By Paul Dragu
The New American
October 5, 2026
Twenty-three years ago, the United States invaded Iraq under the guise of finding and removing weapons of mass destruction. Less than a year later, the public learned there were no WMDs, despite persuasive dog-and-pony shows by the officials who had convinced Congress that there were. Even though the primary reason for the invasion was no longer in play, the U.S.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
October 5, 2026
I have come to the conclusion that journalism in the West has been replaced by hired narratives and that reporters report the narrative that they are hired to tell. It is a new form of vanity press in which interest groups hire a propaganda service to market their agenda.
I will present a current example. On September 28 US Central Command denied that Iran had control of the Strait of Hormuz.
By Kit Klarenberg
Global Delinquents
October 5, 2026
It's rather forgotten today how Washington's post-9/11 imperial adventurism was not restricted to military intervention. A core component of the Bush administration's "Freedom Agenda" - under the auspices of which calamitous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere were waged - was overt sponsorship of civil society-led coups throughout the former Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
October 5, 2026
Pity Latin American voters. On election day, they are faced with two choices - right-wing candidates or left-wing candidates. The right-wing candidates come with "free-market" policies combined with a powerful standing army with omnipotent powers, one that ensures the destruction of civil liberties. The left-wing candidates come with massive welfare-state socialist policies that plunge the country into severe economic and monetary crises.
By Charles Burris
October 3, 2026
Before the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre leveled thirty-five blocks in eighteen hours, the Greenwood District was the wealthiest Black community in America. Its main street held hotels, theaters, law firms, newspapers, and a hospital - all Black-owned, all built from scratch in the shadow of Oklahoma's oil boom.
This is the story of how Greenwood rose from a forty-acre land purchase into a self-sustaining commercial district that rivaled any in the country, and how one night of coordinated violence, followed by decades of insurance denial, rezoning schemes, and interstate highway construction, ensured it would never fully return.
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Manifestations en France. [Photo d'illustration]
Par Karine Bechet Par
Des manifestations lycéennes et étudiantes embrasent la France. Pour le gouvernement, tout le monde est responsable, de LFI à la Russie. Selon Karine Bechet, les élites gouvernantes ne peuvent reconnaître leur responsabilité dans le désastre social en France, car elles devraient se remettre en cause.