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Thomas L. Knapp
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Today's Freedom News:
0) Somewhat Celebratory Publisher’s Note
1) Oil prices soar as Iranian regime names Khamenei’s son supreme leader
2) US regime publicly confesses to six more maritime murders
3) Nepal: Rapper-politician Balendra Shah unseats ex-PM as he heads for victory
4) Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until Congress passes election-rigging bill
5) Trump vows new wars of aggression across Latin America
6) Video of ICE murder of Texas man raises questions about government claim
7) US issues license authorizing sales of Venezuelan gold
8) NASA’s DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid’s orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
9) Norway: Loud explosion rocks US embassy
10) Peru: Nightclub bombing injures 33
11) Study: Heat waves that spark damaging droughts are happening more frequently
12) US payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%
13) FL: Woman mauled by seven dogs in front of sex offender’s home
14) Cuba: Regime Says Crews Repaired a Large Power Plant That Caused a Massive Outage
15) NY: Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in NYC
16) Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as “acting CEO”
17) AZ: Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate
18) Pezeshkian: Iran to halt strikes on neighbours unless attacks from there
19) Pentagon and FAA agree to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico
20) UT: Colorado man shot by resident after breaking into Provo home
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Operation was a Success, But the Patient Died
22) Neo-Trumpers: The Next Mutation?
23) And just like that MAGA peaceniks transform into neocons
24) The War He’s Always Wanted
25) Run Rampant
26) The US Soldiers Killed In This War Were Not Heroes
27) It’s up to Congress to disrupt Pam Bondi’s Epstein cover-up
28) Don’t turn banks into citizenship police
29) Sifting fact from fiction in the Iran war
30) Laughs in grew up Southern Baptist
31) Whose “Stolen Land” Is It, Anyway?
32) With His “Unconditional Surrender” Goal, Trump Signals a Long War
33) What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
34) The Making of a Forever War in Iran
35) Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump’s hands
36) Free Nation By Choice
37) The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China
38) Exploding the Idea That Trump’s Wars Can Handle China
39) America’s Debt Is a National Security Risk
40) Now He Owns It
41) Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
42) More on Rothbard and Immigration
43) Fifty Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI’s “Prohibited Access” Files
44) The Full Story of 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing (That Pete Hegseth Won’t Tell You)
45) Democrat war powers vote was an unconstitutional way to halt Iran strikes
46) Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike
47) No, There Was No “Imminent Threat” From Iran
48) America’s War on Iran Has Always Been a Bipartisan Effort
49) The Axis of Chaos
50) History and the Gigantic Ginger Cat
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51) Is It War?
52) Unattended Baggage, episode 331
53) The Good Fight, 03/07/26
54) Matthew Hoh on The Scott Horton Show
55) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2741
56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 03/06/26
57) Freedom Works, 03/06/26
58) The Intercept Briefing, 03/06/26
59) The Reconstruction Agenda, 03/06/26
60) America’s Performance Review
61) The Brian Nichols Show, 03/06/26
62) Serious Trouble, 03/06/26
63) Rising, 03/06/26
64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/06/26
65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/06/26
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1) Oil prices soar as Iranian regime names Khamenei’s son supreme leader
Source: NBC News
“Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader, and widely viewed as a hardliner, has been named his successor. … Oil prices have surged past $100 per barrel as the war intensifies, though Trump said the spike will be ‘short term’ and ‘a very small price to pay.’ Israel hit Iranian oil depots over the weekend, while Tehran has targeted energy sites across the region and throttled the key Strait of Hormuz waterway. The U.S. military announced the death of another service member, bringing the total killed in combat to seven.” (03/09/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-iran-war-oil-prices-khamenei-supreme-leader-israel-trump-rcna262378
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2) US regime publicly confesses to six more maritime murders
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The US military said it [murdered] six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers. Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the administration began targeting ‘narco-terrorists’ in small vessels in September. As with most of the military’s statements on the more than 40 known strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, US Southern Command said it targeted alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.” (03/08/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/us-military-drug-boat-strike-pacific
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3) Nepal: Rapper-politician Balendra Shah unseats ex-PM as he heads for victory
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Rapper Balendra Shah has defeated the former Nepalese Prime Minister Sharma KP Oli in his parliamentary constituency, as he takes a step closer to becoming Nepal’s next prime minister. Nepal’s Election Commission confirmed on Saturday that Shah, 35, received 68,348 votes compared to Oli’s 18,734 to unseat the former leader in his constituency. Thursday’s general election — the first since violent youth-led protests toppled the government in September — pitted the establishment against a new generation of politicians advocating for angry, young Gen Z voters hungry for change. Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is now seemingly on course to win the general election.” (03/08/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93w6y0lnd9o
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4) Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until Congress passes election-rigging bill
Source: The Hill
“President Trump on Sunday threatened to not sign any bills into law until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is approved by the Senate, doubling down on his push to change voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections. ‘I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY…,’ the president wrote in his Sunday morning Truth Social post. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether the president will sign a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the partial government shutdown.” (03/08/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5773642-trump-save-act-senate-pressure/
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5) Trump vows new wars of aggression across Latin America
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military into Ecuador this week to strike drug cartels, and now he’s poised to do the same in more than a dozen other Latin American countries under a new proclamation he signed Saturday. In remarks before the signing ceremony, flanked by the leaders of many of those countries, Trump described the proclamation as ‘a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist networks.’ He touted the U.S. military’s ‘amazing weaponry’ — and said all the other Latin American countries need to do is identify the location of cartel operatives.” (03/07/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/trump-military-cartels-latin-america-iran-00818070
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6) Video of ICE murder of Texas man raises questions about government claim
Source: Washington Post
“Video released by investigators in the [murder] last March of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent calls into question a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson’s claim that the victim ‘intentionally ran over’ a different agent before being shot. The investigative material released Friday by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows that Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was given conflicting instructions as he encountered law enforcement officers from multiple agencies near the scene of a previous vehicle accident in South Padre Island, Texas, in the early-morning hours of March 15. His car moved forward very slowly in the moments before Homeland Security Investigations Agent Jack C. Stevens fired three shots into Martinez’s blue Ford sedan. The footage does not show Martinez speeding up rapidly or appearing to target a second Homeland Security Investigations agent, Hector Sosa.” (03/07/26)
https://archive.is/HPtEd
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7) US issues license authorizing sales of Venezuelan gold
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“The U.S. issued a license Friday that authorizes dealings with Minerven, Venezuela’s state-owned gold mining company, in the latest sign of the Trump administration’s intent to exercise more control over that country’s natural resources. The license was issued after U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met in Venezuela with acting President Delcy Rodríguez this week, as well as with representatives of more than two dozen U.S. mining and minerals companies. Many of them previously operated in Venezuela. Burgum said Venezuela’s government gave security assurances to mining companies interested in investing in the country, where mineral-rich areas have long been controlled by guerrilla members, gangs and other illegal groups. Under the license, people and companies from Russia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are not authorized to engage in any contracts with Minerven.” (03/06/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/06/venezuela-gold/
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8) NASA’s DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid’s orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
Source: Engadget
“When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos’ orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects’ orbit around the sun, according to new research. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a press release that this ‘marks the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun.’ It’s a promising result as scientists work to find a feasible method of defending Earth from hazardous space objects. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was designed to demonstrate one possible way of deflecting such an object, targeting the non-threatening moonlet Dimorphos, which is about 560 feet wide.” (03/07/26)
https://www.engadget.com/science/space/nasas-dart-spacecraft-changed-a-binary-asteroids-orbit-around-the-sun-in-a-first-for-a-human-made-object-210529924.html?src=rss
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9) Norway: Loud explosion rocks US embassy
Source: New York Post
“An explosion rocked the US Embassy in Norway, damaging the consulate amid Iranian threats of terror retaliation as Operation Epic Fury rages on in the Middle East, according to police and reports. The blast erupted in Oslo around 1 a.m. local time Sunday, hitting the entrance to the embassy’s consular section and causing minor damage, police incident commander Michael Delmer said, NRK reported. ‘At around 1 a.m. we received several reports of an explosion,’ he said, noting there were no casualties. … Delmer stressed the investigation is still in its early stages and it was not clear who was behind the blast.” (03/07/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/07/world-news/loud-explosion-heard-near-us-embassy-in-norway/
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10) Peru: Nightclub bombing injures 33
Source: ABC News
“A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center. It’s a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime. It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible and a motive wasn’t immediately known.” (03/07/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/nightclub-bombing-peru-injures-33-including-minors-authorities-130859546
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11) Study: Heat waves that spark damaging droughts are happening more frequently
Source: SFGate
“Heat waves that lead to sudden and damaging drought are spreading across the globe at an accelerating rate, highlighting how climate change-fueled extremes can build dangerously off each other, a new study found. Researchers from South Korea and Australia looked at compound extreme weather — a one-two punch of heat and drought — and found it increasing as the world warms. But what’s rising especially fast is the more damaging type when the heat comes first and that triggers the drought. In the 1980s, that kind of extreme covered only about 2.5% of Earth’s land each year. By 2023, the last year the researchers studied, it was up to 16.7%, with a 10-year average of 7.9%. The average has likely gone even higher with 2024’s record global heat and a 2025 that was nearly as warm, the study’s authors said.” (03/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/heat-waves-that-spark-damaging-droughts-are-21959660.php
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12) US payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%
Source: CNBC
“The U.S. economy lost jobs in February, a month marred by severe winter weather and a strike at a major health-care provider, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 for the month, compared with the estimate for 50,000 and below the downwardly revised January total of 126,000. February marked the third time in the past five months that payrolls declined, following a sharp revision showing a drop of 17,000 in December.” (03/06/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/february-2026-jobs-report.html
