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
IMEMC | October 2, 2026
A Palestinian man, Mashhour Shaher Yassin, 51, died Thursday evening after illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers shot him in the abdomen while attacking his home in Yasuf, east of Salfit in the central occupied West Bank.
Mohammad ar-Ramahi, director of the Salfit Governmental Hospital, confirmed Yassin’s death.
Jom’a Abdul-Fattah, head of the Yasuf Village Council, said a group of paramilitary colonizers armed with clubs and firearms attacked the eastern part of the town Thursday afternoon.
Abdul-Fattah said Yassin went outside to defend his home when the colonizers shot him. Yassin’s nephew was also wounded in the attack. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 2, 2026
Israeli occupation forces and settlers carried out a series of raids and attacks across several areas of the occupied West Bank early Friday, injuring Palestinians, detaining others, and raiding homes.
The attacks were reported in Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah and al-Bireh, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, and al-Khalil, with Palestinian homes searched and their contents damaged.
In Nablus, groups of settlers attacked the town of Awarta, southeast of the city, targeting Palestinian vehicles and property before abducting a 17-year-old Palestinian. […]
In Jenin, Israeli occupation forces raided Palestinian homes in the town of al-Zababdeh, causing extensive damage and destruction to their contents.
The forces also raided the town of Mithlon and the village of Rummana to the west, amid heavy use of stun grenades.
In Tulkarm, occupation forces detained several young men after raiding a cafe in the city’s eastern neighborhood. They also raided the town of Jayyous, northeast of Qalqilya.
In al-Khalil, Israeli occupation forces raided al-Tabaqa village, south of Dura, and searched several homes in the city while firing stun grenades in residential areas.
Settler militias also attacked the town of Surif, north of al-Khalil. … Full article
IMEMC | October 3, 2026
As Israel continues to violate the “ceasefire agreement” in the Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were killed and several others wounded on Friday in a series of Israeli airstrikes and shooting attacks across the besieged coastal enclave.
Medical and local sources reported that one Palestinian was killed and another wounded when an Israeli drone struck the courtyard of the Abu Oweimer family home behind Ar-Razi Medical Complex, south of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
In a separate attack, Ahmad ar-Ramlawi was killed and several others wounded when an Israeli drone struck the roof of the ar-Ramlawi family home near Palestine Stadium and Al-Mamounia School in the Al-Nasr neighborhood west of Gaza City.
Earlier on Friday, Ibrahim Munir al-Masri was killed and several others, including some who sustained critical wounds, were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted a group of civilians near the Ansar intersection west of Gaza City.
Palestinian Red Crescent Society crews transferred one wounded person to the Saraya Field Hospital and brought al-Masri’s remains to Al-Shifa Hospital. The attack came amid continued Israeli fire and military assaults across different parts of the Gaza Strip.
In southern Gaza, four Palestinians, including an elderly woman and a girl identified as Sahar al-Shawwaf, were wounded after Israeli forces opened heavy fire toward Street 5 in Al-Mawasi and the vicinity of Hamad City northwest of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces fired illumination flares east of Gaza City and carried out demolition operations in the northeastern and eastern parts of the city, including a large-scale demolition of homes and buildings in the Tuffah neighborhood.
Israeli drones also dropped bombs near the Shuja’iyya intersection, while warplanes launched at least two airstrikes on evacuated buildings east of the Tuffah and Shuja’iyya neighborhoods. No casualties were reported in those attacks.
Israeli artillery shelled areas east of Deir al-Balah and east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza while simultaneously opening fire on surrounding locations.
In southern Gaza, Israeli forces carried out another demolition operation south of Khan Younis, while Israeli naval vessels opened fire off the coast of Rafah. … Full article
Al Mayadeen | October 2, 2026
Residents of Nabatieh al-Fawqa in southern Lebanon entered their town on foot to inspect their homes and properties despite security warnings and Israeli threats surrounding the area.
A number of residents reached the al-Husseiniya neighborhood, accompanied by the town’s mayor. Their return coincided with Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s visit to Nabatieh, where residents gathered near Lebanese Army positions.
