An Essay on Healed Injury, Layered Clots, and the Repair That Medicine Refuses to See
Lies are Unbekoming | October 5, 2026
… If plaque is built from clots at sites of lining damage, what damages the lining?
The arterial lining is not a passive sheet of tiles. It is covered on the blood side by a layer called the glycocalyx, a fine mesh of sugars and proteins that keeps blood cells and clotting factors from touching the endothelial cells beneath.²⁸ The glycocalyx is where damage begins. Strip it away and the endothelial cells are exposed. Damage the endothelial cells and the tissue beneath is exposed, triggering clot formation.
The known insults are specific and well-documented.
Blood sugar spikes… Read full article
By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender | October 5, 2026
Seventeen-year-old Sarah Doe is back in court seeking emergency federal court intervention so she can stay in school after three more doctors said the teen shouldn’t get the last two vaccines the state requires for school attendance.
The three medical opinions add to the seven the school district has received over the last two years. In each case, doctors argued that Sarah qualifies for a medical exemption. They said forcing Sarah to get the vaccines would put her already precarious health at increased risk.
In an emergency motion filed late last week in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Sarah and her mother Jane Doe asked for a temporary restraining order allowing the high school senior to attend school pending the district’s review of a new medical exemption request relating to a third hepatitis B (Hep B) shot and the meningococcal vaccine.
Children’s Health Defense is funding Sarah’s case.
The emergency motion followed a Sept. 23 ruling by U.S. District Judge Gary Brown. Brown declined to extend Sarah’s previous medical exemption, for the 2024-2025 school year, to the current school year. The district expelled Sarah from school the next day, Sept. 24. … continue
By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender | October 5, 2026
Employees of Georgia’s largest healthcare system have until Nov. 1 to get the flu vaccine or an approved exemption, or they will be suspended without pay. If suspended employees don’t submit proof of vaccination by 4 p.m. Nov. 15, they will be fired.
According to the Emory Healthcare website, the vaccine mandate applies to all employees, including contractors and remote workers. … continue
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | October 2, 2026
The large-scale trial seeks to enroll 410,000 healthy Danish adults age 65 and older. The study will compare Moderna’s combination mRNA COVID-19 and flu shot with two separate shots: Moderna’s Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine and its high-dose flu vaccine.
Scientists and physicians critical of mRNA vaccines warned the trial could expose a third of the Danish population to serious vaccine injuries. … Read article
MEMO | October 5, 2026
The Israeli army demolished a home housing two Palestinian families near Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Monday, leaving both families homeless, Anadolu reports.
Heavy machinery tore down the building in Khallet al-Deirat as Israeli soldiers stood nearby and Palestinians watched.
Homeowner Faris Mohammed said Israeli forces arrived in the morning and began demolishing the property on the grounds that it lacked a building permit. He said the 130-square-meter home consisted of two sections occupied by two families.
“They demolished in 25 minutes the house we spent years building,” Mohammed said. … video
MEMO | October 5, 2026
A Palestinian was killed and five others injured Monday in Israeli army and occupier attacks in the occupied West Bank provinces of Hebron and Jenin, according to Palestinian officials and medical sources, Anadolu reports.
Israeli forces opened fire on a vehicle carrying three Palestinians near Bani Naim, east of Hebron, killing one and injuring the other two.
The Palestinian General Authority of Civil Affairs identified the man killed as Hossam Alaa al-Din Abdul Jabbar Walad Ali, 38, and said Israeli forces withheld his body.
The Israeli army claimed that the three Palestinians had attempted to carry out a car-ramming attack against soldiers in the Bani Naim area.
In a separate attack, three Palestinians were injured when Israeli occupiers assaulted them while they were harvesting olives near Yabad, southwest of Jenin.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said its crews treated three people injured in an attack by Israeli occupiers in the Imriha area and transferred them to hospital.
Local sources told Anadolu that one Palestinian suffered a broken leg, another sustained an injury to his left hand, and an elderly man was beaten and sprayed with pepper spray. … Full article
MEMO | October 5, 2026
The Israeli army is tightening its blockade of the Gaza Strip by constructing a wide trench and an earthen embankment while continuing targeted killings of Hamas members, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said Monday.
“Israeli forces are completing an anti-vehicle barrier consisting of a wide trench and an earthen embankment, while drilling into the ground at regular intervals,” the daily said.
It claimed that the measures were intended to ensure that no tunnel crossing into Israel had been overlooked.
The barrier is being constructed on the eastern side of the yellow line, which divides the Gaza Strip between an area controlled by the Israeli army and another where Palestinians are allowed to move freely.
Alongside maintaining control of the territory, operational activity is focused on uninterrupted assassination of Hamas members, the paper said.
It said the measures come two and a half years after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was “one step away from victory.”
Despite the Israeli army’s extensive military presence in the Gaza Strip, “the basic reality remains unchanged: Hamas still governs the territory,” the newspaper said.
Israeli forces currently control around 64% of the Gaza Strip, with two divisions deployed across roughly 30 military positions, according to the report. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – October 5, 2026
GAZA – A Palestinian civilian was martyred and several others were injured in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
According to media sources, an Israeli drone strike killed a citizen and wounded a woman and her two kids in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, south of Gaza.
Another drone strike wounded a number of citizens near the al-Maslakh area, southwest of Khan Yunis.
Two other citizens were wounded, one seriously, in a drone strike near al-Tayba Towers in the west of Khan Yunis.
Israeli forces also injured two women in Gaza City in separate attacks. One woman suffered a bullet wound to the head when an Israeli gunboat fired on the northwestern as-Sudaniya area, while another was wounded by drone gunfire in the eastern neighborhood of az-Zeitoun.
In another incident, a citizen was injured in an airstrike in Gaza City’s eastern al-Tuffah neighborhood.
Additionally, widespread military activity, including shooting incidents, artillery shelling, drone overflights, and demolitions, was reported in other areas of Gaza today.
Al-Manar | October 5, 2026
Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Sunday, while artillery units shelled several towns and machine-gun fire was directed at another border area, according to Al-Manar correspondent.
Our correspondent reported that enemy warplanes conducted airstrikes on Kafr Tibnit and Wadi al-Hujair.
Israeli enemy forces also carried out artillery shelling targeting Wadi al-Salouqi, Al-Mansouri, Haddatha, Haris, and Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
Additionally, machine-gun fire was directed towards Kafr Shuba.
Al Mayadeen | October 5, 2026
A Syrian citizen was killed by Israeli forces’ gunfire after approaching an Israeli military site in the so-called “security zone” in southern Syria, according to claims by the Israeli army.
The incident comes amid continued Israeli attacks and repeated incursions into Syrian territory, particularly in areas adjacent to the occupied Syrian Golan, where Israeli forces carry out ground incursions and establish temporary military points and sites, alongside military movements, artillery shelling and scattered targeting.