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13) FL: Woman mauled by seven dogs in front of sex offender’s home
Source: New York Post
“A Florida woman was mauled by seven dogs in front of a registered sex offender’s home as neighbors looked on in horror, according to a report. The victim — who survived — was instantly trampled as the dogs tore into her flesh while she was face down on the ground outside Edward Hayes’[s] Dade City home, neighbor Lourdes Estrada told Fox 13. ‘It was terrifying. I was shocked and freaked out,’ Estrada, who dialed 911 after the horrifying incident, told the outlet. ‘I had never seen anything like that before.’ Hayes tried in vain, Estrada told the station, to pull the savage pets off the woman, who was airlifted from the grim scene in critical condition around 11 a.m. by Pasco County Fire Rescue. The victim was attacked when she approached the Fiesta Drive home to speak with Hayes — and his pets came rushing out, a source told The Post.” [editor’s note: What does him being a “registered sex offender” have to do with it? – TLK] (03/07/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/07/us-news/florida-woman-mauled-by-7-dogs-in-front-of-sex-offenders-home/
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14) Cuba: Regime Says Crews Repaired a Large Power Plant That Caused a Massive Outage
Source: US News & World Report
“Cuban officials said they expect to restart a large thermoelectric plant on Saturday after it shut down earlier in the week, sparking a massive blackout. Felix Estrada Rodríguez, a top engineer at Cuba’s Electric Union, told state-owned Canal Caribe that the Antonio Guiteras plant should be operating by Saturday afternoon. Crews have repaired a broken boiler at the plant that caused the outage on Wednesday, leaving millions without power in the island’s western region. … Cuba’s Electric Union said in a statement Saturday that only 1,000 megawatts of power were available, less than half of the island’s current demand. It did not say how many customers remained without power. The blackout, the second such outage to affect western Cuba in three months, was blamed on a crumbling electric grid and a lack of fuel.” (03/07/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-03-07/cuba-says-crews-repaired-a-large-power-plant-that-caused-a-massive-outage
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15) NY: Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in NYC
Source: SFGate
“A counterprotester demonstrating against a ‘Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City’ event Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest, police said. Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated with conservative influencer Jake Lang shot pepper spray into a counterprotesting group near the mayoral residence Gracie Mansion, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Tensions continued to heighten, she said, when someone in the counterprotest lit and threw a device she described as smaller than a football into the protesting crowd of about 20 people. The device struck a barrier and extinguished itself ‘a few feet from police officers’. The same person then ran, and another person gave a him a second device, which he then dropped. … All three people have been arrested, and an investigation is underway, Tisch said.” (03/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/police-investigating-after-device-thrown-at-21961894.php
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16) Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as “acting CEO”
Source: Politico
“Kari Lake was illegally empowered to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the federal agency that oversees Voice of America — and her actions in that role were illegitimate, a federal judge ruled Saturday. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that Lake was ineligible to serve as USAGM’s acting CEO when she was formally elevated to the position on July 31 in an ‘acting capacity’ and without Senate confirmation. She relinquished that position on Nov. 19. Lamberth said any actions Lake took in that four-month timeframe must be treated as ‘void,’ including an Aug. 29 reduction in USAGM’s workforce.” (03/07/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/kari-lake-usagm-judge-00818165
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17) AZ: Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate
Source: Fox News
“Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing fierce backlash after vetoing a bill that would have created a specialty license plate honoring slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a move Republicans are blasting as a stunning act of partisanship after his assassination. Kirk, who was assassinated while speaking at a Sept. 10 Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, lived in Arizona with his wife, Erika, and two children. The proposed specialty plate, referred to as the ‘Charlie Kirk memorial’ plate or the ‘Conservative grassroots network special plate,’ featured a photo of the late Kirk and the TPUSA logo in front of an American flag background.” (03/07/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-governor-vetoes-charlie-kirk-memorial-license-plate-sparking-gop-outrage-this-bill-falls-short
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18) Pezeshkian: Iran to halt strikes on neighbours unless attacks from there
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said neighbouring countries will no longer be targeted unless an attack originates from there, as the war launched by the United States and Israel, which triggered sustained retaliation from Tehran across the Gulf and beyond, enters its second week. … Pezeshkian said the Iranian interim leadership council approved the motion to stop attacks on neighbouring nations. In remarks carried by Iranian media, the president also apologised to neighbouring countries for the strikes that took place in recent days.” (03/07/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/7/iran-to-halt-strikes-on-neighbours-unless-attacks-from-there-pezeshkian
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19) Pentagon and FAA agree to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico
Source: SFGate
“The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration agreed to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico after the military’s deployment of the lasers led the FAA to suddenly close airspace in Texas twice in the last month. The newly announced testing was being carried out to ‘specifically address FAA safety concerns’, the military said Friday in a statement. It was to take place Saturday and Sunday at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lawmakers were concerned about an apparent lack of coordination after the Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser in early February without notifying the FAA. The federal agency that ensures safety in the skies decided to close the airspace over El Paso for a few hours, stranding many travelers. The Trump administration said it was working to halt an incursion by Mexican cartel drones, which are not uncommon along the southern border.” (03/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/pentagon-and-faa-agree-to-conduct-anti-drone-21962216.php
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20) UT: Colorado man shot by resident after breaking into Provo home
Source: ABC 4 News
“A man from Colorado unlawfully entered an occupied home in Provo Thursday evening before being confronted and shot by a resident inside the home. According to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, an adult male unlawfully entered a home in Provo Canyon that was occupied. Upon arrival, a resident verbally confronted the man. Despite being told to leave, he continued into the home and began damaging property. Because of the disturbance, a second resident locked themselves in a bedroom. The first resident then armed themselves with a handgun and again verbally confronted the man. The suspect attacked the resident, who then fired multiple shots at him. After being hit, the man left the home. As he was leaving, he stole a truck from outside and fled. Deputies en route to the scene observed the suspect and stopped him, taking him into custody.” (03/06/26)
https://www.abc4.com/news/crime/homeowner-shoots-intruder-provo-steals-truck/
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21) The Operation was a Success, But the Patient Died
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“This war with Iran is an extension of the dynamics that have always driven US foreign policy. And nothing will stop this President from the path of destruction he has chosen — certainly not the Congress, which has long been ceding its constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch. Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson denies that the US is even involved in a ‘war.’ And Senate Republicans have blocked any war power limits to this operation, giving Trump a rubberstamp to do whatever the hell he wants. The warmongers among us serve the administration by labeling as ‘traitors’ those who oppose US intervention abroad. This has become a virtual rite of passage for critics in times of war.” (03/07/26)
https://notablog.net/2026/03/07/the-operation-was-a-success-but-the-patient-died/
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22) Neo-Trumpers: The Next Mutation?
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“A New York Times columnist offering pointers for ‘Pitchfork Pat’ Buchanan-type populists on ‘the isolationist right who thought Trump shared his views’ might seem akin to a mad scientist named Frankenstein offering a road map to a pitchforks-and-torches peasant mob. Yet Michelle Goldberg does just that in ‘The President Was Never Antiwar’ (March 2). While maintaining that Donald Trump was indeed the embodiment through which ‘the once marginalized politics of Patrick Buchanan became a dominant force in the Republican Party,’ Goldberg insists that ‘Trump was never Buchanan’s heir when it came to foreign policy.’ … While ‘it is true that he broke with key elements of neoconservative ideology,’ he hasn’t distanced himself from even ‘the most fanatical of neoconservatives,’ preferring instead to discard the ideology’s ‘notion that American power should ever be constrained by a veneer of idealism.'” (03/07/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20399
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23) And just like that MAGA peaceniks transform into neocons
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“MAGA’s philosophical twists and turns are hard to follow given that whenever Donald Trump changes his mind his supporters have three go-to approaches. First, they claim his latest notion is part of a 3D chess game even if, by all appearances, Trump would struggle to play one-level tic-tac-toe. Second, they distract our attention: Didn’t Barack Obama do this, too? Third, they get with the program and shamelessly back whatever the president is doing. Sometimes MAGA-supporting influencers with their own agendas and philosophies take issue with some Trump policy. But rank-and-file MAGA always follows the Dear Leader even if it means contradicting some Deeply Held Principle they espoused weeks ago.” (03/06/26)
https://archive.is/IzbFY
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24) The War He’s Always Wanted
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“For me and many others, the Iraq War of 2003 was a life-altering lesson in humility. In the wake of 9/11, with trauma warping my frontal cortex, I backed a pre-meditated, pre-emptive war for regime change in the Middle East — something stupid and immoral I soon realized, however well intentioned. It changed me. But at least in those tense, polarized months of 2002 and 2003, we had hashed out the case for war thoroughly beforehand, as democracies do. … Come with me a little further back in time to the Persian Gulf War of 1991. That was a war started by Saddam Hussein, not us. How did we go about a new war in the Middle East back then? Well, we had another big public debate, another trip to the UN, and then another vote in the Congress. It was closer than we remember: just 52-47 in the Senate (with one abstention). … Seems like another planet, doesn’t it?” (03/06/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-war-hes-always-wanted-c47
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25) Run Rampant
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We live in a great Age of Conspiracy Theories. I’m not quite on board. As the Internet grew up, with it came all the condemnations of conspiracy theories, run rampant. The Internet, we were told, was problematic in that not only was information readier at hand than ever before, but so was it easier to share and nurture all these goofy conspiracy theories. You know: JFK was killed by someone other than Oswald, or also by others, in addition to Oswald. Or … UFOs are real, and the government is covering it up. Or the Rothschilds are behind it all. You know the kind of thing I’m talking about. Ick. Yet: The government now admits that UFOs are real …. Further: As we uncover the grotesquerie in the Epstein Files, we learn that he proudly served Rothschild banking interests! So let’s not get started on the JFK assassination.” (03/06/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/06/run-rampant/
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26) The US Soldiers Killed In This War Were Not Heroes
