War and Peace? Trump Wants to Import Diesel From Russia, “Enemy No: 1 On the Eastern Front”

 

War and Peace? Trump Wants to Import Diesel From Russia, “Enemy No: 1 On the Eastern Front” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky In late August 2026, CIA director John Ratcliffe was in Moscow on a “covert mission” involving discussions with Russia’s intelligence counterparts. According to reports, Ratcliffe proposed a trilateral summit with a view to bringing together Trump, Zelensky and Putin “to facilitate negotiations and potentially end the war.” Read here

Brazil’s Election Runoff Makes Abandoning BRICS a Very Real Possibility By Miguel Santos García Brazil’s Oct. 25 runoff could decide whether Lula or Flávio Bolsonaro steers Brazil away from BRICS and toward closer Western ties. The October 25 vote tests sovereignty, China ties, and US influence. Read here

Waffling at the UN: “Open AI,” Anthropic and Selling Artificial Intelligence By Dr. Binoy Kampmark The United Nations, for the first time in history, became a centre stage for the propagandists from Artificial Intelligence firms during the September deliberations, diplomats hanging off the banal declarations from such figures as Sam Altman, the CEO from OpenAI, and Dario Amodei, his equivalent from Anthropic. Read here

When Will the AI Bubble Burst? By Hermann Ploppa Artificial intelligence is at least as voracious as the human brain. That’s why data centers are now being built all over the world. And they need, above all, electricity, electricity, and once again: electricity. For that, you need energy carriers and a lot of water to cool the units. In the USA alone, 183 gigawatts of electricity will be needed over the next seven years at the projected growth rate mentioned above. Read here

Russia, Satan, and the “Parviscient Ignorant Crowd” By Edward Curtin For years the U.S. had supported Ukraine’s killing of the Russian speaking peoples of eastern Ukraine, and finally, when Ukraine had amassed forces to invade the Donbas region, the Russian government had had enough and in February 2022 sent troops into the region to defend this area. Read here

Echoes of Rage in Place de la Bastille: An Analytical Anatomy of the Student Uprising and the Erosion of Macronism in France By Dr. Amir A. Amirshekari In contrast to the idealistic optimism characteristic of the May 1968 movement, today’s student upheavals in France are the by-product of the ‘existential anxiety’ of a generation coming of age amidst the dismantling of social safety nets and the stagnation of social mobility. Read here

It Is Past Time to Write Off the Digital Revolution as a Huge Mistake By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts AI is socially and economically destructive as it makes human labor valueless instead of elevating it to higher productivity as the mechanical revolution did. Trillions of dollars in investment capital are being pumped into making human labor valueless.  Read here