Sputnik – 05.11.2026
… When it comes to the Ukraine conflict, the GOP’s painful midterm rout will have far-reaching implications, the expert points out.
- Ukraine and Europe will now see Trump as “a lame duck,” and Zelensky will undoubtedly grow ever more insolent, relying on Democrat backing
- Trump’s ability to apply coercive measures on Ukraine will be far more limited
- For Russia, a Democrat win spells rapidly fading hopes for better ties with the US once the Ukraine conflict ends — and a growing threat of fresh sanctions
That leaves Russia with no incentive to make concessions on Ukraine in exchange for future US economic cooperation — now appearing to be an increasingly remote prospect, Suslov concludes. – Full article
Sputnik – 05.11.2026
Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, named the main reasons and consequences leading to the GOP’s crushing defeat in the US midterms. He highlighted numerous polls showing that “the top three concerns of Americans by a long shot are inflation, the economy, and the Iran war, which the vast majority of Americans believe has gone very badly.”
“These are the top issues and Republicans have completely neglected,” the expert underscored.
However, he noted that “the American people rejected the Republicans but they did not embrace the Democrats who just want different wars,” McAdams pointed out. According to him, the Democrats – who haven’t changed since the days of Russiagate – are “certainly by no means peaceniks,” which is why Americans “are going to trade one pro-war party for another pro-war one.”
“The Democrats will definitely push a new funding project for Ukraine come next Congress, starting in January, and there will be enough Republicans that will peel off and support it,” the expert went on to say.
He didn’t exclude a continuation of the Ukraine conflict that could be “maybe even more expensive and deadly,” in which the CIA is “up to its neck in involvement, giving targeting information and intelligence” to the Zelensky regime.
Al Mayadeen| November 5, 2026
Tuesday’s midterm elections have left US President Donald Trump facing a Congress with the constitutional means to restrain the US war on Iran, while strengthening Tehran’s hand in negotiations over its memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Washington.
Retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski and Mohammad Marandi, professor of English literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran, reached that assessment on Al Mayadeen’s The Grand Standoff on Wednesday.
They tied the Republican losses to Trump’s abandoned promises to end wars and prosecute the “Epstein class,” the economic toll of the war on Iran, and a growing American backlash against Israeli influence in Washington.
Marandi called the result “a major turning point,” though he stressed that the war is far from over. … continue
Sputnik – 05.11.2026
Tuesday’s crushing midterm defeat for Republicans was a “good sign” showing “that the American people are pushing the elites” and “putting pressure on them,” but the Democrats’ victory won’t bring positive changes to US foreign policy, Tehran University professor and prolific political commentator Mohammad Marandi has told Sputnik.
“The Democratic Party is not a party of peace,” Marandi emphasized, pointing out that Democrats were in charge when Israel unleashed its bloody campaign in Gaza in 2023, and initiated or greenlit the bombings, dirty wars and proxy conflicts in Libya, Syria and Yemen, as well as the crisis in Ukraine.
As far as Iran is concerned, the change of power in Congress “doesn’t mean the war is over.” The US “may attack Iran at any time. But it does mean that the regime in Washington, the political establishment in Washington, recognizes that the American people are sick and tired of war,” Marandi said.
“The working assumption is that the United States will carry out aggression,” Marandi emphasized.
“The [pro-Israel lobby] will not give up, and they are the ones who are still in charge,” Marandi said. He warned, however, that any new war will be “much more costly” for the US and Israel, both politically and militarily. … continue
MEMO | November 4, 2026
Adam Hamawy, a Muslim American doctor of Egyptian origin who helped treat people wounded during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, has won a seat in the US House of Representatives in the congressional midterm elections, the Associated Press reported.
According to results announced by the news agency, Hamawy won the seat for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District, becoming the first Muslim to represent the state in Congress.
The Cradle | November 4, 2026
The Israeli military claimed on 4 November that its deadly drone strike on the southern Lebanese town of Qabrikha targeted “suspects” who were “observing” Tel Aviv’s occupation forces.
“Earlier today (Wednesday), the [army] struck two suspects who were observing … forces in the area of Qabrikha, located outside the security zone in southern Lebanon,” the army said.
“The strike was carried out to eliminate the threat to forces operating in the security zone,” it added, stressing that it “remains committed to the agreement between Israel and Lebanon.”
The deadly drone strike took place on Wednesday afternoon. The Lebanese Health Ministry said one person was killed and another wounded.
Mohammad Nasser Younes, a paramedic with the Al-Risala Scouts Association, was identified as the victim of the strike.
The injured man was identified as photojournalist Kamal Younes.
The strike also destroyed a motorcycle.
An Israeli drone strike also hit the town of Kfar Tebnit on Wednesday. Additionally, Israel bombed the town of Qantara with warplanes.
Meanwhile, Israeli drones buzzed over south Lebanon and the capital Beirut at low altitude. … Full article
IMEMC | November 4, 2026
Israeli occupation forces forcibly evacuated 25 Palestinian families from their homes near Tulkarem refugee camp, in the northwestern part of the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday, converting some of the homes into military barracks.
Large numbers of Israeli soldiers invaded homes in the western area adjacent to the al-Hadayda neighborhood, on the outskirts of the refugee camp, and forced residents to leave, allowing them to take only a few belongings.
Residents were seen carrying some of their belongings after being forced from their homes, as the Israeli offensive continued against Tulkarem city and its two refugee camps.
An earlier November 4 report citing Quds News Network put the number of displaced families at more than 20, while subsequent coverage by An-Najah News and Sada News reported 25.
The offensive has displaced more than 5,000 families from Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps and caused widespread destruction of homes, infrastructure, and other property. Israeli forces continue to impose a siege and tight military restrictions on access to Tulkarem camp. … Full article
IMEMC | November 4, 2026
Israeli forces invaded communities across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, abducting Palestinians, including former political prisoners, women and a journalist, and temporarily detaining residents, including children. Soldiers broke into and searched homes. They were also reported to have assaulted teachers and students and restricted movement at a military roadblock. … continue
MEMO | November 4, 2026
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that a 16-year-old Palestinian schoolgirl was killed in an Israeli airstrike while returning home from school, hours after another strike hit a university college in Gaza City, killing one person and injuring 14 students.
In a statement, the ministry identified the schoolgirl as Rimas Ismail Al-Madhoun, saying she was killed shortly after leaving Al-Saraya Secondary School for Girls on her way home.
Earlier that morning, the University College of Applied Sciences was bombed while students were present on campus, according to the ministry.
The attack killed one Palestinian and injured 14 students, the statement said.
According to the ministry, more than 21,000 students have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza … Full article
By Thomas Karat | The Libertarian Institute | October 28, 2026
It usually began with the engineers walking the length of a street, threading charges through house after house along a whole block. Then the countdown, and then the block went down together, a single rolling wall of dust where a neighborhood had stood, and over the noise the men who had wired it could be heard cheering. The soldier holding the phone kept it steady on the collapse, because he was proud of it, and he posted it when it was done. This was not one street or one crew. The same scene plays across Gaza in thousands of clips, filmed by unit after unit who set the charges and whooped as the buildings fell, some of them dedicating the blast to a dead comrade or a holiday back home. The deliberate leveling of whole residential blocks, which the men who set the charges filmed and cheered as it happened, is among the most common scenes in the entire archive of soldier video.
The law speaks directly to this. … continue
Al Mayadeen | November 4, 2026
The Sanaa Health Ministry said seven civilians, including two children, were killed and six children were wounded when Saudi aircraft struck a house west of Taiz.
The ministry’s spokesman reported that the Saudi aggression on Yemen has killed or wounded 907 people since the escalation began, including 360 children and women.
The spokesman said the latest Saudi escalation has killed 266 civilians, including 86 children and 38 women, and wounded 641 others.
That is up from the 768 casualties the ministry reported through October 30, which included 232 killed and 536 wounded. The escalation began on July 13, after Saudi strikes on Sanaa International Airport.
The Taiz strike was one of several on Wednesday. The ministry reported that a separate Saudi airstrike on a home in Taiz’s Hayfan district killed at least four people, including a woman and three children, and wounded four.