These movements have imposed a new military reality on the ground, amid fears of continued expansion inside Syrian territory and violations of its sovereignty, with no indications that these incursions will stop.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry warned on October 4 that the continued aggressive conduct of the Israeli occupation, along with its attacks and field incursions into Syrian territory, represents a “direct threat to regional security and stability.” … Full article
MEMO | October 5, 2026
Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan agreed Monday to “immediately” implement collective defense commitments and take measures to ensure the “rapid deployment” of agreed military forces and capabilities to Saudi Arabia, according to a joint statement, Anadolu reports.
The decision came during an emergency meeting of the Mecca Alliance’s Strategic Political and Defense Committee in the Saudi capital Riyadh to address security developments and threats facing the kingdom.
“The Committee decided to move immediately to the practical implementation of the collective defense commitments,” said the joint statement of the three member states sitting on the committee.
It also agreed “to take the necessary measures to provide the agreed military forces and capabilities and ensure their rapid deployment in the Kingdom.”
The deployment will proceed in line with “the approved arrangements and the national legislation of the Parties, thereby enhancing readiness, military integration, and the collective capacity to confront and counter threats,” it added. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 5, 2026
A Saudi airstrike on the Bait al-Haidah area of Sawwan in Sanaa governorate killed one student and injured two others, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Yemen reported.
The Health Ministry in Sanaa announced that a woman was killed in a Saudi airstrike on a farm in Bait al-Shatbi in the Sanhan district of Sanaa governorate, according to the ministry.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent said Saudi Arabia carried out airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and launched raids on the Sahar, al-Safra, Kitaf, al-Buqa, and al-Salem districts and south of the city of Saada in northern Yemen. Airstrikes were also carried out on Saada governorate in northern Yemen, the correspondent said.
On the previous day, Saudi forces conducted a series of airstrikes on al-Jawf governorate in northeastern Yemen, accompanied by artillery and rocket shelling that targeted border areas in Saada governorate.
Saudi Arabia continues its campaign in Yemen, targeting civilian objects in the Sanaa, Saada, Taiz, Hajjah, and Marib governorates, resulting in deaths and injuries among civilians, according to the reports. In response, Yemeni armed forces continue to retaliate against the Saudi campaign, targeting vital facilities in Saudi territory and Saudi military gatherings inside Yemen, the correspondent said.
Yemeni Armed Forces expel Saudi forces from Taiz
A military source cited by the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) said Saudi-backed forces were expelled from Al-Mawaset District in Taiz Governorate earlier on Monday, with Yemeni Armed Forces reaching the residence of Rashad Al-Alimi, head of the Presidential Leadership Council.
In the same context, a military source told Saba that Saudi media reports of “advances” toward the Dhubab area were unfounded and represented an attempt to conceal their repeated failures and defeats, according to the agency.
The developments come amid intensifying confrontations across Yemen’s battlefronts, with the situation in Taiz subsequently developing in favor of the Yemeni Armed Forces, the source said.
Yemen’s Health Ministry in Sanaa said on Sunday 4 that two people were killed and two others wounded in a Saudi drone strike on the al-Ahyuq road junction in the al-Wazi’iyah district of western Taiz. … Full article
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | October 4, 2026
Once again Karl W. Miller has put numbers to a problem that most of the commentariat still treats as a temporary price spike.
His latest forward outlook, “The Five-Year Global Energy Crisis,” dated October 3, makes an argument that should alarm every finance ministry from Berlin to Jakarta.
The war’s damage to Gulf energy infrastructure is not a disruption that ends when the shooting stops. It is a reconstruction problem measured in years and trillions of dollars, and while it is solved, the world will be short of the fuels that run its economy. … continue
By John J. Mearsheimer | October 4, 2026
The Trump administration and its supporters – including the Wall Street Journal editorial page – are working overtime these days to spin the news around the Iran war to make it appear that the US is winning and Tehran had better submit to Washington’s demands before it is wrecked, maybe even “annihilated.” Indeed, Trump is preparing the option of bringing the military hammer down on Iran after the midterm elections if Tehran has not surrendered by then.
In effect, Trump and his supporters are waging a “maximum pressure campaign” against Iran in the mainstream media.
This campaign is sure to fail. If anything, it reflects the Trump administration’s desperation. The president started a war the United States was bound to lose, and there is little he can do now to change that basic fact. … continue
Sputnik – October 5, 2026
Russia considers the deployment of NATO military infrastructure in Afghanistan and neighboring countries unacceptable, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“I would once again like to emphasize the categorical unacceptability of deploying NATO military infrastructure on the territory of Afghanistan or neighboring states, under any pretext whatsoever,” Lavrov said at a meeting of the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan.
Russia will continue regular supplies of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, with the next batch set to be delivered in one to two months, Sergey Lavrov said.
“Russia, for its part, will continue to carry out regular humanitarian supplies. The next batch of these supplies should arrive in Afghanistan in the next one to two months,” Lavrov said.
The Taliban-led Afghan government is effectively governing the country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“The national government led by the Taliban movement has secured control over the country’s territory and, it must be acknowledged, is governing it quite successfully,” Lavrov said at a meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan.
RT | October 5, 2026
Poland and Romania have refused to help Kiev move millions of tons of grain – which got stuck in Ukraine following Vladimir Zelensky’s war on exports – into the EU, Politico reports, citing officials in Warsaw and Bucharest. Zelensky’s 40-day campaign resulted in Russia implementing a de facto blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, with the wider consequences of the strikes estimated at 1.5% of the country’s collapsing GDP.
Last week, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky appealed to the EU for a €1.1 billion ($1.23 billion) allocation to improve transit capacity, which would help free large quantities of grain – Ukraine’s key source of income – trapped in the country.
The request came after Zelensky’s 40-day PR ‘pressure campaign’ on Russia, which involved long-range strikes on oil refineries and civilian infrastructure. The effort backfired, as Russia ramped up strikes on Ukraine’s military-related logistics, including the key hub of Odessa, accounting for an overwhelming majority of Kiev’s agricultural exports.
Speaking to Politico, Vysotsky described the situation as “very, very critical,” after his ministry reported the export of 2.4 million tons of agricultural products in September, just 46% of what Kiev considers the required volume. … continue
Sputnik – 05.10.2026
MOSCOW – Ukrainian forces have spent the past two weeks striking the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant, whose operation is essential to the safety of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Station, Rosatom CEO Alexey Likhachev said Monday.
“Over the past two weeks, the Ukrainian armed forces have been systematically shelling the territory of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant (TPP)— the second energy facility in Energodar. The plant is not a nuclear facility, so it is of no interest to the international community. Yet, the safety of the nuclear power plant directly depends on the operational status of the equipment located on the premises of the Zaporozhye Thermal Power Plant. We are talking about the electrical equipment located on the premises of the Zaporozhye TPP, which redirects electricity from the Ferrosplavnaya high‑voltage lines to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant,” Likhachev told reporters.
