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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Lou Ann Barton

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features Texas blues rock singer Lou Ann Barton. Enjoy!

^{Lou Ann Barton – I'm Just Your Fool}

"A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure regime change even before he took power in January 2001... It has been called a secret blueprint for US global domination. ... A small group of people with a plan to remove Saddam Hussein long before George W. Bush was elected president. ... And 9/11 provided the opportunity to set it in motion. Not since Mein Kampf has a geopolitical punch been so blatantly telegraphed years ahead of the blow."

-- Ted Koppel

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News and Opinion

Dissecting The Belief That The US Should Forcibly Remove Tyrannical Governments

“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.

They are not the same claim. They’re entirely unrelated. It should not be necessary to explain this to grown adults, but here we are.

Even if we accept as fact all the claims about how badly the US-targeted government is behaving, and even if we ignore the obvious fact that unilateral US regime change wars are against international law, there is still no valid reason to accept that a government doing bad things justifies US regime change interventionism.

Just because a foreign government has done bad things does not mean it would be good if another government took military action to overthrow them. This is uniquely true of the United States, who is quantifiably the single most tyrannical government on earth, and whose regime change interventionism reliably causes more death, suffering and abuse than its proponents claimed they were trying to stop.

The United States is the very last government on earth who has any business engaging in humanitarian interventionism. Literally dead last. No other government has been responsible for more catastrophic military actions justified under humanitarian pretenses than Washington and its network of allies and proxies.

Most of the violence, chaos and instability we’ve seen in the middle east in recent decades has been the fallout from prior western interventionism under the leadership of the United States. Dropping a Jewish ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization, installing puppet regimes, setting up military bases, invading Iraq, backing the Saudi genocide in Yemen, deliberately fomenting violent uprisings in Libya and Syria, and countless other interventions have kept the middle east from following the rest of humanity into a state of relative peace and stability after the second world war.

“Therefore the US should forcibly overthrow Government X” also doesn’t naturally follow from “Government X does bad things” because the US generally doesn’t overthrow governments who do bad things. A majority of the world’s dictatorships are armed and supported by the United States.

There are many, many tyrannical governments in our world whose abuses you hardly ever hear about, because they are not enemies of the US empire. You don’t hear western media and western governments constantly shrieking about the mass atrocities of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other tyrannical Gulf state monarchies, for example, because they are aligned with the global interests of the US hegemon.

This shows that the US never actually attacks countries to stop their governments from doing bad things. That might be the excuse, but it’s never the reason. The governments targeted by the United States do tend to be more authoritarian than the western liberal ideal because if they weren’t controlling their country with an iron fist they would have already folded to US efforts to absorb them into the imperial power umbrella a long time ago, but that’s never the real reason for targeting them.

The real reason is global hegemony. The US never attacks foreign governments because they are doing bad things, it only ever attacks them for being disobedient and failing to kiss the imperial ring.

It is therefore crazy and stupid to pretend “Government X does bad things” should naturally give rise to the expectation that the US should forcibly overthrow that government. The US never deposes foreign governments for doing bad things, and when it does depose them it reliably leads to far more chaos, suffering and destruction than if it had just minded its own affairs.

Propagandists rely on repetition, echo chambers, information dominance and narrative distortion to manipulate our minds. But they also rely on our own lack of basic critical thinking skills. A little robust examination of our underlying assumptions goes a long way.

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Global Cost of MAGA Politics

US contractor sent Gaza plan to White House that would secure 300% profits

A US disaster response firm submitted a plan to White House officials that would guarantee 300% profits and a seven-year monopoly over a new trucking and logistics plan for Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Gaza, according to a November proposal obtained by the Guardian. The draft plan from Gothams LLC would allow it to collect a fee for every truck moving goods into Gaza, and charge for the use of its warehousing and distribution system.

The Guardian first reported in December that Gothams was the frontrunner for a lucrative deal that would be doled out by a future Trump-chaired Board of Peace, but the scale of the profit margin was not clear.

Though the firm’s CEO, Matthew Michelsen, told the Guardian in December he was halting his proposal, a company partner is still involved, records show, and a new Gaza supply system (GSS) is being discussed by administration officials and businesspeople affiliated with Trump’s Board of Peace. Michelsen declined to talk to the Guardian for this story. ...