The residents later left the town at the request of security forces and the Lebanese Army due to the dangerous security situation at the time, according to field reports. … Full article
The Cradle | October 2, 2026
The crew of the Iranian frigate Dena informed a US warship that their vessel was unarmed during their final exchanges before a US submarine launched a torpedo and sank it off the coast of Sri Lanka on 4 March, killing 104 sailors, according to an audio recording cited by an Iranian judiciary official.
“We are not military, we are not armed, and we have come for training,” the crew said in the recording.
The Moudge-class frigate was sailing home from the International Fleet Review 2026, an India-hosted naval exercise Iran had been officially invited to attend, when the USS Charlotte struck it with a Mark 48 torpedo in international waters some 19 nautical miles off Galle, killing 104 of the 136 sailors on board and wounding the remaining 32. … continue
After two wars, Iranian lawmakers are pressing for an NPT exit. The argument now extends to whether a bomb would deter another attack.
By Fereshteh Sadeghi | The Cradle | October 2, 2026
After two rounds of US–Israeli attacks in the space of a year, pressure is mounting on Iran’s leadership to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Advocates say the treaty has failed to protect Iran’s civilian nuclear program or its scientists. Their opponents warn that withdrawal could provide Washington and Tel Aviv with a pretext for another assault. The argument now reaches well beyond the Majlis.
“A big decision in the offing” is one way to describe a motion that has sat with the Iranian parliament’s presidium for months. A group of lawmakers has now issued an open statement demanding that the Supreme National Security Council and Foreign Ministry begin the formal process of withdrawal from the NPT. They also want Tehran to end voluntary nuclear commitments beyond its treaty obligations.
The lawmakers argue that the NPT and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have failed to safeguard Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear technology. They accuse the agency of allowing information obtained through inspections to reach Iran’s enemies, exposing nuclear facilities and scientists to attack.
Their statement follows years of dispute over the agency’s access to Iranian sites and the use of its findings by western governments. They invoke Article X of the treaty, which permits withdrawal when a state decides that extraordinary events have jeopardized its supreme interests. A withdrawal would require three months’ notice to other parties and the UN Security Council. … continue
Al Mayadeen | October 2, 2026
Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced on Friday that Saudi warplanes carried out 94 airstrikes on Yemen over the past 24 hours. He put the total number of Saudi airstrikes and missile attacks on the country at 1,350 since the escalation began.
Saree said the strikes hit civilian sites in the provinces of Sanaa, Saada, Taiz, Hajjah, Amran and Ibb, killing and wounding civilians.
According to his statement, the raids were flown by F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif air bases, while missile attacks were launched from Najran and Jizan.
Sanaa government spokesperson Dr. Omar al-Bukhaiti reassured the people of Taiz province on Friday, reaffirming that protecting their lives and property is the Yemeni Armed Forces’ highest priority. He clarified that the only target of the Armed Forces’ strikes is “the Saudi enemy and its troop concentrations.” … Full article
RT | October 2, 2026
Yemen’s Houthis have denied targeting a power station in the city of Medina. A Saudi-led coalition earlier accused the militant group of targeting the facility supplying power to the Prophet’s Mosque – one of the holiest sites in the Muslim world.
A senior Houthi official branded the accusation a “lie” aimed at tarnishing the group’s image and reinforcing similar claims made by the coalition in the past.
On Thursday, the Saudi coalition’s spokesman, Major General Turki al-Maliki, accused the Yemeni militants of striking the Taibah electricity distribution station in Medina earlier this week in what he called a “cowardly terrorist act” and a part of an alleged broader campaign by the Houthis to “target the Two Holy Mosques.” … continue
By Craig Murray | October 2, 2026
Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot.
It remains quite possible the men were indeed fuel thieves, simply stealing fuel from farms. They appear to have been equipped for fuel theft and all they were carrying was petrol. It is worth a footnote that there is a very real history of US military personnel, and indeed British personnel, selling military fuel from bases. Stolen red diesel meant for HMS Bulwark fuelled fairground rides throughout England, which I think is rather lovely. But if the Fairford Five were fuel thieves, farms are more probable as the target.