Energodar is also under fire, the CEO said, adding that about 70 facilities that make up the municipal, social, and commercial infrastructure of the city have been destroyed because of artillery shelling and drone attacks, and about 50 more have been damaged.
“It was not calm at the Zaporozhye plant itself at night. Two facilities were attacked at once: the laboratory building, located 200 meters [656 feet] from units 4 and 5, and the building for processing radioactive waste,” Likhachev said.
In both cases, the roof was damaged, but this does not pose a threat to nuclear safety, the CEO added.
“On Sunday, our comrade was killed again. A van carrying food for the NPP staff was attacked by a drone. The driver, a station employee, was killed,” Likhachev said. … Full article
RT | October 5, 2026
Swiss police are investigating a sprawling fraud operation with suspected links to Ukrainian scam call centers, an industry said to be worth billions to corrupt officials in Kiev, Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) has reported, citing law enforcement officials.
According to a report on Sunday, NEDIK, the police network coordinating Switzerland’s fight against digital crime, recently recorded an increase in fraud offenses suspected of having links to Ukraine. The network declined to provide nationwide figures “for tactical reasons,” but noted that at least four fraudulent call centers in Ukraine have been identified in international investigations involving Swiss authorities, with Swiss and German citizens among their main victims. … continue
BND chief Martin Jaeger’s claim comes as his agency pushes for more funding and expanded powers
RT | October 5, 2026
Martin Jaeger arrives to speak in the annual open hearing of Germany’s three intelligence services at the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, October 5, 2026 © Getty Images ; Sean Gallup
Germany could become “embroiled in a violent conflict with Russia,” the country’s foreign intelligence chief has warned, claiming that a mysterious drone incident at Leipzig airport is an example of the “real and imminent” threat posed by Moscow.
Speaking to lawmakers at a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) head Martin Jaeger declared that “the confrontation we are facing with Russia has taken on a new, more dangerous dimension.”
“Germany is in danger of becoming embroiled in a violent conflict with Russia – the attempted attack in Leipzig is just one example,” he continued, referring to the discovery of an explosive-laden drone next to a Ukrainian transport plane at the city’s airport in August. … continue
By Cam Wakefield | Reclaim The Net | October 3, 2026
So what does it take for a police force to stop using a “trial” deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology? Apparently, scanning the faces of more than half a million people and catching nobody is not it.
In fact, it gets you an extension of four months and an expanded area to “hunt” in.
The British Transport Police (BTP) has now revealed that its initial six-month LFR deployment at London railway stations produced one alert – that was false.
The trial cost £320,786 ($425k) to carry out. That was just the cost of equipment hire and police officers’ time, and the figure comes from a freedom of information document obtained by Liberty Investigates.
It ran from February to July across 18 deployments, which the BTP’s own register says resulted in 537,697 people having their faces scanned. … continue
By Ken Macon | Reclaim The Net | October 3, 2026
A new US bill, Ban Flock Act, has been introduced, with the aim of stopping the federal government from using automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
“Flock is eviscerating the very notion of privacy by installing tens of thousands of cameras in communities across America without their consent,” said Senator Bernie Sanders, who is planning a Senate version.
“Going to the doctor? Flock knows. Dropping your kid off at school? Flock is tracking you. Flock is always watching,” he continued. … continue
By Jo Nova | September 30, 2026
This El Nino is absolutely definitely the worst – apart from all the other ones we don’t know about, which is most of them.
Satellites only started in 1979, and prehistoric records of atmospheric pressure are thin on the ground. For some reason Pacific Islanders weren’t paddling out in canoes recording the sea surface temperature every day, and they certainly weren’t doing it across 5,500 kilometers, which is the area we watch today.
Yet here we are, facing headlines for months about ‘the worst ever’ El Nino, which is going to kill 450,000 people, and it’s all our fault because one study of a bunch of corals at the Galapagos found an uptick in the last 40 years.
What we really need is to find all those satellite records from the Reformation…
The Cole et al study found the holy grail of climate grants — an El Nino signal that could be construed as ‘intensified’ in the last forty years, which means they can loosely associate it with man-made CO2 emissions.
In the immortal words of the lead researcher, it must be CO2 because we couldn’t think of anything else. It’s Argument from Ignorance all the way down until it gets eaten by the turtle. […]
The awful truth is that we have patchy, tiny pieces of proxy snapshots from a handful of locations in a vast ocean. Then we use that to second guess a whole millennia across the largest ocean on Earth. Then we feed it to journalists who don’t know how to ask a hard question. … Full article
By Anthony Watts | ClimateRealism | September 30, 2026
In their article How Does Climate Change Impact Nor’easters? TIME magazine claims that a nor’easter which struck the northeastern United States in mid-September illustrates how climate change is making powerful storms more intense. That’s false. There is no evidence that the recent nor’easter was at all unusual or represents a long-term climate change induced shift in the occurrence or strength of such storms. TIME’s claims go well beyond what the evidence can establish about an individual storm and lacks support in data and meteorological records.
“While September nor’easters aren’t unheard of, they are uncommon,” states TIME. “And as the climate warms, research suggests that the strongest storms are also going to become more intense.” TIME then uses speculative sleight of hand to link the recent storm to increasing number of billion-dollar disasters.
The historical record and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show substantial natural variability in extratropical storms and low confidence in observed trends in their intensity, making TIME’s attempt to turn a single weather event into a climate-change story scientifically unjustified.
The basic problem with TIME’s article is right there in its premise. A nor’easter is a weather event. Climate is the statistical behavior of weather measured over decades.
As Climate at a Glance has explained, individual hurricanes, floods, droughts, heat waves, cold snaps, and storms are weather. Long-term changes in their frequency or intensity can potentially constitute evidence of climate change, but one storm cannot establish such a trend. … Full article
An Essay on Committee Votes That Moved First Screening from Age 50 to 18 Months
Lies are Unbekoming | October 4, 2026
This essay tracks twelve committee decisions between 2011 and 2024 that lowered the recommended starting age for a screening test, a vaccination, or a drug intervention. It stands as a companion to the earlier essay on diagnostic thresholds, which examined how the numerical cutoffs that define disease have been quietly reset. That piece looked at where the line is drawn. This one looks at when it is drawn, meaning the age in a life at which the measurement first takes place. The two operations do the same work on different axes. A lowered threshold and a lowered starting age each enlarge the pool of official candidates for intervention. The committees produce candidates by signature, and the result is market-making in its purest form: an ever-growing share of the population becomes officially eligible for the product, and the product has nowhere else to go for its growth. The chair of each committee, the date of each vote, and the wording of each guideline can be traced back to a publicly available document. … continue
By Sayer Ji | October 4, 2026
For nearly two decades, GreenMedInfo has done one thing most health publishers never bother with: we go into the National Library of Medicine and pull out the studies where researchers put a natural substance directly against a drug — same condition, same patients, same scoring — and then publish what they found.
