- Ireland: Trump predicts British occupation of the Six Counties will end “eventually”
Source: The Hill
“President Trump on Saturday expressed optimism about the reunification of Ireland during a meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in Dublin. The president, who is visiting his Irish golf course this weekend for a major golf tournament, said he would ‘love’ to see the joining of the Republic of Ireland and the [UK-occupied Six Counties]. … Previous U.S. presidents have typically avoided directly commenting on this contentious issue.” (09/12/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6085955-trump-ireland-reunification-comments/
- TN: Board votes to rename Nashville International Airport for Dolly Parton
Source: NBC News
“Nashville’s airport authority board unanimously voted Friday to begin the process to rename the city’s airport to honor late country music legend and Tennessee icon Dolly Parton. The vote by the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority did not establish a new name for Nashville International Airport, but it begins the process, the board said in a statement. … Parton, beloved by country music fans around the world, died last month at the age of 80 after a brief battle with cancer, her family said on Aug. 25. … Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee thanked the airport authority board for its action Friday and called the vote an ‘important step to honor her remarkable legacy.'” (09/11/26)
- Turkey: Regime thugs abduct dozens in raids on gay bars and homes of LGBTQ+ activists
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Police in Turkey have [abducted] 47 people in a series of raids on gay bars and the homes of LGBTQ+ activists, officials say. Raids took place in 12 provinces over the weekend as part of a campaign dubbed ‘My Family is Safe’ that the Turkish government says has been designed to protect family values. One of the targets of the operation was LGBTQ+ association Kaos GL. Same-sex marriage is not recognised in Turkey, with growing pressure on gay couples. Human rights groups in Turkey have accused the government of using the campaign to target the LGBTQ+ community. Officers detained 26 people and seized drugs, digital equipment, smuggled alcohol and a firearm during the raids, according to the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office.” (09/13/26)
- France: Train derailment injures 44; police suspect sabotage
Source: CBS News
“Authorities suspect sabotage caused a train derailment in northwestern France that injured 44 people after a piece of rail was found on the track. The regional train was carrying 186 passengers from Rouen to Caen when it derailed Friday evening in Cleon. One carriage tipped onto its side while four others left the tracks. … A spokeswoman for the French national police communications service, known as SICOP, told The Associated Press the piece of rail found on the track was ‘probably’ linked to the derailment. She spoke on condition of anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to be publicly named in line with police policy.” (09/12/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-normandy-train-derailment-sabotage/
- FL: Ron DeSantis tries to make Lindsey Clancy mistrial all about Ron DeSantis
Source: New York Post
“Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday offered the lone holdout juror of the Lindsay Clancy case ‘asylum’ after a report alleged that the juror had faced domestic violence accusations in the past. … DeSantis said the report was an attempt at damaging the reputation of the man, who has not identified himself but who others on the jury said is black and in his 30s. ‘A man objected to allowing a woman to kill her three young kids and get away with it, so NBC is trying to smear that juror, whose identity should be protected. Another low for legacy media,’ DeSantis wrote on X in response to the NBC10 report. ‘If the juror is being harassed, Florida will provide asylum — I’m sure he’d be welcomed and appreciated.’” (09/12/26)
- David Cobb, 1962-2026
Source: Independent Political Report
“David Keith Cobb, a longtime organizer within the Green Party of the United States who helped the party secure federal recognition as a national committee before going on to become its 2004 presidential nominee, died Monday at the age of 63. The national Green Party announced Cobb’s passing this week, confirming that he died on Labor Day. … The Green Party nominated Cobb for president at its 2004 national convention, with Maine activist Pat LaMarche selected as his running mate.” [editor’s note: I was a few feet away when Cobb and 2004 Libertarian presidential nominee Michael Badnarik got arrested together while attempting to serve a lawsuit to Presidential Debate Commission in St. Louis; he was an opponent, but not an enemy – TLK] (09/11/26)
- Sweden: Party blocs tied after Sunday vote, projections say
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Sweden’s general election remains too close to call, early results suggest.
