Auf den ersten Blick hat diese Geschichte weder mit Deutschland noch mit Europa besonders viel zu tun. Am 31. Oktober beginnen in Dakar die Olympischen Jugendspiele, zum ersten Mal überhaupt findet damit eine olympische Veranstaltung auf afrikanischem Boden statt. Doch tatsächlich zeigt gerade Dakar ein weiteres Feld der europäischen Konfrontation mit Russland - eines, das mit Sport im eigentlichen Sinne und mit den viel beschworenen Prinzipien des "Fair Play" inzwischen nur noch wenig zu tun hat.

By Ira Katz  

October 30, 2026

Tom Woods recently had  youtube . The gist of the conversation is the good news that the data keeps coming in that there is no climate "crisis" (see The Existential Crisis - LewRockwell). Furthermore, the public perception of the so-called crisis is waning. I had become aware of this climate change in the public perception of climate change in a very subtle way.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com  

October 30, 2026

A great many phenomena in both Nature and human history follow cyclical patterns, while others form waves. Author David Hackett Fischer (The Great Wave) described the difference between cycles and waves:

"Cyclical rhythms are fixed and regular. Their periods are highly predictable. Great waves are more variable and less predictable. They differ in duration, magnitude, velocity, and momentum.

By Mark Thornton
Mises.org  

October 30, 2026

Beyond the high-profile assassination of Charlie Kirk, the amount of political violence has greatly increased. What causes political violence to become "popular" ? Fortunately, libertarians have drawn attention to this violence, political division, and government-caused chaos, and they also explain the causes and how Austrian economics provides the remedy.

Moon of Alabama  

October 30, 2026

There is always a tendency to blame the big bad enemy de-jour for a loss of a war against some relatively minor enemy.

Thus it was Iranian EFP's (made in Iraq) that were to blame for the defeat of U.S. forces in Iraq. It likewise was Soviet support that let the U.S. lose its pants in Vietnam.

Now it is Russia's fault that Saudi Arabia's infrastructure gets hit by Yemeni weapons.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

October 30, 2026

News reports are no longer reliable. This makes it difficult for those of us who attempt to provide accurate accounts of unfolding events.

A very important meeting was held Tuesday in Iran at the request of the Mecca Alliance (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan). Based on the information that I have, I think the meeting was a product of Saudi Arabia's poor performance in its military conflict with Yemen.

By Prof. Jeffrey Sachs and Andrew Napolitano  

October 30, 2026

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October 30, 2026

On his latest podcast, Peter runs through a wide range of topics, starting with the Federal Reserve's confused approach to interest rates and inflation. He then pivots to Brazil's election and what it reveals about the false promises of democratic socialism, before turning to domestic politics and the hollow nature of Republican tax cuts that come without spending cuts.

By Aurelien
14 Oct 2026

Our politicians and our media, it appears, find it difficult to handle more than one conflict at a time. So as Mr Trump's lunatic military escapade in and around Iran has stumbled on, the fighting in Ukraine has largely been forgotten, apart from occasional squeaks of fear or aggression from western leaders and pundits. Now that Iran seems to be settling into a long-term economic struggle that the US will lose, attention is shifting back North again, and we are suddenly realising that an awful lot has happened there since the beginning of the year.

By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21  

October 30, 2026

I spent enough years at the Central Intelligence Agency that I learned how to read the press stories that the agency's friends place for it. Shane Harris's new profile of CIA Director John Ratcliffe in The Atlantic, published October 23, is one of those stories. It is written to make Ratcliffe look like the sober professional in a chaotic administration.

By Charles Burris  

October 29, 2026

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Par Mehdi Hassan

Les Émirats arabes unis ont contribué à alimenter le génocide au Soudan. Aujourd'hui, l'une de leurs diplomates brigue la tête des Nations unies. Mehdi dénonce avec force la recommandation du Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU de nommer la diplomate émiratie Lana Nusseibeh au poste de secrétaire général de l'organisation.

La diplomate Lana Nusseibeh s'est lancée dans la course pour succéder à António Guterres en tant que 10e secrétaire général des Nations unies.

Des Palestiniens sortent des décombres de maisons détruites lors de frappes aériennes israéliennes dans la ville de Rafah, au sud de la bande de Gaza, le 20 novembre 2023.

Ancien employé de Dell, Alex Mitov raconte comment Gaza a bouleversé sa vision du monde et l'a finalement conduit à rompre avec une entreprise qu'il considère comme complice.

Pendant quatre ans, Alex Mitov a travaillé au service client de Dell, un emploi qu'il avait été reconnaissant de décrocher, notamment après avoir éprouvé des difficultés à trouver du travail en tant que personne malvoyante.