Brèves de crise  

Les quelques jours qui se succèdent dans cette phase à la fois "hystérique" (mot employé à Moscou) et grotesque qui ont suivi le prétendu-accord Poutine-Trump sur la vente de fuel-diesel russe aux USA (d'ailleurs dans des volumes dérisoires malgré l'importance des chiffres, par rapport à la consommation US qui est de 600 000 tonnes par jour), - ces quelques jours témoignent surtout du désordre extraordinaire régnant dans l'Occident-compulsif dans lequel il faut placer l'Ukraine-Zelenski.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

Satire, however over-the-top, never quite measures up to reality.

A thought experiment

Imagine that Giorgia Meloni, as Prime Minister, launches an app for newborns through which the government credits 1,000 euros to each child. She does so in an official capacity, via a government website and under a specific name: "Conto Giorgia." Suppose the campaign promises parents that this capital will grow based on the historical performance of the FTSE MIB - the former MIB30 - provided they invest it on the stock market.

par Alejandro Marco del Pont

"Il faut un siècle pour passer de la barbarie à la civilisation ; de la civilisation à la barbarie, un seul jour suffit". ~ Will Durant

À l'automne 2026, alors que les feuilles commencent à tomber dans les jardins et que les couloirs du Capitole résonnent du bourdonnement nerveux des primaires et des sondages, Washington respire une tension qui n'a rien de nouveau.

By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org  

October 14, 2026

Texas Republicans recently became embroiled in a dispute between two factions that we could call, for purposes of exposition, the "Heritage Texans" and the "Creedal Texans."

Heritage Republicans believe that a nation is constituted by a specific and identifiable people who are historically rooted in a place over time, while Creedal Republicans believe in a concept they call "the idea of Texas." Their idea of Texas involves hard work, love of football, and the savoir-faire to say, "Hook 'em Horns." To the Creedals, anyone from anywhere in the world who embraces this idea is as much a Texan as anyone whose ancestors rode with the Texas cavalry in 1861.

By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com  

October 14, 2026

Ten years ago I had lunch with a man who vehemently insisted that Vladimir Putin was the satanic leader of an evil country and Hilary Clinton was a great American who should be President. This was two years after the U.S. government under Barack Obama, Joseph Biden, Victoria Nuland, and the CIA had engineered a coup d'état in Ukraine as part of their proxy war against Russia, bringing Ukraine's neo-Nazis into greater power.

By admin  

October 13, 2026

Writes Ginny Garner:

I doubt if Tulsi Gabbard ran her speech past TPUSA staff before she delivered it at the Texas Youth Summit. She managed to speak out against war for more than a minute. Gabbard denounced war profiteers, explained how war erodes liberty and produces the surveillance state, commended the visionary founding fathers, honored James Madison's recognition that war leads to all other ills of the state, and cited George Washington's farewell address.

By admin  

October 13, 2026

Writes Ginny Garner:

In the Netflix documentary "Mike Wallace is Here" the 60 Minutes correspondent admits "I was a hawk when I went there and it wasn't long before I began to understand it was the wrong war, the wrong time and the wrong place." Vietnam was the last time Wallace covered a war from the battlefield. He also reported on the My Lai Massacre where the US military murdered 504 unarmed Vietnamese villagers including babies.

par Alexandre Lemoine

L'administration Trump doit décider avant le 19 octobre du sort de la protection temporaire accordée à plus de 100 000 Ukrainiens installés aux États-Unis. Elle peut prolonger ce statut ou l'annuler.

Craignant que l'administration Trump ne retire leur protection aux réfugiés ukrainiens installés aux États-Unis, des élus souhaitent proposer au président une troisième voie : ne rien faire du tout.

par Brian Berletic

La création du "Projet Meridian" n'est pas une voie vers la supériorité militaire des États-Unis, mais un aveu de leur propre faiblesse, qui trouve son origine dans un système financiarisé plutôt que dans un retard technologique.

Le secrétaire américain à la Défense, Pete Hegseth, a récemment annoncé la création d'un groupe de travail de 120 jours, le "Projet Meridian".

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review 

October 13, 2026

Sleepwalking into a NATO War with Russia

The Russian war against Ukraine is now halfway through its fifth year, rapidly approaching the length of World War II. The European NATO countries have become more and more heavily drawn into that conflict, which many observers believe has already cost more than a million lives.

