By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
June 16, 2026
Congress accidentally protected the American people's liberty this week when it failed to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Section 702 authorizes warrantless surveillance of foreign citizens. However, it has been "interpreted" by the FISA court to allow US intelligence agencies to wiretap conversations between a US citizen and a foreign target of Section 702 surveillance.
By Ron Unz
The Unz Review
June 16, 2026
The Latest Political Victim of the Israel Lobby
Last month a seven-term Republican Congressman from Kentucky named Thomas Massie lost his primary, and he will be leaving office at the end of the current session of the House.
Except in the case of severe personal scandals, such primary defeats were once extremely rare in our political life, and no such scandal had ever attached itself to Massie's name.
Netanyahu always says "What you own belongs to me"
By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
June 16, 2026
In addition to the regular lethal American and Israeli attacks on Iran, last week alone the Israeli military killed 13 Gazans and 13 Lebanese. Gaza is now 70% Israeli occupied, contrary to what was agreed upon in the ceasefire arrangement, as is much of south Lebanon. More than 1,000 Gazans have been murdered by Israel since the temporary ceasefire was declared in October 2025.
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
June 16, 2026
Well, when news broke that Israel had bombed the southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday afternoon, the Iranians started gearing up for promised retaliation only to be dissuaded by a Donald Trump bribe. Iran and the US reportedly were closing in on an agreement based on Iran's 14-point plan when the Israeli strike in Lebanon threw everything into chaos. Iran quickly started ramping up for a renewed missile strike on Israel, but Donald Trump rump reportedly offered Iran financial incentives to not attack Israel.
By Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter
June 16, 2026
Iran is poised to gradually return to the US-led Western order within certain limits exactly as Iran's moderate faction has long wanted, its hardline faction has successfully preserved the armed forces and their missile stockpile, while Israel achieved none of its goals in its most epic defeat ever.
Iran and the US plan to sign a Zarif-inspired memorandum of understanding (MoU) on ending the Third Gulf War this Friday in Switzerland.
By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com
June 16, 2026
"At midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do"
- Bob Dylan "Desolation Row."
Perhaps you have noticed - if you have any idea who I am or give a damn - that I have slowed down my political analyses of our current situation. It's gotten tiresome since little changes despite all the spilled ink.
The difference between criticizing America and rejecting America may determine the nation's future.
By Brian C. Joondeph
American Thinker
June 16, 2026
As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, a new poll reveals something that would have been almost unthinkable just a generation ago.
According to an Elon University survey, roughly two-thirds of Americans say they would rather live in the United States than any other country.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
June 16, 2026
Back in 2016, when Pokémon Go exploded across the world, I wrote that people should be asking a simple question: why would investors spend billions creating a game that encouraged hundreds of millions of people to walk around with GPS-enabled devices, cameras, and location tracking operating continuously ? At the time, most people laughed. They saw a harmless game.
A German tourist visits the American South, and reminds the locals why they love it.
By JD Breen
Pretium Insights
June 16, 2026
Sometimes we need someone else's eyes to see our blessings.
Most of us view the world thru distorted filters. Everyone reading this has a digital colander that sifts facts to console preconceptions.
Images from across the country or around the world form or reinforce certitude about ambiguous (and mostly irrelevant) events.
Will we tell our young people what they need most to hear ? If not, nothing else we say or do will stop our suicidal collapse.
By Anthony Esolen
Crisis Magazine
June 16, 2026
The time for graduations has mostly passed, and the graduates have been duly flattered and told that they are going to accomplish great things-or rather, since we have been in a narcissistic age for all of my life, that they are going to be great, if they are not great already.
By Brandon Campbell
Ultimate-Survival
June 16, 2026
For generations, Californians have lived with a warning that has become so familiar it barely registers anymore. The phrase "the Big One" has been repeated for decades by scientists, emergency officials, television reporters, and Hollywood filmmakers until it gradually transformed from a terrifying possibility into a distant inevitability that most people simply learned to live with.
Par Alexandra Buste, Xavier Lalbin
Le PIB mondial a plus que doublé ces deux dernières décennies. Cette performance masque une réalité sociale et environnementale alarmante : la destruction des systèmes vitaux de la planète s'accélère tandis que les besoins de base de milliards d'individus restent insatisfaits. Face à l'obsession d'une croissance qui ne profite pas à tous, le modèle du Donut, théorisé par l'économiste Kate Raworth, émerge comme une boussole plus efficace pour mesurer le bien-être des individus.
Par Nate Bear, le 15 juin 2026
Cette année restera dans les annales comme celle où la puissance américaine, sous toutes ses formes, s'est effondrée brutalement.
Si la Coupe du monde constitue à bien des égards une distraction à l'égard de la guerre, des massacres et du génocide perpétrés par l'empire et ses mandataires, elle marque une nouvelle rupture dans le soft power, composante essentielle du mythe de l'empire américain bienveillant.
Par Moon of Alabama - Le 15 juin 2026
Les États-Unis et la République islamique d'Iran ont convenu d'un protocole d'accord censé mettre fin aux hostilités actuelles entre les deux pays.
Un protocole d'entente n'est pas contraignant. Aucun texte n'a été publié et des remarques publiques de part et d'autre laissent entendre qu'il existe une interprétation différente de ce que les différentes clauses du protocole d'entente sont censées signifier.
La Cour d'appel britannique a jugé que l'interdiction par le gouvernement du groupe militant Palestine Action, qualifié d'organisation "terroriste", était légale.
Cette décision, rendue lundi, fait suite à l'appel interjeté par le gouvernement contre un jugement de la Haute Cour de février, qui avait déclaré illégale et disproportionnée l'interdiction du groupe en vert
L'un des plus éminents universitaires français à avoir consacré sa carrière à la compréhension des mutations politiques dans le monde arabe, s'inquiète du dernier arrêt de la Cour de Cassation sur "l'apologie de terrorisme".
"Ma condamnation personnelle, le 29 avril, par la cour d'appel d'Aix-en-Provence (une amende de 17 000 euros, soit environ 18 500 dollars, et des dommages-intérêts aux associations sionistes qui étaient parties civiles dans l'affaire) constitue un exemple flagrant de l'évolution inquiétante de l'attitude de la justice française face à la cause palestinienne, et je reviendrai peut-être un jour sur ce sujet.", écrit-il lundi dans Al-Jazeera.