Shockingly Underreported News and Commentary for the Week of 11 October

News items and commentary that need some serious sunshine

This is the eleventh post in the ongoing weekly feature that highlights news and commentary on important geopolitical, cultural, and economic issues that the Democrat-media complex buries because they expose the hypocrisies associated with the continuing Marxist-Democrat narrative. Everything is properly sourced and linked for follow-up reading, whether from legacy media, independent sources, or social media.

Here we go!

Democrat narrative on Impeachment #2 (Ukraine) is destroyed. The core Democrat claim in the first Trump impeachment was that the Biden-Burisma relationship had no impact on U.S. policy and thus made Trump’s push for investigations into the Bidens’s alleged corruption improper. The Democrat-media complex have never moved off that narrative for seven years now. New revelations have blown that narrative out of the water, and it turns out that Rudy Giuliani was right about the corruption all along.

As described in the below-linked article, newly declassified State Department emails and memos released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force show that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch received repeated briefings and communications from 2016–2019 about Burisma Holdings (which employed Hunter Biden), including corruption concerns, the company’s image-rehabilitation efforts via firms like Blue Star Strategies, and attempts to secure a U.S. visa for owner Mykola Zlochevsky—directly conflicting with her 2019 congressional impeachment testimony that the matter “just wasn’t a big deal,” that she was not briefed by embassy staff on it after her confirmation (beyond news reports and an initial briefing book), and that she did not recall such briefings. The records also include a November 2016 email from her deputy George Kent stating that Hunter Biden’s board role undercut the U.S. anti-corruption message in Ukraine by associating the vice president’s family with a known corrupt company. In short, President Trump’s push for an investigation was right and proper!

Read more about the State Dept emails here:

Obama the front man. Barack Obama is one of the Democrat Party’s “little tin gods.” However, there has long been speculation about Obama’s familial ties to the CIA, including Stanley Ann Dunham (his mother) and her work in Indonesia and elsewhere with USAID and foundations that historically received CIA funding. The below-linked article describes a “sinister shadowland” of entrenched Deep State actors—chiefly former President Barack Obama and former CIA Director John Brennan—is orchestrating political turmoil from behind the scenes, with Obama acting as an untouchable front man whose rapid rise (and incomplete biography, including CIA-linked family ties and rumors of an alternative father) suggests he was groomed by the agency to protect its interests.

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Another refugee from communism condemns the socialism in DSA/Democrat Party. Many refugees from communist or socialist countries have publicly warned that the Democrat Party’s growing embrace of socialist policies and politics of resentment mirrors the rhetoric and measures that destroyed their homelands, urging Americans not to repeat the same mistakes. The latest condemnation is provided in the below linked article. Venezuelan journalist Germania Rodriguez Poleo recounts growing up under Hugo Chávez, who used politics of resentment against the rich and “Yankee imperialists” to transform an oil-rich nation into one marked by hunger, blackouts, expropriations, media shutdowns, and dictatorship—despite starting with relatively moderate rhetoric—and warns that similar socialist ideas of popular resentment are gaining traction in America, where a recent survey shows 53% of young adults view socialism favorably and 38% view communism positively. She rejects distinctions between “democratic socialism” and past failures, cites New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s targeting of a billionaire’s penthouse as reminiscent of Chávez’s tactics, notes toxic populism on both left and right, and argues that totalitarianism takes hold gradually when defeating enemies becomes the priority, urging Americans to heed Venezuelans who have already seen the outcome.

Needless to say, the Democrat-media complex buried this passionate commentary just as they ignore similar statements of other refugees from communist countries. Read her commentary in its entirety here:

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USAID in Brazil. USAID has faced decades of allegations that it used development aid to covertly fund opposition groups, NGOs, media, and political networks aimed at undermining sovereign governments and promoting U.S.-aligned political outcomes in countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, and Brazil. In the below linked article, former State Department official Mike Benz (executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online) described USAID’s role in Brazil as a “full-on Truman Show,” alleging the agency funded media outlets, universities, Supreme Court and Superior Electoral Court (TSE) staffers, constitutional advocates, and activist groups, effectively shaping the country’s information ecosystem and institutions without public awareness. USAID helped establish Brazil’s expansive censorship regime—under which Justice Alexandre de Moraes and the TSE treat “disinformation” as a permanent threat to elections—through contacts at every level of the courts, including training programs linked to USAID grantees such as the National Endowment for Democracy, with the resulting institutional and legal changes continuing to influence Brazilian politics even after USAID funding has been curtailed, as seen in the lead-up to the recent presidential runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

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Netflix troubles. Netflix is a publicly traded company controlled by institutional investors and co-founder, Reed Hastings, whose leadership and employee political donations have been characterized by critics as heavily left-leaning. Furthermore, Barack and Michelle Obama launched their production company, Higher Ground Productions, which signed a multi-year deal with Netflix in 2018, while former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador Susan Rice served on the Netflix board of directors from 2018 to 2021 and rejoined in 2023. The increasingly liberal programming has led to subscribers cancelling their accounts with subsequent problems for the company. From the below linked article, Netflix is reportedly preparing to cut approximately 5% to 6% of its workforce, affecting roughly 800 to 1,000 employees, in its largest reduction since 2022. The layoffs, which will primarily impact product, technology, legal, and human resources teams, come as the streaming giant’s stock has plummeted 42% over the past year due to slowing revenue growth, declining viewer engagement (!), and intense competition from Youtube. Another example of a company playing the FAFO game in support of the left’s cultural agenda and losing bigly.