Those studies exist. There are thousands of them. They just don’t get press releases, because nobody holds a patent on honey.
Below are ten of the most striking. Every one is a human trial. Every one is indexed in our database. And every one links to the long-form article where you can read the methodology, the numbers and the citations for yourself. … continue
Al Mayadeen | October 5, 2026
Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have launched a march toward Islamabad, with participants demanding Khan’s release from prison, Pakistani media reported on Sunday.
The demonstration, originally scheduled for September 27, was postponed to October 4. PTI supporters began the march despite warnings from the federal government that it would prevent violent gatherings in the capital, according to Dawn.
The march began in Lakki Marwat, with participants heading toward Islamabad as authorities tightened security ahead of the protest.
Pakistani authorities have deployed tens of thousands of police officers in Islamabad as the government prepares for the arrival of protesters.
The heightened security measures come amid government warnings against violence during the demonstration. Authorities have pledged to prevent gatherings that could lead to unrest in the capital. … Full article
Press TV – October 4, 2026
Israeli military forces have abducted two Palestinian journalists in the West Bank, as the regime forces continue their crackdown across the occupied West Bank, kidnapping dozens of civilians and demolishing several homes.
According to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency, Israeli troops raided the town of Arraba, south of Jenin, in the early hours of Sunday, and detained journalist Raja Maarouf Jabr after breaking into her home and ransacking it.
Israeli troops also raided ‘Asira al-Qibliya village, southwest of Nablus, overnight and abducted journalist Sami al-Shami along with five residents.
The latest abductions of Palestinian journalists come more than a fortnight after Israeli forces abducted Press TV correspondent Naqaa Hamed in the West Bank.
Hamed, 38, was abducted on September 14 by occupation forces at a checkpoint near Tuqu’ in Bethlehem. She was set free on October 4, after nearly two weeks in detention at Damon Prison. … Full article
IMEMC | October 4, 2026
On Sunday afternoon, October 4, 2026, Ra’fat Khairi Ahmad Abu Khalil, 45, also known as Abu Shams, died while Israeli soldiers detained him at the Ennab military roadblock, east of Tulkarem in the northwestern occupied West Bank.
Abu Khalil was a resident of Attil, north of Tulkarem. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its medics received a report of a man in critical condition at the military roadblock.
It added that its ambulance crews arrived at the scene and attempted to resuscitate Abu Khalil, but he was pronounced dead at the military roadblock before his body was transferred to Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital in Tulkarem.
Quds News Network reported that Abu Shams died after Israeli soldiers beat and mistreated him while detaining him at the military roadblock. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 4, 2026
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian students, set fire to a vehicle, and damaged agricultural land across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, escalating their assaults on Palestinian communities under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
The attacks extended across Nablus, al-Khalil, and the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate, targeting residents’ homes, property, and livelihoods.
In Nablus, settlers assaulted students heading to Huwara Boys’ Secondary School, prompting the students and their families to confront the attackers.
Homes and farmland targeted in al-Khalil, Ramallah
Local sources reported that settlers raided neighborhoods in al-Samu, south of al-Khalil, particularly the Wadi al-Jahish area. They torched a Palestinian resident’s vehicle and daubed racist, hostile slogans on the walls of a home before leaving.
Further south, in Khallat al-Hummus in Masafer Yatta, settlers released cattle and other livestock around Palestinian homes and onto residents’ farmland. The incursions are aimed at making daily life increasingly difficult for residents and forcing them off their land.
Settlers used similar tactics in al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah, allowing their livestock to graze on Palestinian agricultural land, destroying crops and damaging property. … Full article
MEMO | October 4, 2026
Israel has killed more than 800 Palestinian teachers and injured over 3,300 others since the start of its war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Palestinian Education Ministry said Sunday, Anadolu reports.
In a statement ahead of World Teachers’ Day, observed annually on Oct. 5, the ministry said educators across the occupied Palestinian territories are fighting “a real battle for survival” to protect the right to education amid systematic targeting.
The education sector in Gaza and the West Bank has suffered “comprehensive genocide” since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the ministry said.
The ministry said more than 170 teachers remain detained “in harsh conditions.” … Full article
IMEMC | October 4, 2026
Three Palestinians, including a six-year-old girl, were killed and more than ten others were injured on Sunday as Israeli forces continued bombing and firing on several areas of the Gaza Strip, in further violations of the ceasefire agreement.
A Palestinian, Moath Jamal Abu Nasira, 36, was killed and another seriously injured after an Israeli military drone fired a missile at a group of Palestinians northwest of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. He worked for Bani Soheila Town Council.
Israeli gunfire also injured a child at the Abdul Qader Al-Husseini School displacement shelter near Nasser Medical Complex, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources reported that an Israeli drone fired a missile at a vehicle near the Al-Hawouz area, south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing one Palestinian and wounding ten others, some seriously.
Media sources identified the slain man as Saqr al-Qaisi, the Gaza director of the Turkish humanitarian organization Deniz Feneri.
Local medical sources reported that six-year-old Palestinian girl Soha Mohammad Nasser succumbed to wounds sustained when Israeli soldiers shot her inside her family’s displacement tent in Wadi as-Salqa, south of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
In northern Gaza, Israeli soldiers shot and injured several Palestinians in Beit Lahia as attacks continued across the area.
Before dawn, an Israeli drone bombed an area near the Engineers Syndicate headquarters northwest of Gaza City, wounding several Palestinians.
Israeli helicopters simultaneously opened fire east of the city, while the army detonated buildings in eastern Gaza City and fired illumination flares east of the Jabalia refugee camp.
Israeli artillery also shelled areas east of the Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. In southern Gaza, Israeli military vehicles opened intense fire east of Hamad City and toward the eastern areas of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis. Israeli artillery shelling also coincided with gunfire from military vehicles east of Khan Younis.
In the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Israeli military vehicles fired toward displaced families’ tents in the Bir 19 area, amid continued shelling, gunfire, and demolitions across the Gaza Strip. … Full article
Press TV – October 4, 2026
Saudi Arabia has carried out airstrikes near a maternity and child hospital in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, causing extensive damage to the health facility and injuring several people, including patients and pregnant women, according to Yemen’s Health Ministry.
The ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Saudi warplanes carried out the strikes near Al-Sabeen Maternity and Childhood Hospital around midday, when the facility was crowded with patients, pregnant women, children and medical staff.
The strikes caused extensive damage to the hospital building, its internal departments and medical equipment, including the intensive care unit and infant incubators.
It said several people were injured, including patients, their companions and medical staff. … Full article
By Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News | October 2, 2026
Scrambling to halt the ongoing offensive of Yemen’s Armed Forces, Israel and Saudi Arabia have strengthened ties through a joint covert campaign aimed at salvaging what remains of their supremacy in the Red Sea region. Tel Aviv and Riyadh’s losses of key military strongholds in Yemen’s Western coast, has ushered in a new era of soft-normalisation.
