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 Gary D. Barnett
GaryDBarnett.com
August 19, 2026
"A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat."
~ David Swanson, War Is A Lie
The first matter of great importance and honest understanding is that there is no such thing as a 'defensive' war. What should follow then, is that no war can ever be against evil, given that war is the epitome of evil.
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.
Trump's "Golden Era" only gilds the upper arm of the K-shaped economy, and "Big Beautiful Bill" and his fat and spendy siblings are a hyuge part of the problem.
By David Haggith
The Daily Doom
August 19, 2026
The truth about the economy has been buried for a few years in flawed statistics and shielded from view by the high gloss of easy gains for the rich. The real economy has been crushing down on the masses for more than two years.
By Ilana Mercer
August 19, 2026
The pedestrian, uncontested reality is that the many ceasefires reflect power differentials untempered by a shred of American and Israeli honor or decency...
When Trump is gone, there'll be a new Barnum to oversee the US-Israeli ceasefire circus. ~ilana
Allow me to vent spleen over the many ceasefire "agreements"-10-point (April 2026), 15-point (August 2026), and the MOU, Memorandum of Understanding in-between-whose details the "experts" continue to belabor and rehash.
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
August 18, 2026
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19 août 2026.- La Cour pénale internationale déplore l'annonce par l'administration des États-Unis de nouvelles désignations imposant des sanctions contre la juge Tomoko Akane (Japon), Présidente de la Cour, et contre M. Abdoulaye Seye (Sénégal), premier substitut du Procureur.
Ces sanctions constituent une attaque flagrante contre l'indépendance d'une institution judiciaire impartiale qui accomplit le mandat que lui ont confié les États parties appartenant à toutes les régions du monde.
Brigitte Challande, 18 août 2026.- Une séance de sensibilisation pour renforcer la protection des jeunes filles et préserver leurs droits dans le cadre des mariages précoces en lien avec les déplacements forcés, dans la zone centrale - Ouest de Deir al-Balah |dans le camp Al-Doura |avec 20 participantes. 15-17 août.
"L'un des dossiers les plus sensibles auxquels les familles sont confrontées dans les conditions de déplacement forcé, c'est la question du mariage précoce et les répercussions sanitaires, psychologiques et sociales qui peuvent en découler.