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Poland considers reinstating conscription

RT | October 14, 2026

Poland is mulling reintroducing compulsory military service that was abolished in 2009, Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka has said. Her comments came shortly after an opinion poll indicated that over a half of Poles under 24 were against the reinstatement of conscription.

In an interview with RMF FM radio station on Wednesday, Sobkowiak-Czarnecka revealed that “discussions at the Ministry of National Defense today cover all possible scenarios.” The official said that she personally is a proponent of universal conscription modelled after the Israeli draft system, where both men and women are called up for service. … Full article

The EU’s latest mad plan to save itself

By Martin Jay | Strategic Culture Foundation | October 14, 2026

The most remarkable thing about the rapid demise of the U.S. is that when it hits the bottom of the ocean floor economically, it will be in a better state than the EU. The panic among EU leaders, in particular Ursula von der Leyen, is breathtaking. Barely a week passes before she makes another crackpot policy announcement, gives herself a salary increase, or makes a statement about needing to give even more money to Ukraine. But in recent months these announcements have become more radical and existential, and we are seeing a new dawn now in the EU where the only solution to cover up the feral spending and borrowing is to fabricate a war with Russia and then blame Putin for the whole fiasco.

Every now and again we get a sober reminder about the economic situation of the U.S., EU and Russia. The recent news that Putin is going to sell around 2 million tonnes of diesel oil to “global markets” (as U.S. media phrases it), the lion’s share going to the U.S. before, during and just after the midterm elections in a bid to stabilise the price to help Trump. We will have to assume that countries who buy some of their diesel from the U.S. will continue doing so, but it might, in fact, be Russian oil. … Full article

Poland wants EU military production in ‘war-mode’

RT | October 13, 2026

The EU should shift to “war-mode” military production, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz has said, arguing that failing to do so would be a costly mistake for Europe.

The defense minister made the remarks at a press conference on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum on Tuesday. The conference has primarily revolved around the supposed threat Russia poses to the EU and the measures the bloc should take.

“I am actually an advocate for war-mode when it comes to production in the defense sector,” he said, claiming that Russia has already taken this approach and the EU “cannot overlook this fact.”

Failing to do so would be a costly mistake and would not only put the EU at a disadvantage now, but would “affect [the bloc] negatively in future generations,” Kosiniak-Kamysz said.

While Russia has expanded its defense budget and ramped up defense industry output, it has not shifted to a full-fledged wartime economy. A number of prominent Russian politicians and public figures have dismissed the idea, citing the implications it would bring. … Full article

The Diesel Deal between Trump and Putin: Hope dies last

By Tim Kirby | Strategic Culture Foundation | October 11, 2026

… Some moronic ‘Putin sold out the BRICS’ counter-narrative is sure to arise from Kiev’s bot accounts soon. Obviously someone is going to say that the Kremlin threw their Iranian brothers to the Zio-lobby machine! But in actuality, it looks like the Iranians are going to just ship their oil through Russia and sell it as ‘Russian’ and everyone will be happy. The Caspian Sea will be even more busy in the near future. If sanctioned accomplished anything they really increased trade between Russia and Iran.

No one in Moscow is planning on selling out Tehran; they want America to join the Multipolar World while still saving face and reduce the global threat level of nuclear war which is vastly too high at present. Iran and China were surely consulted on this issue before any Diesel Deal was finalized. … Full article

Four in five new UK jobs taken by foreigners – report

RT | October 14, 2026

Foreign nationals have filled 80% of new UK jobs over the past decade, while millions of Britons have remained on out-of-work benefits, according to a new report by the Centre for Social Justice.

The UK think tank said on Tuesday that British nationals accounted for just 734,000 of the 3.7 million jobs added to payrolls between 2014 and the end of 2025. EU nationals accounted for 408,000 new jobs, while migrants from the rest of the world filled around 2.5 million.

“Employers have gained unprecedented access to overseas labour while taxpayers have absorbed the growing cost of domestic worklessness,” the report said. … continue

CDU candidate with Turkish background allegedly faked hate crime attack right before local German election

‘NO TURKS – ALL OUT’

Remix News | October 11, 2026

Prosecutors have opened an investigation into a local Christian Democratic Union (CDU) mayoral candidate of Turkish origin who is accused of staging a racially motivated attack on his own car days before an election he lost badly.

