Richard Hugus
The Truthseeker

Now past two years of explicit genocide in Gaza, the Zionist state seems intent on creating a new reality for the world – one in which there is no longer a moral order. As “the chosen people” Zionists feel entitled to do what has always been forbidden. For all the world to see, they kill women and children, bomb hospitals, bomb homes and neighborhoods, bomb the tents which people were then forced to live in, withhold food from people they have already starved, assassinate leaders, destroy sanitation infrastructure and water supplies, destroy farmland and olive trees, shoot fishermen, murder journalists, demolish homes with bulldozers, torture and execute prisoners, use people as human shields, snipe children, agree to ceasefires but continue bombing, and more.

October 7, 2023 was the Zionists’ excuse to do openly what they had been doing less openly for the previous 75 years – attempting to get rid of the Palestinian population and steal their land, and then the land of neighboring countries, starting with Lebanon and Syria. In a July 2024 speech to his craven representatives in the US Congress, Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to be defending civilization from barbarism, when in fact the Zionist state was and is busy returning civilization to barbarism. Aside from outright lies, Zionist propaganda is always marked by projection – accusing others of what it is doing, and inversion – turning the truth upside down.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Russia’s Burevestnik Missile Test Was Actually A De-Escalation Measure. Its real purpose is to get the US to reconsider its impending escalations against Russia by reminding it of the strategic costs that this could entail.

Trump slammed Russia’s test of its unlimited-range nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile by describing it as inappropriate and urging Putin to end the Ukrainian Conflict instead. The aforesaid test follows Putin’s warning that Trump’s potential transfer of longer-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would provoke a “downright staggering” response from Russia. That in turn came right after a supposedly planned test of Russia’s nuclear triad coinciding with Trump canceling their Budapest Summit.

The sequence of events that Russia initiated amidst the breakdown of talks with the US, for which Zelensky claimed credit while Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested that joint EU-Ukrainian pressure was responsible, is understandable if analyzed in context. To begin with, there hasn’t yet been any tangible progress on extending the New START upon its expiry in February, which risks further worsening Russian-US tensions since it’s the last remaining strategic arms control pact between them.

In connection with that, Trump remains committed to developing what he calls the “Golden Dome” missile defense system, which his advisors arguably believe would give the US a strategic edge over Russia by enabling it to intercept more second strikes in the scenario of a nuclear war. This imperative explains why Bush Jr. pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2001 shortly after 9/11 and all subsequent presidents retained his policy course of developing this infrastructure at home and abroad.

Vijay Prashad
TriContinental

In countries like Senegal, the IMF has been complicit with irregular debt practices and fraudulent accounting in order to undermine sovereignty and favour multinational corporations.

In February 2025, Senegal’s Court of Auditors released a report that found ‘anomalies’ in the management of public finances between 2019 and 2024, during the presidency of Macky Sall (2012–2024). For instance, the court found that while Sall’s government had suggested that the budget deficit for 2023 was 4.9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it was in fact 12.3%.

The court went to work on this reconstruction of public finances because of a very significant accusation made by Senegal’s new prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, at a press conference in Dakar in September 2024. What the auditors found, and what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) validated, was that the actual debt ratio in 2023 was 99.7% of GDP – not 74.7% – and that the deficit had been underestimated by 5.6% of GDP (in August 2025, the debt ratio was revised to 111% of GDP).

The financial situation in Senegal, Prime Minister Sonko said, is ‘catastrophic’ because of three problems inherited from the decade of Sall’s rule:

● An ‘unbridled debt policy’ that increased the country’s public debt while erasing the possibility of any growth to pay off that debt
● An administration that hid this indebtedness and the deep problems in the economy from the Senegalese people (who nonetheless rejected Sall’s chosen successor, Amadou Ba, in the March 2024 presidential elections and chose Bassirou Diomaye Faye instead)
● ‘Widespread corruption’, including the defrauding of the country’s COVID fund by four ministers

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Putin is once again extending an olive branch to Zelensky and Trump in his latest goodwill gesture because he truly doesn’t want the conflict to drag on nor to expand Russia’s territorial claims as would likely then happen.