Saudi Arabia has carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Yemen, resulting in thousands of casualties since its renewed bombing campaign began this July. It now heavily relies on Israeli targeting intelligence backing in order to conduct dozens of strikes across Yemeni territory on a daily basis, including attacks on civilian market places and residential buildings. … continue
Al Mayadeen | October 4, 2026
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) on Sunday took control of the al-Safiya area and cut a major road connecting the city of Taiz with Aden, AFP reported, citing four security sources.
A police official in the area said authorities had been informed that the YAF have taken control of al-Safiya, blocked the main road, and taken control of the local police station.
Three Yemeni military sources confirmed to AFP that the YAF had established control over the area and the key supply route, effectively tightening their encirclement of Taiz city.
The military sources said traffic had also been stopped along the main Taiz-Aden road as fighting in the area continued.
The latest development follows advances reported on the Taiz front earlier today, as Yemeni Armed Forces continued consolidating their positions along Yemen’s western coast and taking control of strategic high grounds amid the ongoing fighting.
YAF advance, take positions on strategic high grounds along west coast
Earlier today, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Yemen reported that Yemeni ballistic missiles reportedly targeted areas in Jizan and Najran, as operations into Saudi Arabia intensify.
According to Al Mayadeen’s correspondent, Sanaa has consolidated control and advanced along Yemen’s western coast, taking positions on strategic high ground, while Saudi-backed forces are retreating on several fronts.
Our correspondent added that intensified Saudi airstrikes are aimed at compensating for battlefield setbacks but have been futile so far, failing to halt advances on the Taiz front. … Full article
By Kamran Yeganegi | The Cradle | October 3, 2026
Saudi oil tankers are loading again at Yanbu, less than three weeks after drone strikes shut down the East–West Pipeline that supplies the Red Sea port. On 24 September, crude was reported to be flowing west again, although no ship had yet loaded a cargo.
By 29 September, trade sources and shipping data showed that loadings had resumed. The interruption and recovery have offered a costly demonstration of what an oil route around the Strait of Hormuz can, and cannot, do.
Yanbu, Ceyhan and Baniyas sit at three very different points on that spectrum.
Yanbu has a 1,200-kilometer pipeline in operation and an established export terminal. Ceyhan is already loading Iraqi crude, though current Iraqi flows are measured in hundreds of thousands–not millions–of barrels a day. Baniyas could eventually give Iraq a major Mediterranean outlet, but for now it remains a project that depends on new infrastructure and financing, political agreements, and protection across two fragile states.
The comparison begins with the oil that reaches ships during a crisis. Pipeline capacity matters only as much as the pumps, terminals, and security along the route allow. … continue
Press TV – October 4, 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, warned on Sunday that any future use of regional countries’ territory to attack the Islamic Republic will provoke a different and decisive response, stressing that Tehran expects its neighbors to uphold the principle of good neighborliness.
Speaking at a press conference in Tehran, Baghaei said countries in the region—especially those that placed their facilities at the disposal of the United States and the Zionist regime during the recent war—must reconsider their actions.
“If in the future we witness another aggression by America and the Zionist regime and their soil is used to attack Iran, certainly the response will be different,” Baghaei said.
He emphasized that all countries in the region have had a bitter experience with US military presence and intervention, adding: “We are eternal neighbors.” … continue
By Raphael Machado | Strategic Culture Foundation | October 4, 2026
The year 2026 is passing quickly. In fact, it won’t be long before it ends. Still, we remember very well how this year opened: on January 3, the U.S. carried out a military operation in Caracas, in which they abducted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Lícia Flores. During this operation, a large part of Maduro’s bodyguards lost their lives. Maduro was close to a bunker, but he couldn’t reach it and seal the door in time before being captured.
In his place, Delcy Rodríguez assumes power, supported by her brother Jorge Rodríguez, who presides over the National Assembly, by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, and by Vladimir Padrino López, who controls the military. Far from betting on “free and democratic elections,” the U.S. endorsed the continuity of Bolivarian politics, keeping Delcy Rodríguez in power. Maria Corina Machado, Juan Guaidó’s successor in the Venezuelan “color revolution” project, has already fallen into oblivion.
What really happened during Maduro’s abduction? The circumstances were never sufficiently well explained, and we continue swimming amid rumors and hearsay. Occasionally, unverifiable information emerges that some elements of Maduro’s security team sold him out in exchange for financial compensation, never paid by the U.S. In fact, Venezuela’s interim government made several changes to the presidential guard after the abduction, even while denying that there was any betrayal. … continue
By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | October 3, 2026
A lawyer for the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has told a US court that a lawsuit filed by X against the group is an attempt to punish it for its speech.
The case is X’s attempt to revive its July 2023 lawsuit that was dismissed in March 2024 by a lower instance court. X accuses CCDH of breaking its terms of service by scraping public posts and publishing reports based on this data, which X says cost it millions of dollars in lost ad revenue as brands were pressured to abandon the platform.
CCDH’s reports are based on what it considers to be “harmful content” and “disinformation” on social media platforms. It then uses this data to pressure those platforms to deplatform the speakers, and in addition, the group works to defund these platforms by getting advertisers to pull their ads.
CCDH’s model, in other words, is to get people punished for their speech, and yet its lawyer Dennis Brandon Trice is now playing the free speech card to protect CCDH from being punished… Full article
RT | October 2, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected what he described as “American free speech” as he defended the EU’s controversial Digital Services Act (DSA), which US officials have branded an instrument of censorship.
Speaking to reporters during a trip to Spain on Wednesday, Macron said he had asked the EU to enforce the DSA “much more extensively, much faster and much more forcefully” to tackle the spread of misinformation.
“So-called American ‘free speech’ – at least as it exists today and has been promoted by some people – is the opposite of free speech,” Macron said, arguing that individual freedoms come with responsibilities and respect for the freedoms of others.
“I know this when I walk down the street: my freedom cannot mean that I am free to hit you, insult you or vandalize the public space that belongs to everyone. Yet that is some people’s idea of ‘free speech,’” he added.
“Until we hold those who disseminate content on social media accountable, we will not be able to regulate it,” the French leader said. “When someone writes something – when a journalist writes something completely false or an editor publishes it – they can be held accountable.”
Adopted in 2022, the DSA requires online platforms such as Facebook, X, TikTok, Google and YouTube to address illegal content, increase transparency around advertising and algorithms, protect minors, and assess and mitigate systemic risks such as disinformation. The largest platforms face additional obligations and can be fined up to 6% of their worldwide annual turnover for violations.
In December 2025, the EU imposed its first fine under the DSA, ordering Elon Musk’s X to pay €120 million ($140 million) for violating the law. Last month, the US government backed X’s appeal, arguing that the bloc had overstepped its authority in targeting an American company. … Full article
By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | October 2, 2026
If you are a British citizen and you criticize a government program online, that criticism can be collected and stored by a government-linked body.