The Itzehoe public prosecutor’s office is examining allegations that Baris Karabacak faked the incident, according to the German newspaper Bild. Authorities obtained and executed a search warrant against the politician and seized at least one electronic device. […]

This is also notably not the first alleged hate crime hoax from a German politician. In 2023, Remix News reported on Manoj Subramaniam, a 33-year-old former local Green councilor in the German town of Erkelenz, who claimed he had been subjected to sustained acts of harassment by anonymous right-wing extremists. He showed police evidence of the abuse he had received, which included a threatening letter with a razor blade inserted and a swastika drawn onto his vehicle in red paint. […]

The investigation into the early 2026 firebombing of Brandenburg Antisemitism Commissioner Andreas Büttner’s home stunned the public.

While the case was initially treated as an Islamist or antisemitic hate crime, the German Public Prosecutor General’s Office now identifies two men from Büttner’s “own circle,” which belongs to the left, as the primary suspects.

One of the men is also linked to the threatening letter sent to Büttner. Meanwhile, Büttner said he was shocked and described it as the biggest betrayal of his life. He also stated that if the two were responsible, the act had nothing to do with antisemitism in his view. So far, the prosecutor’s office has continued to list Büttner as a witness or injured party, not a suspect. News outlets have highlighted that there was a €3,000 transfer from Büttner to one of the men shortly before the incident, which he called a loan, and other joint activities.

These details prompted public questions and speculation in some outlets about possible staging or a “false-flag” element, but no official finding has supported the claim that Büttner ordered or knew of the act in advance. The case still reportedly remains under investigation. – Full article

Here’s what Trump’s latest U-turn really means for Russia and Ukraine

By Fyodor Lukyanov | RT | October 12, 2026

The latest turn in Russia-US relations has shocked Kiev, outraged the EU, provoked discontent among a considerable number of politicians in the US, and left many observers around the world perplexed.

The Trump administration’s sudden decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel supplies appears to contradict its recent actions, including the adoption of tough new sanctions legislation intended to increase pressure on Moscow, and while some attribute the reversal to US President Donald Trump’s unpredictability, others see the beginnings of a new policy, or evidence of a fundamental change in the administration’s approach to Ukraine.

To understand what’s happening, however, we must look beyond the peculiarities of the US president’s public behavior. Trump’s extravagance, which frequently borders on the absurd, often conceals a relatively clear set of objectives, but whether those objectives are sensible is another question. … continue

Europe’s Energy Hypocrisy, Russian LNG Profits and US Dependence

By Freddie Ponton | 21st Century Wire | October 12, 2026

For four years, Europe presented its energy break with Russia as a strategic and moral necessity, with Brussels expanding sanctions, promising to cut Moscow’s revenues and preparing a complete ban on Russian liquefied natural gas. Yet European companies bought more LNG from Russia’s Yamal project in the first nine months of 2026 than in the same period of 2025.

EU ports received a record 12.18 million tonnes of Yamal LNG between January and September 2026, an increase of 9.5% over the same period in 2025. The gas arrived in 167 cargoes, roughly one every 1.6 days. The EU received 85% of Yamal’s recorded deliveries by volume even as the project’s worldwide shipments fell by 1.3%.

Urgewald, a German environmental and human rights organisation, placed the estimated benchmark value of those deliveries at €7.88 billion, using cargo volumes and monthly European TTF gas prices rather than disclosed contract payments. European leaders spoke of economic separation while EU ports remained the destination for a multibillion-euro Russian LNG trade. … continue

The Houthis Are Not an Iranian Proxy

José Niño Unfiltered | October 11, 2026

In September 2026, Ansar Allah, derisively labeled as the Houthis in Western foreign policy circles, redrew the map of western Yemen in a matter of days. Its fighters swept down the Red Sea coast, seized Mocha on September 10, then pushed through Dhubab and took Mayyun Island at the heart of the Bab el-Mandeb strait the following day, consolidating control over Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline and roughly 5,400 square kilometers of newly gained territory. Yemen’s Saudi-backed government answered on October 4 when Presidential Leadership Council head Rashad al-Alimi announced Operation Dawn of Yemen, vowing to keep fighting until the country was “liberated from the grip of the terrorist militia,” with 100 Saudi coalition fighter jets providing air cover and Ansar Allah firing missiles at targets inside the kingdom in response.

Washington reached for a familiar script. Secretary of State Marco Rubio branded Ansarh an Iranian proxy, and Tehran fired back on September 9. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei wrote on X, “Marco Rubio’s lies cannot replace facts. Ansarallah is an independent Yemeni actor that makes its own decisions; it takes orders from no one and acts as nobody’s proxy.” … continue

ICC ignored ‘very well-documented’ NATO crimes – ex-Libyan minister

RT – October 11, 2026

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ignored allegations of “very well-documented” NATO war crimes brought before it, former Libyan Information Minister Moussa Ibrahim has told RT.

