03/20 -- Iran war: IRGC spokesman killed in missile strike; dueling energy attacks continue; Abolish the Postal Service
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Iran war: IRGC spokesman killed in missile strike; dueling energy attacks continue
2) US applications for jobless benefits fall to 205,000 last week as layoffs remain historically low
3) UK: Investigators seek US DOJ’s help in investigations of Epstein associates
4) FL: Comey subpoenaed in 2016 election probe
5) Australia: Tropical Cyclone Narelle weakens after lashing northeast
6) Russia: Pro-Kremlin blogger “admitted to psychiatric unit” after turning on Putin
7) Norway: Rape trial of crown princess’s son closes with prosecutors seeking 7+ years in prison
8) UK: Spacey settles sex assault claims out of court ahead of civil trial
9) Eli Lilly’s next-generation obesity drug retatrutide clears first late-stage diabetes trial
10) Congolese, Rwandan regimes agree on steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo
11) Iran: Regime thugs kill 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings
12) OH: Afroman beats cops’ frivolous lawsuit
13) CA: Trans athlete agenda suffers another legal blow after attempt to undercut SCOTUS order fails
14) France: Appeals court rejects regime’s bid to suspend Shein
15) US states sue Trump over his move to scrap greenhouse gases ruling
16) Dog bites man: Senate Republicans vote against being US Senators again
17) California leaders react to Cesar Chavez abuse allegations
18) Orbán’s last stand: EU braces for showdown over €90 billion Ukraine loan
19) Trump regime launches investigation of states that mandate health insurance to cover abortion
20) Dolores Huerta accuses César Chávez of sexual abuse amid wider claims
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Abolish the Postal Service
22) Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should.
23) Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
24) A Looming Entitlement Crisis
25) Congress Knows It Has a Spending Problem, But Won’t Fix It
26) The Nuclear Disaster You Weren’t Thinking About: Searching for Solace in a Nuclearized World
27) Malaysia’s Resurgence
28) Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)
29) Iran Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering
30) Modern Interface, Same Old Problem?
31) Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax
32) Being John Rawls
33) The Iran War: Don’t Blame Israel, Blame the Empire and Its Demagogue
34) Seizing Iran’s “crown jewel” would be a suicide mission
35) Can the market economy be trusted?
36) US warmongering hits historic level as Trump attacks three continents in three days
37) The big lift in intelligence from AI
38) The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.
39) Not One Dime for Aggression
40) Arguing Against the State Without Hesitation
41) The Quietest Government Shutdown
42) It’s Official: Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed
43) Ted Cruz Is the Republican Kamala Harris
44) Trading Green
45) FBI’s repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raise alarming red flags
46) Are Spontaneous Order and neo-Aristotelian Arguments for a Free Society Compatible?
47) The Iran War Could Hit a Lot More Than Oil
48) Looking back: Alarmism and fearmongering in 1968
49) A Snapshot of the Possible
50) The President of Peace’s New War
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52) The Permanent Problem, episode 12
53) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/19/26
54) Underthrow Podcast, 03/19/26
55) Libertarian Angle, 03/19/26
56) The Fifth Column, episode 549
57) The Liberty Exchange, episode 25
58) Capital Record, episode 289
59) This Day In Liberty History: Kronstadt
60) Gracearchy with Jim Babka, episode 156
61) The Science of Politics, 03/18/26
62) Kibbe on Liberty, episode 377
63) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 03/18/26
64) ReImagining Liberty, episode 98
65) What Then Must We Do?, 03/18/26
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1) Iran war: IRGC spokesman killed in missile strike; dueling energy attacks continue
Source: NBC News
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirms that General Ali Mohammad Naeini, its spokesperson, has been killed in an Israeli-US missile attack. … Israel’s Oil Refineries, a refining and petrochemicals company, says an Iranian attack on its complex in Haifa has damaged essential infrastructure. … Iran’s attack on the Ras Laffan gas facility will cut Qatar’s liquefied natural gas export capacity by an estimated 17 percent, which could disrupt supplies to Europe, Asia and beyond. … Millions of Muslims across the Middle East celebrate Eid while Iran also marks Nowruz under the threat of war.” (03/20/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/20/iran-war-live-tehran-warns-of-intensified-strikes-if-energy-sites-targeted
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2) US applications for jobless benefits fall to 205,000 last week as layoffs remain historically low
Source: Seattle Times
“U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining in the same range of recent years despite a broadly tepid labor market. The number of Americans filing for jobless aid for the week ending March 14 fell by 8,000 from the previous week to 205,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s fewer than the 215,000 new filings analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting. Filings for unemployment benefits are viewed as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.” (03/19/26)
https://archive.is/3i7kd
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3) UK: Investigators seek US DOJ’s help in investigations of Epstein associates
Source: Politico
“British authorities are seeking the cooperation of the Justice Department as they pursue investigations arising from the Epstein files, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said in an interview Wednesday. Commissioner Mark Rowley declined to opine on why the files have resulted in the arrests of two high-profile figures in the U.K. — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and former ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson — while U.S. authorities have made no arrests or charges in the wake of the files’ release. But Rowley touted British authorities’ willingness to pursue ’eminent’ figures. … He said communication between British and American law enforcement is a precursor to more formal requests British authorities intend to file, including mutual legal assistance treaty — or MLAT — requests.” (03/19/26)
https://archive.is/8vSE4
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4) FL: Comey subpoenaed in 2016 election probe
Source: The Hill
“Federal prosecutors in Florida have subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey as part of a wide-ranging probe into a prior investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, confirmed Comey was subpoenaed in the probe, which is also reviewing the previous investigations into President Trump, including the work of Obama-era intelligence officials. … The probe in Florida has sought information from several former officials, with both NBC and CBS reporting that at least 130 subpoenas have been issued since the investigation began last year. That group includes a number of those previously targeted by Trump, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.” (03/19/26)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5792806-comey-subpoenaed-in-2016-election-probe-in-florida
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5) Australia: Tropical Cyclone Narelle weakens after lashing northeast
Source: Reuters
“Severe tropical cyclone Narelle was losing strength on Friday after bringing destructive winds, heavy rain and power outages to Australia’s northeast coast that prompted authorities to warn people to stay indoors. Narelle was packing wind speeds reaching about 195 kph (120 mph), authorities said, when it hit land in remote parts of the far north region of Queensland state as a category four system, a rung short of the strongest.” (03/20/26)
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australias-northeast-braces-severe-tropical-cyclone-narelle-2026-03-19/
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6) Russia: Pro-Kremlin blogger “admitted to psychiatric unit” after turning on Putin
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A pro-Kremlin figure who unexpectedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in a social media post this week that went viral has been placed in a psychiatric facility, Russian media reported on Thursday. Ilya Remeslo made a career denouncing Putin’s critics until he became one himself, posting a manifesto late on Tuesday to his 90,000 followers on Telegram entitled: ‘Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin.’ He said Putin had prosecuted a ‘failing war’ in Ukraine that had killed millions and torpedoed Russia’s economy to the detriment of its citizens’ well-being. ‘Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president. Vladimir Putin must resign and be brought to trial as a war criminal and a thief,’ Remeslo wrote in his post. … On Thursday, St Petersburg’s Fontanka newspaper reported Remeslo had been hospitalised in the city’s Psychiatric Hospital No 3.” (03/19/26)
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3347211/pro-kremlin-russian-blogger-who-turned-putin-sent-psychiatric-unit
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7) Norway: Rape trial of crown princess’s son closes with prosecutors seeking 7+ years in prison
Source: ABC News
“Lawyers for the eldest son of Norway’s crown princess called on Thursday for his acquittal on charges of rape, as six weeks of high-profile court proceedings that have cast a shadow over the royal family drew to a close. Prosecutors this week sought a prison sentence of seven years and seven months for Marius Borg Høiby, who denies the rape allegations. A verdict is expected at a later date. … He is charged with 40 offenses in total, including four counts of rape between 2018 and 2024 involving women who prosecutors say were unable to give consent because they were asleep or otherwise incapacitated. Defense lawyers for Høiby, who has no royal titles or official duties, said that there was no evidence of rape in any of the cases.” (03/19/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/rape-trial-norway-crown-princesss-son-closes-prosecutors-131217002
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8) UK: Spacey settles sex assault claims out of court ahead of civil trial
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Three men who alleged that actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted them have settled their civil claims before going to trial at the High Court in London, court documents show. The three men alleged that the Academy Award-winning star abused them at times between 2000 and 2013. Spacey has denied the allegations. Civil trials were due to start later this year, but case judge Christina Lambert last week ordered the proceedings paused, saying the parties had ‘agreed to the terms of the settlement.’ … Spacey, now 66, was tried in London in 2023 on nine alleged sex offenses against four men, and acquitted on all counts. … Spacey also successfully defended himself against a $40 million US civil lawsuit in New York in 2022 brought by Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kevin-spacey-settles-assault-claims-9.7134457
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9) Eli Lilly’s next-generation obesity drug retatrutide clears first late-stage diabetes trial
Source: CNBC
“Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation obesity drug retatrutide cleared its first late-stage trial on Type 2 diabetes patients, helping them manage their blood sugar levels and lose weight. The drug lowered hemoglobin A1c — a key measure of blood sugar levels — by an average of 1.7% to 2% across different doses at 40 weeks compared with placebo, meeting the study’s main goal. Patients started the trial with an A1c in the range of 7% to 9.5%, and were not taking other diabetes medications.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/eli-lillys-obesity-drug-retatrutide-clears-late-stage-diabetes-trial.html
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10) Congolese, Rwandan regimes agree on steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo
Source: ABC News
“Congolese and Rwandan officials met in the United States and agreed on coordinated steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo, where government troops are fighting rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda, according to a joint statement. The statement issued by the Congolese, Rwandan and U.S. governments said that Congolese and Rwandan officials met on Tuesday and Wednesday to advance progress in eastern Congo as peace efforts led by the U.S. and partners including Qatar have stalled and violence continued. The mineral-rich eastern Congo has been battered by decades of unrest as government forces fight more than 100 armed groups, the most potent the M23 rebel group backed by Rwanda.” (03/19/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/congo-rwanda-agree-steps-de-escalate-tensions-eastern-131211314
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11) Iran: Regime thugs kill 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings
Source: New York Post
“Iran executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler in a public hanging Thursday along with two other people who were arrested during the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters in January. Saleh Mohammadi, a rising star from Qom, was allegedly tortured to confess to the capital crime of waging war against God, with the teen executed without a fair trial, according to human rights groups. ‘His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society,’ Nima Far, a human rights activist and Iranian combat athlete, told Fox News. Mohammadi, along with fellow protesters Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi, were accused of killing two police officers ‘with knives and swords’ during the January protests, according to Iranian state media. Mohammadi was arrested during the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters in January.” (03/19/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/world-news/iran-executes-19-year-old-champion-wrestler-saleh-mohammadi-two-others/
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12) OH: Afroman beats cops’ frivolous lawsuit
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. ‘We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!’ the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict. … The Adams County deputies [whined that] they were publicly harassed over the viral videos, which were viewed more than three million times on YouTube. The videos show rifle-wielding deputies busting down Afroman’s door, searching his shoes and suit pockets, and hungrily eyeing a cake on the kitchen table, inspiring one song’s title, Lemon Pound Cake. In other music videos, Afroman took aim at the deputies’ personal lives and called them ‘crooked cops’ because of $400 that went missing in the raid.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/afroman-wins-defamation-lawsuit-9.7134433
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13) CA: Trans athlete agenda suffers another legal blow after attempt to undercut SCOTUS order fails
Source: Fox News