The Yemeni Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree said Saudi warplanes launched 104 airstrikes and missile attacks over the past 24 hours on civilian areas in Sanaa and the governorates of Jawf, Bayda, Saada, Amran, Marib, Taiz, and Lahj.
The attacks were carried out by F-15 and Typhoon aircraft from the Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases and by missiles launched from Najran and Jizan, according to Saree. … Full article
Press TV – November 4, 2026
The head of Iran’s top legislative-arbitration body says the results of the US midterm congressional elections were a resounding “no” to Donald Trump’s warmongering policies against Iran.
Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani Amoli, who heads Iran’s Expediency Council, said on Wednesday that the outcome of the US midterm elections marked another failure and defeat for the ruling Republican Party and US President Donald Trump over his war of aggression against Iran.
“The president and his party have lost control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He himself acknowledged that Iran had played a part in this defeat,” Larijani Amoli said.
The senior cleric said, however, that the opposition Democratic Party should learn a lesson from Trump’s failed policies toward Iran and seek to change course.
“Although the track record of the political faction that has now taken control of Congress, much like that of its rival, suggests that it will largely maintain the existing course of US foreign policy, today’s election was a resounding ‘no’ and a kind of referendum on America’s warmongering policies,” Larijani Amoli said.
“If the victorious party is willing to learn from the outcome, it will heed the message of this referendum and clearly see where warmongering leads.”
The cleric said Trump remained obstinate and unwilling to fully acknowledge the impact of his war against Iran on his political fate, more than eight months after launching a joint aggression against the country with the Israeli regime.
“This is the very vile arrogance that our nation has stood up against: a power that listens neither to international law nor to human conscience, and now not even to the vote of its own people,” he said.
Al Mayadeen | November 4, 2026
Germany’s chancellor and foreign minister are failing to grasp the human and economic toll of the war on Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on X on Wednesday.
Baghaei’s remarks followed Merz’s warning that the war had cost Europe more than $110 billion over the past eight months, citing rising energy prices and the additional burden on European businesses and consumers.
Baghaei accuses Chancellor Friedrich Merz of reversing himself. He had welcomed Israeli aggression against Iran in strong terms, but now complains about what the war costs Europe.
“Once, Chancellor Merz had enthusiastically declared that Israel was doing ‘our dirty work’ with its attack on Iran. Yet just a few months later, the same chancellor laments that this war is costing the European economy 100 billion euros!” the post reads, in a translation from German.
Baghaei also says that Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has been drawn into defending the military action. “Now his foreign minister also feels compelled to justify the military assault on Iran,” the post adds.
“He is marked by such indifference and such profound moral decay that he neither acknowledges the human casualties and war crimes committed nor grasps the economic damage that this war inflicts on his own country and Europe,” Baghaei states.
The post ends with a German proverb and a jibe at the chancellor. “‘From harm one becomes wise,’ says a German proverb. Yet Hans Guck-in-die-Luft appears to be unteachable,” it reads. The nickname refers to a character in a German children’s book who walks along looking at the sky. … Full article
Now watch Western backers look the other way
By Tarik Cyril Amar | RT | November 3, 2026
… while the torture prison scandal is evolving in Ukraine, its de facto dictator Vladimir Zelensky is on yet another begging-and-bragging tour to one his most besotted and submissive fans, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany. Meanwhile, back home Zelensky’s right hand man Kirill Budanov, himself an expert in terrorism and mayhem, has already had to admit the obvious, namely that the Kiev lock-up and torture facility is not unique. On the contrary, it is typical of a whole system of national-scale abuse, of the Zelensky regime’s depravity, and the West’s complicity.
That complicity was on display as if under a magnifying glass, when a US citizen, the critical blogger and journalist Gonzalo Lira was tortured to death – in classical Zelensky-regime fashion – to both make an example and fleece him. The case was buried. Indeed, Lira could have been saved easily, if the American authorities who knew of his fate had intervened.
The Zelensky regime’s impunity is stunning. Not quite yet Israel-level but getting there. And as with Israel, the reason for this abysmal situation is a toxic mix of – very bad – geopolitics and moral and intellectual perversion. … Full article
RT | November 4, 2026
A Ukrainian court has ordered pretrial arrest without bail for the woman who raised allegations of torture at a facility in Kiev operated by the notorious neo-Nazi-linked Azov unit.
The scandal erupted on Monday after allegations emerged that dozens of men were being beaten and held for ransom at a private house outside Kiev. Furious relatives and local residents gathered outside the property, leading to clashes with the authorities.
Valentina Molodaya arrived at the house in an ambulance and livestreamed herself pleading to be allowed inside to examine men she claimed were being held there in appalling conditions.
At a pretrial hearing on Wednesday, Kiev’s Solomiansky District Court ordered Molodaya held for 60 days without bail. She is suspected of obstructing military activities, disclosing military locations and organizing mass unrest.
Molodaya denied accusations of organizing unrest and claimed that she is a medic who came to the house after being tipped off about a man who had allegedly been taken from hospital after surgery and beaten while held at the property. … continue
By Lorenzo Maria Pacini | Strategic Culture Foundation | November 4, 2026
Three signs of the same crisis
I want to ask all our readers – and you, the one reading this – a question: Do you want war?
Regardless of political, military, national, or ideological preferences, this is a serious question. Who really wants war?
We must all ask ourselves this question – and even more so, it should be asked by the politicians, technocrats, and power brokers in European chancelleries who continue to foment war.
We won’t discuss moral issues right now – we’ll write about those on another occasion. Let’s start with the institutional facts and try to understand whether and how anyone has attempted to bring about de-escalation – or not. Because when we read the Western press, there’s a constant impression that European leaders are the world’s best diplomats, constantly striving to solve global problems and ensure peace. Yet, there is a lack of sources, data, and concrete evidence. And where are all those institutions that were supposedly created to ensure peace for the entire world?
On September 30, 2026, Moscow delivered a non-paper to NATO declaring its readiness to deploy its entire arsenal, including nuclear weapons, should the Alliance attempt to isolate the Kaliningrad region. The document explicitly mentions the possibility of striking the decision-making centers of member countries from the very early stages of a conflict, and a senior European defense official noted that a threat phrased in these terms had not been heard since the end of the Cold War. Two weeks later, in Warsaw, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe responded that a Russian attack would be entirely futile. That same month, Russian border guards detained a German merchant ship in the Gulf of Finland for several hours. … continue
Trump is paying a heavy price for joining Benjamin Netanyahu’s war on Iran
RT | November 4, 2026
The view from Washington is clear: President Donald Trump’s decision to wage war on Iran cost the Republican Party the midterm elections. RT looks at how Benjamin Netanyahu’s war became Trump’s problem and whether Israel will bear any costs.
The Republican Party suffered an unequivocal wipeout in Tuesday’s midterm elections, handing Democrats their largest House majority since Bill Clinton entered the White House in 1993, along with a majority of at least ten seats in the Senate. Democrats flipped Senate seats in Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, and Maine, while Trump-backed gubernatorial candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Greg Abbott lost in Ohio and Texas respectively – states Trump won comfortably in 2024.
All of this is a dramatic about-turn from 2024, when Trump and the GOP won a decisive mandate after promising to lower costs and keep the US out of foreign wars. … continue
Trump launched a failed war on Iran for Israel last February, as his NSC director and Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted. Now, the war has come home.
Iran’s control over the Strait of Hormuz became a vice grip around the neck of Trump and the GOP, especially in the heartland, where diesel prices are 70% higher than a year ago, and farmers have been forced to leave crops in the ground. 74% of Americans told pollsters the failed Iran war was a crucial or major factor in their vote tonight, and over 60% said they were voting against the Republicans because of it. … continue
Sputnik – 04.11.2026
Both parties are “beholden to the military-industrial complex and to the AIPAC lobby,” and “the problem with the American two-party system is that most of the time it is a choice between bad and worse,” Alfred de Zayas, a retired independent UN expert and prolific commentator, told Sputnik, commenting on the results of Tuesday’s midterms.
