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Thomas L. Knapp
Sep 3, 2025, 6:35:07 AM (11 days ago) Sep 3
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Caribbean Sea: US-based pirates allegedly murder 11 in strike on boat
2) Epstein files released by House panel include court documents, videos, flight records
3) Turkey: Court Ousts Leadership Of Opposition’s Istanbul Branch
4) Belgium: Regime to recognize Palestinian state, impose sanctions on Israel
5) Judge notices that Trump’s occupation of Los Angeles was illegal
6) Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight
7) Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for “conspiracy” over protest against ICE gang
8) Peru: Police hunt for shooter after Indonesian diplomat assassinated in Lima
9) Australian man arrested over $250,000 Lego and toy heist
10) Putin, Xi champion “unprecedentedly high” ties as Iran and North Korea leaders arrive in Beijing
11) Bolsonaro’s trial nears close as US-Brazil relations plummet
12) Burkina Faso: Coup regime bans homosexuality as a crime punishable with prison, fines
13) China’s EV maker deliveries rebound, buoyed by cheaper new models
14) NYC: Former mayor de Blasio endorses Mamdani
15) World Shares Slip and Gold Sets a Fresh Record High of Over $3,550 Per Ounce
16) Sudan: Hundreds killed in landslide, UN says
17) Federal judge releases woman accused of threatening to kill Trump
18) NY: Nadler says he won’t seek reelection to Congress
19) NV: Man killed in “heinous crime” at Burning Man remains unidentified
20) Indonesia: Police attack student protesters with chemical weapons
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Political Economy of Cruelty: Some Elements
22) The Gaza War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Already Lost
23) How Fear Killed Liberalism
24) How to Dismantle the Therapeutic State
25) Silence and Sovereignty
26) Researching the Roots of War: The Role of Information in Building a New World
27) Confessions of a Disinformer
28) What 2020 Meant
29) “It’s Not A Genocide” Is Not A Defensible Claim In The Year 2025
30) Letters from World War II, part 4
31) Our leaders abandoned Chicago; Trump is right: Time to call in the Guard
32) No, Trump Can’t Legally Federalize US Elections
33) Fighting Crime Is a Pretext; Trump Wants Control
34) How the world really works
35) Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
36) Britain’s car industry: From world leader to Net Zero casualty
37) Democrats Appeal to Miserable People
38) Investment, Not Regulation, Raises Wages
39) “First Among Equals”: The case for a new realist internationalism
40) What the Fast Food Spending Index Says About Consumer Sentiment in the US
41) Trump Goes Socialist … Well, Not Quite
42) Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
43) Even the Media’s Gaza “Investigations” Hide the Real Story of Israel’s Atrocities
44) Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment
45) Dems’ head-scratching reaction to Trump’s DC crime crackdown puts them at odds with voters
46) Don’t Fear “Frankenfood.” We’re Already Living in the Lab-Grown Future.
47) The Long Descent to Unilateralism
48) Is Capitalism Making Us Lonely?
49) Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor
50) The End of the Free, Global Internet
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51) Serious Trouble, 09/02/25
52) Rising, 09/02/25
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/02/25
54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/02/25
55) Fountainhead Forum, episode 352
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/02/25
57) EconTalk, 09/01/25
58) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 88
59) Conflicts of Interest, episode 832
60) Finding Freedom, episode 505
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1) Caribbean Sea: US-based pirates allegedly murder 11 in strike on boat
Source: New York Times
“President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States had carried out a strike against a boat carrying drugs and killed 11 ‘terrorists,’ the administration’s latest military escalation in Mr. Trump’s war against Venezuelan drug cartels that he has blamed for bringing fentanyl into the country. … ‘Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists,’ Mr. Trump wrote. He said the strike ‘occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.’ … The action comes amid a major buildup of U.S. naval forces outside Venezuela’s waters. The administration has also stepped up belligerent rhetoric about fighting drug cartels and labeled Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, a terrorist cartel leader.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/Ne8LY
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2) Epstein files released by House panel include court documents, videos, flight records
Source: CBS News
“The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released more than 33,000 pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier whose sex trafficking charges and 2019 death in federal custody have drawn years of public speculation. The files include court documents, flight records, and a video of Epstein’s cell block from before his death that includes a minute missing from earlier videos. Many of the documents were already in the public domain. The GOP-led panel subpoenaed the Justice Department for Epstein records several weeks ago, as lawmakers from both parties press the Trump administration to disclose more information on the criminal probes into Epstein.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-oversight-jeffrey-epstein-documents/
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3) Turkey: Court Ousts Leadership Of Opposition’s Istanbul Branch
Source: Barron’s
“A Turkish court on Tuesday dismissed the main opposition CHP party’s leadership in Istanbul over alleged irregularities in its 2023 congress, court documents showed. According to the ruling, the court cancelled the outcome of the provincial congress, throwing out CHP’s Istanbul provincial leader Ozgur Celik, along with 195 of the party leadership and delegates. … The move comes as the CHP is under mounting legal pressure from a growing number of investigations into alleged graft, which began in earnest with the jailing of Istanbul’s popular and powerful CHP mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in March, triggering massive protests.” (09/02/25)
https://www.barrons.com/news/turkey-court-ousts-leadership-of-opposition-s-istanbul-branch-400a800f
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4) Belgium: Regime to recognize Palestinian state, impose sanctions on Israel
Source: United Press International
“Belgium will recognize a Palestinian state and impose sanctions against Israel, a high-ranking Brussels official said Monday, a move that is expected to be staunchly rebuked by the Middle Eastern country. Maxime Prevot, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs for Belgium, said Brussels was acting under its international obligations to ‘prevent any risk of genocide’ and to put pressure on both Israel and Iran-backed Hamas to end the war. … Prevot said Belgium will officially recognize a Palestinian state during the 80th United Nations General Assembly scheduled for later this month in New York, making it the latest Western country to do so in protest against Israel.” (09/02/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/02/belgium/7431756784986/
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5) Judge notices that Trump’s occupation of Los Angeles was illegal
Source: CBS News
“A federal court in California ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed members of the National Guard and active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles earlier this summer in response to protests against immigration enforcement operations. In a 52-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the president and his administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a 1878 law that prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement. Breyer blocked the Trump administration from deploying or using the National Guard currently deployed in California, and any military troops in the state, for civilian law enforcement.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-trump-los-angeles-national-guard-marines/
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6) Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight
Source: Politico
“A federal appellate court on Tuesday sided with the Environmental Protection Agency in the pitched legal battle over Administrator Lee Zeldin’s termination of $20 billion in Biden-era climate grants, a major victory for the Trump administration’s bid to cancel hundreds of environmental grants and boost fossil fuel production. The jilted grant recipients are expected to appeal the decision, but even if it’s ultimately upheld, additional litigation will follow — and EPA could find itself on the hook for the outstanding balance, a possibility attorneys at EPA and the Justice Department warned of in internal emails reported by POLITICO in April.” (09/02/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/02/appeals-court-epa-climate-grant-00539926
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7) Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for “conspiracy” over protest against ICE gang
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan. Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with ‘conspiracy to impede or injure officers’ after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington. Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. … The 11 June protest against Ice that led to Mavalwalla’s arrest was confrontational, leaving a government van’s windshield smashed and tires slashed, but Mavalwalla was not among the more than two dozen people arrested at the scene. More than a month passed before the FBI arrived at his door on 15 July.” (09/02/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest
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8) Peru: Police hunt for shooter after Indonesian diplomat assassinated in Lima
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“An Indonesian diplomat was shot dead in Peru’s capital as he arrived on a bicycle to his apartment building, police said on Tuesday, in what local authorities called an ‘assassination.’ Zetro Leonardo Purba, 40, who was attached to the Indonesian embassy in Lima, was shot three times on Monday night. Authorities said Purba was taken to a hospital but was later declared dead. Officials did not immediately provide a motive for the shooting. Police released footage from two surveillance cameras that show a person wearing a helmet firing twice at the diplomat, who then falls to the ground. The images then show the suspect shooting the diplomat a third time and fleeing on a motorcycle driven by another person.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/w0nk6
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9) Australian man arrested over $250,000 Lego and toy heist
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“An Australian man is facing theft charges after police uncovered a ‘significant’ trove of Lego and toys worth $250,000 (£120,800; $163,400) allegedly stolen from department stores in Adelaide. About 2,500 items, including 1,700 unopened boxes of Lego, were found when South Australian police raided a Royal Park home on Saturday. The haul — which police say was going to be sold online — was the largest seized during an operation targeting retail theft in the state, and so big that extra officers were called in to help remove the loot, which filled three truck loads. … Apart from the Lego, other stolen items included soft toys, water guns and toy trucks with brands such as Pokémon, Barbie, Hello Kitty and Thomas the Tank Engine.” (09/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjmjnxednxo
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10) Putin, Xi champion “unprecedentedly high” ties as Iran and North Korea leaders arrive in Beijing
Source: Fox News
“Russian President Vladimir Putin, alongside his ‘dear friend’ Chinese President Xi Jinping, championed the duo’s ‘unprecedentedly high’ ties as the U.S. and Europe remain strained over Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The Beijing-based meeting once again cemented the increased unity the adversarial nations have pursued following Putin’s 2022 invasion and comes one day ahead of a major military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. … Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who first traveled to China on Sunday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), met with Xi on Tuesday and called the looming UN sanctions targeting its nuclear program a ‘double standard.’ … North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also arrived in China on Tuesday after his armored train was seen arriving in Bejing where he was then met by Chinese officials, like Foreign Minister Wang Yi, reported Reuters.” (09/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-xi-champion-unprecedentedly-high-ties-iran-north-korea-leaders-arrive-beijing
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11) Bolsonaro’s trial nears close as US-Brazil relations plummet
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Prosecutors in the trial of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro will present their closing arguments this week as the former president faces a verdict on coup plotting charges that could land him in jail for decades and deepen the country’s diplomatic crisis with the US. Prosecutors accuse the far-right former leader of planning, with the help of top military officers, to illegally remain in power after losing an election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022. The 70-year-old, who denies all charges, expects to be found guilty, according to those close to him. … The case has drawn the wrath of Bolsonaro’s ally, US President Donald Trump, who has launched a pressure campaign on Lula to end the trial. Trump has imposed 50 per cent tariffs on most Brazilian exports, hit supreme court justices and Lula’s justice minister with visa bans, and slapped financial sanctions on the judge overseeing the case, Alexandre de Moraes.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/Nfyts
