Al Mayadeen | September 28, 2026
QatarEnergy has prolonged cancellations of liquefied natural gas deliveries to customers in Asia and Europe, raising concerns about fuel supplies ahead of winter, Bloomberg reported.
The state-owned company informed Pakistan and Bangladesh that scheduled shipments would remain canceled through November, according to people familiar with the notices cited by Bloomberg. At least one buyer in India received a similar update. Italian energy company Edison said its deliveries would remain suspended until early December.
QatarEnergy has issued rolling force majeure notices since the war on Iran began, updating customers and canceling shipments roughly a month at a time. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | September 28, 2026
Iraq’s Ambassador to Tehran, Yasser Abdul-Zahra al-Hajjaj, announced that Najaf International Airport will reopen to Iranian flights within 24 hours, according to the Iraqi News Agency.
Al-Hajjaj confirmed the airport will resume receiving flights from Iran within the stated timeframe.
The suspension of Iranian flights to and from Iraqi airports, particularly Najaf International Airport, had triggered a wave of condemnation from official, factional, and religious authorities in Iraq. They called for the decision to be reversed, rejecting US dictates.
Meanwhile, Iran has submitted a formal complaint to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding US restrictions imposed on Iran’s aviation sector, the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, Abouzar Shiroudi, announced on Monday. … continue
The Cradle | September 28, 2026
The US military has completely withdrawn from Iraq, DPA reported on 27 September, citing an Iraqi government official.
All US combat troops and logistical support forces have left the country, the official told the German news agency on Sunday.
The US military has not confirmed the report. … Full article
By Maya Kareen | Press TV | September 28, 2026
Nearly 466 days ago, just seven days into the unprovoked and illegal US-backed Israeli military aggression against Iran, The Economist provocatively placed a torn Iranian flag on its cover and asked: “How will this end?”
The image was widely interpreted as a metaphor for the possible collapse or fragmentation of the Islamic Republic in the face of overwhelming military force.
At the time, the narrative surrounding Iran was dominated by predictions of its imminent defeat, the weakening of its leadership, and even the possible collapse of the Islamic Republic under the weight of an aggression that came amid Iran-US indirect nuclear talks.
The article went on to ask whether what it described as Israel’s first war against Iran “will also be the last,” or whether it would “lead to a series of Iran-Israel wars that mire” West Asia in years, if not decades, of further violence.
Written before the United States directly joined the war of aggression by illegally bombing Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities on June 22, the article also suggested that Washington should move beyond “merely defending Israel and deterring Iran” and join the occupying regime in attacking Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.
Yet even then, The Economist warned that such a war could spiral into a broader regional war, sending energy prices soaring by targeting Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure or blocking the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global energy supplies. … continue
The Cradle | September 28, 2026
The Iranian Embassy in London announced on 28 September its “categorical rejection” and strong condemnation of speculation regarding Tehran’s involvement in an alleged plot to attack a British military air base used by US forces.
In a post on X, the embassy criticized “recent baseless and malicious speculation circulated by certain individuals and British media outlets attempting to link Iran” to the incident, which occurred in the early hours of Sunday.
Gloucestershire Police had announced on Sunday that a “major incident” was taking place in the Welford area of western England, leading to the evacuation of several buildings near the RAF Fairford air base.
Police stated that army explosive ordnance disposal experts were examining several vehicles and that five men had been detained on suspicion of offenses under the Explosives Act.
Residents were evacuated from 85 homes in the area near the base on Sunday as army bomb-disposal experts used a robot to examine three white vans.
The five men detained in connection with the alleged bomb plot, all British citizens, were released on bail on Monday, suggesting the incident is not serious, in contrast to early claims. … continue
By Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents | September 28, 2026
It’s rather forgotten today how Washington’s post-9/11 imperial adventurism was not restricted to military intervention. A core component of the Bush administration’s “Freedom Agenda” – under the auspices of which calamitous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere were waged – was overt sponsorship of civil society-led coups throughout the former Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact and Yugoslavia. Citizens of these regions, and the world, live with this meddling’s destructive consequences to this day. The seemingly never-ending – and ever-escalating – Ukraine proxy war is a particularly visceral legacy.
