The Peace Press — Saturday, November 7, 2026 edition
“Democrats, Please Take Note: Peace Is Good Politics
The message of voters is the same everywhere: diplomacy is safer, more effective, and trillions of dollars cheaper than war.
Voters across the United States were loud and clear on Tuesday in their historic drubbing of Trumpism. The election was a decisive rejection of Trump’s war on Iran and its staggering costs at home. While savoring their victory and the historic opportunity to restore America’s constitutional order, the Democrats should take the anti-war message of the election to heart, because they suffered the same verdict two years ago, when voters rejected the Biden administration’s wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Last week Israeli voters rejected Netanyahu’s reckless wars, and European voters are also rejecting parties that prolong the Ukraine War. The message of voters is the same everywhere: diplomacy is safer, more effective, and trillions of dollars cheaper than war.”
Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/06/jeffrey-sachs-peace-is-good-politics/
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“Peace Is Breaking Out Everywhere Except the White House
“Here is the irony. Vance’s first demand, end the war in Iran, may be fulfilled by Vladimir Putin and Mohsen Rezaei before the Republican Party gets around to it. If a settlement emerges with Moscow as its midwife, Trump can claim the peace, and Vance can claim he called it. Everybody wins, except perhaps the people in Washington who are still drafting target lists.
The alternative is the one the war party keeps whispering about: another round of strikes to “finish the job.” That would tell the voters who just fired the Republican Congress that nobody was listening. It would also tell Tehran and Moscow that the only negotiations Washington takes seriously are conducted with bombs.”
https://sonar21.com/peace-is-breaking-out-everywhere-except-the-white-house/
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“Trump must end the war today and fire all top officials connected to it
The president has to replace his inner circle with new appointees who can out maneuver the blob and give the people what they voted for.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ending-war-elections/
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“Iran War Drags Republicans Down, Gives Democrats Blowout Victories
When Republicans put America First, they won. When they put Israel First, they lost.
That’s it. That’s the plain and simple of last night’s elections.
Tuesday night showed very clearly that the American people do not want forever war.
They do not want our military fighting a war, any war, for another country when
there is no serious threat to our own country.
The elections were a huge rejection of President Trump’s decision to go to war in Iran. The biggest losers were Trump, the war criminal Netanyahu, and the Israel Lobby.
The American people were sickened by the killing and starving of so many thousands in Gaza, especially so many little children.”
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“Vance Says Republicans Lost Midterms Due to Iran War, US Relationship With Israel
Vice President JD Vance acknowledged on Wednesday that the US war with Iran and its relationship with Israel were the top reasons for the Republicans getting crushed in the midterm elections.
Vance made the comments in a long post on X, where he said he spoke with a pollster whom he described as “one of the smartest people I know in politics.” He said that the pollster told him that “a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats” and asked those “who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team.”
The top four responses were:
End the war
Focus on cost of living/inflation
Put America First
Change the US relationship with Israel”
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“If You Lie to Voters About Not Starting a New War, the Voters Make You Pay
American voters have a long memory for one particular kind of broken promise. Tell them you will keep their sons out of a foreign war, then march them into one, and they will eventually send you a bill. In 1920 the Democrats paid it. On Tuesday, the Republicans did.”
https://sonar21.com/if-you-lie-to-voters-about-not-starting-a-new-war-the-voters-make-you-pay/
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“Midterms Aftermath: MAGA Movement Post-Mortem
“While I normally don’t enjoy commenting on US domestic politics, this particular election is intrinsically tied to global geopolitics because, let’s be honest, at the end of the day the entire election was decided by one and only one issue: Iran.
Or should I say, Israel.
Iran effectively broke the US’s back, destroying the MAGA regime which tried so desperately to wipe it out on Israel’s behalf.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/midterms-aftermath-maga-movement
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“Neocons Down! May The GOP Go The Way Of The Whigs, Part 1
The GOP’s “war party” of neocons and global interventionists is surely today’s equivalent of the Whig pro-slavers. The former’s pro-war policy position is both fundamentally wrong as both a practical and moral matter, and it’s been by-passed by history, to boot.
That is to say, in the present day and age the homeland liberty and security of America requires neither an Empire abroad nor a massive Warfare State to attend it, including the capacity to project military power to distant shores in projects of invasion, occupation and regime change.
Likewise, neither does it require (entangling) foreign military alliances or $70 billion per year in foreign aid and security assistance designed to buy “allies” or enable Washington to meddle in local and regional disputes from one end of the planet to the other.
To the contrary, true national security today is actually a low-cost, unilateral matter. It requires about $75 billion per year for an invulnerable triad nuclear deterrent. The latter comprises land-, air- and sea-based retaliatory capabilities that can survive a first strike and bring civilization-ending ruination upon any potential nuclear aggressor, thereby ensuring MAD and the nuclear peace.
