Byy R. Cort Kirkwood
The New American  

October 6, 2026

California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that would force any of the state's $100 million-plus companies 62 years old or more to examine its records for ties to slavery.

Signed September 30, the bill is supposedly an attempt to get at the "truth" about the companies and their putative connection to the slavery business.

By J.B. Shurk
American Thinker  

October 6, 2026

Former-banker-turned-tiny-French-President Emmanuel Macron blasted what he called "American free speech" while speaking to reporters last week. Defending the European Union's robust censorship policies, le petit fromage insisted that Europe's speech-policing Digital Services Act should censor information that governments consider false "much more extensively, much faster, and much more forcefully."

By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

October 6, 2026

Economists keep pointing to consumer spending as proof that the American economy remains strong. Americans spent 0.9% more in August, and naturally this is being celebrated as the resilient American consumer. But real disposable income did not increase AT ALL, while the personal savings rate fell to just 4.1%. Americans are spending more while their inflation-adjusted income is going nowhere and savings are being depleted to maintain their standard of living.

Schiff Sovereign  

October 6, 2026

$2,307,765,598,614.61.

That's how much the national debt grew by in fiscal year 2026, which just ended last week on September 30.

$2.3 trillion in a single year is clearly and obviously runaway debt growth; think about it- the entire national debt didn't reach $2.3 trillion until 1987.

By then the country was 211 years old, and it had been through a revolution, a civil war, two world wars, and the Great Depression.

As the propaganda campaign over Hormuz falters, the road ahead leads not to victory but to a wider conflagration  

By Alastair Crooke
Forum Geopolitica  

October 6, 2026

We are on a path to more war. Trump could (and should) have declared victory and simply walked away from Iran, but that would have cast him as 'a loser' (a prospect that he cannot tolerate). But secondly, he is - for whatever reason - in thrall to Netanyahu and Israel.

Telesur

Les analystes affirment que l'usure institutionnelle, l'avancée de l'extrême droite au Congrès et les algorithmes expliquent l'abstention.

Le récent processus électoral au Brésil a laissé un record inédit d'absentéisme électoral, où plus de 33 millions de personnes ont choisi de ne pas se rendre aux urnes. Bien que la législation brésilienne établisse le vote comme une obligation citoyenne, le chiffre a dépassé les niveaux historiques d'abstention, de votes nuls et blancs.