemies with each other: the U.S. and Iran. The feat became especially difficult last month when war broke out between Israel, a U.S. ally, and Iran — and the U.S. struck Iranian nuclear sites. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said he used a mix of political and military pressure to stop armed groups aligned with Iran from entering the fray. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Al-Sudani discussed those efforts along with his intentions of keeping those groups in check going forward and — as he seeks a second term — why he wants to get closer to the Trump administration, even as he maintains strong ties to Iran-backed political parties that helped propel him to power in 2022.” (07/29/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/iraq-s-prime-minister-seeks-closer-us-ties-while-20791047.php
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“Trump often makes allusions to card playing when discussing his negotiations on various issues, but in the case of trade, it seems he is the one missing cards. He has a much worse hand than he imagines as he attempts to extort our trading partners into make concessions on various issues. Our trading partners benefit from selling us stuff, or they wouldn’t do it. Trump apparently thinks that gives us enormous leverage in negotiations. What he somehow seems unable to understand is that the United States benefits from buying things from our trading partners.” (07/29/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/29/when-it-comes-to-tariffs-and-trade-trump-is-not-playing-with-a-full-deck/
Source: CNBC
“India has overtaken China to become the top exporter of smartphones to the U.S., according to research firm Canalys, reflecting the shift in manufacturing supply chain away from Beijing amid tariff-fueled uncertainty. Smartphones assembled in India accounted for 44% of U.S. imports of those devices in the second quarter, a significant increase from just 13% in the same period last year. Total volume of smartphones made in India soared 240% from a year earlier, Canalys said. In contrast, the share of Chinese smartphone exports to the U.S. shrank to 25% in the quarter ended June, from 61% a year earlier, Canalys data released Monday showed. Vietnam’s share of smartphone exports to the U.S. was also higher than that of China at 30%.” (07/29/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/india-surpasses-chinese-smartphone-shipments-to-us.html
Source: National Review
“Sedition! — with Marcus Gadson.” (07/29/25)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/the-charles-c-w-cooke-podcast/sedition-with-marcus-gadson/
Source: The American Conservative
by James R Lawrence, III
“A salacious case out of California raises important questions about the state’s ability to regulate a wide variety of interpersonal relationships.” (07/29/25)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/forced-labor-and-the-first-amendment/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A gunman who killed four people when he stormed a skyscraper in the heart of New York on Monday evening left a note that appeared to blame the National Football League (NFL) for a brain injury, the city’s Mayor Eric Adams says. The attacker, 27-year-old Shane Tamura of Las Vegas, shot himself dead after opening fire in a building where the American football league has its headquarters, but went to a different part of the building after taking the wrong lift. The gunman was carrying a note in which he blamed CTE, a brain disease triggered by head trauma, for his mental illness, Adams said. Tamura played football as a teenager but did not play in the NFL, ex-teammates have told US media.” (07/29/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2en7k2e77wo
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“Some ideas should last a thousand years. Let them come and be reminded of the wisdom of solidarity in a compact.” (07/29/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/to-build-the-temple
Source: ThomHartmann.Com
by Thom Hartmann
“What if, lacking an organized resistance to fascism like we have had in previous eras (the civil rights movement, SDS, BLM, the Wobblies), the Democratic Party itself could play the role of producing radical, positive transformation across America Sound crazy? It’s actually happened twice. The first time was in the 1930s, when Franklin Roosevelt’ New Deal literally flipped our politics and the American economy upside down, turning us from a raw, harsh capitalist system to a democratic socialist system with Social Security, legalized unions, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, workplace safety rules, massive infrastructure construction, and millions of Americans being employed directly by the government to end poverty. It happened again in the 1960s, with Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society …” (07/28/25)
https://hartmannreport.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill-infiltrate-your
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“China has launched its first nationwide programme of childcare subsidies as it steps up efforts to boost birth rates and give more spending power to households with young children. The government will give families Rmb3,600 ($503) a year for each child under the age of three, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday. The subsidy will be applied from January 2025 but families with children born between 2022 and 2024 can apply for partial handouts. The policy is expected to benefit more than 20mn families each year, Xinhua reported, citing a spokesperson from China’s National Health Commission.” (07/29/25)
https://archive.is/9mZ2g
