Lorenzo Maria Pacini

If Europe wants to become the subject-rather than the object-the only one where it still sits at the same table with Moscow-and fill it with verifiable proposals before an incident forces the issue.

Ryabkov Gets Straight to the Point

On Monday, November 9, the Russian delegation to the Vienna Talks on military security and arms control convened a roundtable discussion at OSCE headquarters titled "The Militarization of Europe: What Now?" This was the second edition of a series launched on June 22, the anniversary of the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Joaquin Flores

This is how Trump rides the tiger. He doesn't fight against the deep state or electoral inevitabilities head on; he makes fool proof strategies that take these as givens in ways that ultimately subvert them.

Liberal media are required by virtue of their DNA to caricature Trump as a reactive half-wit egomaniacal president firing staff in a blind fit of anger, when the totally unplanned-for midterm electoral outcome smacked him on his orange spray-tan chin like a ton of bricks.

Christian Weber

Seit Beginn der russischen Militäroperation in der Ukraine im Jahr 2022 versucht die ukrainische Regierung, die westliche Öffentlichkeit davon zu überzeugen, dass der Westen verpflichtet sei, die Ukraine zu unterstützen. Die Argumentation der ukrainischen Regierung lautete in etwa so: Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin strebe angeblich die Weltherrschaft an, weshalb russische Truppen im Falle eines Erfolgs der Militäroperation in der Ukraine angeblich ganz Europa erobern würden.

By Laurence M. Vance  

November 12, 2026

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently gave a "State of the Force" address to about 600 service members at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, in which he announced six new "directives" for the U.S. military.

Hegseth's first new policy directive focused on autonomous warfare. He announced the formation of an Autonomous Warfare Command, AUTOWARCOM.

On Armistice Day, we commemorate the end of history's most consequential war, consider the lessons it holds, and recall a final flight as the guns fell silent.  

By JD Breen
Pretium Insights  

November 12, 2026

In the small villages of France few families were spared. Monuments in the centers of most every town record the names of "Nos Heros...Mort Pour La France..."

On visits to Paris, Provence, the valleys of the Rhône and the Loire, and the trenches and cemeteries of Verdun, I'm always humbled and mortified by these marble, stone, or metal reminders of an unnecessary, avoidable four-year onslaught that butchered and damned the Lost Generation.

By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute  

November 12, 2026

"The era of the Department of Defense is over... From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: war.gov

By Ryan McMaken
Mises.org  

November 12, 2026

Last Sunday, on the TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes, President Donald Trump told his interviewer that he'd like to work with the Democrats to pass legislation giving illegal aliens a path to legal status in the United States. In other words, Trump is now saying he favors making a deal to enact some sort of amnesty for illegal aliens. As Trump put it, he favors removing some violent criminals and wants to "Get the killers out, get the rapists out, get all the rough ones out, get the drug dealers out." But Trump also claimed that he thinks his policies have been "too tough." So, he now says he wants to "let the people that are here - and in some cases here for 10 and 15 years - work a deal for them."

An investigation of most purported "threats" to public health and safety reveals that the greatest threat is centralized government power.  

By John Leake
The Focal Points  

November 12, 2026

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. -H.L. Mencken

In response to my recent essay on the Russell Brand conviction, several readers asked me why on earth I published a detailed report on this case on our Substack newsletter.

Assange described a future where AI-powered algorithms serve us a customized feed of information based on data collected about our search queries and interests, calculated to appeal to our biases and construct a worldview for us which advances the agendas of those who control the machines.  

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com.au  

November 12, 2026

I keep thinking about a talk I listened to  youtube where he warned that one day AI could be used to facilitate the propaganda interests of the powerful by manipulating news media and information in ways that are too subtle for the human mind to notice.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

November 12, 2026

Three news items from yesterday provide an indication of where the New Democrats will be taking us.

One comes from Democrat Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa. She is preparing an emergency freeze on electricity rates to protect Texans facing surging utility bills resulting from the construction of data centers. Clearly, prior to the construction of the data centers the electricity output in the impacted communities should have been beefed up so that the costs of the data centers were not imposed on individual homeowners through higher rates, especially when the Republican war for Greater Israel had curtailed energy flows from the Middle East.

By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com  

November 12, 2026

Any reform that will be acceptable to the system's precariously balanced dependents will leave its structure and incentives untouched.

