China - Farm Bankruptcies - AI-powered Surveillance State

 

European Solidarity at Risk as 10 Countries Restore Border Checks By Ahmed Adel The recent border restrictions imposed by Italy on travelers arriving from Spain, and Madrid’s immediate retaliation, due to the migration crisis in Ceuta, a Spanish exclave in North Africa, bring into question the viability of Europe’s common area, known as Schengen, and whether European solidarity is collapsing. Read here

Going Underground and Underwater in Warfare By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz The 2026 Iran–U.S.–Israel War will be studied for years to come across many dimensions of cyber, air, and naval warfare, as well as in relation to capabilities such as air power, air-defense missiles, ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance), electronic warfare, ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, armed unmanned aerial and maritime vehicles, mines, and precision-guided munitions. Read here

China Says “No Thanks” to Trump’s “Secondary Sanctions” against Iran By Renee Parsons As if in direct response to a military stalemate with Iran, President Trump remains unable to extricate himself from an unprovoked war of aggression he himself initiated at Israel’s urging. With the approach of mid term elections, the President’s level of despair at falling opinion polls is evident with the Administration’s initiation of a new round of secondary sanctions on Iran.  Read here

Farm Bankruptcies Up 46% in 2025 Before Iran War While US Manufacturing in Chaos By Helena Glass Trump has no economic understanding at all. America is suffering under his blockade of the Strait – fertilizer is now more important than oil as JP Morgan warns of food shortages coming in 2027. Read here

Killing the Commons: The Hidden Politics of Industrial Cheese By Colin Todhunter The decline of regional British cheeses is emblematic of the broader process of homogenisation, or the ‘great flattening’, through which land, culture and the human body lose autonomy and diversity. Read here

“Invasion of the Country-Snatchers”: The AI-powered Surveillance State is Un-American By Helen Buyniski The hyperscale facilities used to train and serve AI models are being plopped down like Monopoly pieces in a hostile takeover of the American countryside, tax-free million-square-foot monuments to the technofeudalist conquistadors who’ve similarly parasitized the state apparatus. Read here

“Kurdish Question” Not Over: How US Policy Helped Create New Middle East Problem By Uriel Araujo Turkey has recently advanced a landmark peace process agreement with the PKK/Kurdish movement, including steps for disarmament, pardon, and reintegration – however, despite some optimistic reporting in the press, the broader Kurdish issue remains dangerously unresolved. Read here