At least that seems to be the upshot of the actions of the Prevent Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU), “a body linked to the Home Office,” that has been keeping “observations” of those who speak against the government’s Prevent counter-extremism program on the internet.
The “evidence” of this comes from documents the group Rights & Security International (RSI) obtained under freedom of information law. … continue
MEMO | October 3, 2026
A Guardian investigation has revealed how Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s national security adviser and the man at the top of a security apparatus that has spent years hacking, tracking and jailing critics of the ruling family, has become one of the most powerful financiers of artificial intelligence in the world.
The long read by Jack Shenker, published yesterday, warns that Tahnoon’s rise places critical parts of the world’s AI infrastructure in the hands of a man who commands the full surveillance machinery of an authoritarian state.
Tahnoon, the brother of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed, oversees an economic empire estimated at around $1.5 trillion. As people increasingly hand their data, and even their private thoughts, to AI systems, the paper argues that the character of those who control the technology matters.
At the centre of Tahnoon’s ambitions is G42, the company he built in the late 2010s from the remains of DarkMatter, the state-linked firm that ran the UAE’s secret hacking programme, Project Raven. Staffed largely by former US intelligence operatives, the programme began as a counterterrorism effort but grew into a sweeping hacking operation against Emirati dissidents, human rights activists, journalists and politicians around the world.
G42 expanded after Tahnoon became national security adviser in 2016, and the UAE’s normalisation of relations with Israel, which he helped steer, opened the door to the Pegasus spyware. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 3, 2026
Morocco’s domestic intelligence agency deployed Israeli-made Pegasus spyware against journalists, human rights defenders, and other civil society figures, Amnesty International documented in an investigation exposing an extensive system of surveillance reaching into private homes and communications.
Published Thursday, the report draws on insider testimony, digital forensic evidence, and surveillance companies’ internal records to detail how the Direction Générale de la Surveillance du Territoire (DGST) combined phone hacking with intercepted calls, location tracking, and covert recordings.
The findings come as Rabat deepens its diplomatic relationship with “Israel”, following a September agreement to upgrade their missions to embassies and appoint ambassadors. … Full article
MEMO | October 3, 2026
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is set to spend $233 million to defeat candidates in this fall’s congressional midterm elections who speak out against the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warned US Senator Bernie Sanders, Anadolu reports.
The top pro-Israel lobbying firm in the US “plans to spend $233 million to defeat candidates who dare to speak out against Netanyahu’s extremist government,” Sanders said on US social media platform X on Friday.
“They spent $33 million to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan primary. They lost. They are going to keep losing,” he said. … Full article
MEMO | October 3, 2026
At least 16 Palestinians, including a woman, were injured and 55 olive trees were burned Saturday in attacks by Israeli occupiers on olive harvesters across the occupied West Bank, according to medical and local sources, Anadolu reports.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said five Palestinians were beaten by occupiers while picking up olives in a field in Sebastia, north of Nablus.
The society also said three Palestinians were injured in an occupier assault in Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus, while two others were injured after being sprayed with pepper spray in nearby Beit Imrin.
A farmer also suffered bruises after occupiers attacked him while he was harvesting olives in Arrabuna, east of Jenin, the same source said.
In Rantis, northwest of Ramallah, occupiers attacked a man, his wife and their children with sticks, weapons and pepper spray in the village’s Al-Tin al-Shami area, injuring five family members, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
The wife was also run over during the attack, according to the agency. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – October 3, 2026
GAZA – Six Palestinians were killed and several others were injured in new Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while two others died of wounds sustained in previous attacks.
According to media sources, an Israeli drone struck a group of civilians near the Abbas al-Kilani rotary in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, in the afternoon, killing 35-year-old Mahmoud Aliyan and wounding others.
Other civilians were injured in the evening in an Israeli strike near Abdul-Rahman School in northern Gaza.
Two citizens were also pronounced dead after succumbing to bullet injuries sustained recently in central and northern Gaza.
Meanwhile, a young man was wounded after being shot by Israeli forces in the western rotary area of Beit Lahia.
Earlier at dawn, five Palestinians, including four women, were martyred and several others were injured after an Israeli strike targeted an apartment in the west of Gaza City.
Al Mayadeen | October 3, 2026
Saudi warplanes launched airstrikes on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and Saada on Saturday, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported.
In detail, over 10 airstrikes targeted several areas in Yemen over a two-hour period, with the Saudi strikes targeting Jabal Attan, south of the capital. In Yemen’s northern Saada province, Saudi artillery shelling targeted the border district of Ghamr, along with populated villages in the border district of Razeh.
Saudi missile strikes also targeted telecommunications networks in the Haydan and Saqin districts of Saada Governorate, Yemen’s SABA news agency reported, citing a local source. … Full article
Al-Manar | October 3, 2026
In response to the ongoing Saudi aggression on Sanaa and other cities in Yemen, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation using a number of ballistic missiles and drones targeting the Aramco company in KSA’s capital, Riyadh.
Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree issued a statement that detailed the operation:
In response to the Saudi aggression against the capital, Sana’a, and the liberated provinces, which in the past 24 hours reached up to 60 airstrikes and missile attacks, bringing the total number of Saudi aggression attacks since the escalation against our country to 1,410, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out a qualitative military operation using a number of ballistic missiles and drones targeting the Aramco company in the Saudi enemy’s capital, Riyadh.
Full article
By Iqbal Jassat | Press TV | October 3, 2026
The departure of the final US military forces from Iraq marks a profound turning point in the modern history of West Asia.
For over two decades, the narrative of foreign intervention dictated that regional stability was impossible without Washington’s oversight. Today, that narrative lies broken.
The end of the US-led military mission is not the result of a benevolent diplomatic concession or a calculated policy shift by the Pentagon. It is, undeniably, a hard-fought victory achieved through the unyielding resolve of Iraq’s Islamic Resistance and the enduring steadfastness of its people.
Crucially, the withdrawal of American forces delivers a severe blow to the strategic calculations of the Zionist entity. For decades, Israel’s expansionist ambitions and its destabilising campaign of aggression across the region – from Palestine and Lebanon to Syria – have relied entirely on the foundational guarantee of US military backing.
Washington’s illegal military presence in Iraq served as a vital buffer and logistics corridor designed to fracture the Axis of Resistance and project power on Israel’s behalf. With the American shield removed from Iraq, the regional depth that Tel Aviv exploited to enforce its hegemony is rapidly collapsing.
The end of the US occupation severely limits the capability to isolate regional resistance factions, exposing the fundamental limits of Zionist expansionism when stripped of direct imperial protection.
The balance of power has fundamentally shifted, proving that the era of unpunished aggression across West Asia is coming to an end. … continue
The Canary | October 3, 2026
An exposed lie about a door has destroyed Israel’s narrative and confirmed the FlyDubai ‘incident’ as the ‘false flag’ we knew it was.