In an interview on Saturday, he argued that the US-led military bloc has never been held accountable for what he described as “very well-documented” crimes committed during military interventions in several countries.

“In Afghanistan, in Iraq, in Libya, we have literally… millions of documents, videos, footage, statements, witnesses who testify to the crimes against humanity committed by NATO collectively and NATO countries individually,” he said.

The former minister said he had personally participated in a 2013 effort to bring allegations of NATO war crimes before the ICC over the bloc’s 2011 intervention in Libya, which left the country devastated and deeply divided. … continue

Israel’s Military Actions in Lebanon Grossly Violate International Law — Lavrov

Sputnik – 12.10.2026

MOSCOW – Russia believes that the use of force by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Lebanon grossly violate international law, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.

At a press conference with Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raji, Lavrov said that they discussed Israel’s ongoing actions in Lebanon, adding that Moscow has reaffirmed its position in support of Lebanon’s sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.

“Of course, we are committed to our assessments that the military actions of the IDF, the Israeli army, grossly violate the norms of international law and provoke an additional escalation of tensions in Lebanon,” Lavrov said.

This was part of a broader discussion of the situation in the Middle East, the Russian minister said.

“We certainly discussed the situation in the region and examined issues related to developments in the Gulf, in and around Syria, and, naturally, in Palestine, where Israel’s actions are a source of particular concern, as they create facts on the ground that directly contradict the UN resolution on the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Lavrov said.

Saudi attacks on Yemen kill one, injure five

Al Mayadeen | October 12, 2026

One person was killed and five others injured early Monday after Saudi airstrikes hit Hamdan district northwest of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, Yemen’s Health Ministry spokesperson said.

Saba News Agency in Sanaa reported that Saudi aircraft “targeted a residential neighborhood on Airport Road in Al-Thawra district north of the Yemeni capital.” Two further Saudi airstrikes targeted Al-Zarbi Road in Haifan district in southern Taiz province, according to the agency.

Saba also reported that “Saudi aircraft carried out an airstrike on a residential building in the center of Al-Turbah city in Al-Shamaytayn district, southern Taiz province, causing extensive damage.”

The strikes come amid continued Saudi air and missile strikes on Yemen, which have targeted civilian sites and homes in several Yemeni provinces. … Full article

Iraqi resistance group urges Saudi leadership to admit defeat, lift Yemen siege

Press TV – October 12, 2026

An Iraqi anti-terror resistance group has urged the Saudi leadership to acknowledge the failure of the military option and completely lift the blockade on Yemen.

Kata’ib Hezbollah, in a statement released on Monday, said the operations carried out by Yemeni Armed Forces are in reprisal for Saudi Arabia’s brutal onslaught and siege against their homeland, and in defense of their dignity and fundamental rights.

It noted that Iraqi people from every walk of life and resistance factions stand by Yemen, describing the Yemeni cause as a just cause that requires solidarity and support as it confronts Riyadh’s US-Israeli-backed atrocious assaults.

Kata’ib Hezbollah went on to address the Saudi leadership, particularly Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, calling on them to acknowledge the failure of the military option and completely lift the blockade imposed on Yemeni people. … continue

Sanaa says Taiz roads open, secure for residents, warns Saudi forces

Al Mayadeen | October 12, 2026

Sanaa’s government said it has kept all main roads leading into and out of Taiz open and secure, warning Saudi forces against blocking access to the city and imposing a siege on its residents.

Government spokesperson Omar al-Bukhaiti renewed the warning against continued road closures and attempts to besiege Taiz residents to deepen their suffering and exploit it for media purposes.

Al-Bukhaiti accused the Saudi forces of closing roads and obstructing the movement of civilians and the transport of food, medicine, and other essential supplies, noting that they openly announced, through their own media outlets, the closure of 19 key roads and crossings in Taiz Governorate, while targeting civilian vehicles on roads with airstrikes and artillery shelling.

“We call for keeping densely populated Taiz out of any military escalation, prioritizing the public interest, and preventing further bloodshed,” he asserted.

The statement follows the Sanaa government’s declaration that it is prepared to reach a reciprocal arrangement to spare humanitarian sites amid the ongoing conflict with Saudi Arabia. The government also reiterated its rejection of attempts to impose an occupation. … continue

SNSC secretary dismisses US response to Iran’s conditions as ‘inadequate’

Press TV – October 12, 2026

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Major General Mohsen Rezaei, has dismissed the United States’ partial concessions regarding Tehran’s seven conditions for resolving the ongoing war as “inadequate.”