Putin announced that more than ten thousand Ukrainian troops were encircled in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeisk (Pokrovsk), with his Ministry of Defense soon adding Dimitrov (Mirnograd) near the latter to the list. The Russian leader also proposed halting the fighting so that foreign journalists, including Ukrainian ones, can travel to the front to report on this. Putin suggested a mass surrender just like early 2022’s Azovstal standoff, but Zelensky seems uninterested, at least for now. Here’s what it all means:

1. Russia Continues To Gain Ground Despite Billions In Western Aid For Ukraine | The Economist recently published a piece lobbying for Europe to fund Ukraine over the next four years, which they claim will cost taxpayers at least $390 billion. Their article also reported that $100-110 billion was spent this year, “the highest sum yet”, for a total of $360 billion since 2022 (likely an underestimate). Quite clearly, Western aid hasn’t succeeded in pushing Russia back, only in decelerating its gains. Ukraine’s encirclement therefore shows that no amount of money will inflict a strategic defeat for Russia.

2. The Gravy Train Might End If Ukraine Acknowledges This Encirclement | Building upon the above, Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky have denied these encirclements, most likely because they fear that the aforesaid gravy train might end or at least slow down if they order their forces to surrender. After all, the loss of thousands of troops in three encirclements over 3.5 years into the conflict is no small matter, which might make some Western officials reconsider funding Ukraine since the victory that they were promised is no longer in sight.

Mark Keenan
Global Research

What a Recent Study Means for Global Climate Policy

Highlighted by the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES), the study found that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considered only a small subset of available Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) datasets when assessing the Sun’s influence on climate change — specifically those showing low solar variability. The consequence, according to the authors, is that the IPCC may have been premature in ruling out a substantial role for the Sun in recent warming.

Re-examining the Sun-Climate Connection | The researchers analyzed 16 major solar output datasets, including those used by the IPCC. Their findings were striking: depending on which datasets are used, scientists can reach opposite conclusions about what drives modern temperature trends. Dr. Ronan Connolly, lead author of the study, explains:

💬 “The IPCC is mandated to find a consensus on the causes of climate change. But science doesn’t work by consensus. By effectively only considering the datasets that support their chosen narrative, the IPCC have hampered scientific progress into genuinely understanding the causes of climate change.”

This conclusion cuts to the heart of the “climate change attribution problem” — what proportion of the claimed small increases in warming should be attributed to natural versus human causes. By narrowing acceptable data, the IPCC may have ‘unintentionally’ amplified the apparent role of greenhouse gases while minimizing natural variability.

Bertrand Vayssière
Translated by Regan Kramer
Digital Encyclopedia of European History

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

Each part of what’s arguably Trump’s new three-phase strategy against Russia has its drawbacks.

Trump’s latest escalation against Russia took the form of imposing severe sanctions against its top two energy companies, canceling his planned meeting with Putin, and now declaring that they won’t meet again unless it’s to finalize a deal over Ukraine.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote about the implications of his flip-flop here, insinuating that they presage an intensified US proxy war of attrition on Russia. The present piece will briefly explore what form this could take and its likelihood of success. The WSJ posits that...

“...The drone revolution…means that neither side is likely to make major territorial strides soon”, but left unsaid is that this is also due to continued NATO support for Ukraine, including the bloc’s purchase of US weapons at full price for transfer to there per the new scheme from last summer. Maintaining this de facto balance of drone and conventional forces, which is due to NATO’s indispensable support for Ukraine, is therefore the US’ top priority if wants to atrophy Russia’s strength with time.

Alexander Dugin
AGDchan (Telegram)

The end of humanity may be closer than we think.

Yesterday, with the push of a button, Elon Musk replaced the liberal-globalist Wikipedia (which took 25 years to create) with the neutral Grokipedia, and Jeff Bezos replaced 300,000 Amazon employees with Artificial Intelligence.

In addition, Musk has prepared an army of robots, and we can expect to see them on the battlefield as early as next spring.

Cyborgs and artificially modified animals are in development. Tomorrow, humans will be modified.

Both war and peace are undergoing rapid changes. Genetic research makes society an easy target for mass genocide, possibly with an ethnic component. Ethnic weapons have been created and can be used at any moment.

Mind control has reached unprecedented heights, with virtual reality replacing reality.

Liberalism was the last ideology to uphold the status quo, but it turned out to be completely nihilistic, destructive, and collapsed. It is useless to cling to it. It was largely responsible for creating this situation.

I believe that the convergence of threats could lead to total collapse not in decades, but in the coming years. According to statistical forecasts, collapse is much more likely than the continuation of existing trends in one form or another.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

It’s unrealistic to expect the US to maintain 500% tariffs on China and India for their purchase of Russian oil, which would also ruin its trade talks with them and derail the Ukrainian peace process.

Senator Lindsey Graham recently said that his bill to impose 500% tariffs on every country that imports Russian resources is “an economic bunker buster against China, India, and Russia”, yet for all his tough talk, the US is still reluctant to drop it.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump Administration is “quietly pressuring” the Senate to water down the legislation by “turn[ing] the word ‘shall’ into ‘may’ wherever it appears in the bill’s text, removing the mandatory nature of the prescribed reprimands”.

