By Lawrence A. Hunter
August 7, 2026
Could Congress hold someone in contempt and then order the Capitol Police to arrest and detain that person ? The answer is yes. The more revealing question is why it has almost never done so in modern times.
The power is not theoretical. It is inherent in the legislative authority of the United States. The Supreme Court recognized it more than two centuries ago in Anderson v.
By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org
August 7, 2026
It is an interesting coincidence that only a few months after the US government doubles down on its alliance with Morocco, that Spanish cities bordering Morocco face a coordinated effort to flood Spanish territory with military-age, male, Moroccan "migrants."
In public statements, GOP politicians and their supporters have expressed dismay over apparently sudden efforts by tens of thousands of Moroccan nationals to break through the Spanish borders in North Africa and overwhelm the native populations of Spanish exclaves.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
August 7, 2026
"In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows." - Chalmers Johnson
What goes around comes around.
That is the terrible law of blowback.
When the United States bombs another country, threatens its government, kills its people, occupies its territory or attempts to dictate its future, the consequences do not remain safely contained thousands of miles away.
Someone quietly absorbed the biggest supply shock in oil market history. It wasn't who or why you think.
By Lau Vegys
Preppgroup
August 7, 2026
Remember the oil shock?
When the fighting closed the Strait of Hormuz this spring, the predictions were apocalyptic. Thirteen thousand flights canceled. Britain, we were told, was days from its last shipment of jet fuel. Analysts penciling in $200 oil, and a few of the louder ones going even higher.
When will it end ?
By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
August 7, 2026
Some weeks it is difficult to pick out the most shocking stories symptomatic of decline and fall of American governmental integrity both in Washington and often at state levels. The White House and Congress frequently lead in that reckoning given the complete abandonment of any United States government's effort to make its policies and legislation responsive to actual national interests.
For over a century, remarkable therapies have been suppressed to maintain a medical monopoly at the expense of humanity
By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine
August 7, 2026
While medicine has produced remarkable and life-changing results for a variety of challenging conditions, the present reality of our medical system is that:
• Large amounts of research dollars are collected each year to seek out solutions for incurable diseases creating immense suffering for many patients with "incurable" conditions.
Moon of Alabama
August 7, 2026
Some years ago Paul Robinson, a Canadian scholar of Russian history, wrote about two different views of international political rules:
I pointed out that both Russia and the West claimed to be in favour of a 'rules-based order' and that each accused the other of breaking that order. The problem, I conjectured, derives from differing understanding of what the rules are and how they should be applied.
The naive public remains in the dark because it insists on viewing Washington as it should be, and not how it actually is.
By John Leake
The Focal Points
August 7, 2026
For how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather learn to bring about his own ruin than his preservation. -Machiavelli, The Prince
Perusing reader comments to my post this morning, Can a State Attorney General Successfully Prosecute Anthony Fauci?, it appears that many readers somehow (by some miracle of misinterpretation) managed to interpret the post as me stating that a State Attorney General should not prosecute Anthony Fauci.
By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
August 7, 2026
Twenty-six years ago in 2000 Prima Publishing published a book I wrote with my colleague, Lawrence M. Stratton. We had wanted to title the book, "How the Law Was Lost," but we only managed to get our title on one chapter. The publisher thought that sales required a less intellectual-sounding title and came up with The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
By Kit Knightly
OffGuardian
August 7, 2026
The AIs are breaking free, that's the story.
It started two weeks ago, when OpenAI reported one of their "agents" had escaped its testing area and got loose on the internet to launch an "unprecedented cyber attack".
This was clearly meant to be scarier than the public response indicated, because a few days later OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was on the youtube , asking why it didn't cause more panic:
By Paul Dragu
The New American
August 7, 2026
An American company is building war robots, and the justification for pursuing this risky technology is the same one we hear from people who want to drop a data center in every nook and cranny of the American landscape.
Foundation's View
"U.S. adversaries like China and Russia are pursuing military humanoids and other similar concepts, such as four-legged robot 'dogs' with weapons mounted on their backs, so America needs the ability to match them." This is the view of Sankaet Pathak, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based Foundation Future Industries, which builds humanoid robots.
par Jorge Majfud *
Une observation qui m'a toujours marqué en Afrique fut de rencontrer deux personnes de la même ethnie, du même village, qui étaient comme le jour et la nuit, conséquence d'une même histoire tragique qui engendre des rebelles et de futurs traîtres, par action ou par omission.
Patrice Lumumba
vers le supplice et la mort.
Ces souvenirs me reviennent chaque fois que je vois les images de l' youtube en 1960, la dignité du révolutionnaire anticolonialiste et le sadisme des soldats de Mobutu, le forçant à manger son propre discours.
Palestine Will Be Free
Israel's murderous rampage against the besieged children of Gaza continues apace, with a new report revealing that the Jewish state has slaughtered 300 Palestinian children in the 300 days since the start of the so-called "ceasefire" last October.
"This amounts to an average of one child every day, despite an agreement for the suspension of military operations and the full entry of humanitarian aid and relief almost 10 months ago," UNICEF said on Thursday.