With 50% of the votes counted, the two main blocs were separated by only 20,000 votes, Sweden public broadvasteer SVT said. Exit polls had given the left-wing political bloc led by Social Democrats leader Magdalena Andersson a small lead over the rival four-party coalition put together by current conservative Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Kristersson has been supported in government by the hard-right Sweden Democrats (SD), which have neo-Nazi roots. He has promised cabinet jobs for the SD if he stays in charge, but partial results suggest the party was losing support for the first time since 2010 when it entered parliament. Sweden has two major political blocs featuring four parties on the right and four on the left – meaning coalition and minority governments are relatively common.” (09/13/26) - Guatemala: Judge clears deputy minister, three leaders of terrorism charges
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“A Guatemalan court has cleared a deputy minister and three other Indigenous leaders of terrorism charges, brought over their role in leading protests against a prosecutor accused of trying to block President Bernardo Arevalo from taking office. The Third Criminal Court judge, Mynor Moto, dismissed the case on Friday at the request of prosecutors, who concluded after their own investigation that the four had not broken any laws by organising the protests in October 2023.” (09/12/26)
- Johnson rejects AI moratorium
Source: Fox News
“House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., rejected an emergency moratorium on artificial intelligence development Sunday during CNN’s ‘State of the Union,’ warning that slowing American innovation could allow China to pull ahead as tech executives and lawmakers intensify calls for new AI safety measures. ‘We have to resist Congress jumping in and imposing some sort of emergency moratorium,’ Johnson said. ‘Here’s what I’m proposing: I think the leaders and providers of these platforms need to come together in a meeting with us and figure out what the right balance is. We cannot put a moratorium on this because China will overlap us.’ … Humans First, a grassroots conservative [sic] movement against new data centers, is pushing a policy framework that opposes blanket data-center moratoriums while calling for local control and rejecting eminent domain for projects.” (09/13/26)
- Federal court rejects Trump’s order to keep Michigan coal plant open
Source: United Press International
“A federal appeals court on Friday ruled against a Trump administration order that forced a coal plant in Michigan to stay open beyond its scheduled closure. The J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive was slated to close in May 2025, but has remained open under an emergency order by Secretary Chris Wright’s Energy Department. … The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled the government’s actions went beyond its authority. … The lawsuit was filed by the states of Michigan and Illinois and a number of environmental groups.” (09/11/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/09/11/court-coal-trump/7371789160328/
- Judge halts Trump-backed data center on government-controlled land
Source: SFGate
“A federal judge sided with the Sierra Club and other groups Sept. 1 to halt a controversial data center project outside Boulder City, Nevada, southeast of Las Vegas. Backed by the Trump administration, the project had come from Townsite Solar 2 LLC, a Houston-based company that had previously received approval for a solar farm in the same location. The legal setback marks a high-profile failure for what would have been the first data center on federal land. Though both the Trump administration and the tech industry seek to build more data centers to support generative artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT, public sentiment has largely turned against them, particularly in areas plagued by drought, and where people worry about rising energy bills and access to public land.” (09/11/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/trump-data-center-nevada-22424179.php
- UK: MPs change their minds, decide they own everyone else after all
Source: Politico
“British MPs threw out a bill legalizing assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales Friday. In a narrow vote, MPs rejected the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’s second reading by 286 to 270. The decision was a marked contrast to a near identical bill by Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, which received two votes of support from MPs in 2024 and 2025. The legislation failed to become law after running out of time in the unelected House of Lords earlier this year.” (09/11/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-mps-reject-assisted-dying-bill-england-wales
- Yemen: Houthis seize Perim Island, tighten grip on Bab el-Mandab area
Source: Siasat Daily [India]
“Yemen’s Houthis have seized Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandab Strait, tightening their grip on the strategic waterway, a local government official and eyewitnesses told AFP on Friday, September 11. Boats carrying armed Houthi fighters reached Perim, also known as Mayyun, after [Saudi puppet regime] forces withdrew from the island on Thursday, the official said. Reuters separately reported that Houthi forces had reached Dhubab, a coastal town on the strait directly opposite Perim, strengthening their position around the waterway. The advance follows the Houthis’ capture of the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday, September 10, as their forces pushed south along Yemen’s western coast towards Bab el-Mandab. Perim sits inside the strait and divides the waterway into two shipping channels.” (09/11/26)
https://www.siasat.com/houthis-seize-perim-island-tighten-grip-on-bab-el-mandab-area-3540353/
- SCOTUS blocks court order on GOP re-gerrymander of Missouri’s congressional districts
Source: The Hill
“The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an order that told Missouri to keep implementing Republicans’ favored 7-1 congressional map, which sparked confusion about what boundaries would be used in the November election. By lifting that federal judge’s directive, it leaves in place a state court directive that tells elections officials to return to the existing map with a 6-2 split. The GOP had pushed for a pickup opportunity as part of the mid-decade redistricting war. Missouri state leaders have said reverting would cause chaos, as they already conducted their primaries using the new map. The Supreme Court did not publicly explain its decision, and no justice publicly noted a dissent.” (09/10/26)
- Drone strikes kill two in Russia; eight injured in Kyiv
Source: Reuters