In a post on X, Rezaei acknowledged that Washington has agreed to some of the conditions outlined by the Islamic Republic, but stressed that the response falls far short of Tehran’s demands.

“Iranian diplomacy has changed, and there will be no return to the status quo ante,” he declared, signaling a fundamental and permanent shift in how Tehran engages with Washington, demanding full compliance rather than incremental or half-hearted concessions.

In a second post, Rezaei eviscerated the US administration’s strategic competence and the origins of the war.

He stated that US President Donald Trump, “deluded by the fantasy of conquering Iran, launched one of the most idiotic wars in human history after being duped by Netanyahu.” … continue

Trump’s Retreat: How Al-Aqsa Flood Took Down the US Empire

By Kevin Barrett | October 12, 2026

On October 7, 2026, a front-page New York Times headline vaunted “Trump’s Retreat.” It wasn’t referring to Mar-a-Lago or Epstein Island.

The full headline, complete with subhead, reads:

“Trump’s Retreat: From the Gulf to Britain, American Forces Pull Back. A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.”

The “war that was intended to demonstration the reach of American power” was, of course, Trump’s ill-fated attack on Iran that began last February 28. But by publishing the story on October 7, the three-year anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, the Times insinuated, intentionally or not, a causal link between Hamas’s heroic 2023 concentration-camp breakout and the collapse of the American empire following Trump’s losing war on Iran.

What the Times did not come right out and say, of course, is that the US has bled itself dry fighting losing wars for Israel, and that the October 7, 2023 provocation set off Israel’s long-planned US war on the last of the “seven countries in five years” that 9/11 was designed to “take out.” … continue

London, Brussels Working on Plans to Blockade Baltic Sea – Russian Presidential Aide

Sputnik – 12.10.2026

MOSCOW – London and Brussels are developing plans to blockade the Baltic Sea and the straits leading to it, Russian presidential aide Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday.

“Western countries are trying to organize interceptions of our ships. London and Brussels are developing plans to blockade the Baltic Sea and the straits leading to it,” Patrushev said during talks with Chinese Transport Minister Liu Wei in China.

Global acute poverty rises for first time since 2010

Al Mayadeen | October 12, 2026

The number of people living in acute poverty worldwide has risen for the first time since the global index was introduced in 2010, reaching 1.2 billion, according to a report released Monday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative.

The 2026 report recorded 51.5 million more people experiencing acute poverty than in the previous year. UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo described the increase as a “wake-up call for the world.”

“Behind these figures are 1.2 billion people facing hardships that reinforce one another: hunger, missed schooling and a lack of clean water or electricity. This is unacceptable,” he said in a press release.

Children account for more than half of those living in acute poverty, highlighting the scale of deprivation affecting younger populations. … Full article

Nature’s Original Peptide: The Forgotten Aging Study That Cleared Cataracts in a Month

A peer-reviewed aging study showed that a humble sprouting grass could do what a thymus graft does, and almost no one followed up.

By Sayer Ji | October 2, 2026

… Most tissues in the body renew themselves. The lens of the eye mostly does not. Its proteins are laid down early in life and never replaced, so cataract, the clouding of those proteins, works like a lifetime record of accumulated damage. Conventional medicine treats it as essentially irreversible. Once vision is impaired, the answer is surgery.

That is why a measurable reduction in lens opacity in one month, from an oral, food-derived material, should have made headlines. It challenges one of the deepest assumptions in aging biology: that damage like this only goes one way. … Read full article

The Pressure Was Doing Something

An Essay on Why the Body Raises Blood Pressure, and What the Drugs That Lower It Are Doing to the Kidney

Lies are Unbekoming | October 8, 2026

… In November 2017, 31 million Americans became hypertensive overnight. Their bodies had not changed. Two professional societies had moved the diagnostic threshold from 140/90 to 130/80 mmHg, and the population of the diseased expanded by fourteen percent of the adult population in a single publication cycle.¹⁷

The reading was unchanged. The name applied to it had migrated downward. The question underneath, what the body was doing when it raised the pressure, went unexamined in the publication cycle that moved the threshold, and continues to go unexamined in the practice that followed. The mainstream Cochrane literature has, meanwhile, already answered a related question: whether the drugs the new threshold brought under indication help the population the new threshold targeted.