Beyond that, another $300 billion or so might be needed for an invincible Fortress America conventional warfare defense of the territorial homeland. “
https://davidstockman.substack.com/p/neocons-down-may-the-gop-go-the-way
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“With 74% of Voters Saying Iran War Was Big Factor in Midterms, Dems Urged to Become Peace Party
“Will Democrats finally get it?” asked one progressive expert. “Americans are tired of war. They want a new foreign policy.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dems-urged-to-become-anti-war-party
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“As Trump Threatens to ‘Destroy the Rest of’ Iran, Top Democrat Vows Ending War Will Be One of ‘First Things We Do’
Progressive and anti-war groups say Democrats don’t even need to wait until January — they can hold up money for the war when government funding runs out next month.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrats-stop-iran-funding
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“‘Power of the Purse’: Schumer Indicates Democrats Will Defund Trump’s Illegal Iran War
“We are going to end the war.”
Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday indicated that his party will defund President Donald Trump’s illegal war with Iran when it takes over as the majority next year.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/schumer-defund-iran-war
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“Who Gave Us This Disastrous War?
Our most urgent task after the midterms is to create a list of everyone who supported the Iran War so we’ll know who to never, ever, ever, ever trust again. Pending a full accounting, here are the top two: Benjamin Netanyahu, prime minister of Israel, and Rupert Murdoch — still alive as of this writing — patriarch of Fox News and the New York Post.”
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“As some of us warned you from the beginning, the war was going to be very bad for our country, bad for the GOP — and bad for Israel. That’s why a lot of people who appreciate Israel’s core values were among those issuing this warning. But the pro-war crowd apparently felt its strongest counter-argument was to scream about antisemitism.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/who-gave-us-this-disastrous-war/
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“Neocons in full meltdown as voters punish GOP for Iran war
Hawks like Mark Levin, Rebecca Heinrichs, and Marc Thiessen aren’t quite ready to admit they were wrong.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/neocons-iran-war-midterms/
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“Iran More Likely to Strike Europe if Trump Attacks
Germany and the UK have facilitated the U.S. military campaign.”
“Well, the midterm elections are over, and the GOP got walloped — bigly. Now that voters have handed the Democratic Party both chambers of Congress — and handed Donald Trump a stinging rebuke — we can focus again on the most urgent question facing our republic-turned-predatory-empire: Will our imperial president renew his costly, illegal, and deeply unpopular war against Iran, which he wisely, though to little avail, had put on the backburner during the campaign season?”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/iran-more-likely-to-strike-europe-if-trump-attacks/
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“Republicans’ Post-Midterms War Denialism Is an Exercise in Special Pleading
Just because it wasn’t only the war doesn’t mean it wasn’t mainly the war.”
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“Thomas Massie’s Revenge
The Kentucky congressman opposed the very policies that doomed Republicans in the midterms.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/thomas-massies-revenge/
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“The structural problem is that Americans and foreign buyers are bidding for the same shrinking pile. Over the past four weeks, domestic demand averaged 4.175 million barrels a day, 8.7 percent above last year. Exports averaged 1.353 million barrels a day, about 23 percent above February. Jet fuel exports are up 81 percent since February. We are selling our fuel abroad at war prices while our own tanks drain.
As the analysis puts it, America is not failing to produce diesel. It is failing to rebuild a cushion. A system with no cushion only needs one hurricane, one refinery fire or one cold snap to turn a tight market into a shortage.”
https://sonar21.com/full-refineries-empty-tanks/
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“The ‘blue wave’ is a defeat for Israel, but the left’s work is just beginning
Political consultant Peter Feld says the midterms were a rebuke of Trump, the Iran war, and Israel. But with AIPAC adapting and J Street rising, he warns progressives must push for a full arms embargo and resist the capture of their new champions.”
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“What Voters Told us About America and Israel
“I think humanity won yesterday.”
“J Street is now the political center of gravity on Israel and Palestine in the Democratic Party. When the new Congress convenes, a solid majority of the Democrats in the House and Senate will be J Street-endorsed. These members reflect the mainstream views of the party: a commitment to Israel and its security alongside a commitment to Palestinian rights and self-determination, and the desire for US policy that advances both. As J Street gained traction, AIPAC was losing endorsed candidates so rapidly that it ultimately decided to abandon candidate endorsements altogether.”
https://jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/what-voters-told-us-about-america
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“But the national Jewish vote didn’t budge, and that’s because the underlying politics of the Jewish community do not match the politics of the people who purport to speak for Jewish Americans. Asked if their sympathies are more with the Israelis, the Palestinians, or both, roughly half of Jews aged 18 to 34 said they sympathized with the Palestinians. Just a fifth said they sympathize with the Israelis. Among all Jews, 23% said they sympathize more with the Palestinians.
These are remarkable numbers, and offer more evidence that the Zionist consensus inside the American Jewish community is toppling. Among young Jews, it’s already fallen: 63% of Jews aged 18 to 34 said that they’re less likely to support a candidate who they know is backed by an AIPAC super PAC. And 60% agree with the statement that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, and therefore the US “can no longer continue supporting them with military aid.””