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12) Burkina Faso: Coup regime bans homosexuality as a crime punishable with prison, fines
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Burkina Faso’s government has passed a law banning homosexuality, with those found guilty facing two to five years in prison, according to the state broadcaster. The draft law was unanimously passed on Monday by 71 unelected members of the country’s transitional government, which has been in place since the military seized power under the leadership of the now President Ibrahim Traore, after two coups in 2022. Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala announced the law on national broadcaster RTB and said those guilty would also face fines along with serving prison time.” (09/02/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/burkina-faso-bans-homosexuality-as-a-crime-punishable-with-prison-fines
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13) China’s EV maker deliveries rebound, buoyed by cheaper new models
Source: CNBC
“From China’s electric carmaker giant BYD to startup Nio, the latest reports for August show EV demand rebounded after a slump earlier in the summer amid a fierce price war. BYD announced it shipped 371,501 units in August, nearly 22% growth from a year ago. Meanwhile, Nio, Leapmotor, and Xpeng set new delivery records after launching models with wallet-friendly price tags, that started deliveries from end July to end August.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/chinas-ev-maker-deliveries-rebound-new-car-launches-price-war-intensifies.html
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14) NYC: Former mayor de Blasio endorses Mamdani
Source: New York Post
“Former Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday endorsed socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the race for City Hall. … The ex-mayor, who served two terms from 2014 to 2021, pointed to Mamdani’s progressive push — including rent freezes, free child care and free city buses.” (09/02/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/us-news/ex-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-endorses-zohran-mamdani-for-city-hall/
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15) World Shares Slip and Gold Sets a Fresh Record High of Over $3,550 Per Ounce
Source: US News & World Report
“The price of gold hit a new record and world shares were mostly lower on Tuesday after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday. The spot price of gold, traditionally a haven for investors in times of uncertainty, climbed as high as $3,578.40 per ounce early Tuesday. That surpassed an intraday record of $3,509.90 an ounce set in April. It later slipped back a bit, gaining 1.1% to $3,549.10 per ounce. President Donald Trump’ s challenges to the U.S. Federal Reserve and other institutions have shaken faith in the U.S. dollar, prompting a shift into other investment options such as gold and silver, analysts say. The price of silver was up 1.8% at $41.46 an ounce on Tuesday, surpassing $40 an ounce for the first time since 2011.” (09/02/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-09-02/asian-shares-are-mixed-and-gold-sets-a-fresh-record-high-of-over-3-550-per-ounce
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16) Sudan: Hundreds killed in landslide, UN says
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told the BBC. Antoine Gérard, the UN’s deputy humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of the incident or the exact death toll as the area was very hard to reach. Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), the armed group in control of the affected area, had earlier said as many as 1,000 people could have died. Days of heavy rain triggered the landslide on Sunday, which left just one survivor and ‘levelled’ much of the village of Tarseen, the group said in a statement. The SLM/A has appealed for humanitarian assistance from the UN and other regional and international organisations.” (09/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2jygzzk9o
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17) Federal judge releases woman accused of threatening to kill Trump
Source: Fox News
“A woman arrested last month for allegedly making death threats against President Donald Trump has been released by a federal judge who has clashed with the Trump administration several times this year, including by attempting to block the deportations of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, released no later than Aug. 27 under electronic monitoring and instructed her to visit a psychiatrist in New York City once she retrieves her belongings from a local police station. Boasberg’s order came after US Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya ordered Jones to be held without bond and undergo a competency evaluation. … Jones’s lawyers, who had argued their client was unarmed and had no real desire to follow through with the threats, appealed Upadhyaya’s detention decision, and Boasberg overturned Upadhyaya’s detention order.” (09/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-releases-woman-accused-threatening-kill-trump
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18) NY: Nadler says he won’t seek reelection to Congress
Source: CNN
“Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the dean of the New York congressional delegation, has decided not to run for reelection next year, his office told CNN on Monday. Nadler, 78, told the New York Times in an interview published Monday he was convinced it was time for generational change and that a younger person ‘can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.’ He did not discuss who should succeed him, the Times said, but noted that many of his allies might enter the race. The move comes around a month after Liam Elkind, a 26-year-old Democrat, entered the race for Nadler’s district as a primary challenger. He had pitched his run as ‘respectfully asking’ Nadler, who has been in Congress since 1992, to retire.” (09/01/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/politics/jerry-nadler-not-seeking-reelection
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19) NV: Man killed in “heinous crime” at Burning Man remains unidentified
Source: SFGate
“Authorities are asking the public for information about a homicide that happened on Saturday at Burning Man. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help identifying the white man between the age of 35 and 40 who was found dead, lying in a ‘pool of blood,’ on Saturday evening. The man is 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, with short brown hair and facial hair, the sheriff’s office said. He was found after an attendee flagged down a deputy from the sheriff’s office as the festival’s wooden effigy called the ‘Man’ began to burn. The sheriff’s office is also looking for information about a suspect who they said committed a ‘heinous crime against another human being.'” (09/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/burning-man-identity-man-killed-21025651.php
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20) Indonesia: Police attack student protesters with chemical weapons
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Indonesian police have used tear gas on crowds of protesters near two universities, student groups and authorities said, amid ongoing nationwide protests targeting government spending, and burgeoning fury following a motorcycle taxi driver’s death after being hit by a police car. On Tuesday, authorities deployed tear gas around the campuses of the Islamic University of Bandung (UNISBA) and nearby Pasundan University, more than 140km (86 miles) west of the capital, Jakarta. … At least eight people have died in the protests since last week, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said on Monday.” (09/02/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/indonesian-police-use-tear-gas-on-university-campuses-in-ongoing-protests
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21) The Political Economy of Cruelty: Some Elements
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“Why are some governments cruel, whether we are speaking of the Russian government intentionally attacking Ukrainian civilians and torturing prisoners of war, or the American government inflicting pain or distress on immigrants? (Of course, there is a difference in degree between these two cases of cruelty.) It is a matter of incentives: if those who disobey government decrees risk not only punishments but cruel punishments, disobedience is reduced. In short, governments use cruelty when it contributes to the realization of their policies, and no constitutional or other binding constraints exist. A government (or ‘the state’) is not a supernatural being or a biological organism, but an organization of individuals who determine policies or enforce them. Cruelty in public policy depends on the costs and benefits of the individual rulers, their agents, and their supporters (at least their important supporters).” (09/02/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-political-economy-of-cruelty-some-elements/
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22) The Gaza War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Already Lost
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Since its 2023 invasion of Gaza, the Israeli Defence Forces report fewer than 800 troops killed, while in turn killing tens — maybe hundreds — of thousands of mostly civilian Palestinian Arabs (and 250 or more inconvenient journalists). Since the beginning, they’ve established their ability to attack any point in Gaza at will, driving a displaced, hungry population back and forth over piles of bodies, while seizing more land in the West Bank and Syria, liquidating Hezbollah’s Lebanese strongholds, trading missile strikes with Yemen’s Houthis, and even emerging relatively unscathed, if not particularly successful, in an intermittent war with Iran. Top Israeli regime officials confidently assert that the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and annexation of the West Bank are inevitable. Yes, that sounds rather like multiple ‘victories,’ accomplished and pending. But those victories didn’t come from nowhere.” (09/02/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19892
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23) How Fear Killed Liberalism
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“Scholars, pundits, and politicians make bad predictions all the time, and some of the mistakes are real doozies. For what it’s worth, my nominee for the worst geopolitical forecast of the past 50 years was the post-Cold War belief that the world was being inexorably swept toward a peaceful and increasingly prosperous liberal future. … If one looks back at the past quarter century, it’s clear that these optimistic forecasts were almost entirely wrong. China became more authoritarian, and Russia reverted to autocracy after a brief experiment with genuine electoral democracy. Indeed, democracy has been in steady decline around the world for nearly two decades, including in the United States itself. China, Russia, and the United States are converging, but it is the United States that is becoming more like these corrupt autocracies rather than the reverse.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/b8J5J
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24) How to Dismantle the Therapeutic State
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“From the concept of the therapeutic state, we can derive the iatrogenic state. That means just as the former approach encourages clients, patients, or citizens to seek healing in the identification of external forces of trauma, their condition worsens. In other words, iatrogenesis has become a problem not only in therapeutic practice, but also in society, as agents of the state have unsuccessfully extended the therapeutic mentality as the solution to most social issues. It has become increasingly clear that the Democrats have evolved into the Mommy Party and the Republicans the Daddy Party. And as each party pushes into unhealthy extremes, more of their followers become unhealthy extremists.” (09/02/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-the-therapeutic
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25) Silence and Sovereignty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Thomas Harrington
“I have always had a very acute sense of hearing, and perhaps for that reason have long been quite sensitive to loud background noise. Whenever I would go to a rock concert or a discotheque with friends in high school or college, I would soon find myself counting the minutes until the moment we would leave. As I grew older, I solved the problem by simply avoiding such situations. However, in recent years, especially since the beginning of the Covid operation, this has become much more difficult to do. … if I were a member of a super-elite cadre bent on further extending its control over the lives of the many, I’d do everything in my power to ensure that such moments of silence and relative calm become ever more scarce in society.” (09/02/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/silence-and-sovereignty/
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26) Researching the Roots of War: The Role of Information in Building a New World
Source: TomDispatch
by William D Hartung