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US soldiers who are getting killed in the war with Iran were not heroes. They did not die defending their country. They did not die fighting to protect Americans. They died advancing the geostrategic agendas of oligarchs and empire managers which benefit ordinary Americans in no way. It’s important not to valorize these people for two reasons. Firstly, it assists US military recruitment by falsely portraying these imperial stormtrooper careers as noble and heroic. Secondly, it falsely frames the war they died in as a righteous cause which is making the world a better place, rather than as a war of aggression against a nation that posed literally zero threat to their homeland. These are not harmless little white lies. They are extremely destructive propaganda narratives which facilitate acts of mass military slaughter on real human beings. Don’t assist the warmongers in circulating these lies.” (03/07/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/07/the-us-soldiers-killed-in-this-war-were-not-heroes-and-other-notes/
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27) It’s up to Congress to disrupt Pam Bondi’s Epstein cover-up
Source: USA Today
by Chris Brennan
“U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice have been openly violating a federal law for two and a half months to shield President Donald Trump from transparency in the metastasizing ‘Epstein files’ scandal. And now Bondi will get a second chance at explaining herself in Congress. But based on her last performance before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in February, expect only more pathetic theatrics and zero acceptance of accountability. Still, something has shifted …. It looks like Bondi will finally face some tough questions from members of her own political party about how she has botched the release of the Epstein files. And that’s long overdue.” (03/08/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/08/pam-bondi-epstein-files-cover-up-house-subpoena/88999569007/
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28) Don’t turn banks into citizenship police
Source: The Hill
by Solveig Singleton
“President Trump is reportedly considering an order requiring financial institutions to check customers’ citizenship, a curious departure from the administration’s professed concerns about the burden of bureaucracy and debanking. … Customers unnerved by the order might move their money from chartered depository institutions to informal family, religious, and community-based financial networks. … Federal statutes forbid financial service companies from alerting customers when surveillance reports are sent to authorities. But being asked to prove citizenship on everyday occasions is an intrusion people are sure to notice.” [editor’s note: Singleton’s wording implies that she MAY think moving money from state-surveilled institutions “to informal family, religious, and community-based financial networks” is a bad thing. I disagree. I consider it an essential precursor to restoring economic freedom, even though I also oppose the prospective “order” – TLK] (03/07/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5771913-financial-privacy-concerns-trump/
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29) Sifting fact from fiction in the Iran war
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“A very old type of information warfare – spreading false narratives to rattle an enemy’s population during a conflict – now has a new and vital adversary: fact-checkers. On March 3, for example, a video went viral showing Israel’s second-largest city, Tel Aviv, in flames from multiple strikes by Iranian missiles, four days after the first Israeli and American attacks on Iran. It attracted more than 14 million views. ‘The video is AI-generated, and features multiple errors consistent with AI clips,’ posted BBC Verify senior journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh. ‘It’s not real.’ After spotting many similar fake images, Mr. Sardarizadeh concluded: ‘This war might have already broken the record for the highest number of AI-generated videos and images that have gone viral during a conflict…. Welcome to our brave new world of AI misinformation.'” (03/06/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0306/Sifting-fact-from-fiction-in-the-Iran-war
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30) Laughs in grew up Southern Baptist
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“Who keeps insisting that no one look too deeply into their claims? It’s the Southern Baptist Convention, who covered up their rape crisis for decades. It’s the leadership of the rape cult that is Evangelical Christianity. It’s the Catholic Church. If sexual shame and stigma kept vulnerable people safe from rapists we’d have gotten rid of rape by now. Instead, where sexuality is most repressed, you see the highest rates of sexual abuse. This. Is. Not. A. Coincidence.” (03/06/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/laughs-in-grew-up-southern-baptist
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31) Whose “Stolen Land” Is It, Anyway?
Source: Town Hall
by Paul Driessen
“Land acknowledgements have become de rigueur at commencement ceremonies, film and music award events, and other programs. Something like this: ‘We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the stolen and occupied territory of the Indigenous First Nation People who stewarded the land through many generations before White European colonialists seized it.’ Many take these acknowledgements quite seriously. Indeed, professors and employees have been disciplined for mocking them, because employers find mockery ‘offensive’ and ‘disruptive’ – unlike their reactions to ‘mostly peaceful’ Antifa, BLM and pro-Palestinian harassment and riots. When accepting her Grammy, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish used her onstage opportunity to criticize Trump’s immigration policies, saying ‘no one is illegal on stolen land’. Unless, of course, someone tried to enter her gated community and assert ownership over or enjoy a sandwich in her million-dollar mansion.” (03/07/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2026/03/07/whose-stolen-land-is-it-anyway-n2672448
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32) With His “Unconditional Surrender” Goal, Trump Signals a Long War
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“Historians have long noted that demands for unconditional surrender have worked to prolong conflicts rather than shorten them, leading to needless death on both sides. After all, Trump is essentially saying that the Iranians should put themselves in a position of accepting whatever terms the United States seeks to unilaterally impose, including the total dissolution of the Iranian state, plus sanctions, punishments, occupations and other humiliations. What government would accede to this? Very few would, which is why only very weak, small, and relatively unarmed regimes can be forced into accepting unconditional surrender after anything less than a protracted war. Iran, however, is not weak, small, or relatively unarmed. And, geography is in its favor.” (03/06/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/his-unconditional-surrender-goal-trump-signals-long-war
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33) What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that few officials in Washington seem willing (or able) to answer: What is the US exit strategy from its war on Iran? President Trump has justified the attack by claiming that Iran refuses to renounce nuclear weapons. As he prepared to launch the war, Trump repeatedly claimed, ‘We haven’t heard those secret words: “We will never have a nuclear weapon”.’ Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, responded by reiterating Iran’s long-standing policy, stating plainly: ‘Iran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon.'” (03/07/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-the-us-exit-strategy-from-iran-war
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34) The Making of a Forever War in Iran
Source: Cato Institute
by Jon Hoffman
“President Donald Trump has plunged the United States into an open-ended war with Iran, lacking clearly defined and achievable objectives, a discernible endgame, or a viable exit plan. This is a war of choice — Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States, and the White House is now scrambling to devise a strategy for a war already underway and proving more difficult than anticipated. The war will likely escalate as Iran digs in and hawkish voices push Trump toward maximalist — and largely unachievable — aims. By setting this crisis in motion, the Trump administration is repeating the same failures that have long defined US Middle East policy. Absent a course correction, the United States is on the path to another forever war.” (03/06/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/making-forever-war-iran
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35) Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump’s hands
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Katherine Thompson
“This week efforts under the War Powers Act to check President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized war in Iran failed on a mostly party line split in both the House and the Senate. The result isn’t all that surprising. The naivety, however, on the role of Congress in matters of war is staggering. Congress is in desperate need of a civics refresher.” (03/06/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-war-powers/
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36) Free Nation By Choice
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“Switzerland is the freest country in the world, according to the Human Freedom Index. Small in territory but giant in institutional autonomy, it has built a decentralized, monetarily stable, and deeply participatory democracy, all outside the European Union. While Member States have no alternative to the uniform directives designed in Brussels, Switzerland negotiates sectoral agreements according to its national interest and the democratic consent of its citizens. The new ‘Bilaterals III’ package, whose entry into force depends on approval by the Swiss Parliament and possibly a referendum, is a reminder that there is an alternative to the European integrationist ‘one size fits all’ model. Switzerland’s institutional architecture limits central power.” (03/06/26)
https://fee.org/articles/free-nation-by-choice/
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37) The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Critics who call Operation Epic Fury folly or a distraction are missing the point: Iran is just one front in an ongoing, evolving global contest that includes Russia and China. It stretches to other fronts as well, though President Donald Trump has shut down the one in Venezuela and looks to have Cuba headed the same way. But Tehran is much more entangled with Moscow and Beijing, exchanging arms, technical know-how and intelligence. Even now, Russia is giving Iran high-quality intelligence to target missiles on US installations, experts conclude: Such precision is beyond the limited capabilities of the Islamic Republic’s handful of military-grade satellites. The cooperation runs both ways: Tehran has been sending Shahed drones to Moscow for attacks on Ukraine for four years now; it even built a factory in Russia to produce thousands of these cheap, deadly unmanned aerial vehicles.” (03/06/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/06/opinion/the-obvious-signs-the-iran-war-is-part-of-larger-contest-with-russia-and-china/
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38) Exploding the Idea That Trump’s Wars Can Handle China
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“It was astounding to learn from the TV show of the former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL) that an overall theme seems to be forming for President Donald Trump’s much more aggressive, second-term foreign policy in his private conversations with high-level Trump administration officials. Unfortunately, that theme is based on a very shaky grasp of reality. Scarborough said the Trump administration rationale coming together is this: Decapitating the Venezuelan regime and attempting to topple the Iranian regime, both relying on stand-off force so far, combined with pressure on Russia, is an attempt to cut off China’s oil supply. One can only hope that this overall theme is an after-the-fact justification for an erratic president executing a shoot-from-the-hip foreign policy. And that would be the good news.” (03/06/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/06/exploding-the-idea-that-trumps-wars-can-handle-china/
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39) America’s Debt Is a National Security Risk
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia
“Wars test nations. They test military readiness, alliance cohesion, and political resolve. But they also test something less visible and just as important: fiscal strength. Just days before the United States entered war with Iran, President Trump was arguing for a $500 billion defense spending increase. … Although the absurdity of President Trump’s arbitrary defense budget request hasn’t changed, the terms of the debate have. Whether justified or not, war places immediate pressure on defense budgets. The real question is whether the United States has put itself in a position to afford it.” (03/06/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/americas-debt-is-a-national-security-risk/
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40) Now He Owns It
Source: The American Conservative
by Jason Lewis
“Trump personifies his own movement, so perhaps he has the prerogative of redefining it. But ‘regime change’ from Tehran to Moscow has little in common with non-interventionism. And if the U.S. was devoted to keeping ‘lunatics’ from enriching uranium for a nuke, North Korea and Pakistan (where Osama Bin Laden hung out) wouldn’t have one. No, this is ‘regime change,’ and whatever side you may be on and however you parse it, it’s at odds with a whole lot of Trump supporters. The only thing that those of us who harbor doubts about it can say is, ‘I hope he’s right.’ Because if he’s not, the midterms are finished — and so is America First.” (03/06/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/now-he-owns-it/
