Europe Is Preparing for War

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Susan Kokinda, 5 October 2026



Susan Kokinda opens with the 26-page open letter Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps addressed to the American people weeks before the midterms, which the State Department dismissed as desperate and the Daily Wire read as a call to vote Democrat. She argues the letter tells a bigger story than anyone is reporting: it names the CIA, Israel and the military-industrial complex, but never once the British. After President Trump’s “easy way or the hard way” remark on Iran, and his statement at the U.N. that the election won’t influence his Iran policy, the episode revisits the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, whom the letter calls an “Americanophile,” after he nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, today’s BP, and cites National Security Archive documents showing the British Foreign Office approached the Truman administration in late 1952 to propose a coup. It then turns to a Foreign Affairs newsletter citing the 1956 Suez crisis as a parallel to the war with Iran, President Eisenhower’s refusal to back Britain and France at Suez, and Gamal Abdel Nasser’s 1955 Foreign Affairs article on how the British ran Egypt. It closes with Richard Haass on Morning Joe, the morning after Trump’s U.N. speech, calling it “the end of 80 years of American foreign policy,” Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on Europe having to defend itself against the U.S., and Mark Carney telling the New York Times he spent the past year preparing for the “extreme tail risk” of U.S. military action against Canada.
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Mike Steger, 4 October 2026



Mike Steger connects developments in the Middle East, trade negotiations, and military technology that he argues signal a shift toward national sovereignty and economic growth. From Iraqi energy infrastructure to Jamieson Greer’s call for a new international economic order, he explores how investment in production could reshape America’s relationship with the world.

The discussion moves from John F. Kennedy’s industrial policies and support for development abroad to nuclear power, American shipbuilding, and the future of defense. Mike examines how advanced research, directed energy systems, and cooperation between entrepreneurs and the military could strengthen national security while creating new opportunities for American industry.

Finally, Mike traces the connections between Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, research at America’s national laboratories, and the technology behind advanced semiconductor manufacturing. He argues that Trump’s Golden Dome strategy could help drive another generation of scientific breakthroughs, rebuilding an economy rooted in discovery, manufacturing, and exploration.

If you enjoy discussions about President Trump, the American System, nuclear energy, advanced technology, and America’s economic future, subscribe and join our movement.
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Vauquelin High School in Paris

Rioters set fire to the entrance of Vauquelin high school in Paris and block the exits while staff, students, and journalists are confined inside 😳🤯

We are witnessing an attempted murder live. All red lines have been crossed.

These images are terrifying.
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Memo to Garland

… the end of the memo, leaving her initials “LM.” Days later, Garland signed the memo with his initials, giving his approval."
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Republican Turncoats

… —but we cannot allow that to happen.
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Not Everyday Grifters

… in scope.”

“The Chinese mafia runs social adult daycare in New York. They take $1 billion a year out of that program and fund human trafficking on the East Coast.”

“And on the West Coast, we got Russian mafia running hospice.”
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Ninth Circuit Court Allows DOJ to Remove Court-Appointed US Attorney Rogoff as Case Goes Through Appeals Process

… President Donald J Trump’s firing of Roger Rogoff and restored him as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington.

The order, issued by Clerk of Court Molly C. Dwyer, states that the court received the government’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and that “the request for an administrative stay is GRANTED.” It adds that the stay “is only intended to preserve the status quo until the substantive motion for a stay pending appeal can be considered on the merits, and does not constitute in any way a decision as to the merits” of the appeal. It was not an en banc ruling and was not signed by a panel of judges.

The stay means Rogoff remains out of the office for now and not a decision on whether President Trump had the power to remove a court-appointed interim U.S. attorney. The Ninth Circuit will next consider the DOJ’s full request for a stay pending appeal; the underlying appeal remains active.

Sunday's stay follows an October 1 ruling by U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian, a Barack Obama appointee and chief judge of the Eastern District of Washington. Speaking from the bench, Bastian granted Rogoff a preliminary injunction, refused to pause it himself, and said Rogoff “is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington and has been the rightful holder of that office since July 15, 2026,” the day he took the oath.