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More Jack Smith’s rogue actions. Former special counsel Jack Smith’s politically motivated tactics continue to be exposed. According to whistleblower documents released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected the personal data of at least 639,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters during the Arctic Frost investigation. The sweep, which critics argue was an invasive overreach intended to map the entire Republican Party apparatus, included names, dates of birth, home addresses, email addresses, voter registrations, and credit card information for individuals who made small-dollar donations as little as $1. The data collection extended to ordinary citizens who purchased MAGA hats or other Trump campaign merchandise between 2021 and 2025, capturing their shipping addresses and purchase histories, with records dating back to 2005. Grassley described the acquisition of such broad donor and voter data as incredibly invasive and beyond what was necessary for Smith’s mandate, which focused on alleged election interference and mishandling of classified documents.

The Democrat-media complex remain solidly behind Smith and are doing their utmost to bury this shocking news. Read more about it here:

Prescription drug prices continue to plummet. A key Democrat-media narrative this election cycle revolves around the issue of “affordability,” with them claiming that the Trump administration is doing nothing to improve the economic situations of millions of average Americans. Thus, they are burying this news reported in the below linked article. Prescription drug prices recorded their largest annual decline in American history, falling 4.5 percent from a year earlier and 1.2 percent in September alone, according to a Department of Labor consumer price index report released in October 2026. This deflation surpasses the previous record of a 3.1 percent drop in July 2026 and the 3.2 percent decline in March 1963, with the government’s historical comparison table marking the September change as “S-EVER” (smallest ever). The White House attributed this historic price reduction to the Trump administration’s aggressive pricing initiatives, including agreements with 26 manufacturers covering 89 percent of the branded drug market and the launch of the TrumpRx platform, which provides patients with discounted cash prices.

Read the whole thing here:

A Frenchman’s concern about America’s trajectory. Some foreign observers are keenly watching the mid-term election campaigns with growing concerns about America’s increasing embrace of socialism. From the below linked article, French AI entrepreneur Brivael Le Pogam issued a viral warning to American voters, particularly those considering the Democratic Party, stating, “I come from your future” to caution against adopting France’s extensive welfare state. He argued that France’s decades of high taxation, heavy regulation, and public spending (reaching nearly 57% of GDP) have resulted in economic stagnation, collapsing hospitals, unaffordable housing, and massive national debt, despite the promise of protection and social security. Le Pogam contends that while competitive markets have lowered costs for goods like technology, government intervention in sectors like healthcare, education, and housing has driven prices up and degraded services, urging Americans to avoid repeating this pattern of “generous promises” that lead to decline.

This is a critical warning that the Democrat-media complex are completely ignoring. Read more here:

Large banks have been debanking conservatives. The Democrat-media complex is okay with this bombshell, and their silence is the reddest of flags. As linked below, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a report confirming that all nine of the largest national banks it supervises—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC Bank, TD Bank, and BMO Bank—had adopted policies that denied or limited access to financial services based on customers’ political or religious beliefs or lawful business activities between 2020 and September 2025. The review, conducted under President’s Executive Order on fair access, found that broad reputation risk policies lacked objective criteria and disproportionately disadvantaged individuals and industries such as oil and gas, coal mining, firearms, detention facilities, tobacco, and digital assets. “Reputation risk” is Democrat-speak for conservative values which the left view as “risky.” Comptroller Jonathan V. Gould stated that the OCC has eliminated reputation risk from its supervisory framework and is assessing further regulatory changes to prevent these practices from recurring, emphasizing that fair access to financial services is a mandate rather than a choice.

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One result of Obama’s Islamic socialism is exposed. Since his 2004 Democratic convention keynote, Barack Obama has framed his politics around unifying a fractured national identity while pursuing center-left policy through institutional channels: the Affordable Care Act, the 2009 stimulus, Dodd-Frank financial regulation, climate commitments like the Paris Agreement, and a foreign policy built on diplomatic engagement (the Cairo speech, the Iran nuclear deal, the Cuba opening) over unilateral force. Since leaving office he has worked as a party-builder and elder statesman, through the Obama Foundation’s leadership programs, redistricting efforts via the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, campaigning and endorsements, and lately public advice that Democrats welcome their progressive wing rather than “impose litmus tests.”

Critics argue it set the stage for the party’s more radical turn. The below linked article notes that Obama’s political project is now being carried forward by a new generation, with El-Sayed and Mamdani cast as Obama’s “star pupils” advancing his unfinished mission. The argument is based on an Atlantic piece, “Barack Obama Looks Left,” about the former president’s embrace of younger leftist politicians including both men, and on Obama’s role as the public face of El-Sayed’s campaign. The parallels are rhetorical and positional: all three supposedly disarm critics with a smile and conciliatory opening before pivoting to aggressive attack, share a stance on Israel she treats as inherited from Obama’s presidency and later comments, and to varying degrees oppose voter ID requirements., in motion since 2004, is being carried forward by a new generation, with El-Sayed and Mamdani cast as Obama’s “star pupils” advancing his unfinished mission. The analysis in the below linked article is based on an Atlantic piece, “Barack Obama Looks Left,” about the former president’s embrace of younger leftist politicians including both men, and on Obama’s role as the public face of El-Sayed’s campaign. The parallels are rhetorical and positional: all three supposedly disarm critics with a smile and conciliatory opening before pivoting to aggressive attack, share a stance on Israel inherited from Obama’s presidency and his later comments, and to varying degrees oppose voter ID requirements.

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