Charles Tiefer, an expert on federal contracting law who sat on the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, said the terms listed by Gothams are outrageous. “There’s never been a US government contract that had triple returns on capital, not in 200 years. To make 25% is considered good,” he said. “Having spent three years looking at contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, this looks like highway robbery.”

The Austin-based firm has received government contracts in the past, including its most recent work supporting operations at the notorious South Florida detention center, a tent camp for migrants, which was dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” and criticized for potential human rights violations.

Handful of sick and wounded Palestinians allowed through Rafah crossing on first day

A small number of sick and wounded Palestinians have begun crossing into Egypt to seek medical treatment after Israel permitted a limited reopening of the Palestinian territory’s Rafah border post as fragile diplomatic efforts to stabilise the conflict inch forward.

About 150 people were due to leave the territory on Monday, and 50 to enter it, according to Egyptian officials, more than 20 months after Israeli forces closed the crossing. However, by nightfall, Reuters reported that Israel had permitted 12 Palestinians to re-enter the territory, according to Palestinian and Egyptian sources. A further 38 had not cleared security and would wait on the Egyptian side of the crossing overnight, it said.

In terms of those exiting, Israel permitted five patients escorted by two relatives each to cross to the Egyptian side, the sources said. That brought the total number entering and exiting to 27. Palestinian officials blamed delays on Israeli security checks. Israel’s military had no immediate comment.

Ambulances waited for hours at the border before ferrying patients across after sunset, footage from Egyptian state-run television showed. The crossing had been closed since Israeli troops seized it in May 2024, only briefly opening during a ceasefire in early 2025 for the evacuation of medical patients.

About 20,000 Palestinian children and adults needing medical care hope to leave the devastated territory via the crossing, according to Gaza health officials. Thousands of other Palestinians outside the territory hope to enter and return home.

Aaron Maté : A Reckless Game With Iran

Witkoff Expected To Meet With Iran’s Foreign Minister in Istanbul on Friday

US envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Istanbul, Turkey, on Monday, according to media reports, as the US continues building up its forces in the Middle East to prepare for a potential attack on Iran.

According to Axios, representatives from several Arab and Muslim countries will also be attending the talks, and the meeting is the result of diplomatic efforts by Turkey, Egypt, and Qatar. But one source told the outlet that nothing was finalized until it happened.

If the meeting happens, it will mark the first talks between the US and Iran since the 12-day US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. Israel launched the war in June 2025, a few days before the US and Iran were scheduled to hold another round of nuclear talks. Hours before the first Israeli airstrikes hit, President Trump said he was committed to diplomacy with Iran, meaning the current US push for diplomacy could also be a deception aimed at keeping Tehran offguard before an attack.

Col. Larry Wilkerson: Trump Caves Under Pressure — Iran’s Capabilities Now Bigger Than Ever

Trump says he will cut tariffs on India after Modi agrees to stop buying Russian oil

Donald Trump claimed India has agreed to stop buying Russian oil as he announced plans to cut US tariffs on Indian exports. The US president announced that he and the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, whom he proclaimed to be “one of my greatest friends”, had agreed to strike a trade deal. While full details have yet to be disclosed, Trump claimed that India – the second largest purchaser of Russian crude – had agreed to stop buying Russian oil, after many months of pressure from the US.

After a call with Modi on Monday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “This will help END THE WAR in Ukraine, which is taking place right now, with thousands of people dying each and every week!” Modi hailed the “wonderful” news on tariffs in a post on X, formerly Twitter, but did not explicitly mention his country’s oil purchases.

India, which relies heavily on oil imports from overseas to cover the vast majority of its demand, has imported cheaper Russian oil in recent years, as much of the western world sought to cut economic ties with Moscow following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Trump claimed that India had committed to buying more oil from the United States and “potentially” Venezuela after agreeing to “stop buying Russian Oil”.

US tariffs on Indian exports are set to fall from 25% to 18%, the president said, claiming that India would “likewise move forward to reduce their Tariffs and Non Tariff Barriers against the United States, to ZERO”. An additional 25% US tariff on India, leveled by Trump last summer over its purchases, is also expected to be shelved.