Andrew Kaufman, a working clinician, says the most common cause of kidney failure in his practice is blood pressure medication. He makes a stronger claim: he has never seen a patient with kidney disease who was not taking an antihypertensive drug. When the body raises pressure at rest, Kaufman argues, something has reduced the flow of blood to the organs, and the higher pressure is the body’s correction. Lower the pressure chemically without addressing the reason it rose, and the organs return to the under-perfused state the body was trying to escape.¹ … Read full article

The Fraud That Launched the mRNA Era

A Midwestern Doctor | The Forgotten Side of Medicine | October 11, 2026

Story at a Glance:

• Before COVID, mRNA had failed for decades and both companies developing it were in financial trouble. However, an emergency framework built years in advance made it possible to rush their vaccines to market. Now there is a major push to replace much of the vaccine schedule with lucrative mRNA vaccines, despite the platform being immensely problematic and still poorly understood.
• The mRNA platform’s acceptance rests on the claim that its trials proved it “safe and effective,” yet the same tactics routinely used to rig clinical trials were used throughout them, from the misleading “95% effective” figure to injured participants having their injuries recoded as unrelated conditions.
• Using trial data released by court order, a team of independent researchers and whistleblowers spent years auditing Pfizer’s trial. Within the limited records procured, extensive irregularities were documented throughout the trials including 1,203 participants vanishing from the records, 1,209 adverse events re-filed as COVID symptoms, undisclosed deaths in the vaccine group, unequal COVID testing between the groups, and the public receiving a more dangerous formulation of the vaccine which was never tested prior to being released.
• Newly released documents from Argentina’s FDA show the trial’s largest site had twenty violations, including 52 participants given nearly double the planned dose, which finally resolves one of the trial’s longstanding mysteries.
• Fortunately, the tide has turned. Federal health officials are now acknowledging vaccine injuries, investigators have gained the power to obtain the evidence long kept hidden, and public opinion has shifted to the point that it is finally possible to openly discuss what was done.

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Palestinian family trapped for one week as Israeli troops enable settler siege

The Cradle | October 11, 2026

Jewish settlers are besieging the home of a Palestinian family in the occupied West Bank with the collusion of the Israeli army, Haaretz reported on 11 October.

For the past week, illegal Jewish settlers have prevented members of the Shinaran family, five adults and five children, from leaving their home in the village of Wadi al-Rahim in the South Hebron Hills.

“We are under curfew in our own home, like in prison,” one family member explained.

Another family member said the settlers threaten them if they go to the roof of their home or even go near the windows. “If they see us at the windows, they yell at us to move away,” he said.

He said he had tried several times to leave the house, but each time the settlers quickly arrived.

The Israeli army has been deployed to the village to protect the family. However, they often do nothing to help. “They do not remove the settlers. They sit with them, even though this is a closed military zone.”

Haaretz reports that video footage from the village shows Israeli soldiers praying alongside the settlers and allowing them to play loud music at the entrance to the Shinaran family’s home.

The settlers began the siege after establishing an outpost near the entrance to the Shinaran family’s home. … Full article

Dozens of fomer detainees arrested in IOF West Bank raids

Al Mayadeen | October 11, 2026

Israeli forces carried out raids across several areas of the West Bank early Sunday, arresting dozens of Palestinians, most of them former prisoners, according to local reports.

In Tulkarm, Israeli forces raided the Gold Market area in the city center and searched a residential building in the northern Shuweika suburb. Nine Palestinians from the governorate were arrested, including former prisoners.

In Al-Khalil, forces searched homes in the city and the Abu Qatila neighborhood and arrested a young man in the village of al-Tabaqa, south of Dura. They also fired tear gas near the entrance to Idhna, west of al-Khalil.

A special Israeli force arrested another young man and former detainee after entering the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin.

Three Palestinians were arrested in Beit Lahm, while Israeli forces carried out raids and arrests during an incursion into the town of Meithalun, south of Jenin. Forces also searched several homes during raids in Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley and entered the villages of Salem and Rujeib east of Nablus.

Israeli forces also closed all entrances to the village of Madama, south of Nablus, early Sunday, preventing residents from entering or leaving. Local sources said the forces additionally closed the road linking Madama with Burin and two roads connecting Asira al-Qibliya with Madama.

Settlers also carried out attacks against Palestinians and their property in several areas. Ziad Younes was injured after settlers beat him during an attack on the town of al-Khader, south of Beit Lahem.

In Ramallah, settlers attacked the village of Ein Yabrud east of the city. Others uprooted electricity poles and cut power to the al-Marj area in the town of Deir Dibwan to the east.

In Tubas and the northern Jordan Valley, settlers carried out provocative tours around residents’ homes in the al-Himma community. Israeli forces also raided Qalandia refugee camp north of al-Quds. … Full article

Israel kills four Palestinians in fresh Gaza ceasefire violations, including child

Palestinian Information Center – October 11, 2026

GAZA – The Israeli occupation forces continued violating the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, carrying out drone strikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire that killed four Palestinians, including a seven-year-old child, since dawn today.