“I have spent the bulk of my career — on and off since the late Carter Administration — following the money that drives war and repression. What I have finally learned after so many decades of doing research on the war machine is that while research is critical, it must be in the service of a smart strategy backed by a lot of hard work by organizers from all walks of life. My interest in using research to promote social change was sparked by my years at Columbia University in the 1970s, when I was a researcher and advocate in the divestment movement targeting the apartheid regime of South Africa and a participant in other social justice movements like the boycott in support of the United Farmworkers Union and the opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.” (09/02/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-role-of-information-in-building-a-new-world/
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27) Confessions of a Disinformer
Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz
“Last Friday evening, unable to watch the Mets game due to a broadcasting blackout, I tweeted, ‘Trump is Dead. He died on Wednesday.’ Why? Well, he hadn’t been seen for a couple of days, and it seemed sort of funny to me. I didn’t really have any intent while doing this. It was, in the parlance of our times, a shitpost. And not even that, because that implies a desire to troll or disconcert. I didn’t have any developed motive; I had an impulse. I noticed that some of my funnier friends seemed to think it was funny and were liking it. (Some likes are better than others.) A success! I went to bed. The next morning, I woke to discover it had received hundreds of thousands of likes and thousands of retweets.” (09/02/25)
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/confessions-of-a-disinformer
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28) What 2020 Meant
Source: Persuasion
by Matt Johnson
“The summer of five years ago can help us explain — and overcome — America’s present.” (09/02/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-2020-meant
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29) “It’s Not A Genocide” Is Not A Defensible Claim In The Year 2025
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has determined that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is the world’s largest association of genocide scholars, with around 500 experts on the subject including many Holocaust scholars. The consensus was reached by an overwhelming supermajority of the experts — 86 percent, to be exact. Everyone needs to understand that ‘there is no genocide in Gaza’ is not a claim that can be taken seriously in the year 2025. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, Israeli human rights groups like B’Tselem, and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars all agree it’s a genocide. The debate is over. The hasbarists lost. Israel’s Foreign Ministry is of course claiming that the IAGS assessment is ‘entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies.’ That’s right folks, the genocide scholars are Hamas. They’re just so unbelievably evil.” (09/03/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/03/its-not-a-genocide-is-not-a-defensible-claim-in-the-year-2025/
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30) Letters from World War II, part 4
Source: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“It is ironic that Charlie called Uncle Sam a ‘flag waver.’ A bolder and more patriotic American you’d be hard pressed to find. But in the aftermath of World War II, he had had enough with politicians. He recalled voting for Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he was convinced that the President would preserve the peace. ‘The President had said that American boys would not fight on foreign soil. He forgot to add: ‘They’d be buried in it.’’ For thirty years thereafter, Sam refused to vote in any election. Over time, he learned to question everything.” (09/02/25)
https://medium.com/@cms10_7549/letters-from-world-war-ii-4-0b4377cf4337
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31) Our leaders abandoned Chicago; Trump is right: Time to call in the Guard
Source: Fox News Forum
by Corey Brooks
“The South Side of Chicago is a war zone. In 2023, the city recorded 617 homicides and more than 2,000 shootings, with neighborhoods like Englewood and Woodlawn hit the hardest. Just a few weeks ago, I stood over the body of a man who had been shot dead. Hundreds of young souls will be killed by year’s end. So I was not surprised when President Donald Trump said, ‘Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next.’ After all, the government’s first responsibility is to protect its citizens.” [editor’s note: The government’s “first responsibility” has always been to transfer wealth from the productive class to the political class. Anything else is decorative in nature – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/our-leaders-abandoned-chicago-trump-right-time-call-guard
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32) No, Trump Can’t Legally Federalize US Elections
Source: Wired
by Lily Hay Newman
“‘Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social last month. ‘They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.’ Nonpartisan election experts emphasize that this is a completely inaccurate and misleading interpretation of the US Constitution and the decentralized, state-controlled election model it describes.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/bh2ld
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33) Fighting Crime Is a Pretext; Trump Wants Control
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
by Michael Waldman
“US President Donald Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to ‘straighten that one out’. New York City, he says, might be next. Already, armed National Guard regiments are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC. All this on top of the deployment of troops to Los Angeles earlier in the summer. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago ‘to straighten that one out’. New York City, he says, might be next. Already, armed National Guard regiments are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC. All this on top of the deployment of troops to Los Angeles earlier in the summer. The deployment of out-of-state troops to occupy cities cannot plausibly promote public order. It’s blunt force, a brutal power grab. It runs afoul of the Constitution and the proper role for states.” (09/02/25)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/crime-cover
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34) How the world really works
Source: Cobden Centre
by MarkGB
“The Federal Reserve, along with the other CBs, has spent the past 8 years desperately trying to create inflation. This is because the thing that scares the hell out of them is deflation. Deflation is the ‘monster’ because in a debt based monetary system new debt has to be constantly created to keep asset values expanding. When asset values shrink, the debt acquired to ‘buy’ them doesn’t – revealing what was hidden all along – insolvency – which leads to contagion – which leads to bailouts – and the process starts all over again. Except that this time the CBs are afraid the monster will be too big to bail out. For once they are right.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/09/how-the-world-really-works/
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35) Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
Source: The Atlantic
by Paul Rosenzweig
“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power. The president has invoked emergency authority in three distinct contexts — declaring a public-safety emergency to defend his takeover of the District of Columbia; claiming an ‘invasion’ to justify an immigration crackdown, including sending the National Guard to Los Angeles; and invoking ‘extraordinary’ factors to support his tariff war. Although Trump is not the first president to grab greater powers behind the cloak of emergency authority, he is the first to have done so in such an extreme way. Worse yet, the lack of resistance from Congress or the courts suggests that there is little, if anything, to prevent Trump from expanding his use of ’emergency’ authority even further as he accumulates power.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/Qtj9N
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36) Britain’s car industry: From world leader to Net Zero casualty
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“Britain was once a giant of car manufacturing. In the 1950s, we were the second-largest producer in the world and the biggest exporter. Coventry, Birmingham, and Oxford built not just cars, but the reputation of an industrial nation; to this day, it is a source of great pride that Jaguar-Land Rover, a global automotive icon, still stands between Coventry and Birmingham. By the 1970s, we were producing more than 1.6 million vehicles a year. Today? We have fallen back to 1950s levels. Last year, Britain built fewer than half our peak output—800,000 cars, and the lowest outside the pandemic since 1954. Half a year later, by mid-2025, production has slumped a further 12%. The country that once led the automotive revolution is now struggling to stay afloat, and fighting to remain relevant.” (09/02/25)
https://fee.org/articles/britains-car-industry-from-world-leader-to-net-zero-casualty/
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37) Democrats Appeal to Miserable People
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“So, Labor Day morning, I decided to get out of the house for a little bit – a chance to clear my head from all the crap happening – and check out refrigerators on sale at Lowe’s. On the way there, I drive through one intersection with a group of about 15 leftists holding signs about ‘Fight Trump’ and ‘End Oligarchy!’ I doubt any of them could define oligarchy, but they’re ready to fight it! A few more intersections, a few more mutant gatherings, and one thing became clear: Democrats are miserable people. Imagine having a day off work – a federal holiday – and you choose not to spend it with family and friends, but to … wave signs with slogans as stale as their hairdos at cars full of people who are going about their lives in a way you don’t seem capable of doing.” (09/02/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/09/02/democrats-appeal-to-miserable-people-n2662617
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38) Investment, Not Regulation, Raises Wages
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Why do wages for some jobs go up while others go down? Why do some jobs pay a lot more than others? The barstool answers you get to those questions tend to emphasize factors such as how difficult, dangerous, or important a job is, how much education is necessary, etc. You tend to get moralistic answers in a lot of cases, answers that attempt to explain why highly paid people deserve to be highly paid. But none of those answers is true. Anybody who thinks about it for 10 seconds knows that education, merit, social value, and other factors of that kind have nothing at all to do with earnings. … Wages are a price — the price of labor — and prices are determined by supply and demand. That’s it.” (09/02/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/why-wages-rise-explained/
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39) “First Among Equals”: The case for a new realist internationalism
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Daniel Larison
“The unipolar moment is over, and the U.S. must adapt its foreign policy to an increasingly multipolar world. The old overly ambitious strategy of liberal hegemony is ill-suited to the new realities of the 21st century. Moreover, the U.S. is badly overstretched with too many commitments around the world, and it needs to chart a different course if it is to prosper in the decades to come. To meet that need, Emma Ashford — a senior fellow at the Stimson Center — lays out the case for a new pragmatic grand strategy of realist internationalism in her valuable new book, ‘First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World.’ … Ashford makes a good case that this multipolarity is real and that the U.S. will have to change how it operates in the world to flourish in these new conditions.” (09/02/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/realist-foreign-policy/
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40) What the Fast Food Spending Index Says About Consumer Sentiment in the US
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“I have been obsessing on fast food since the days when the pundits told us to ignore the data showing rising real wages, people can’t make ends meet. The reason for focusing on fast food is that eating out is pretty much the ultimate discretionary spending item. If people are feeling stretched financially, reducing the number of times they eat out is about the simplest possible way to save money. … things seemed to look pretty good for the first three years of the Biden administration. Spending on fast-food restaurants grew rapidly in 2021 and through 2022 and most of 2023. … While people might have been telling pollsters they couldn’t make ends meet, and news reporters kept highlighting tales of economic hardship, they were spending as though things were pretty good. That is no longer the case. Spending in fast-food restaurants pretty much stagnated in 2024 and has trended downward this year.” (09/02/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/02/what-the-fast-food-spending-index-says-about-consumer-sentiment-in-the-us/
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41) Trump Goes Socialist … Well, Not Quite
Source: Common Dreams
by Les Leopold
“Socialism is alive and well, and it is growing, though maybe not in the way you expect. The federal government provides more than $700 billion in contracts to private sector corporations. It also forgoes approximately $1.5 trillion in tax receipts to provide tax breaks for corporations to encourage job-creating investments, or so we are told. The net result is that corporations avoid paying their fair share [sic] while we, the taxpaying public, make up the difference. As if that public support for private enterprise isn’t enough, now President Trump is taking it to the next level by acquiring 10 percent of Intel’s stock in exchange for the $8.9 billion the government is providing the company via the Chips and Science Act. From one angle, this certainly is an improvement over the big bank bailouts …” (09/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-goes-socialist