“At least two people were killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Tula region, while eight people were injured in Russian air strikes which caused a fire in a nine-storey apartment building in Kyiv on Friday morning, the authorities said. … Russia returned to its near-constant air attacks on Kyiv this week after a brief halt during the visit to Moscow and Kyiv of U.S. President Donald Trump’s negotiators seeking to end the war which the Kremlin started by invading Ukraine in 2022.” (09/11/26)
- India: BRICS pols gather in new Delhi as wars and rivalries strain the expanded bloc
Source: Associated Press
“Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet in New Delhi this weekend as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and U.S.-China tensions test the group’s ability to act together. Host India will seek to balance its ties with China and Russia against its growing partnerships with the United States and other Western powers. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian are among the leaders expected to attend. BRICS is a grouping of major emerging markets and developing countries, named after an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It has expanded from its original membership to include 11 countries that together represent about half the world’s population and a large share of its energy, resources and economic output.” (09/11/26)
https://apnews.com/article/india-brics-russia-china-iran-wars-a79c5d6df774a9471743cef7d0080688
- Trump ally resigns from post leading inquiry into alleged conspiracy against president
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“A longtime ally of Donald Trump resigned from his post leading a Department of Justice investigation into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against the Republican president. ‘Sometimes people want things done faster and that’s all you can do,’ Joe diGenova said on Thursday. He appeared to be referring to concerns among other Trump loyalists that the president’s retribution cases were not moving quickly enough. … DiGenova had previously asked the then US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to appoint him to the job and had openly and repeatedly claimed Trump was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy. But five months later, no charges have been brought, and it remains unclear whether any will be, or what information has been gathered to support any basis for the idea of a plot against Trump by the government officials who investigated him.” (09/10/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/trump-ally-resigns-president-conspiracy-inquiry
- Algeria cuts diplomatic ties with United Arab Emirates over “provocative and hostile actions”
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Algeria decided to sever diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after what it described as the ‘exhaustion of all means to preserve bilateral ties’, Algerian state media said on Thursday. Algeria accused the UAE of ‘provocative and hostile acts’, without providing details in a statement released by the foreign ministry. … Shortly after Algeria’s announcement, Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to the UAE president, said on X that diplomatic relations should be based on ‘rationality, communication and clarity of interests’, rather than ‘riddles and signals that require decoding’.” (09/10/26)
- CO: Denver regime sues to ban gang intimidation activities at voting sites
Source: The Hill
“The city of Denver filed a lawsuit Thursday to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from going to voting sites. The lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Secretary Markwayne Mullin argues that ordering federal officers to carry out detainments and serve warrants violated the ‘troops at polls’ law. The troops at polls law, established by Congress during the Civil War, imposed fines and potential jail time for federal officers who show up to ‘any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.'” (09/10/26)
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/6081890-denver-lawsuit-ice-polling-sites/
- US producer inflation tops expectations as energy costs jump amid Iran war
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“US wholesale inflation picked up more than expected in August, government data showed Thursday, driven by higher energy costs in the month – particularly for diesel – as the US war with Iran continued. Rising prices at the pump are squeezing US households and businesses weeks ahead of key midterm elections, pressuring President Donald Trump’s administration, as average diesel costs hit new highs. The Producer Price Index (PPI) was up 5.4 per cent year-on-year last month, the Department of Labour said. This was a significant acceleration from the 4.8 per cent rise in July and above the 5.3 per cent that economists expected in a consensus forecast published by MarketWatch.” (09/10/26)
- ICE gang moves hundreds of abductees from Washington concentration camp as it weighs facility’s future
Source: Seattle Times
“One August day, immigration officials boarded a shackled South King County man on a flight leaving Boeing Field. The Colombian immigrant had been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma and was suddenly told he was leaving. He was one of about 95 people U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put on the flight — part of an unprecedented wave of transfers from the local [concentration camp] to [concentration camps] out of state. … In one week alone at the end of August, authorities boarded roughly 400 people on ICE flights leaving Boeing Field, formally known as King County International Airport, according to passenger numbers counted by a recently hired county staffer monitoring such flights. … The increase in flights comes as the federal government is planning for the Tacoma [concentration camp’s] future. ICE’s contract with the GEO Group, a national corporation that owns and runs the [concentration camp], runs out in late October.” (09/10/26)
- Spain: Spy agency warned of plans to storm Ceuta before mass migrant crossing, documents show
Source: Reuters
“Spanish intelligence services warned their Moroccan counterparts and Madrid of migrants’ plans to storm Ceuta a day before more than 70,000 people crossed into Spain’s North African enclave, according to documents released by the government on Wednesday. In a July 29 note to the Moroccan intelligence agencies DGST and DGED, Spain’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Centre (CNI), warned of plans on social media platforms for migrants to enter Ceuta by scaling the border fence or swimming around it, taking advantage of Morocco’s annual Throne Day celebrations. On the same day, the CNI also warned the Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta of the plans, according to declassified WhatsApp messages. … The release of the documents is likely to intensify scrutiny of the operational decisions taken in the hours before the crossing and whether sufficient measures were put in place to prevent it.” (09/10/26)
