From today's Johnson's Russia List
JRL, November 10, 2026, # #12
www.rt.com, November 8, 2026
Ukraine's mission IMF-possible: Who will pay the bills?
The International Monetary Fund wants to raise the utility bills of household consumers, but can they afford them?
rt-english.com
Ukraine faces a difficult choice as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pushes for higher household tariffs on gas, electricity and heating from 2027.
Stefan Pieck
Merz drohte Brüssel mit der Blockade der Verabschiedung des EU-Haushalts, falls nicht alle EU-Mitgliedstaaten eine Verpflichtung zur Unterstützung der Ukraine eingehen. Dies berichtete die britische FT unter Berufung auf ein Schreiben des Kanzlers an den Präsidenten des Europäischen Rates, António Costa. In dieser Angelegenheit will Berlin sein Vetorecht und seine wirtschaftlichen Hebel einsetzen.
By Dr. Joseph Sansone
Mind Matters and Everything Else
November 11, 2026
Trojan Horse Trump is now pushing amnesty for illegal aliens. I recently pointed out on Alex Jones Live that I thought the Trump administration deliberately acted like a bull in the China Closet on deportations to polarize the public. Let's face it, ICE agents asking people randomly to prove citizenship, and American citizens getting shot, is poor PR, but was it deliberate?
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
November 11, 2026
One major reason for studying history is to learn lessons that shed light on contemporary problems and avoid repeating the same mistakes. As the historian Clyde Wilson has reminded us, "history is not a mathematical calculation or scientific experiment but a vast drama of which there is always more to be learned."
Studying history involves more than creating lists of random facts.
By Ron Unz
The Unz Review
November 11, 2026
From my perspective, the most reassuring aspect of the Tuesday midterm elections was their confirmation that gravity did indeed still continue to exist.
Beginning very early in his second term, President Donald Trump had undertaken a long series of actions that I regarded as totally crazy, totally crazy in both political and policy terms.
Yet on nearly all those matters, both he and his administration had experienced remarkably little pushback from the opposing Democrats or from the permanent political establishment often known as "the Deep State" or from the media, let alone from his own completely subservient Republican Party, which controlled both houses of Congress.
Moon of Alabama
November 11, 2026
Last week a rather interesting assault was launched against the founder and CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang.
It is based, in parts, on facts that have been long known. On top of that have come some unverifiable 'spy' allegations.
The facts, as far as known:
Nvidia is making specialized GPU chips for AI processing. Until recently it has had a near monopoly and thus gained a very important role.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
November 11, 2026
Needless to say, the world isn't ready for ToxicBot ™.
I'm finally ready to share a side project of mine, creating a chatbot / AI agent to answer queries without any sugarcoating, in effect telling us what we don't want to hear. I call it ToxicBot ™ because in our culture of self-serving artifice and comforting delusions, the unvarnished truth is considered unbearably toxic.
Schiff Sovereign
November 11, 2026
By medieval standards, the Danish-Hanseatic War was fast. It took just three years for King Valedmar IV of Denmark to be vanquished. And on May 24, 1370, he was forced into one of the most humiliating peace treaties of all time.
Poor Valdemar wasn't humiliated because the peace terms were onerous or expensive. It's because his enemy wasn't even a real country.
The welfare-warfare state is unconstitutional, immoral, and a gross violation of America's founding principles.
By Murray Sabrin
Murray's Newsletter
November 11, 2026
The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind. Thomas Paine
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
November 11, 2026
Why on earth does a company that supposedly sells license plate readers need to contribute to politicians' campaigns ? The Chicago Sun-Times has exposed how Flock Safety has been contributing to the campaigns of local officials whose jurisdictions purchase its technology. We are told these cameras are necessary to protect the public from crime.
By Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin Live
November 11, 2026
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:11, 13 (KJV)
(Note: This column was written before the results of the mid-term elections were known.)
By Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper
November 11, 2026
Inflation is here and has been for quite a while. Sadly, it's doubtful that it's going away any time soon. As a prepper and someone who believes in my country, my first instinct is to rail against the disastrous decisions that have caused this crisis, but as a realist, I know this is not something that all the flaming commentary in the world can change.
Par Sally Ibrahim
En l'espace de 12 heures, environ 70 000 tentes ont été endommagées, tandis que des dizaines de murs se sont effondrés et que plusieurs personnes ont été tuées et blessées.
À Gaza, même la pluie que les gens attendaient autrefois est devenue une source de crainte. Pour les familles palestiniennes qui ont survécu aux bombardements israéliens et à des déplacements forcés répétés, l'hiver, en raison des années de guerre génocidaire menée par Israël, apporte une nouvelle forme de catastrophe : des tentes inondées, des digues de sable qui s'effondrent et des nuits glaciales.
Par Pierre Duval
Reconstruction de l'Ukraine: la France, le Royaume-Uni et l'OTAN font appel à BlackRock. Le plus grand gestionnaire d'actifs au monde a participé la semaine dernière aux négociations sur l'Ukraine à Bruxelles.
BlackRock se trouve à la table du plan de reconstruction (plan de prospérité pour l'Ukraine) pour Kiev. Ce ne sont absolument pas ceux qui financent l'armement de l'Ukraine qui en récolteront les fruits.
Vladimir Castillo Soto
Ces derniers jours, les Ukrainiens ont cherché à intensifier leurs contacts avec le Sud global, ce qui doit mettre en alerte les autorités de tous nos pays, car il n'est pas possible de présager quoi que ce soit de bon d'un gouvernement qui soutient et stimule le nazisme, avec toute sa charge de racisme, de suprémacisme et de mépris pour les peuples non occidentaux, non blancs.
Iran Strikes Back As The US Launches New Attacks In 'Dramatic Escalation'
Robert Inlakesh
The US carried out a wave of airstrikes against sites in southern Iran on Sunday, prompting a stern response from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). On the latest episode of The Target, Mint Press News' Robert Inlakesh breaks down the fallout from the ongoing escalation across the Persian Gulf.
Martin Jay
Trump ha perso le elezioni di medio termine, ma la guerra contro l'Iran continua. Cercherà di ottenere una vittoria fittizia per lasciare un segno nella storia.
Le dichiarazioni secondo cui le elezioni di medio termine avrebbero rappresentato una vittoria schiacciante per Trump se il suo nome fosse stato presente sulle schede elettorali la dicono lunga. Trump, in preda alle sue illusioni, non riesce a vedere la realtà del proprio fallimento, mentre il popolo americano dice "basta" ai suoi metodi di governo del tutto fuori di testa.
Dr. Niall McLaren. D.R.
Interview réalisée par Mohsen Abdelmoumen
Mohsen Abdelmoumen : Dans votre ouvrage Narcisso-fascisme, vous décrivez le fascisme comme une manifestation politique du narcissisme pathologique et comme un besoin biologique de domination. Pensez-vous que les structures démocratiques occidentales actuelles sélectionnent activement des figures "narcisso-fascistes" pour les diriger, ou est-ce le pouvoir lui-même qui catalyse ces pathologies ?
Par Grain
Fin février 2026, les habitant·es d'un petit village de l'ouest de la France se sont réveillés avec une terrible nouvelle. L'entreprise trentenaire au cœur de la production florissante de petits fruits du village - fraises, myrtilles et framboises - venait d'être placée en liquidation judiciairegrain.org 1]. Anjou Fruits Rouges avait été rachetée sept ans plus tôt par un groupe d'investissement émirati.
Alexander Dugin discusses the Abu Dhabi talks, Trump's collapse after the midterms, Netanyahu's loss of power, and the deeper civilizational and eschatological forces driving the shift to a multipolar world.
Conversation with Alexander Dugin on the Sputnik TV program Escalation.
Host: Let's outline the main topics of this episode: the situation in Abu Dhabi, the results of the U.S.