A medical source at Nasser Hospital confirmed that three Palestinians were killed and several others injured when an Israeli drone targeted a tent west of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.

The attack brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Khan Yunis and Jabalia since early Sunday to four, including a child.

The latest casualties came as Israeli forces continued firing on residential areas and displacement camps, conducting demolition operations, and shelling several locations across the besieged territory despite the ceasefire agreement.

In northern Gaza, seven-year-old Palestinian child Jihad Al-Ghandour died from wounds sustained when Israeli forces shot him near Al-Hawja Street in the Jabalia refugee camp. … Full article

‘Israel’ kills two harvesting their olives in South Lebanon

Al Mayadeen | October 11, 2026

Israeli artillery fire and an explosive remnant left behind by Israeli operations killed two Lebanese citizens during the olive harvest in southern Lebanon on Sunday, as Israeli forces carried out further airstrikes, shelling, and detonations across the South.

In Yater, in the Bint Jbeil district, Israeli artillery targeted the town’s outskirts, killing a retired Lebanese soldier as he inspected his land and olive harvest, the National News Agency (NNA) reported, according to AFP.

In Froun, also in the Bint Jbeil district, an explosive object left behind by Israeli operations detonated among people tending their olive trees, killing an engineer, NNA reported.

Froun Mayor Hassan Bazzi told AFP that the engineer had come from Beirut, where he lives, to take part in the harvest.

The fatal explosion prompted residents to suspend olive harvesting until the Lebanese Army could clear the village of explosive remnants, Bazzi said.

Israeli attacks target towns, farmland, and a shop

Elsewhere, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on Wadi al-Hujeir, Kfar Tebnit, Talloussa, and al-Mansouri. Israeli artillery also shelled al-Mansouri and the outskirts of Beit Lif, while further shelling targeted the outskirts of Baraachit and Beit Yahoun.

An Israeli drone targeted a small shop in the area between Nabatieh and Nabatieh al-Fawqa. The type of munition used remained unclear, with initial information indicating either a small missile or a bomb dropped from the drone.

In the Tyre district, Israeli occupation forces also carried out a detonation in Mazraat Buyout al-Seyyed. … Full article

Leaked: Britain’s Covert Iraqi Psyops Network

Kit Klarenberg | Global Delinquents | October 11, 2026

After 23 years, US-led occupation forces are formally leaving Iraq. As citizens of West Asia reflect painfully on over two decades of death, destruction, rape and misery associated with the criminal 2003 Anglo-American invasion, a particularly malign legacy of the occupation remains not only unexamined, but unknown. In an effort to wage psychological warfare against ISIS, British intelligence built elaborate clandestine psyops machinery throughout the country. Leaked documents reveal Baghdad’s youth-oriented “social activism” platform Yalla is a flagship component of Britain’s covert Iraqi propaganda apparatus. … continue

Leaders Condemn Ansarallah Attack on Saudi Arabia While Ignoring Illegal War Against Yemen

By Kurt Nimmo | Another Day in the Empire | October 11, 2026

Following the attack on the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the usual suspects emerged from the social media muck to condemn Ansarallah. “These reprehensible attacks demonstrate a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life. They must stop now,” demanded Trump’s secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

Bibi Netanyahu, “on behalf of the people of Israel,” condemned the attack and declared the Zionist state “looks forward to a strong Middle East—one that stands united against threats, protects its people, and builds a future of security, cooperation, and prosperity for all the peoples of our region,” never mind the 200,000-680,000 people of the region he butchered over the last three years.

Kaja Kallas, the former president of Estonia and current High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, denounced the airport attack. “The Houthi attack on Riyadh’s international airport is an appalling act of terror. There can be no justification for indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure,” she said.

Kallas, like most European leaders, insists Israel has a “right to defend itself” against Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, and yet “self-defense” is not a legitimate response for the people of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, all victims of Israeli and US aggression. … continue

Saudi raids hit Yemen; Sanaa warns of strategic retaliation

Al Mayadeen | October 11, 2026

Saudi airstrikes targeted civilian areas and infrastructure across Yemen, killing a child and wounding six people in central Sanaa, as Yemeni authorities warned that continued Saudi aggression and the blockade would bring strategic consequences for Riyadh.

Sanaa’s Health Ministry said the child was killed in a Saudi airstrike on Bab Shu’ub, while six civilians, including a woman and another child, sustained injuries of varying severity.

