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Professor Michael Hudson interview with Lena Petrova (World Affairs in Context podcast)
Date: September 15, 2026
Michael Hudson (preview clip):
The United States is selling oil short, just as it has kept down the price of gold through financial manipulation, selling gold forward short for many years. China has taken the lead in creating a whole alternative to the SWIFT system.
Par Éric Juillot
Entamées au cœur de l'été, les discussions autour du projet de budget pour l'Union européenne promettent de tourner à la foire d'empoigne, avec une Allemagne déterminée à le revoir drastiquement à la baisse. Pendant ce temps, Bruno Le Maire se livre à une tentative tout à fait insensée de refonte générale du projet européiste, au moment même où l'espace Schengen est confronté à une crise qui accélère sa remise en cause.
Gregor Spitzen
Kriminelle Vereinigungen werden hierzulande immer brutaler. Das geht aus einem neuen Lagebericht des Bundeskriminalamts (BKA) hervor. Im Jahr 2025 stieg die Zahl der Ermittlungsverfahren gegen organisierte kriminelle Vereinigungen. Insgesamt wurden 683 Verfahren eingeleitet, so viele wie seit 2021 nicht mehr.
Kriminelle Gruppen greifen hierzulande immer häufiger zu massiver Gewalt, um ihre Opfer einzuschüchtern und ihre Macht zu festigen.
Giulio Chinappi
Il completamento della prima galleria nel tratto kirghiso segna l'ingresso del progetto nella fase operativa. La nuova ferrovia rafforzerà la Nuova Via della Seta, offrirà all'Asia centrale ulteriori sbocchi commerciali e renderà più articolata e resiliente la connettività eurasiatica.
Il completamento della galleria Koštobe Nord n. 2, la prima ultimata lungo il tratto kirghiso della ferrovia Cina-Kirghizistan-Uzbekistan, rappresenta un avanzamento concreto per un progetto discusso per decenni e destinato a modificare profondamente la geografia economica dell'Asia centrale.
This article was originally published on s opening talk from the 2026 Capitalism and Morality Calgary event.
The Darcy Gerow Podcast
September 16, 2026
The Canadian Confederation was based on liberal ideas. In nature every person has the right to life, liberty, and property and these rights precede government. Classical liberals believed that governments, like Canada, were constituted by consenting individuals to protect these rights, and to minimize conflict in enforcing them.
Trump's vision of "his" federal capital continues to irritate
By Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
September 16, 2026
The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge banners bearing his image festooning the fronts of government buildings, his billion dollar White House fortified ballroom, the paving of the rose garden, the enlarging of the helicopter landing pad, the soon to be demolished and renamed "Trump"-Kennedy Center, the renaming of the "Trump" Institute of Peace, and the soon to be started Trump-fal Arch being constructed between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
By Larry C. Johnson
Sonar21
September 16, 2026
On 14 September 2026, with American diesel having crossed six dollars a gallon for the first time in history, President Trump settled the question of blame in a single sentence posted to social media: "The World's Diesel price rise is mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran." A day earlier, at his golf resort in Doonbeg, Ireland, he had told Zelensky to "stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," because the strikes were "hurting the world."
How the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation became a state propaganda organ.
By John Leake
The Focal Points
September 16, 2026
In September 2026, Conservative MP Dean Allison convened four days of independent hearings on Parliament Hill to hear from Canadians who reported injuries after COVID-19 vaccination. Fifty witnesses were selected from more than 1,400 applicants.
On the final day, September 11, former Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigative journalist and CTV foreign correspondent Rodney Palmer testified.
Moon of Alabama
September 16, 2026
Some eight weeks before the midterm election the Trump administration has a fuel price problem:
Diesel prices sped past $6.00 a gallon today for the first time ever - NPR, Sep 11 2026
Diesel prices sped past $6.00 a gallon today for the first time ever, with the national average at $6.05.
This rise in diesel prices has been rapid, going up 42 cents a gallon in September alone - and since the U.S.
By Donald Jeffries
I Protest
September 16, 2026
The 25th anniversary of 9/11 has really brought out the trolls. I don't know how many of them are paid, but X has been invaded by illogic, as an army of shills attempts lamely to prop up one of their most important lies. It's the same insidious hivemind mentality that insists we ignore every giant cultural elephant destroying the room.
In September, 1976, as a result of the new Freedom of Information Act, a revealing April 1, 1967 CIA memo was released, titled "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report." April 1 ? Was this one of their inside jokes ? At any rate, the memo begins by stating "Our concern," which revolves around the majority of the public disbelieving the ridiculous conclusions of the Warren Commission.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
September 16, 2026
They are just making up numbers at this point. Ukraine's parliamentary Budget Committee chair Roksolana Pidlasa now says that one day of war costs Ukraine $190 million, up from $140 million per day in 2024. They present these figures as if somebody can open a spreadsheet in Kyiv and calculate what this catastrophe costs down to the dollar.
By Paul Dragu
The New American
September 16, 2026
For more than a decade, tech experts have warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity. For the most part, it remained a niche issue among reporters, tech insiders, and news junkies.
But recent warnings from an AI researcher-turned-whistleblower named Jacob Coxon made this topic mainstream. Now seemingly everyone, and every mainstream media outlet, is talking about deadly robots.
By Brian Berletic
New Eastern Outlook
September 16, 2026
In 2025, the US National Security Strategy paper would be broadly misinterpreted as a US plan to break with its historical pursuit of global primacy and instead retreat to the Western Hemisphere while somehow reconciling or coexisting with traditional targets of US aggression.
Many analysts even claimed there was an absence of any direct mention of Russia or China as part of long-standing "great power competition."
Cette économiste costaricaine, fille de survivants de l'Holocauste et ayant de la famille proche en Israël, s'est imposée comme la favorite pour succéder à António Guterres, tout en partageant globalement les positions des dirigeants de l'ONU concernant Israël et Gaza.
Source : Haaretz, Ben Kroll
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Rebeca Grynspan, ancienne vice-présidente du Costa Rica, s'impose d'ores et déjà comme la favorite pour devenir la prochaine secrétaire générale des Nations unies.
par Philippe Bergerac
Un État "viril" qui gouverne comme les autres : par le fichier, la caméra et le portefeuille.
Moscou, Pékin, Bruxelles ou Washington empruntent des chemins politiques très différents tout en convergeant vers une même infrastructure : celle d'une société technocratique, à savoir une société gouvernée toujours davantage par la donnée.
Virile, traditionnelle, riche ou pas, la Russie s'oriente vers le même modèle de société technocratique (surveillance et crédit social).