Death and All His Friends

A Ramadan essay on faith, rage, and complicity as we watch Gaza starve, Lebanon bombed, and Iran burn Ahmad Ibsais Mar 12, 2026 Thousands upon thousands of my people are dead, and part of me has died with them. Yet, I still have enough life to be ashamed […]

The Limits of Performative Nationalism

New in Telos Insights The Limits of Performative Nationalism by Michael S. Kochin Modern nationalist movements are torn between identity as a subjective narrative and identity as an institutional construction. This tension is perhaps most visible when we look at the Palestinian nationalist movement through the lens of […]

UN says 3.2 million displaced in Iran; 40+ senators press Hegseth over Iran school bombing; Drone strikes in Sudan kill dozens of civilians

Drop Site Daily: March 12, 2026 Drop Site News Mar 12, 2026 U.S. and Israeli airstrikes pound Iran for thirteenth day. UN: 3.2 million displaced in Iran. Satellite imagery shows new strike damage at Iran’s Taleghan-2 site. U.S. intelligence says Iran’s leadership remains stable. Iran says drones struck […]

Bye-Bye Build-To-Rent

Bye-Bye Build-To-Rent Plus: bad arguments in favor of a build-to-rent ban, a tanker plane crash kills four in Iraq, signs the Iran war isn’t going so well, and more… CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI Bye-bye to build-to-rent housing. On Thursday afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted 89–10 to pass House Resolution 6644, […]

False Flags or Fog of War?

Israel’s War on Global Oil Supplies Kevin Barrett Mar 13, 2026 By Kevin Barrett, for American Free Press Next November, voters will almost certainly blame Donald Trump and the Republicans for their war-triggered economic woes. And woes there will be! Oil prices are already over $100 a barrel. […]

The Big Three and the global cabal

Paul Cudenec Mar 13, 2026 [I read the article here] I have previously described how the Great War of 1914-1918 was essentially the Great Reset of its time, a shock-and-awe event manufactured in order to push us further along the dispossession and enslavement process known as “modernisation” or […]

Behind our April 2026 Cover

MARCH 13, 2026 Behind our April 2026 Cover Our April 2026 Edition: Trump’s New World Disorder → When we started planning the April issue of The Nation, we knew the focus was going to be on foreign policy. But we didn’t know that its publication would coincide with […]

America Has Been Demoted (Part Two)

The multipolar transition is real. But the window it has opened will not stay open, and who builds what inside that window determines everything. In Part 2, Shahid Bolsen breaks down what Muslim-majority countries and the Global South actually need to do — externally, regionally, and internally — […]

America Has Been Demoted (Part One)

America’s position as the world’s sole superpower was never earned — it was inherited from the collapse of its rivals. Now the vacancy is being filled. In this talk, Shahid Bolsen walks through the structural evidence of America’s demotion from global superpower to regional hegemon: the GDP numbers, […]

3/12/26: US Casualty Lies, Trump Declares Victory, New Ayatollah Speaks Out, Iron Dome Fails & MORE!

Krystal and Saagar discuss Ryan beats BBC editor in court, US lies about casualties, Trump declares victory, US flagged ship struck by Iran, new Ayatollah breaks silence, Trump trapped in escalation nightmare, Iron dome failing, FBI warns of California drone attack. YouTube: https://youtu.be/2xQnRtor–4 Robert Pape: https://escalationtrap.substack.com/ Share A […]

Trump Goes to War

Trump Goes to War Plus: Donald Trump vs. Thomas Massie, Republicans preparing to kill the filibuster for a very dumb reason, explosions in the Strait of Hormuz, and more… ERIC BOEHM Priorities. Amid a war of choice in the Middle East that has killed seven Americans and hundreds […]

Trump the Censor

Sponsored by Jewish Review of Books Today in The New York Review of Books: Aryeh Neier resists Trump’s war on free speech; Orville Schell considers Chiang Kai-shek; David Beal rocks out to Docteur Nico; Catherine Nicholson reads one of the earliest diaries; Mark Lilla profiles a ludicrous protofascist; […]

On the Tyranny of Rights

Trouble viewing this email? View it in your browser New in Telos Insights Neufeld v. British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal: On the Tyranny of Rights by Collin May A recent decision by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) here in Canada has caused an international uproar. Barry […]

New Book: Deleting the State

A new book from Independent Institute argues the state only has the power we mistakenly grant it. What if we didn’t? “States are illegitimate, dangerous, and unnecessary. Aeon Skoble’s convincing case for peaceful, voluntary cooperation as the essential basis for a just social order merits careful consideration by […]

40 killed in strike on Tehran; Trump says Iran war “very complete, pretty much” while Hegseth promises “most intense day of strikes”; Quadcopters in Haiti

Drop Site Daily: March 10, 2026 Drop Site News Mar 10, 2026 “Today will be our most intense day of strikes inside Iran,” U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth says. Forty killed in U.S.-Israeli strike on Tehran residential building. The official death toll in Iran tops 1,300. Iranian strikes […]

We Are The Villains In This Story

Caitlin Johnstone Mar 10, 2026 Reading by Tim Foley: Nobody wants to believe they’re the villain in the story. Nobody wants to believe their government is run by psychopaths who are inflicting unfathomable evils upon populations around the globe in order to rule the world. It’s much nicer […]