“Conservatives [sic] celebrated Tuesday after a federal appeals court denied California’s request to narrow a Supreme Court ruling on transgender policies, two weeks after the high court dealt the state a major blow in the same case. ‘California has now lost at the district court, lost at the Supreme Court, and been turned away by the Ninth Circuit,’ Executive Vice President of the Thomas More Society Peter Breen said in a statement. ‘The state has repeatedly tried to paint parents who don’t immediately accept their children’s assertion of a new name and gender as ‘abusive.’ The courts have resoundingly rejected that premise.’ The Supreme Court had temporarily blocked California officials on March 2 from interfering with school policies that require parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.” (03/19/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/californias-trans-agenda-suffers-another-legal-blow-after-attempt-undercut-scotus-order-fails
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14) France: Appeals court rejects regime’s bid to suspend Shein
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“France’s attempt to suspend Chinese online platform Shein’s marketplace was rejected by a Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday, after a Paris court had already ruled against the government’s request in December. Shein has been embroiled in a scandal since France’s consumer watchdog found sex dolls resembling children and banned weapons for sale on its marketplace in November, prompting the government to attempt to suspend the platform.” (03/19/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260319-paris-appeals-court-rejects-french-govenment-bid-to-suspend-shein
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15) US states sue Trump over his move to scrap greenhouse gases ruling
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Three dozen state and local governments have challenged the Trump administration’s reversal of a landmark Obama-era scientific ruling which held that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. The lawsuit seeks to overturn the administration’s repeal last month of the 2009 ‘endangerment finding’ that underpins US policies aimed at lowering emissions from cars, power plants and other sources of planet-warming emissions. Several environmental organisations filed a similar lawsuit last month. President Donald Trump touted the climate change rollback as a major achievement, calling it a victory over the Democratic Party’s ‘radical’ energy and climate policies. The petition filed in the US Court of Appeals argues that overturning the ‘endangerment finding’ violated provisions in the Clean Air Act. The group challenging the administration includes 23 states and 17 cities, counties and state agencies, among them New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.” (03/19/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr51n6j9qvzo
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16) Dog bites man: Senate Republicans vote against being US Senators again
Source: United Press International
“Senate Republicans have blocked a Democrat-led effort to curb President Donald Trump’s powers to wage war against Iran, as the nearly three-week-old conflict escalates and rattles global energy markets. The Senate voted 53-47 mostly along party lines Wednesday night to reject a resolution that would withdraw U.S. armed forces from conflict with Iran absent congressional approval. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only Republican to join his Democratic colleagues and vote in favor of the motion, while Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only member of his caucus to vote against it.” [editor’s note: They continue to pretend it’s the opposite of what it is. Without congressional APPROVAL in the form of a declaration of war, the war is illegal; failing to vote AGAINST it doesn’t magically make it legal – TLK] (03/19/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/19/Senate-vote-war-powers/6951773909421/
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17) California leaders react to Cesar Chavez abuse allegations
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who was known for advocating for the rights of farm workers, has been accused of sexual abuse. Dolores Huerta said in the 1960s, Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union (UFW) with her, once ‘manipulated and pressured’ her into having sex, and on another occasion forced her. It comes after the New York Times published an investigation that detailed allegations from Huerta and two other women, who said Chavez groomed and sexually abused girls who were involved in the labour movement during the 1960s and 1970s. Chavez, who died in 1993 aged 66, rallied California’s farmworkers from the 1950s to push for improvements in working conditions, and led national boycotts and marches. The news has prompted Los Angeles and other communities to consider renaming places, schools, and streets named after Chavez.” (03/19/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c8dlpm33jg9o
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18) Orbán’s last stand: EU braces for showdown over €90 billion Ukraine loan
Source: Politico
“For much of the past decade, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has succeeded in bending the EU’s agenda to his will by forcing leaders to overcome his vetoes in one high-level gathering after another. On Thursday he’s ready to do it again — possibly for the last time as he faces a tough battle for reelection against rival Péter Magyar next month. By threatening to block, at a gathering of EU leaders in Brussels, a €90 billion loan for Ukraine that he’d approved in December, Orbán has crossed a red line when it comes to opposing Brussels. In doing so he is setting himself up for a reckoning with the bloc that could come soon after the Hungarian election, five EU diplomats and one national European government cabinet minister said.” (03/19/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-last-stand-eu-braces-showdown-over-e90b-ukraine-loan
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19) Trump regime launches investigation of states that mandate health insurance to cover abortion
Source: SFGate
“The Trump administration said Thursday that it has launched investigations into 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion. The probes are the latest in a long-running dispute between the political parties on how to interpret a provision, known as the Weldon Amendment, that’s included in federal spending laws each year. It bars states from discriminating against health entities that don’t provide, cover or refer for abortion. When Democrat Joe Biden was president, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ civil rights office said the provision didn’t pertain to employers or other health care sponsors. The Trump administration said this year that it does. The administration says that potentially puts states with abortion coverage requirements in violation of the law, because they may not allow employers or other health care issuers to opt out. It said it was sending out letters to gather more information from those states.” (03/19/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/trump-administration-launches-investigation-of-22085807.php
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20) Dolores Huerta accuses César Chávez of sexual abuse amid wider claims
Source: Axios
“Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta said Wednesday that she was sexually abused by farmworker leader César Chávez decades ago, becoming the most high-profile figure to accuse him of misconduct. The allegation comes as the United Farm Workers union grapples with reports that their former leader abused girls and young women, prompting the cancellation of tributes and celebrations in his honor. Huerta worked alongside Chávez for decades, helping found the UFW with him and fellow activist Gilbert Padilla.” (03/18/26)
https://archive.is/wfOzo
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21) Abolish the Postal Service
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Five years ago, the Postal Service came up with a 10-year plan for fortifying its financial situation. That was after it had lost $14 billion over a period of 14 years. For the past five years, however, the financial situation has not gotten any better. … Thus, to resolve its crisis, the Postal Service is asking Congress to permit it to borrow more money and to charge more for postage. But does anyone really think that borrowing more money and charging consumers more for postage is going to resolve the Postal Service’s financial woes? There is another solution, one that seemingly hasn’t yet entered the minds of the members of Congress: Simply abolish the Postal Service.” (03/19/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/19/abolish-the-postal-service-3/
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22) Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Since Congress hasn’t declared war, the executive branch has no authority to wage war. Congress shouldn’t fund something that only Congress has the power to approve when it hasn’t exercised that power. … The beauty of the situation is that all Congress has to do to take control of the situation is the same thing it’s been doing: Sit on its hands, with one of those hands gripping the budgetary wallet tight. They don’t even have to say ‘no.’ They just have to NOT say ‘yes.’ … If Congress doesn’t even possess the testicular fortitude to refrain from shelling out billions every time Hegseth sticks his hand out, what is Congress even good for? The question kind of answers itself.” (03/19/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20455
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23) Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link. When FBI Director Christopher Wray was confronted with evidence of this purchase in 2021, he stated under oath at a congressional hearing that his agents did not and would not use it; but they bought it because they wanted to understand how it worked. … Not trusting his own FBI director, President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2023 prohibiting the use of this software by any employee of the federal government except for true national security emergencies. Last week, we learned that President Donald Trump quietly rescinded Biden’s executive order.” (03/19/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/03/18/silent-attacks-on-personal-freedom
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24) A Looming Entitlement Crisis
Source: Law & Liberty
by Leonidas Zelmanovitz
“Working taxpayers are encouraged to think of themselves as ‘lending’ money to the government to finance future benefits, but instead of the government investing those payments to generate the needed resources, those ‘loans’ are simply consumed by today’s retirees. This creates the monetary disequilibrium we experience today. Think now about bondholders. Savers believe that the instruments of public debt they own constitute wealth, even though that wealth has already been consumed and not invested. Distortions in interest and exchange rates follow from this disjunction. Either the wealth exists, or it does not, and at some point in the future, every society that creates false rights will have its day of reckoning. Unless something is done, it will be no different for the United States.” (03/19/26)
https://lawliberty.org/a-looming-entitlement-crisis/
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25) Congress Knows It Has a Spending Problem, But Won’t Fix It
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia
“At a recent Senate hearing on the fiscal outlook, legislators and budget experts said the quiet part out loud: the United States is running historically large deficits in non-crisis times, and we need to stop pretending that we can grow our way out of it. Washington’s problem isn’t ignorance. It’s that the only politically safe position is to acknowledge the debt crisis — and then do nothing to fix it.” (03/19/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/congress-knows-it-has-a-spending-problem-but-wont-fix-it/
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26) The Nuclear Disaster You Weren’t Thinking About: Searching for Solace in a Nuclearized World
Source: TomDispatch
by Joshua Frank
“Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for ‘peaceful’ nuclear power. With that in mind, let me revisit a moment when that reality should have become far clearer. I had crawled into bed on March 10, 2011, opened my phone, and scrolled through my Instagram feed. The app was still fairly new then, and I was only following a dozen or so accounts, several from Japan. One amateur photographer there had posted photos minutes earlier of a fractured sidewalk and a toppled bookshelf. A massive earthquake had just rattled Tokyo.” [editor’s note: The fearmongerers continue to ignore the advances in “safe” nukes as a viable power source – SAT] (03/19/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/searching-for-solace-in-a-nuclearized-world/
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27) Malaysia’s Resurgence
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“In the last month, the small nation of Malaysia has risen in the views of global investors. Drawn by the country’s political stability and economic growth, investors increasingly consider Malaysia a safe method for diversification in the Pacific region amid a softening US dollar and a tumultuous global economy. In 2025 alone, investors poured over $5 billion into local currency debt—the highest in the region — leading to the Malaysian currency, the Ringgit, reaching its highest point since 2018. … This resurgence from the 1MDB scandal of 2020, that saw billions of government money disappear, should not be read as accidental or a mere coincidence of location, though that’s part of it: Malaysia sits in a ‘sweet spot between low-yielders, such as Singapore, Thailand, and South Korea, and high-yielders such as Indonesia and India, which come with their own set of risks,’ according to portfolio manager at Eastspring Investments, Rong Ren Goh.” (03/19/26)
https://fee.org/articles/malaysias-resurgence/
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28) Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“More than 30 years ago, I was listening to an NPR interview with Paul Ehrlich, the late Stanford University biologist who became the nation’s top environmental guru. His comments were opposite of the truth but well-received by his interviewer. Despite the fact that he often made unwise and outrageous claims that governing elites turned into brutal, coercive policies that made life worse for some of the poorest people on the globe, elites treated Ehrlich as a hero. Knowledgeable people knew better.” (03/17/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/remembering-paul-ehrlich-even-if-we-would-rather-not
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29) Iran Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in southwestern Iran, reportedly in coordination with the United States. Now that a major red line for Tehran has been crossed, retaliatory strikes have already begun pummeling the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region, with Qatar reporting that its primary gas facility has sustained ‘significant damage’ from an attack after Iran issued evacuation warnings for energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Fuel prices are already surging.” (03/19/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/19/iran-is-forcing-the-world-to-care-about-us-israeli-warmongering/