Their report was lent credence by Graham himself proposing an exemption for countries that aid Ukraine, thus averting an unprecedented US-EU trade war in the event that his bill passes into law. Trump’s remark to Politico in mid-June about how “sanctions cost us a lot of money” suggests that he’s not interested in going this route, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio later telling them that sanctions could derail the Ukrainian peace process, though he also didn’t rule them out in the future.

Moon of Alabama
Moon of Alabama (Blog)

One never know how serious Trump’s ‘leaked’ plans are. Their purpose often seem to be solely to increase pressure on opponents, to move things into a direction he likes. If that does not work the plans may just be discarded. Or may, just may, be carried out.

Venzuela is, as Politico points out, not known for drug trafficking. It does not have ‘cocaine facilities’. But it does have the largest oil reserves in the world. That has always made it a target for a U.S. regime-change operations.

But Venezuela is also a huge country double the size of Iraq with a mountainous and often densely wooded countryside. The U.S. military is unable to invade, occupy and control it.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

As of this evening at 6:13 PM eastern US time, I can CONFIRM that hours ago, Russia formally began a call-up of their Reserve Army forces. At this hour, I do not yet know how many; but Russia has 1.5 Million in Reserve.

Things are happening very quickly now on many levels. I am guessing it's connected to the October 21 bombings conducted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

What is special about these bombings? Well the AFU were utilizing targeting data from and authorized by U.S. European Command (EUCOM), and carried out a strike using several “Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG” Air-Launched Cruise Missiles against the Bryansk Chemical Plant in Western Russia. One of the largest producers of gunpowder, explosives, and rocket fuel components for the Russian Armed Forces.

Monday’s strike against Russia, is one of the, if not the, first carried out by Ukraine since authority for supporting such attacks was recently transferred from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon to Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich, Supreme NATO Allied Commander Europe, in early October.

Overall | With the US apparently cancelling a Summit Meeting between Trump and Putin in Budapest, and with targets deep inside Russia now being hit by Ukraine, things do not bode well for peace.

Evgeniya Chernova
topwar.ru

The foreign press is discussing Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent comments on the possible supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Commenting on this scenario, President Putin said the following:

Now they are thinking. And they are thinking about what Russia's response might be.

The German press has drawn attention to Donald Trump's acknowledgment that Tomahawk strikes can only be carried out by the US military. This means that if Tomahawk missiles are delivered to Ukraine, the US will take direct responsibility for such strikes, no matter what they try to say later about “Ukrainian military personnel trained to use American weapons.” The US president has made it clear that the Pentagon has no intention of training anyone to operate Tomahawks. At least in the near future.

Accordingly, German experts believe that Russia's “stunning response” will target not only Ukraine, but also the United States, as a participant in the supply of weapons and strikes against Russia. Among the possible responses from Moscow, the “Iranian option” is being considered, when the Islamic Republic struck US military bases in the region several times, including military bases in Iraq. As we know, this did not lead to a nuclear response from the US.

Esha Krishnaswamy
Thomas Fazi's Blog (Substack)

Opposition leader Péter Magyar’s agenda is clear: to fully reconcile with Brussels, including adopting the euro and severing ties with Russia. This would amount to national suicide

When he first came to power in 1998, prime minister Viktor Orbán was hailed as a hero by the West, which included receiving the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom for his commitment to democracy. He oversaw Hungary’s entrance into NATO. He also enacted austerity measures for the West. But all of that changed when he was re-elected in 2010.

Viktor Orbán’s first rift with the powers-that-be in Brussels and Washington came with the cancellation of the Central European University, an educational institution funded by the legendary George Soros. Soros and his many non-profits have worked to undermine sovereignty and interfere in elections worldwide. They funded many political parties and news media in Ukraine before the horrific events of Maidan in 2014.

In 2017, the Hungarian parliament passed a law stating that for foreign universities to operate in Hungary, they must also be a qualified institution in their home country and offer similar degree programmes. Of course, the Central European University, which offered a plethora of non-degree programmes, has no counterpart in the United States.

Later, China’s Fudan University took over the project, further enraging the powers-that-be in the West. At this time, a plethora of hysterical articles calling Orbán “non-democratic” and “authoritarian” started being published in a variety of Western newspapers such as the New York Times and Politico.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

The West already turned Ukraine, Armenia, and Moldova into anti-Russian states while stirring trouble in its ties with Azerbaijan and eagerly eyeing Central Asian leader Kazakhstan so the loss of Belarus would practically complete Russia’s strategic encirclement.

