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On Our "Virtual Route 99" Around the World: On #IranWarWatch

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As we went to press, it is of note that the war between Iran, Israel, and the United States continues to rage on.    Our team pulled together a Grid of Thoughts from discourse over the weekend, courtesy Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, The Bulwark Editor Jonathan V Last , and reporting from the Middle East. As our ongoing assessments continue, o ur team pulled together some alternative views courtesy of Drop Site News and The Coop Scoop:  "Regime Change" is a bloodless euphemism for death and destruction. Can anybody in the media say the words Overthrow the Government? March 1, 2026 By Marc Cooper Is there not a single editor in the mass media who has attended one class in international relations or in history, for that matter? How in the hell did the entire media and its brigade of pundits land on the bloodless euphemism of “ regime change ” to describe  the violent overthrow of a government  and the imposition of a different one? Doesn’t matter if it is...

On Our "Virtual Route 99" On the Week That Was...

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 Our team pulled together some Random Thoughts courtesy Matt Wuerker of Politico (On the State of Union ), The New Statesman on the House of Windsor , and On the death of Ali Khameini , and reflections on the State of War earlier in the week:  

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Edition): On #Iran

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Iran is being pounded by the United States and Israel as war rages on, our team pulled together a snapshot of how Khameini was tracked down and killed by Israel and the United States, and as the Iranian Regime has attacked everyone, including the United Arab Emirates (Hundreds of Drones and Missiles) and even Turkey--and thoughts from on activisit on Maryam Rajavi , the self-described President Elect of the National Council of resistance of Iran .     We close out with this Remix of the Ayatollah Khameini's Death that has gone viral, featuring President Donald Trump :  

#OutsiderVibes (Special Edition): YouTube Movies Present Donovan's Reef

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As a new month dawns, our team presents Donovan's Reef starring John Wayne to celeblrate a new month at the Daily Outsider .

On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Special Month End Edition): On the Month That Was

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Here is a Month End Snapshot of our World courtesy our Media Partners, including Crooked Media , The Economist and the Coop Scoop: After spending five glorious weeks in Chile ’s sunny southern hemisphere summer, I’ve returned home to SW Washington where it is raining and dipping into the 30s at night. That I can live with. What unnerves me is the feeling that I have been immediately plunged back into a whirling cesspool of political excrement, in a country where there’s a new piece of shockingly bad news by the hour, and when the future of the republic still hangs precariously in the balance over the next three years. And mind you, I’m coming back from Chile where an extreme right winger and admirer of Pinochet will take the presidential chair a month from now, and yet there is a serene placidity and lack of craziness there of the sort we are plagued with here. A lot of people don’t like president-elect Jose Antonio Kast but nobody is talking about the destruction of the democratic o...