Although the NATO leaders had initially been quite cautious about fighting a proxy war against nuclear-armed Russia on Russia's own border, lack of any significant Russian pushback has dangerously swollen their confidence, and many red-lines once assumed to exist have already long since been crossed.

By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute  

October 13, 2026

This past week we have seen several serious Administration corruption scandals. Fox News host-turned-Trump Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, came to attention recently when she informed a Greek official, in what sounded like a threat, that Washington can overthrow any government it wishes.

While hardly breaking news, such an admission is not normally considered part of diplomatic dialogue.

By Tom Woods  

October 13, 2026

Spencer Pratt fought a spirited campaign for mayor of Los Angeles, but the voters decided the left hadn't yet done quite enough damage to the city and that city residents need to be surrounded by more violent addicts and used needles and human waste, so they voted for two leftists to have a runoff instead.

At any rate, Pratt just commented on a short video by several middle-aged women who support Abdul El-Sayed for United States Senate from Michigan.

Par Jason Jones, le 10 octobre 2026

Le scandale Milstein montre que l'ambassadeur fait obstruction à la politique américaine et va à l'encontre des souhaits explicites du président.

Le New York Times rapporte que David Milstein, conseiller principal de l'ambassadeur américain en Israël Mike Huckabee, a dissimulé un rapport de l'ambassade et fait obstruction aux efforts déployés par nos représentants élus au Congrès pour obtenir des informations.

Le FBI orchestre un faux complot terroriste à l'approche des élections de mi-mandat

Par Kurt Nimmo, le 9 octobre 2026

C'est la saison des "surprises d'octobre", le moment de dévoiler les faux complots terroristes avant les élections de mi-mandat. Le FBI est passé maître dans cet art, ayant monté de toutes pièces un certain nombre d'incidents terroristes après le 11 septembre 2001.

"Les Républicains au Congrès et l'administration Trump ont alourdi le coût de la vie des Américains ordinaires dans pratiquement tous les domaines, tout cela pour offrir aux milliardaires un nouvel allègement fiscal considérable."

Source : Common Dreams, Jake Johnson
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Selon une analyse publiée jeudi par des Démocrates de la Commission économique mixte du Congrès (JEC), une famille américaine moyenne a dû débourser au total 3 800 dollars de plus pour le logement, les courses, les services publics et d'autres dépenses essentielles au cours du second mandat du président Donald Trump à la Maison Blanche.

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Des drones iraniens. [Photo d'illustration]

Le président américain Donald Trump assure qu'il n'attaquera pas l'Iran avant les élections de mi-mandat du 3 novembre, mais laisse clairement la porte ouverte à de nouvelles frappes ensuite. Téhéran juge la réponse américaine à ses conditions "insuffisante" et refuse pour l'instant de poursuivre les échanges.

By Boyd Cathey  

October 12, 2026

You can tell a lot about a person by the friends he cherishes, and you can intuit much about how a writer thinks on one topic by how he thinks on another, related topic. This surmise is not always true in every case, but I think it applies in a great majority of situations. Tell me what a person-a distinguished author, a political leader, a cultural icon-believes, his perspective, on this or that significant historical event and you can usually gather a valid impression of his worldview and overarching philosophy.

By Andrew Wallace  

October 12, 2026

This is a brutal but factual description of a government that has sold out its people for greed and power. If anything, it is an understatement of the Ruler's depravity. The rulers are the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) consisting of wealthy families, billionaires, and the Jewish Lobby. I use the constitutional definition of Treason, giving aid and comfort to enemies of the United States, which defines Illegal Invaders and Zionist Israel.

Dr. Joseph Sansone
Mind Matters and Everything Else 

October 12, 2026

In my book, Psychopathic Authoritarianism, I examine the question about why do Psychopathic Authoritarians continue to rise to power across time and culture ? I also explore if there is a way to interrupt this pattern?

In Part 1, I examine the leader follower dynamics and apply what psychologists call the Dark Tetrad of Sadism, Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and Psychopathy, along with fear and control on a systemic level.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

October 12, 2026

Some time ago I warned about the unsustainable overinvestment in AI data centers. Each of the AI corporations is dependent on commitments from other AI corporations. One was dependent on a purchase dependent on the purchaser securing funding depending on the funding source's acquisitions or service sales, and so on. It is a circle that can break at any point.