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41) Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish
“House lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee debated a proposal Thursday that would force state and local police to help federal agents conduct deportations or risk losing federal funding. Not only would it essentially hold local jurisdictions hostage, Democratic lawmakers said, it also violates states’ rights. The bill, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, aims to punish Los Angeles, New York, and other cities that have policies limiting cooperation with federal agents, such as restrictions on honoring ICE detainers, providing access to jails, and sharing information about individuals’ immigration status. These cities have been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration for months; Attorney General Pam Bondi last year published a hit list of sanctuary jurisdictions, saying they cause risk to American citizens ‘by design’.” (03/06/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/06/ice-deportation-immigrant-sanctuary-cities-hr-7640-congress/
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42) More on Rothbard and Immigration
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“Rothbard is surely right that, by definition, in a country or world of private property, the owners would set the rules for their own parcels, leaving others to shop around for situations that best suit their values. But let’s be clear here. It would not be the case that no one could enter a property ‘unless invited,’ as he put it in the first quotation above. Walmart does not invite particular people to its stores. Neither does McDonald’s. They have open borders during business hours. It’s a standing invitation to everyone and anyone who’s peaceful. So the word ‘invited’ is misleading.” (03/06/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-more-on-immigration-and-rothbard
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43) Fifty Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI’s “Prohibited Access” Files
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
“The Middle East is on fire, the planet on the verge of world war, the Homeland Security director just ousted. It’d hard to pay attention to anything else. Still, if you want to know why news that the FBI has begun to turn over long-concealed ‘prohibited access’ files to Congress might matter, just ask Seymour Hersh. Fifty-two years ago, on December 21, 1974, the famed muckraker printed ‘Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents In Nixon Years’ in the New York Times. … These misdeeds were part of a trove of dirty secrets in the CIA’s past that came to be known as the agency’s ‘Family Jewels.’ Some sources Racket spoke with this week recalled the case in conjunction with news about the discovery of a cache of secret files at the FBI.” (03/06/26)
https://www.racket.news/p/50-years-of-secrets-why-you-should
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44) The Full Story of 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing (That Pete Hegseth Won’t Tell You)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“In his recent comments justifying a preventive war against Iran, President Donald Trump declared, ‘In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.’ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has invoked that attack numerous times. The 1983 Beirut barracks attack is one of the most cited and least understood pretexts for the new war with Iran. That bombing was one of President Ronald Reagan’s biggest foreign debacles.” (03/06/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-full-story-of-1983-beirut-barracks-bombing-that-pete-hegseth-wont-tell-you
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45) Democrat war powers vote was an unconstitutional way to halt Iran strikes
Source: Fox News
by Gregg Jarrett
“The Senate on March 4 wisely rejected a new war powers resolution aimed at halting or restricting President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out further military strikes against Iran. A House version also failed. Introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA] the resolution in the upper chamber called for ending hostilities ‘unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force’ issued by Congress. The resolution, supported by nearly all Democrats, was defective for several reasons. First, the president can engage in military action with or without a declaration of war. He does not need permission from Congress.” [editor’s note: The opposite, of course, is the case — absent a declaration of war, a president has precisely zero “constitutional authority” to engage in one – TLK] (03/06/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-democrat-war-powers-vote-unconstitutional-way-halt-iran-strikes
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46) Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike
Source: CounterPunch
by John W Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused. This did not happen overnight. Every modern president has stretched the limits of war-making power. Some have shredded those limits altogether. Each time that boundary is breached, the Constitution recedes a little further. This is one of those moments.” (03/06/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/06/preemptive-war-permanent-emergency-the-real-cost-of-trumps-iran-strike/
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47) No, There Was No “Imminent Threat” From Iran
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Donald Trump says his preemptive attack on Iran was justified, in accordance with international law, because Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. In his speech announcing the operation, he declared, ‘Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.’ But the threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ to include distant, indirect, and theoretical risks. They’ve stretched the word beyond any semblance of its meaning.” (03/06/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-rubio-hegseth-iran-war-imminent-threat
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48) America’s War on Iran Has Always Been a Bipartisan Effort
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jon Reynolds
“American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him – Republican and Democrat alike – constructed the gun, and even loaded it.” (03/06/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/jon_reynolds/2026/03/05/americas-war-on-iran-has-always-been-a-bipartisan-effort
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49) The Axis of Chaos
Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“The war Israel and the United States launched against Iran on February 28, with the ‘decapitation’ of the country’s leadership and the bombardment of hundreds of military and civilian sites (including a girls’ school in Minab where at least 165 children and staff were massacred), has quickly transformed into a regional conflagration with incalculable consequences. While already weakened by the Israeli-U.S. ’12-Day War’ in June 2025 (which President Donald Trump declared had ’obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities) and despised by many Iranians for its murderous repression of civilian protest, the Iranian regime has not yet been undermined by the loss of key government figures, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the minister of defense and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).” (03/06/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/axis-of-chaos-us-israel-war-on-iran-middle-east
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50) History and the Gigantic Ginger Cat
Source: Law & Liberty
by Christopher J Scalia
“In The Coast of Utopia, the late English playwright Tom Stoppard tackled revolutionary determinism through the tragic figure of Alexander Herzen.” (03/06/26)
https://lawliberty.org/history-and-the-gigantic-ginger-cat/
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51) Is It War?
Source: Reason
“America’s longest, most depressing game show.” (03/07/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/03/07/is-it-war/
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52) Unattended Baggage, episode 331
Source: Unattended Baggage
“Not today, Jesus.” (03/07/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-331-not-today-jesus
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53) The Good Fight, 03/07/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI.” (03/07/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/dean-ball
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54) Matthew Hoh on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about an article he just wrote debunking the old lie, that is being pushed once again, that the Iranian government helped kill hundreds of American soldiers by supplying critical parts for armor-piercing roadside IEDs. He and Scott also discuss how insane Trump’s decision to attack Iran is.” (03/07/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/3-5-26-matthew-hoh-on-the-lie-that-iran-killed-hundreds-of-americans-in-iraq/
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55) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2741
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“You’re Obsessed With Israel!” (03/06/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2741-youre-obsessed-with-israel/
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56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 03/06/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Kathryn Paige Harden On Genes And Morality.” (03/06/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/kathryn-paige-harden-on-genes-and
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57) Freedom Works, 03/06/26
Source: Freedom Works
“Steve Swedberg, Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘A Closer Look at Trump’s State of the Union.'” (03/06/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-03-06_zfw02272026.mp3
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58) The Intercept Briefing, 03/06/26
Source: The Intercept
“Trump’s War to Nowhere.” (03/06/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/06/podcast-trump-iran-israel-war/
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59) The Reconstruction Agenda, 03/06/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Americans Have Never Had Less Recourse for the US Government Violating Rights: A Conversation With Steve Vladeck.” (03/06/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/americans-have-never-had-less-recourse
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60) America’s Performance Review
Source: Reason
“Andrew Heaton takes stock of the United States on its 250th birthday.” (03/06/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/03/06/americas-performance-review/
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61) The Brian Nichols Show, 03/06/26
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The Round Up COVER-UP That Nobody’s Talking About.” (03/06/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tbns-the-round-up-cover-up-that-nobodys-talking-about
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62) Serious Trouble, 03/06/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“Actually, I Would Like to File The Opposite Thing, Please.” (03/06/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/actually-i-would-like-to-file-the
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63) Rising, 03/06/26
Source: The Hill
“Hegseth, Iran Minister openly declare they’re ready for war: Lindsey Granger.” (03/06/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5758458-rising-march-6-2026/
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64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/06/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Counting The Costs: Another War Is Not What America Needed.” (03/06/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yxBeMvPdYpJN
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65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/06/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Wants To Choose Iran’s New Leader, Iran Says It’s Ready for US Ground Troops, and More.” (03/06/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPYDvmEp60
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1) Oil prices soar as Iranian regime names Khamenei’s son supreme leader
2) US regime publicly confesses to six more maritime murders
3) Nepal: Rapper-politician Balendra Shah unseats ex-PM as he heads for victory
4) Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until Congress passes election-rigging bill
5) Trump vows new wars of aggression across Latin America
6) Video of ICE murder of Texas man raises questions about government claim
7) US issues license authorizing sales of Venezuelan gold
8) NASA’s DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid’s orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
9) Norway: Loud explosion rocks US embassy
10) Peru: Nightclub bombing injures 33
11) Study: Heat waves that spark damaging droughts are happening more frequently
12) US payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%
13) FL: Woman mauled by seven dogs in front of sex offender’s home
14) Cuba: Regime Says Crews Repaired a Large Power Plant That Caused a Massive Outage
15) NY: Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in NYC
16) Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as “acting CEO”
17) AZ: Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate
18) Pezeshkian: Iran to halt strikes on neighbours unless attacks from there
19) Pentagon and FAA agree to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico
20) UT: Colorado man shot by resident after breaking into Provo home
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) The Operation was a Success, But the Patient Died
22) Neo-Trumpers: The Next Mutation?