Saudi aircraft also struck Sanaa International Airport, north of the capital, according to Saba News Agency.

The attacks came as fighting continued between the Yemeni Armed Forces and Saudi-backed forces around Dhubab airport, while Sanaa renewed warnings to airlines and travelers against using Saudi airports and airspace. … Full article

Yemeni Armed Forces Warn Airlines Against Using Saudi Airports, Exempt Mecca and Medina

Al-Manar | October 11, 2026

Yemeni Armed Forces reiterated on Sunday a warning to airlines, aviation personnel, airport workers, and travelers against using Saudi airports and airspace, declaring them potential targets and a theater of military operations, with the exception of airports in Mecca and Medina.

In a statement, Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Saree urged all concerned parties to take the warning seriously, holding Saudi Arabia responsible for any attempts to intercept Yemeni operations.

The Yemeni Armed Forces reaffirmed their commitment to pursuing the strategy previously announced as “an airport for an airport, a blockade for a blockade, and escalation for escalation,” vowing to continue until their objectives are achieved.

Earlier on Saturday, Member of Yemen’s Ansarullah Politburo Mohammad Al-Bakhiti warned that Saudi regime plots to target holy sites in Mecca and Medina and to blame Yemen for attacks.

In exclusive remarks to Al-Manar on Friday, Al-Bakhiti revealed that Riyadh had supplied Saudi-backed mercenaries in Yemen with missiles and drones to carry out attacks and blame them on Yemeni Armed Forces.

Iran security chief says powers greater than US tried to conquer Iran but ended in ‘dustbin of history’

Press TV – October 11, 2026

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, says powers greater than the US have tried to conquer Iran but ultimately ended up in the “dustbin of history.”

During an exclusive interview with Press TV on Saturday, Rezaei said the “US suffered repeated defeats in its confrontation with Iran and has consequently turned to economic warfare out of desperation.”

Iran, rather than the US, would determine when the confrontation ends, he said, stressing that Tehran would continue its resistance until its rightful demands are met.

Addressing the presence of US forces in the region, Rezaei told Press TV that the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq reflected Washington’s failure to impose its military agenda on the region, describing it as a vindication of Iran’s resistance to American military presence in West Asia.

Rezaei further said that more than “30 million Iranians have registered in ‘Janfada’ (Sacrifice for Iran) Campaign to take up arms in the event of US aggression.” … continue

A Thimble for a Flood: Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal…

Why the announced volumes barely register against the global distillate shortage

By Larry C. Johnson | SONAR21 | October 10, 2026

On Friday night Donald Trump announced that, after a call with Vladimir Putin, Russia would ship diesel to the United States and world markets. Treasury followed with a temporary general license lifting sanctions on Russian diesel until April 2027. The President promised that diesel prices would fall “in record numbers” and “fast.” With the midterms three weeks away and diesel at $6.23 a gallon, up from about $3.67 a year ago and just off the record $6.52 set on September 22, I understand the political appeal. But when I put the numbers next to the size of the shortage, the deal is a rounding error. … continue

Fieldwatch App Detects Nearby Cameras and Trackers

By Rick Findlay | Reclaim The Net | October 9, 2026

Free, open-source app Fieldwatch is a new attempt to help people discover unwanted devices such as license plate readers, cameras, and various trackers, that are increasingly cropping up in their neighborhoods, often without any warning or their local community’s consent.

Fieldwatch, which is the new name for what used to be called Spectre until version 1.2.14, is available for Android and can be downloaded from the project’s GitHub page as an APK, but not from Google Play.

The app’s developer, who goes by the name of Off Grid Pete, says the reason for the name change was the existence of another app called Spectre.

It is made clear that this is a side project with no commercial aspirations – “This is a hobby — something I do for fun in my spare time. There is no Fieldwatch backend. There are no ads. Everything lives on the phone.”

Fieldwatch works by passively listening for nearby Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE signals and matching them against a library of device signatures.

“It’s passive, it only listens, there’s no dongle, no account, and no backend server. I wanted something that would work offline in the field,” the developer said. … Full article

French cargo workers block Elbit systems shipment bound for ‘Israel’

Al Mayadeen | October 10, 2026

Employees of a French cargo company refused to load a security shipment from Israeli security firm Elbit Systems onto an El Al aircraft scheduled to depart Paris for “Israel” on Saturday evening, Ynet reported on Friday.

Israeli security officials have intervened to address the situation, according to the report. … Full article

Nine Palestinians injured in settler attack near Ramallah

Palestinian Information Center – October 10, 2026

RAMALLAH – Nine Palestinians were injured on Saturday morning after extremist Jewish settlers, escorted by Israeli forces, attacked farmers in the village of Deir Abu Mash’al, northwest of Ramallah.