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30) Modern Interface, Same Old Problem?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Christopher Dreisbach
“Since the nationwide rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines, federal health officials have repeatedly downplayed concerns about severe adverse events as ‘one in a million.’ Time and again, they reassured the public that if any true safety signals existed, their own monitoring systems, chiefly VAERS, would detect them. Yet when the vaccine-injured pointed to those very same VAERS statistics, often far above established signal thresholds, their concerns were abruptly dismissed because VAERS was deemed ‘unreliable.’ … the FDA now touts AEMS as a unified, intuitive platform that will draw vaccine, drug, and device reports into one place. Superficially, this represents a stark departure from the current Kafkaesque status quo of scattered databases and fragmented reporting pathways. But the fundamental problem has never been just fragmentation on the front end. It has been silence on the back end.” (03/19/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/modern-interface-same-old-problem/
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31) Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax
Source: Town Hall
by Veronique de Rugy
“I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez (the famous UC Berkeley economist who’s considered an architect of California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax) is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not just biased or misleading but egregiously wrong, I’m not being careless. I mean it. In a recent debate at Stanford University, Saez offered his central justification (apart from, you know, ‘billionaires are unfairly rich’): California’s hospitals need it because the federal government cut Medicaid through last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill. As Economic Policy Innovation Center researchers have repeatedly documented, under the Biden administration, Medicaid spending expanded by almost 60 percent, going from roughly $409 billion before the pandemic to $656 billion by 2025.” (03/19/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/veroniquederugy/2026/03/19/fact-vs-fiction-on-medicaid-and-the-wealth-tax-n2673080
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32) Being John Rawls
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“John Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, 1921. Not John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher (or, rather, John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher was also born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 21, 1921, but he is not the subject of our story). This is John Rawls the alcoholic. John Rawls the alcoholic was twelve when they lifted Prohibition. He partook immediately, and dropped out of school the following year, supporting himself through a combination of odd jobs, petty crime, and handouts. … as he entered his early fifties, the handouts started to dry up. … he ran into a man he’d once seen volunteering at Salvation Army, and asked him what had happened. ‘You haven’t heard?’ asked the volunteer. ‘None of the rich people donate to us anymore. They’re all giving to this group called the John Rawls Foundation.'” (03/19/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/being-john-rawls
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33) The Iran War: Don’t Blame Israel, Blame the Empire and Its Demagogue
Source: Common Dreams
by Peter F Crowley
“Israel has been a junior partner of the US empire’s Middle East policy since its military success in the 1967 Six Day War. While there are instances of Israel pushing the US into conflict, most directly in the US-Israel war against Iran in June 2025, the current war in Iran was driven by the US empire’s perceived interests plus the Trump factor. Israel has long been pressuring the US to fight Iran, but the empire did not find it worthwhile to initiate a full-scale war against the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress during the Obama era warned of an impending Iranian nuclear weapon. But, instead, President Barack Obama continued the diplomatic route through establishing the Iran Deal, ensuring Iran would not develop nuclear arms.” (03/19/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-and-trump-own-iran-war
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34) Seizing Iran’s “crown jewel” would be a suicide mission
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Harrison Mann
“President Donald Trump is reportedly considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, which he calls Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ because it houses a terminal that processes about 90% of Iran’s oil exports. After the U.S. bombed Kharg last week but spared its oil facilities, leading Iran hawks urged Trump to finish the job. ‘Mr. President: Take Kharg Island [and] this war is over!’ exhorted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), for his part, floated the idea that seizing the island is the perfect mission for the Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) now sailing toward the region. So why is capturing this once-obscure island suddenly on the tip of every Iran hawk’s tongue? And what happens if they get their way?” (03/19/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/kharg-island-iran/
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35) Can the market economy be trusted?
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“Some commentators are of the view that one cannot trust the market economy, which is seen as inherently unstable. If left free, the market economy could lead to self-destruction. Hence there is the need for the government and the central bank to manage the economy. It is held in this framework of thinking, that successful management could be achieved by influencing overall expenditure. In this way of thinking it is expenditure that generates income. An expenditure by one individual becomes the income of another individual. … Contrary to popular thinking, the key for economic growth is not an increase in demand but an increase in savings.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/03/can-the-market-economy-be-trusted/
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36) US warmongering hits historic level as Trump attacks three continents in three days
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“The United States made war on three continents over three days earlier this month, conducting attacks in Africa, Asia, and South America. During that span, the U.S. also struck a civilian boat in the Pacific Ocean. The globe-spanning scope of the attacks represents one of the few instances since World War II that the United States has been simultaneously involved in armed conflicts with such a wide geographic sweep.” (03/19/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/19/trump-world-wars-iran-somalia-boat-strikes/
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37) The big lift in intelligence from AI
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, news about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs has vacillated between two four-letter words: fear and hype. As a result, about two-thirds of Americans believe AI will lead to fewer jobs, while the overpromising of AI’s potential has helped lead to a similar proportion of Americans not using AI much or at all in their jobs. By last year, however, surveys of AI’s actual impact in the workplace had started to roll in. And many indicate a move toward enhancing the application of reason, analytical judgment, and other skills of humans – and redefining intelligence to levels beyond the limits of a machine or the brain. One federal survey in the New York-northern New Jersey area found that a large share of businesses using AI are retraining workers to utilize the technology with no significant reductions in employment.” (03/18/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0318/The-big-lift-in-intelligence-from-AI
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38) The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.
Source: Reason
by Jeffrey A Singer & Patrick Eddington
“Consider this scenario. You’ve recently received a government-subsidized biowearable. Accordingly, the authorities now know when you’re sleeping, because the device reports your sleep cycle, location, and daily movements in real time to a cloud server accessible through a legal process. It knows when you’re home. It knows when you leave. Those data are then obtained by an FBI field office (either through direct purchase or, if necessary, a legal process), because a federal prosecutor has decided that your criticism of immigration enforcement operations and your social media posts supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters constitute ‘incitement to violence’ against federal agents. Under the Trump administration’s elastic (and legally dubious) domestic terrorism definitions and designations, that is enough to open a criminal investigation. And because the government has known for weeks when you’re at home sleeping, it knows exactly when to break down your door.” (03/19/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/19/the-feds-are-investing-in-wearable-health-trackers-that-could-put-your-private-data-at-risk/
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39) Not One Dime for Aggression
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The Iran war is a betrayal of both U.S. interests and constitutional principles. This is a war initiated on the president’s whim. The people do not support it, Congress never authorized it, and our treaty commitments prohibit it. It should never have been allowed to start, but we can end our part in it by refusing to fund it.” (03/19/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/not-one-dime-for-aggression
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40) Arguing Against the State Without Hesitation
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“In 2008, a book appeared called Deleting the State: An Argument About Government. It was a trim volume, barely a hundred pages of actual text, but it hit me with the force of a hundred pounds from the very first page. As an undergraduate political science student, I had by that point read Robert Nozick, but I had yet to encounter Murray Rothbard or the broader Austrian and anarcho-capitalist tradition. Aeon Skoble’s book was therefore the first work I encountered that seriously challenged the legitimacy of the state itself. Now the Independent Institute has done a new generation of readers a service by issuing a second edition of this compact but provocative anarcho-capitalist work.” (03/19/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/arguing-against-the-state-without-hesitation
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41) The Quietest Government Shutdown
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“We’re in the midst of the quietest government shutdown in American history. For 34 days, funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been blocked in a standoff over the Trump administration’s deeply unpopular immigration enforcement, something the White House has finally realized is such a public opinion disaster that they’ve stopped calling it mass deportation. The biggest public-facing side of this shutdown is Transportation Security Administration workers, who have now worked without a paycheck for a month. But aside from frustration about longer airport security lines, there’s been little pressure on Washington to end the impasse. On Wednesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) had his confirmation hearing to run the department that currently has no funding. While his rhetoric was softer, he didn’t really offer many thoughts about the issues in the dispute.” (03/19/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/government-shutdown-trump-dhs-ice-cbp-funding-congress/
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42) It’s Official: Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed
Source: Foreign Policy
by Agathe Demarais
“All eyes are set on U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating war against Iran, but on the home front, things are not going well. Nearly one year after he launched a barrage of steep tariffs on what he called ‘Liberation Day,’ economists have crunched the numbers for 2025 — and they are not looking good for the White House. By Trump’s own yardstick — his three goals of making foreigners pay for doing business with the United States, narrowing the U.S. trade deficit, and punishing China — tariffs have clearly failed.” (03/19/26)
https://archive.is/zWigq
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43) Ted Cruz Is the Republican Kamala Harris
Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter
“Many consider J.D. Vance the heir apparent to Donald Trump’s MAGA legacy and the man to beat in the 2028 Republican presidential primaries — a state of affairs the Republican foreign policy establishment has never liked. Hawks have long worried that the vice president is too much of a foreign policy restrainer for their tastes (though Vance has often sounded more like neoconservatives in Trump’s second term). Still, neocons were giddy last week when polling showed that Marco Rubio’s numbers had improved against Vance, with the secretary of state being hawks’ main man in the 2016 GOP primaries and a figure who could repurpose ‘MAGA’ as the neoconservatism of old (though Trump seems to be doing this already, making Vance’s supposed 2028 inevitability less clear). But there could be more than one neocon champion in 2028.” (03/19/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ted-cruz-is-the-republican-kamala-harris/
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44) Trading Green
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Annalise Helm, Dominic Parker, & Garrett Shost
“How transferable tax credits supercharge conservation easements.” (03/18/26)
https://www.perc.org/2026/03/18/trading-green/
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45) FBI’s repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raise alarming red flags
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“The official response to my column Monday about the FBI’s failure to prevent four recent Islamic terror attacks has been unsatisfactory, to say the least, and the personal attacks by FBI Director Kash Patel’s private PR operatives have been downright deranged. None of which is reassuring when it comes to the FBI’s preparedness to handle a heightened terror threat on home soil. It’s not Patel’s fault that our foremost domestic counterterrorism agency has been degraded and politicized under his predecessors, but it’s his job to fix it fast and his defensiveness suggests a problem. The most alarming case involves Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a convicted ISIS terrorist who was on supervised federal release when he yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ and opened fire on an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., last Thursday, killing the instructor before being killed himself.” (03/19/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/opinion/miranda-devine-the-fbis-repeated-non-answers-on-us-terrorism-attacks-raises-alarming-red-flags/
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46) Are Spontaneous Order and neo-Aristotelian Arguments for a Free Society Compatible?