23) And just like that MAGA peaceniks transform into neocons
24) The War He’s Always Wanted
25) Run Rampant
26) The US Soldiers Killed In This War Were Not Heroes
27) It’s up to Congress to disrupt Pam Bondi’s Epstein cover-up
28) Don’t turn banks into citizenship police
29) Sifting fact from fiction in the Iran war
30) Laughs in grew up Southern Baptist
31) Whose “Stolen Land” Is It, Anyway?
32) With His “Unconditional Surrender” Goal, Trump Signals a Long War
33) What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
34) The Making of a Forever War in Iran
35) Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump’s hands
36) Free Nation By Choice
37) The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China
38) Exploding the Idea That Trump’s Wars Can Handle China
39) America’s Debt Is a National Security Risk
40) Now He Owns It
41) Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
42) More on Rothbard and Immigration
43) Fifty Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI’s “Prohibited Access” Files
44) The Full Story of 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing (That Pete Hegseth Won’t Tell You)
45) Democrat war powers vote was an unconstitutional way to halt Iran strikes
46) Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike
47) No, There Was No “Imminent Threat” From Iran
48) America’s War on Iran Has Always Been a Bipartisan Effort
49) The Axis of Chaos
50) History and the Gigantic Ginger Cat
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1) Oil prices soar as Iranian regime names Khamenei’s son supreme leader
Source: NBC News
“Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Iran’s slain supreme leader, and widely viewed as a hardliner, has been named his successor. … Oil prices have surged past $100 per barrel as the war intensifies, though Trump said the spike will be ‘short term’ and ‘a very small price to pay.’ Israel hit Iranian oil depots over the weekend, while Tehran has targeted energy sites across the region and throttled the key Strait of Hormuz waterway. The U.S. military announced the death of another service member, bringing the total killed in combat to seven.” (03/09/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/live-updates-iran-war-oil-prices-khamenei-supreme-leader-israel-trump-rcna262378
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2) US regime publicly confesses to six more maritime murders
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The US military said it [murdered] six men on Sunday in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers. Sunday’s attack brought the death toll to at least 157 people since the administration began targeting ‘narco-terrorists’ in small vessels in September. As with most of the military’s statements on the more than 40 known strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Sea, US Southern Command said it targeted alleged drug traffickers along known smuggling routes. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was ferrying drugs.” (03/08/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/09/us-military-drug-boat-strike-pacific
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3) Nepal: Rapper-politician Balendra Shah unseats ex-PM as he heads for victory
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Rapper Balendra Shah has defeated the former Nepalese Prime Minister Sharma KP Oli in his parliamentary constituency, as he takes a step closer to becoming Nepal’s next prime minister. Nepal’s Election Commission confirmed on Saturday that Shah, 35, received 68,348 votes compared to Oli’s 18,734 to unseat the former leader in his constituency. Thursday’s general election — the first since violent youth-led protests toppled the government in September — pitted the establishment against a new generation of politicians advocating for angry, young Gen Z voters hungry for change. Shah’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is now seemingly on course to win the general election.” (03/08/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93w6y0lnd9o
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4) Trump says he won’t sign any bills into law until Congress passes election-rigging bill
Source: The Hill
“President Trump on Sunday threatened to not sign any bills into law until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is approved by the Senate, doubling down on his push to change voting requirements ahead of the midterm elections. ‘I, as President, will not sign other Bills until this is passed, AND NOT THE WATERED DOWN VERSION – GO FOR THE GOLD: MUST SHOW VOTER I.D. & PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP: NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS EXCEPT FOR MILITARY – ILLNESS, DISABILITY…,’ the president wrote in his Sunday morning Truth Social post. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on whether the president will sign a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the partial government shutdown.” (03/08/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5773642-trump-save-act-senate-pressure/
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5) Trump vows new wars of aggression across Latin America
Source: Politico
“President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military into Ecuador this week to strike drug cartels, and now he’s poised to do the same in more than a dozen other Latin American countries under a new proclamation he signed Saturday. In remarks before the signing ceremony, flanked by the leaders of many of those countries, Trump described the proclamation as ‘a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist networks.’ He touted the U.S. military’s ‘amazing weaponry’ — and said all the other Latin American countries need to do is identify the location of cartel operatives.” (03/07/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/trump-military-cartels-latin-america-iran-00818070
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6) Video of ICE murder of Texas man raises questions about government claim
Source: Washington Post
“Video released by investigators in the [murder] last March of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent calls into question a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson’s claim that the victim ‘intentionally ran over’ a different agent before being shot. The investigative material released Friday by the Texas Department of Public Safety shows that Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was given conflicting instructions as he encountered law enforcement officers from multiple agencies near the scene of a previous vehicle accident in South Padre Island, Texas, in the early-morning hours of March 15. His car moved forward very slowly in the moments before Homeland Security Investigations Agent Jack C. Stevens fired three shots into Martinez’s blue Ford sedan. The footage does not show Martinez speeding up rapidly or appearing to target a second Homeland Security Investigations agent, Hector Sosa.” (03/07/26)
https://archive.is/HPtEd
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7) US issues license authorizing sales of Venezuelan gold
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
“The U.S. issued a license Friday that authorizes dealings with Minerven, Venezuela’s state-owned gold mining company, in the latest sign of the Trump administration’s intent to exercise more control over that country’s natural resources. The license was issued after U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum met in Venezuela with acting President Delcy Rodríguez this week, as well as with representatives of more than two dozen U.S. mining and minerals companies. Many of them previously operated in Venezuela. Burgum said Venezuela’s government gave security assurances to mining companies interested in investing in the country, where mineral-rich areas have long been controlled by guerrilla members, gangs and other illegal groups. Under the license, people and companies from Russia, Iran, North Korea and Cuba are not authorized to engage in any contracts with Minerven.” (03/06/26)
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/03/06/venezuela-gold/
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8) NASA’s DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid’s orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
Source: Engadget
“When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos’ orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects’ orbit around the sun, according to new research. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said in a press release that this ‘marks the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun.’ It’s a promising result as scientists work to find a feasible method of defending Earth from hazardous space objects. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission was designed to demonstrate one possible way of deflecting such an object, targeting the non-threatening moonlet Dimorphos, which is about 560 feet wide.” (03/07/26)
https://www.engadget.com/science/space/nasas-dart-spacecraft-changed-a-binary-asteroids-orbit-around-the-sun-in-a-first-for-a-human-made-object-210529924.html?src=rss
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9) Norway: Loud explosion rocks US embassy
Source: New York Post
“An explosion rocked the US Embassy in Norway, damaging the consulate amid Iranian threats of terror retaliation as Operation Epic Fury rages on in the Middle East, according to police and reports. The blast erupted in Oslo around 1 a.m. local time Sunday, hitting the entrance to the embassy’s consular section and causing minor damage, police incident commander Michael Delmer said, NRK reported. ‘At around 1 a.m. we received several reports of an explosion,’ he said, noting there were no casualties. … Delmer stressed the investigation is still in its early stages and it was not clear who was behind the blast.” (03/07/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/07/world-news/loud-explosion-heard-near-us-embassy-in-norway/
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10) Peru: Nightclub bombing injures 33
Source: ABC News
“A bombing at a nightclub in Peru has injured 33 people, including minors, authorities said Saturday. The explosion happened in the pre-dawn hours at the Dali nightclub in the province of Trujillo along Peru’s northern coast, according to a statement from the local Emergency Operations Center. It’s a region that has recently been plagued by violence and crime. It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible and a motive wasn’t immediately known.” (03/07/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/nightclub-bombing-peru-injures-33-including-minors-authorities-130859546
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11) Study: Heat waves that spark damaging droughts are happening more frequently
Source: SFGate
“Heat waves that lead to sudden and damaging drought are spreading across the globe at an accelerating rate, highlighting how climate change-fueled extremes can build dangerously off each other, a new study found. Researchers from South Korea and Australia looked at compound extreme weather — a one-two punch of heat and drought — and found it increasing as the world warms. But what’s rising especially fast is the more damaging type when the heat comes first and that triggers the drought. In the 1980s, that kind of extreme covered only about 2.5% of Earth’s land each year. By 2023, the last year the researchers studied, it was up to 16.7%, with a 10-year average of 7.9%. The average has likely gone even higher with 2024’s record global heat and a 2025 that was nearly as warm, the study’s authors said.” (03/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/heat-waves-that-spark-damaging-droughts-are-21959660.php
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12) US payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%
Source: CNBC
“The U.S. economy lost jobs in February, a month marred by severe winter weather and a strike at a major health-care provider, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls fell by 92,000 for the month, compared with the estimate for 50,000 and below the downwardly revised January total of 126,000. February marked the third time in the past five months that payrolls declined, following a sharp revision showing a drop of 17,000 in December.” (03/06/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/february-2026-jobs-report.html
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13) FL: Woman mauled by seven dogs in front of sex offender’s home
Source: New York Post
“A Florida woman was mauled by seven dogs in front of a registered sex offender’s home as neighbors looked on in horror, according to a report. The victim — who survived — was instantly trampled as the dogs tore into her flesh while she was face down on the ground outside Edward Hayes’[s] Dade City home, neighbor Lourdes Estrada told Fox 13. ‘It was terrifying. I was shocked and freaked out,’ Estrada, who dialed 911 after the horrifying incident, told the outlet. ‘I had never seen anything like that before.’ Hayes tried in vain, Estrada told the station, to pull the savage pets off the woman, who was airlifted from the grim scene in critical condition around 11 a.m. by Pasco County Fire Rescue. The victim was attacked when she approached the Fiesta Drive home to speak with Hayes — and his pets came rushing out, a source told The Post.” [editor’s note: What does him being a “registered sex offender” have to do with it? – TLK] (03/07/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/07/us-news/florida-woman-mauled-by-7-dogs-in-front-of-sex-offenders-home/