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“Does the arc of history bend toward justice?
How El-Sayed and Alawieh were able to overcome an avalanche of anti-Islamic attacks
Converting the Democratic Party to populism
Changing course on Israel-Palestine
How to convince the general public to care about liberal democracy”
https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/2026-us-midterms
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“Supermajority of Jewish Americans think Israel and Aipac drive antisemitism
Vast majority of Jewish voters in US want sanctions against ‘violent West Bank settlers’”
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Gallanter-Winograd Policy Center
“Explainer: What Israel’s Arab Parties Stand For
The Arab parties are not a monolith, and they have deep policy and ideological differences with the Jewish-led opposition parties.”
https://jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/explainer-what-israels-arab-parties
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“US midterms expose growing political cost of America’s unwavering support for Israel”
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“Thousands of students, many Jewish, are joining the Young DSA on campuses across the country. Here’s why.
‘YDSA chapters have become sort of like homes for anti-Zionist Jews on campus who are seeking a community,’ said YDSA co-chair Mae Bracelin.”
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“Jonathan Cook: A New UK Hierarchy of Racism
Antisemitism is being weaponised once again, as Andy Burnham’s government rounds on the Jewish-led Greens and rolls out a Big Brother programme in schools.”
“Britain is firmly back in the grip of a full-blown moral panic about leftwing “antisemitism,” once again manufactured by the U.K.’s political and media classes desperate to shield themselves and Israel from scrutiny.
They are keen to smear large swaths of the British public as Jew haters, just as they did a decade ago when they targeted Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party.
But this time the task will be far harder.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/06/jonathan-cook-a-new-uk-hierarchy-of-racism/
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“Michigan’s Common-Sense Rebuke of Middle East Warmongers
Abdul El-Sayed is now poised to greatly erode the taboo around Israel in Washington.”
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/michigans-common-sense-rebuke-of-middle-east-warmonger/
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“Arrest of Palestinian Israeli Journalist Abed Abu Shehadeh Slammed as ‘Campaign to Silence’ Truth
“Abu Shehadeh’s imprisonment comes amid a targeted campaign of repression against Palestinian citizens of Israel,” said one critic.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/palestinian-israeli-journalist-abed-abu-shehadeh-arrested
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“We Can Save Ourselves
In the aftermath of punishing elections for Trump and Netanyahu, Peter Kuznick and Ivana Nikolic Hughes underscore the seriousness of nuclear threats by two leaders desperate to salvage credibility.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/05/we-can-save-ourselves/
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“Burying US Military Aid to Israel in Pentagon Budget
Trump’s Election-Day comment about ending U.S. military aid to Israel by year’s end aligns with Netanyahu’s push for deeper U.S.-Israeli military integration, Dave DeCamp reports.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/05/burying-us-military-aid-to-israel-inside-pentagon-budget/
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“We in Veterans For Peace are military veterans whose purpose is to serve the cause of world peace. We commemorate November 11th as Armistice Day-the day dedicated to ending war. It is fitting that today we are standing with Taxpayers Against Genocide in recognizing our right to present testimony and evidence to the International Criminal Court of Israel’s genocide against the people of Palestine. The government of the United States is complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine.”
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“Till Death Do Us Part: The Unholy Matrimony Between the US and Israel
The standard narrative of American foreign policy has long rested on the pillar of moral exceptionalism: the assertion that the United States acts as a global guardian of human rights, international law and democratic governance.
However, Washington’s support for the ongoing holocaust in the occupied Gaza Strip, West Bank and unlawful war on Iran have exposed glaring contradictions at the heart of this narrative. They reveal the true character of a political system defined not by its lofty noble declarations, but by its iniquitous decisions and actions.
These inequalities accentuate the true nature of U.S. geopolitics; essentially that human rights ideals are of little account to predatory imperial powers.”
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“A Billion Dollars and the Men Who Ran Israel’s Wars
The weapons a country fights with, the software that aims them, and the officers who command them were for a century things a state owned and could not put up for sale. That arrangement is coming apart. One by one these assets are being bought by private companies, financed through public stock markets, and traded like any other holding, and the firm that has carried the process furthest spent most of its life making radios for freight trains.”
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“Providence Becomes Largest US City to Divest From Israel
Organizers in Rhode Island’s capital city are celebrating a win for direct democracy as the Palestine solidarity movement marks its first binding municipal divestment law passed by popular vote, Shireen Akram-Boshar reports.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/06/providence-becomes-largest-us-city-to-divest-from-israel/
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““On election night, Eisenkot told his supporters, ‘We are one people that deserves a government that respects and sees all of its parts.’ Arab citizens are one of those parts. We want our voice heard, without being asked to stop being who we are — Palestinians,” Fida Nara-Tabony insists in JTA.