The 1983 creation of the National Endowment for Democracy, a US state entity avowedly concerned with executing overtly what the CIA once did covertly, ushered in a new era of “spyless coups”. Working in close conjunction with USAID and George Soros’ Open Society Institute, NED ever after provided funding, training and material assistance to NGOs, ‘independent’ media outlets, opposition groups, and other initiatives in service of regime change, across every corner of the world. … continue
By Ron Paul | September 28, 2026
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of Congress.
There is little reason to cheer a Democratic party victory, however Republicans in charge have for the most part earned what is coming to them. They have refused to uphold their Constitutional obligation to take leading responsibility for war powers. … continue
By Francis Menton | Manhattan Contrarian | September 25, 2026
Here in New York, our very-light-weight Governor Kathy Hochul is running for re-election. To her slight credit, she has noticed that New York is a high cost state, not the least for cost of energy, and that New Yorkers are upset about that.
New Yorkers are right to be upset about the cost of energy. According to this chart from the federal EIA containing most recent data for July 2026, the average price of electricity to the ultimate consumer in New York for that month was 29.9¢/kWh, compared to a national average of 18.31¢/kWh; and New York’s cost had increased more than 14% from 26.22¢/kWh in July 2025, versus a 4.9% increase in the national average over last year’s 17.45¢/kWh. New Yorkers are also right to be upset because the premium they pay for electricity is mostly to entirely the consequence of intentional government policies that drive up the cost.
What’s crazy is that Governor Hochul has decided to make “energy affordability” a theme of her campaign. The reason that is crazy is that at the same time that Hochul claims she favors more “affordability,” she also brags about maintaining and expanding the very policies that have caused the excess costs. The person most responsible for New York’s high energy cost is Kathy Hochul. But hey, this “energy affordability” theme seems to have worked in somewhat comparable circumstances for Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill, running respectively in Virginia and New Jersey last year. If the Virginia and New Jersey voters fell for it, maybe the New York voters will too. … continue
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | September 22, 2026
The Arctic sea ice should have melted away years ago, according to the “experts”.
In 2007, for instance, Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told us that northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years. In December that year, Jay Zwally of NASA agreed, giving the ice till 2012.
A year later, Professor David Barber went one step further, saying the ice would all be gone that very summer. Then we had Al Gore confidently predicting it would all disappear by 2016.
For sheer persistence in getting it wrong, however, first prize must go to Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics, and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge:
· In 2012, he predicted that the Arctic would be ice free by 2015/16
· In 2014, he thought it might last till 2020
· In 2016, he confidently predicted the Arctic would be ice free that summer (though curiously he now defined “ice free” as less than 1 million square kilometers!)
Strangely, all these “experts” have been pretty quiet lately. Little wonder, because Arctic sea ice extent is just as large now as it was when all of those fatuous claims were made.
To be fair, they were only talking about summer sea ice. Even they were not daft enough to think that there would be no ice in winter either.
As is always the case in mid-September, the sea ice has just provisionally hit its minimum extent for the year, at 4.574 million sq km. Much of it is still over a meter thick. … continue
By Anthony Watts | ClimateRealism | September 25, 2026
Euronews claims climate change has evolved into a “meta-crisis” threatening food security, energy supplies, economies, water resources, and international security. This is misleading because the article largely substitutes predictions and assertions for measurements of what is actually happening. The data show global crop production and yields reaching record levels, deaths from extreme weather collapsing over the long term, and many of today’s energy and economic problems arising from political choices and geopolitical conflicts rather than changes in climate.
Euronews builds its case primarily around an interview with Emmanuella Doussis, UNESCO Chair on Climate Diplomacy at the University of Athens. Doussis declares climate change an economic, social, political, and geopolitical problem, linking it to competition for resources, migration, water shortages, food insecurity, and the energy transition.
Those are sweeping claims. Curiously, Euronews provides remarkably little observational evidence demonstrating that climate change is actually causing the worldwide “meta-crisis” its headline announces. … continue
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | September 27, 2026
Daily temperature records are meaningless in terms of climate and weather. But they are of immense propaganda value. … continue
Now you know why outbreaks still regularly occur in highly vaccinated populations
Informed with Aaron Siri | September 24, 2026
On the topic of splitting up the MMR vaccine into 3 separate vaccines, everyone should know that in 2012, two Merck virologists came forward and explained that when Merck sought to change the label on its MMR vaccine and approval for ProQuad (a combination MMR and varicella vaccine), it “falsely certified as having an efficacy rate that is significantly higher than it actually is.” (See Complaint ¶ 1.)