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14) Cuba: Regime Says Crews Repaired a Large Power Plant That Caused a Massive Outage
Source: US News & World Report
“Cuban officials said they expect to restart a large thermoelectric plant on Saturday after it shut down earlier in the week, sparking a massive blackout. Felix Estrada Rodríguez, a top engineer at Cuba’s Electric Union, told state-owned Canal Caribe that the Antonio Guiteras plant should be operating by Saturday afternoon. Crews have repaired a broken boiler at the plant that caused the outage on Wednesday, leaving millions without power in the island’s western region. … Cuba’s Electric Union said in a statement Saturday that only 1,000 megawatts of power were available, less than half of the island’s current demand. It did not say how many customers remained without power. The blackout, the second such outage to affect western Cuba in three months, was blamed on a crumbling electric grid and a lack of fuel.” (03/07/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-03-07/cuba-says-crews-repaired-a-large-power-plant-that-caused-a-massive-outage
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15) NY: Police investigating after device thrown at anti-Islam protest in NYC
Source: SFGate
“A counterprotester demonstrating against a ‘Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City’ event Saturday lit and threw a device containing nuts, bolts and screws at the protesting crowd after someone from that group used pepper spray on the counterprotest, police said. Police are investigating the incident that started late Saturday morning when someone from the anti-Islam protest associated with conservative influencer Jake Lang shot pepper spray into a counterprotesting group near the mayoral residence Gracie Mansion, Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. Tensions continued to heighten, she said, when someone in the counterprotest lit and threw a device she described as smaller than a football into the protesting crowd of about 20 people. The device struck a barrier and extinguished itself ‘a few feet from police officers’. The same person then ran, and another person gave a him a second device, which he then dropped. … All three people have been arrested, and an investigation is underway, Tisch said.” (03/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/police-investigating-after-device-thrown-at-21961894.php
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16) Judge says Kari Lake’s tenure atop US media agency was improper, voids actions as “acting CEO”
Source: Politico
“Kari Lake was illegally empowered to run the U.S. Agency for Global Media — the federal agency that oversees Voice of America — and her actions in that role were illegitimate, a federal judge ruled Saturday. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth concluded that Lake was ineligible to serve as USAGM’s acting CEO when she was formally elevated to the position on July 31 in an ‘acting capacity’ and without Senate confirmation. She relinquished that position on Nov. 19. Lamberth said any actions Lake took in that four-month timeframe must be treated as ‘void,’ including an Aug. 29 reduction in USAGM’s workforce.” (03/07/26)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/kari-lake-usagm-judge-00818165
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17) AZ: Hobbs vetoes Charlie Kirk memorial license plate
Source: Fox News
“Democrat Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing fierce backlash after vetoing a bill that would have created a specialty license plate honoring slain Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a move Republicans are blasting as a stunning act of partisanship after his assassination. Kirk, who was assassinated while speaking at a Sept. 10 Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University, lived in Arizona with his wife, Erika, and two children. The proposed specialty plate, referred to as the ‘Charlie Kirk memorial’ plate or the ‘Conservative grassroots network special plate,’ featured a photo of the late Kirk and the TPUSA logo in front of an American flag background.” (03/07/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arizona-governor-vetoes-charlie-kirk-memorial-license-plate-sparking-gop-outrage-this-bill-falls-short
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18) Pezeshkian: Iran to halt strikes on neighbours unless attacks from there
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said neighbouring countries will no longer be targeted unless an attack originates from there, as the war launched by the United States and Israel, which triggered sustained retaliation from Tehran across the Gulf and beyond, enters its second week. … Pezeshkian said the Iranian interim leadership council approved the motion to stop attacks on neighbouring nations. In remarks carried by Iranian media, the president also apologised to neighbouring countries for the strikes that took place in recent days.” (03/07/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/7/iran-to-halt-strikes-on-neighbours-unless-attacks-from-there-pezeshkian
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19) Pentagon and FAA agree to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico
Source: SFGate
“The Pentagon and the Federal Aviation Administration agreed to conduct anti-drone laser tests in New Mexico after the military’s deployment of the lasers led the FAA to suddenly close airspace in Texas twice in the last month. The newly announced testing was being carried out to ‘specifically address FAA safety concerns’, the military said Friday in a statement. It was to take place Saturday and Sunday at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lawmakers were concerned about an apparent lack of coordination after the Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser in early February without notifying the FAA. The federal agency that ensures safety in the skies decided to close the airspace over El Paso for a few hours, stranding many travelers. The Trump administration said it was working to halt an incursion by Mexican cartel drones, which are not uncommon along the southern border.” (03/07/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/pentagon-and-faa-agree-to-conduct-anti-drone-21962216.php
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20) UT: Colorado man shot by resident after breaking into Provo home
Source: ABC 4 News
“A man from Colorado unlawfully entered an occupied home in Provo Thursday evening before being confronted and shot by a resident inside the home. According to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office, around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, an adult male unlawfully entered a home in Provo Canyon that was occupied. Upon arrival, a resident verbally confronted the man. Despite being told to leave, he continued into the home and began damaging property. Because of the disturbance, a second resident locked themselves in a bedroom. The first resident then armed themselves with a handgun and again verbally confronted the man. The suspect attacked the resident, who then fired multiple shots at him. After being hit, the man left the home. As he was leaving, he stole a truck from outside and fled. Deputies en route to the scene observed the suspect and stopped him, taking him into custody.” (03/06/26)
https://www.abc4.com/news/crime/homeowner-shoots-intruder-provo-steals-truck/
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21) The Operation was a Success, But the Patient Died
Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“This war with Iran is an extension of the dynamics that have always driven US foreign policy. And nothing will stop this President from the path of destruction he has chosen — certainly not the Congress, which has long been ceding its constitutional responsibilities to the executive branch. Indeed, House Speaker Mike Johnson denies that the US is even involved in a ‘war.’ And Senate Republicans have blocked any war power limits to this operation, giving Trump a rubberstamp to do whatever the hell he wants. The warmongers among us serve the administration by labeling as ‘traitors’ those who oppose US intervention abroad. This has become a virtual rite of passage for critics in times of war.” (03/07/26)
https://notablog.net/2026/03/07/the-operation-was-a-success-but-the-patient-died/
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22) Neo-Trumpers: The Next Mutation?
Source: Garrison Center
by Joel Schlosberg
“A New York Times columnist offering pointers for ‘Pitchfork Pat’ Buchanan-type populists on ‘the isolationist right who thought Trump shared his views’ might seem akin to a mad scientist named Frankenstein offering a road map to a pitchforks-and-torches peasant mob. Yet Michelle Goldberg does just that in ‘The President Was Never Antiwar’ (March 2). While maintaining that Donald Trump was indeed the embodiment through which ‘the once marginalized politics of Patrick Buchanan became a dominant force in the Republican Party,’ Goldberg insists that ‘Trump was never Buchanan’s heir when it came to foreign policy.’ … While ‘it is true that he broke with key elements of neoconservative ideology,’ he hasn’t distanced himself from even ‘the most fanatical of neoconservatives,’ preferring instead to discard the ideology’s ‘notion that American power should ever be constrained by a veneer of idealism.'” (03/07/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20399
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23) And just like that MAGA peaceniks transform into neocons
Source: Orange County Register
by Steven Greenhut
“MAGA’s philosophical twists and turns are hard to follow given that whenever Donald Trump changes his mind his supporters have three go-to approaches. First, they claim his latest notion is part of a 3D chess game even if, by all appearances, Trump would struggle to play one-level tic-tac-toe. Second, they distract our attention: Didn’t Barack Obama do this, too? Third, they get with the program and shamelessly back whatever the president is doing. Sometimes MAGA-supporting influencers with their own agendas and philosophies take issue with some Trump policy. But rank-and-file MAGA always follows the Dear Leader even if it means contradicting some Deeply Held Principle they espoused weeks ago.” (03/06/26)
https://archive.is/IzbFY
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24) The War He’s Always Wanted
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“For me and many others, the Iraq War of 2003 was a life-altering lesson in humility. In the wake of 9/11, with trauma warping my frontal cortex, I backed a pre-meditated, pre-emptive war for regime change in the Middle East — something stupid and immoral I soon realized, however well intentioned. It changed me. But at least in those tense, polarized months of 2002 and 2003, we had hashed out the case for war thoroughly beforehand, as democracies do. … Come with me a little further back in time to the Persian Gulf War of 1991. That was a war started by Saddam Hussein, not us. How did we go about a new war in the Middle East back then? Well, we had another big public debate, another trip to the UN, and then another vote in the Congress. It was closer than we remember: just 52-47 in the Senate (with one abstention). … Seems like another planet, doesn’t it?” (03/06/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-war-hes-always-wanted-c47
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25) Run Rampant
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“We live in a great Age of Conspiracy Theories. I’m not quite on board. As the Internet grew up, with it came all the condemnations of conspiracy theories, run rampant. The Internet, we were told, was problematic in that not only was information readier at hand than ever before, but so was it easier to share and nurture all these goofy conspiracy theories. You know: JFK was killed by someone other than Oswald, or also by others, in addition to Oswald. Or … UFOs are real, and the government is covering it up. Or the Rothschilds are behind it all. You know the kind of thing I’m talking about. Ick. Yet: The government now admits that UFOs are real …. Further: As we uncover the grotesquerie in the Epstein Files, we learn that he proudly served Rothschild banking interests! So let’s not get started on the JFK assassination.” (03/06/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/03/06/run-rampant/
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26) The US Soldiers Killed In This War Were Not Heroes
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The US soldiers who are getting killed in the war with Iran were not heroes. They did not die defending their country. They did not die fighting to protect Americans. They died advancing the geostrategic agendas of oligarchs and empire managers which benefit ordinary Americans in no way. It’s important not to valorize these people for two reasons. Firstly, it assists US military recruitment by falsely portraying these imperial stormtrooper careers as noble and heroic. Secondly, it falsely frames the war they died in as a righteous cause which is making the world a better place, rather than as a war of aggression against a nation that posed literally zero threat to their homeland. These are not harmless little white lies. They are extremely destructive propaganda narratives which facilitate acts of mass military slaughter on real human beings. Don’t assist the warmongers in circulating these lies.” (03/07/26)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/03/07/the-us-soldiers-killed-in-this-war-were-not-heroes-and-other-notes/