We should pause here to acknowledge that USAF Fairford is falsely designated RAF Fairford, itself a propaganda lie, just like “RAF Lakenheath” or “RAF Mildenhall”. The UK is full of US military bases, on which US law applies. (My birth certificate gives my father’s occupation as “Clerk USAF”. He was employed at Mildenhall at the time).
It is a classic example of state propaganda that the petrol discovered in the Fairford vans was described by counter terror police as a potential accelerant for a bomb.
Well yes, petrol is that. It has however, rather more obvious uses too. The same technique was used at the height of the War on Terror propaganda in the Great Easter Bomb Plot, that never was. Police rounded up and arrested many young Muslims across the Manchester region, which was front-page news. They were all later released without charge. … continue
RT | October 2, 2026
The EU has rejected Vladimir Zelensky’s demand that Ukraine be admitted to the bloc by January 2027, with Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos saying Kiev must meet all membership requirements and will receive no exemptions. […]
Kos acknowledged that Kiev views membership as a security guarantee and said helping Ukraine was the EU’s “duty.” However, she stressed that candidates need to meet demanding requirements on the rule of law, economic convergence, and adoption of EU legislation, and that there are “no privileges or discounts in the accession process,” and “no shortcuts.”
Kos instead backed gradual integration before full membership and said she hoped Ukraine could make further progress in accession talks by year’s end.
Zelensky has previously rejected alternatives to full EU membership. In May, he called German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s proposal for associate membership “unfair,” arguing that Ukraine could not participate in the bloc without voting rights.
Kiev received candidate status in 2022, but accession requires unanimous support from all 27 member states. Several EU members have consistently opposed Ukraine joining the bloc, including Hungary, which has repeatedly resisted accelerated admission and recently blocked the inclusion of any language on fast-tracking Ukraine from an EU summit conclusion.
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar has suggested Ukraine’s accession could take 10 to 15 years and linked progress to Kiev’s treatment of its ethnic Hungarian minority. … Full article
By Urs Maurer-Lambrou | Forum Geopolitica | October 1, 2026
Six million people. That is the total combined population of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—fewer residents than live in greater London. Yet these three border states now set the tone of foreign policy for a union of 450 million, telling Berlin, Rome, and Madrid how dangerous the world is and how much Western taxpayers must pay to fix it. … continue
Al Mayadeen | October 2, 2026
The European Union has begun assessing contingency scenarios in case German Chancellor Friedrich Merz leaves office or becomes increasingly focused on domestic political difficulties, Politico Europe reported Friday, citing diplomats and European officials.
According to the report, governments in two European countries have held internal discussions on how a possible end to Merz’s chancellorship could affect EU policymaking.
The discussions reportedly reflect growing concern in Brussels over political instability in Germany following major electoral setbacks for Merz’s governing conservatives and renewed tensions within the coalition.
Recent regional elections have weakened Merz politically. Reuters reported that the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered its worst-ever result in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in September, failing to clear the threshold to enter the state parliament, while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) made further gains. … continue
The NATO secretary-general was awarded the Westphalian Peace Prize for his hostile stance toward Russia
RT | October 2, 2026
Crowds of protesters jeered NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, after the US-led military bloc was awarded the Westphalian Peace Prize on Thursday.
The prize, awarded by the Economic Society for Westphalia and Lippe, commemorates the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years’ War and legally enshrined the modern concept of the nation state.
Rutte, known among protestors as the “Lying Dutchman,” collected the award in the German city of Munster on Thursday on behalf of the interventionist US-led military bloc.
Speaking at the ceremony, North Rhine-Westphalia Minister-President Hendrik Wust declared that “military strength can prevent war and preserve peace,” and that “NATO has demonstrated for more than 75 years that strength secures peace.”
Protesters gathered outside Munster Town Hall disagreed. When the Dutchman, the German, and other dignitaries stepped onto the balcony, below which a blue-blazered band played, they were met with chants of “murderers” and “blood on your hands” from the square below (perhaps the greatest show of anger in the town since the anabaptists in 1534).