As detailed in the whistleblower lawsuit, Merck obtained a license for its mumps vaccine in 1967. (Comp. ¶ 16.) In the late 1990s, to obtain approval for ProQuad and change the label on its MMR vaccine, Merck needed to reconfirm its claims of efficacy for its mumps vaccine made thirty years prior. (Comp. ¶ 22.) Two of Merck’s virologists working on testing the efficacy of the mumps vaccine revealed that after Merck could not demonstrate a 95% efficacy for its mumps vaccine, the results were simply fraudulently falsified to achieve this result. (Comp. ¶¶ 15-131.) … continue
By Clare Craig, Ros Jones & Mark Stronge | Health Advisory & Recovery Team | September 20, 2026
The change in the law to enable this came as an amendment, SI2024/1162, to the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998. As a Statutory Instrument, there was no parliamentary debate. There was no full scientific Impact Assessment; just a de minimis financial assessment by DEFRA and limited DHSC input. The stated aim is to increase blood folate levels in pregnant women in order to reduce the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs). The Government estimates a reduction of about 200 Neural Tube Defect (NTD)-affected pregnancies annually, approximately 20% of UK cases. Most of these would have ended in a termination of pregnancy or a neonatal death but a small number of births of children with spina bifida may be avoided.
No proper assessment of the harms of folic acid has been carried out, yet it is proposed to give it to every man, woman and child in this country indefinitely, rather than just giving supplements for a few months to those women wishing to take them. Most notably there are several groups of people whom the NHS currently advises to avoid folic acid medication. This includes patients with cancer, Vitamin B12 deficiency and cardiac stent procedures (patients on haemodialysis were also included in the list until recently). Analysis of long term outcomes from 10 randomised trials has shown a worrying 23% increase in cancers, 24% for prostate cancer.
What is not at all clear, is how people will avoid folic acid once it is in virtually all flour. … continue
MEMO | September 27, 2026
British police on Sunday arrested two demonstrators during a pro-Palestine protest outside the ruling Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool, Anadolu reports.
Protesters gathered outside the conference venue, with several holding homemade signs expressing support for Palestine Action, a group banned by the UK government.
Police officers moved to arrest an elderly man who was sitting beneath a tree, before making a second arrest involving a protester holding a sign supporting the banned group.
A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries, which organized the protest, said it had hoped the new prime minister, Andy Burnham, “would do the sensible thing and bin the ban on Palestine Action given the weight of public pressure to do so and the escalating amount of resources required in enforcing it.” … Full article
Mauritius on Saturday refused landing clearance for a scheduled flight from Israel, forcing its cancellation after efforts to secure approval failed, Israeli media reported, Anadolu reports.
The Ynet news website said the Air Seychelles flight was due to depart Israel for Mauritius but was called off after authorities did not grant permission for it to land.
Spirit World Productions, the Israeli tour operator behind the trip, said the flight had received approvals several months earlier.
The company said it had been informed that the refusal was based on “political and diplomatic considerations.”
Mauritian authorities have yet to comment on the decision.
Separately, sources familiar with the matter told Israel’s Channel 12 that the refusal was linked to absence of the Mauritius delegation during this week’s address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly.
The Cradle | September 27, 2026
Israeli Finance Minister and settler leader Bezalel Smotrich has called on Israel to “go to war” in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and “do there what we did in Gaza,” Israeli media reported on 27 September.
“I certainly have solutions” to the situation in the West Bank, he said. “I think we need to go to war in Judea and Samaria, to do there what we did in Gaza, to dismantle the Palestinian Authority, which is a terror authority.”
The Religious Zionism Party leader also called on Israel to annex the areas of southern Lebanon and Gaza occupied by Israeli troops.
“I would very much like to annex at least up to the Yellow Line in Gaza and up to the Litani [River] in Lebanon,” he says. … continue
MEMO | September 27, 2026
Two Palestinians were killed, and seven others injured Sunday in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, amid Tel Aviv’s daily violations of a ceasefire agreement in place since October 2025, medical sources said, Anadolu reports.