The Guardian published a piece about the aims of the West’s incipient US-led rapprochement with Lukashenko, which amounts to an attempt to tempt him into rebalancing Belarus’ ties with Russia through closer cooperation with the West.

It was assessed here over the summer that he’s unlikely to split with Putin, especially not after the West tried to coup him half a decade ago and Russia since gave Belarus tactical nukes, which Lukashenko confirmed in early August’s interview with Time Magazine.

Nevertheless, while his intentions shouldn’t be doubted after he proved his loyalty to Russia throughout the course of the special operation and the associated pressure that the West placed upon Belarus, this doesn’t mean that the West still won’t try to mislead him into drifting closer towards its camp. To be sure, the “EU Defense Line” that’s being built along the bloc’s border with Belarus (and Russia) resembles a “new Berlin Wall” as his Foreign Minister described it, which could impede cooperation.

At the same time, however, the US could leverage the sway that it wields over Poland to offer Belarus security guarantees against the future aggression that Lukashenko fears from it.

Harold Turner
Hal Turner Show

Trump's demand to divide Donbass by halting combat at the present front line, is UNACCEPTABLE to Russia.

Repeatedly, Russian President Putin "named the conditions for the cessation of hostilities at the start of negotiations with Kyiv. "Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk, Lugansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions."

Pres Vladimir Putin, in a telephone conversation with Donald Trump, called Russia's full control over the DPR a condition for ending the conflict, according to American media.

The idea of dividing Russia's historical regions has been repeatedly rejected by Moscow. So, in June of last year, at a meeting with the leadership of the Foreign Ministry, Putin named the conditions for the cessation of hostilities and the start of negotiations with Kyiv. Putin stressed:

💬 "Ukrainian troops must be completely withdrawn from the Donetsk, Lugansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Moreover, I draw your attention to the fact that it is from the entire territory of these regions within their administrative borders, which existed at the time of their entry into Ukraine."

💬 "As soon as Kiev declares that it is ready for such a decision, and begins the real withdrawal of troops from these regions, as well as officially notifies about the rejection of plans to join NATO, our side will immediately, literally at the same minute, be ordered to cease fire and start negotiations. I repeat: we will do this immediately. Naturally, at the same time, we guarantee the unhindered and safe withdrawal of Ukrainian units and formations."

Sonja van den Ende
Strategic Culture Foundation

Europe is losing its old values; the ancient Greeks would turn in their graves if they saw how “democracy” is practiced by the EU.

Europe is losing its old values; the ancient Greeks would turn in their graves if they saw how “democracy” is practiced by the current incompetent leaders of the EU and its member states. The fact is that members of the European Parliament are not elected directly by the people; only the national parliaments of the EU member states are—and even that is questionable due to the massive election fraud witnessed recently. The EU is staging coups d’état in the style of the “color revolutions” it learned from its mentor, the United States, as seen in Romania, for example. Similar attempts have also been made in Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, and, most recently, Moldova.

What the elites once called “democracy” has been entirely eroded; nothing of it remains today. Democracy literally means demos (people) and krateo (to rule)—translated, it is “the rule of the people.” Today, we are witnessing the loss of this very value, which the elites now exploit to justify their fascist actions.

I would compare this to the term “antisemitic,” a word Israel uses against its enemies, particularly the Arabs, or rather the Palestinians. Yet, all peoples in the Middle East are Semitic, including the Israelis themselves.^[*] Therefore, to insult their “brother peoples,” the Arabs, by labeling them “antisemitic” is completely devoid of context.

Returning to the European Union: the false flags, accusations, and ill-conceived plans are arriving in rapid succession. Many of these initiatives were, for all intents and purposes, already in motion. Consider, for instance, the absurd proposal to construct a “drone wall” against Russian threats. However, since 2022, new walls have already been under construction in the Baltic states, Finland, and Poland. The physical barriers are already in place, and the establishment of a complementary drone defense system is likely well advanced. According to the EU and NATO—and as stated by Ursula von der Leyen—it is projected to be completed by 2026.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

His arrogant and aggressive behavior towards Russia, India, and China is responsible for this.

The global systemic transition to multipolarity is nowadays proceeding along a different trajectory than before due to recent shifts in the international system. Up until this point, Trump 2.0 sought resource and military partnerships with Russia and India respectively that could decelerate China’s superpower rise, which would then make it the junior partner in any “G2”/“Chimerica” deal. His Eurasian balancing act has failed, however, due to his arrogant and aggressive approach towards all three countries.

