Source: CNN
“Madagascar’s military has taken charge of the Indian Ocean island, an army colonel said on Tuesday, after President Andry Rajoelina fled abroad during a standoff with youth-led protesters and security forces. ‘We have taken the power,’ Col. Michael Randrianirina, who led a mutiny of soldiers joining anti-government Gen Z demonstrators, said on national radio. Randrianirina added that the military was dissolving all institutions except the lower house of parliament or National Assembly, which voted to impeach Rajoelina minutes earlier. In a day of turmoil for the nation off east Africa, the 51-year-old leader had sought to dissolve the assembly by decree. Despite flying out on a French military jet, Rajoelina is refusing to step down in defiance of weeks of Gen Z protests demanding his resignation and widespread defections in the army.” (10/14/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/africa/madagascar-president-dissolves-national-assembly-intl
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Trump has civilians murdered on his orders, and he enjoys doing it. The deaths of these civilians please him. He will keep ordering more executions unless he is stopped and removed from office. Trump’s tyrannical abuse of power is a threat to the American people, and it is also a threat to international peace. It is probably just a matter of time before he escalates with strikes inside Venezuela. It may not be long before he turns his sights on other countries in the region. The president arrogates to himself the right to order the deaths of anyone he chooses to call a terrorist, and he routinely labels almost everyone he doesn’t like a terrorist.” (10/14/25)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/trump-the-murderer-in-chief
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the US has struck another small boat that he accuses of carrying drugs in waters off the coast of Venezuela, [murdering] six people aboard. ‘The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists [sic] aboard the vessel were [murdered] in the strike,’ Trump said in a statement on his Truth Social social media platform. ‘No U.S. [murderers] were harmed.’ … last week, an attempt in the US Senate to prevent further US [murders] on alleged drug-carrying boats off the coast of Venezuela without congressional approval failed, after nearly all Republicans and Democratic Senator John Fetterman voted against the measure.” (10/14/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/14/trump-six-killed-us-strike-boat-venezuela
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Branko Marcetic
“There is good news and bad news for critics of the United States’[s] bloated 21st century war machine. The good news: the ‘war on terror’ is dead. The bad news? It seems to have become a part of the walking dead — a kind of zombie war on terror that is continuing and radically expanding, even as the fears and threats that originally motivated all its excesses are seemingly vanishing from the American psyche. Consider the following facts: despite the public release only a few years ago of evidence showing the Saudi government’s direct complicity in the crime of September 11, 2001 — the central, instigating act of terrorism that drove and justified every aspect of the ‘war on terror’ that followed — associating with or even taking money from that same government appears to carry no stigma.” (10/14/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/zombie-war-on-terror/
Source: The Hill
“The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will not consider whether the LGBTQ dating app Grindr could be held liable for matching a teenager with adult men who sexually assaulted him. It means the justices won’t wade into a new fight over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives [sic] tech firms broad immunity from legal challenges over user-generated content. John Doe, the anonymous petitioner, wrote in his appeal to the justices that he was 15 years old when he signed up for Grindr, representing he was an adult. Over four days in April 2019, the app matched him with four adult men, who each raped him on consecutive days, he alleges.” [editor’s note: Section 230 doesn’t “give tech firms broad immunity.” They are not the publishers of content published by others whether Section 230 says so or not – TLK] (10/14/25)
https://thehill.com/homenews/5554408-grindr-supreme-court-liability/
Source: The Hill
by Bill Press
“Seriously, when was the last time you remember Congress passing any significant legislation? Monumental achievements like Medicare, the Clean Air Act, the Voting Rights Act, or the Civil Rights Act, aren’t possible anymore. This 119th Congress, like the last few sessions, is incapable of probing, debating, and resolving such weighty issues. It can’t even manage its most basic job of keeping the government running. Sadly, history will show that nobody seized Congress or stole away its authority. Its wounds are self-inflicted. Through laziness, lack of courage, or sheer party loyalty over what’s best for the nation, members of Congress gradually ceded their powers, starting with the power to declare war.” (10/14/25)
https://thehill.com/opinion/5553266-congress-losing-power-president/
Source: Fox Newsm
by Liz Peek
“The midterm elections are a little over a year away. To continue pushing the Trump agenda forward, Republicans must keep control of the House and the Senate. Democrats want to make the midterms a referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. The GOP should counter by making the elections, instead, about the ongoing need to reverse former President Joe Biden’s disastrous excess spending, open borders, climate obsession and soft-on-crime policies. It will take two years to drain the swamp; Republicans will need two more to replant it. In New Jersey’s governor’s race, Republican Jack Ciattarelli is doing just that, and is closing the gap with Democrat U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill. The ‘Jersey Guy’ may be creating the template for a GOP victory next November.” (10/14/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/new-jersey-governors-race-could-show-gop-how-win-midterms
Source: Straits Times [Singapore]
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy revoked the citizenship of Odesa mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov on Tuesday, which Ukraine’s security service said was due to Trukhanov also being a Russian citizen. Trukhanov denied having Russian citizenship and said he would take his case to court. Ukraine prohibits its citizens from holding Russian citizenship …. ‘I now have evidence that I could not, either physically or legally, obtain Russian citizenship or passports,’ Trukhanov told public broadcaster Suspilne. Ukraine’s SBU security service said the decision to strip Trukhanov’s citizenship had been made thanks to evidence it had provided that Trukhanov had a valid Russian passport.” (10/14/25)
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Zelenskiy-strips-Odesa-mayor-of-Ukrainian-citizenship
Source: Underthrow
“Ten Rules for Radical Innovators.” (10/14/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BBKFrv0J1w
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Martin Kulldorff
“Scientific journals have had enormous positive impact on the development of science, but in some ways, they are now hampering rather than enhancing open scientific discourse. After reviewing the history and current problems with journals, a new academic publishing model is proposed. It embraces open access and open rigorous peer review, it rewards reviewers for their important work with honoraria and public acknowledgement, and it allows scientists to publish their research in a timely and efficient manner without wasting valuable scientists’ time and resources.” (10/14/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-scientific-journals-and-a-way-forward/