Capt. Matt Hoh : Is America Slipping Into Authoritarianism?

Mexico’s president pledges to send aid to Cuba despite US efforts to cut oil access

Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum has pledged to send humanitarian aid this week to Cuba and said Mexico was “exploring all diplomatic avenues to be able to send fuel to the Cuban people,” despite efforts from Washington to cut off oil to the Caribbean nation.

Donald Trump last week signed an executive order allowing the US to slap tariffs on countries sending crude oil to Cuba and on Saturday said that Sheinbaum had agreed to halt shipments of oil at his request – a claim the Mexican leader rejected.

“We never discussed with President Trump the issue of oil with Cuba,” Sheinbaum said at a public event on Sunday in the northern state of Sonora. Mexico’s support for Cuba has become a sudden sticking point in its relationship with Washington, already under immense pressure thanks to Trump’s repeated threats to send troops south of the border to confront the country’s cartels.

The Mexican government last year eclipsed Venezuela to become Cuba’s top oil supplier, a lifeline for a country in economic freefall plagued by rolling blackouts and fuel scarcity. After the US attack on Caracas last month to capture president Nicolás Maduro, Trump halted oil shipments from Venezuela, making Mexico’s support even more critical.

Since Maduro was captured and renditioned to the US, Washington has increasingly turned its attention to Cuba, with Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, openly calling for a regime change in Havana. But after threatening a virtual oil blockade, Trump said on Sunday that Washington was negotiating a deal with the Cuban regime, though he offered no details on what such a deal would entail.

The MOST SHOCKING Revelations About Trump In The Epstein Files!

Bill and Hillary Clinton agree to testify in House Epstein investigation

Bill and Hillary Clinton agreed on Monday to testify in a House investigation into the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, days before the chamber was expected to vote to hold them in contempt of Congress. The concession follows a tense back-and-forth between the Clintons and the Republican James Comer, chair of the House oversight committee, who on Monday said that he would insist both Clintons sit for a sworn deposition before the committee in order to fulfill the panel’s subpoenas.

“They negotiated in good faith. You did not,” Angel Ureña, a spokesman for the Clintons, replied to Comer, in a post on social media. “They told you under oath what they know, but you don’t care. But the former president and former secretary of state will be there. They look forward to setting a precedent that applies to everyone.”

The House was headed towards potential votes this week on criminal contempt of Congress charges against the Clintons. If passed, the charges threatened the Clintons with substantial fines and even incarceration if they were convicted. “The Clintons do not get to dictate the terms of lawful subpoenas,” Comer said.

For months, the Clintons had refused to appear before the Republican-led panel, arguing that the subpoenas were legally “invalid” and “unenforceable” and accusing Comer of targeting them as part of Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his political enemies.

Nine of the committee’s 21 Democrats joined Republicans in support of the charges against Bill Clinton as they argued for full transparency in the Epstein investigation. Three Democrats also supported the charges against Hillary Clinton.

MAGASphere REALLY STRUGGLING With New Epstein Files

Thousands of pages identifying Epstein victims taken down, says justice department

The justice department said on Monday it had taken down several thousand documents and “media” that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information since it began releasing the latest batch of documents related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. It blamed the release of sensitive information that drew an outcry from victims and their lawyers on mistakes that were “technical or human error”.

In a letter to the New York judges overseeing the sex trafficking cases brought against Epstein and confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, Jay Clayton, a US attorney, wrote the department had taken down nearly all materials identified by victims or their lawyers, along with a “substantial number” of documents identified independently by the government.

Clayton, who is based in Manhattan, said the department has “iteratively revised its protocols for addressing flagging documents” after victims and their lawyers requested changes to the process for review and redaction of posted records.

Also Monday, a section of the justice department’s Epstein files website that had contained public court records from Epstein and Maxwell’s criminal cases and civil lawsuits was no longer functioning.

State department and Marco Rubio sued over order denying visas to 75 countries

A coalition of immigration groups, lawyers and US citizens is suing Marco Rubio and the state department to overturn an order that suspended immigrant visa approvals to citizens of 75 countries, alleging the move “eviscerates” decades of settled policy and is blatantly discriminatory.