- US Unemployment Claims Dip to 206,000 as Layoffs Continue to Remain Rare
Source: US News & World Report
“Slightly fewer Americans filed for unemployment claims last week as jobless claims remain at historically low levels and layoffs are still relatively rare. Filings for benefits dipped to 206,000 last week from a revised 207,000 the week before, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, also fell modestly to 206,000. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can be a sign of where the job market is headed. For the past year, claims have mostly stayed within a historically low range of 200,000 to 230,000 a week.” (09/10/260
- UK: England’s mayors to get power to impose tourist tax
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Mayors in England will be given the power to impose a new fee on visitors’ overnight stays, in a move the government says will mean more money can be invested into local areas. Under the plans, local leaders will be able to bring in an uncapped levy, dubbed a ‘tourist tax’, as a percentage of the cost of hotels, bed and breakfasts and other types of accommodation rather than a flat fee. Hospitality leaders have warned it will put jobs at risk and hit families in the pocket. But the government said it would protect budget holidays ‘by making sure low-cost accommodation always pays lowest levy’ and said the extra cash could be invested in high streets and local transport.” (09/10/26)
- UK: Rabbis back regime sanctions on Israeli squats in occupied West Bank
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Several leading British rabbis have backed the UK’s new sanctions on Israeli [squats], amid protests from prominent Jewish groups and leaders against the measures. A day after the sanctions were announced by Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, senior Masorti rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg took to X to express his support for the sanctions. ‘What is taking place today in the West Bank is a Chillul HaShem, a violation of God’s name of the worst order. We cannot stay silent. This is terrible for Palestinian people who want to get on with their lives in peace. It is terrible for Israel,’ Wittenberg wrote on X. … Elsewhere, Rabbi Alexandra Wright of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London said that the ‘occupation and escalating violence are harming Palestinians and Israelis’. … Other rabbis who came out in support of the measures include Jeremy Gordon of the New London Synagogue, and Lev Taylor of Kingston Liberal Synagogue.” (09/10/26)
https://www.newarab.com/news/british-rabbis-back-uk-sanctions-israeli-settlements
- Mirrors of 9/11
Source: Law & Liberty
by Rachel Lu“To many Americans, al-Qaeda’s brutality seemed to represent both a wake-up call and a challenge. Because they are used to sitting atop the geopolitical hierarchy, Americans don’t necessarily think all that much about what lies beneath. It turns out that the rest of the world hates us, or so many concluded in the wake of 9/11. From that ostensible insight flowed the challenge: Are they right to hate us? Have we whiffed on our global leadership? Are we the tyrannical oppressors of our age? Across the intervening years, those questions have played out in the American consciousness like a bruising taunt heard in childhood that one can never quite forget.” (09/11/26)
- “Never Forget” Is Bad Spiritual Advice
Source: Common Dreams
by Yahia Lababidi“‘The well-prepared heart has hope during adversity and fear during prosperity’ — Erica McAlpine … Twenty-five years, and the day keeps getting bigger instead of smaller. Three thousand dead in a single morning, then some multiple of that across the wars launched in its wake, then a shifting count out of Gaza that outpaces anyone’s will to keep totaling it. I did not expect grief to go on collecting interest this long. I did not expect to still be bitter, on a date this rehearsed, in a country this practiced at looking away. I have written some version of this before. On some earlier September, I posted this: ‘#NeverForget is bad spiritual advice. Especially, when one has exacted revenge that far exceeds initial loss. To spell it out, honor your dead but remember, too, the 100,000+ Iraqi civilian noncombatants murdered in a vengeful, unjust ‘war’.'” (09/12/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/never-forget-bad-advice
- Was 9/11 a New Pearl Harbor?
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“By now, the evidence overwhelmingly establishes that President Franklin Roosevelt wanted the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to take place. He desperately wanted to intervene in the war against Nazi Germany, but he faced a virtually insurmountable obstacle — the American people, most of whom firmly opposed U.S. entry into a second world war. … It would be difficult to say that U.S. officials wanted the 9/11 attacks to happen, given that there is no evidence to support it. But there is also no doubt that U.S. officials persisted in a course of action that they knew was likely to produce a massive terrorist attack on American soil.” (09/11/26)
- Will Trump Accounts Make Every Kid a Millionaire?
Source: The Daily Economy
by Paul Mueller“The $1,000 seed can grow substantially, but seven-figure wealth requires decades of compounding, continued contributions, and strong market returns.” (09/11/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/will-trump-accounts-make-every-kid-a-millionaire/
- The Generation 9/11 Made
Source: The American Conservative
by Nic Rowan“I have always said that my life began on September 11, 2001. I was three years old at the time, and I was seated in front of the television in my parent’s basement. At this point, I think both towers had been hit. In any case, the news channel played the second plane’s impact over and over again, until my mother, horrified, turned it off. It is my first memory. The attacks that day changed the shape of American life, but only for those who remember them. For those who were too young to know what was happening—or who were not yet born—it is just history. Twenty-five years on, remembrance or nonremembrance is still one of the most useful tools for understanding generational divergence in opinion on the world 9/11 created.” (09/11/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-generation-9-11-made/
- 25 Years and America Still Stands Tall
