Martin Jay
Trump's war on Iran backfired - and now the Houthis are sinking his midterms.
How much longer can Saudi Arabia and the UAE remain even token allies of Washington, given how their economies are drained each day by Trump's so-called blockade of the Straits of Hormuz and his massive blunder to ever strike Iran in the first place on February 28th?
In recent weeks we have seen more acerbic statements from the Saudi foreign minister, hinting that the established set-up of the U.S.
Par Jenny Williams
Un meeting politique en Floride ne devrait pas, en soi, nous en dire long sur l'orientation de la politique étrangère américaine. Mais celui-ci pourrait bien faire exception.
À seulement trois jours de la primaire démocrate en Floride, un établissement de Fort Lauderdale a annulé un événement qu'il devait abriter et auquel devaient participer la députée Rashida Tlaib et les candidats au Congrès Angie Nixon, Elijah Manley et Oliver Larkin.
By John Kennedy
August 19, 2026
Introduction
America lives inside of a glass castle, and it will be its destruction. This destruction will be as much the people's fault as it will be its leaders. About 130 million Americans, or 54% of the U.S. population, cannot read at a 6th grade level. It's true that this statistic is no doubt diverse, dispersed among Blacks, Hispanics, and rural whites scattered around the country, but what excuse do American bureaucrats, elected officials, and commanders have in times like this ? The greatest problem facing America at this current moment is that it is lost in a dream; it is trapped in a glass castle of what it thinks it is, convinced by its own propaganda and technological terrors.
Those who oppose foreign wars find themselves at an impasse with those who support them.
By John Leake
The Focal Points
August 19, 2026
A good friend here in Dallas who was highly supportive of my dissident work during the COVID-19 pandemic disagrees with my criticism of President Trump for starting and continuing the war on Iran.
I am not troubled that we disagree about this subject, and I am confident that our friendship will be just fine.
That's right kids, welcome to the future, where the sky is filling with AI police drones while the planet burns.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au
August 19, 2026
Today in dystopia, the US government is monitoring the social media accounts of individuals who oppose the rapidly spreading installation of Flock surveillance cameras throughout the United States.
In an article titled "The Government is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts," 404 Media reports:
By Jonathan Turley
JonathanTurley.org
August 19, 2026
Below is my column in The Hill on the familiar bust-and-boom cycle of socialism, where failure is used to call for even more radical changes. While House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries this week reaffirmed that Democratic Socialists are part of the Democratic Party, radical figures are demonstrating how extreme this agenda is for some. For example, Socialist State Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher has declared that stealing should be legal for those in need.
By Capt. Randall
August 19, 2026
Each time I go to the grocery, I see mindless obese shoppers loading carts with processed garbage and cases of soft drinks. The stores have aisle after aisle of industrially manufactured fake foods, many times on low BOGO-priced enticements. Solid clean commodities are limited and require basic cooking skills. I have relatives, "shiteaters", who don't understand what they are doing to their lives by consuming seed oils (corn/soy/sunflower/canola/etc.
By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
August 19, 2026
Upon being elected president, both the first time and the second time, President Trump vowed to make America great again. That's what his MAGA movement has been all about.
Central to Trump's vow has been his war on immigrants, which I think most everyone would describe as ruthless and brutal. Having promised to "secure the border," Trump has not settled for strengthening the immigration police state along the borderlands, including the fortification of his Berlin Wall.
Brèves de crise
Se retourne-t-il dans sa tombe, le grand Lincoln, le vainqueurs des sécessionnistes et du glorieux général Rombert E. Lee, lui qui a son sombre et tragique visage sculpté dans les pierres géantes du Mount Rutledge ? Se retrouver, lui, symboliquement et par voie de baptême sans autorisation du Secret Service, au cœur d'une sordide bataille d'une Amérique qu'il croyait avoir restaurée à jamais, pour vaincre le suicide ; par sa victoire d'avril 1865 ; se suiciderait-il, lui, s'il n'était déjà mort, de chagrin et de désespoir ?
par Jules Kaizen
Le porte-avions USS Abraham Lincoln est en mer depuis plus de 250 jours. Sans escale. Sans répit. Les marins à bord décrivent des conditions "un enfer" : moisissures, douches en panne, nourriture avariée. Certains ont tenté de se jeter à l'eau.
