Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Anyone who wants the US and its allies to attack Iran is a psychopath. People who want to unleash a war of that scale upon our species should be rejected from our society as aggressively as child molesters and Nazis. … A new CNN report says multiple Biden administration officials ‘saw Iran’s attacks on Israel Saturday as disproportionate to Israel’s strikes in Damascus that prompted the retaliation.’ There are zero reported fatalities as a result of the Iranian retaliation. The Israeli strikes on the Iranian embassy in Damascus killed 16 people, including multiple high-level Iranian military officials. To see Iran’s response as ‘disproportionate’ is to admit you believe Israeli lives are worth literally orders of magnitude more than Iranian lives.” (04/15/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/15/anyone-who-wants-the-us-to-attack-iran-is-an-enemy-of-humanity/
Source: My History Can Beat Up Your Politics
“Election 1916: ‘Everything is Different.'” (04/15/24)
https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/2024/04/15/election-1916-everything-is-different/
Source: Reason
by JD Tuccille
“It won’t give him back the years he’s spent in confinement, but WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may finally get a bit of justice after years of persecution for embarrassing U.S. officials. Under pressure from the government of the journalist’s home country of Australia, President Joe Biden said he’s ‘considering’ dropping the case against Assange. It’s been a long time coming, but such a move would be welcomed not just by the prisoner, but by people everywhere who scrutinize government conduct.” (04/15/24)
https://reason.com/2024/04/15/biden-hints-at-freedom-for-julian-assange/
Source: Fox News
“The New York Times has launched a mole hunt to determine ‘whether staffers leaked confidential information related to Gaza war coverage to another media outlet,’ according to the Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal report called it the ‘latest internal crisis at the Times’ where infighting over coverage of ‘sensitive topics like the transgender community and social justice’ has erupted in recent months. … Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn was irked when The Intercept recently reported an episode of the Times'[s] podcast ‘The Daily’ about sexual violence committed by Hamas was shelved after ‘an intense internal debate’ about the story. Kahn told the WSJ that he’s open to ‘the normal push and pull of any newsroom — journalists challenging each other’s assumptions and debating whether coverage is fair,’ but opposition to the Hamas sexual-violence article ‘crossed a line when confidential Times work-product was allegedly shared outside the newsroom.'” (04/15/24)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-investigating-itself-faces-staff-rebellion-over-gaza-leaks-internal-crisis
Source: Antiwar.com
by Marc D Joffe
“Fiscal conservatives have been sounding the alarm about endemic federal deficits for years, but many also support the $95 billion supplemental foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan now before Congress. Can supplemental military spending be reconciled with budget balancing? Conservative hawks think so, but their faith is not supported by budget and political realities. The Congressional Budget Office projects that annual deficits will increase from $1.5 trillion this year to almost $2.6 trillion in fiscal year 2034 and that publicly held federal debt will reach an unprecedented 166 percent of GDP by 2054.” (04/15/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/marc-d-joffe/2024/04/14/do-fiscal-hawkery-and-supplemental-military-packages-mix/
Source: Associated Press
“Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year. The bill, which passed on a 35-27 vote, is now on its way to the Democratic-led state Senate. If it passes there, it could bring Colorado in line with 10 other states — including California, New York and Illinois — that have prohibitions on semiautomatic guns.” (04/14/24)
https://apnews.com/article/assault-weapon-ban-colorado-gun-91b1a35b838b984e743141ddc619a24c
Source: EconTalk
“When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin).” (04/15/24)
https://www.econtalk.org/when-prediction-is-not-enough-with-teppo-felin/
Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman
“Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system we call institutional psychiatry, or what we could call the government-medical complex. He called it the Therapeutic State. He opposed involuntary mental hospitalization, forced medication, the insanity defense, prescription laws, drug prohibition, laws against suicide, and the psychiatric position (until the 1970s) that homosexuality was a mental illness requiring forced intervention. I am proud to have had him as a friend and also a columnist when I edited The Freeman.” (04/15/24)
https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2024/04/thomas-szasz.html
Source: Town Hall
by Mark Lewis
“America fled from Afghanistan with its tail between its legs. Russia invaded Ukraine. Hamas attacked Israel. Iran has attacked Israel. Every Third World country is invading America, sending its human refuse across our border. Joe Biden is putting sissies into a powerful position in the United States military. He is telling Israel to ‘de-escalate,’ i.e., don’t defend itself. Does he think the world doesn’t see all this? One of my first thoughts is, what is Xi Jinping waiting for? Why doesn’t he invade Taiwan now when America obviously has the weakest leadership it has ever had in its entire history? I am frankly beyond weary of the arrogant moral preening of the Left. They try to pass themselves off as so loving, compassionate and ‘tolerant,’ but they have no clue what those concepts really entail.” (04/15/24)
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/04/15/iran-and-israel-the-nicest-thing-we-can-do-is-obliterate-leftism-n2637768
Source: SFGate
“The director of Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign in Wisconsin, who pushed allegations of widespread fraud that were ultimately debunked, has been hired to run the Republican Party of Wisconsin heading into the November election. Andrew Iverson will serve as executive director of the Wisconsin GOP as it prepares to host the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July, the state party announced Friday. He takes over for Mark Jefferson, who left in February to serve as executive director of the Tavern League of Wisconsin. … In 2020, Iverson was the state director for Trump Victory, a joint operation of the Trump campaign and the RNC. It was in that role following Trump’s narrow loss in Wisconsin in 2020 that Iverson told other operatives two days after the election to support claims that Trump had actually won.” (04/15/24)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/former-trump-staffer-who-said-to-fan-the-flame-19403996.php