The sources told Anadolu that 28-year-old Palestinian Uday Adli al-Assar was killed in an Israeli drone strike on the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The body of another Palestinian and an unspecified number of injured people were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital after an Israeli drone strike hit a civilian vehicle in the industrial area south of Gaza City, the sources said.
Two Palestinians were injured, including one critically, when an Israeli drone shelled a gathering of people near the White Mosque in the Al-Shati refugee camp west of Gaza City, they added.
In a separate attack, five Palestinians were injured when an Israeli drone struck near tents housing displaced people around the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood market in northern Gaza City, the sources added.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that Israeli forces opened heavy fire toward western and eastern parts of Gaza City, west of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, and areas east of Khan Younis and northwest of Rafah in the south.
The strikes come amid Israel’s continuing violations of the truce that has been in place since Oct. 10, 2025.
The truce was intended to end Israel’s genocidal war that has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians and injured over 175,000 others in Gaza since October 2023.
The Cradle | September 27, 2026
Israeli shelling, bombing, and detonation operations surged across south Lebanon on 27 September, hours after Hezbollah launched an explosive drone at occupation forces operating in Tel Aviv’s so-called “security zone.”
“An Israeli Apache helicopter renewed its strikes on a commercial center along the Shoukin–Mayfadoun main road for the second time in less than ten minutes,” Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported around noon on Sunday, coinciding with shelling in Mansouri.
An Israeli tank also shelled the town of Haddatha on Sunday morning.
Hours earlier, detonations targeting civilian infrastructure in Mansouri continued as part of Tel Aviv’s publicly stated goal of wiping out Lebanese towns and preventing the return of residents.
Overnight, heavy Israeli strikes hit south Lebanon.
“Shortly after midnight Saturday into Sunday, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes targeting the town of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit, and the town of Mayfadoun, where a house was completely destroyed,” according to NNA.
The outskirts of Kfar Rumman were hit with shells, as well as Wadi Zibqine and the outskirts of Mazraat al-Shoumeriya. … Full article
The Cradle | September 27, 2026
Brutal Saudi bombing in Yemen resulted in a massacre in the country’s southwestern Taiz governorate on 27 September, with at least seven dead and dozens of others injured in the kingdom’s latest attacks.
Multiple Yemeni media outlets reported on the deadly attack, which hit a market.
“Saudi enemy airstrikes targeted commercial shops at Taiz Central Market, resulting in the martyrdom of seven citizens and the injury of 40 others, according to an initial toll,” sources told SABA.
The death toll is expected to rise. Saudi strikes hit other areas of the country on Sunday, including several attacks on the Maran district in Saada. … Full article
Al-Manar | September 27, 2026
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy said on Sunday that it has seized a second underwater remotely operated vehicle (UROV) belonging to the US military in the Strait of Hormuz.
According to a statement issued by the IRGC Navy, its forces carried out a coordinated and complex operation, using intelligence superiority and electronic warfare capabilities, to trap an advanced US military UROV that was operating in the Strait of Hormuz for espionage purposes.
The statement identified the seized underwater vehicle as a ‘Remus 600’, describing it as one of the advanced and intelligent underwater systems.
The IRGC Navy said the vehicle has been captured as spoils and is now in the possession of its specialists, who are working to recover its information. … Full article
An Essay on What the Fifteen-Minute Consultation Leaves Out
Lies are Unbekoming | September 10, 2026
The trial was announced with a cumulative remission figure of 67 percent.² When Ed Pigott and colleagues spent more than five years reanalyzing the data with fidelity to the original protocol, they found the 3 percent figure. When journalists put the 3 percent number to Maurizio Fava, one of the lead investigators, he acknowledged it was accurate. The investigators knew.³
The paper has not been retracted. It is still cited in psychiatric textbooks. The American Journal of Psychiatry ignored a petition signed by more than 1,800 people asking for retraction. The New York Times, repeatedly notified of the fraud, published the 70 percent figure again in a 2024 article praising the drugs.⁴
STAR*D was the largest depression trial ever conducted. It was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. It was designed by the profession’s most senior researchers. What it proved, when honestly analyzed, was that the drugs did not work.
That fact has been available for over a decade. It has not reached the patients being handed the prescriptions. … Read full article
By Prof. Glenn Diesen | September 26, 2026
The following are excerpts from my speech in Istanbul on September 26, 2026.