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins
“The defense of a free society has emerged from diverse intellectual traditions. One line of argument, associated with thinkers such as Friedrich A. Hayek, Gerald A. Gaus, Jonathan Haidt, and John Hasnas grounds liberty in cultural evolution, spontaneous order, epistemic limits, and moral psychology. From another direction, Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl have developed a neo-Aristotelian justification of natural rights rooted in individualistic perfectionism, virtue ethics, and the metanormative structure of political morality. These two traditions have often been viewed as distinct and divergent: the former emphasizing emergent social complexity, evolved rules, the limits of reason, and epistemological humility; the latter emphasizing teleological ethics, virtue, and the normative structure of human flourishing.” (03/18/26)
https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/03/are-spontaneous-order-and-neo.html
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47) The Iran War Could Hit a Lot More Than Oil
Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“Discussions of the Iran War’s economic effects understandably fixate on crude oil. The Strait of Hormuz, through which about 27 percent of the world’s seaborne petroleum supplies usually transits, has been effectively closed since the war started in late February, causing global oil and gasoline prices to spike — something both American drivers and politicians have surely noticed. … Yet the strait is a lot more than an oil pipeline, and the Iran War’s economic effects are about a lot more than just oil. Roughly 11 percent of global maritime trade transits the strait each year—a lot of it crude oil and liquid natural gas, yes, but also loads of minerals and energy-intensive commodities …. The Iran conflict has also spread beyond Iran and the strait itself, in the process threatening major Middle Eastern production and shipping hubs for other important goods.” (03/18/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/iran-war-could-hit-lot-more-oil
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48) Looking back: Alarmism and fearmongering in 1968
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“1968 was an interesting year. Several of us here at The Price of Liberty recall that rather fateful year. For us, the impact of events of 1968 still is resonating around the world, and especially the States, in 2026.” (03/18/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/03/18/lookiing-back-alarmism-and-fearmongering-in-1968/
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49) A Snapshot of the Possible
Source: In These Times
by Alex Han
“In 2023, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party held a slim, single-seat majority in the Minnesota State Senate and control of the State House and Governor’s Mansion. It had been a decade since the last Democratic trifecta in the state, which like many similar moments of prior eras, produced only incremental wins for progressives and the Left. Since the financial crisis and Great Recession of the early Obama era, a core group of community and union organizers in Minnesota had been building what they called ‘alignment’. It would go beyond the traditional coalitions so many of us were used to — ones coalesced around a single fight but too pragmatic to inspire people to action. Real power building, I was told, would require something different: An ability to work across organizations and ideologies while holding up bigger sets of common, universal demands.” (03/19/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minnesota-miracle-ice-out-community-coalition-building-organizing-unions-labor
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50) The President of Peace’s New War
Source: Independent Institute
by Sam Jenson
“On February 28th, the United States launched Operation Epic Fury. The goal of this operation, according to the White House, is to eliminate the threat of the Iranian regime. This is yet another attempt at regime change in the Middle East. While Donald Trump boasts about his new gold curtains, eleven United States service members have been killed, and it is estimated that the first twelve days of the war have cost a staggering $16.5 billion. Donald Trump promised peace during his second term; instead, he has involved the United States in a new conflict. This war was initiated without congressional approval, is financially reckless, and could have been avoided. When Donald Trump won re-election in November 2024, he made the promise, ‘I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.'” (03/18/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/18/president-peace-iran-war/
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51) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 03/19/26
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“How foreign censors target American speakers.” (03/19/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/how-foreign-censors-target-american-speakers
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52) The Permanent Problem, episode 12
Source: Niskanen Center
“MAGA intellectuals with Laura Field.” (03/19/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/maga-intellectuals-with-laura-field/
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53) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/19/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump & Netanyahu: Who’s the boss? Maybe we’ll find out.” (03/19/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qGvvkmyQeeGB
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54) Underthrow Podcast, 03/19/26
Source: Underthrow
“Creating Permissionless Parallel Polities with @jimruttshow.” (03/19/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeOFmr6o18
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55) Libertarian Angle, 03/19/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Causes of Poverty and Wealth.” (03/19/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvwoyWgZzc
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56) The Fifth Column, episode 549
Source: The Fifth Column
“There’s Always a New Monster to Destroy (w/ Noam Dworman).” (03/19/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/theres-always-a-new-monster-to-destroy
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57) The Liberty Exchange, episode 25
Source: The Liberty Exchange
“Free Speech is for Losers: A Conversation with Bruce Pardy.” (03/19/26)
https://shows.acast.com/the-liberty-exchange/episodes/free-speech-is-for-losers-a-conversation-with-bruce-pardy
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58) Capital Record, episode 289
Source: National Review
“Industrial Policy for Me but Not for Thee.” (03/19/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/industrial-policy-for-me-but-not-for-thee/
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59) This Day In Liberty History: Kronstadt
Source: LP Alliance
“Join Amanda and Kyle for a discussion on the Kronstadt Rebellion!” (03/19/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNCSvjwvC0I
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60) Gracearchy with Jim Babka, episode 156
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“The Latest Attack on Tom Massie, Reading Between the Lines.” (03/19/26)
https://rumble.com/v772jpm-156-the-latest-attack-on-tom-massie-reading-between-the-lines-gracearchy-wi.html
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61) The Science of Politics, 03/18/26
Source: Niskanen Center
“The intellectual support for Trumpism.” (03/18/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-intellectual-support-for-trumpism/
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62) Kibbe on Liberty, episode 377
Source: Free the People
“There’s No Easy Way Out of This War | Guest: Scott Horton.” (03/18/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eHLmNAV3wc
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63) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 03/18/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Darryl Cooper: Khamenei Martyred, Iran in Chaos — What the West Isn’t Telling You.” (03/18/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-darryl-cooper-khamenei-martyred-iran-in-chaos-what-the-west-isnt-telling-you/
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64) ReImagining Liberty, episode 98
Source: ReImagining Liberty
“The Practice and Inner Life of Liberalism (w/ Jason Canon).” (03/18/26)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/098-the-practice-and-inner-life-of-liberalism-w-jason-canon/id1614436300?i=1000755952591
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65) What Then Must We Do?, 03/18/26
Source: What Then Must We Do?
“What’s So Great About Lent? A Conversation With Domenic Scarcella.” (03/18/26)
https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/756260/episodes/18869725-what-s-so-great-about-lent-a-conversation-with-domenic-scarcella.mp3
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Iran war: IRGC spokesman killed in missile strike; dueling energy attacks continue
2) US applications for jobless benefits fall to 205,000 last week as layoffs remain historically low
3) UK: Investigators seek US DOJ’s help in investigations of Epstein associates
4) FL: Comey subpoenaed in 2016 election probe
5) Australia: Tropical Cyclone Narelle weakens after lashing northeast
6) Russia: Pro-Kremlin blogger “admitted to psychiatric unit” after turning on Putin
7) Norway: Rape trial of crown princess’s son closes with prosecutors seeking 7+ years in prison
8) UK: Spacey settles sex assault claims out of court ahead of civil trial
9) Eli Lilly’s next-generation obesity drug retatrutide clears first late-stage diabetes trial
10) Congolese, Rwandan regimes agree on steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo
11) Iran: Regime thugs kill 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings
12) OH: Afroman beats cops’ frivolous lawsuit
13) CA: Trans athlete agenda suffers another legal blow after attempt to undercut SCOTUS order fails
14) France: Appeals court rejects regime’s bid to suspend Shein
15) US states sue Trump over his move to scrap greenhouse gases ruling
16) Dog bites man: Senate Republicans vote against being US Senators again
17) California leaders react to Cesar Chavez abuse allegations
18) Orbán’s last stand: EU braces for showdown over €90 billion Ukraine loan
19) Trump regime launches investigation of states that mandate health insurance to cover abortion
20) Dolores Huerta accuses César Chávez of sexual abuse amid wider claims
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Abolish the Postal Service
22) Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should.
23) Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
24) A Looming Entitlement Crisis
25) Congress Knows It Has a Spending Problem, But Won’t Fix It
26) The Nuclear Disaster You Weren’t Thinking About: Searching for Solace in a Nuclearized World
27) Malaysia’s Resurgence
28) Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)
29) Iran Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering
30) Modern Interface, Same Old Problem?
31) Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax
32) Being John Rawls
33) The Iran War: Don’t Blame Israel, Blame the Empire and Its Demagogue
34) Seizing Iran’s “crown jewel” would be a suicide mission
35) Can the market economy be trusted?
36) US warmongering hits historic level as Trump attacks three continents in three days
37) The big lift in intelligence from AI
38) The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.
39) Not One Dime for Aggression
40) Arguing Against the State Without Hesitation
41) The Quietest Government Shutdown
42) It’s Official: Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed
43) Ted Cruz Is the Republican Kamala Harris
44) Trading Green
45) FBI’s repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raise alarming red flags
46) Are Spontaneous Order and neo-Aristotelian Arguments for a Free Society Compatible?
47) The Iran War Could Hit a Lot More Than Oil
48) Looking back: Alarmism and fearmongering in 1968
49) A Snapshot of the Possible
50) The President of Peace’s New War
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
51) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 03/19/26
52) The Permanent Problem, episode 12
53) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/19/26
54) Underthrow Podcast, 03/19/26
55) Libertarian Angle, 03/19/26
56) The Fifth Column, episode 549
57) The Liberty Exchange, episode 25
58) Capital Record, episode 289
59) This Day In Liberty History: Kronstadt
60) Gracearchy with Jim Babka, episode 156
61) The Science of Politics, 03/18/26
62) Kibbe on Liberty, episode 377
63) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 03/18/26
64) ReImagining Liberty, episode 98
65) What Then Must We Do?, 03/18/26
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1) Iran war: IRGC spokesman killed in missile strike; dueling energy attacks continue
Source: NBC News
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirms that General Ali Mohammad Naeini, its spokesperson, has been killed in an Israeli-US missile attack. … Israel’s Oil Refineries, a refining and petrochemicals company, says an Iranian attack on its complex in Haifa has damaged essential infrastructure. … Iran’s attack on the Ras Laffan gas facility will cut Qatar’s liquefied natural gas export capacity by an estimated 17 percent, which could disrupt supplies to Europe, Asia and beyond. … Millions of Muslims across the Middle East celebrate Eid while Iran also marks Nowruz under the threat of war.” (03/20/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/20/iran-war-live-tehran-warns-of-intensified-strikes-if-energy-sites-targeted
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2) US applications for jobless benefits fall to 205,000 last week as layoffs remain historically low
Source: Seattle Times
“U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell last week, remaining in the same range of recent years despite a broadly tepid labor market. The number of Americans filing for jobless aid for the week ending March 14 fell by 8,000 from the previous week to 205,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s fewer than the 215,000 new filings analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet were expecting. Filings for unemployment benefits are viewed as a proxy for U.S. layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the job market.” (03/19/26)
https://archive.is/3i7kd
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3) UK: Investigators seek US DOJ’s help in investigations of Epstein associates
Source: Politico
“British authorities are seeking the cooperation of the Justice Department as they pursue investigations arising from the Epstein files, the commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said in an interview Wednesday. Commissioner Mark Rowley declined to opine on why the files have resulted in the arrests of two high-profile figures in the U.K. — Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, and former ambassador to the U.S. Peter Mandelson — while U.S. authorities have made no arrests or charges in the wake of the files’ release. But Rowley touted British authorities’ willingness to pursue ’eminent’ figures. … He said communication between British and American law enforcement is a precursor to more formal requests British authorities intend to file, including mutual legal assistance treaty — or MLAT — requests.” (03/19/26)
https://archive.is/8vSE4
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4) FL: Comey subpoenaed in 2016 election probe
Source: The Hill
“Federal prosecutors in Florida have subpoenaed former FBI Director James Comey as part of a wide-ranging probe into a prior investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. NewsNation, The Hill’s sister network, confirmed Comey was subpoenaed in the probe, which is also reviewing the previous investigations into President Trump, including the work of Obama-era intelligence officials. … The probe in Florida has sought information from several former officials, with both NBC and CBS reporting that at least 130 subpoenas have been issued since the investigation began last year. That group includes a number of those previously targeted by Trump, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.” (03/19/26)
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5792806-comey-subpoenaed-in-2016-election-probe-in-florida
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5) Australia: Tropical Cyclone Narelle weakens after lashing northeast
Source: Reuters
“Severe tropical cyclone Narelle was losing strength on Friday after bringing destructive winds, heavy rain and power outages to Australia’s northeast coast that prompted authorities to warn people to stay indoors. Narelle was packing wind speeds reaching about 195 kph (120 mph), authorities said, when it hit land in remote parts of the far north region of Queensland state as a category four system, a rung short of the strongest.” (03/20/26)
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/australias-northeast-braces-severe-tropical-cyclone-narelle-2026-03-19/
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6) Russia: Pro-Kremlin blogger “admitted to psychiatric unit” after turning on Putin
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A pro-Kremlin figure who unexpectedly denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine in a social media post this week that went viral has been placed in a psychiatric facility, Russian media reported on Thursday. Ilya Remeslo made a career denouncing Putin’s critics until he became one himself, posting a manifesto late on Tuesday to his 90,000 followers on Telegram entitled: ‘Five reasons why I stopped supporting Vladimir Putin.’ He said Putin had prosecuted a ‘failing war’ in Ukraine that had killed millions and torpedoed Russia’s economy to the detriment of its citizens’ well-being. ‘Vladimir Putin is not a legitimate president. Vladimir Putin must resign and be brought to trial as a war criminal and a thief,’ Remeslo wrote in his post. … On Thursday, St Petersburg’s Fontanka newspaper reported Remeslo had been hospitalised in the city’s Psychiatric Hospital No 3.” (03/19/26)
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3347211/pro-kremlin-russian-blogger-who-turned-putin-sent-psychiatric-unit
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7) Norway: Rape trial of crown princess’s son closes with prosecutors seeking 7+ years in prison
Source: ABC News
“Lawyers for the eldest son of Norway’s crown princess called on Thursday for his acquittal on charges of rape, as six weeks of high-profile court proceedings that have cast a shadow over the royal family drew to a close. Prosecutors this week sought a prison sentence of seven years and seven months for Marius Borg Høiby, who denies the rape allegations. A verdict is expected at a later date. … He is charged with 40 offenses in total, including four counts of rape between 2018 and 2024 involving women who prosecutors say were unable to give consent because they were asleep or otherwise incapacitated. Defense lawyers for Høiby, who has no royal titles or official duties, said that there was no evidence of rape in any of the cases.” (03/19/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/rape-trial-norway-crown-princesss-son-closes-prosecutors-131217002
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8) UK: Spacey settles sex assault claims out of court ahead of civil trial
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“Three men who alleged that actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted them have settled their civil claims before going to trial at the High Court in London, court documents show. The three men alleged that the Academy Award-winning star abused them at times between 2000 and 2013. Spacey has denied the allegations. Civil trials were due to start later this year, but case judge Christina Lambert last week ordered the proceedings paused, saying the parties had ‘agreed to the terms of the settlement.’ … Spacey, now 66, was tried in London in 2023 on nine alleged sex offenses against four men, and acquitted on all counts. … Spacey also successfully defended himself against a $40 million US civil lawsuit in New York in 2022 brought by Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/kevin-spacey-settles-assault-claims-9.7134457
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9) Eli Lilly’s next-generation obesity drug retatrutide clears first late-stage diabetes trial
Source: CNBC
“Eli Lilly on Thursday said its next-generation obesity drug retatrutide cleared its first late-stage trial on Type 2 diabetes patients, helping them manage their blood sugar levels and lose weight. The drug lowered hemoglobin A1c — a key measure of blood sugar levels — by an average of 1.7% to 2% across different doses at 40 weeks compared with placebo, meeting the study’s main goal. Patients started the trial with an A1c in the range of 7% to 9.5%, and were not taking other diabetes medications.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/19/eli-lillys-obesity-drug-retatrutide-clears-late-stage-diabetes-trial.html
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10) Congolese, Rwandan regimes agree on steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo
Source: ABC News
“Congolese and Rwandan officials met in the United States and agreed on coordinated steps to de-escalate tensions in eastern Congo, where government troops are fighting rebels backed by neighboring Rwanda, according to a joint statement. The statement issued by the Congolese, Rwandan and U.S. governments said that Congolese and Rwandan officials met on Tuesday and Wednesday to advance progress in eastern Congo as peace efforts led by the U.S. and partners including Qatar have stalled and violence continued. The mineral-rich eastern Congo has been battered by decades of unrest as government forces fight more than 100 armed groups, the most potent the M23 rebel group backed by Rwanda.” (03/19/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/congo-rwanda-agree-steps-de-escalate-tensions-eastern-131211314
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11) Iran: Regime thugs kill 19-year-old champion wrestler Saleh Mohammadi, two others in horrific public hangings
Source: New York Post
“Iran executed a 19-year-old champion wrestler in a public hanging Thursday along with two other people who were arrested during the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters in January. Saleh Mohammadi, a rising star from Qom, was allegedly tortured to confess to the capital crime of waging war against God, with the teen executed without a fair trial, according to human rights groups. ‘His execution was a blatant political murder, part of the Islamic Republic’s pattern of targeting athletes to crush dissent and terrorize society,’ Nima Far, a human rights activist and Iranian combat athlete, told Fox News. Mohammadi, along with fellow protesters Mehdi Ghasemi and Saeed Davoudi, were accused of killing two police officers ‘with knives and swords’ during the January protests, according to Iranian state media. Mohammadi was arrested during the brutal crackdown on anti-regime protesters in January.” (03/19/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/19/world-news/iran-executes-19-year-old-champion-wrestler-saleh-mohammadi-two-others/
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12) OH: Afroman beats cops’ frivolous lawsuit
Source: CBC News [Canadian state media]
“The Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman won a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s deputies who sued him over music videos in which he used home security footage to mock their raid of his home. ‘We did it, America! Yeah, we did it! Freedom of speech! Right on! Right on!’ the 51-year-old rapper, born Joseph Foreman, shouted outside the courthouse after the Wednesday evening verdict. … The Adams County deputies [whined that] they were publicly harassed over the viral videos, which were viewed more than three million times on YouTube. The videos show rifle-wielding deputies busting down Afroman’s door, searching his shoes and suit pockets, and hungrily eyeing a cake on the kitchen table, inspiring one song’s title, Lemon Pound Cake. In other music videos, Afroman took aim at the deputies’ personal lives and called them ‘crooked cops’ because of $400 that went missing in the raid.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/afroman-wins-defamation-lawsuit-9.7134433
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13) CA: Trans athlete agenda suffers another legal blow after attempt to undercut SCOTUS order fails
Source: Fox News
“Conservatives [sic] celebrated Tuesday after a federal appeals court denied California’s request to narrow a Supreme Court ruling on transgender policies, two weeks after the high court dealt the state a major blow in the same case. ‘California has now lost at the district court, lost at the Supreme Court, and been turned away by the Ninth Circuit,’ Executive Vice President of the Thomas More Society Peter Breen said in a statement. ‘The state has repeatedly tried to paint parents who don’t immediately accept their children’s assertion of a new name and gender as ‘abusive.’ The courts have resoundingly rejected that premise.’ The Supreme Court had temporarily blocked California officials on March 2 from interfering with school policies that require parents to be notified if their child identifies as transgender.” (03/19/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/californias-trans-agenda-suffers-another-legal-blow-after-attempt-undercut-scotus-order-fails
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14) France: Appeals court rejects regime’s bid to suspend Shein