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis“September 11, 2001, is one of those days in American history that ‘will live in infamy’. Just like the Japanese on December 7, 1941, who thought they could strike a mortal blow against the United States by their dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor, Osama bin Laden believed he could so weaken America, with his attack on multiple sites on the East Coast, that the country might never fully recover from it. The Japanese were wrong in 1941 and found out, pretty quickly, that they were wrong. Osama bin Laden was wrong, too. Twenty-five years later, America is still the strongest nation in the world, with the most powerful military that can humble a nation using only a fraction of its power, and an economy that remains the envy of the world. Millions upon millions of people still migrate to America because America is…well, it’s America.” (09/12/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/09/12/25-years-and-america-still-stands-tall-n2682860
- Foreign Policy Gnosticism: The Appeal to the Black Box of “Our Leaders Know More”
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Joshua Mawhorter“Foreign policy Gnosticism is fallacious and is a debating trick, whether done consciously or unconsciously. It is an assertion to avoid logic, argumentation, and evidence disguised as intellectual humility. The opponent wants you to adopt a position of intellectual humility while they enjoy an undeserved sense of certainty based on the informal fallacy of appeal to ignorance. While other evidence certainly may exist in favor of the other side, that has to be demonstrated, and—even if it is later proven to be the case—it still does not erase the fallacy. The existence of inaccessible information does not establish the content, reliability, interpretation, or implications of that information.” (09/11/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/foreign-policy-gnosticism-appeal-black-box-our-leaders-know-more
- Think Twice About Age Verification
Source: Persuasion
by Jeffrey Cieslikowski“Age-verification seems like a simple fix. And it is often driven by a genuine concern for kids’ safety and well-being. But it comes at a cost: age-verification threatens our anonymous speech online. As trendy as age-verification might be, it is worth taking a moment, in the year of America’s 250th anniversary, to remind ourselves of the deep history of anonymous speech in the United States—a speech right that can easily be underestimated or denigrated.” (09/11/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/think-twice-about-age-verification
- Donald Trump Wants to Bury America With Him
Source: Liberal Currents
by Alan Elrod“Wednesday night in Dallas, Donald Trump declared that the 2026 midterms would determine ‘if our country stumbles at the starting gate of our next 250 years or surges forward and never looks back.’ That is how he began his long, rambling convention speech, promising to ‘leave the world in our dust.’ But far from a display of power and forward-looking ideas, Trump’s speech came off more like a sermon from Jonestown. And observers noticed. My own overriding thought was: ‘This speech was like some sort of performance art piece of a live entombing of a mad king and his most loyal followers.'” (09/11/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/donald-trump-wants-to-bury-america-with-him/
- I Spy vs. They Spy
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob“There is an argument making the rounds: Flock cameras are good because cop cams have proven themselves so useful. More transparency! Flock cameras, you may remember, are the traffic cameras integrally linked to an artificial intelligence that tracks car license plates (and thus the cars, and drivers) that come within the cameras’ field of vision. The company contracts with cities and other governments. To surveil us. You know, ‘to protect us from crime.'” (09/11/26)
- Germany’s Far Right, China, and Trump
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner“The 44 percent support for the neo-Nazi Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the small east German state of Saxony-Anhalt has produced great anxiety about the causes of a new turn to fascism in the nation that produced Hitler. Call me an economic determinist, but for the most part it’s the economy, stupid. And absent drastic changes in the global economic order and the role of China, Germany and the West are headed for much worse. This story comes in three parts. Part One: Hitler came to power due to the collapsed German economy following the draconian terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. During the post–World War II boom, with over-full employment and the return of prosperity, there was virtually no support for neofascists.” (09/11/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/09/11/germanys-far-right-china-and-trump/
- Centers for Deception Control
Source: Independent Institute
by K Lloyd Billingsley“What is the CDC’s secret agency, the Epidemic Intelligence Sevice, actually up to?” (09/11/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/11/centers-for-deception-control/
- Why States Nationalize
Source: Liberalism.org
by Vincent Geloso“Why do governments take control of entire sectors of the economy? The textbook answer falls into what many economists call ‘public interest’ reasoning. But what really happens turns out to be more complex than what the profession has so far understood.” (09/11/26)
- Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Source: The Daily Economy
by Anne Bradley‘Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.” (09/11/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/bonos-hard-won-lesson-about-poverty/
- 25 Years After 9/11, America Still Ignores Blowback
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“The attacks were not about hating our freedom. They were the predictable result of intervention. The Patriot Act then stripped liberty at home.” (09/11/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/25-years-after-911-america-still
- The Deep State’s Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
Source: American Greatness
by Jay Rogers“Last Wednesday, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent FBI Director Kash Patel a letter demanding every document connected to an operation codenamed Round River. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s understandable; it’s the sequel nobody promoted, and I’ll get to it. I’ve spent part of my career testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty, the branch of law that punishes people for betraying the trust placed in them. Measured by that standard, Round River isn’t merely disinformation; it’s a breach of duty so complete that in my industry it would end a career and trigger a bar complaint. In Washington, it’s earned a strongly worded letter. That’s the whole scandal in one sentence: the deep state keeps getting caught, and nobody ever pays for it.” (09/11/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/09/11/the-deep-states-get-out-of-jail-free-card/