Ties with Russia took a hit after the Anchorage Summit following increasingly concerning reports about US plans to support NATO troops in Ukraine, thus spooking Putin into abandoning his country’s own Eurasian balancing act by pivoting to China. This took the form of the legally binding deal that was just clinched for constructing the Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline. The US’ envisaged resource-centric partnership with Russia, which aimed to entice concessions on Ukraine, is now much less likely.

As for India, ties worsened during its springtime clashes with Pakistan, which saw Trump favor Pakistan and even lie about India agreeing to an alleged US-mediated ceasefire. The US then hypocritically imposed punitive tariffs on India over its continued trade with Russia despite eschewing such for China and others. All the while, Trump viciously insulted India too. Concluding that he’s hellbent on derailing its rise as a Great Power, India swiftly patched up its problems with China and distanced itself from the US.

With Russia pivoting to China via Power of Siberia 2 amidst the Sino-Indo rapprochement, the resource and military means for decelerating China’s superpower rise through partnerships with them were neutralized, thus leading to any “G2”/“Chimerica” deal now being in China’s favor instead.

Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21

According to an article [archive.today] published in the British newspaper, The Guardian, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson received a $1 million dollars the year he left office from a man who had a strong financial incentive to keep the war going in Ukraine. According to The Guardian:

The documents proving Johnson’s shady connections to Harborne were hacked (aka purloined) by Distributed Denial of Secrets and can be found here. According to the documents, the relationship between Johnson and Harborne has quite a history.

Christopher Harborne (also known as Chakrit Sakunkrit in Thailand) is a Thai-based British businessman, technology investor, and major political donor. He is the largest single shareholder in QinetiQ, a UK defense firm supplying drones and robotics to Ukraine, and holds stakes in cryptocurrency ventures like Digifinex (parent of Bitfinex and Tether).

His relationship with Boris Johnson, former UK Prime Minister (2019–2022), is primarily that of a financial backer and personal associate, marked by a record £1 million donation and close collaboration post-Johnson’s resignation. This has fueled speculation about influence-peddling, especially regarding Ukraine policy, amid leaked Boris Files documents.

Martin Jay
Strategic Culture Foundation

Ursula von der Leyen’s political identity – and her vision of the role of the EU – are more and more in line with Nazi Germany.

Things are getting a bit out of hand in Brussels as the elite panic like never before. Now they’re talking about shooting down the Slovakian PM’s own plane. Just can’t make this shit up.

Previous disparaging comments about the past of European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and her grandparents’ role in the second world war might have seemed truculent by Russian commentators. And yet, as each month passes, we seem to be witnessing VDL’s political identity – and her vision of the role of the EU – more and more in line with Nazi Germany. The total annihilation of the free press in Brussels was not her doing, as she inherited the draconian system when she took office. But her efforts to broaden the silencing of journalists right across Europe is telling as it becomes even more an act of desperation to stamp out any free and feral reporting while her own team are pumping out these entirely fake narratives every day. The Russians are planning on invading Baltic states. Russia is the new threat to a democratic Europe. And the latest blag, EU is a bastion of peace and democracy “which doesn’t invade other countries”.

The lies and hypocrisy are at an all-time high and so it seems fitting that the draconian measures of arresting or detaining journalists, like Chay Bowes attempting to cover the Romanian elections, is understandable.

And yet there is no evidence at all to back up the preposterous claim that Moscow has eyes set on invading Baltic countries; there is also no evidence to back up the claim that Russia is the real threat to European democracy, which, in fact is being destroyed each day by the EU and its elites themselves. And as for the EU being this example of a peaceful trading bloc which doesn’t have any intention of attacking its own members… that might have been true. Until now.

Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter

The “race of logistics” between Russia and NATO, which is presently unfolding in the context of their proxy war in Ukraine, will continue even after the conflict ends.

Britain, France, Germany, and Poland are usually the first countries to come to mind among those who discuss NATO’s "containment of Russia," but the Netherlands and Belgium are quickly becoming important too.

Rotterdam Port’s chief executive told the Financial Times in mid-summer that space will be reserved for ships carrying military supplies at NATO’s request and that one or more ships “would be docked at the quay for several weeks, four or five times a year.” This will also be coordinated with Antwerp Port. Rotterdam and Antwerp are Europe’s two largest ports so this isn’t an insignificant move.

Moreover, the Netherlands is a founding member of the “military Schengen” that was agreed to with Germany and Poland in early 2024 for facilitating the movement of troops and equipment. Therefore, these moves are very clearly meant to facilitate the movement of US troops and equipment to Russia’s borders in the event of a crisis, thus leading to the Netherlands and Belgium playing crucial roles in "containing" it.