Month: August 2025

This Summer I Went Swimming

Today in The New York Review of Books: Daphne Merkin reflects on the bliss and blues of life by the pool, and, from the archives, remembering the birth of Poland’s Solidarity movement, forty-five years ago today. Daphne Merkin Poolside On a broiling summer afternoon I am lying on a chaise, daydreaming about past lovers […]

Trump’s Tariffs on Trial

In a 7 to 4 ruling, a federal appeals court just struck down President Trump’s tariffs, on the grounds that he didn’t have the legal authority to impose them without Congress—although it stayed its ruling until October to allow for appeal to the Supreme Court. The court cited […]

The Solitary Struggle

Beyond politics lies the call to overcome the will-to-machine. J. R. Sommer Aug 31, 2025 J. R. Sommer contends that politics only distracts from the real task: overcoming the will-to-machine through the spiritual self-emptying taught by Meister Eckhart. Several years ago I heard an advert for Mensa on […]

The High Priests of Globalism

Troy Southgate Aug 31, 2025 AS a National-Anarchist, I am opposed to all forms of coercion and yet believe that if Christians, Muslims or Jews wish to impose upon themselves a system that involves voluntary submission to a religious code of ethics that such a policy is compatible […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 8/31/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Dogelon Mars, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Story, Blur, Measurable Data Token, Jupiter and more…Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get our best stock ideas, proprietary research, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio August 31st, 2025   The […]

The Week Ahead for 8/31/2025

Get ready for the week in stocks: key earnings, ex-dividend dates, and IPOs to watch.Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get our best stock ideas, proprietary research, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio August 31st, 2025   REVEALED FREE: Our three […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 8/30/2025

Cryptocurrency news for Movement, Dogelon Mars, Coinbase tokenized stock FTX, Saga, Caldera, Convex Finance, Blur and more…Text “MarketBeat” to  68285  to get SMS breaking news alerts for stocks on your watchlist and other special reports.  Learn More. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio August 30th, 2025   The End of […]

The Weekly Wrap-Up for 8/30/2025

Stocks soared to new all-time highs after NVIDIA reported strong earnings. However, all the major indexes were drifting lower after an as expected read on inflation from the July personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index. That should be enough to keep hopes high for a September rate cut. […]

Trump Is Not Building a Ballroom

AUGUST 29, 2025 Trump Is Not Building a Ballroom No, the White House Is Not Getting a 90,000-Foot Extension → “Shattered stained-glass windows raining down on children should rouse us against guns,” Joan Walsh writes. “But Trump has too many people paralyzed.”   After the shooting in Minneapolis […]

Maybe Prayer Isn’t Bullshit

Maybe Prayer Isn’t Bullshit Plus: Beware of distorted data, inside the mind of Curtis Sliwa, a thong-related clarification, and more… LIZ WOLFE The “thoughts and prayers” breaking point: Yesterday morning, as schoolchildren in Minneapolis were attending Mass to usher in the new school year, a gunman shot through the stained glass […]

Defenders of life and nature

Paul Cudenec Aug 29, 2025 [Plus audio version] As life itself is increasingly menaced by the cancerous growth of industrialism, the importance of those rare voices across the world alerting us to this threat becomes ever more acute. In the USA, Jennifer Bilek warned on August 2, 2025: […]

Trump’s Fed Coup

Trump’s Fed Coup Plus: Beachy vignettes, Smithsonian scrutiny, Gavin Newsom might not be the Democrats’ great new hope, and more… LIZ WOLFE She’s cooked: Lisa Cook, one of seven Federal Reserve Board members, was fired “for cause” by President Donald Trump earlier this week for what he calls “deceitful […]

Israel declares Gaza City “a dangerous combat zone,” Pakistan floods force evacuation of a million people, UN votes to end Lebanon peacekeeping force

Drop Site Daily: August 29, 2025 Drop Site News Aug 29, 2025 Gaza’s official death toll has topped 63,000 as Israel intensifies attacks and declares Gaza City “a dangerous combat zone.” Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich unveils an exterminationist plan for “total victory” in Gaza. Israel says it […]

The war on witnesses continues

While mainstream outlets continue to parrot Israeli military propaganda, shamelessly turning away while their Palestinian colleagues are systematically targeted, we’re doubling down on supporting frontline journalists and calling out Western media’s complicity. The assault on those documenting the genocide and war crimes continues to escalate—this week’s attack on […]

Daily CryptoBeat for 8/29/2025

Upgrade to MarketBeat All Access to get our best stock ideas, proprietary research, portfolio monitoring tools, and more.  Start Your Free Trial. Unsubscribe. View My Portfolio August 29th, 2025   $100 Trillion “AI Metal” Found in American Ghost Town (ad) Jeff Brown recently traveled to a ghost town […]

Dear Western Liberal,

Caitlin Johnstone Aug 29, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Dear western liberal, Saying “I support a two-state solution” does not release you from your moral obligation to ferociously oppose a genocide backed by your own government. Saying “I oppose Netanyahu” does […]

Article 5 Is a Trap for America

NATO promises and the nuclear gamble Kenneth Schmidt Aug 21, 2025 Kenneth Schmidt warns that Trump’s push for NATO’s “Article 5 protections” risks binding the U.S. to Ukraine’s defense and potential nuclear war, urging a retreat to Monroe-Doctrine restraint instead. I was happy that Putin and Trump met […]