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42) Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
Source: Quillette
by John Aziz
“One of the most remarkable aspects of Mamdani’s rise is the long shadow of his father’s intellectual project. Mahmood Mamdani is a world-famous antinationalist academic at Columbia University, who argues that every sovereign country is built on exclusion and sustained by domination and violence. He has called for a political future in which every nation state including the United States would be ‘deconstructed.’ Nationalism is the dominant political form of the modern world. Nation states set the rules for citizenship, command armies, print money, and provide the legal frameworks within which our lives unfold. Yet this has not always been the case, and there is no guarantee that it will always remain so. For that reason alone, it is worth engaging seriously with the case against nationalism — a case that has been pressed by both the Right and the Left.” (09/02/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/
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43) Even the Media’s Gaza “Investigations” Hide the Real Story of Israel’s Atrocities
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook
“CNN’s investigation features several photographs and videos of the journalists Israel killed this week working on the balcony and stairwell …. When they targeted a ‘Hamas camera,’ they knew that, in reality, that camera was being used by a Reuters journalist, Hussam Al-Masri. … And when Israel struck 10 minutes later with two coordinated missiles, it knew that the main victims would be the emergency workers who went to rescue survivors from the first strike and journalists – al-Masri’s friends – who were nearby and rushed to the scene. Nothing was a ‘mishap.’ It was planned down to the minutest detail. But here is where we get to the main problem with CNN’s coverage. In picking apart Israel’s patently bogus claims, the investigation treats those claims with a seriousness they in no way merit.” (09/02/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2025/09/01/even-the-medias-gaza-investigations-hide-the-real-story-of-israels-atrocities/
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44) Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston declared, ‘Most wildfires are caused by human activity, so to reduce the risk, we’re keeping people out of the woods until conditions improve. I’m asking everyone to do the right thing — don’t light that campfire, stay out of the woods and protect our people and communities.’ Canadian politicians are exploiting wildfires the same way that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exploited COVID to lockdown the entire nation.” (09/01/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/09/01/canadian-hikers-get-the-covid-style-tyranny-treatment/
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45) Dems’ head-scratching reaction to Trump’s DC crime crackdown puts them at odds with voters
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“The unhinged hostility to Donald Trump’s successful [sic] crime [sic] crackdown in Washington, DC, puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking? Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is ‘a major problem,’ according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week. The other 19% must be either criminals or blue-city politicians — or both.” [editor’s note: At least the occupation troops picked up some litter and raked some leaves in between abducting drunk sandwich throwers and marching around tourist areas to be seen – TLK] (08/31/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/31/opinion/democrats-head-scratching-reaction-to-trumps-dc-crime-crackdown-puts-them-at-odds-with-voters/
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46) Don’t Fear “Frankenfood.” We’re Already Living in the Lab-Grown Future.
Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
“You can now eat a steak grown from cow cells that never saw a pasture, taste cheese made with whey protein brewed by microbes that have never passed through an udder, wear a diamond formed from lab-coaxed carbon, and shake hands with someone who has an ear 3D printed from her own cartilage cells. For a couple of decades now, we’ve been replacing bladders and tracheas and sections of burned flesh with living tissue that started in a sterile lab and ended up integrated into someone’s body, pumping blood, producing mucus, or just sitting there looking pretty and unscarred. There’s always a backlash. Words such as unnatural, fake, Frankenfood, and synthetic get thrown around like accusations. The assumption is that anything born in a lab must be lesser, or at least deeply suspicious.” (for publication 10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/01/our-lab-grown-future/
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47) The Long Descent to Unilateralism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Sarah Burns
“The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.” (09/01/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-long-descent-to-unilateralism/
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48) Is Capitalism Making Us Lonely?
Source: EconLog
by Vlad Tarko
“One common criticism of capitalism is that it has sparked an epidemic of loneliness. This is often attributed to the individualistic nature of capitalism, and to the fact that markets have replaced a variety of more personal and communal connections with commercial activities. Karl Marx indeed expected that this trend will go as far as replacing even family relations and friendships with commercial interactions. How could that not make people more lonely? And yet, the reason why markets have been expanding into personal life is that markets provide a certain convenience.” (09/02/25)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2025/tarkolonely.html
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49) Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor
Source: In These Times
by Emma Arkell
“This week’s Air Canada flight attendants’ strike brought the country’s largest airline to a halt with picket lines set up at airports across the country. After the federal government attempted to send the attendants, represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees’ (CUPE) Air Canada Component, back to their jobs, the workers refused, becoming the first union to resist this kind of order from the federal government, which has issued a spate of them in the past year. The union’s refusal to back down led to new negotiations with Air Canada, and a tentative agreement was announced the following day. Alison Braley-Rattai, a professor of labor studies at Brock University, told PressProgress the government’s pattern of sending workers back to their jobs, combined with the particularities of the flight attendants’ struggle, created ‘a perfect storm.'” (09/01/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/air-canada-flight-attendants-strike-gender-union-labor-win
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50) The End of the Free, Global Internet
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brad Pearce
“It appears that the free global internet, such as it was, which many of us loved and grew up with, is nearly dead. Long gone are the days of anonymous IRC chats or where only paranoiacs thought their emails were monitored. The growing standard is the government demanding websites know who you are all the time to ‘protect’ you from a myriad of trivial things such as ‘hate speech’ or videos of people eating too much. As has become common, it is not any of the ‘authoritarian’ states we hear about leading the way to the end of internet freedom, but instead the ethnic European parts of the former British Empire.” (09/01/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-end-of-the-free-global-internet
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
51) Serious Trouble, 09/02/25
Source: Serious Trouble
“Triple No Bill.” (09/02/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/triple-no-bill
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52) Rising, 09/02/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on why fomer Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook should be fired.” (09/02/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5481155-rising-september-2-2025/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/02/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It's my weekly chat with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We discuss rumors about the Orange man, CDC drama and what each of us can be doing to secure our freedom in an unfree world.” (09/02/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-wbinw-195112f
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54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/02/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Takes Ominous Turn in Vile Fox News Hit.” (09/02/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199868/trump-threat-occupy-cities-takes-ominous-turn-vile-fox-news-hit
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55) Fountainhead Forum, episode 352
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Pablo Etchegaray on his friend Javier Milei and liberty in Uruguay.” (09/02/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ye1g6-ff-352-pablo-etchegaray-on-his-friend-javier-milei-and-liberty-in-uruguay.html
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/02/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Scholars: Israel Committing Genocide, US Strikes in Somalia, Maduro Warns Against Attack, and More.” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3FNSQAE_I
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57) EconTalk, 09/01/25
Source: EconTalk
“Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb).” (09/01/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/humans-are-overrated-with-christine-webb/
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58) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 88
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
“An Introduction to Anti-Liberal Ideologies (w/ Matt McManus).” (09/01/25)
https://pod.link/1614436300/episode/YzBjNDRjZTEtODFkYS00MzNjLWI2NWUtMjYxM2VmZGEwNjYz
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59) Conflicts of Interest, episode 832
Source: Libertarian Institute
“IDF Admits Gaza Operations Failed to Achieve Main Goals.” (09/01/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-832-idf-admits-gaza-operations-failed-to-achieve-main-goals
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60) Finding Freedom, episode 505
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Warp Speed Whiplash: Trump vs. Pfizer.” (09/01/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/warp-speed-whiplash-trump-vs-pfizer
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Caribbean Sea: US-based pirates allegedly murder 11 in strike on boat
2) Epstein files released by House panel include court documents, videos, flight records
3) Turkey: Court Ousts Leadership Of Opposition’s Istanbul Branch
4) Belgium: Regime to recognize Palestinian state, impose sanctions on Israel
5) Judge notices that Trump’s occupation of Los Angeles was illegal
6) Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight
7) Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for “conspiracy” over protest against ICE gang
8) Peru: Police hunt for shooter after Indonesian diplomat assassinated in Lima
9) Australian man arrested over $250,000 Lego and toy heist
10) Putin, Xi champion “unprecedentedly high” ties as Iran and North Korea leaders arrive in Beijing
11) Bolsonaro’s trial nears close as US-Brazil relations plummet
12) Burkina Faso: Coup regime bans homosexuality as a crime punishable with prison, fines
13) China’s EV maker deliveries rebound, buoyed by cheaper new models
14) NYC: Former mayor de Blasio endorses Mamdani
15) World Shares Slip and Gold Sets a Fresh Record High of Over $3,550 Per Ounce
16) Sudan: Hundreds killed in landslide, UN says
17) Federal judge releases woman accused of threatening to kill Trump
18) NY: Nadler says he won’t seek reelection to Congress
19) NV: Man killed in “heinous crime” at Burning Man remains unidentified
20) Indonesia: Police attack student protesters with chemical weapons
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Political Economy of Cruelty: Some Elements
22) The Gaza War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Already Lost
23) How Fear Killed Liberalism
24) How to Dismantle the Therapeutic State
25) Silence and Sovereignty
26) Researching the Roots of War: The Role of Information in Building a New World
27) Confessions of a Disinformer
28) What 2020 Meant
29) “It’s Not A Genocide” Is Not A Defensible Claim In The Year 2025
30) Letters from World War II, part 4
31) Our leaders abandoned Chicago; Trump is right: Time to call in the Guard
32) No, Trump Can’t Legally Federalize US Elections
33) Fighting Crime Is a Pretext; Trump Wants Control
34) How the world really works
35) Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
36) Britain’s car industry: From world leader to Net Zero casualty
37) Democrats Appeal to Miserable People
38) Investment, Not Regulation, Raises Wages
39) “First Among Equals”: The case for a new realist internationalism
40) What the Fast Food Spending Index Says About Consumer Sentiment in the US
41) Trump Goes Socialist … Well, Not Quite
42) Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
43) Even the Media’s Gaza “Investigations” Hide the Real Story of Israel’s Atrocities
44) Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment
45) Dems’ head-scratching reaction to Trump’s DC crime crackdown puts them at odds with voters
46) Don’t Fear “Frankenfood.” We’re Already Living in the Lab-Grown Future.