“The question in this election was never only whether Netanyahu would lose. It was whether the political camp that calls itself ‘democratic’ could finally see Arab citizens like me and my 20-year-old daughter as political equals.””
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“How the US Paved the Road to War in Ukraine: an Interview with Stephen Kinzer
In his new book, Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine, author Stephen Kinzer presents an account of how successive US administrations sought to cultivate Ukrainian nationalism and challenge Moscow, helping set the stage for conflict. Instead of viewing the invasion in isolation, Kinzer details Washington’s involvement over decades, from covert CIA operations in Soviet Ukraine during the early Cold War to Ukrainian independence and the post-Cold War tensions with Russia over NATO expansion, which all culminated in the outbreak of war.”
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“Key findings from the national survey include:
72% of Jewish voters supported Democratic congressional candidates, compared with 24% who backed Republicans, continuing the community’s longstanding
Democratic voting patterns.
76% disapprove of President Donald Trump’s job performance, including 74% who strongly disapprove.”
https://jstreetdotorg.substack.com/p/understanding-the-jewish-vote-in
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“Is Europe starting to come to its senses on Ukraine?
Finland and Norway are hinting at the need for a new approach to the continent’s relationship with Russia.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-and-ukraine-war/
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Neo-Nazi torture camps discovered throughout Ukraine to torture deserters including even a 14-year old child.
“A riot erupted Monday night outside a residential house in Ukraine’s Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, a suburb approximately 12 miles west of Kyiv, after social media posts claimed the military was torturing conscripts in the basement and that medics were being denied access to the wounded.”
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“Ukrainian Regime Imprisons Medic Who Exposed Azov Torture Chamber.
The Western Backed Ukrainian Regime Has Prosecuted The Heroic Medic Who Exposed Neo-Nazi Torture Chamber.”
https://the307.substack.com/p/ukrainian-regime-imprisons-medic
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“German Specter Hangs Over Warsaw: Odd Happenings in Polish Capital Following Tusk’s Coup Attempt
“In the aftermath of the Donald Tusk administration’s judicial coup attempt in Poland, the country has seen a spate of strange happenings.
Several Polish officials connected to the opposition have noted a distinct German flavor behind the events. We’ve seen the video of MEP Dominik Tarczynski revealing that Germany, as the main economic driver of the EU, seeks to offload some of its financial burden onto Poland, which is viewed as a kind of EU freeloader, given its pesky “sovereign” status. As such, it is in the German state’s interests to subjugate Poland and use it not only as a migrant dumping ground, but a financial boost to the struggling EU.
During the coup attempt, there were various rumors of German involvement, which included observation of German convoys on Polish highways, as well as far-right Polish figure Grzegorz Braun’s claims that the “police” surrounding the Sejm during the coup were “impostors”, with some even claiming they did not speak Polish and may have been Germans in disguise.”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/german-specter-hangs-over-warsaw
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“Europeans got blue blinders in wake of midterm sweep
Western elites are tying the elections to Ukraine while ignoring the anti-Iran war sentiment that sent the GOP packing.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/midterm-election-ukraine/
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“The Greatest Existential Risk of the Early 21st Century
To dominate supply chains, the Trump administration is weaponizing the global AI race. Instead of learning from the lessons of postwar atomic regulation, the administration is reversing them, thereby paving the way for catastrophic risks.”
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“Michigan Voters Repudiate Grotesque Islamophobia Aimed at Abdul El-Sayed
El-Sayed’s defeat of this sleazy prejudice is the most American thing in the world. I have gone blue in the face pointing out that the Founding Fathers explicitly recognized freedom of religion and conscience for Muslims, as well as for Jews, Catholics and others.”
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/el-sayed-islamophobia-repudiated
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“The Michigan Senate race showed the exact wrong ways to fight antisemitism
What Abdul El-Sayed’s victory — and the ugly campaign against him — ought to mean for Jewish voters.”
https://forward.com/opinion/860591/abdul-el-sayed-michigan-antisemitism-senate-campaign/
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“Most Jewish Voters Backed El-Sayed Despite Relentless ‘Antisemitism’ Smear by Israel Apologists
Meanwhile, a new poll revealed that a supermajority of Jewish Americans believe that the actions of Israel and AIPAC fuel antisemitism.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/most-jews-voted-for-el-sayed
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“UK government facing legal challenge over IHRA antisemitism definition in schools
The Good Law Project and British Jewish group Na’amod tell MEE contested IHRA definition protects Israel, not Jewish students.”
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“(The China Hate Committee) has been fueling the dangerous narrative that war with China is necessary, helping manufacture public support for endless militarization. Now, as the U.S. pushes a staggering $1.5 trillion military budget, American taxpayers are being asked to bankroll an arms race and preparations for war on China.
The American people do not want endless militarization. War only serves the defense contractors and political elites who profit off death and destruction. Every dollar poured into militarizing the Pacific is a dollar diverted from healthcare, education, housing, and human needs. (or responsibly paying down the national debt).