The judges of the Western District appointed Rogoff unanimously after the post sat without a Senate-confirmed leader. Federal law lets the attorney general name an interim U.S. attorney for 120 days; once that window closes, the district court may fill the vacancy until the Senate confirms a nominee. Rogoff, a former federal prosecutor and King County Superior Court judge, was sworn in at the Seattle courthouse on the morning of July 15. Trump fired him by email less than an hour later.

The administration had left the office in the hands of Charles Neil Floyd, who had served as interim U.S. attorney and then as first assistant after his statutory term expired. Trump later nominated Pete Serrano, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Eastern Washington and a former Pasco mayor, for the Western District post. Serrano has not been confirmed. Bastian said neither Floyd nor Serrano held the office under his injunction.

Rogoff sued in July, arguing the firing sidestepped the Senate’s confirmation role. Bastian on Oct. 1 agreed, stating Congress did not give the power to fill the office to the president alone and that allowing the removal “would upend the framework created by the Constitution and the statutes.”

Bastian's district court order—which is now stayed after Sunday's decision—had barred the Trump administration from carrying out the firing, treating Rogoff as removed, or blocking his access to the office, staff and pay, and had entitled him to back pay.

@WAGOP Chairman Jim Walsh, interviewed by the Lynnwood Times Sunday evening after the stay, described Bastian’s ruling as “patently illegal” and said the Ninth Circuit’s weekend stay correctly held that a president can fire a U.S. attorney.

He called the Senate blue-slip practice that Sen. @PattyMurray has used against Serrano an “arcane U.S. Senate policy, not law.” He said it is a courtesy that lets home-state senators “blackball” a nominee.

After Sens. Murray and @SenatorCantwell blocked Serrano’s earlier path to confirmation as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District—it was mostly Murray—the DOJ found a workaround by naming Serrano first assistant and a special adviser to the U.S. attorney general effectively managing the Spokane AG's Office without the formal title.

Asked why Sen. Murray continues to hold up Serrano's appointment, @JimWalshLD19 said fraud investigations are “what Senator Murray’s worried about” and that she “may be implicated” indirectly because she has supported programs now subject to fraud allegations.

Walsh clarified that he is not claiming Sen. Murray was “caught red-handed, fraudulently stuffing $100 bills into her freezer,” but that she is attached by backing those programs.

The example he shared with the Lynnwood Times was Apple Health Medicaid benefits for illegal aliens: he said Washington may offer state benefits, but federal money cannot be used, and that there are “rumors and allegations” that the state's Health Care Authority has commingled federal funds in a way that would violate federal law. Walsh added that these matters are under investigation.

Walsh said he does not expect the case to reach the Supreme Court but suspects the Ninth Circuit will reject the district court’s opinion and that the Supreme Court will decline review. He said he talks with Serrano often but had not spoken with him about Sunday's Ninth Circuit stay.

Serrano, Walsh said, “has nothing to do with” the Rogoff firing by President Trump and is not as directly involved in the process with Rogoff.
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0% Confidence in These Fake Polls

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European Governments Are Committed Through a UN Agreement to Spread Pro-Mass Migration Propaganda by Funding It Directly

… million

— The @afpfr runs "fact-checks" in 26 languages, received €120 million from the French state in 2025, against €200.3 million in commercial revenue. @AFP is French government propaganda and disinformation

— European governments are committed through a UN agreement to spread pro-mass migration propaganda by funding it directly. The “migration compact,” which 152 governments voted for in the UN General Assembly in 2018, commits them to “stopping allocation of public funding... to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants," which is broadly interpreted to cover criticism of mass migration policies

— To maintain control over news media, the European Commission funds a network of 15 fact-checking hubs with tens of millions of euros, and its rules require platforms to give priority to notices from “trusted flaggers.”

— Governments fund think tanks to produce reports, including ones demanding censorship, that the news media cover sympathetically and editorialize in support of.

— The @ISDglobal in London — which demands censorship of people it disagrees with on climate change, gender, and migration, refuses to speak with journalists, and lists a phony address — lists among its funders the British Foreign Office, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, the German Foreign Office and the European Commission, along with Google and Microsoft.
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