47) The Long Descent to Unilateralism
48) Is Capitalism Making Us Lonely?
49) Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor
50) The End of the Free, Global Internet
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) Serious Trouble, 09/02/25
52) Rising, 09/02/25
53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/02/25
54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/02/25
55) Fountainhead Forum, episode 352
56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/02/25
57) EconTalk, 09/01/25
58) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 88
59) Conflicts of Interest, episode 832
60) Finding Freedom, episode 505
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1) Caribbean Sea: US-based pirates allegedly murder 11 in strike on boat
Source: New York Times
“President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States had carried out a strike against a boat carrying drugs and killed 11 ‘terrorists,’ the administration’s latest military escalation in Mr. Trump’s war against Venezuelan drug cartels that he has blamed for bringing fentanyl into the country. … ‘Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narco terrorists,’ Mr. Trump wrote. He said the strike ‘occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.’ … The action comes amid a major buildup of U.S. naval forces outside Venezuela’s waters. The administration has also stepped up belligerent rhetoric about fighting drug cartels and labeled Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, a terrorist cartel leader.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/Ne8LY
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2) Epstein files released by House panel include court documents, videos, flight records
Source: CBS News
“The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released more than 33,000 pages of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, a well-connected financier whose sex trafficking charges and 2019 death in federal custody have drawn years of public speculation. The files include court documents, flight records, and a video of Epstein’s cell block from before his death that includes a minute missing from earlier videos. Many of the documents were already in the public domain. The GOP-led panel subpoenaed the Justice Department for Epstein records several weeks ago, as lawmakers from both parties press the Trump administration to disclose more information on the criminal probes into Epstein.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/house-oversight-jeffrey-epstein-documents/
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3) Turkey: Court Ousts Leadership Of Opposition’s Istanbul Branch
Source: Barron’s
“A Turkish court on Tuesday dismissed the main opposition CHP party’s leadership in Istanbul over alleged irregularities in its 2023 congress, court documents showed. According to the ruling, the court cancelled the outcome of the provincial congress, throwing out CHP’s Istanbul provincial leader Ozgur Celik, along with 195 of the party leadership and delegates. … The move comes as the CHP is under mounting legal pressure from a growing number of investigations into alleged graft, which began in earnest with the jailing of Istanbul’s popular and powerful CHP mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in March, triggering massive protests.” (09/02/25)
https://www.barrons.com/news/turkey-court-ousts-leadership-of-opposition-s-istanbul-branch-400a800f
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4) Belgium: Regime to recognize Palestinian state, impose sanctions on Israel
Source: United Press International
“Belgium will recognize a Palestinian state and impose sanctions against Israel, a high-ranking Brussels official said Monday, a move that is expected to be staunchly rebuked by the Middle Eastern country. Maxime Prevot, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs for Belgium, said Brussels was acting under its international obligations to ‘prevent any risk of genocide’ and to put pressure on both Israel and Iran-backed Hamas to end the war. … Prevot said Belgium will officially recognize a Palestinian state during the 80th United Nations General Assembly scheduled for later this month in New York, making it the latest Western country to do so in protest against Israel.” (09/02/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/09/02/belgium/7431756784986/
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5) Judge notices that Trump’s occupation of Los Angeles was illegal
Source: CBS News
“A federal court in California ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law when it deployed members of the National Guard and active-duty U.S. Marines to Los Angeles earlier this summer in response to protests against immigration enforcement operations. In a 52-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found that the president and his administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act, a 1878 law that prohibits the use of the military for domestic law enforcement. Breyer blocked the Trump administration from deploying or using the National Guard currently deployed in California, and any military troops in the state, for civilian law enforcement.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-trump-los-angeles-national-guard-marines/
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6) Appeals court sides with EPA in climate grant terminations fight
Source: Politico
“A federal appellate court on Tuesday sided with the Environmental Protection Agency in the pitched legal battle over Administrator Lee Zeldin’s termination of $20 billion in Biden-era climate grants, a major victory for the Trump administration’s bid to cancel hundreds of environmental grants and boost fossil fuel production. The jilted grant recipients are expected to appeal the decision, but even if it’s ultimately upheld, additional litigation will follow — and EPA could find itself on the hook for the outstanding balance, a possibility attorneys at EPA and the Justice Department warned of in internal emails reported by POLITICO in April.” (09/02/25)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/02/appeals-court-epa-climate-grant-00539926
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7) Alarm after FBI arrests US army veteran for “conspiracy” over protest against ICE gang
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The arrest of a US army veteran who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has raised alarms among legal experts and fellow veterans familiar with his service in Afghanistan. Bajun Mavalwalla II – a former army sergeant who survived a roadside bomb blast on a special operations mission in Afghanistan – was charged in July with ‘conspiracy to impede or injure officers’ after joining a demonstration against federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) in Spokane, Washington. Legal experts say the case marks an escalation in the administration’s attacks on first amendment rights. … The 11 June protest against Ice that led to Mavalwalla’s arrest was confrontational, leaving a government van’s windshield smashed and tires slashed, but Mavalwalla was not among the more than two dozen people arrested at the scene. More than a month passed before the FBI arrived at his door on 15 July.” (09/02/25)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest
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8) Peru: Police hunt for shooter after Indonesian diplomat assassinated in Lima
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“An Indonesian diplomat was shot dead in Peru’s capital as he arrived on a bicycle to his apartment building, police said on Tuesday, in what local authorities called an ‘assassination.’ Zetro Leonardo Purba, 40, who was attached to the Indonesian embassy in Lima, was shot three times on Monday night. Authorities said Purba was taken to a hospital but was later declared dead. Officials did not immediately provide a motive for the shooting. Police released footage from two surveillance cameras that show a person wearing a helmet firing twice at the diplomat, who then falls to the ground. The images then show the suspect shooting the diplomat a third time and fleeing on a motorcycle driven by another person.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/w0nk6
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9) Australian man arrested over $250,000 Lego and toy heist
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“An Australian man is facing theft charges after police uncovered a ‘significant’ trove of Lego and toys worth $250,000 (£120,800; $163,400) allegedly stolen from department stores in Adelaide. About 2,500 items, including 1,700 unopened boxes of Lego, were found when South Australian police raided a Royal Park home on Saturday. The haul — which police say was going to be sold online — was the largest seized during an operation targeting retail theft in the state, and so big that extra officers were called in to help remove the loot, which filled three truck loads. … Apart from the Lego, other stolen items included soft toys, water guns and toy trucks with brands such as Pokémon, Barbie, Hello Kitty and Thomas the Tank Engine.” (09/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjmjnxednxo
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10) Putin, Xi champion “unprecedentedly high” ties as Iran and North Korea leaders arrive in Beijing
Source: Fox News
“Russian President Vladimir Putin, alongside his ‘dear friend’ Chinese President Xi Jinping, championed the duo’s ‘unprecedentedly high’ ties as the U.S. and Europe remain strained over Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The Beijing-based meeting once again cemented the increased unity the adversarial nations have pursued following Putin’s 2022 invasion and comes one day ahead of a major military parade marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. … Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who first traveled to China on Sunday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), met with Xi on Tuesday and called the looming UN sanctions targeting its nuclear program a ‘double standard.’ … North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also arrived in China on Tuesday after his armored train was seen arriving in Bejing where he was then met by Chinese officials, like Foreign Minister Wang Yi, reported Reuters.” (09/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/world/putin-xi-champion-unprecedentedly-high-ties-iran-north-korea-leaders-arrive-beijing
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11) Bolsonaro’s trial nears close as US-Brazil relations plummet
Source: Financial Times [UK]
“Prosecutors in the trial of Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro will present their closing arguments this week as the former president faces a verdict on coup plotting charges that could land him in jail for decades and deepen the country’s diplomatic crisis with the US. Prosecutors accuse the far-right former leader of planning, with the help of top military officers, to illegally remain in power after losing an election to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022. The 70-year-old, who denies all charges, expects to be found guilty, according to those close to him. … The case has drawn the wrath of Bolsonaro’s ally, US President Donald Trump, who has launched a pressure campaign on Lula to end the trial. Trump has imposed 50 per cent tariffs on most Brazilian exports, hit supreme court justices and Lula’s justice minister with visa bans, and slapped financial sanctions on the judge overseeing the case, Alexandre de Moraes.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/Nfyts
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12) Burkina Faso: Coup regime bans homosexuality as a crime punishable with prison, fines
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Burkina Faso’s government has passed a law banning homosexuality, with those found guilty facing two to five years in prison, according to the state broadcaster. The draft law was unanimously passed on Monday by 71 unelected members of the country’s transitional government, which has been in place since the military seized power under the leadership of the now President Ibrahim Traore, after two coups in 2022. Justice Minister Edasso Rodrigue Bayala announced the law on national broadcaster RTB and said those guilty would also face fines along with serving prison time.” (09/02/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/burkina-faso-bans-homosexuality-as-a-crime-punishable-with-prison-fines
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13) China’s EV maker deliveries rebound, buoyed by cheaper new models
Source: CNBC