The suit, filed in a US district court in New York, accuses the department and Rubio, the secretary of state, of denying immigration rights to the nationals of certain countries on “the demonstrably false claim” that they are likely to seek welfare payments.

The state department suspended immigrant visa approvals to nationals of 75 countries last month in a social media post couched in notably undiplomatic language. It said it would “pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates. The freeze will remain active until the US can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.

“The pause impacts dozens of countries – including Somalia, Haiti, Iran, and Eritrea – whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival,” the post continued. “We are working to ensure the generosity of the American people will no longer be abused.” Among other countries included was Cuba, from which Rubio’s parents arrived as undocumented immigrants in 1956.

ICE as Trump’s Political Revenge: The Raids on Blue Cities & Legal Immigrants

Minnesota Medical Examiner Rules Alex Pretti’s Death a Homicide

A county medical examiner’s office in Minnesota on Monday ruled the death of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old nurse fatally shot last month by Trump administration immigration enforcers in Minneapolis, a homicide.

The Hennepin County medical examiner said that Pretti’s cause of death was homicide by multiple gunshot wounds. Homicide is a medical description that does not imply criminal wrongdoing; the Trump administration said last week that it has launched a civil rights probe into the January 24 incident in which agents shot Pretti seconds after disarming him of a legally carried handgun.

On Sunday, ProPublica revealed that US Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer Raymundo Gutierrez shot Pretti, who was reportedly known to federal officials after a previous encounter in which immigration enforcers allegedly broke his rib.

A physician who rushed to the scene of the shooting and tried to save Pretti’s life said in a sworn statement that agents denied the victim medical care and instead “appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

Kristi Noem says all federal agents will begin wearing body cameras on patrols

The homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, said that all federal agents in Minneapolis will immediately begin wearing body cameras and that the program will be expanded nationwide “as funding is available”.

The announcement on Monday comes after Republican senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin suggested, in a concession that could pave the way to an agreement on Capitol Hill to fund the much criticized agency, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could wear body cameras on immigration patrols.

Johnson said he did not “have a problem” with ICE officers wearing the cameras, one of the key demands made by Democrats who are currently blocking the agency’s financing.

“I don’t have a problem with that personally,” Johnson, the chair of the Senate’s homeland security committee, told CNN’s Dana Bash on the State of the Union program.

On Monday, Trump seemed to indicate support for body cameras as well. “They generally tend to be good for law enforcement because people can’t lie about what’s happening,” he said during a White House event. Wearing body cameras has been among the conditions attached by Democrats to agreeing to continued funding of the agency.

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court

Immediately after a US border patrol agent shot two people in Oregon last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said the targets were “vicious” gang members connected to a prior shooting and alleged they had “attempted to run over” officers with their vehicle. In the weeks since, key parts of the federal government’s narrative have fallen apart.

The events took place on the afternoon of 8 January, one day after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. According to a DHS press release and social media posts issued the following day, border patrol agents were conducting a “targeted” stop of a vehicle in Portland occupied by two members of Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang. Yorlenys Zambrano-Contreras, a woman in the passenger seat, had been “involved” in a Portland shooting last year, the agency wrote.

During the border patrol stop, the driver, Luis Niño-Moncada, “weaponized their vehicle against” officers, DHS said, prompting an agent “to defend himself and others” by shooting the occupants. Zambrano-Contreras was hit in the chest, Niño-Moncada was hit in the arm and both were hospitalized, then taken into federal custody, DHS noted. The agents were uninjured.

But court records obtained by the Guardian reveal a Department of Justice prosecutor later directly contradicted DHS’ Tren de Aragua statements in court, telling a judge, “We’re not suggesting … [Niño-Moncada] is a gang member.” An FBI affidavit issued following the incident also suggests that in the previous shooting cited by DHS, Zambrano-Contreras was not a suspect, but rather a reported victim of a sexual assault and robbery. Neither Niño-Moncada or Zambrano-Contreras have prior criminal convictions, their lawyers have said.

