France is experiencing a rare moment of hypocrisy and deceit. On one hand, the national press encourages the public to applaud Pope Leo XIV during his pastoral visit; on the other, it does its utmost to conceal the involvement of French armed forces in horrific conflicts—conflicts in which we should not be involved and which betray our national ideals.

How President Macron is plunging France into a new religious war on the Arabian Peninsula

by Thierry Meyssan

Quietly, President Emmanuel Macron has aligned his foreign policy with that of the Anglo-Saxon powers. This was the price to pay for securing joint command of NATO following the US withdrawal from Europe. As a pledge of commitment, he unilaterally decided to send our troops to participate in a religious war against the Yemeni people.

Ian Proud’s arrest by secret police at a London airport marks a new low in how far the deep state can go to control a false narrative. But it also shows a new level of fear.

As mad as it sounds, it does appear that Western European nations at least are preparing themselves to go to war with Russia at some point in the not-too-distant future. What is particularly worrying is there seems to be a distinct vacuum in all areas of what we could broadly call “media” in questioning this narrative.

Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israel’s grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by the ratio of America’s population to Israel’s. The 1,200 Israelis killed that day, he said, were “equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less than 24 hours. That’s 16 times 9/11.”

by Larry C. Johnson

Biden insiders are still trying to redeem themselves in the eyes of history through a New York Times article titled “‘Ready to Blow His Stack’: How Biden Nearly Cut Off Netanyahu Over Gaza” about how the previous president almost nearly sorta kinda thought about not committing genocide.

I am so fucking sick of this. You don’t get any points for ALMOST NOT slaughtering tens of thousands of children.

They’re Still Trying To Rehab Biden’s Genocidal Image, And Other Notes

Stop. He’s a genocidal monster. That’s his only legacy. End of story.

Caitlin Johnstone

AUKUS has been sold as a plan to strengthen Australia’s defence. Its deeper purpose is to bind Australia permanently into US military strategy against China and make American security dependent on Australian participation.

Mike Gilligan

Let’s hope that the report of Peter Garrett’s public inquiry into the AUKUS pact, to be released on 4 November, captures the enormity of its deception of Australians. And appreciates that the pact is only the latest in a sequence of measures designed to manipulate the United States into guaranteeing Australia’s security.

NSW Premier Chris Minns is easily offended and wants to prosecute one cultural group over another because of what they wear. Andrew Brown with the story.

Wear a keffiyeh to your job at a Sydney public school, and you will be directed to take it off. Wear one to your Year 12 formal, and you will be turned away at the door. Drive to Bunnings in it, and the riot squad will seal the street. Say the wrong four words at a rally and the Premier will send the Crown Solicitor to the High Court to make sure you can be jailed for it.

Alastair Campbell is a self-described pessimist, and the past decade of UK political turmoil certainly hasn't helped. 

Over a coffee at an old gastropub in north London, the former Labour Party strategist turned podcaster told me the last time he felt really good about Britain's place in the world was in 2012.

"When we had the Olympics, that's the last time when I really feel that the country felt strong, powerful, confident, at ease with itself," he said.

"Since then, we've had Brexit — disaster, economically, strategically, politically — we've had COVID … and we've had political instability leading to now seven prime ministers in just over a decade."

ABC Media Watch has accused this reporter of “perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories” online. We say the failure of journalism by ABC and other legacy media makes them culpable in the Gaza genocide. Michael West.

On Friday, Mario Christodoulou executive producer of ABC Media Watch quoted two posts we had made on X regarding last Wednesday’s flydubai ‘terror hijacking’ incident and asked two questions:

Do you believe this incident was an Israeli Government “false flag” event? If so, on what basis? If not, how do you explain your posts above?

Perpetuating unsubstantiated conspiracy theories like this, especially from an established journalist such as yourself, can help spread misinformation. Your post likely contributed to this. What is your response?

Australia avoided the populist-right breakthroughs seen in the US and Europe for longer because prosperity, stronger institutions and a more equal income distribution absorbed the shocks. Those protections are now weakening. Part one of a two-part analysis.

Roger Beale

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv in a show of support for Ukraine as Russia intensified attacks on the capital's infrastructure.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb has blamed Russia for a wide range of security concerns facing the EU, including the influx of migrants over the summer into Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in Morocco. He later admitted that he did not know the situation in Ceuta “well enough to take a position.”

Stubb made the remarks in an interview with Spanish newspaper El Mundo over the weekend. Asked about potential hybrid threats posed by Russia, Stubb said the country would try to interfere with the upcoming Spanish election.

Madrid “should expect some form of sabotage or hybrid attack. It could be related to information warfare or a campaign that threatens their democracy,” he claimed.

Aristide Delannoy (30 July 1874 – 5 May 1911) was a French painter, newspaper cartoonist, caricaturist, and anarchist.

The USA started to become a world Empire and dreamt to divide the world in pie portions. They still do. See their Navycom... This has been done under the theory of Mackinder… I know, some people thought it was a bullshit theory… Mackinder was doing the theorising for the British Empire in 1905 and, though, Gus can only find unreliable tidbits, one can assume that Mackinder and Cecil Rhodes worked together for the British Empire “to conquer the world”. By 1919, this “second" British Empire had crashed somewhat. WW1 and all that, you know… The Yanks were preparing to take over anyway. They already had "conquered" the Latin Americas...

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.

What does Europe want—a war with Russia?

BY Ricardo Martins

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.