“From China’s electric carmaker giant BYD to startup Nio, the latest reports for August show EV demand rebounded after a slump earlier in the summer amid a fierce price war. BYD announced it shipped 371,501 units in August, nearly 22% growth from a year ago. Meanwhile, Nio, Leapmotor, and Xpeng set new delivery records after launching models with wallet-friendly price tags, that started deliveries from end July to end August.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/chinas-ev-maker-deliveries-rebound-new-car-launches-price-war-intensifies.html
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14) NYC: Former mayor de Blasio endorses Mamdani
Source: New York Post
“Former Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday endorsed socialist Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani in the race for City Hall. … The ex-mayor, who served two terms from 2014 to 2021, pointed to Mamdani’s progressive push — including rent freezes, free child care and free city buses.” (09/02/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/us-news/ex-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-endorses-zohran-mamdani-for-city-hall/
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15) World Shares Slip and Gold Sets a Fresh Record High of Over $3,550 Per Ounce
Source: US News & World Report
“The price of gold hit a new record and world shares were mostly lower on Tuesday after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday. The spot price of gold, traditionally a haven for investors in times of uncertainty, climbed as high as $3,578.40 per ounce early Tuesday. That surpassed an intraday record of $3,509.90 an ounce set in April. It later slipped back a bit, gaining 1.1% to $3,549.10 per ounce. President Donald Trump’ s challenges to the U.S. Federal Reserve and other institutions have shaken faith in the U.S. dollar, prompting a shift into other investment options such as gold and silver, analysts say. The price of silver was up 1.8% at $41.46 an ounce on Tuesday, surpassing $40 an ounce for the first time since 2011.” (09/02/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-09-02/asian-shares-are-mixed-and-gold-sets-a-fresh-record-high-of-over-3-550-per-ounce
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16) Sudan: Hundreds killed in landslide, UN says
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“A landslide has killed at least 370 people in the remote Marra Mountains in western Sudan, a UN official has told the BBC. Antoine Gérard, the UN’s deputy humanitarian co-ordinator for Sudan, said that it was hard to assess the scale of the incident or the exact death toll as the area was very hard to reach. Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A), the armed group in control of the affected area, had earlier said as many as 1,000 people could have died. Days of heavy rain triggered the landslide on Sunday, which left just one survivor and ‘levelled’ much of the village of Tarseen, the group said in a statement. The SLM/A has appealed for humanitarian assistance from the UN and other regional and international organisations.” (09/02/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2jygzzk9o
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17) Federal judge releases woman accused of threatening to kill Trump
Source: Fox News
“A woman arrested last month for allegedly making death threats against President Donald Trump has been released by a federal judge who has clashed with the Trump administration several times this year, including by attempting to block the deportations of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, released no later than Aug. 27 under electronic monitoring and instructed her to visit a psychiatrist in New York City once she retrieves her belongings from a local police station. Boasberg’s order came after US Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya ordered Jones to be held without bond and undergo a competency evaluation. … Jones’s lawyers, who had argued their client was unarmed and had no real desire to follow through with the threats, appealed Upadhyaya’s detention decision, and Boasberg overturned Upadhyaya’s detention order.” (09/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-judge-releases-woman-accused-threatening-kill-trump
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18) NY: Nadler says he won’t seek reelection to Congress
Source: CNN
“Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, the dean of the New York congressional delegation, has decided not to run for reelection next year, his office told CNN on Monday. Nadler, 78, told the New York Times in an interview published Monday he was convinced it was time for generational change and that a younger person ‘can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.’ He did not discuss who should succeed him, the Times said, but noted that many of his allies might enter the race. The move comes around a month after Liam Elkind, a 26-year-old Democrat, entered the race for Nadler’s district as a primary challenger. He had pitched his run as ‘respectfully asking’ Nadler, who has been in Congress since 1992, to retire.” (09/01/25)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/politics/jerry-nadler-not-seeking-reelection
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19) NV: Man killed in “heinous crime” at Burning Man remains unidentified
Source: SFGate
“Authorities are asking the public for information about a homicide that happened on Saturday at Burning Man. The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office is asking for help identifying the white man between the age of 35 and 40 who was found dead, lying in a ‘pool of blood,’ on Saturday evening. The man is 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, with short brown hair and facial hair, the sheriff’s office said. He was found after an attendee flagged down a deputy from the sheriff’s office as the festival’s wooden effigy called the ‘Man’ began to burn. The sheriff’s office is also looking for information about a suspect who they said committed a ‘heinous crime against another human being.'” (09/01/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/burning-man-identity-man-killed-21025651.php
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20) Indonesia: Police attack student protesters with chemical weapons
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Indonesian police have used tear gas on crowds of protesters near two universities, student groups and authorities said, amid ongoing nationwide protests targeting government spending, and burgeoning fury following a motorcycle taxi driver’s death after being hit by a police car. On Tuesday, authorities deployed tear gas around the campuses of the Islamic University of Bandung (UNISBA) and nearby Pasundan University, more than 140km (86 miles) west of the capital, Jakarta. … At least eight people have died in the protests since last week, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said on Monday.” (09/02/25)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/indonesian-police-use-tear-gas-on-university-campuses-in-ongoing-protests
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21) The Political Economy of Cruelty: Some Elements
Source: EconLog
by Pierre Lemieux
“Why are some governments cruel, whether we are speaking of the Russian government intentionally attacking Ukrainian civilians and torturing prisoners of war, or the American government inflicting pain or distress on immigrants? (Of course, there is a difference in degree between these two cases of cruelty.) It is a matter of incentives: if those who disobey government decrees risk not only punishments but cruel punishments, disobedience is reduced. In short, governments use cruelty when it contributes to the realization of their policies, and no constitutional or other binding constraints exist. A government (or ‘the state’) is not a supernatural being or a biological organism, but an organization of individuals who determine policies or enforce them. Cruelty in public policy depends on the costs and benefits of the individual rulers, their agents, and their supporters (at least their important supporters).” (09/02/25)
https://www.econlib.org/the-political-economy-of-cruelty-some-elements/
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22) The Gaza War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Already Lost
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Since its 2023 invasion of Gaza, the Israeli Defence Forces report fewer than 800 troops killed, while in turn killing tens — maybe hundreds — of thousands of mostly civilian Palestinian Arabs (and 250 or more inconvenient journalists). Since the beginning, they’ve established their ability to attack any point in Gaza at will, driving a displaced, hungry population back and forth over piles of bodies, while seizing more land in the West Bank and Syria, liquidating Hezbollah’s Lebanese strongholds, trading missile strikes with Yemen’s Houthis, and even emerging relatively unscathed, if not particularly successful, in an intermittent war with Iran. Top Israeli regime officials confidently assert that the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and annexation of the West Bank are inevitable. Yes, that sounds rather like multiple ‘victories,’ accomplished and pending. But those victories didn’t come from nowhere.” (09/02/25)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/19892
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23) How Fear Killed Liberalism
Source: Foreign Policy
by Stephen M Walt
“Scholars, pundits, and politicians make bad predictions all the time, and some of the mistakes are real doozies. For what it’s worth, my nominee for the worst geopolitical forecast of the past 50 years was the post-Cold War belief that the world was being inexorably swept toward a peaceful and increasingly prosperous liberal future. … If one looks back at the past quarter century, it’s clear that these optimistic forecasts were almost entirely wrong. China became more authoritarian, and Russia reverted to autocracy after a brief experiment with genuine electoral democracy. Indeed, democracy has been in steady decline around the world for nearly two decades, including in the United States itself. China, Russia, and the United States are converging, but it is the United States that is becoming more like these corrupt autocracies rather than the reverse.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/b8J5J
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24) How to Dismantle the Therapeutic State
Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“From the concept of the therapeutic state, we can derive the iatrogenic state. That means just as the former approach encourages clients, patients, or citizens to seek healing in the identification of external forces of trauma, their condition worsens. In other words, iatrogenesis has become a problem not only in therapeutic practice, but also in society, as agents of the state have unsuccessfully extended the therapeutic mentality as the solution to most social issues. It has become increasingly clear that the Democrats have evolved into the Mommy Party and the Republicans the Daddy Party. And as each party pushes into unhealthy extremes, more of their followers become unhealthy extremists.” (09/02/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/how-to-dismantle-the-therapeutic
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25) Silence and Sovereignty
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Thomas Harrington
“I have always had a very acute sense of hearing, and perhaps for that reason have long been quite sensitive to loud background noise. Whenever I would go to a rock concert or a discotheque with friends in high school or college, I would soon find myself counting the minutes until the moment we would leave. As I grew older, I solved the problem by simply avoiding such situations. However, in recent years, especially since the beginning of the Covid operation, this has become much more difficult to do. … if I were a member of a super-elite cadre bent on further extending its control over the lives of the many, I’d do everything in my power to ensure that such moments of silence and relative calm become ever more scarce in society.” (09/02/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/silence-and-sovereignty/
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26) Researching the Roots of War: The Role of Information in Building a New World
Source: TomDispatch
by William D Hartung