Immigration and criminal justice experts who reviewed the case records characterized the federal government’s communications as a “smear campaign” against the two Venezuelan immigrants, with mischaracterizations of their pasts and unsubstantiated allegations of criminality. Niño-Moncada, the 33-year-old driver, who is undocumented, remains detained, facing charges of aggravated assault of an officer based on claims he tried to “intentionally” hit agents with his car. Zambrano-Contreras, 32, was not criminally charged, but has pleaded guilty to improper entry to the US, a misdemeanor. Prosecutors have said the two were dating. Questions about the Oregon shooting come as the Trump administration faces scrutiny over its false statements, disproven by video evidence, about the killings of Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis and as cases of alleged “assaults” on immigration agents have repeatedly fallen apart in court.

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Fulton county to challenge FBI seizure of election documents

Fulton county leaders said they would fire back in court on Monday, intent on limiting the scope of a federal warrant that led the FBI to seize 2020 elections documents last week. County attorneys intend to file a motion in federal court asking for an order mandating the return of property that was unlawfully seized or retained, said the Fulton county commissioner Marvin Arrington Jr.

The FBI needs to explain why they took original documents including ballots, instead of the copies that a previous ruling in a related civil case had entitled them to, Arrington said. “The judge in that case told them that they could not get the records, and so instead of them complying with that order, they did an end run and circumvented the judge’s order,” Arrington said. “I can’t imagine that Judge [Thomas W] Thrash will be happy about the fact that they did this after he said no.”

The Department of Justice had been pursuing a civil case in tandem with Georgia’s Trump-aligned state board of elections, looking to re-investigate repeatedly debunked claims of election fraud in Georgia. But last week, FBI agents descended on Fulton county’s elections offices to seize about 700 boxes of 2020 election documents, citing a criminal warrant obtained by the St Louis-based US attorney Thomas Albus, whom the administration has designated as its point-person on election integrity cases. ...

A criminal investigation related to the 2020 election blindsided and confused Fulton county officials. “The two statutes that are listed in their warrant are misdemeanor statutes, and the statute of limitations has expired on those statutes,” Arrington said. “So they couldn’t even bring charges on those charges if they wanted to.” Elections experts say the way agents seized the documents will create more questions than it answers about the 2020 election.

“By removing ballots and other election materials from their secure, locally controlled environment, the chain of custody is broken, rendering any future claims from those materials unreliable,” said Pamela Smith, president and CEO of Verified Voting, a non-profit that advocates for election security and the use of paper ballots.

SHOCK UPSET: Republicans LOSE BIG in DEEP RED Texas District

Five-Alarm Fire Warning After Trump Says ‘Republicans Ought to Nationalize the Voting’

President Donald Trump on Monday declared that the Republican Party should “nationalize the voting” in the US and take away individual states’ power to administer their elections.

While speaking with Dan Bongino, a former FBI deputy director and current podcaster, Trump rehashed the false allegations he’s made in the past about Democrats only winning elections through the help of undocumented immigrants.

“These people were brought to our country to vote, and they vote illegally!” Trump falsely claimed. “Amazing that the Republicans aren’t tougher on it. The Republicans should say... ‘We should take over the voting in at least... 15 places.’ The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.”

Trump then continued to rehash his lies about winning the 2020 election that he lost to former President Joe Biden.

“We have states that are so crooked, and they’re counting votes, we have states that I won that show I didn’t win!” he said. “Now, you’re going to see something in Georgia, where they were able to get with a court order the ballots, you’re going to see some interesting things come out. But, you know, the 2020 election, I won that election by so much. And everybody knows it!”

In fact, Trump lost the 2020 election to Biden at both the national level and in the state of Georgia, which has a Republican governor, a Republican secretary of state, and a Republican-run Legislature. ...

Trump’s comments come as Republicans in Congress push a bill that would enable massive voter purges, impose photo ID requirements, and ban ranked-choice voting, universal mail-in ballots, and the acceptance of mailed ballots that arrive after Election Day.

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US judge allows last of five offshore wind projects halted by Trump to proceed

All five offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration in December can resume construction after a federal judge’s ruling on Monday that cleared Denmark’s Ørsted to proceed with its Sunrise Wind project off the coast of New York. Ørsted’s request for an injunction blocking the interior department order was the fifth brought by an offshore wind developer since the 22 December pause on five leases. The agency stopped work on the multibillion-dollar facilities due to national security concerns around radar interference.