The unipolar world order has collapsed, and we should conduct a post-mortem to reflect on what went wrong and to understand the current turbulent transition of the world. In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously published his article on the ‘End of History,’ which was largely adopted as an ideological guide by the political West. The world only had one superpower and one ideology, and the expectation was that the world would unify under US leadership and liberal democratic values. The dominance of the US would end international anarchy and security competition, as there was only one centre of power, and the US hegemon would elevate the role of liberal democracy to form an inclusive community of universal values. For more than three decades, the West produced a new generation of politicians who believed that the collective hegemony of the West was for the benefit of all mankind, and they were the administrators who would manage the transition from the chaotic world of the past to perpetual peace. So what went wrong? … continue
Al Mayadeen | September 26, 2026
Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced Saturday evening that Saudi warplanes carried out 27 airstrikes over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 1,059 airstrikes and missile attacks since the latest escalation began.
Saree said the attacks directly targeted civilian infrastructure, including bridges and roads, in the governorates of Taiz, Marib, Saada, Amran, Ibb, and Hajjah.
Yemen’s National Human Rights Commission revealed that Saudi Arabia bombed al-Dalil Bridge on the Sumara road in Ibb’s al-Makhadir District and the al-Akbush water project in al-Ahkum, Hayfan District, Taiz.
The commission confirmed that the bridge, used daily by thousands of travelers, patients, and students, “had no military purpose,” while the water project supplies drinking water to thousands of families.
The Eye of Humanity Center for Rights and Development said a second Saudi attack on al-Ahkum hit a telecommunications network, and that the main road linking Naqil al-Shaq and Bab al-Barh in al-Sha’r, Ibb, was also bombed.
The Yemeni Ministry of Transport and Public Works noted that the attacks fit a long pattern. Since 2015, it said, Saudi Arabia has destroyed more than 100 bridges and over 8,185 kilometers of roads, causing more than $2.1 billion in damage. … Full article
Press TV – September 26, 2026
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the assassination of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was “another unacceptable manifestation of coercive diktat.”
Addressing the General Debate of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Lavrov denounced the assassination of members of Ayatollah Khamenei’s family, as well as Iranian military and political officials.
He said the use of force to kill Ayatollah Khamenei and members of his family was “unacceptable,” while condemning the broader US-Israeli aggression against Iran.
Lavrov added that the US-Israeli aggression had targeted not only Iran’s civilian infrastructure but also peaceful nuclear facilities operating under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards.
He noted that the attacks on the safeguarded nuclear facilities in Iran had caused “irreparable damage” to the international nuclear non-proliferation system overseen by the UN-backed nuclear energy watchdog. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | September 26, 2026
China called on Saturday for an immediate end to the blockade on Cuba, in a speech to the UN General Assembly that stopped short of naming the United States.
Vice President Han Zheng urged the “relevant country” to “immediately stop using the threat of force against Cuba” and to “immediately and completely lift the blockade and sanctions.”
He also pushed back against the US on Iran, saying “China holds that the sovereignty and security of countries in the Middle East, including the Gulf, should be respected,” though he did not mention the US at any point in his remarks.
The comments come as a US pressure campaign has largely cut off oil supplies to Cuba. The US oil blockade began in January and has deepened blackouts, with the island’s electrical grid suffering a total collapse earlier this month that left millions without power. … continue
MEMO | September 26, 2026
A military group affiliated with Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday defected and joined the Sudanese Armed Forces, state news agency SUNA reported. … continue
IMEMC | September 27, 2026
Israeli forces continued violating the “ceasefire” agreement in the Gaza Strip on Saturday for the 352nd consecutive day, killing three Palestinians, including a child, and wounding several others while firing live rounds and carrying out aerial and artillery attacks across the besieged coastal enclave.
Medical sources said an Israeli drone strike killed a Palestinian on Joulis Street in the central Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Israeli forces also shot and killed twelve-year-old Mohammad Saifuddin al-Shekhriti while he was sitting in front of his family’s displacement tent in the Al-Mawasi area of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said Qussai Moammar Halas died from wounds he suffered three weeks ago when Israeli forces attacked him on Al-Thawra Street in central Gaza City.
Israeli navy ships opened fire offshore Gaza City as reconnaissance aircraft flew at low altitude over the western part of the city.