China is not our enemy. We do not need another Cold War, another arms race, or another devastating war. We must demand that Congress stop funding the march to war and invest in peace and cooperation instead.”
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“Vijay Prashad: The Struggle for a New West Asian Order
As Iran strains U.S. security architecture in West Asia, regional powers build new arrangements, but serving whose interests? Meanwhile the U.S. hedges its bets against losing the region’s oil by securing Venezuela’s. This hedge reduces Trump’s incentive to continue unwinnable wars.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/05/vijay-prashad-the-struggle-for-a-new-west-asian-order/
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“How the UAE and MEK weaponize AI to spread propaganda
Some pro-US groups are using the technology to fight allegations of war crimes and stoke tensions abroad.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ai-misinformation-news/
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“Hegseth is ‘100% a War Criminal’ Who ‘Needs to Be Prosecuted,’ Says Former Top Pentagon Official
“He is conducting state terrorism.”
“Serbia: From the Novi Sad Tragedy to Political Change
Serbia’s new authorities have to decide whether to preserve their foreign-policy independence or submit to the dictates of the Brussels bureaucracy in order to gain E.U. admission, writes Uroš Lipušcek.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/04/serbia-from-the-novi-sad-tragedy-to-political-change/
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“David McBride Wins Sam Adams Award
The 2026 Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence is being awarded to David McBride, the former Australian Army lawyer imprisoned after disclosing classified material about alleged war crimes by Australian Special Forces in Afghanistan.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/04/david-mcbride-wins-sam-adams-award/
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“What is the state of democracy? CrossTalk‘s Peter Lavelle asks Black Agenda Report Editor Margaret Kimberley and CN Editor Joe Lauria in a report recorded on the morning of U.S. Election Day.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/11/04/watch-democracy-really/
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The Duran with Stanislav Krapivnik:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98gITDev5qk
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The Duran on various news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32fmG-TQu14
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The Duran on Zelensky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj250UMEl_E
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Brian Berletic on facing ugly realities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToG29YfWGY8
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Brian Berletic on US Foreign policy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlUKqZSo4c
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Scott Ritter Defends Dr Jill Stein, facing jail for Gaza protest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOlhybQN1yw
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Dr. Gilbert Doctorow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp_iZU0Y1d0
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Professor John Mearsheimer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZgLuygwxrA
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with the Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55zSNVWBuLM
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with former CIA Analyst Phil Giraldi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl4VK09R6fo
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtY-cGbCWcM
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Professor Glenn Diesen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgB04HNFGM
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with Pepe Escobar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21rEWjfv86I
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with former Army Colonel and former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Lawrence Wilkerson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AR1yJJdAOE
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFFEbZfixJ8
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with attorney Robert Barnes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdjI73HH0yA
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Judge Andrew Napolitano with INTEL Roundtable w/ former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYtxQv9lch8
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University of Chicago Professor John J. Mearsheimer on the midterms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i15HLCMLISU
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University of Chicago Professor John J. Mearsheimer on the danger of a nuclear Middle East:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHkcBM5FT0
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Scott Horton with Patrick Pillow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYITwIi4Dk
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Scott Horton with Emily Jashinsky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnyZoUkhJCc
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Ron Paul Liberty Report on the wars adn bad times:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzfuCJ3LhQ&t=39s
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Ron Paul Liberty Report on
https://www.youtube.com/live/tAEDk8vA0sQ?is=NYm77t_16mIXJMF3
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Ron Paul Liberty Report on
https://www.youtube.com/live/EPMyobXgCu8?is=RmKTWgpHGAd2fJ1P
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Ron Paul Liberty Report on the Iran war:
https://www.youtube.com/live/tAEDk8vA0sQ?is=YGFFhk-x2CpUgrIT
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Kelly Vlahos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbGGvbMeL8c
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with Robert Barnes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q50ORL8ptz8
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk2pOcmgox8
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis with former British diplomat Alastair Crooke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzCKNetnI2g
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis Deep Dive on Pete Hegseth:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abAtNVls5RM
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Former Army Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis Deep Dive with Professor John Mearsheimer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMfOAud7EmU
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Former Marine Corps Major and Intelligence Officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter on the midterms:
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/the-american-midterm-election-results
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Former British diplomat, realist, moderate, centrist Ian Proud on Russophobia:
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/the-russians-are-coming-in-1000-days
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Former British diplomat, realist, moderate, centrist Ian Proud on :
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/zelensky-wants-another-175bn-for
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Former British diplomat, realist, moderate, centrist Ian Proud on the Ukrainian civil war that the U.S. instigated :
https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/ukraine-caused-3-in-4-verified-donbas
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Jim Webb with Scott Horton:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6bYi6pcNE
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Former British Commodore Steve Jermy on the declining West:
https://stevejermy.substack.com/p/the-west-is-losing-its-grip
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The Grayzone: Will warmongering Democrats continue the war in Ukraine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBLfSJhVh8w