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“France’s attempt to suspend Chinese online platform Shein’s marketplace was rejected by a Paris Court of Appeal on Thursday, after a Paris court had already ruled against the government’s request in December. Shein has been embroiled in a scandal since France’s consumer watchdog found sex dolls resembling children and banned weapons for sale on its marketplace in November, prompting the government to attempt to suspend the platform.” (03/19/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260319-paris-appeals-court-rejects-french-govenment-bid-to-suspend-shein
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15) US states sue Trump over his move to scrap greenhouse gases ruling
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“Three dozen state and local governments have challenged the Trump administration’s reversal of a landmark Obama-era scientific ruling which held that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health. The lawsuit seeks to overturn the administration’s repeal last month of the 2009 ‘endangerment finding’ that underpins US policies aimed at lowering emissions from cars, power plants and other sources of planet-warming emissions. Several environmental organisations filed a similar lawsuit last month. President Donald Trump touted the climate change rollback as a major achievement, calling it a victory over the Democratic Party’s ‘radical’ energy and climate policies. The petition filed in the US Court of Appeals argues that overturning the ‘endangerment finding’ violated provisions in the Clean Air Act. The group challenging the administration includes 23 states and 17 cities, counties and state agencies, among them New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.” (03/19/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr51n6j9qvzo
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16) Dog bites man: Senate Republicans vote against being US Senators again
Source: United Press International
“Senate Republicans have blocked a Democrat-led effort to curb President Donald Trump’s powers to wage war against Iran, as the nearly three-week-old conflict escalates and rattles global energy markets. The Senate voted 53-47 mostly along party lines Wednesday night to reject a resolution that would withdraw U.S. armed forces from conflict with Iran absent congressional approval. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only Republican to join his Democratic colleagues and vote in favor of the motion, while Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only member of his caucus to vote against it.” [editor’s note: They continue to pretend it’s the opposite of what it is. Without congressional APPROVAL in the form of a declaration of war, the war is illegal; failing to vote AGAINST it doesn’t magically make it legal – TLK] (03/19/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/03/19/Senate-vote-war-powers/6951773909421/
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17) California leaders react to Cesar Chavez abuse allegations
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“US civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who was known for advocating for the rights of farm workers, has been accused of sexual abuse. Dolores Huerta said in the 1960s, Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union (UFW) with her, once ‘manipulated and pressured’ her into having sex, and on another occasion forced her. It comes after the New York Times published an investigation that detailed allegations from Huerta and two other women, who said Chavez groomed and sexually abused girls who were involved in the labour movement during the 1960s and 1970s. Chavez, who died in 1993 aged 66, rallied California’s farmworkers from the 1950s to push for improvements in working conditions, and led national boycotts and marches. The news has prompted Los Angeles and other communities to consider renaming places, schools, and streets named after Chavez.” (03/19/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c8dlpm33jg9o
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18) Orbán’s last stand: EU braces for showdown over €90 billion Ukraine loan
Source: Politico
“For much of the past decade, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has succeeded in bending the EU’s agenda to his will by forcing leaders to overcome his vetoes in one high-level gathering after another. On Thursday he’s ready to do it again — possibly for the last time as he faces a tough battle for reelection against rival Péter Magyar next month. By threatening to block, at a gathering of EU leaders in Brussels, a €90 billion loan for Ukraine that he’d approved in December, Orbán has crossed a red line when it comes to opposing Brussels. In doing so he is setting himself up for a reckoning with the bloc that could come soon after the Hungarian election, five EU diplomats and one national European government cabinet minister said.” (03/19/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/viktor-orban-last-stand-eu-braces-showdown-over-e90b-ukraine-loan
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19) Trump regime launches investigation of states that mandate health insurance to cover abortion
Source: SFGate
“The Trump administration said Thursday that it has launched investigations into 13 states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion. The probes are the latest in a long-running dispute between the political parties on how to interpret a provision, known as the Weldon Amendment, that’s included in federal spending laws each year. It bars states from discriminating against health entities that don’t provide, cover or refer for abortion. When Democrat Joe Biden was president, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ civil rights office said the provision didn’t pertain to employers or other health care sponsors. The Trump administration said this year that it does. The administration says that potentially puts states with abortion coverage requirements in violation of the law, because they may not allow employers or other health care issuers to opt out. It said it was sending out letters to gather more information from those states.” (03/19/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/trump-administration-launches-investigation-of-22085807.php
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20) Dolores Huerta accuses César Chávez of sexual abuse amid wider claims
Source: Axios
“Labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta said Wednesday that she was sexually abused by farmworker leader César Chávez decades ago, becoming the most high-profile figure to accuse him of misconduct. The allegation comes as the United Farm Workers union grapples with reports that their former leader abused girls and young women, prompting the cancellation of tributes and celebrations in his honor. Huerta worked alongside Chávez for decades, helping found the UFW with him and fellow activist Gilbert Padilla.” (03/18/26)
https://archive.is/wfOzo
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21) Abolish the Postal Service
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Five years ago, the Postal Service came up with a 10-year plan for fortifying its financial situation. That was after it had lost $14 billion over a period of 14 years. For the past five years, however, the financial situation has not gotten any better. … Thus, to resolve its crisis, the Postal Service is asking Congress to permit it to borrow more money and to charge more for postage. But does anyone really think that borrowing more money and charging consumers more for postage is going to resolve the Postal Service’s financial woes? There is another solution, one that seemingly hasn’t yet entered the minds of the members of Congress: Simply abolish the Postal Service.” (03/19/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/03/19/abolish-the-postal-service-3/
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22) Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Since Congress hasn’t declared war, the executive branch has no authority to wage war. Congress shouldn’t fund something that only Congress has the power to approve when it hasn’t exercised that power. … The beauty of the situation is that all Congress has to do to take control of the situation is the same thing it’s been doing: Sit on its hands, with one of those hands gripping the budgetary wallet tight. They don’t even have to say ‘no.’ They just have to NOT say ‘yes.’ … If Congress doesn’t even possess the testicular fortitude to refrain from shelling out billions every time Hegseth sticks his hand out, what is Congress even good for? The question kind of answers itself.” (03/19/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20455
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23) Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“During the first Trump administration, the FBI quietly spent $5 million on Pegasus, an Israeli-developed software product known generically as zero click. Zero click permits the user to download the contents of another mobile or desktop device without tricking the user of that device into clicking on a viral link. When FBI Director Christopher Wray was confronted with evidence of this purchase in 2021, he stated under oath at a congressional hearing that his agents did not and would not use it; but they bought it because they wanted to understand how it worked. … Not trusting his own FBI director, President Joe Biden signed an executive order in 2023 prohibiting the use of this software by any employee of the federal government except for true national security emergencies. Last week, we learned that President Donald Trump quietly rescinded Biden’s executive order.” (03/19/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/03/18/silent-attacks-on-personal-freedom
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24) A Looming Entitlement Crisis
Source: Law & Liberty
by Leonidas Zelmanovitz
“Working taxpayers are encouraged to think of themselves as ‘lending’ money to the government to finance future benefits, but instead of the government investing those payments to generate the needed resources, those ‘loans’ are simply consumed by today’s retirees. This creates the monetary disequilibrium we experience today. Think now about bondholders. Savers believe that the instruments of public debt they own constitute wealth, even though that wealth has already been consumed and not invested. Distortions in interest and exchange rates follow from this disjunction. Either the wealth exists, or it does not, and at some point in the future, every society that creates false rights will have its day of reckoning. Unless something is done, it will be no different for the United States.” (03/19/26)
https://lawliberty.org/a-looming-entitlement-crisis/
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25) Congress Knows It Has a Spending Problem, But Won’t Fix It
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia
“At a recent Senate hearing on the fiscal outlook, legislators and budget experts said the quiet part out loud: the United States is running historically large deficits in non-crisis times, and we need to stop pretending that we can grow our way out of it. Washington’s problem isn’t ignorance. It’s that the only politically safe position is to acknowledge the debt crisis — and then do nothing to fix it.” (03/19/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/congress-knows-it-has-a-spending-problem-but-wont-fix-it/
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26) The Nuclear Disaster You Weren’t Thinking About: Searching for Solace in a Nuclearized World
Source: TomDispatch
by Joshua Frank
“Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction, we often overlook the risks associated with what still passes for ‘peaceful’ nuclear power. With that in mind, let me revisit a moment when that reality should have become far clearer. I had crawled into bed on March 10, 2011, opened my phone, and scrolled through my Instagram feed. The app was still fairly new then, and I was only following a dozen or so accounts, several from Japan. One amateur photographer there had posted photos minutes earlier of a fractured sidewalk and a toppled bookshelf. A massive earthquake had just rattled Tokyo.” [editor’s note: The fearmongerers continue to ignore the advances in “safe” nukes as a viable power source – SAT] (03/19/26)
https://tomdispatch.com/searching-for-solace-in-a-nuclearized-world/
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27) Malaysia’s Resurgence
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Jake Scott
“In the last month, the small nation of Malaysia has risen in the views of global investors. Drawn by the country’s political stability and economic growth, investors increasingly consider Malaysia a safe method for diversification in the Pacific region amid a softening US dollar and a tumultuous global economy. In 2025 alone, investors poured over $5 billion into local currency debt—the highest in the region — leading to the Malaysian currency, the Ringgit, reaching its highest point since 2018. … This resurgence from the 1MDB scandal of 2020, that saw billions of government money disappear, should not be read as accidental or a mere coincidence of location, though that’s part of it: Malaysia sits in a ‘sweet spot between low-yielders, such as Singapore, Thailand, and South Korea, and high-yielders such as Indonesia and India, which come with their own set of risks,’ according to portfolio manager at Eastspring Investments, Rong Ren Goh.” (03/19/26)
https://fee.org/articles/malaysias-resurgence/
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28) Remembering Paul Ehrlich (Even If We Would Rather Not)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by William L Anderson
“More than 30 years ago, I was listening to an NPR interview with Paul Ehrlich, the late Stanford University biologist who became the nation’s top environmental guru. His comments were opposite of the truth but well-received by his interviewer. Despite the fact that he often made unwise and outrageous claims that governing elites turned into brutal, coercive policies that made life worse for some of the poorest people on the globe, elites treated Ehrlich as a hero. Knowledgeable people knew better.” (03/17/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/remembering-paul-ehrlich-even-if-we-would-rather-not
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29) Iran Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Westerners are about to start paying a lot more attention to the war in Iran as massive US-Israeli escalations point to a coming energy crisis set to impact the whole world. Israel has bombed the world’s largest natural gas field in southwestern Iran, reportedly in coordination with the United States. Now that a major red line for Tehran has been crossed, retaliatory strikes have already begun pummeling the energy infrastructure of US allies in the region, with Qatar reporting that its primary gas facility has sustained ‘significant damage’ from an attack after Iran issued evacuation warnings for energy facilities in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Fuel prices are already surging.” (03/19/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/19/iran-is-forcing-the-world-to-care-about-us-israeli-warmongering/
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30) Modern Interface, Same Old Problem?