In Khan Younis, Israeli helicopters fired heavily at areas east of the city while artillery shells struck the same area.
Several Palestinians, including a girl, were injured when an Israeli drone bombed an area near the Al-Iqlimi junction in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | September 26, 2026
Ireland’s preparations for Sunday’s Nations League match against “Israel” have been thrown into uncertainty after goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu reportedly told teammates that he did not want to participate in the fixture, prompting further discussions within the squad.
The players missed their scheduled training session and press conference in Debrecen, Hungary, as they held lengthy meetings over whether individual players should proceed with the match. … continue
The Cradle | September 26, 2026
Canadian lawmaker Sean Casey said on 25 September he was removed as parliamentary secretary to the veterans affairs minister after backing legislation to close loopholes that let Canadian-made military equipment be sold abroad and later reach Israel.
“The bill was targeted at closing the loopholes that allowed for Canadian military equipment to be sold to another country but end up in Israel, so end up being used to kill Palestinians,” Casey, a member of the ruling Liberal Party, said during an interview with CBC News.
“That was the goal of the legislation. And that’s what my constituents were concerned about,” he added.
Casey, who represents Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island in the House of Commons, was among 15 Liberal Members of Parliament (MPs) who broke rank to support the bill and was the only parliamentary secretary to do so.
He also revealed that, in March, his party warned him that he would be dismissed from the post if he supported the bill introduced by New Democratic Party (NDP) lawmaker Jenny Kwan. […]
According to a May report by Global Affairs Canada, Ottawa exported $14.6 million in military goods directly to Israel in 2025, despite the government’s claims that it had “suspended” certain export licenses for goods used to fuel the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | September 26, 2026
Israeli occupation forces launched a series of attacks across southern Lebanon on Saturday, including airstrikes on Jabal al-Rafeea in the Iqlim al-Tuffah region, according to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent.
The attacks extended to several towns across southern Lebanon, with the National News Agency reporting that the Israeli occupation forces carried out a large-scale demolition targeting civilian neighborhoods in Majdal Zoun in the Tyre district, as well as another explosion in the town of al-Tayri in the Bint Jbeil district.
Israeli occupation forces also shelled the southern town of Shakra, according to the National News Agency.
Israeli force raids Deir Mimas
Meanwhile, an Israeli occupation force advanced toward the outskirts of Deir Mimas in the Marjayoun district from the southern side, specifically toward the town’s olive groves, where it remained stationed, the National News Agency reported.
Following the raid, the Deir Mimas municipality urged residents in a statement to avoid heading to fields and olive groves until September 28. … Full article
Two more people were wounded in Kherson Region
RT | September 26, 2026
Two young women have been killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a cafe in Kherson Region, Russia, Governor Vladimir Saldo has said, adding that a separate attack killed a truck driver nearby.
The drone raid struck the small town of Askania-Nova on Friday, hitting the Day-Night Cafe, he said in a Telegram post.
“The building was completely destroyed. Rescuers found the bodies of two young women, born in 2004 and 2006, under the rubble,” he wrote.
Two survivors, a man born in 1993 and a woman born in 2007, suffered shrapnel wounds and concussions and were rushed to a nearby hospital, he added. … Full article
By Jeffrey Silverman – New Eastern Outlook – September 26, 2026
Ukraine is already providing an early glimpse of what may become a much larger post-war phenomenon: highly trained combat personnel, particularly special-forces and other specialists, carrying their battlefield skills beyond the borders of the countries, in which they acquired them, with many of them NATO trained.
History offers plenty of warnings. Africa has spent decades wrestling with the problem of demobilized combatants, soldiers and guerrillas, whose military skills suddenly have little obvious place in civilian economies.
South Africa and Georgia both provide instructive case studies. After apartheid, using the South African example, the labor force had to absorb, integrate or demobilize personnel from competing military and paramilitary structures. Thousands of former combatants faced unemployment and uncertain futures, while the new South African National Defence Force itself eventually had to undergo substantial downsizing, and not only among white troops.
So what happens when the largest European land war in generations finally winds down? What will the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian servicemen do when the battlefield no longer needs them, and the economy cannot reintegrate them?
Many will also have significant trauma, both mental and physical, the former being far harder to identify, it is an unfortunate fact that many former combatants will have developed a taste for killing.