Ce n'est pas une anecdote. C'est un symptôme.
Les États-Unis n'ont pas perdu une bataille en Iran. Ils sont en train de perdre une guerre d'usure qu'ils ne pouvaient pas gagner.
par Raphaël Besliu
Cinq mois. C'est le temps qu'il aura fallu pour que les contraintes matérielles de la guerre contre l'Iran rattrapent les projections initiales de Washington. L'administration américaine avait envisagé un conflit de trois à quatre semaines, mais celui-ci est désormais entré dans son sixième mois. Dans le même temps, des informations du Washington Post et de Reuters, reprises par ZeroHedge, font état de tensions internes au sommet du Pentagone et d'un niveau préoccupant de certains stocks de munitions américaines.
par Julia Conley
Suite à l'adoption d'une loi autorisant les personnes ayant des ancêtres canadiens sur plusieurs générations à demander la citoyenneté, les archivistes constatent également une augmentation des demandes de documents généalogiques.
Les Américains sont à l'origine d'une forte augmentation des demandes de citoyenneté au Canada et des sollicitations des services d'archivage canadiens pour vérifier leur admissibilité.
By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute
August 18, 2026
Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones to highlight to the US Navy Secretary and to the media the revolting conditions aboard the carrier, which has been at sea with no port of call for a record period of time.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
August 18, 2026
Polymarket predicts Democrats taking both houses of Congress this November. Instead of a more typical election year focus on hearth and home, economy and peace, Trump devotedly pursues deep state continuity and endless war. His administration is rallying what is left of our military to vainly extend the life of a dying petrodollar. Trump's Israel obsession, and Israel's amoral maximalism, is producing global chaos designed to advance Israel's interests as it consumes American bone and sinew, much as the US is consuming Ukraine's in the proxy war with Russia.
By Robert Gore
Straight Line Logic
August 18, 2026
Trump may not be the fifth face on Mt. Rushmore.
President Trump has betrayed what he considered his own movement, but which has always been "Much More Than Trump." MAGA is fractured; minus Trump the underlying movement will be stronger than it is now. There are millions of Americans who fear the government and despise the so-called elites who control it.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
August 18, 2026
Russian news sources for the outside world, such as RT and Sputnik, would benefit from thinking about how their reports read to outsiders, especially Americans. Perhaps the editors have thought that by appearing so objective they can gain credibility as non-partisan, thus deflating US claims that they are propaganda organs like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
It's been a few months since Kim has threatened the total annihilation of South Korea, and a few years since he threatened to inflict "shocking and unimaginable disaster" on the USA.
By John Leake
The Focal Points
August 18, 2026
On Sunday, President Trump announced on his Truth Social account that he is patching things up with North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, and is therefore no longer concerned about the security of South Korea - one of the US's key trading partners.
Journal dde.crisis de Philippe Grasset
17 août 2026 (17H50) - Ce qui se passe aujourd'hui principalement avec les aventures des porte-avions US (USS 'Gerald R. Ford' et USS 'Abrahazm-Lincoln') et avec nombre d'autres unités et une organisation complètement désintégrée est un événement d'une portée symbolique, encore plus que stratégique, considérable. Il est plus grave de ridiculiser un porte-avions par le désordre du laisser-aller de l'incompétence, que de le couler...
par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme
La guerre contre l'Iran s'éternise. Ni les États-Unis, ni l'Iran n'ont perdu. Mais aucun des deux n'a gagné. Aussi le président Donald Trump tente de déplacer le sujet. Il ne parle plus d'une prochaine victoire militaire, mais laisse entendre une future victoire économique.
L'eau de Cologne "Trump Victory" ne sent plus aussi bon.
La guerre multidimensionnelle au cœur du détroit d'Ormuz fait désormais rage au niveau géoéconomique/géofinancier tandis que Trump a annoncé son droit bizarre de "propriété" selon lequel le "détroit d'Hormuz sera bientôt un territoire états-unien" et promet d'intensifier la pression militaire et économique contre l'Iran newsnet.fr.