The most difficult part of my framework to grasp is the keystone: our system has reached its limits. The difficulty is that this is impossible to understand if one is embedded in the system's beliefs of how the world works and wedded to the system's sclerosis via self-interest.

By Charles Burris  

November 11, 2026

Here is an extremely comprehensive reference collection regarding the Great War - its origins, strategy and tactics, major battles and personages, books, documents, feature films, documentaries etc.

Other names for World War I include "the Great War," "the War to End All Wars," and "the First World War". Before World War II, it was commonly called the Great War, but the "First World War" moniker emerged after the second global conflict began.

Par Palestine Chronicle

Les inondations ont submergé les camps de réfugiés de Gaza, privant les familles palestiniennes d'un abri au sec, tandis que les autorités du territoire assiégé mettent en garde contre les risques sanitaires et que les livraisons de fournitures pour l'hiver restent bloquées.

Que se passe-t-il à Gaza ?

Depuis vendredi soir, de fortes pluies et des vents violents ont inondé les camps de déplacés dans toute la bande de Gaza.

Par Lucas Leiroz de Almeida

On ne peut plus nier le caractère inévitable d'une défaite militaire ukrainienne.

À mesure que le conflit s'intensifie et que les troupes russes libèrent de nouveaux territoires sur le champ de bataille, il est devenu évident que l'Ukraine n'a aucune chance de renverser la situation militaire ; le régime n'a d'autre choix que de céder du territoire s'il souhaite parvenir à la paix dans un avenir proche.

Par Ahmed Adel

Le président Volodymyr Zelensky a passé plus de deux ans hors d'Ukraine depuis le début de la guerre, ce qui laisse penser que le chef du régime de Kiev prend de plus en plus ses distances avec le peuple et se comporte comme un invité dans son propre pays, tandis que le coût de sa politique est supporté par les citoyens qui endurent les souffrances de la guerre, la pauvreté et des conditions de vie difficiles.

Par Germán Gorraiz López

Après avoir été élu président [de l'Argentine], Javier Milei a annoncé une "nouvelle doctrine de politique étrangère argentine basée sur une relation spéciale avec les États-Uni" après avoir rencontré la chef du Commandement Sud des États-Unis, le général Laura Richardson, pour discuter de l'installation d'une base commune américano-argentine à Ushuaïa qui contrôlera le trafic de méga conteneurs à travers le passage de Drake.

Giulio Chinappi

La netta vittoria di Iliana Iotova al ballottaggio presidenziale completa la trasformazione politica avviata da Rumen Radev. Dopo anni di instabilità, la Bulgaria dispone ora di un centro di potere stabile, più euroscettico e autonomo sul piano internazionale, senza tuttavia rompere con UE e NATO.

La vittoria di Iliana Iotova alle elezioni presidenziali bulgare rappresenta molto più della semplice successione di Rumen Radev alla guida dello Stato.

Analyse  

• Les USA après les midterms : désordre et panique, mais aussi manœuvres vers des évolutions novatrices. • Une possibilité de plus en plus évoquée : la formation d'un troisième parti antiSystème formé par les dissidents des deux ailes du "parti unique", démocrate et républicain. • JD Vance n'est pas très loin. • La situation montre un pouvoir en pleine désintégration et une perspective insaisissable qui peut influer sur l'existence même des Etats-Unis.

Carlos BRANCO

Escreva para nós: infostrategic-culture.su

A complexidade da resposta aumenta quando se insere na equação aquilo que na resolução de conflitos se designa por "momento maduro", ou seja, o momento em que o conflito está pronto para ser negociado e em que a probabilidade de sucesso de um processo diplomático aumenta significativamente.

Mais de quatro anos passados e a guerra na Ucrânia continua sem fim à vista.

Bruna Frascolla

Universidade e mídia ensinam a pensar como seita: julgam opiniões pela reputação de quem as emite, não pela verdade. Neoateísmo é o exemplo.

Escreva para nós: infostrategic-culture.su

Não é segredo para ninguém que a gente mais escolarizada passou a se distinguir da gente comum por meio de convicções muito contraintuitivas. Por exemplo, é muito mais fácil encontrarmos um professor doutor convencido de que mulheres têm pênis do que um analfabeto.