The NATO chief and the German chancellor gritted their teeth and smiled and waved through the boos and whistles. … videos
The Cradle | October 2, 2026
G7 states will release up to 100 million barrels of emergency oil and diesel stocks over the next four months, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 2 October, bowing to US pressure to tame diesel prices driven to record highs by the war on Iran.
The release will be coordinated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), and comes the same day as European Commission spokesperson Anna-Kaisa Itkonen said the EU “fully” rejected US threats to halt diesel exports unless Europe drew down more of its reserves.
“We fully reject any ban on diesel. A ban would not be beneficial to anyone. It would undermine our trust in the United States as a reliable partner,” she said. … continue
Press TV – October 2, 2026
A new survey has found that a large majority of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s war of aggression against Iran, underscoring growing domestic opposition to Washington’s military campaign less than five weeks before the November midterm elections.
The AP-NORC poll, released as the conflict continues to dominate US foreign policy debate, shows 71 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s approach to Iran. Sixty-nine percent say the war has not been worth fighting.
The findings come amid persistent questions over the legality and strategic rationale of the US-led offensives, which most of the world has described as unprovoked aggression against a sovereign state.
Economic fallout is also shaping voter sentiment. Sixty-five percent of adults blamed Trump’s policies for higher-than-usual prices, linking the military effort to domestic inflation and strained household budgets.
Analysts note that prolonged deployments, elevated energy costs, and disrupted trade have fed public frustration, even among segments that initially backed a harder line toward the Islamic Republic. … Full article
RT | October 2, 2026
Washington is sending more warships and troops to the Middle East as US President Donald Trump is considering the resumption of large-scale strikes against Iran after the midterms, AP has reported.
Trump told reporters on Thursday that he has “to make a decision: either Iran signs a very fair deal, or it won’t exist any longer.” In a Time magazine interview published the same day, he said that new attacks on the Islamic Republic were “possible” after the US election on November 3, but declined to reveal any further details.
In its article on Thursday, AP said that a third aircraft carrier and some 9,000 additional service members, including 7,000 sailors and 2,000 marines, are currently on their way to the area of the conflict with Iran. … continue
When the establishment media jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
By Jonathan Cook | September 30, 2026
It’s easy to forget that the western media – the so-called “free press” – likes to distinguish itself from media in authoritarian regimes on the basis that, unlike them, it asks critical questions of the powerful, reports facts objectively, and formulates its analyses dispassionately.
They do propaganda, we do news – or so the western media argues.
The feverish coverage since five men were arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning close to RAF Fairford in the UK is blowing a very big hole in that claim.
Here are the known facts so far. … continue
Press TV – October 1, 2026
The Flydubai plane incident appears to have been part of a scenario concocted by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
Its aim, observer say, is to divert attention from the growing scandal over Netanyahu’s handling of the October 7 Hamas operation, shore up his position ahead of Israel’s October 27 election and create a pretext for a new confrontation with Iran.
The scenario unfolded days after Netanyahu’s reported secret visit to Abu Dhabi, where he met bin Zayed amid mounting political pressure over allegations that the UAE leader had warned him in advance of an impending Hamas operation.
According to the account, the purpose of the arrangement was to manufacture a dramatic security incident involving an Israeli-heavy Flydubai flight, portray it as a terrorist attack, introduce an Iranian connection into the narrative and use the resulting alarm to reinforce Netanyahu’s security credentials and build support for renewed military action against Tehran. … continue
How Sesame Street, CNN, and federal health officials turned a children’s vaccine campaign into a one-way lesson in trust.
By Sayer Ji | September 30, 2026
How a $240 million messaging machine put a three-year-old puppet to work selling an mRNA shot to parents of infants — and what the government has quietly admitted since. … Read article
A Senate hearing exposed what was done to the unvaccinated inside America’s hospitals – and why the system drives out the doctors patients most need.
A Midwestern Doctor | The Forgotten Side of Medicine | October 1, 2026
Story at a Glance:
• Throughout history, ruling elites have relied on a recurring playbook (manufactured crises, public examples, bought-out hierarchies, and economic coercion) to keep populations compliant, and nearly every tactic was used during COVID.