“Both Republican and Democratic candidates advocate war over diplomacy, support Wall Street over Main Street, and promote Israel over Palestine. Very few address the needs of the American people, the key issues of education, public health, taxation, infrastructure and job-creation,” the observer stressed.
While de Zayas has little hope that the new Democrat-controlled Senate, led by Senator Chuck Schumer, will bring positive changes, he nevertheless welcomes Republicans’ loss of Congress. He believes the result will limit Trump’s ability to pursue his agenda following his “disappointing” failure to resolve the Ukraine crisis, which he traces to Democratic policies, and the decision to launch a new war against Iran. … continue
Sputnik – 04.11.2026
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei urged on Wednesday not to pin hopes on the fact that Washington’s hostile attitude towards Tehran will change after the midterm elections.
“If there are still those who harbor any hope of a change in behavior or party-factional shifts in the ruling system, or imagine that by making concessions to the United States they can turn them away from hostility towards the Iranian people, they are greatly mistaken,” Khamenei said in a statement.
Al Mayadeen| November 4, 2026
Americans rejected war at the ballot box, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday, warning Washington that any attempt to defy that verdict would meet a forceful Iranian response.
Writing on X after Democrats won the Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Ghalibaf said voters moved by “conscience or the cost of living” had said “NO TO WAR,” a message he stressed Iran endorses. Should the US government betray its own public’s will to serve “international paymasters and blackmailers,” he cautioned, it would discover that Iran’s refusal “comes with a Nightmare.” … continue
Just As It Did In Iraq And Syria , Israel Has Launched A New WMD Deception.
By Justin K.P. | The Dissident | November 4, 2026
Israel, increasingly desperate to have the U.S. launch a new war on Iran, has dusted off the WMD deception sharing clearly manipulated “intelligence” with the U.S. claiming that Iran is planning on using chemical weapons. … continue
RT | November 3, 2026
With a constitutional crisis tearing the Polish government apart, an anti-Russia “special operation” was just what Prime Minister Donald Tusk needed to reassert his power – but his gamble could spiral out of control with horrific consequences.
Poland has sent extra police and counter-terror units to its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Tusk announced on Tuesday, claiming that Warsaw had received reports that “acts of diversion or more serious provocations on the border with Russia, or even sabotage acts orchestrated by hostile services, could occur.”
“Having received more precise information that incidents could occur in the first half of November – including an incursion into Polish territory by armed individuals – we decided to deploy substantial police and counter-terrorism forces to the border and to strengthen the border guard,” he said, claiming that Polish services had been tipped off by NATO, and by Ukrainian and American intelligence agencies, including the CIA.
Tusk said that Polish border guards spotted “people with torches” on the Russian side of the border on Monday night, but offered no further evidence of a pending “incursion.”
What about that timing?
Tusk is one of the EU’s loudest proponents of the “hybrid war” theory – that Russia is waging an invisible, unprovable, yet very real war against Europe. Last month, he claimed that this supposed “hybrid war” would soon heat up, and that “we should expect… attempts at sabotage or some form of provocation in Poland” before Christmas, citing information from “Ukrainian security services and those of our allies.”
Russia has repeatedly described these claims as self-serving, with President Vladimir Putin noting last month that European leaders “desperately need to divert public attention away from domestic problems and towards external issues.”
As if to prove Putin’s point, when nationalist protesters descended upon Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal building after it was raided by police on Friday, Tusk was ready and waiting to pin the unrest on Moscow. The demonstrators were backed by “pro-Russian forces worldwide,” he said in a televised address on Saturday, adding that “an army of Russian bots online” were cheering them on. […]
Tusk’s attempt to blame the unrest outside the court on Russia fell flat. Thousands of protesters returned to the court on Tuesday as Tusk’s appointee chaired an assembly without any PiS-loyal judges in attendance. Police surrounded the court building, with clubs, shields, and – according to Poland’s Onet news site – “pain thrower” acoustic weapons ready to deploy should a riot break out.
During a National Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Nawrocki declared that “full responsibility for every police officer in the Constitutional Tribunal, the suspension of judges, illegal orders, and the entry into the Tribunal rests with one man, present in this room… Prime Minister Donald Tusk.”
In Poland, Tusk’s announcement of the Kaliningrad operation has been widely derided on social media as an attempt to draw public attention away from the court showdown. However, whether this was his intention or not, Tusk’s government has already been explicit that it intends to escalate tension with Russia along the 210 km Poland-Kaliningrad frontier.
Polish troops have taken part in two separate rounds of NATO military exercises near the Kaliningrad border so far this year. In September, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski suggested that NATO “exercise so aggressively” on the borders of the exclave, that Moscow would be left “uncertain of what we will do.” … Full article
The protests confronting Edi Rama’s government have become a test of Albania’s democracy. What began on 30 May 2026 as the Flamingo Revolution against Jared Kushner’s resort project in Zvërnec has broadened into a confrontation over corruption, Israeli investment and increasingly authoritarian government. Here is what the mainstream international media are not showing you: this uprising has a geopolitical element at its core, as protesters are accusing an embattled Rama of “selling Albania to Israel.” His increasingly unpopular government has responded with a wave of police violence, mass arrests and increased restrictions on freedoms.
This is an unprecedented political crisis for the country of Albania. For demonstrators, these grievances are connected: a government accused of protecting powerful business interests has resorted to the use of massive force against citizens demanding accountability.
Edi Rama’s relationship with Israel is central to that confrontation. Throughout Israel’s war on Gaza, he has maintained close ties with the Israeli government. In September 2024, he welcomed President Isaac Herzog to Tirana, and subsequently invited Israelis to settle in Albania. Israeli acquisitions of residency, passports, land and property, have since intensified accusations among the populace that Rama serves Israeli interests ahead of the Albanian electorate. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – November 3, 2026
Israeli occupation forces and settlers have intensified their attacks on Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season, carrying out 16 attacks against harvesters and their agricultural lands across seven governorates in the West Bank within just 12 hours, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
The attacks reflect an escalating campaign of intimidation aimed at preventing Palestinian farmers from accessing their land and protecting their livelihoods.
The incidents, recorded on Tuesday between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., included live gunfire, physical assaults, tear gas and stun grenades, arrests of farmers, the burning of an agricultural structure, theft of olive harvests and equipment, land bulldozing, uprooting of olive trees, and the prevention of harvesting activities. […]
In the al-Khalil governorate, Jewish settlers shot 53-year-old Palestinian woman Zarafa Ayaydeh in the foot while she was harvesting olives with her husband in the Wadi Abu Safar area of al-Shuyukh, northeast of al-Khalil.
Her husband, Jawdat Hussein Ayaydeh, 60, was beaten with clubs, sustaining injuries to his face. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – November 3, 2026
GAZA – Three Palestinian civilians were martyred and others were wounded in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, while another one died of injuries sustained yesterday.
According to media sources, three citizens were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli strike near the University College in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Another citizen was pronounced dead after succumbing to wounds sustained in an Israeli strike that targeted the al-Yabani neighborhood of Khan Yunis on Monday.
Meanwhile, widespread military activity, including shooting incidents, artillery shelling, drone overflights, and demolitions, was reported in different areas of Gaza.
Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office issued a statement to comment on the claims made by the Syrian Internal Security Forces, reiterating that the Party has no presence or affiliations in Syria.
What follows is the full text of the statement:
Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office categorically and in detail denies the accusations contained in the statement issued by the Syrian Internal Security Forces concerning the alleged connection of a purported cell to the party. It reiterates that Hezbollah has no presence or affiliations whatsoever on Syrian territory and has no connection to any activity that undermines Syria’s security and stability.
The repeated accusations and the invocation of Hezbollah’s name in such cases do not alter the reality of its firm and clear position, which it has repeatedly declared. Hezbollah’s compass is confronting the “Israeli” enemy, which is intensifying its attacks on Lebanon and Syria and continues to occupy their territories. Accordingly, confronting this enemy and its expansionist schemes remains the highest priority around which efforts and positions should be unified, away from accusations that serve no one but its interests.