- “We Want that the Whole Land Be Jewish”
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman“[W]hen secular Zionism arose in the late 19th century, which proposed an ‘ingathering of exiles’ (that is, virtually the entire Jewish diaspora), most observant Jews opposed twisting their religion into a nationalistic movement in search of statehood. They feared that a state would replace God and Torah. They also believed that a Jewish state would endanger their emancipated status in their home countries and require domination of the Palestinian Arabs. The anti-Zionists’ prophecy proved correct. In light of the Holocaust, which changed the presentation of Zionism from an ingathering project to a refugee program, Jewish anti-Zionism faded but did not disappear.” (09/11/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-we-want-that-the-whole-land
- Twenty-Five Years Later, We Must Rebuild
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson“More than a third of the U.S. population today is under 30 years of age. This is the only America they ever have known. They may have seen the new World Trade Center, which is, in a kind of perverse victory for continuity in aesthetics if nothing else, about as ugly as the old one, but its symbolic status is mostly lost on them. Those of us who are older want to tell them that this is not normal, but, of course, it is we who are the outliers, we graybeards with our books and our memories. This is not the ‘new normal’—it is just normal, from the wider historical point of view. What we should be trying to make them understand is not that this is not normal but that normal is not good enough.” (09/11/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/september-11-politics-history-unity/
- A 5-year-old’s neighborhood walk shouldn’t be a crime
Source: Washington Post
by Lenore Skenazy“When Karyann Parkinson’s 5-year-old son, Sam, asked if he could walk about a half mile to their neighborhood pond to collect goose feathers, she didn’t have a hard time saying yes. It was June. They’d walked the route before, including that morning. Her son is mature, and their surroundings are part of what the homeowners association describes as a ‘secure, multi-generational gated community.’ The risks were low, and yet Karyann is fast becoming famous for what came next. … Thanks to Karyann’s transgression — trusting her son — she was placed on Virginia’s child abuse and neglect registry for seven years. In court, she was found guilty of ‘contributing to the delinquency of a minor’ — a Class 1 misdemeanor — and given a six-month suspended jail sentence.” (09/11/26)
- 9/11’s Aftereffect: The Constitutional Accountability Abyss
Source: Antiwar.com
by Patrick Eddington“Over the last several weeks in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of al Qaeda’s attack on the U.S., I’ve had American and foreign journalists ask me the same question: how did 9/11 change America? My answer has generally been some version of this: 9/11 didn’t change us, we allowed it to change us, and in doing so critically damaged our very own political way of life.” (09/11/26)
- Don’t be deceived by the dodges of lefty Dems like James Talarico
Source: New York Post
by staff“James Talarico, the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas, is rushing to escape his on-the-record gender insanity — but it’s clearly just a dodge, part of lefty candidates’ nationwide playbook to claim to embrace ‘normalcy’. Talarico has unambiguously claimed there are six genders and that God is nonbinary; as a state legislator he voted against bills to keep biological boys out of girls’ sports and to end gender-reassignment treatments for minors. Now he tells Fox News those six-gender comments ‘missed the mark’; he insists he supports a trans-athlete ban and a national ban on gender surgeries and hormones for kids. Has he seen the light of reason and started to actually follow the science on the issue? Don’t bet on it.” (09/12/26)
- How The “War on Terror” Continues To Terrorize Communities 25 Years Later
Source: In These Times
by Tina Al-khersan & Azadeh Shahshahani“In early 2025, the world watched as masked federal agents abducted Pro-Palestinian activists across the country based on the premise that they were promoting or supporting terrorism. Having tested various legal boundaries through these cases, the Trump administration became further emboldened later that year, issuing the National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7) in September 2025. The memorandum effectively equated certain political and ideological beliefs with terrorism, and a slew of politically motivated attacks quickly followed. … Although these attacks have in many ways felt unprecedented, they must be seen as a continuation of the War on Terror, in which the security apparatus constructed over the last 25 years is now being used to aggressively target political dissent within the United States.” (09/11/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-on-terror-9-11-trump-nspm-7
- What, If Anything, Did Americans Learn 25 Years After 9/11?
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brad Pearce“I was in eighth grade at the time, attending a rural school over 2,000 miles from New York City, but nevertheless everyone was still greatly impacted by the human tragedy. However, while the experience of attending a government school had already made me sure the ‘adults in the room’ running society were largely a bunch of morons, this realization went into overdrive upon seeing the reaction to this event. It was one of the times in my life where it suddenly became apparent that few genuinely believed in anything of moral value. To me, our country’s incapacity to use reason has remained scarier, and a bigger threat to my physical safety and personal liberty, than anything terrorists could do. The worst was the general attitude of, ‘What did we ever do to anyone?'” (09/11/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/what-if-anything-did-americans-learn-25-years-after-9-11
- The “Trump Dividend” Is Just Another Proposed Tax Hike
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp“So: Trump is offering to pay you $5,000 and jack your cost of living up, in return for which he’s demanding your vote and $5,000 plus interest. If that sounds like a good deal to you, you suck at math and you’re probably a member of the rapidly shrinking ‘MAGA’ base.” (09/10/26)
- Who’s Really Dodging the Tariffs?