“I have spent the bulk of my career — on and off since the late Carter Administration — following the money that drives war and repression. What I have finally learned after so many decades of doing research on the war machine is that while research is critical, it must be in the service of a smart strategy backed by a lot of hard work by organizers from all walks of life. My interest in using research to promote social change was sparked by my years at Columbia University in the 1970s, when I was a researcher and advocate in the divestment movement targeting the apartheid regime of South Africa and a participant in other social justice movements like the boycott in support of the United Farmworkers Union and the opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile.” (09/02/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/the-role-of-information-in-building-a-new-world/
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27) Confessions of a Disinformer
Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz
“Last Friday evening, unable to watch the Mets game due to a broadcasting blackout, I tweeted, ‘Trump is Dead. He died on Wednesday.’ Why? Well, he hadn’t been seen for a couple of days, and it seemed sort of funny to me. I didn’t really have any intent while doing this. It was, in the parlance of our times, a shitpost. And not even that, because that implies a desire to troll or disconcert. I didn’t have any developed motive; I had an impulse. I noticed that some of my funnier friends seemed to think it was funny and were liking it. (Some likes are better than others.) A success! I went to bed. The next morning, I woke to discover it had received hundreds of thousands of likes and thousands of retweets.” (09/02/25)
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/confessions-of-a-disinformer
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28) What 2020 Meant
Source: Persuasion
by Matt Johnson
“The summer of five years ago can help us explain — and overcome — America’s present.” (09/02/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/what-2020-meant
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29) “It’s Not A Genocide” Is Not A Defensible Claim In The Year 2025
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) has determined that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. This is the world’s largest association of genocide scholars, with around 500 experts on the subject including many Holocaust scholars. The consensus was reached by an overwhelming supermajority of the experts — 86 percent, to be exact. Everyone needs to understand that ‘there is no genocide in Gaza’ is not a claim that can be taken seriously in the year 2025. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, Israeli human rights groups like B’Tselem, and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars all agree it’s a genocide. The debate is over. The hasbarists lost. Israel’s Foreign Ministry is of course claiming that the IAGS assessment is ‘entirely based on Hamas’s campaign of lies.’ That’s right folks, the genocide scholars are Hamas. They’re just so unbelievably evil.” (09/03/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/09/03/its-not-a-genocide-is-not-a-defensible-claim-in-the-year-2025/
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30) Letters from World War II, part 4
Source: Chris Matthew Sciabarra
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“It is ironic that Charlie called Uncle Sam a ‘flag waver.’ A bolder and more patriotic American you’d be hard pressed to find. But in the aftermath of World War II, he had had enough with politicians. He recalled voting for Franklin Delano Roosevelt because he was convinced that the President would preserve the peace. ‘The President had said that American boys would not fight on foreign soil. He forgot to add: ‘They’d be buried in it.’’ For thirty years thereafter, Sam refused to vote in any election. Over time, he learned to question everything.” (09/02/25)
https://medium.com/@cms10_7549/letters-from-world-war-ii-4-0b4377cf4337
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31) Our leaders abandoned Chicago; Trump is right: Time to call in the Guard
Source: Fox News Forum
by Corey Brooks
“The South Side of Chicago is a war zone. In 2023, the city recorded 617 homicides and more than 2,000 shootings, with neighborhoods like Englewood and Woodlawn hit the hardest. Just a few weeks ago, I stood over the body of a man who had been shot dead. Hundreds of young souls will be killed by year’s end. So I was not surprised when President Donald Trump said, ‘Chicago’s a mess. You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent. And we’ll straighten that one out probably next.’ After all, the government’s first responsibility is to protect its citizens.” [editor’s note: The government’s “first responsibility” has always been to transfer wealth from the productive class to the political class. Anything else is decorative in nature – TLK] (09/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/our-leaders-abandoned-chicago-trump-right-time-call-guard
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32) No, Trump Can’t Legally Federalize US Elections
Source: Wired
by Lily Hay Newman
“‘Remember, the States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social last month. ‘They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.’ Nonpartisan election experts emphasize that this is a completely inaccurate and misleading interpretation of the US Constitution and the decentralized, state-controlled election model it describes.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/bh2ld
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33) Fighting Crime Is a Pretext; Trump Wants Control
Source: Brennan Center for Justice
by Michael Waldman
“US President Donald Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago to ‘straighten that one out’. New York City, he says, might be next. Already, armed National Guard regiments are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC. All this on top of the deployment of troops to Los Angeles earlier in the summer. President Trump has threatened to send troops to Chicago ‘to straighten that one out’. New York City, he says, might be next. Already, armed National Guard regiments are patrolling the streets of Washington, DC. All this on top of the deployment of troops to Los Angeles earlier in the summer. The deployment of out-of-state troops to occupy cities cannot plausibly promote public order. It’s blunt force, a brutal power grab. It runs afoul of the Constitution and the proper role for states.” (09/02/25)
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/crime-cover
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34) How the world really works
Source: Cobden Centre
by MarkGB
“The Federal Reserve, along with the other CBs, has spent the past 8 years desperately trying to create inflation. This is because the thing that scares the hell out of them is deflation. Deflation is the ‘monster’ because in a debt based monetary system new debt has to be constantly created to keep asset values expanding. When asset values shrink, the debt acquired to ‘buy’ them doesn’t – revealing what was hidden all along – insolvency – which leads to contagion – which leads to bailouts – and the process starts all over again. Except that this time the CBs are afraid the monster will be too big to bail out. For once they are right.” (09/02/25)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2025/09/how-the-world-really-works/
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35) Trump Is Inventing Fake Emergencies to Gain Real-World Power
Source: The Atlantic
by Paul Rosenzweig
“Donald Trump has figured out the cheat code for authoritarianism: Fake emergencies bring real power. The president has invoked emergency authority in three distinct contexts — declaring a public-safety emergency to defend his takeover of the District of Columbia; claiming an ‘invasion’ to justify an immigration crackdown, including sending the National Guard to Los Angeles; and invoking ‘extraordinary’ factors to support his tariff war. Although Trump is not the first president to grab greater powers behind the cloak of emergency authority, he is the first to have done so in such an extreme way. Worse yet, the lack of resistance from Congress or the courts suggests that there is little, if anything, to prevent Trump from expanding his use of ’emergency’ authority even further as he accumulates power.” (09/02/25)
https://archive.is/Qtj9N
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36) Britain’s car industry: From world leader to Net Zero casualty
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“Britain was once a giant of car manufacturing. In the 1950s, we were the second-largest producer in the world and the biggest exporter. Coventry, Birmingham, and Oxford built not just cars, but the reputation of an industrial nation; to this day, it is a source of great pride that Jaguar-Land Rover, a global automotive icon, still stands between Coventry and Birmingham. By the 1970s, we were producing more than 1.6 million vehicles a year. Today? We have fallen back to 1950s levels. Last year, Britain built fewer than half our peak output—800,000 cars, and the lowest outside the pandemic since 1954. Half a year later, by mid-2025, production has slumped a further 12%. The country that once led the automotive revolution is now struggling to stay afloat, and fighting to remain relevant.” (09/02/25)
https://fee.org/articles/britains-car-industry-from-world-leader-to-net-zero-casualty/
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37) Democrats Appeal to Miserable People
Source: Town Hall
by Derek Hunter
“So, Labor Day morning, I decided to get out of the house for a little bit – a chance to clear my head from all the crap happening – and check out refrigerators on sale at Lowe’s. On the way there, I drive through one intersection with a group of about 15 leftists holding signs about ‘Fight Trump’ and ‘End Oligarchy!’ I doubt any of them could define oligarchy, but they’re ready to fight it! A few more intersections, a few more mutant gatherings, and one thing became clear: Democrats are miserable people. Imagine having a day off work – a federal holiday – and you choose not to spend it with family and friends, but to … wave signs with slogans as stale as their hairdos at cars full of people who are going about their lives in a way you don’t seem capable of doing.” (09/02/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/09/02/democrats-appeal-to-miserable-people-n2662617
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38) Investment, Not Regulation, Raises Wages
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Why do wages for some jobs go up while others go down? Why do some jobs pay a lot more than others? The barstool answers you get to those questions tend to emphasize factors such as how difficult, dangerous, or important a job is, how much education is necessary, etc. You tend to get moralistic answers in a lot of cases, answers that attempt to explain why highly paid people deserve to be highly paid. But none of those answers is true. Anybody who thinks about it for 10 seconds knows that education, merit, social value, and other factors of that kind have nothing at all to do with earnings. … Wages are a price — the price of labor — and prices are determined by supply and demand. That’s it.” (09/02/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/why-wages-rise-explained/
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39) “First Among Equals”: The case for a new realist internationalism
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Daniel Larison
“The unipolar moment is over, and the U.S. must adapt its foreign policy to an increasingly multipolar world. The old overly ambitious strategy of liberal hegemony is ill-suited to the new realities of the 21st century. Moreover, the U.S. is badly overstretched with too many commitments around the world, and it needs to chart a different course if it is to prosper in the decades to come. To meet that need, Emma Ashford — a senior fellow at the Stimson Center — lays out the case for a new pragmatic grand strategy of realist internationalism in her valuable new book, ‘First Among Equals: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World.’ … Ashford makes a good case that this multipolarity is real and that the U.S. will have to change how it operates in the world to flourish in these new conditions.” (09/02/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/realist-foreign-policy/
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40) What the Fast Food Spending Index Says About Consumer Sentiment in the US
Source: CounterPunch
by Dean Baker
