By Brett WILKINS
"This reveals the DNA of Bolsonarism," said one critic. "Bolsonarism is made of cowardice."
Just one day after vowing he would remain in Brazil to disprove allegations of money laundering, corruption, and other crimes, far-right Brazilian Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro followed in his disgraced father's footsteps by fleeing to the United States after losing a presidential election.
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Education binds generations. But "provided sovereignty" is ambivalent - can you build it for someone else?
Reflection and outlook
The speech delivered by Vladimir Putin on October 28, 2026, at the Gostiny Dvor in Moscow, at the opening of the plenary session of the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum, lends itself to two interpretations.
Finian Cunningham
The war in Ukraine is one of several violent attempts by the United States and its NATO allies to shore up crumbling Western hegemony.
The war in Ukraine is not an isolated conflict. It is one of several violent attempts by the United States and its NATO allies to shore up crumbling Western hegemony.
Former U.S. Army Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen says the war in Ukraine is one front in a broader international conflict that is aimed at preserving a world order once dominated by a global minority of Western powers, primarily the United States.
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
lewrockwell.com
SchiffGold
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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