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Christopher Dreisbach
“Since the nationwide rollout of the Covid-19 vaccines, federal health officials have repeatedly downplayed concerns about severe adverse events as ‘one in a million.’ Time and again, they reassured the public that if any true safety signals existed, their own monitoring systems, chiefly VAERS, would detect them. Yet when the vaccine-injured pointed to those very same VAERS statistics, often far above established signal thresholds, their concerns were abruptly dismissed because VAERS was deemed ‘unreliable.’ … the FDA now touts AEMS as a unified, intuitive platform that will draw vaccine, drug, and device reports into one place. Superficially, this represents a stark departure from the current Kafkaesque status quo of scattered databases and fragmented reporting pathways. But the fundamental problem has never been just fragmentation on the front end. It has been silence on the back end.” (03/19/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/modern-interface-same-old-problem/
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31) Fact vs. Fiction on Medicaid and the Wealth Tax
Source: Town Hall
by Veronique de Rugy
“I try to be fair to people I disagree with. Emmanuel Saez (the famous UC Berkeley economist who’s considered an architect of California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax) is someone I read carefully, even when I find his income-inequality work unconvincing. So, when I say that his arguments for the wealth tax are not just biased or misleading but egregiously wrong, I’m not being careless. I mean it. In a recent debate at Stanford University, Saez offered his central justification (apart from, you know, ‘billionaires are unfairly rich’): California’s hospitals need it because the federal government cut Medicaid through last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill. As Economic Policy Innovation Center researchers have repeatedly documented, under the Biden administration, Medicaid spending expanded by almost 60 percent, going from roughly $409 billion before the pandemic to $656 billion by 2025.” (03/19/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/veroniquederugy/2026/03/19/fact-vs-fiction-on-medicaid-and-the-wealth-tax-n2673080
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32) Being John Rawls
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“John Rawls was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 21, 1921. Not John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher (or, rather, John Rawls the famous liberal philosopher was also born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 21, 1921, but he is not the subject of our story). This is John Rawls the alcoholic. John Rawls the alcoholic was twelve when they lifted Prohibition. He partook immediately, and dropped out of school the following year, supporting himself through a combination of odd jobs, petty crime, and handouts. … as he entered his early fifties, the handouts started to dry up. … he ran into a man he’d once seen volunteering at Salvation Army, and asked him what had happened. ‘You haven’t heard?’ asked the volunteer. ‘None of the rich people donate to us anymore. They’re all giving to this group called the John Rawls Foundation.'” (03/19/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/being-john-rawls
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33) The Iran War: Don’t Blame Israel, Blame the Empire and Its Demagogue
Source: Common Dreams
by Peter F Crowley
“Israel has been a junior partner of the US empire’s Middle East policy since its military success in the 1967 Six Day War. While there are instances of Israel pushing the US into conflict, most directly in the US-Israel war against Iran in June 2025, the current war in Iran was driven by the US empire’s perceived interests plus the Trump factor. Israel has long been pressuring the US to fight Iran, but the empire did not find it worthwhile to initiate a full-scale war against the country. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the US Congress during the Obama era warned of an impending Iranian nuclear weapon. But, instead, President Barack Obama continued the diplomatic route through establishing the Iran Deal, ensuring Iran would not develop nuclear arms.” (03/19/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-and-trump-own-iran-war
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34) Seizing Iran’s “crown jewel” would be a suicide mission
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Harrison Mann
“President Donald Trump is reportedly considering seizing Iran’s Kharg Island, which he calls Iran’s ‘crown jewel’ because it houses a terminal that processes about 90% of Iran’s oil exports. After the U.S. bombed Kharg last week but spared its oil facilities, leading Iran hawks urged Trump to finish the job. ‘Mr. President: Take Kharg Island [and] this war is over!’ exhorted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), for his part, floated the idea that seizing the island is the perfect mission for the Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) now sailing toward the region. So why is capturing this once-obscure island suddenly on the tip of every Iran hawk’s tongue? And what happens if they get their way?” (03/19/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/kharg-island-iran/
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35) Can the market economy be trusted?
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“Some commentators are of the view that one cannot trust the market economy, which is seen as inherently unstable. If left free, the market economy could lead to self-destruction. Hence there is the need for the government and the central bank to manage the economy. It is held in this framework of thinking, that successful management could be achieved by influencing overall expenditure. In this way of thinking it is expenditure that generates income. An expenditure by one individual becomes the income of another individual. … Contrary to popular thinking, the key for economic growth is not an increase in demand but an increase in savings.” (03/19/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/03/can-the-market-economy-be-trusted/
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36) US warmongering hits historic level as Trump attacks three continents in three days
Source: The Intercept
by Nick Turse
“The United States made war on three continents over three days earlier this month, conducting attacks in Africa, Asia, and South America. During that span, the U.S. also struck a civilian boat in the Pacific Ocean. The globe-spanning scope of the attacks represents one of the few instances since World War II that the United States has been simultaneously involved in armed conflicts with such a wide geographic sweep.” (03/19/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/19/trump-world-wars-iran-somalia-boat-strikes/
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37) The big lift in intelligence from AI
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, news about the impact of artificial intelligence on jobs has vacillated between two four-letter words: fear and hype. As a result, about two-thirds of Americans believe AI will lead to fewer jobs, while the overpromising of AI’s potential has helped lead to a similar proportion of Americans not using AI much or at all in their jobs. By last year, however, surveys of AI’s actual impact in the workplace had started to roll in. And many indicate a move toward enhancing the application of reason, analytical judgment, and other skills of humans – and redefining intelligence to levels beyond the limits of a machine or the brain. One federal survey in the New York-northern New Jersey area found that a large share of businesses using AI are retraining workers to utilize the technology with no significant reductions in employment.” (03/18/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0318/The-big-lift-in-intelligence-from-AI
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38) The Feds Are Investing in Wearable Health Trackers. That Could Put Your Private Data at Risk.