“I have been obsessing on fast food since the days when the pundits told us to ignore the data showing rising real wages, people can’t make ends meet. The reason for focusing on fast food is that eating out is pretty much the ultimate discretionary spending item. If people are feeling stretched financially, reducing the number of times they eat out is about the simplest possible way to save money. … things seemed to look pretty good for the first three years of the Biden administration. Spending on fast-food restaurants grew rapidly in 2021 and through 2022 and most of 2023. … While people might have been telling pollsters they couldn’t make ends meet, and news reporters kept highlighting tales of economic hardship, they were spending as though things were pretty good. That is no longer the case. Spending in fast-food restaurants pretty much stagnated in 2024 and has trended downward this year.” (09/02/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/02/what-the-fast-food-spending-index-says-about-consumer-sentiment-in-the-us/
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41) Trump Goes Socialist … Well, Not Quite
Source: Common Dreams
by Les Leopold
“Socialism is alive and well, and it is growing, though maybe not in the way you expect. The federal government provides more than $700 billion in contracts to private sector corporations. It also forgoes approximately $1.5 trillion in tax receipts to provide tax breaks for corporations to encourage job-creating investments, or so we are told. The net result is that corporations avoid paying their fair share [sic] while we, the taxpaying public, make up the difference. As if that public support for private enterprise isn’t enough, now President Trump is taking it to the next level by acquiring 10 percent of Intel’s stock in exchange for the $8.9 billion the government is providing the company via the Chips and Science Act. From one angle, this certainly is an improvement over the big bank bailouts …” (09/02/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-goes-socialist
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42) Mahmood Mamdani Wants to Dismantle America
Source: Quillette
by John Aziz
“One of the most remarkable aspects of Mamdani’s rise is the long shadow of his father’s intellectual project. Mahmood Mamdani is a world-famous antinationalist academic at Columbia University, who argues that every sovereign country is built on exclusion and sustained by domination and violence. He has called for a political future in which every nation state including the United States would be ‘deconstructed.’ Nationalism is the dominant political form of the modern world. Nation states set the rules for citizenship, command armies, print money, and provide the legal frameworks within which our lives unfold. Yet this has not always been the case, and there is no guarantee that it will always remain so. For that reason alone, it is worth engaging seriously with the case against nationalism — a case that has been pressed by both the Right and the Left.” (09/02/25)
https://quillette.com/2025/09/02/mahmood-mamdani-wants-to-dismantle-america-israel-zohran/
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43) Even the Media’s Gaza “Investigations” Hide the Real Story of Israel’s Atrocities
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook
“CNN’s investigation features several photographs and videos of the journalists Israel killed this week working on the balcony and stairwell …. When they targeted a ‘Hamas camera,’ they knew that, in reality, that camera was being used by a Reuters journalist, Hussam Al-Masri. … And when Israel struck 10 minutes later with two coordinated missiles, it knew that the main victims would be the emergency workers who went to rescue survivors from the first strike and journalists – al-Masri’s friends – who were nearby and rushed to the scene. Nothing was a ‘mishap.’ It was planned down to the minutest detail. But here is where we get to the main problem with CNN’s coverage. In picking apart Israel’s patently bogus claims, the investigation treats those claims with a seriousness they in no way merit.” (09/02/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/cook/2025/09/01/even-the-medias-gaza-investigations-hide-the-real-story-of-israels-atrocities/
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44) Canadian Hikers Get the COVID-Style Tyranny Treatment
Source: JimBovard.com
by James Bovard
“On August 5, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston decreed a $25,000 fine for anyone walking in the woods or otherwise violating a new prohibition that covered both government and private lands. The prohibition will continue until October. Houston declared, ‘Most wildfires are caused by human activity, so to reduce the risk, we’re keeping people out of the woods until conditions improve. I’m asking everyone to do the right thing — don’t light that campfire, stay out of the woods and protect our people and communities.’ Canadian politicians are exploiting wildfires the same way that former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau exploited COVID to lockdown the entire nation.” (09/01/25)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2025/09/01/canadian-hikers-get-the-covid-style-tyranny-treatment/
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45) Dems’ head-scratching reaction to Trump’s DC crime crackdown puts them at odds with voters
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“The unhinged hostility to Donald Trump’s successful [sic] crime [sic] crackdown in Washington, DC, puts Democrats inexplicably on the wrong side of their own voters. What on earth are they thinking? Law and order is quite literally an 80-20 issue. You don’t need a pollster to say so, but 81% of Americans of all political persuasions say crime is ‘a major problem,’ according to a new AP-NORC poll released last week. The other 19% must be either criminals or blue-city politicians — or both.” [editor’s note: At least the occupation troops picked up some litter and raked some leaves in between abducting drunk sandwich throwers and marching around tourist areas to be seen – TLK] (08/31/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/31/opinion/democrats-head-scratching-reaction-to-trumps-dc-crime-crackdown-puts-them-at-odds-with-voters/
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46) Don’t Fear “Frankenfood.” We’re Already Living in the Lab-Grown Future.
Source: Reason
by Katherine Mangu-Ward
“You can now eat a steak grown from cow cells that never saw a pasture, taste cheese made with whey protein brewed by microbes that have never passed through an udder, wear a diamond formed from lab-coaxed carbon, and shake hands with someone who has an ear 3D printed from her own cartilage cells. For a couple of decades now, we’ve been replacing bladders and tracheas and sections of burned flesh with living tissue that started in a sterile lab and ended up integrated into someone’s body, pumping blood, producing mucus, or just sitting there looking pretty and unscarred. There’s always a backlash. Words such as unnatural, fake, Frankenfood, and synthetic get thrown around like accusations. The assumption is that anything born in a lab must be lesser, or at least deeply suspicious.” (for publication 10/25)
https://reason.com/2025/09/01/our-lab-grown-future/
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47) The Long Descent to Unilateralism
Source: Law & Liberty
by Sarah Burns
“The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.” (09/01/25)
https://lawliberty.org/forum/the-long-descent-to-unilateralism/
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48) Is Capitalism Making Us Lonely?
Source: EconLog
by Vlad Tarko
“One common criticism of capitalism is that it has sparked an epidemic of loneliness. This is often attributed to the individualistic nature of capitalism, and to the fact that markets have replaced a variety of more personal and communal connections with commercial activities. Karl Marx indeed expected that this trend will go as far as replacing even family relations and friendships with commercial interactions. How could that not make people more lonely? And yet, the reason why markets have been expanding into personal life is that markets provide a certain convenience.” (09/02/25)
https://www.econlib.org/library/columns/y2025/tarkolonely.html
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49) Why the Canadian Flight Attendants’ Strike Was “A Perfect Storm” for Labor
Source: In These Times
by Emma Arkell
“This week’s Air Canada flight attendants’ strike brought the country’s largest airline to a halt with picket lines set up at airports across the country. After the federal government attempted to send the attendants, represented by Canadian Union of Public Employees’ (CUPE) Air Canada Component, back to their jobs, the workers refused, becoming the first union to resist this kind of order from the federal government, which has issued a spate of them in the past year. The union’s refusal to back down led to new negotiations with Air Canada, and a tentative agreement was announced the following day. Alison Braley-Rattai, a professor of labor studies at Brock University, told PressProgress the government’s pattern of sending workers back to their jobs, combined with the particularities of the flight attendants’ struggle, created ‘a perfect storm.'” (09/01/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/air-canada-flight-attendants-strike-gender-union-labor-win
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50) The End of the Free, Global Internet
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brad Pearce
“It appears that the free global internet, such as it was, which many of us loved and grew up with, is nearly dead. Long gone are the days of anonymous IRC chats or where only paranoiacs thought their emails were monitored. The growing standard is the government demanding websites know who you are all the time to ‘protect’ you from a myriad of trivial things such as ‘hate speech’ or videos of people eating too much. As has become common, it is not any of the ‘authoritarian’ states we hear about leading the way to the end of internet freedom, but instead the ethnic European parts of the former British Empire.” (09/01/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-end-of-the-free-global-internet
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51) Serious Trouble, 09/02/25
Source: Serious Trouble
“Triple No Bill.” (09/02/25)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/triple-no-bill
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52) Rising, 09/02/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers radar on why fomer Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook should be fired.” (09/02/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5481155-rising-september-2-2025/
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53) The Bryan Hyde Show, 09/02/25
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It's my weekly chat with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. We discuss rumors about the Orange man, CDC drama and what each of us can be doing to secure our freedom in an unfree world.” (09/02/25)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-wbinw-195112f
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54) The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent, 09/02/25
Source: The New Republic
“Trump Threat to Occupy Cities Takes Ominous Turn in Vile Fox News Hit.” (09/02/25)
https://newrepublic.com/article/199868/trump-threat-occupy-cities-takes-ominous-turn-vile-fox-news-hit
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55) Fountainhead Forum, episode 352
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Pablo Etchegaray on his friend Javier Milei and liberty in Uruguay.” (09/02/25)
https://rumble.com/v6ye1g6-ff-352-pablo-etchegaray-on-his-friend-javier-milei-and-liberty-in-uruguay.html
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56) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 09/02/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Scholars: Israel Committing Genocide, US Strikes in Somalia, Maduro Warns Against Attack, and More.” (09/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3FNSQAE_I
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57) EconTalk, 09/01/25
Source: EconTalk
“Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb).” (09/01/25)
https://www.econtalk.org/humans-are-overrated-with-christine-webb/
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58) (Re)Imagining Liberty, episode 88
Source: Aaron Ross Powell
“An Introduction to Anti-Liberal Ideologies (w/ Matt McManus).” (09/01/25)
https://pod.link/1614436300/episode/YzBjNDRjZTEtODFkYS00MzNjLWI2NWUtMjYxM2VmZGEwNjYz
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59) Conflicts of Interest, episode 832
Source: Libertarian Institute
“IDF Admits Gaza Operations Failed to Achieve Main Goals.” (09/01/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-832-idf-admits-gaza-operations-failed-to-achieve-main-goals
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60) Finding Freedom, episode 505
Source: Lions of Liberty
“Warp Speed Whiplash: Trump vs. Pfizer.” (09/01/25)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/warp-speed-whiplash-trump-vs-pfizer
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