The ‘plumber’ at the heart of the narrative, who supposedly overcame the ‘terrorist’ pilot and pulled the plane out of its dive, claimed that he and another passenger struggled to get into the cockpit, because the wounded pilot’s body was blocking it:
The pilot, who was injured, was very close to the door, so it was difficult for us to open it…
I went to the cockpit door, and it was unlocked. A crew member and I pushed the door very hard and managed to get in.
But the cockpit door on Boeing 737s opens outward… Full article
MEMO | October 3, 2026
US Sen. Chris Van Hollen said on Friday that President Donald Trump is preparing to expand the country’s military presence in the Middle East, accusing the administration of concealing service member casualties and pursuing an “illegal war of choice” in Iran, Anadolu reports.
“The President, who continues to hide service member casualties, is now sending up to another 10,000 troops to his illegal war of choice in Iran,” Van Hollen wrote on US social media company X. “When Trump says he’s planning on renewing his war next month, believe him. Congress must cut off funding.”
The remarks came after reports said the Pentagon is preparing to deploy a third aircraft carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East as Trump considers resuming strikes on Iran… Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 3, 2026
Mass demonstrations took place in Geneva and other European cities on Saturday to condemn ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza, Lebanon, Iran and Syria, Al Mayadeen’s Geneva bureau chief reported.
In the Swiss city, large crowds of students and members of the public joined the protests, denouncing Israeli crimes and criticizing governments’ responses to the continuing attacks.
A statement issued by the Geneva demonstration condemned Israeli crimes against Palestinians and Lebanese people, alongside violence committed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Protesters also denounced governments for remaining silent or restricting their responses to statements they described as “timid” in the face of “Israel’s” crimes in Palestine and Lebanon.
The demonstrations come amid continuing Israeli attacks on Gaza, Lebanon and Syria and the repercussions of the war on Iran. They reflect growing popular mobilization across European cities against wars and violations in the region.
Sputnik – 03.10.2026
Several hundred people gathered in central Paris on Saturday to protest against providing further aid to Ukraine and demand France’s withdrawal from the European Union and NATO, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
The protest, called by the leader of the French right-wing Patriots party and a presidential candidate, Florian Philippot, is taking place at the Palais-Royal square in central Paris.
The demonstrators are holding up posters saying, “[French President Emmanuel] Macron, we will not die for Ukraine,” “Macron out” and “For Frexit.”
“To live, not merely survive, to live freely and in peace – that is our message. Behind this lie serious political decisions. We must withdraw from the EU, withdraw from NATO and stop funding the war in Ukraine as well as the supply of arms for it,” Philippot told reporters at the event.
The funds being sent by the French authorities to Kiev should be spent on lowering gas taxes in France, the politician argued.
By Ricardo Martins – New Eastern Outlook – October 2, 2026
It was common practice during the Cold War to exaggerate the threat from the Soviet Union. Nowadays, Russia has assumed that role. Although the circumstances have changed, some of the political methods employed to create a sense of insecurity are still remarkably similar.
Europe is not formally engaging in preparations for war since it desires one. Instead, the governments of Europe and the institutions of the EU describe their rapidly growing defence policies and war preparedness as being aimed at deterrence, on the basis that Europe has to become strong enough to avoid a bigger conflict.
NATO does likewise, presenting itself as a defensive alliance whose role is to deter aggression. Nevertheless, the extent and the terminology used in Europe’s present military transformation should be examined. If preparedness becomes a top political concern, if huge amounts of public money are channelled into defence industries, and if support for Ukraine becomes more and more tied to Europe’s own security, then a significant question arises: where does deterrence cease and the political preparation for war begin?
The question is especially relevant to the EU, which has throughout its history been based on reconciliation, economic interdependence and a rejection of war. … continue
By Jill Erzen | The Defender | October 2, 2026
Tracy Beth Høeg, M.D., Ph.D., an epidemiologist and sports physician, said her decision to follow the data during the COVID-19 pandemic came at a steep professional price.
Her research challenged policies on school closures, masking and COVID-19 vaccines. She said the fallout included losing her position at the University of California, Davis, being dropped from an NPR interview and being fired from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Høeg said her experience exposed the unwillingness of universities, media and public health institutions to adapt when research conflicted with their accepted narratives.
In an interview this week with investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker on The DisInformation Chronicle, Høeg said institutions too often treated the accepted narrative as settled and then dismissed or attacked people who questioned it.
That approach did more than distort the public discussion about COVID-19, Høeg said. It also created a scientific and institutional culture that could affect how other medical questions are handled long after the pandemic. … continue
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | October 2, 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday sued Pfizer and its CEO, Albert Bourla, alleging that the drugmaker misled the public by marketing its COVID-19 vaccine as safe and effective while not disclosing the vaccine’s potential risks to pregnant women, children and teenagers.
The 49-page lawsuit alleges Pfizer violated Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act by deceptively marketing its vaccine to the public in turn for making billions of dollars in profit.
According to the complaint, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine marketing campaign focused on two principal themes: that the shot “posed no material safety risks” and that “mass vaccination was necessary to stop the transmission of COVID-19” — even though Pfizer never tested the vaccine’s ability to stop the virus from spreading.
Pfizer possessed extensive evidence that its vaccine caused serious adverse events — including 1,223 reported deaths following vaccination as of February 2021 and 52 miscarriages among vaccinated pregnant women. However, the company assured the public the vaccine was safe.
“Today we sued Pfizer for deceptively marketing the products as safe — making billions — while pregnant women were miscarrying their babies and teenagers were having heart attacks,” Uthmeier said in a statement. … continue
RT | October 2, 2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has rewarded her personal communications adviser with a permanent job in the commission’s media department, in a move that reveals how the EU bureaucracy really works, and how von der Leyen has created a royal court in Brussels.
Von der Leyen’s College of Commissioners – the 27 unelected bureaucrats who run the EU’s executive branch – met on Wednesday and signed off on the appointment of Jens Flosdorff as the bloc’s new ‘Director for Citizens Communication’.
Flosdorff was given the role after a “merit based and very highly competitive selection procedure,” the commission said in a statement. According to the EU-focused Rapporteur news site, however, Flosdorff was parachuted into the role by von der Leyen, whom he served for more than two decades as ‘personal communications adviser’.
Flosdorff’s new position will net him a largely tax-free salary of €216,000 ($245,279) per year, plus expenses and benefits.
Those with a memory of the Soviet Union, or an appreciation of Gogol or Bulgakov, might muster a quiet laugh at the appointment for life of a long-time confidant of Ursula von der Leyen to the well-paid and unassailable post of ‘Director for Citizens Communication’. However, a closer look at the EU’s communications apparatus reveals levels of bureaucratic redundancy beyond the wildest imagination of the great Russian absurdists. … continue
RT | October 2, 2026
Russian businessman Konstantin Malofeev has accused former US President Joe Biden’s administration of stealing his money and using some of it to support Ukraine’s armed forces.
Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on Friday at Malofeev’s request over the seizure of his US assets. Investigators said they are trying to identify American officials involved in what the agency described as illegal decisions.
Malofeev, the owner of Russian TV channel Tsargrad, said the US seized $10 million from him, including $5.4 million that was later transferred to Ukraine.
“Former US president [Joe Biden] and Attorney General Merrick Garland stole my money, legally invested in the United States – even before any sanctions,” Malofeev wrote on Telegram.
He accused Biden and Garland of creating an “organized criminal group” between 2021 and 2024 to seize Russian state assets and property belonging to Russian citizens. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 3, 2026
As Jared Kushner has emerged as a key negotiator in the war on Gaza, his private equity firm, Affinity Partners, has become the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company that has backed businesses involved in Israeli military campaigns, a CNN investigation revealed.
Kushner has avoided the greater scrutiny that could accompany such a potential conflict of interest by serving as a volunteer envoy rather than taking a government position that would require him to disclose his financial holdings.
The arrangement has given Kushner an unusual dual role in the Trump administration, combining private-sector investment with high-level diplomacy during a devastating war. … continue
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- ‘We did not attack Pakistan with drones’: Afghan sources
- Senate Rejects Iran War Powers Resolution Passed By House
- Iraqi Resistance faction links arms to sovereignty, questions US exit
- Yemen launches preemptive strikes on Saudi positions in Jizan
- Cannon fodder no more… South Korea rejects Trump’s pressure to join his criminal war on Iran
- Tehran blasts Ottawa for downplaying Trump’s annihilation threat
- Neria Leiter Was A Legitimate Military Target
- ‘We don’t seek permission to defend our country’: Snippets from President Pezeshkian’s UNGA address
- NATO chief wants Europeans to fight American wars [for Israel]
- 24 civilians killed, wounded in Saudi strikes on Yemen’s Taiz, al-Jawf
- Yemen warns US against joining Saudi aggression, draws red line at Bab al-Mandeb
- German chemicals giant reveals details of downsizing
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- Top Nepal court demands answers after government arrests analyst for sharing Grayzone exposé
- Refaat Al-Areer Was The Canary In The Coal Mine In Israel’s War On The Truth
- Israeli election committee bars candidate from Knesset race over Gaza war opposition
- Six killed in relentless Israeli attacks across Gaza
- Gaza detainees injured in recent Negev prison crackdown
- French activist files complaint alleging torture during 2025 Gaza flotilla
- French-Lebanese man files war crimes complaint over Israeli attacks
- Iran issues indictment against Israeli figures over Hezbollah pager explosions
- Iran Calls French Positions on Regional Developments Unacceptable
- Mahan Air Flight Lands in China Despite US Threat against Iranian Airlines
- US eyes $10bn fund to rebuild war-battered Gulf infrastructure
- Trump meets Rodríguez near Maduro’s prison as Venezuela’s oil flows to US
- Tehran dictates terms for talks as Trump issues new threats at UN
- Iran FM meets with US envoy on UN meeting’s sidelines at American side’s insistence: Report
- Israeli settlers attack Palestinian homes, steal livestock in Silwad
- Three Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza as ceasefire violations continue
- France authorizes Netanyahu’s plane to cross airspace en route to UN General Assembly
- Israeli occupation forces advance into Quneitra, Daraa countryside and set up checkpoints
- Israeli occupation forces shell southern Lebanon, continue demolishing towns
- Qatar PM calls for Gulf security framework with Iran, says war must be ‘wake-up call’
- China condemns US extortion of Iranian airlines, rejects Washington’s ‘illegal’ sanctions threats
- Iran ready to reopen Hormuz within a week if US ends war? Tehran denied the claim: No such offer has been made
- At least 150 killed in Yemen within two days amid indiscriminate Saudi air campaign
- ‘Shameful’: UK to provide refueling support for Saudi warplanes amid war on Yemen
- Italy to move military personnel from Taif base after missile strike
- Defeating Russia on battlefield impossible – Fico
- Finland’s Stubb tells European leaders to calm down
- Finland’s Gender Clinic Reversal
- Massachusetts Wants Mental Health Visits, Why Does Government Use ‘Health’ to Enter Our Homes & Families?
- Pfizer Gave $500,000 to Groups That Lobbied to End Religious Exemption in Massachusetts
- Vaccinated People Can and Do Spread Measles, Peer-Reviewed Analysis Finds
- US lawmaker admits American people footing bill for Trump’s failed aggression against Iran
- Israeli lobby seeks to bind US fate to ‘Israel’: Araghchi
- New online database tracks pro-Israel political donations in the United States
- Israeli soldier who shot wounded Palestinian in the head pardoned ‘in the spirit’ of Jewish holiday
- Israel blocks Gaza patients from leaving for treatment for 2nd day over Jewish holidays
- Woman and Child Among Three Killed by Israeli Forces in Gaza
- Israeli Occupation Forces Shell Western Daraa Countryside
- Syria probes mysterious arms depot explosions after fifth blast in three weeks
- Saudi airstrikes kill 4, injure 3 in northern Yemen
- IRGC air defenses destroy another US MQ-1 drone over Strait of Hormuz
- Pakistan-Iran talks secure LNG shipment to Islamabad through Hormuz
- Black Sea grain crisis puts global wheat supplies under pressure
- Imran Khan’s entire immediate family detained in Pakistan ahead of mass protest demanding his release
- EU nation detains former presidential frontrunner
- German chancellor refuses to leave office after ‘disastrous’ election loss
- Unelected EU official fumes over Russian election
- Zelensky floated single state idea to drag Warsaw into war – Polish opposition leader
- Leaked: Britain’s Sham Conviction Of Hashim Thaci
- Russia Voted Under Fire. Washington Is Loading the Tankers.
- 12 Things Your Oncologist Was Trained Not to Tell You
- Anthrax Attacks Paved Way for COVID-Era ‘Junk Drugs and Vaccines’
- Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian, Injure Another Near Jenin
- How Real Is the Impact of Western Sanctions on Israel?
- Iran Army downs US Orbiter reconnaissance drone over Strait of Hormuz
- How Iran turned US military and economic aggression into strategic leverage to dictate terms
- Turkey to consider Saudi military needs amid Yemen attacks, Fidan says
- France, You Are Guilty: How Paris Turned Western Sahara into the Maghreb’s Powder Keg
- Merz calls preliminary German election result a ‘disaster’
- Ukraine launches ‘unprecedented’ attack during elections – officials
- Russian Investigators Open Terrorism Case Over Ukrainian Attacks on Moscow, Moscow Region
- Pentagon says four killed in US strike on alleged drug boat in Caribbean
- 2025 Nature Paper Claiming Worsening Global Drought Gets RETRACTED … Heavily Flawed
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