The Cradle | November 3, 2026
US President Donald Trump said on 3 November that he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed that Washington would halt its billions in yearly aid to Tel Aviv after the end of this year. … continue
By Brian McGlinchey | Stark Realities | November 2, 2026
While the disastrous US-Israeli attempt to impose regime change on Iran has commanded the world’s attention, most people are oblivious to the rising probability that regime change is instead coming to a major US and Israeli partner: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Owing to financial strains, demographics, military failures, and simmering domestic discontent, it may only be a question of magnitude. That is, will Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) be removed by fellow members of the House of Saud, or will the 94-year-old kingdom collapse altogether? Most likely, we’ll see both things happen in fairly rapid succession. … continue
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | November 3, 2026
Yesterday, at the opening of ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi, ADNOC’s CEO Sultan Al Jaber told the world that energy security now comes down to getting the oil to the customer, not just producing it. He wants storage, redundancy and diversified routes to market. He noted that shipping and logistics have climbed from less than 5 percent of the cost of a barrel to more than 30 percent. All true. But he skipped one small detail about routes to market. They require ships. … continue
Al Mayadeen | November 3, 2026
Several explosions on Qeshm Island on Monday evening, the intensity of which suggested they took place inside the island, Iranian news agency IRNA reported.
The agency said the nature of the explosions is not yet known, and no official statement has been issued on their cause or circumstances.
IRNA quoted residents as saying they saw two aircraft flying over the island.
Earlier on Monday, the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said Iranian air defenses intercepted two US MQM-170 reconnaissance drones south of Qeshm and seized them. The Aerospace Force also intercepted and destroyed a US MQ-9 drone east of the Strait of Hormuz, the 55th such drone it has destroyed.
The reports come as diplomatic efforts continue, with Qatari mediators in Tehran in recent days and US Vice President JD Vance reporting progress on a deal, even as US forces have prepared to attack Iran after Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Al Mayadeen | November 3, 2026
Pyongyang on Tuesday rejected Washington’s claim that it orchestrated a roughly $6 billion theft from the Binance cryptocurrency exchange, according to the state-run KCNA agency.
Kim Yo Jong, Deputy Director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers’ Party of Korea, called the charge “absurd rhetoric” and said it showed the United States still harbors hostile intentions toward her country.
Her statement followed an FBI announcement over the weekend that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was responsible for draining more than $6 billion in digital assets from Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world.
If confirmed, it could be the biggest financial theft ever recorded. The bureau pinned the attack on TraderTraitor, a hacking unit it alleges is backed by DPRK, and claimed investigators had seen the thieves swap the loot into Ethereum and expected them to try laundering it further.
Kim said Washington was trying to paint DPRK as a “cybercriminal state” and called it a “grave political provocation” to suggest that cybercrimes worldwide were Pyongyang’s doing. She warned that, given the “very unpleasant US hostile attitude,” DPRK has “issues to reconsider,” without saying which ones.
The remarks arrive while DPRK continues to ignore President Donald Trump’s repeated offers to restart summit talks. Analysts suggest the leadership may be weighing its next steps. … Full article
By Eric Worrall | Watts Up With That? | November 3, 2026
But abolishing 30% of household energy bills by cancelling the green energy transition might help.
Pundits covering widespread riots in Europe are careful to describe the problem as “cost of living”, rather than specifically mentioning energy. But there is no doubt energy costs are at the root of much of the hardship driving public anger. … Read full article
RT | November 3, 2026
Italy should spend money tackling real domestic problems rather than driving itself deeper into debt to defend against fictional threats like the “Cossacks from the Russian steppes,” right-wing leader and MEP Roberto Vannacci said on Monday. … continue
By Tim Kirby | Strategic Culture Foundation | November 3, 2026
Bizarre uprisings are happening everywhere across the European continent right now except for Russia; France is burning, German youth are violently refusing to serve in the military and Poland’s constitutional tribunal is under attack. Now, on the eastern front of ‘civilization’ shadowy figure Kirill Budanov’s words have failed to divert the attention of the Ukrainian and global Media to a secret prison network used against their own citizens. His attempts to calm an angry public didn’t seem to go too well as he was supposedly struck by pepper spray or some sort of gas before the night was through. … continue
Remix News – November 3, 2026
The co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alice Weidel demanded on Tuesday that Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government raise allegations of abuse and torture at a Ukrainian National Guard facility near Kyiv during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Berlin.
The incident occurred on Monday evening in the village of Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, on the western outskirts of Kyiv. Dozens of relatives and local residents gathered outside a private house that the National Guard’s 1st Azov Corps was using as temporary housing for newly mobilized personnel and soldiers who returned after deserting their units without permission.
Social-media posts and Telegram channels claimed armed personnel were holding roughly 40 men in the basement, subjecting them to beatings and denying medical care. Some graphic videos showed men with shattered spines and individual reportedly had his intestines hanging out. Videos circulating online showed injured men being brought out and a distressed young man later identified in some reports as 14 years old.
The video clearly shows the 14-year-old victim being removed in a state of shock. Allegations include that he was beaten with a shovel.
Protesters threw eggs, forced open gates, and broke through a wall; police and National Guard troops responded with tear gas and warning shots into the air. […]
Weidel, co-leader of the opposition Alternative for Germany party, has long criticized German military and financial support for Kyiv and called for negotiations that take Russian security concerns into account. Her demand Tuesday places the Kyiv-region incident on the agenda of the high-profile bilateral meetings in Berlin, but it is unlikely that Merz addresses this issue.[…]
As Remix News reported years ago, George Soros predicted that Ukrainian men could be used as cannon fodder against the Russians all the way back in the early 1990s. He stated that Eastern Europe has a much higher appetite for “body bags,” which would make them useful for any future war against Russia. … Full article
RT | November 2, 2026
Protesters have attempted to storm an alleged secret military prison outside Kiev, accusing its operators of torturing soldiers and denying them medical assistance. The scandal escalated into violent clashes, prompting the personal intervention of several senior officials, including the head of Vladimir Zelensky’s office.
The incident unfolded on Monday in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital, where a private house allegedly used to hold mobilized men and suspected deserters became the center of a rapidly escalating confrontation.
Videos circulating on social media and published by Ukrainian news outlets showed attempts to force open the property’s gates, confrontations between protesters and unidentified individuals, and visibly injured men later emerging from the building after medics were finally allowed inside. … continue
RT | November 3, 2026
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has questioned Kiev’s enforcement of mandatory Ukrainian-language rules for officials after Vladimir Zelensky’s top aide was filmed speaking Russian while trying to defuse a riot over a suspected “torture chamber” site.
Kirill Budanov, the head of Zelensky’s office, was filmed on Monday evening speaking Russian during a confrontation sparked by shocking revelations about a black site operated by the neo-Nazi-linked Azov unit, which is part of Ukraine’s National Guard.
Several other people at the scene also spoke Russian, including a distressed teenager who was escorted out of the facility, the exact purpose of which remains disputed. … continue
Algeria’s Defence Ministry announced on Sunday the launch of a second operation to remove radioactive waste from former French nuclear test sites in the Sahara Desert, as Paris continues to refuse to hand over maps showing where the waste was buried or take responsibility for clearing it.
The ministry said in a statement that the operation had begun on Sunday at the Beryl E2 test tunnel site in the In Ekker area of Tamanrasset province, in the country’s far south.
The work is being carried out under the supervision of the Defence Ministry and in coordination with the National Agency for the Rehabilitation of Former French Nuclear Test and Explosion Sites in southern Algeria, the statement said.
It added that the operation is being conducted using Algerian expertise and resources, in line with applicable national and international standards.
The ministry accused France of evading its responsibilities and refusing to hand over records and maps showing the locations where nuclear waste was buried, saying the issue continued to hinder development in In Eker, in Tamanrasset province, and Reggane, in Adrar province in the country’s south-west.
It said Algerian specialists are working to clear the nuclear waste left behind by French colonial rule in southern Algeria and rehabilitate the affected sites.
The operation, for which the state has allocated financial and human resources, includes identifying radioactive areas, collecting nuclear waste and storing it in specially designed concrete containers, while adhering to safety procedures and international standards.
By Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender | November 2, 2026
The Biden administration’s surgeon general created a “misinformation tiger team” to place “maximum pressure” on social media platforms to censor COVID-19 “misinformation.”
But newly surfaced documents show that the team also had bigger plans: establish a permanent censorship apparatus targeting health and medical “misinformation.”
The documents, published last month by the Daily Caller News Foundation, show that former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s team developed COVID-19 talking points for Murthy, which advised him to “avoid” discussing concerns about vaccine safety or the regulatory process for rolling out the vaccines to the public.
The talking points also included suggesting that the unvaccinated “present problems” for themselves, family members and colleagues, and advising Murthy to present the COVID-19 shots as the only public health intervention that would “stop the spread.”
Murthy’s team also instructed him to respond to questions about the censorship of online content questioning COVID-19 vaccines, mandates and lockdowns as the “opposite” of “cancel culture.” The team told Murthy to tell the public that removing “misinformation” would give people unfettered access to “science and evidence-based health information.”
The documents were obtained in 2021 through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Protect the Public’s Trust, a nonpartisan watchdog group. … Full article
By Cindy Harper | Reclaim The Net | November 2, 2026
What do you do when you want to know how many posts people make on social media, how many of those are seen by children, how many get reported and taken down, and how fast – and you want this data broken down by age group, on an ongoing basis?
You are Ofcom, Britain’s communications regulator, and you ask the platforms to hand it over, because, well, you can. And if anyone asks why, you say: we’ll know it when we see it.
And if the companies ask why – the court will say, as the UK High Court did on October 30, that you don’t actually have to have a reason. At least, not one you can share with the likes of Meta, WhatsApp, X, and TikTok.
“We reject the submission that there has to be a specific task that OFCOM has in mind before it can require information under s.100,” Lord Justice Singh and Mrs Justice Collins Rice said in their ruling. … continue
By Cam Wakefield | Reclaim The Net | November 2, 2026
The UK’s Investigatory Powers Commissioner Sir Brian Leveson has revealed that GCHQ has “lost” thousands of memory sticks that may contain information about people it has spied on.
The news is contained in the Commissioner’s 2025 annual report, published on Wednesday, October 29, and the “misplaced” storage devices are not the only controversy involving the agency, or other UK spy and law enforcement outfits.
The Commissioner’s role is to oversee the way the government uses its surveillance powers, granted to it by the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA), which lets the state collect bulk communications data and keep a year of everyone’s internet connection records, among other things.
But it turns out that GCHQ, one of the agencies that have access to this vast amount of data, is not even capable of keeping track of its own property. … Full article
MEMO | November 2, 2026
Two people working on Republican Mike Rogers’ US Senate campaign in Michigan are registered foreign agents for Israel, according to a media report published Sunday, Anadolu reports.
Campaign spokesperson Abigail Ronson and communications specialist Jesse Stokes have been involved in Israeli government communications work since May 2026 and October 2025, respectively, while also working on Rogers’ campaign through major contractor Convergence Media, Drop Site News reported.
Ronson registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in May for work involving Havas Media Network through Clocktower X LLC, a company associated with former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale.
Her registration describes the services as “strategic communications, planning, and media services” for an Israeli government initiative in the US aimed at combating antisemitism. … continue
MEMO | November 2, 2026
Greek authorities on the Aegean island of Syros banned a protest against an Israeli-owned cruise ship scheduled to dock Tuesday, daily Kathimerini reported Monday, Anadolu reports.
The Coast Guard said the planned demonstration against the docking of the Crown Iris, which can accommodate up to 2,000 passengers and 650 crew members, could lead to disturbances, including clashes between protesters and tourists. … continue
By Mouin Rabbani | The New Arab | November 2, 2026
Israel’s 27 October election, we were repeatedly informed, would be the “most consequential” in the state’s history. Why, however, this was the case was left unstated.
Indeed, Israel’s most consequential policies, most prominently its illegal occupation of Arab territories, its apartheid regime, and a genocide against the Palestinian people now in its fourth year, were not up for debate between the main candidates. A continued rejection of Palestinian rights, and an increasingly aggressive and expansionist regional posture, in fact represented one of the few areas of agreement between the rival coalitions.
The issues that most bitterly divided them, namely the future of the Israeli judiciary, the military conscription of ultra-Orthodox religious youth, and the formation of a state commission of inquiry into the 7 October 2023 attacks, may be of significance to the Israeli Jewish public. But taken together, these hardly qualify for the dramatic characterisation of the elections adopted by so many foreign journalists.
A better explanation for the superlatives is that it was widely anticipated that the Israeli voter would put a definitive end to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s career, and additionally rebuke National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, his compulsively extremist partners in crime. In performing its assigned role, the electorate would restore the Beautiful Israel of the liberal imagination, “the only democracy in the Middle East” with “the most moral army in the world”. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – November 2, 2026
WEST BANK – The Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented 15 attacks by Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinian farmers and agricultural land across the occupied West Bank within just 12 hours on Monday, including the burning and uprooting of olive trees, land bulldozing, destruction of water sources, crop theft, arrests of farmers, and vehicle confiscation.
The commission said the attacks took place between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., affecting the governorates of Salfit, Nablus, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Bethlehem, Qalqilya, and al-Khalil.
The escalation coincided with Israeli authorities beginning construction of a new concrete wall alongside agricultural land belonging to the village of Marda, north of Salfit.
Olive trees burnt and agricultural land bulldozed
In the Salfit governorate, Jewish settlers set fire to agricultural land and centuries-old olive trees in the al-Badoun area of Iskaka village, east of Salfit. … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – November 2, 2026
GAZA – Four Palestinian citizens were martyred and others were injured in fresh Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday, while another one died of injuries sustained yesterday.
Local sources reported that a civilian was killed and several others were injured, some critically, in an Israeli strike that targeted a civilian vehicle near the al-Khour rotary in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood.
In southern Gaza, an Israeli strike killed a civilian in the al-Yabani neighborhood of Khan Yunis.
Another citizen was killed and a young girl was injured in an Israeli drone strike near the Bir 19 area of Khan Yunis.
In central Gaza, a citizen died of shrapnel wounds after an Israeli quadcopter dropped a bomb east of al-Masdar village.
Three other Gazans suffered injuries in separate Israeli attacks today.
Meanwhile, a citizen was pronounced dead after succumbing to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike on a police point in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis on Sunday.
The Cradle | November 2, 2026
Israel’s war and occupation in Lebanon have damaged around 22.5 percent of the country’s agricultural land, Agriculture Minister Nizar Hani said in a 2 November interview with Turkish news outlet Anadolu Agency.
“Around 52,000 hectares of the affected land are located in the south and Nabatieh governorates, while another 4,000 hectares are in the eastern Baalbek-Hermel governorate,” Hani said.
He added that the damage has extended past farmland and crops, affecting livestock including cattle, sheep, and goats.
“Lebanon lost more than 30,000 beehives and around 70 percent of the livestock in southern Lebanon as a result of the war,” the minister went on to say.
The agriculture minister also pointed to Israel’s customary use of white phosphorus munitions against Lebanon.
“Israel used white phosphorus during the war and sprayed areas near the border, particularly forested land, with glyphosate herbicide,” he said. … Full article
Al Mayadeen – November 2, 2026
Iranian Deputy Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Bagheri Kani stressed on Monday that Tehran’s policy approach has remained unchanged since the beginning of the war, reaffirming its commitment to defending the country’s security, sovereignty, and territorial integrity without making concessions on these principles.
Bagheri highlighted the resilience and victory of the Iranian people in the war of aggression launched by the US and the Israeli entity, noting that Washington now understands the outcome of waging war against a country with an ancient civilization.
He also stressed that preserving regional stability remains a steadfast principle of Iran’s policy, noting that Tehran has borne heavy costs over recent decades to uphold it.
Iran is ready to take steps to restore stability in a region destabilized by the US and “Israel” through new regional security arrangements that exclude their participation and influence, he added.