Source: Reason
by Jeffrey A Singer & Patrick Eddington
“Consider this scenario. You’ve recently received a government-subsidized biowearable. Accordingly, the authorities now know when you’re sleeping, because the device reports your sleep cycle, location, and daily movements in real time to a cloud server accessible through a legal process. It knows when you’re home. It knows when you leave. Those data are then obtained by an FBI field office (either through direct purchase or, if necessary, a legal process), because a federal prosecutor has decided that your criticism of immigration enforcement operations and your social media posts supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters constitute ‘incitement to violence’ against federal agents. Under the Trump administration’s elastic (and legally dubious) domestic terrorism definitions and designations, that is enough to open a criminal investigation. And because the government has known for weeks when you’re at home sleeping, it knows exactly when to break down your door.” (03/19/26)
https://reason.com/2026/03/19/the-feds-are-investing-in-wearable-health-trackers-that-could-put-your-private-data-at-risk/
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39) Not One Dime for Aggression
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“The Iran war is a betrayal of both U.S. interests and constitutional principles. This is a war initiated on the president’s whim. The people do not support it, Congress never authorized it, and our treaty commitments prohibit it. It should never have been allowed to start, but we can end our part in it by refusing to fund it.” (03/19/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/not-one-dime-for-aggression
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40) Arguing Against the State Without Hesitation
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“In 2008, a book appeared called Deleting the State: An Argument About Government. It was a trim volume, barely a hundred pages of actual text, but it hit me with the force of a hundred pounds from the very first page. As an undergraduate political science student, I had by that point read Robert Nozick, but I had yet to encounter Murray Rothbard or the broader Austrian and anarcho-capitalist tradition. Aeon Skoble’s book was therefore the first work I encountered that seriously challenged the legitimacy of the state itself. Now the Independent Institute has done a new generation of readers a service by issuing a second edition of this compact but provocative anarcho-capitalist work.” (03/19/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/arguing-against-the-state-without-hesitation
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41) The Quietest Government Shutdown
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“We’re in the midst of the quietest government shutdown in American history. For 34 days, funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been blocked in a standoff over the Trump administration’s deeply unpopular immigration enforcement, something the White House has finally realized is such a public opinion disaster that they’ve stopped calling it mass deportation. The biggest public-facing side of this shutdown is Transportation Security Administration workers, who have now worked without a paycheck for a month. But aside from frustration about longer airport security lines, there’s been little pressure on Washington to end the impasse. On Wednesday, Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) had his confirmation hearing to run the department that currently has no funding. While his rhetoric was softer, he didn’t really offer many thoughts about the issues in the dispute.” (03/19/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/19/government-shutdown-trump-dhs-ice-cbp-funding-congress/
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42) It’s Official: Trump’s Tariffs Have Failed
Source: Foreign Policy
by Agathe Demarais
“All eyes are set on U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating war against Iran, but on the home front, things are not going well. Nearly one year after he launched a barrage of steep tariffs on what he called ‘Liberation Day,’ economists have crunched the numbers for 2025 — and they are not looking good for the White House. By Trump’s own yardstick — his three goals of making foreigners pay for doing business with the United States, narrowing the U.S. trade deficit, and punishing China — tariffs have clearly failed.” (03/19/26)
https://archive.is/zWigq
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43) Ted Cruz Is the Republican Kamala Harris
Source: The American Conservative
by Jack Hunter
“Many consider J.D. Vance the heir apparent to Donald Trump’s MAGA legacy and the man to beat in the 2028 Republican presidential primaries — a state of affairs the Republican foreign policy establishment has never liked. Hawks have long worried that the vice president is too much of a foreign policy restrainer for their tastes (though Vance has often sounded more like neoconservatives in Trump’s second term). Still, neocons were giddy last week when polling showed that Marco Rubio’s numbers had improved against Vance, with the secretary of state being hawks’ main man in the 2016 GOP primaries and a figure who could repurpose ‘MAGA’ as the neoconservatism of old (though Trump seems to be doing this already, making Vance’s supposed 2028 inevitability less clear). But there could be more than one neocon champion in 2028.” (03/19/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ted-cruz-is-the-republican-kamala-harris/
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44) Trading Green
Source: Property and Environment Research Center
by Annalise Helm, Dominic Parker, & Garrett Shost
“How transferable tax credits supercharge conservation easements.” (03/18/26)
https://www.perc.org/2026/03/18/trading-green/
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45) FBI’s repeated non-answers on US terrorism attacks raise alarming red flags
Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“The official response to my column Monday about the FBI’s failure to prevent four recent Islamic terror attacks has been unsatisfactory, to say the least, and the personal attacks by FBI Director Kash Patel’s private PR operatives have been downright deranged. None of which is reassuring when it comes to the FBI’s preparedness to handle a heightened terror threat on home soil. It’s not Patel’s fault that our foremost domestic counterterrorism agency has been degraded and politicized under his predecessors, but it’s his job to fix it fast and his defensiveness suggests a problem. The most alarming case involves Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a convicted ISIS terrorist who was on supervised federal release when he yelled ‘Allahu Akbar’ and opened fire on an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., last Thursday, killing the instructor before being killed himself.” (03/19/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/18/opinion/miranda-devine-the-fbis-repeated-non-answers-on-us-terrorism-attacks-raises-alarming-red-flags/
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46) Are Spontaneous Order and neo-Aristotelian Arguments for a Free Society Compatible?
Source: Freedom and Flourishing
by Dr. Edward W Younkins
“The defense of a free society has emerged from diverse intellectual traditions. One line of argument, associated with thinkers such as Friedrich A. Hayek, Gerald A. Gaus, Jonathan Haidt, and John Hasnas grounds liberty in cultural evolution, spontaneous order, epistemic limits, and moral psychology. From another direction, Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl have developed a neo-Aristotelian justification of natural rights rooted in individualistic perfectionism, virtue ethics, and the metanormative structure of political morality. These two traditions have often been viewed as distinct and divergent: the former emphasizing emergent social complexity, evolved rules, the limits of reason, and epistemological humility; the latter emphasizing teleological ethics, virtue, and the normative structure of human flourishing.” (03/18/26)
https://www.freedomandflourishing.com/2026/03/are-spontaneous-order-and-neo.html
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47) The Iran War Could Hit a Lot More Than Oil
Source: Cato Institute
by Scott Lincicome
“Discussions of the Iran War’s economic effects understandably fixate on crude oil. The Strait of Hormuz, through which about 27 percent of the world’s seaborne petroleum supplies usually transits, has been effectively closed since the war started in late February, causing global oil and gasoline prices to spike — something both American drivers and politicians have surely noticed. … Yet the strait is a lot more than an oil pipeline, and the Iran War’s economic effects are about a lot more than just oil. Roughly 11 percent of global maritime trade transits the strait each year—a lot of it crude oil and liquid natural gas, yes, but also loads of minerals and energy-intensive commodities …. The Iran conflict has also spread beyond Iran and the strait itself, in the process threatening major Middle Eastern production and shipping hubs for other important goods.” (03/18/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/iran-war-could-hit-lot-more-oil
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48) Looking back: Alarmism and fearmongering in 1968
Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“1968 was an interesting year. Several of us here at The Price of Liberty recall that rather fateful year. For us, the impact of events of 1968 still is resonating around the world, and especially the States, in 2026.” (03/18/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/03/18/lookiing-back-alarmism-and-fearmongering-in-1968/
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49) A Snapshot of the Possible
Source: In These Times
by Alex Han
“In 2023, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party held a slim, single-seat majority in the Minnesota State Senate and control of the State House and Governor’s Mansion. It had been a decade since the last Democratic trifecta in the state, which like many similar moments of prior eras, produced only incremental wins for progressives and the Left. Since the financial crisis and Great Recession of the early Obama era, a core group of community and union organizers in Minnesota had been building what they called ‘alignment’. It would go beyond the traditional coalitions so many of us were used to — ones coalesced around a single fight but too pragmatic to inspire people to action. Real power building, I was told, would require something different: An ability to work across organizations and ideologies while holding up bigger sets of common, universal demands.” (03/19/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/minnesota-miracle-ice-out-community-coalition-building-organizing-unions-labor
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50) The President of Peace’s New War
Source: Independent Institute
by Sam Jenson
“On February 28th, the United States launched Operation Epic Fury. The goal of this operation, according to the White House, is to eliminate the threat of the Iranian regime. This is yet another attempt at regime change in the Middle East. While Donald Trump boasts about his new gold curtains, eleven United States service members have been killed, and it is estimated that the first twelve days of the war have cost a staggering $16.5 billion. Donald Trump promised peace during his second term; instead, he has involved the United States in a new conflict. This war was initiated without congressional approval, is financially reckless, and could have been avoided. When Donald Trump won re-election in November 2024, he made the promise, ‘I’m not going to start a war. I’m going to stop wars.'” (03/18/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/18/president-peace-iran-war/
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51) So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, 03/19/26
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
“How foreign censors target American speakers.” (03/19/26)
https://www.fire.org/news/podcasts/so-speak-free-speech-podcast/how-foreign-censors-target-american-speakers
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52) The Permanent Problem, episode 12
Source: Niskanen Center
“MAGA intellectuals with Laura Field.” (03/19/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/maga-intellectuals-with-laura-field/
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53) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/19/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Trump & Netanyahu: Who’s the boss? Maybe we’ll find out.” (03/19/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1qGvvkmyQeeGB
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54) Underthrow Podcast, 03/19/26
Source: Underthrow
“Creating Permissionless Parallel Polities with @jimruttshow.” (03/19/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eeOFmr6o18
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55) Libertarian Angle, 03/19/26
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
“The Causes of Poverty and Wealth.” (03/19/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKvwoyWgZzc
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56) The Fifth Column, episode 549
Source: The Fifth Column
“There’s Always a New Monster to Destroy (w/ Noam Dworman).” (03/19/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/theres-always-a-new-monster-to-destroy
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57) The Liberty Exchange, episode 25
Source: The Liberty Exchange
“Free Speech is for Losers: A Conversation with Bruce Pardy.” (03/19/26)
https://shows.acast.com/the-liberty-exchange/episodes/free-speech-is-for-losers-a-conversation-with-bruce-pardy
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58) Capital Record, episode 289
Source: National Review
“Industrial Policy for Me but Not for Thee.” (03/19/26)
https://www.nationalreview.com/podcasts/capital-record/industrial-policy-for-me-but-not-for-thee/
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59) This Day In Liberty History: Kronstadt
Source: LP Alliance
“Join Amanda and Kyle for a discussion on the Kronstadt Rebellion!” (03/19/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNCSvjwvC0I
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60) Gracearchy with Jim Babka, episode 156
Source: Gracearchy with Jim Babka
“The Latest Attack on Tom Massie, Reading Between the Lines.” (03/19/26)
https://rumble.com/v772jpm-156-the-latest-attack-on-tom-massie-reading-between-the-lines-gracearchy-wi.html
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61) The Science of Politics, 03/18/26
Source: Niskanen Center
“The intellectual support for Trumpism.” (03/18/26)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-intellectual-support-for-trumpism/
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62) Kibbe on Liberty, episode 377
Source: Free the People
“There’s No Easy Way Out of This War | Guest: Scott Horton.” (03/18/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eHLmNAV3wc
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63) The Kyle Anzalone Show, 03/18/26
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Darryl Cooper: Khamenei Martyred, Iran in Chaos — What the West Isn’t Telling You.” (03/18/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/blog/the-kyle-anzalone-show-guest-darryl-cooper-khamenei-martyred-iran-in-chaos-what-the-west-isnt-telling-you/
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64) ReImagining Liberty, episode 98
Source: ReImagining Liberty
“The Practice and Inner Life of Liberalism (w/ Jason Canon).” (03/18/26)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/098-the-practice-and-inner-life-of-liberalism-w-jason-canon/id1614436300?i=1000755952591
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65) What Then Must We Do?, 03/18/26
Source: What Then Must We Do?
“What’s So Great About Lent? A Conversation With Domenic Scarcella.” (03/18/26)
https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/756260/episodes/18869725-what-s-so-great-about-lent-a-conversation-with-domenic-scarcella.mp3
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