ISM-Palestine, 1er février 2026. - La pression qu'exerce Israël sur la famille Abu Najeh à al-Kalayel, dans la banlieue d'al-Mughayyer (Ramallah Est), s'intensifie. Hier, les forces militaires israéliennes ont lancé un nouveau raid - sous le prétexte d'un ordre de zone militaire fermée d'une journée sans la clause permettant aux habitants de rester sur leur terre. Malgré cette intimidation, les membres de la famille Abu Najeh ont décidé de ne pas quitter leur maison.

By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute 

February 3, 2026

For the past month, Americans have been wondering whether President Trump will attack Iran, or whether the massive military build-up in the Middle East is just another bluff. President Trump claims that the decision is his alone to make.

Thus far, President Trump has made little effort to explain to the American people - or to Congress - why launching a war against Iran is in our national interest.

Severely limiting governments is essential to make our work pay for what we want.

By James Anthony 

February 3, 2026

Progressives are good at creating unworkable schemes, and they're good at messaging to help hold these schemes in place.

Conservatives are bad at repealing Progressives' schemes, and they're bad at explaining the benefits of freedom. These weaknesses of conservatives make complex schemes much harder to unravel than they otherwise would be.

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An amusing bit of Internet slang that I began hearing some years ago was the acronym "NPC."

NPC stood for "Non-Player Character," a video-game reference to the very large number of characters who do not represent participants but are instead generated automatically by the software system itself. These constitute the background wallpaper for the humans who are actually playing the game, and are therefore always rather robotic and simplistic in their actions and responses.

By Douglas French
Mises.org 

February 3, 2026

Historians often view the Panic of 1857 as being caused, not by economic events, but political ones. Such disparate events as the end of the Crimean War in 1856 involving England, France, Russia and Turkey, the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, the battle over slavery in the Kansas Territory, even the sinking of the SS Central America are all part of the developments bound together as causes of the 1857 panic.

The United States is the very last government on earth who has any business engaging in humanitarian interventionism. Literally dead last.

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com

February 3, 2026

"Government X does bad things" and "therefore the US should forcibly overthrow Government X" are two completely different claims. Propagandists keep acting like they're the same claim and like the second claim naturally follows the first, and I'm seeing far too many people accepting this manipulation without question.

By James Bovard
The Future of Freedom Foundation 

February 3, 2026

In last month's Future of Freedom article, I explained how the 2016 presidential election made "post-truth" become the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year. Americans felt forced to choose between two candidates that most voters despised. The political system's credibility plummeted in the 2016 campaign.

But the 2016 election was actually far more corrupt than it appeared at the time.

By Paul Dragu
The New American

February 3, 2026

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday declaring Cuba a national security threat. The order imposes a tariff system that allows the United States to level duties on imports from other countries that provide oil to Cuba.

Thanks to the U.S. military operation in Venezuela, Cuba was already experiencing a major oil shortage. For years, Venezuela has served as its main oil provider.

SchiffGold.com 

February 3, 2026

Peter took to the mic on Wednesday to walk listeners through a dramatic day in the markets and to explain what it all means for ordinary savers. He focuses on runaway gold and silver prices, a plunging dollar, and what he sees as a Federal Reserve that refuses to face the monetary signals staring it in the face. He ties the market moves to politics-especially the consequences of Donald Trump's trade posture-and urges listeners to protect themselves with real assets.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com

February 3, 2026

Those acting with impunity are confident that their powers or god-like because they appear so in the human realm. But there are limits to everything in the human realm.

One of the first things we learned about the Internet is that anything sent via email could readily become public and anything created on a computer might be stolen/hacked and distributed.

Moon of Alabama 

February 3, 2026

The weekend has passed without a U.S. attack on Iran.

Trump would have probably liked to strike if there had been a decent chance of a short, successful war. But there was and is none. Iran would retaliate sharply for any attack and set the region on fire.

A early sharp strike would have been Trump's best chance of success. The longer he is deterred from a strike the smaller the likelihood that any attack will occur at all.

Alexandre Douguine

Alexandre Douguine sur le Philosophe-Roi et le retour de l'Empire de l'Esprit.

Dans le septième livre du dialogue La République, Platon décrit le processus de devenir un philosophe-roi comme suit.

Il compare le monde à une caverne (c'est-à-dire un territoire situé dans une matière dense, dans une montagne ou sous la terre), et l'humanité à des prisonniers enchaînés, incapables de tourner la tête, forcés de regarder des ombres qui se déplacent le long du mur de la caverne.

publié le 03/02/2026 Par Alexandra Buste, Xavier Lalbin

Quatre ans après l'ouverture du train à la concurrence, l'Espagne a été le théâtre de trois accidents graves de trains en l'espace de trois jours. Les opérateurs de train ont alors refusé de circuler sur un réseau fortement dégradé avant d'annoncer une grève de trois jours en revendiquant « le rétablissement des normes de sécurité du système ».

Davide Rossi

Ancora una volta sono fortunatamente falliti i tentativi, messi in campo a più riprese da un quindicennio, per innescare attraverso la svogliata porzione della borghesia più ricca della nazione una rivoluzione colorata al fine di disarcionare l'ormai ventennale legame tra Repubblica Islamica dell'Iran e campo multipolare sino - russo. 

È evidente il rifiuto della maggioranza degli iraniani di prestarsi a un sistema di subalternità all'Occidente che per altro hanno conosciuto ai tempi della feroce dittatura dei Pahalvi, in particolare durante la sanguinaria stagione di Mohammad Reza dal 1941 al 1979, anni in cui la polizia politica SAVAK ha torturato e ucciso oppositori politici come nessun'altra in tutta la seconda metà del Novecento, pareggiata per brutalità solo dalla PIDE salazarista portoghese, con buona pace di coloro che in Europa, non solo nei bar, ma pure nel mondo accademico, blaterano senza circostanziate documentazioni delle polizie politiche del campo socialista: KGB (Unione Sovietica), Segurimi (Albania), Securitate (Romania), STASI (DDR).

Par Maram Humaid

Ville de Gaza - Avec ce qui reste de ses avant-bras blessés, Nibal al-Hessi fait défiler les actualités sur son téléphone pour suivre les dernières nouvelles concernant la réouverture du poste-frontière terrestre de Rafah depuis la tente de sa famille à an-Nazla, Jabalia, dans le nord de la bande de Gaza.

Les mains de Nebal ont été sectionnéess lors d'une attaque d'artillerie israélienne contre la maison où elle avait voulu se mettre à l'abri avec son mari et sa fille dans le camp de réfugiés de Bureij, dans le centre de Gaza, le 7 octobre 2024.