• Federal policies paid hospitals tens of thousands of dollars per COVID admission, boosted reimbursement for ventilated patients, shielded providers from liability, and made remdesivir the standard of care, creating powerful incentives for harmful protocols.
• At a recent Senate hearing, families shared strikingly consistent tragic stories of unvaccinated patients being isolated, told they would die, denied safe repurposed drugs, given remdesivir over their objections, and pushed onto ventilators and into DNRs.
• An attorney who sued hospitals on behalf of 212 families reported that only 3 of the 72 patients who received court-ordered ivermectin died, while every one of the 140 who didn’t get it died—making suing hospitals one of the most effective treatments in history.
• Trauma surgeon James Miller testified that his hospital was never overwhelmed despite the headlines, inflated its COVID numbers, and had infectious disease doctors who seemed to know remdesivir was harmful, and he was driven out of surgery after opening a free clinic for the unvaccinated.
• Because the system steadily removes the doctors who will break a failing protocol to save a patient, trust in physicians and hospitals fell from 71.5% to 40.1% between 2020 and 2024, and it will only return if medicine becomes honest and starts offering things that work.
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By Francis Menton | Manhattan Contrarian | September 29, 2026
You know the mantra: Human caused climate change, driven by burning fossil fuels and adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, causes an increase in the frequency and severity of major storms, like hurricanes. When major hurricanes come along, as they regularly do, the promoters of this mantra immediately claim an ability to “attribute” the storm and/or its intensity to the ongoing human-caused warming.
For example, last October we had Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm that struck Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. As soon as Melissa had passed, an organization calling itself World Weather Attribution promptly came out with an analysis blaming the storm and its intensity on “climate change.” From the AP, November 6, 2025:
Melissa was one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes to make landfall and brought destructive weather to Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba, causing dozens of deaths across the Caribbean. . . . The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution found that climate change increased Melissa’s maximum wind speeds by 7% and made the rainfall near the center of the storm 16% more intense. The scientists also wrote that the temperature and humidity in which the storm intensified were made six times more likely due to climate change compared to a pre-industrial world.
Perhaps that seemed plausible at the time. But this year the mantra that human-induced climate change is the main cause of destructive hurricanes has run into a small problem. Here we are on September 29, and there has not yet been a single hurricane that has formed in the North Atlantic. Nor are there any tropical disturbances or depressions that appear likely to turn into hurricanes over the next week or two. […]
Has the prediction that warmer temperatures would lead to more frequent and more severe hurricanes been falsified? If not why not? If it hasn’t been falsified by the data from this year’s hurricane season to date, when will it be falsified? Is a full hurricane season without a single hurricane sufficient? Why not?
The fact is that the claim (hypothesis) that warmer temperatures lead to more frequent and more severe hurricanes has already been falsified, whether they will admit it or not. By failing to admit it, they just confirm that they are charlatans rather than scientists. – Full article
By Dan Frieth | Reclaim The Net | September 30 2026
There’s now a US Senate bill titled, “Guaranteeing Rights Against Novel International Tyranny and Extortion Act.”
That’s the GRANITE Act. The bill, which has a companion in the House, was introduced by Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah, on September 23. It’s four pages long.
If it becomes law, it would add a new section 4106 to title 28 of the US Code, and this would stop US courts from recognizing or enforcing “a foreign judgment, or a fine, order, or demand issued by a foreign court or a foreign state, enforcing a foreign censorship law.”
What is a “foreign censorship law?” According to the bill, it is any law of a foreign state that “has the primary purpose or substantial effect of restricting or penalizing expression, expressive conduct, or expressive association,” or that “targets expression, expressive conduct, or expressive association based on its content, viewpoint, or speaker identity,” or that “compels disclosure that would reasonably chill that expression” – and that “would conflict with the protections of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States if recognized in the United States.”
Here’s what the bill does: it gives US persons the right to sue if they are targeted by such a foreign law, and seek “declaratory relief” – i.e., a court declaration that the judgment or fine is unenforceable.