Earlier today, Bagheri Kani said Iran will make no concessions on its national security, sovereignty, or territorial integrity in talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, as diplomatic efforts involving Tehran, Beijing, and Muscat gathered pace. […]
The talks came amid an Omani push to explore a new mediation effort between Iran and the United States, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Beijing reported.
According to the correspondent, China supports the idea of joint Omani-Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz. The correspondent also described Beijing as the regional guarantor in the ongoing diplomatic process.
An Asian source separately told Al Mayadeen that Bagheri Kani had taken part in a closed-door trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of China and Oman, Wang Yi and Badr al-Busaidi, at the Great Hall of the People. … Full article
Al Mayadeen – November 2, 2026
US President Donald Trump has claimed he could have won the Vietnam War in a week, criticizing his predecessors’ military strategy and suggesting that Washington should have intensified its bombing campaign against North Vietnam, as the US war on Iran enters its ninth month.
Speaking at a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, on Sunday ahead of the November 3 midterm elections, Trump called previous US leaders “stupid” and criticized the prolonged use of Agent Orange to clear forest cover during the Vietnam War.
He argued that instead of spending “years, and years, and years” dropping the chemical defoliant on forests, the US should have bombed Ho Chi Minh City and other locations to secure victory. … continue
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | November 1, 2026
Riyadh has a simple method for dealing with Houthi claims. It announces that its air defenses intercepted something, says nothing about everything else, and hopes the world changes the subject. Aramco, a company that publishes its quarterly earnings to the decimal point, suddenly develops a vow of silence whenever someone asks whether its refineries are on fire.
So let me try something different. For the length of this column, I am going to ignore the Saudi government and Aramco entirely and take Ansar Allah’s military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, at his word. Not because Saree is a paragon of precision. Military spokesmen everywhere, including in Washington, inflate their results. I do it because the exercise tells you what the Houthis believe they are doing, what they are aiming at, and what Saudi Arabia stands to lose if even half of it is true. Since October 10, the answer is: quite a lot. … continue
Sputnik – 02.11.2026
ABU DHABI – A military conflict around Iran and the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz have resulted in a reduction of global oil reserves by 1 billion barrels, Sultan Al Jaber, the UAE’s industry and advanced technology minister and CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), said.
“Due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, global reserves have shrunk by nearly 1 billion barrels,” Al Jaber said while speaking at the opening of the ADIPEC conference in Abu Dhabi.
Diesel fuel reserves in some countries are at their lowest seasonal levels in 35 years, while other nations are facing a supply deficit of 600 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas, he added.
Moreover, before the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, transportation costs accounted for less than 5% of the price per barrel, but now they represent more than 30%, he said.
RT | November 2, 2026
German lawmakers and government officials have been targeted in a spyware attack, Digital Transformation Minister Karsten Wildberger has said.
Berlin suspects state involvement in the targeting of officials’ iPhones, with affected users being notified of the vulnerability, Wildberger told German broadcasters ARD and ZDF on Monday.
“The whole matter is still under investigation,” he said.
Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has described the threat as “mercenary spyware,” citing Israeli-developed Pegasus as a prominent example. The agency said state actors are frequently behind such attacks but has not identified those responsible.
The scale of the operation remains unclear. The BSI said on Monday that “other public figures” had also been targeted, but did not identify those affected or disclose their number.
The agency warned that affected iPhones should be treated as compromised, even though Apple’s notifications did not establish whether the attempted intrusions had succeeded. It advised those targeted to replace their devices, obtain new phone numbers, and transfer only essential data.
According to the BSI, such attacks can infect devices without any action by their owners, including through specially crafted messages that do not need to be opened. Once installed, spyware can potentially access encrypted communications, steal passwords, track locations, and remotely activate cameras and microphones.
Pegasus, developed by Israel’s NSO Group, is known for its ability to infiltrate smartphones without requiring users to click malicious links. The software has been used in nearly a dozen EU countries since 2016, including to monitor journalists, political opponents, and senior officials.
Similar Israeli-developed surveillance tools have reportedly been deployed in Cyprus, Denmark, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Poland, and Spain. … Full article
RT | November 2, 2026
A small but vocal group of activists claiming to represent Russia’s many ethnic minorities has been courting Western support for what they call the country’s “decolonization.”
Ukrainian and Western officials have helped the activists gain platforms in the EU, the Council of Europe and the UN.
Some of their claims, including the portrayal of Russia, home to roughly 200 ethnic groups, as Europe’s last colonial empire, have been echoed by French President Emmanuel Macron and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
One such group, the Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum, has published a map depicting Russia divided into 40 independent states.
In his latest report, RT’s Igor Zhdanov examines the activists’ ties to Ukraine and questions their claims to represent communities inside Russia.
Among those featured is Pavel Sulyandziga, who left Russia in 2017 after coming under suspicion of embezzling more than $100,000 in funds donated to support indigenous culture in one of the country’s northern regions. – Video report
By Lorenzo Maria Pacini | Strategic Culture Foundation | November 2, 2026
… Poland currently finds itself in a situation of dual legitimacy. There are two presidents of the Constitutional Tribunal, two mutually exclusive panels, a head of state who does not recognize the government’s actions, and a government that does not recognize the Tribunal’s rulings. The Supreme Court, through Kapiński, has sided with the president. The Ministry of Justice is taking action against the Court’s leadership, and the Court’s leadership is announcing criminal charges against police officers. In a semi-presidential system already marked by conflictual coexistence, the crisis now strikes at the very heart of sovereignty: who ultimately decides what is constitutional.
There are three short-term scenarios. The first is a stalemate: the government maintains physical control of the courthouse, the presidential camp refuses to recognize its actions, and every future ruling is delegitimized from the outset, with direct effects on legal certainty – from public procurement to fiscal policy. The second is an escalation: new street protests, criminal charges against Święczkowski and Sochański, and further deployment of security forces – with a real risk of serious incidents in a country that presents itself as Europe’s military bastion. The third, and least likely, is institutional mediation, which would, however, require both sides to abandon the claim that the other is entirely illegitimate.
Whatever the outcome, that night in Warsaw has already set a precedent. It demonstrated that a European executive can replace the leadership of its own constitutional court through an act lacking any legal basis – carried out by the police while the president is abroad – and present it as a restoration of the rule of law with the support, or at least the silence, of EU institutions. It has also shown just how fragile, on the eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance, a state is that for ten years has been unable to determine who its judges should be. Those who today applaud Tusk’s method should ask themselves how the next government of the opposing political persuasion will use it. In constitutional matters, precedents do not belong to those who create them. – Full article
By Ahmed Adel | November 2, 2026
Moscow has shown the European Union that continuing the conflict in Ukraine makes little sense, as Norway and Finland suggest the need for a new approach to building relations with Russia, according to Responsible Statecraft. This became clear after the Oslo conference on Ukraine, when the positions of some European leaders visibly softened.
“Finland and Norway’s more moderate language is a crucial first step toward a shared European understanding that continuing the war in its current form is self-defeating,” Responsible Statecraft reported.
The article noted that European efforts to pressure Moscow have failed. Neither Kiev nor its Western allies achieved the desired results, even after attempting to escalate the conflict, the author added. … continue
Peace comes in driblets in Ukraine
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | November 2, 2026
The famous line of Irish poet WB Yeats from the poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree comes to mind: ‘And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow…” Yeats was expressing his longing for the peace and tranquility of Innisfree, an uninhabited island in Ireland near which he spent his summers as a child while residing in an urban setting. And that is how Ukraine’s search for peace is meandering – not in a sudden, overwhelming wave; rather, in tiny, quiet increments, much like a gentle rain or a slow leak.
The ‘leak’ by Russia’s presidential aide for foreign policy Yuri Ushakov is no doubt an increment of potentially immense consequence when he told Kremlin’s preferred reporter Pavel Zarubin on Sunday that President Vladimir Putin never refused to speak with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. Replying to a pointed question whether Putin would answer a call from Zelensky, Ushakov foretold, “I think he would answer, of course. Putin has never refused to talk. He [Zelensky] is sending signals through various sources. If he really wants to negotiate, he is free to come [to Moscow].”