The Red Crescent said its ambulance crews treated nine people injured in the attack, including one person who was shot in the thigh with live ammunition, two who were hit by rubber-coated metal bullets, and six who sustained injuries after being beaten.

Amin Abu Alia, head of the al-Mughayyir village council, said Israeli forces and settlers encircled the home of Mohamed Abu Alia and fired tear gas canisters at it.

Abu Alia added that all 20 family members inside the house were affected by tear gas exposure.

Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers prevented an ambulance from reaching the area and fired tear gas canisters at it.

Settlers also raided homes in the western part of the village and attacked Palestinian olive harvesters, prompting local residents to confront them.

Israeli fire wounds Anadolu photojournalist in occupied West Bank

MEMO | October 10, 2026

The Israeli army on Saturday shot and wounded Anadolu’s Palestinian photojournalist Issam Rimawi with a rubber bullet in the occupied West Bank, Anadolu reports.

Earlier, farmers in the village of Deir Nizam, near Ramallah, appealed to activists for help harvesting their olives after attacks by Israeli occupiers prevented them from accessing their land.

Following the appeal, the farmers headed to their land alongside a large number of activists to harvest their olives.

However, Israeli occupiers arrived and attacked the Palestinians and activists as they gathered olives.

Israeli soldiers later arrived at the scene, sided with the occupiers, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the Palestinians.

Rimawi, who was covering the olive harvest in the area, was struck in the right calf by a rubber bullet fired by the Israeli soldiers. … Full article

Israeli Soldiers Kill A Palestinian Child In Gaza

IMEMC | October 10, 2026

Palestinian child Shahd Abdul-Razeq al-Najjar, 8, from Jabalia, was killed by Israeli military fire inside her family’s displacement tent, media sources in Gaza said.

The sources reported that Israeli forces opened fire in the area where al-Najjar’s family displacement tent was located.

The bullet pierced the tent and struck al-Najjar. She later died from her wounds, medical sources said.

Elsewhere in northern Gaza, Israeli helicopters opened fire toward areas east of the Jabalia refugee camp.

Also, Israeli artillery shelled eastern parts of the Tuffah and Shuja’iyya neighborhoods in Gaza city. Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy fire east of the city as forces fired flares into the area.

An Israeli quadcopter opened heavy fire toward Palestinians in the Gaza Square area east of Gaza City, while an Israeli military crane fired in the same area. Israeli naval vessels also opened fire off the city’s coast.

Several Palestinians were also injured when Israeli forces shelled civilians on Yaffa Street, east of Gaza City.

The attacks extended into central Gaza, where Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire toward Palestinian homes east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, while Israeli artillery bombarded areas east of Deir al-Balah.

Farther south, in Khan Younis, Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire north of the city, while Israeli helicopters fired toward its eastern areas. A Palestinian woman was also wounded by Israeli military fire in Khan Younis.

In Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian in the al-Mawasi area on Saturday morning, as Israeli forces continued artillery shelling and heavy gunfire across several parts of the enclave.

Israeli forces also opened fire directly toward an ambulance that attempted to reach the wounded Palestinian in al-Mawasi, endangering the medical crew.

The attacks coincided with one year since the “ceasefire” took effect in the Gaza Strip, amid continuing daily Israeli violations that have included gunfire, artillery shelling, and attacks on Palestinians across the enclave.

Israeli drone strike injures six in Lebanon near Syria border

Press TV | October 10, 2026

An Israeli military drone strike near the Lebanon-Syria border has injured six people, including five Syrian nationals and one Lebanese citizen.

“The Israeli attack near the town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali in the Hermel district led to six wounded, including five Syrian nationals, two of them women, and one Lebanese,” Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Friday.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that “an enemy military drone targeted a car” in the town. … Full article

EU Wants to Reduce New Budget by Almost $180Bln But Keep $111Bln for Ukraine

Sputnik – 10.10.2026

The European Union is set to keep its Ukraine Reserve of 100 billion euros ($112 billion) for 2028-2034 without reduction, despite a proposal to cut the overall seven-year budget of the union by 159 billion euros, according to the Negotiating Box prepared by the EU Council and reviewed by Sputnik on Saturday.

“The Union will continue to provide financial support to Ukraine for its accession process and longer-term reconstruction. For the 2028-2034 period, a Ukraine Reserve shall provide support of up to EUR [88 869] million,” the document read.

The figure in the document was calculated in the prices of 2025 and equals to approximately 100 billion euros in the current prices. … Full article