Ørsted said in a statement it would resume work immediately but continue with the underlying lawsuit challenging the interior department’s stop-work order. It added it was trying to find a solution to the matter by cooperating with the US administration. Ørsted has spent or committed more than $7bn to date to build Sunrise Wind, the company said. If the stop-work order is not lifted by 6 February, the project risks losing access to a specialized vessel needed to complete installation of an offshore cable, Ørsted attorneys argued at the hearing.

The argument was similar to those made at four other hearings in recent weeks. “Every court to review this question has now found that the loss of specialized vessels and resulting delays amounts to irreparable harm. I agree,” Royce Lamberth, a US district court judge, said before granting Ørsted’s request. ...

Sunrise Wind is located 30 miles (48km) east of Long Island, New York, and is about 45% complete, according to Ørsted. Once built, the project will produce enough power for nearly 600,000 homes. It is expected to start operating as soon as October.

Is tyre pollution causing mass deaths in vulnerable salmon populations?

Last week, a district judge in San Francisco, California, presided over a three-day trial brought by west coast fishers and conservationists against US tyre companies. The fishers allege that a chemical additive used in tyres is polluting rivers and waterways, killing coho salmon and other fish. If successful, the case could have implications far beyond the United States.

The case was initiated after the apparent solving of a decades-old mystery: what was causing mass deaths of endangered coho salmon in the Pacific north-west as they returned to streams to spawn. The deaths happened after heavy rain. Before dying, the fish would exhibit unusual behaviour, swimming in circles, their mouths gaping, as if gasping for air. Scientists, suspecting storm runoff, described the phenomenon as “urban runoff mortality syndrome”.

It took years for scientists from Washington State University to pinpoint what they now allege is the chemical culprit. In 2020, they published a study in Science that claimed to solve the mystery: they found a toxic substance in leachate from car tyres that killed the fish. Known as 6PPD-quinone or 6PPD-q, it is an oxidation product from 6PPD, a chemical added to car tyres to prevent them breaking down. This transformed chemical, 6PPD-q, leaches into rivers and creeks with, scientists say, devastating results for the protected and endangered species.

The case was brought by the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (PCFFA) represented by environmental group, Earthjustice, after a slew of scientific studies linking mass deaths of coho salmon and harms to other salmon with a chemical tyre additive, 6PPD. The fishers say they depend on the health of salmon populations for their livelihood.

The judge will determine whether the tyre manufacturers are violating the Endangered Species Act by harming fish species, including coho salmon, protected under the legislation. The fisher’s case is that the tyre companies are violating the act by harming 24 populations of fish species protected under it.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

Cop City case could trigger more charges against US protesters

Patrick Lawrence: AIPAC’s Anxieties

Trump TACOs on Iran Through Negotiations

Biden’s Ambassador to Israel Blocked a Memo Describing North Gaza as ‘Apocalyptic Wasteland’

UNIFIL Operations Disrupted as Israel Drops Mystery Chemicals in Southern Lebanon

Judge Rules Against Kristi Noem Order Seeking to Block Lawmakers From Immigrant Detention Facilities

Epstein Occupied A Structural Position, So Who Has Replaced Him?

New Epstein files reveal he may have trafficked girls to others despite official denials

Platner Raises 3 Times as Much as Mills, Collins Combined in Small Donations in Final Quarter of 2025

It’s time to defund the oligarchy and invest in the American people

Trump Admin Condemned for Pushing Big Oil Leases in Arctic Refuge

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A Little Night Music

Fab T birds with Lou Ann Barton - Rocket in My Pocket

Lou Ann Barton – It's Raining

Lou Ann Barton – You Can Have My Husband

Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, Marcia Ball, Sarah Brown - Good Rockin Daddy!

SRV Unreleased Album Nashville '78 - Oh Yeah

Lou Ann Barton – Sugar Coated Love

Lou Ann Barton – Mean Mean Man

Lou Ann Barton – I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home

Lou Ann Barton – Shake Your Hips

SRV Unreleased Album Nashville '78 - Tina Nina Nu

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