The House version was introduced by Rep. Michael Rulli, who at the time said the goal was to stop “foreign bureaucrats” from deciding what Americans can and cannot say, and make it clear that if a foreign government tries to punish an American for speech protected by the First Amendment, that judgment is “dead on arrival” in US courts.
Rulli also said at the time, “The Constitution protects our right to speak freely. It does not bend to Brussels or London.” … Full article
The Grayzone | October 1, 2026
In keeping with several recent cases brought against the activist collective, which the British state proscribed as a terrorist entity in July 2025, the jury and public are not allowed to know – and the British media is prohibited from reporting – that if activists are convicted of any offenses, they could be sentenced as terrorists. … continue
MEMO | October 1, 2026
US rapper Macklemore has announced that all three concerts on his “Free Palestine” tour sold out “immediately”, weeks after he was dropped from Ed Sheeran’s US tour following his onstage support for Palestinians.
The fundraising concerts will take place in October at Dublin’s 3Arena, Paris’s Accor Arena and London’s Wembley Arena, with all proceeds going to organisations supporting Palestinians. Other participating musicians will be announced later.
“I’m honestly blown away,” Macklemore said in a statement announcing the sell-out, The Independent reported.
“We put these shows together fast and in community, believing that musicians can stand in solidarity with Palestine, use the stage to raise funds and show what collective action can look like.” … Full article
Palestinian Information Center – October 1, 2026
GAZA – A Palestinian man died from wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli attack, while several others were injured Thursday as Israeli shelling and gunfire targeted several areas across the Gaza Strip amid continued violations of the ceasefire agreement.
A local source reported that Musab al-Balbisi died from wounds he sustained several days earlier in an Israeli attack on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
In the southern Gaza Strip, several Palestinians were wounded in an Israeli drone strike near the al-Attar area of al-Mawasi, Khan Yunis.
A local source also reported heavy Israeli artillery shelling targeting eastern Khan Yunis, while Israeli military vehicles opened intense fire toward tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in southern al-Mawasi, Rafah.
In Gaza City, Israeli forces targeted areas with artillery shelling and heavy gunfire from tanks and helicopters.
Israeli warplanes also carried out four airstrikes on unoccupied residential homes near the so-called “Yellow Line,” around al-Sanafour Junction east of the al-Tuffah neighborhood in northeastern Gaza City. … Full article
By Buğra Sarı | MEMO | October 1, 2026
Israel’s pursuit of security increasingly rests on a destabilizing proposition: that its neighbours become less threatening when their capacity to exercise sovereignty is diminished. Since the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023, this approach has become particularly visible across several distinct arenas. Military operations, territorial incursions and restrictions on political and economic autonomy suggest a conception of security dependent on keeping others vulnerable. The consequences extend beyond individual confrontations. When states cannot control their territory, rebuild institutions or protect their populations, the regional conditions necessary for durable security begin to erode.
The argument is not that Israel created every conflict in the Middle East. Authoritarian rule, sectarian violence, armed groups and competing regional interventions have all contributed to the region’s instability.
The question is whether the means Israel uses to pursue its own security deepen that instability. Repeatedly weakening neighbouring states and political communities may bring short-term military gains, but it can also erode their ability to contain violence and maintain order, making the region more dangerous—including for Israel itself.
This pattern can be understood as the denial of sovereignty. Sovereignty involves more than diplomatic recognition: it requires institutions capable of governing, providing services and exercising legitimate authority over the use of force. When these capacities are persistently degraded, formal independence becomes increasingly hollow. … continue
By Robert Inlakesh | Al Mayadeen | October 1, 2026
US President Donald Trump has officially announced a formal withdrawal of American troops from Iraqi territory, yet the economic, social and diplomatic hold on the nation remains. If US troops are going to be permanently booted out, it necessitates an Iraqi national resistance that is capable of operating as a guarantor. … continue
By Jamal Kanj | MEMO | October 1, 2026
Since the start of the latest made-for-Israel war, Donald Trump and his surrogates have repeatedly promised Americans that it would be a few weeks and oil prices would soon crash below prewar levels. Instead, it was every promise that crashed. When those promises failed to materialize, the message shifted: the war is worth the price to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power.