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The Grayzone on the Israel first neocons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B2YdeCuA5M
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Former Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski on Drivetime:
https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/live-on-drivetime-now-218
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Former Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski with Finian Cunningham:
https://karenkwiatkowski.substack.com/p/with-finian-cunningham
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Defend the Guard with Sergeant Dan McKnight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl8HJpKplWE
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Defend the Guard with Sergeant Dan McKnight on Dana Loesch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWu9tBDYd4
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Professor Glenn Diesen with former Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/douglas-macgregor-us-empire-in-retreat
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Professor Glenn Diesen with Judge Andrew Napolitano:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/judge-napolitano-midterms-fallout
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Professor Glenn Diesen with Alastair Crooke:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/alastair-crooke-us-israel-divide
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Professor Glenn Diesen with retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a Special Forces Green Beret:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/anthony-aguilar-trump-may-resign
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Professor Glenn Diesen with Professor Fyodor Lukyanov:
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/fyodor-lukyanov-russia-navigates
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Nima Alkhorshid with Scott Ritter:
https://www.youtube.com/live/7jxb7KLFtic?is=lqGChO1G8wvEbw-P
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Nima Alkhorshid with Matthew Hoh:
https://www.youtube.com/live/Bh8DwMSBzcg?is=JynWOnyZgry4FYXm
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Nima Alkhorshid with Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/ip_dsObxp_k?is=qYJlYkn7dqocob_O
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Nima Alkhorshid with Professor Michael Hudson and Professor Richard Wolff:
https://www.youtube.com/live/rce7SPSC-UY?is=9TrUKFleUMuRVHCr
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Nima Alkhorshid with Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/zm6msxJS-Fg?is=LCe-KrK_0m2R-76g
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Nima Alkhorshid with Robert Barnes:
https://www.youtube.com/live/f5o1HeonVhE?is=W-EAiU1SuIXjnZfa
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Nima Alkhorshid with former US Army Special Forces Green Beret Lt. Colonel Anthony Aguilar:
https://www.youtube.com/live/KR_6UquMfXk?is=0KI24AKQUglKfWlm
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Nima Alkhorshid with French journalist Elijah Magnier:
https://www.youtube.com/live/tkPesAL35-I?is=HQnb4fotd59d62MQ
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Nima Alkhorshid with former Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/l3so7N2XyUI?is=pnuQSVWUYjXP-J7L
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Nima Alkhorshid with Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/live/k9-SNeuS7n0?is=fa34jGhPt5dC7yAe
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Nima Alkhorshid with former US Ambassador Chas Freeman:
https://www.youtube.com/live/sS33KnDJESo?is=z5jB1NjgN74FhgQV
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George Galloway with Professor Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJRw2kTqrU
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George Galloway on the US midterms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHaixbjJNLc
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George Galloway on the fallout from the midterms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq2yO81S8ww
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Conflict’s Forum with Alastair Crooke:
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/netanyahus-covert-dealings-with-trump
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Conflict’s Forum with Alastair Crooke:
https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/time-is-closing-in-for-a-netanyahu
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The Chris Hedges Report on Norman Finklestein’s new book which I am reading nownamed “Gaza’s Gravediggers”:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/how-the-intl-community-sold-out-gaza
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The Chris Hedges Report on the Democrats:
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/will-the-democrats-betray-us-again
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Patrick Henningsen on Daniel Davis show:
https://patrickhenningsen.substack.com/p/who-decides-the-next-strike-on-iran
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Cyrus Janssen with Alex Reporterfy and former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdpKZWQKmxo&t=75s
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Danny Haiphong with Scott Ritter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3VbEdDnUWs
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Danny Haiphong with Patrick Hennigsen and former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State, Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQcSI6P0BhQ
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Garland Nixon on the midterms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb5NKmu2L_0
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Garland Nixon with Mark Sleboda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0p1x-Ak6VM
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Garland Nixon with Scott Ritter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sDkHkdNNbs
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Jamarl Thomas with Margaret Kimberley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQlhIz_7boI
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Jamarl Thomas with Dr. Jeff Rich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sESPverGugQ
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Rachel Blevins with Mark Sleboda:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mTqFoIMHoQ
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Tucker Carlson on the midterms:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkRnKBODrN0
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Frederick Douglass: “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
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“The best friend of a nation is he who the most faithfully rebukes her for her sins — and he her worst enemy who, under the specious and popular garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate, and defend them.”
~Frederick Douglass in an 1846 letter
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“In the past, in the interest of building a broad-based movement united for peace and non-interventionism, I have allied with everyone and anyone who also expressed a genuine interest in peacemaking and non-interventionism. This includes past antiwar alliances with everyone from pinkos to proud boys and anyone in between — — both groups I have allied with in the past — -not because I agreed with their ideologies because I don’t agree with either of them — -I do not approve of racism or Marxism, but I united with each solely in the interest of unity for peace and non-interventionism as a national policy. Ideology is not the point, unity is the point. Anyone who doesn’t like that I choose unity over ideology can kiss my mother-loving, big, chubby gay-bear, fat ass. Anyone can talk the talk about unity, but the real principled test is: can you walk the walk? My boots were made for walking, girl !!! <finger-snap with attitude>
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!”