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27) It’s up to Congress to disrupt Pam Bondi’s Epstein cover-up
Source: USA Today
by Chris Brennan
“U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice have been openly violating a federal law for two and a half months to shield President Donald Trump from transparency in the metastasizing ‘Epstein files’ scandal. And now Bondi will get a second chance at explaining herself in Congress. But based on her last performance before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in February, expect only more pathetic theatrics and zero acceptance of accountability. Still, something has shifted …. It looks like Bondi will finally face some tough questions from members of her own political party about how she has botched the release of the Epstein files. And that’s long overdue.” (03/08/26)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/08/pam-bondi-epstein-files-cover-up-house-subpoena/88999569007/
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28) Don’t turn banks into citizenship police
Source: The Hill
by Solveig Singleton
“President Trump is reportedly considering an order requiring financial institutions to check customers’ citizenship, a curious departure from the administration’s professed concerns about the burden of bureaucracy and debanking. … Customers unnerved by the order might move their money from chartered depository institutions to informal family, religious, and community-based financial networks. … Federal statutes forbid financial service companies from alerting customers when surveillance reports are sent to authorities. But being asked to prove citizenship on everyday occasions is an intrusion people are sure to notice.” [editor’s note: Singleton’s wording implies that she MAY think moving money from state-surveilled institutions “to informal family, religious, and community-based financial networks” is a bad thing. I disagree. I consider it an essential precursor to restoring economic freedom, even though I also oppose the prospective “order” – TLK] (03/07/26)
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5771913-financial-privacy-concerns-trump/
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29) Sifting fact from fiction in the Iran war
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“A very old type of information warfare – spreading false narratives to rattle an enemy’s population during a conflict – now has a new and vital adversary: fact-checkers. On March 3, for example, a video went viral showing Israel’s second-largest city, Tel Aviv, in flames from multiple strikes by Iranian missiles, four days after the first Israeli and American attacks on Iran. It attracted more than 14 million views. ‘The video is AI-generated, and features multiple errors consistent with AI clips,’ posted BBC Verify senior journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh. ‘It’s not real.’ After spotting many similar fake images, Mr. Sardarizadeh concluded: ‘This war might have already broken the record for the highest number of AI-generated videos and images that have gone viral during a conflict…. Welcome to our brave new world of AI misinformation.'” (03/06/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0306/Sifting-fact-from-fiction-in-the-Iran-war
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30) Laughs in grew up Southern Baptist
Source: Sex and the State
by Cathy Reisenwitz
“Who keeps insisting that no one look too deeply into their claims? It’s the Southern Baptist Convention, who covered up their rape crisis for decades. It’s the leadership of the rape cult that is Evangelical Christianity. It’s the Catholic Church. If sexual shame and stigma kept vulnerable people safe from rapists we’d have gotten rid of rape by now. Instead, where sexuality is most repressed, you see the highest rates of sexual abuse. This. Is. Not. A. Coincidence.” (03/06/26)
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/laughs-in-grew-up-southern-baptist
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31) Whose “Stolen Land” Is It, Anyway?
Source: Town Hall
by Paul Driessen
“Land acknowledgements have become de rigueur at commencement ceremonies, film and music award events, and other programs. Something like this: ‘We acknowledge that the land on which we gather is the stolen and occupied territory of the Indigenous First Nation People who stewarded the land through many generations before White European colonialists seized it.’ Many take these acknowledgements quite seriously. Indeed, professors and employees have been disciplined for mocking them, because employers find mockery ‘offensive’ and ‘disruptive’ – unlike their reactions to ‘mostly peaceful’ Antifa, BLM and pro-Palestinian harassment and riots. When accepting her Grammy, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish used her onstage opportunity to criticize Trump’s immigration policies, saying ‘no one is illegal on stolen land’. Unless, of course, someone tried to enter her gated community and assert ownership over or enjoy a sandwich in her million-dollar mansion.” (03/07/26)
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2026/03/07/whose-stolen-land-is-it-anyway-n2672448
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32) With His “Unconditional Surrender” Goal, Trump Signals a Long War
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Ryan McMaken
“Historians have long noted that demands for unconditional surrender have worked to prolong conflicts rather than shorten them, leading to needless death on both sides. After all, Trump is essentially saying that the Iranians should put themselves in a position of accepting whatever terms the United States seeks to unilaterally impose, including the total dissolution of the Iranian state, plus sanctions, punishments, occupations and other humiliations. What government would accede to this? Very few would, which is why only very weak, small, and relatively unarmed regimes can be forced into accepting unconditional surrender after anything less than a protracted war. Iran, however, is not weak, small, or relatively unarmed. And, geography is in its favor.” (03/06/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/his-unconditional-surrender-goal-trump-signals-long-war
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33) What Is the US Exit Strategy From Its War on Iran?
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US assault on Iran rests on allegations that international inspectors have already debunked. But beyond the false pretext lies an even more pressing question that few officials in Washington seem willing (or able) to answer: What is the US exit strategy from its war on Iran? President Trump has justified the attack by claiming that Iran refuses to renounce nuclear weapons. As he prepared to launch the war, Trump repeatedly claimed, ‘We haven’t heard those secret words: “We will never have a nuclear weapon”.’ Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, responded by reiterating Iran’s long-standing policy, stating plainly: ‘Iran will under no circumstances ever develop a nuclear weapon.'” (03/07/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-is-the-us-exit-strategy-from-iran-war
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34) The Making of a Forever War in Iran
Source: Cato Institute
by Jon Hoffman
“President Donald Trump has plunged the United States into an open-ended war with Iran, lacking clearly defined and achievable objectives, a discernible endgame, or a viable exit plan. This is a war of choice — Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States, and the White House is now scrambling to devise a strategy for a war already underway and proving more difficult than anticipated. The war will likely escalate as Iran digs in and hawkish voices push Trump toward maximalist — and largely unachievable — aims. By setting this crisis in motion, the Trump administration is repeating the same failures that have long defined US Middle East policy. Absent a course correction, the United States is on the path to another forever war.” (03/06/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/making-forever-war-iran
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35) Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump’s hands
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Katherine Thompson
“This week efforts under the War Powers Act to check President Trump’s unconstitutional and unauthorized war in Iran failed on a mostly party line split in both the House and the Senate. The result isn’t all that surprising. The naivety, however, on the role of Congress in matters of war is staggering. Congress is in desperate need of a civics refresher.” (03/06/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-war-powers/
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36) Free Nation By Choice
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Cláudia Ascensão Nunes
“Switzerland is the freest country in the world, according to the Human Freedom Index. Small in territory but giant in institutional autonomy, it has built a decentralized, monetarily stable, and deeply participatory democracy, all outside the European Union. While Member States have no alternative to the uniform directives designed in Brussels, Switzerland negotiates sectoral agreements according to its national interest and the democratic consent of its citizens. The new ‘Bilaterals III’ package, whose entry into force depends on approval by the Swiss Parliament and possibly a referendum, is a reminder that there is an alternative to the European integrationist ‘one size fits all’ model. Switzerland’s institutional architecture limits central power.” (03/06/26)
https://fee.org/articles/free-nation-by-choice/
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37) The obvious signs the Iran war is part of larger contest with Russia and China
Source: New York Post
by staff
“Critics who call Operation Epic Fury folly or a distraction are missing the point: Iran is just one front in an ongoing, evolving global contest that includes Russia and China. It stretches to other fronts as well, though President Donald Trump has shut down the one in Venezuela and looks to have Cuba headed the same way. But Tehran is much more entangled with Moscow and Beijing, exchanging arms, technical know-how and intelligence. Even now, Russia is giving Iran high-quality intelligence to target missiles on US installations, experts conclude: Such precision is beyond the limited capabilities of the Islamic Republic’s handful of military-grade satellites. The cooperation runs both ways: Tehran has been sending Shahed drones to Moscow for attacks on Ukraine for four years now; it even built a factory in Russia to produce thousands of these cheap, deadly unmanned aerial vehicles.” (03/06/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/06/opinion/the-obvious-signs-the-iran-war-is-part-of-larger-contest-with-russia-and-china/
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38) Exploding the Idea That Trump’s Wars Can Handle China
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“It was astounding to learn from the TV show of the former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL) that an overall theme seems to be forming for President Donald Trump’s much more aggressive, second-term foreign policy in his private conversations with high-level Trump administration officials. Unfortunately, that theme is based on a very shaky grasp of reality. Scarborough said the Trump administration rationale coming together is this: Decapitating the Venezuelan regime and attempting to topple the Iranian regime, both relying on stand-off force so far, combined with pressure on Russia, is an attempt to cut off China’s oil supply. One can only hope that this overall theme is an after-the-fact justification for an erratic president executing a shoot-from-the-hip foreign policy. And that would be the good news.” (03/06/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/03/06/exploding-the-idea-that-trumps-wars-can-handle-china/
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39) America’s Debt Is a National Security Risk
Source: The Daily Economy
by Romina Boccia
“Wars test nations. They test military readiness, alliance cohesion, and political resolve. But they also test something less visible and just as important: fiscal strength. Just days before the United States entered war with Iran, President Trump was arguing for a $500 billion defense spending increase. … Although the absurdity of President Trump’s arbitrary defense budget request hasn’t changed, the terms of the debate have. Whether justified or not, war places immediate pressure on defense budgets. The real question is whether the United States has put itself in a position to afford it.” (03/06/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/americas-debt-is-a-national-security-risk/