The remark comes within a week of the joint phone call on October 27 by Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre to Putin during which, per a subsequent disclosure by Ushakov, the Nordic leaders discreetly broached the subject of direct contact between Putin and Zelensky. Zelensky later appreciated their debriefing. This is the first thing. Apparently, Putin repeated the refrain that Zelensky can always visit Moscow and that the Kremlin would ensure his personal safety and security. Now, an addendum, as it were, has appeared for the first time to Putin’s standing offer. Presumably, it was an orchestrated Q&A. This is the first thing.
Secondly, the Kremlin closely studied the commotion in Europe that the two Nordic leaders’ impudent behavior triggered — as if the wolf entered the hay pen. The two Nordic leaders broke ranks. Denmark and Sweden protested they were not consulted. However, the two EU heavyweights — France, Germany – simply looked away, and the super hawkish European Commission (EC) leadership under Ursula von der Leyen and her fiery foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, were uncharacteristically subdued. … continue
RT | November 2, 2026
The government of Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has pledged to recover approximately $10 million in taxpayer funds paid to a dubious company that failed to deliver a single artillery shell to Ukraine.
The money was channeled through Estonia at the request of its former defense minister, Hanno Pevkur, who resigned in early September after controversial advance payments to the supplier came under public scrutiny. Danish funds continued flowing to the Italian-registered company even after Estonian authorities had reason to question its reliability, according to a new investigation.
Frederiksen has been among Kiev’s staunchest supporters and has also backed a deal to manufacture rocket fuel in Denmark for a Ukrainian arms producer promoted by Vladimir Zelensky. The company, Fire Point, originated as a film location scouting business.
The latest controversy over arming Ukraine’s military was exposed last week by the Danish investigative outlet Danwatch, which examined Copenhagen’s involvement in the Estonian procurement scandal. […]
Danwatch identified multiple warning signs surrounding Datasel, which had no experience manufacturing weapons before being acquired by Indian company Neco Defense, which claims to be an arms manufacturer. The takeover took place in March 2024, the same month Pevkur began promoting his initiative to foreign governments.
Datasel’s website, since taken down, reportedly used artwork from military-themed video games to advertise its supposed industrial capacity. Its registered address in the Italian city of La Spezia was shared with an Audi dealership also owned by Neco Defense. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | November 2, 2026
Ukraine faces substantial financing demands ahead of another year of military spending, with state and state-guaranteed debt reaching $212.6 billion at the end of September, according to the country’s Finance Ministry.
The total stood at 9.53835 trillion hryvnias as of September 30. External obligations, including government-guaranteed borrowing, accounted for approximately 7.4819 trillion hryvnias, or about 78% of the overall debt.
The figures underscore the scale of Kiev’s financial obligations as authorities seek continued international support to meet spending requirements.
Ukraine plans to allocate $108.3 billion to its armed forces in 2027, alongside a projected budget deficit of $37 billion, according to figures cited by RIA Novosti. The agency also reported a forecast placing government debt at $276 billion.
However, the planned military allocation remains substantially below the Defense Ministry’s assessment of its requirements. Deputy Finance Minister Roman Yermolychev said in September that the Ministry estimated military funding needs at $175 billion, according to the report.
That would leave a difference of approximately $66.7 billion between the proposed allocation and the ministry’s estimated requirements.
Kiev is looking to foreign financing to help cover its budget shortfall. RIA Novosti reported that negotiations over further Western assistance have involved lengthy discussions and disagreements, while partners have increasingly urged Ukrainian authorities to mobilize additional domestic funding. … Full article
RT | November 2, 2026
Ukraine’s government-backed mobile air alert app sent out false warnings of nuclear and chemical attacks on Sunday night, Ukrainian media reported.
At around 11pm, the Air Alert app sent notifications urging residents to seek shelter due to a “radiation threat” and a “chemical attack.” It also warned of “street battles” in Kiev. … continue
Sputnik – 02.11.2026
The Iron Mace command-post exercises, focused on the integration of conventional and nuclear forces and conducted jointly by South Korea and the US, constitute a rehearsal for a nuclear war aimed at the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea, Kim Jong Sik said.
Earlier, the Yonhap news agency reported citing military sources that South Korea and the US had held the Iron Mace command-post exercises, which centered on the integration of conventional and nuclear forces.
“These military exercises, with their aggressive codename, represent the most horrific rehearsal for a nuclear war, aimed at the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea,” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) quoted Kim Jong Sik, a deputy department director of the Workers’ Party of Korea Central Committee, as saying. … Full article
By Jo Nova | October 28, 2026
Horrible people want to discuss upper tropospheric warming or their electricity bills and we can’t have that.
Careless discussion of such like, or radiosondes, cannot be permitted. Rest assured, the World Health Organization (the WHO) are here to save you from accidentally hearing any climate debates. Average voters must be shielded from climate disinformation, lest they forget to vote correctly, sorry, I mean, forget to leave burning buildings. Because that could happen to anyone, right?
The WHO (why are we still members) have produced a report titled ‘Protecting Health in the Age of Climate Disinformation’. It is said to be the ‘first instance of the health community addressing how climate disinformation harms’. This follows on from the EU declaring they would crack down on fake news, and conspiracy theories at the last COP meeting in Brazil.
The WHO has hauled out the linguistic artillery. Those who wield “climate disinformation” are not just shills of big oil, they are a “hybrid weapon of war” and a growing “public health threat”. … continue
Press TV | November 1, 2026
British police have arrested 139 people during a demonstration against the country’s ban on Palestine Action outside the US Embassy in London, days before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an appeal challenging the group’s proscription.
On Saturday, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Battersea, south London, carrying placards reading, “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” according to The Guardian. A separate solidarity vigil was held outside the US Consulate in Edinburgh.
The Metropolitan Police had warned participants that expressing support for Palestine Action, which is proscribed under British “terrorism legislation,” could lead to arrest. The police had also warned that organizers and those providing logistical assistance or directing participants could face criminal charges.
Following the arrests, the force said in a statement on X, “Officers remain on scene and are continuing to make arrests.”
Commander Adam Slonecki, who led the crackdown, tried to defend the arrests, saying, “All those intending on coming to this event know that supporting a proscribed organization is unlawful – they are essentially meeting to purposefully commit a crime,” according to the paper. … Full article
Press TV | November 1, 2026
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), which is the largest labor organization in the country, has urged its members to refuse to handle any weapons and military equipment being transported through Canada to the Israeli-occupied territories.
The labor body, which represents about 3 million workers, said in a statement published on October 28 that it stands in solidarity with Palestinian workers and their families, as well as with all those advocating for peace, justice, and adherence to international law.
The CLC emphasized that Canada is responsible for ensuring that arms manufactured on its soil are not used against Palestinian civilians or in breach of international humanitarian law, and called on the Ottawa government to stop all direct and indirect transfers of weapons and military equipment to the Israeli-occupied lands.
The umbrella organization called on Ottawa to adhere to international law, safeguard civilian lives, and support a fair and lasting peace for Palestinians.
Despite assertions from Canada that it has limited or suspended arms transfers to the Israeli-occupied lands, shipping and import records indicate a steady supply of weapons and military components. … Full article
By Robert Inlakesh | Palestine Chronicle | November 1, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Palestinians are responsible for “stealing” the latest round of Israeli elections, in what has been labeled the most consequential race in Tel Aviv’s history. What instead has been revealed is that Israel’s existence is predicated on the idea that democracy should be forbidden. … continue
Palestinian Information Center – November 1, 2026
AL-KHALIL – The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) detained 10 Palestinian teachers in Masafer Yatta and appropriated 20 camels in the Yatta pastoral region, south of al-Khalil in the West Bank, on Sunday.
Local sources reported that Israeli forces intercepted a vehicle carrying teachers on the Khillet al-Daba road as they were en route to Jinba School before detaining them and taking them to a nearby military outpost.
Israeli forces also seized a herd of 20 camels belonging to Nayef al-Atimin near the Umm Qassah area in the pastoral region of Yatta.