But what if Iran did become a nuclear power? How would that pose a greater threat to the U.S. than North Korea or Russia already do? Or is the real concern not a risk to America, but a challenge to the regional hegemony of a foreign nuclear power, Israel? … continue
Press TV – October 1, 2026
Iran has summoned Britain’s ambassador to Tehran to protest against baseless accusations linking Tehran to an alleged incident at a British airbase and to demand that London answer for its participation in military aggression against Iran, the foreign ministry said.
Hugo Shorter, Britain’s ambassador to Tehran, was summoned on Thursday by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht-Ravanchi following accusations by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham against Iran, the ministry said in a statement.
“The recent propaganda campaign by the British government, which has made baseless accusations under the pretext of an alleged sabotage attempt at Fairford airbase, cannot in any way overshadow Britain’s complicity in the military aggression against the Iranian people,” Takht-Ravanchi said.
During the meeting, Takht-Ravanchi stressed Britain’s international responsibility for multiple unlawful actions against the Iranian people, particularly the provision of military bases and facilities under British jurisdiction for the preparation and implementation of US-Israeli military aggression against Iran.
“The British government must be held accountable for its participation in the crime of aggression and the war crimes committed by the United States and the Zionist regime,” he added.
Takht-Ravanchi dismissed as “baseless and contemptible” the British officials’ claim linking the alleged sabotage plot to Iran, and underscored the need for an official explanation from the British government and a correction of its inappropriate approach toward Iran, IRNA reported. … Full article
By Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone | October 1, 2026
When Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud ally and Defense Minister Israel Katz instantly blamed “jihadist terror” for the FlyDubai incident, in which Israeli passengers on a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv supposedly stormed the cockpit to prevent the flight from crashing, they drowned out an initial assessment by IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir and his top commanders that ruled out hijacking as the motive behind the altercation.
The following day, Saudi and Emirati state media were still avoiding reference to the incident as a terror attack. They seemed to be awaiting the outcome of the Saudi interrogation of the co-pilot who allegedly stabbed the pilot, and the investigation of his motives.
President Donald Trump was entertaining doubts of his own, describing the stabber as “perhaps a terrorist or a wack job.” After recounting Netanyahu’s narrative of the event, Trump remarked, “This is the story that I heard. I don’t know if it’s true.”
Netanyahu is determined to consolidate the story he spun out moments after the in-air melee was first reported. And he’s merging it with the theatrical message he delivered the day before, when he stood before an F-35 and warned of imminent attacks from Israel’s enemies.
But as one of his rivals, Yair Lapid, pointed out, Netanyahu said nothing in that warning about hijackings or any potential aerial “terror.”
The FlyDubai incident materialized as Netanyahu weathered a barrage of bad press about his negligence on October 7, 2023. In the midst of his most consequential and likely final campaign for re-election, he is essentially taking credit for an Entebbe sequel, stopping the terrorist in the cockpit, and preventing a 9/11-style attack on Tel Aviv’s Azrieli Center.
The timing of the whole event was unbelievably fortuitous for Israel’s embattled PM. Which might be why so few outside his circle of sycophants believe his version of it.
Press TV – October 1, 2026
Tehran has rejected as “baseless and worthless news” an American media report that claimed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the Iranian delegation led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to the UN General Assembly to leave New York earlier than they had planned.
In an X post on Thursday, the Iranian Mission to the UN in New York dismissed the Axios report that alleged Rubio had determined Araghchi and his team had “overstayed their welcome” and told them on Monday to leave New York immediately after little progress in meetings between the Iranians and Qatari mediators.
The mission emphasized that the Iranian delegation was already scheduled to leave Monday, and that Washington was notified of the schedule.
“The Iranian delegation left New York on Monday evening, in accordance with the schedule that had also been communicated to the US Department of State in advance on September 17,” it said. “Having achieved nothing, the State Department has resorted to propagating baseless and worthless news.”