Source: Independent Institute
by David J Hebert“Once again, Peter Navarro seeks to explain why tariffs have failed. Back in December, Navarro chastised America for expecting results ‘on a news cycle.’ We were told that all of the positive results were coming; we just hadn’t waited long enough and shame on us for expecting results prematurely. … Now, Navarro claims that the reason tariffs aren’t working is because of foreigners. Once again, Navarro has found yet another scapegoat. Unfortunately for him, this one also falls apart upon further scrutiny. Navarro claims that foreigners are reorganizing their shipping routes in order to avoid the tariff. But that assumes that they are the ones actually paying the tariffs. In February, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a report finding that Americans, whether they be importers or end consumers, paid 94 percent of the tariffs in the first eight months since Liberation Day and were still paying 86 percent.” (09/10/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/09/10/dodging-tariffs/
- Nationwide Immigration-Control Tyranny Will Become Permanent
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger“There is one thing that every libertarian supporter of the decades-long, deadly, and destructive U.S. immigration-control system and the harsh and brutal immigration police state that comes with it should be fully aware of: the nationwide immigration police-state tyranny will become a permanent part of American life. That should especially matter to libertarians for one simple reason: libertarians want to live a life of freedom, but the problem that is an immigration police state is the opposite of freedom — a destroyer of freedom. It is impossible to have a genuinely free society and an immigration police state. One has to make a choice.” (09/10/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/09/10/nationwide-immigration-control-tyranny-will-become-permanent/
- Stay-at-Home Subsidies Won’t Produce a Baby Boom
Source: The Daily Economy
by Thomas Savidge“Promising more benefits drives up our debt. Inflation and uncertainty are hard to square with hopes of ‘helping kids and families.'” (09/10/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/stay-at-home-subsidies-wont-produce-a-baby-boom/
- How to Lower the Odds of Russia–NATO War
Source: The American Conservative
by Doug Bandow“The Ukrainian imbroglio has now raged longer than the First World War and shows no sign of abating. Throughout the conflict, the Europeans and Americans have waged an increasingly bitter proxy war, sustaining Kiev’s defense and helping kill tens of thousands of Russian soldiers. Moscow appears to be intensifying its response, especially if it is responsible, as charged by Germany, for last month’s drone attack on Leipzig Airport. European policymakers are increasingly concerned about the potential for a broader conflict. … the allies—at least the U.S.—should step back, reducing their role in the conflict. Putin committed a great wrong against Ukraine, which warranted allied support for its survival. But NATO and especially America should avoid a broader military confrontation.” (09/10/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-to-lower-the-odds-of-russia-nato-war/
- Lone juror’s holdout in the Lindsay Clancy trial is a true act of courage
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine“‘He couldn’t get over the fact that Clancy viciously killed her children.’ Those are the words of one of the insufferably condescending female jurors from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial who have gone public with their disdain for the lone male juror who refused to go along with their not guilty verdict. Good for him. … Now that several of the jurors have come out and exposed themselves, we can see the immense pressure that the lone holdout juror was under day after day in that jury room, being harangued and browbeaten by women infuriated that he refused to be persuaded by their self-proclaimed superior wisdom.” (09/10/26)
- Political violence has become a twisted form of virtue signaling
Source: USA Today
by Jonathan Turley“Across the country, a chilling shift is occurring. Political violence has become a twisted form of virtue signaling. Mahatma Gandhi is out and Luigi Mangione is in. For an increasing number of young people, nothing signals your values like a willingness to kill others for them. For decades, being nonviolent has been the touchstone for many on the left. Something is changing. On my campus and others around the country, students are rationalizing violence and even idolizing assassins.” (09/10/26)
- Trump Floats Buying Votes to Secure House and Senate
Source: Karl Dickey’s Freedom Vanguard
by Karl Dickey“Anyone who thought Donald Trump was a fiscal conservative may want to reassess after his most recent promise he made during his Dallas trip earlier this week. At the September 9, 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, President Trump offered $5,000 to every adult American citizen if the Republicans keep power in the U.S. House and Senate from the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s promise, like many, lacks reality. He’s like every other politician buying votes, something Republicans accuse Democrats of doing frequently. And the math of his promise should scare all Americans, as Trump exposed his disdain for financial conservatism. With around 240 million adult American citizens, Trump’s ‘dividend’ would amount to around $1.2 trillion, when we are already running a deficit of TWO TRILLION DOLLARS a year.” (09/10/26)
https://palmbeachexaminer.substack.com/p/trump-floats-buying-votes-to-secure
- In Germany, a call to create “compelling vision” for democracy
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff“What just happened? As the Monitor’s Mark Sappenfield reported Tuesday, that’s what Germans are asking themselves after a far-right party won nearly 44% of the vote in a state election this week. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been viewed as an extremist threat to democracy by the government in Berlin, and a tacit ‘firewall’ among centrist parties has excluded it from local or regional governing coalitions. Yet, with its euroskeptic, anti-immigration platform, the AfD is now just three seats short of a governing majority in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and has 28% support among German voters nationally. The follow-up question for Germany, and Europe more broadly, is: What happens next? Or perhaps, what should happen next? The continued rise of right-wing populism across the 27-member European Union is placing new demands on traditional centrist and liberal political leaders.” (09/09/26)
- Australia’s top bureaucrats want protection from ‘harmful’ social media videos