A local activist said that Israeli forces transferred the camels to one of their military bases, claiming they were grazing in an area designated as a “nature reserve.”
Meanwhile, a horde of extremist settlers surrounded a medical crew in Masafer Yatta, preventing them from reaching local communities, specifically Khirbet al-Majaz, to provide healthcare to residents.
The Cradle | November 1, 2026
Israel is reportedly forcing some Palestinians in Gaza, among them resistance fighters and supporters of the resistance, to choose between being assassinated alone or alongside their families, Al-Sharq al-Awsat reported on 1 November.
“They received a call from the occupation giving them a choice between being bombed along with their families or being killed alone,” the paper wrote.
Relatives of activists affiliated with Palestinian resistance factions killed by Israel say they were targeted by Israeli drones while walking alone on side streets or main roads, or while on the rooftops of homes, residential buildings, or shelters where they lived with their families.
In the latest case, an Israeli drone killed a young Palestinian man, Mohammed al-Bayouk, on Wednesday afternoon in central Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
Bayouk’s relatives stated that before he was assassinated, he received a phone call from an officer of Israel’s General Security Service (Shin Bet) who gave him a choice between being bombed along with his family or going up to the roof of the shelter where they were living to be killed alone.
Bayouk chose to spare his family and went to the roof where a small missile killed him.
One of his aunts suffered serious injuries while chasing after Bayouk to prevent him from leaving the family’s small room in the shelter alone after receiving the call. … continue
Al Mayadeen | November 1, 2026
Israeli drone attacks killed eight Palestinians in Gaza, bombing the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis and the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on Sunday. A ninth person succumbed to wounds sustained in an earlier IOF attack on central Gaza.
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Gaza Strip reported that a drone bombed a gathering of civilians in al-Rimal, west of Gaza City, killing three people, including a father and his child. Six others were wounded, among them children in critical condition.
In the south, a drone attack on al-Mawasi killed five people and wounded others. Gaza’s Interior Ministry said the attack targeted police officers and personnel on duty, with several martyrs and wounded among its ranks. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | November 1, 2026
Israeli forces carried out detonations and artillery strikes in several towns and areas across southern Lebanon, while Israeli warplanes and a drone also targeted locations in the region, Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported on Sunday.
Israeli occupation forces carried out demolitions in the towns of Aitaroun and Ainatha, according to the correspondent. Israeli artillery also shelled the towns of Kfar Tibnit and Beit Yahoun, as well as Wadi Zibqin.
Separately, Israeli warplanes targeted the town of al-Qusayr, while an Israeli suicide drone exploded in the town of Maifadoun, the correspondent reported. … Full article
By Arman Shariati | Press TV | November 1, 2026
… The Dimona complex is not simply a reactor that can be switched off or rendered irrelevant by a single strike. It is an integrated nuclear installation encompassing multiple functions associated with spent-fuel storage, reprocessing and the handling of nuclear materials.
Israel’s nuclear infrastructure is concentrated, interdependent and, in part, exposed above ground, while its supporting systems present vulnerabilities distinct from those of its more heavily protected core facilities.
This broader picture raises important questions about the resilience of Israel’s nuclear infrastructure in the face of Iran’s demonstrated missile capabilities, including its precision-guided, solid-fuel ballistic missiles and its ability to penetrate even highly sophisticated air-defence systems.
These vulnerabilities also undermine the escalation logic set in motion by the previous two imposed wars. A rogue entity that attacks a democratic, sovereign country’s nuclear facilities risks inviting retaliation against its own strategic infrastructure.
But a strike on Dimona resulting in a significant radiological release would go far beyond a conventional act of military action, potentially creating consequences that extend widely.
This is precisely why the distinction between Iran’s demonstrated capabilities and its actual choices matters. During the 40-day war, Iranian missiles struck areas near Dimona rather than the nuclear facility itself. They also struck a refinery and an area without directly attacking the reactor. Tehran thus demonstrated its reach while stopping short of hitting the reactor.
The sequence of events matters. The military aggression against Iran’s safeguarded nuclear facilities was not initiated by Tehran. It began with unprovoked Israeli and American attacks on Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan and Arak in 2025 and 2026, accompanied by repeated declarations from Israeli and American leaders that the objective was to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear bomb.
Like the nuclear infrastructure of any other entity, Israel’s facilities cannot be considered immune from military attack. Their geographical concentration raises additional questions about their strategic vulnerability. This is a description of the strategic environment that the previous two wars have helped create.
If the third war, now being discussed, proceeds against Pickaxe Mountain, Tehran will have further grounds to regard the precedent established by attacks on its own nuclear infrastructure as justification for expanding the scope of potential retaliation.
It should be noted that all these facilities are situated in the Negev, far from any major population center and at a distance from the cities and settlements inside the occupied territories, so that, on this reading, no danger would be posed to the people, Palestinians or Israeli settlers.
On the other hand, the Dimona complex has never been placed under IAEA safeguards, Israel has refused to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the site’s military character has been concealed from international inspection for six decades. Responsibility for any release, on this account, would fall on the regime that secretly built an unsafeguarded weapons plant in the desert. – Full article
Al Mayadeen | November 1, 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday that it had designated British intelligence a hostile entity and the British Navy and Air Force terrorist organizations.
The decision was taken “in response to the hostile actions carried out by the British government against Iran over the past year,” the ministry said, citing Britain’s involvement in the war on Iran and its designation of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization” in July, following a similar move by the European Union.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry stressed that the measures were adopted “in accordance with international law,” adding that the British government “will be responsible for the consequences.”
It further confirmed that, “as of the date of publication of this statement, the British Navy and British Air Force will be subject to the law of reciprocity.”
Besides the designation and escalating rhetoric, London has taken part in the US aggression against Iran after Prime Minister Andy Burnham approved allowing the United States to use British military bases against Iran.
IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi had warned several states, including Britain, supporting the United States in the war against Iran that they could become a “legitimate target” for Iran, stressing that Tehran has specific scenarios prepared for each situation.
He stated that US B-1 bombers used British airfields and warned that if Britain continues this cooperation, it will become a “definite and legitimate” target for the Armed Forces. … Full article
By Kyle Anzalone | The Libertarian Institute | November 1, 2026
The State Department announced it had approved a potential $2.1 billion sale of Patriot missiles to Ukraine. Patriots are the most advanced interceptors available to Ukraine; however, Kiev is dealing with a shortage of Patriots, leading to more Russian missiles hitting Ukrainian cities.
“The US Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Ukraine for purchase of PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles, and related equipment,” the statement released on Friday explained. “The estimated total cost is $2.1 billion funded entirely by partners and allies.”
The State Department said Ukraine requested 500 Patriot missiles, and European countries will pay for the interceptors.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pleading for a winter package of Patriot missiles. The Ukrainian leader praised the decision to approve the sale of interceptors; however, he called for the timeline to be accelerated. … continue
By Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents | November 1, 2026
The fate of Central and Eastern Europe after the People’s Democracies’ post-1989 fall cannot be fully appreciated without reference to the EU as an extension of German imperialism. Berlin’s drive to ensure the region remains composed of weak, frequently mutually-resentful microstates has endured for well-over a century. Over time, battlefield conquest and occupation has been supplanted by economic and monetary union, and ever-rising military, security and intelligence “interoperability” and “cooperation”, all conducted under “internationalist” auspices.
Comprehending this process and the consistent needs of German imperialism provides a typically absent, critical lens through which to view events such as Yugoslavia’s destruction, the rise and recent demise of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, and seen and unseen political machinations throughout the Balkans old and new. German imperialism is a potent, dangerous force frequently overlooked due to its nigh-invisible operation. With US global hegemony irreversibly faltering, it is vital to truly understand the phenomenon as it threatens to emerge in its own militarised right again. … continue
By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | November 1, 2026
The midnight brawl at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is not a Polish problem. It is the local flare-up of a continental disease. Across Europe, when voters pick the wrong candidate, the establishment reaches for a judge, an intelligence service or the EU’s checkbook, and calls the result “defending democracy.” The Journal of Democracy wrote the textbook. Warsaw is the teaching hospital. … continue
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