And that is where the story becomes considerably more uncomfortable. … continue
By Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation | September 26, 2026
So, “Britain is back” and ready to provide glorious leadership to the rest of the world, to “solve shared problems we face.”
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham made his debut at the United Nations this week, addressing the 81st session of the General Assembly in New York.
“You can count on us,” assured Burnham. “Count on us to stand up for those long-standing British values of fairness and justice – our shared values – and for the UN Charter.”
Please, don’t make me vomit. Burnham was oozing noble values on the podium of the UN while Saudi warplanes were massacring Yemeni civilians in their homes – warplanes that are directed and refuelled by Britain (and the United States). … continue
We are experiencing not just one, but many tipping points in world history all at once.
By Peter Hanseler | Forum Geopolitica | September 26, 2026
There have been many tipping points in history; to name just a few examples:
- The Peace of Westphalia in 1648
- The French Revolution of 1789
- The Congress of Vienna in 1815
- World War I in 1918
- World War II in 1945
Many of these turning points led to shifts in power in Europe. These were merely transfers of power within the world we now call the “Collective” West. Examples include the collapse of the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Tsarist Empire at the end of World War I.
These shifts in power were significant, yet what is happening now cannot be compared to past turning points, as they encompass the entire globe. The reins of power are not being handed over within the West; rather, there will be a shift in power toward the East and the “Global South.” … continue
Agreements at no cost
By Lorenzo Maria Pacini – Strategic Culture Foundation – September 26, 2026
Xi Jinping left Washington on Friday, September 25, bid farewell by a 21-gun salute and the administration’s top officials lined up at the airport. A three-day state visit organized with a level of attention to detail that the White House rarely reserves for a systemic rival: the welcome at the foot of the aircraft stairs, a three-hour meeting in the Oval Office, the state dinner, tea with the spouses, and a visit to the National Archives. A Schramsberg was chosen for dinner – the same winery that provided the wine for the 1972 toast between Nixon and Zhou Enlai. At the table sat half of the American business community: Musk, Jensen Huang, Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Bezos, Pichai, Dimon, Fink, as well as three Supreme Court justices, the Federal Reserve chair, and half the Cabinet.
Then there is the real conversation, which must be read between the lines. … continue
Al Mayadeen | September 26, 2026
International flights from Iran to several destinations remain operational despite the expansion of US sanctions targeting the country’s aviation sector, according to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport.
The airport said Saturday that flights to Turkey, Malaysia, China, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Afghanistan were continuing according to their previously announced schedules. … continue
Press TV – September 26, 2026
An Iraqi anti-terror resistance group has denounced the Baghdad government’s decision to halt Iranian airline operations following US sanctions on Iran’s aviation sector, vowing to stage sit-ins at Iraqi airports nationwide unless normal air traffic between the two Muslim neighboring countries resumes.
“We will not wait long,” Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba Secretary-General Akram al-Kaabi said in a statement on Friday.
He urged Iraqi political forces to “break free from American dominance.” … continue
By Samyar Rostami – New Eastern Outlook – September 26, 2026
The persistence of current geopolitical alignments, the attention of Eastern actors to the region, the strengthening of Sanaa’s position in the Red Sea, and the expansion of regional opposition to the UAE’s role will diminish Abu Dhabi’s role in the region.
For the past ten years, the Southern Red Sea has been a pivotal factor in the UAE’s foreign policy. Over the past decade, the UAE has built a layered maritime, air, and commercial infrastructure network, including military bases, in the Red Sea or near Yemen, Somaliland, Somalia and Sudan, starting from 2015.
According to some estimates, the value of UAE investments along Africa’s coastal regions and the Arabian Peninsula amounts to $60 billion.
In September 2015, the UAE established its first military base in Africa, in Eritrea. These bases possessed strategic advantages: the ‘protection of interests’ and control over the security and economic architecture of international maritime routes.
With the signing of the Abraham Accords in 2020, cooperation between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi in the Red Sea intensified.
The UAE’s approach—channeled through companies such as DP World and Abu Dhabi Ports—is centered on controlling ports, strategic waterways, military bases, and key trade and energy routes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, in coordination with the United States and its allies. Abu Dhabi’s approach also included engagement with non-state armed actors and separatist movements in Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia. … continue
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