Par Mina Mosallanejad

Le Leader de la Révolution islamique d'Iran, l'Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei, a annoncé lundi une série de nominations importantes à des postes militaires et de sécurité de haut niveau. Ces nominations interviennent suite au martyre de plusieurs hauts commandants militaires et responsables de la sécurité lors de la récente guerre israélo-américaine contre le pays.

Davide Rossi

Da luogo di dialogo a strumento geopolitico: il cinema occidentale tra esclusioni e narrazioni di guerra

Il cinema dovrebbe essere un fenomeno artistico e culturale, massimamente le rassegne cinematografiche, Giona Nazzaro, direttore artistico del Locarno Film Festival cita Elio Vittorini: "Troppo male offendere il mondo" e lamenta che i confini planetari effettivi e metaforici, non solo cinematografici, si stiano restringendo, ma forse pure lui ha fatto e fa troppo poco perché il dialogo con i popoli della terra resti aperto, le cinematografie del Sud Globale e multipolare restano lontane anche da Locarno.

By Andrew Wallace  

August 11, 2026

Most would agree that Tucker Carlson is honest, intelligent, and the most effective commentator in the country. But that will not be enough to win with a third party, even though politicians in the Democratic and Republican Parties have been proven to be greedy Liars and Traitors who have brought the country to the brink of Economic Ruin and Nuclear Obliteration.

By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute  

August 11, 2026

This month marks 55 years since President Richard Nixon closed the "gold window," severing the last link between the US dollar and gold. Under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, foreign countries pegged their currencies to the US dollar, which was then pegged to a fixed value of gold. Foreign countries could exchange their dollars for gold at a rate of 35 dollars per ounce.

By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21  

August 11, 2026

According to a Wall Street Journal report citing US officials, President Trump has been privately weighing the possibility of declaring victory against Iran and ending the war without securing a nuclear deal,.

Trump reportedly has floated to senior aides that if the US can keep Iran's nuclear program in check and traffic resumes through the Strait of Hormuz, he would be willing to extend the ceasefire "indefinitely" and effectively declare the conflict over.

By Laurence M. Vance  

August 11, 2026

Although few Americans have heard of the National Science Foundation (NSF), fewer still have heard of the National Science Board (NSB).

The NSF is "an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories." It was established in 1950 to "promote the progress of science,"advance the national health, prosperity and welfare, and secure the national defense."It fulfills its mission"chiefly by making grants."Its budget request for the upcoming fiscal year 2027 is $3.41 billion.

By William D. Hartung
The Intercept-TomDispatch  

August 11, 2026

President Donald Trump and self-styled Secretary of War Pete Hegseth are pushing for a post-World War II record $1.6 trillion Pentagon budget for next year, a sum so obscenely high that it is almost impossible to comprehend. The proposed $600 billion increase alone is almost twice the total annual military budget of America's closest rival, China.

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review 

August 11, 2026

The Soviet Union and Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Decades ago when I was in college and grad school I had a strong side-interest in the Soviet Union and its history. During those years I may have read as many as one hundred books on those subjects.

At that point, my views on most historical matters were almost entirely mainstream and conventional, closely conforming to what I had absorbed from our major media outlets and standard history textbooks.

By JD Hall
Insight to Incite 

August 11, 2026

What they call "capitalism" increasingly isn't capitalism at all. It is a bastardized system of privatized profits and socialized losses, where multinational corporations demand free markets when they want cheap foreign labor, unrestricted capital flows, tax advantages, deregulation, and access to American consumers, then sprint to Washington for bailouts, subsidies, contracts, tariffs, loan guarantees, and Federal Reserve intervention the moment the market threatens their societal Ponzi scheme.

Since few recognize the critical value of sleep, a safe cure was buried, the pills that replaced it make sleep worse, and Congress is on the precipice of locking in dark mornings nationwide.

By A Midwestern Doctor
The Forgotten Side of Medicine 

August 11, 2026

One of the key themes I've tried to illustrate throughout this publication is that chronic illness has vastly increased over the last 150 years.

Moon of Alabama  

August 11, 2026

U.S. media claim that Iran has set out new conditions to solve the conflict with the U.S. But the new text it has published is just a repetition of clauses the U.S. had already signed on to.

On Saturday Iran published 'new' demands for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz:

(Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr) said the US should observe the six following conditions:

By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

August 11, 2026

The standard explanation is that China is buying gold because it wants to destroy the dollar. That makes a dramatic headline, but it confuses diversification with replacement and political ambition with market reality. The People's Bank of China increased its reported gold reserves by 640,000 fine troy ounces in July, nearly 20 metric tons.

By Karen Kwiatkowski  

August 11, 2026

It's premature, but Trump may be following my advice on Iran. All I did was lay out a path of least resistance, and in my experience, this is the most likely path followed by man and state. The trick is to perceive how how the "state" views "least resistance," and how it defines "easier."

DC consistently does the easy thing, choosing immediate pleasantries over its peasants, preferring to borrow for wars and nice drapes over building for the next generation.

By Ilana Mercer 

August 11, 2026

HOLISTIC BEAUTY, natural and built, a place where "the architecture" is "fully integrated" into the landscape: This is something "real estate developer"-cum-explorer Ivanka Trump knows all about.

Or, so  youtube us, in a misty promotional production, in which viewers are tutored about the person, Narcissus herself, and the new "developments" she is pursuing, personal and material.

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Par Russia Truth, le 10 août 2026

Dans le sud de l'Ukraine, une intense campagne aérienne et de frappes de missiles russes a paralysé le pôle énergétique d'Odessa, mettant hors service des sous-stations clés de 330 kV et coupant le pont électrique vers la Moldavie et la Roumanie.

Ce démantèlement systématique des infrastructures énergétiques et ferroviaires municipales - qui s'accompagne d'un blocus maritime total - laisse présager de préparatifs en vue d'un assaut combiné contre Odessa.

Par Moon of Alabama - Le 10 aout 2026

Les médias étasuniens affirment que l'Iran a défini de nouvelles conditions pour résoudre le conflit avec les États-Unis, Mais le nouveau texte que l'Iran a publié n'est que la répétition des clauses que les États-Unis avaient déjà signées.

Samedi, l'Iran a publié de "nouvelles" demandes pour la réouverture du détroit d'Hormuz :