-Eric E. Johansson, Veterans for Peace, California
(also, please understand that although I have united with extremist-idealist factions in the past in the interest of unity against war, I am much more of a middle-of-the-road-realist as I think the economic class system represents the civilizational natural order for our species, although the gap between rich and poor should probably be narrowed through aggressive taxation upon corporations and individual persons too. Also, I do not have one racist or hateful bone in my body as my Asian husband, who is of half-Filipino and half-Chinese descent can attest. I don’t hate immigrants; I married one. He, like my Swedish grandfather, emigrated to the United States legally through the legal immigration channels that every person seeking to emigrate to this country should pursue. The process of legally emigrating and becoming a citizen is a long and arduous process, as my husband or my late grandfather could attest, so to treat illegal immigrants in the same manner as we treat legal immigrants is patently unfair to legal immigrants. It is an unacceptable double standard on the Left. It is unfair. I strongly criticize those on the Left for that ridiculous, ill-thought, categorically unfair viewpoint. To those who say we should just let everyone into the nation, I say to you: Have you lost your mind? There must be vetting process to both protect national security and to protect wages of the working class. So all those who violate the law by simply jumping the border, thus opting for not following the legal channels to obtain entry into the U.S., should be promptly arrested and deported, and treated more harshly with every repeat offense. Why should the U.S. honor the wishes of those who desire to emigrate here if their very first act of entering the country is to first break the law by circumventing the legal guidelines for officially emigrating? No, that cannot be tolerated. One standard for all. Rule of Law. That is not racist, it is respectful of the Rule of Law. Prior to meeting my husband, I was most definitely an equal-opportunity sex lover who gleefully had fabulous sex with members of every race, color and creed — — hundreds of them, mostly men but not exclusively. My husband and I love to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race TV show too. I also play on a fabulous softball team as the pitcher in the very diverse, accepting and welcoming San Francisco Gay Softball League. I share all of this only to illustrate that who I am willing to unite in common cause with, does not in any way represent who I am as a person. Widespread, mass unity against perpetual war, against Empire and against growing national security state oppression is essential to preserve our commonly shared liberty and peace. We are all in this together so let’s get past the immature, ideological bullshit, come together and unite in common cause for our shared future together.)
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Unite, from pinkos to proud boys and everyone in between against the wars and against the Empire!! If peace is your priority, this should be no problem for you but if ideology is your priority, then the kind of unity I propose could be a problem for you. Drop the ideological bullshit and UNITE!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
https://www.unitedforpeace.org/
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“How could a weak, toothless central government that possessed no military largesse wage war or command a global Empire? It couldn’t, could it? Doesn’t having a smaller, more limited government also get us to a non-Imperialist, non-military interventionist place? Can people unite around non-interventionism alone? Just imagine for a moment the vast people power of a mass movement that could be harnessed by achieving a Left-Right loose alliance against war and Empire. Oh, the immense power it would wield.”
~Eric E. Johansson
(Is it arrogant to put my name next to some great people? Not really, they were just human beings and so am I, but please understand that I am actually much more middle-of-the-road because I find both sides (the more public services argument or the limited government argument) to both be legitimate arguments worthy of consideration and that is why I ask the question above because I think it is a question that more Progressives should ask. But as for myself, my inner stars shine brightly Progressive yet I still bear strong Libertarian stripes. This rather nationalist, flag-oriented reference may sound silly to some but it perfectly encapsulates how I see myself as a principled patriot realist doing my duty to my country and to our world.
Unite, Left and Right against the wars!!!
Wage Peace and Persevere!!!
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“Overgrown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
~George Washington
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“Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and taxes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
~James Madison
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“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
— Noam Chomsky
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Websites to help you stay informed:
https://honeste.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/websites-to-help-you-stay-informed/
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Daily news podcasts to help you stay informed:
Alexander Mercouris
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexanderMercourisReal?app=desktop
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The Duran on YouTube with Alexander Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdeMVChrumySxV9N1w0Au-w
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Brian Berletic at The New Atlas on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/thenewatlas
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Scott Ritter on Substack:
https://substack.com/profile/96369147-scott-ritter
https://www.scottritterextra.com/
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Danny Haiphong:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOxLhz6B_elvLflntSEfnzA
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Colonel Douglass MacGregor on Youtube:
(He has many meaningful, insightful, analytical things to say based on a deep understanding of military matters from his many years of experience in the military — — -but just prepare to dismiss a few of his other dog-whistle comments that he offers which he utters to appeal to a particular Conservative base — — just as the Liberals do to rally their base too — — -so just roll your eyeballs and ignore those few silly comments — — — because most of his analysis and insights and experiences are rich in detail, in fact-based analysis and said bluntly and directly.