Source: Expression
by Sarah McLaughlin“Many of the free speech fights today rest on the question: How do we protect kids online? But some of the battles over what can be said or shared on the internet are about protecting a remarkably less vulnerable — and significantly more powerful — group from so-called harm: public officials. One such case is in Australia, where top bureaucrat body the Secretaries Board is asking Parliament to cap politicians’ and parties’ ability to share and criticize clips of testimony from the very officials the board represents.” (09/10/26)
https://expression.fire.org/p/australias-top-bureaucrats-want-protection
- “The Funniest Thing”: Academic Jokes About Celebrating the “Kirkiversary” by Assassinating Nick Shirley
Source: Jonathan Turley
by Jonathan Turley“Will Rogers once observed that ‘Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else’ No one ever personified Rogers’ rule as much as University of California, Irvine instructor Matt Goldman, who cracked everyone up this week by joking about celebrating the anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk by alluding to the possible assassination of independent journalist Nick Shirley. Today is the anniversary of the murder of Kirk. In anticipation, Goldman posted a picture of Shirley with the line ‘Someone can do the funniest thing just before the Kirkiversary’. It was a response to an Instagram post by the Harvard Republican Club promoting a speech by Shirley. Goldman reportedly has long found the deaths of disfavored people to be a real knee-slapper, allegedly mocking the deaths of Henry Kissinger and others. Indeed, Goldman takes Gallows humor to a particularly dark place in American politics.” (09/10/26)
- Congress, Conflict, and Compromise
Source: Law & Liberty
by James Wallner“Everyone with a plan to fix Congress wants to help it legislate again by making it easier for lawmakers to compromise. Some call for electing more moderates to serve in the House and Senate. And others want to empower party leaders to impose deadlines, block amendments, and limit debate. But they all share the same underlying goal: produce consensus before the conflict begins. The problem with this approach is that it doesn’t work. Agreement in the legislative process is not an input that lawmakers supply in advance. It is an output. And the process that makes it possible generates the conflict this approach tries to engineer away. Moderates are the driving force behind shutting deliberation down precisely because they don’t want to take votes/positions.” (09/10/26)
- The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/11/26
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Tailspins as His New Plot to Rig Midterms Is Mocked Even on Fox.” (09/11/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/215305/trump-tailspins-new-plot-rig-midterms-mocked-even-fox
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/11/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Why Understanding Inflation Is Deliberately Difficult: With Guest Economist Phillip Patrick.” (09/11/26)
- The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 09/11/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Azam Ahmed On The Aftermath Of 9/11.” (09/11/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/azam-ahmed-on-the-aftermath-of-911
- Reasonably Optimistic, 09/11/26
Source: Washington Post
“This medieval revolt has a warning for today.” (09/11/26)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/this-medieval-revolt-has-a-warning-for-today/
- Nonzero, 09/11/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“The Week in AI that Changed the World | Robert Wright & Liron Shapira.” (09/11/26)
- Freakonomics Radio, episode 686
Source: Freakonomics
“Why Is It So Hard to Find an NFL Quarterback?” (09/11/26)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-it-so-hard-to-find-an-nfl-quarterback/
- Parallax Views w/ JG Michael, 09/11/26
Source: Parallax Views w/ JG Michael
“Deep Cover, Shallow Graves w/ Ralph Pezullo.” (09/11/26)
- Soho Forum Debate: Are We Winning the Trade Wars?
Source: Reason
“Economists Stephen Moore and Scott Lincicome debate tariffs as a foreign policy tool.” (09/11/26)
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/09/11/are-we-winning-the-trade-wars/
- The Tom Woods Show, episode 2795
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“The Neocons Refuse to Die.” (09/11/26)
- The Anarchist Experience, episode 597
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich and Riley discuss the Anniversary of 9/11, Karmic justice, and Trump’s $5,000 bribe to voters.” (09/11/26)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/the-anarchist-experience-597/
- The Corbett Report, 09/11/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“What About the 9/11 Money Trail?” (09/11/26)
- The Fifth Column, episode 574
Source: The Fifth Column
“A quarter-century later, the guys revisit a moment when everyone was certain about something and almost nobody was normal.” (09/11/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/the-things-we-thought-after-911-574
- The Political Orphanage, 09/10/26
Source: The Political Orphanage
“How Do Other Countries do Healthcare?” (09/10/26)
https://politicalorphanage.libsyn.com/how-do-other-countries-do-healthcare
- Rising, 09/10/26
Source: The Hill
“Will AI kill all humans?!” (09/10/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/6071503-rising-september-10-2026/
- Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/10/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Ansar Allah Captures Red Sea Port City of Mocha, US Ramps Up Support for Saudis, and More.” (09/11/26)
- Ron Paul Liberty Report, 09/10/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“A Bribery Bidding War: Can Democrats Offer $6,000 Checks If They Win?” (09/10/26)
- Zitelmann on Hitler’s Economics
Source: Bet On It
“After my series on the Nazi economy, I [Bryan Caplan] discovered the work of independent scholar Rainer Zitelmann. He’s had an amazing career in Germany doing two things I greatly admire: making lots of money in real estate, and judiciously assessing the Nazis’ degree of commitment to socialism. In this interview, Zitelmann weighs in on ‘What Hitler really thought about economics,’ carefully distinguishing Hitler’s somewhat protean public persona from his sincere long-run vision for the German economy.” (09/10/26)
- The Daily, 09/10/26
Source: New York Times
“Trump’s War on Mail-In Voting.” (09/10/26)
- Underthrow Podcast, 09/10/26
Source: Underthrow
“Mamdami’s groceries will eat New York.” (09/10/26)
- Matt Hoh on The Kyle Anzalone Show
Source: Libertarian Institute
“JD Vance and Ben Shapiro Attempt to Sell Israel’s War to the American People.” (09/10/26)