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the 81st session of the UN General Assembly on September 23, and left New York the following day.
However, Araghchi remained in the US city, where he spoke with the media, had extensive discussions with members of the think tank community, and held numerous meetings with officials from various countries and UN officials.
The top diplomat also held talks with mediators trying to get Tehran-Washington talks back on track as the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran enters its eighth month amid the United States’ acts of mischief in the region and its rejection of diplomacy. … Full article
The call comes as the AfD leads national polls, with support more than twice that of the SPD
RT | September 30, 2026
Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) has called for a formal review that could pave the way for a ban on Alternative for Germany (AfD), as the right-wing party leads national polls following major regional election victories.
The push follows the AfD’s sweeping victories in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania earlier this month, where it secured 43.8% and 38.2%, respectively. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered heavy losses, including failing to clear the 5% threshold in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. … Full article
By Leonid Ragozin | The American Conservative | September 30, 2026
Britain’s Labour Party is not traditionally thought of as a bastion of militarism or authoritarianism. Yet listening to some of what its top figures have been saying recently might cause one to doubt the conventional wisdom on that.
Consider what Labour Party strategist Paul Richards said in a GB News interview earlier this month. Asked how the UK might respond to an increased Russian threat, Richards—who has worked for two Labour governments—gave a disturbing answer. “We’d have to lock some people up,” he said, “some of the pro-Russian voices, people who say there isn’t a threat, [and say] ‘Don’t fight for your country, don’t go to war for Burnham.’”
His comments are not a one-off. They reflect a worrying trend among Britain’s political mainstream—the old parties, media, and think tanks—which has increasingly adopted a siege mentality informed by the far-fetched expectation of imminent war with Russia.
Nor is the trend restricted to Britain. It spans the entire Western world. And it helps explain why the centrist political forces previously seen as “reasonable” are losing ground to the supposed “fringe.” Apocalyptic millenarianism is no longer the domain of radical obscurantists, but of people like NATO’s secretary-general Mark Rutte, who in 2025 seemed to foretell with relish a conflict between Europe and Russia on the scale of the Second World War. “Imagine it,” he said, “a conflict reaching every home, every workplace, destruction, mass mobilisation, millions displaced, widespread suffering and extreme losses.”
It is politicians branded as far right or far left radicals who, surprisingly, have emerged as the main opposition to this unhinged bellicosity. … continue
Al Mayadeen | September 30, 2026
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has accused NATO members of staging drills close to Russia’s frontiers that simulate an attack on the country, including the cutting off of the Kaliningrad Region, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday.
Speaking to the outlet, Zakharova said the exercises rehearse the isolation of Russia’s Baltic ports and the movement of allied troops through the Suwałki Gap, the narrow land corridor between Poland and Lithuania that links Kaliningrad’s neighbors to the rest of the alliance.
Zakharova said Moscow is also monitoring the growth of NATO’s military infrastructure, along with the construction of new defense-industrial facilities near Russia. She presented both as part of the same buildup that underpins the drills. […]
NATO has held a series of exercises in the Baltic Sea region in recent months, with more scheduled for October. … Full article
RT | October 1, 2026
European NATO members should have been able to attack Iran instead of relying on the US and Israel, according to Secretary-General Mark Rutte, the head of the self-described defensive alliance.
Iran has been attacked twice in two years, both times over allegations that it seeks to develop nuclear weapons, which Tehran rejects as false. Speaking at the Euronews Defence & Space Summit on Friday, Rutte endorsed the idea that European nations should acquire the military capabilities needed to carry out such wars of aggression themselves.
In the future, “the Europeans will be able to take care of their backyard themselves. It should be us doing this, not the Americans,” he said.
“Europe was not able to take out the nuclear capability of Iran. We couldn’t. We didn’t have the capabilities. In 10 years, we can and we should,” he added, referring to multi-billion euro rearmament efforts now underway in European members of the military bloc. … continue
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- Pakistan-Iran talks secure LNG shipment to Islamabad through Hormuz
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- Turkey to consider Saudi military needs amid Yemen attacks, Fidan says
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