Very refreshing indeed!! Bravo, Colonel !!!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFqPvxUg163ZEz1vyxhVDXw
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“Our Country Our Choice is more than just a people’s movement; it’s a media platform as well. My vision was straightforward: identify over 10 million like-minded Americans and create the most extensive group of American activists ever assembled. Our mission is to inform every American about the importance of choosing decision-makers who will put an end to the intentional sabotage of our beloved nation and start serving us, the American people.”
https://ourcountryourchoice.com/
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Andy Boreham
“China is a complicated place, and there is definitely a lot of content out there that I don’t think accurately or fairly represents this huge country of 1.4 billion.
https://www.youtube.com/c/reportsonchina/about
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Dong Sheng news on China:
https://dongshengnews.org/en/news-on-china/
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Garland Nixon:
https://www.youtube.com/@garlandn
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Seymour Hersh on Substack
Seymour Hersh
It’s worse than you think
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Chris Hedges on Substack:
The Chris Hedges Report
Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society.
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Niko House on Rokfin
https://rokfin.com/Niko?content=NEW
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Caitlin Johnstone on Substack:
https://substack.com/profile/14779628-caitlin-johnstone
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Aaron Mate on Substack:
Aaron Mate
Reporting and analysis by award-winning independent journalist.
By Aaron Maté
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David Sacks:
https://twitter.com/DavidSacks
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Lee Fang on Substack:
Lee Fang
Investigations and observations about the public interest.
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Patrick Lawrence on Substack
https://thescrum.substack.com/
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Jeffrey Sachs:
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Former Army Colonel Daniel Davis:
https://www.youtube.com/@DanielDavisDeepDive/videos
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Breaking points with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti
https://www.youtube.com/c/breakingpoints
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“But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all”
~John Quincy Adams
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/
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Lev Golinkin on YouTube:
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Matt Tabibi on Substack (Racket News):
Racket News
“We care if it’s true. We don’t care why.”
By Matt Taibbi
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Big Serge on Substack:
Big Serge Thought
Musings and Ponderings
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Simplicius on Substack:
Simplicius’s Garden of Knowledge
Conflict analysis, geopolitical commentary, with a side of culture & politics.
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Larry Johnson, former CIA Analyst at Sonar21:
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Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst:
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Mark Sleboda:
https://substack.com/profile/38224488-mark-sleboda
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Richard Medhurst on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB1u_wJThc3_e5J4VVj7hQQ
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Nick Cruse of the Revolutionary Blackout Network:
https://www.youtube.com/@socialistmma8321/videos
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George Galloway on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@GeorgeGallowayOfficial
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Mikael Valtersson
~Former officer Swedish Armed Forces/Air Defence, former defence politician and chief of staff Sweden Democrats. Current political and military analyst.
https://twitter.com/MikaelValterss1?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
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Alex Reporterfy
https://www.youtube.com/c/reporterfymedia
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Although I typically shy away and generally distrust most, if not all, televised corporate media, I must admit that recently on foreign policy issues, Tucker Carlson of Fox has been tickling my fancy. Now that Fox has fired him, I encourage everyone to stop watching Fox altogether. But Tucker’s past range of guests included figures from the anti-Establishment Left and Right and many voices in between giving access and airtime to a wider audience which only helps spread our message of peace and justice to a broader audience more quickly so kudos to Tucker for that. It is good to see some of our anti-Establisment views find a venue in the public space even one decidedly more to the Right.
You can now find Tucker Carlson on Twitter, see link below. — — Great job Tucker, keep socking it to them. I hope you and your attorneys keep fighting like hell against the Establishment. I hope your attorneys fight to allow you to speak freely until at least the year 2025 and hopefully much longer than that too.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
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On Tucker’s eventual return, so kudos to him and to Elon Musk backing him:
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Glenn Greenwald on Rumble: (Listening to Glenn Greenwald is quite an enthralling experience. I can’t figure out what moves faster, his brain or his mouth as he delivers rich, detailed analysis replete with razor-sharp logic on topics of substance and depth, delivered with perfect spoken diction, colorful language and mesmerizing eloquence. I am left flabbergasted in sheer delight every time I listen to him speak. Utterly dazzling!!! And he is a fellow sister with a heritage in the tribe too which I also find endearing.
https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald
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“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.”
~Walter Lippman
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“The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth … If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence. The theory of our Constitution is that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market . . . The First Amendment itself ensures the right to respond to speech we do not like, and for good reason. Freedom of speech and thought flows not from the beneficence of the state but from the inalienable rights of the person … Society has the right and civic duty to engage in open, dynamic, rational discourse.”
– U.S. Supreme Court decision, United States v. Alvarez, 567 U.S. 709, 724 (2012).
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