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40) Now He Owns It
Source: The American Conservative
by Jason Lewis
“Trump personifies his own movement, so perhaps he has the prerogative of redefining it. But ‘regime change’ from Tehran to Moscow has little in common with non-interventionism. And if the U.S. was devoted to keeping ‘lunatics’ from enriching uranium for a nuke, North Korea and Pakistan (where Osama Bin Laden hung out) wouldn’t have one. No, this is ‘regime change,’ and whatever side you may be on and however you parse it, it’s at odds with a whole lot of Trump supporters. The only thing that those of us who harbor doubts about it can say is, ‘I hope he’s right.’ Because if he’s not, the midterms are finished — and so is America First.” (03/06/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/now-he-owns-it/
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41) Lawmakers Debate Bill to Blackmail Sanctuary Cities
Source: The American Prospect
by Whitney Curry Wimbish
“House lawmakers on the Judiciary Committee debated a proposal Thursday that would force state and local police to help federal agents conduct deportations or risk losing federal funding. Not only would it essentially hold local jurisdictions hostage, Democratic lawmakers said, it also violates states’ rights. The bill, the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, aims to punish Los Angeles, New York, and other cities that have policies limiting cooperation with federal agents, such as restrictions on honoring ICE detainers, providing access to jails, and sharing information about individuals’ immigration status. These cities have been in the crosshairs of the Trump administration for months; Attorney General Pam Bondi last year published a hit list of sanctuary jurisdictions, saying they cause risk to American citizens ‘by design’.” (03/06/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/03/06/ice-deportation-immigrant-sanctuary-cities-hr-7640-congress/
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42) More on Rothbard and Immigration
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“Rothbard is surely right that, by definition, in a country or world of private property, the owners would set the rules for their own parcels, leaving others to shop around for situations that best suit their values. But let’s be clear here. It would not be the case that no one could enter a property ‘unless invited,’ as he put it in the first quotation above. Walmart does not invite particular people to its stores. Neither does McDonald’s. They have open borders during business hours. It’s a standing invitation to everyone and anyone who’s peaceful. So the word ‘invited’ is misleading.” (03/06/26)
https://sheldonrichman.substack.com/p/tgif-more-on-immigration-and-rothbard
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43) Fifty Years of Secrets: Why You Should Care About the FBI’s “Prohibited Access” Files
Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi
“The Middle East is on fire, the planet on the verge of world war, the Homeland Security director just ousted. It’d hard to pay attention to anything else. Still, if you want to know why news that the FBI has begun to turn over long-concealed ‘prohibited access’ files to Congress might matter, just ask Seymour Hersh. Fifty-two years ago, on December 21, 1974, the famed muckraker printed ‘Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents In Nixon Years’ in the New York Times. … These misdeeds were part of a trove of dirty secrets in the CIA’s past that came to be known as the agency’s ‘Family Jewels.’ Some sources Racket spoke with this week recalled the case in conjunction with news about the discovery of a cache of secret files at the FBI.” (03/06/26)
https://www.racket.news/p/50-years-of-secrets-why-you-should
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44) The Full Story of 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing (That Pete Hegseth Won’t Tell You)
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“In his recent comments justifying a preventive war against Iran, President Donald Trump declared, ‘In 1983, Iran’s proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel.’ Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has invoked that attack numerous times. The 1983 Beirut barracks attack is one of the most cited and least understood pretexts for the new war with Iran. That bombing was one of President Ronald Reagan’s biggest foreign debacles.” (03/06/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-full-story-of-1983-beirut-barracks-bombing-that-pete-hegseth-wont-tell-you
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45) Democrat war powers vote was an unconstitutional way to halt Iran strikes
Source: Fox News
by Gregg Jarrett
“The Senate on March 4 wisely rejected a new war powers resolution aimed at halting or restricting President Donald Trump’s ability to carry out further military strikes against Iran. A House version also failed. Introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine [D-VA] the resolution in the upper chamber called for ending hostilities ‘unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force’ issued by Congress. The resolution, supported by nearly all Democrats, was defective for several reasons. First, the president can engage in military action with or without a declaration of war. He does not need permission from Congress.” [editor’s note: The opposite, of course, is the case — absent a declaration of war, a president has precisely zero “constitutional authority” to engage in one – TLK] (03/06/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-democrat-war-powers-vote-unconstitutional-way-halt-iran-strikes
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46) Preemptive War, Permanent Emergency: The Real Cost of Trump’s Iran Strike
Source: CounterPunch
by John W Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
“The military-industrial complex and the American police state have joined forces. War abroad and war at home are no longer separate enterprises. They have fused. This did not happen overnight. Every modern president has stretched the limits of war-making power. Some have shredded those limits altogether. Each time that boundary is breached, the Constitution recedes a little further. This is one of those moments.” (03/06/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/06/preemptive-war-permanent-emergency-the-real-cost-of-trumps-iran-strike/
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47) No, There Was No “Imminent Threat” From Iran
Source: The Bulwark
by Will Saletan
“Donald Trump says his preemptive attack on Iran was justified, in accordance with international law, because Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. In his speech announcing the operation, he declared, ‘Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.’ But the threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ to include distant, indirect, and theoretical risks. They’ve stretched the word beyond any semblance of its meaning.” (03/06/26)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-rubio-hegseth-iran-war-imminent-threat
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48) America’s War on Iran Has Always Been a Bipartisan Effort
Source: Antiwar.com
by Jon Reynolds
“American bombs are now falling on Tehran, and while Donald Trump ultimately pulled the trigger, administrations before him – Republican and Democrat alike – constructed the gun, and even loaded it.” (03/06/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/jon_reynolds/2026/03/05/americas-war-on-iran-has-always-been-a-bipartisan-effort
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49) The Axis of Chaos
Source: In These Times
by Alberto Toscano
“The war Israel and the United States launched against Iran on February 28, with the ‘decapitation’ of the country’s leadership and the bombardment of hundreds of military and civilian sites (including a girls’ school in Minab where at least 165 children and staff were massacred), has quickly transformed into a regional conflagration with incalculable consequences. While already weakened by the Israeli-U.S. ’12-Day War’ in June 2025 (which President Donald Trump declared had ’obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear capabilities) and despised by many Iranians for its murderous repression of civilian protest, the Iranian regime has not yet been undermined by the loss of key government figures, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the minister of defense and the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).” (03/06/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/axis-of-chaos-us-israel-war-on-iran-middle-east
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50) History and the Gigantic Ginger Cat
Source: Law & Liberty
by Christopher J Scalia
“In The Coast of Utopia, the late English playwright Tom Stoppard tackled revolutionary determinism through the tragic figure of Alexander Herzen.” (03/06/26)
https://lawliberty.org/history-and-the-gigantic-ginger-cat/
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51) Is It War?
Source: Reason
“America’s longest, most depressing game show.” (03/07/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/03/07/is-it-war/
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52) Unattended Baggage, episode 331
Source: Unattended Baggage
“Not today, Jesus.” (03/07/26)
https://unattendedbaggage.substack.com/p/episode-331-not-today-jesus
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53) The Good Fight, 03/07/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Dean Ball on Who Should Control AI.” (03/07/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/dean-ball
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54) Matthew Hoh on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Scott interviews Matthew Hoh about an article he just wrote debunking the old lie, that is being pushed once again, that the Iranian government helped kill hundreds of American soldiers by supplying critical parts for armor-piercing roadside IEDs. He and Scott also discuss how insane Trump’s decision to attack Iran is.” (03/07/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/3-5-26-matthew-hoh-on-the-lie-that-iran-killed-hundreds-of-americans-in-iraq/
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55) The Tom Woods Show, episode 2741
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“You’re Obsessed With Israel!” (03/06/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2741-youre-obsessed-with-israel/
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56) The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan, 03/06/26
Source: The Weekly Dish
“Kathryn Paige Harden On Genes And Morality.” (03/06/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/kathryn-paige-harden-on-genes-and
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57) Freedom Works, 03/06/26
Source: Freedom Works
“Steve Swedberg, Competitive Enterprise Institute ‘A Closer Look at Trump’s State of the Union.'” (03/06/26)
https://internetradiopros.com/freedomworks/?name=2026-03-06_zfw02272026.mp3
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58) The Intercept Briefing, 03/06/26
Source: The Intercept
“Trump’s War to Nowhere.” (03/06/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/06/podcast-trump-iran-israel-war/
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59) The Reconstruction Agenda, 03/06/26
Source: The UnPopulist
“Americans Have Never Had Less Recourse for the US Government Violating Rights: A Conversation With Steve Vladeck.” (03/06/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/americans-have-never-had-less-recourse
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60) America’s Performance Review
Source: Reason
“Andrew Heaton takes stock of the United States on its 250th birthday.” (03/06/26)
https://reason.com/video/2026/03/06/americas-performance-review/
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61) The Brian Nichols Show, 03/06/26
Source: Lions of Liberty
“The Round Up COVER-UP That Nobody’s Talking About.” (03/06/26)
https://www.lionsofliberty.com/episodes/tbns-the-round-up-cover-up-that-nobodys-talking-about
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62) Serious Trouble, 03/06/26
Source: Serious Trouble
“Actually, I Would Like to File The Opposite Thing, Please.” (03/06/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/actually-i-would-like-to-file-the
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63) Rising, 03/06/26
Source: The Hill
“Hegseth, Iran Minister openly declare they’re ready for war: Lindsey Granger.” (03/06/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5758458-rising-march-6-2026/
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64) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 03/06/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Counting The Costs: Another War Is Not What America Needed.” (03/06/26)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yxBeMvPdYpJN
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65) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 03/06/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Wants To Choose Iran’s New Leader, Iran Says It’s Ready for US Ground Troops, and More.” (03/06/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzPYDvmEp60
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