By Peter Koenig
Global Research
July 31, 2026
Every year, at least for the past five or six years, approximately starting with the (UN) Agenda 2030 - remember the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) ? - bush and forest fires have become more ferocious.
As of late July 2026, wildfires across the European Union (EU) have burned about 254,400 hectares (2,544 km²) since the start of the year, with France, Spain, Portugal and Italy among the worst-affected countries.
By Milan Adams
Preppgroup
July 31, 2026
They are killing us slowly. Not with bullets or blades, but with spreadsheets and algorithms, with policies drafted in climate-controlled rooms by people whose children will never shiver through a winter night without heat, whose pantries will never echo empty, whose futures remain secured behind gates we cannot approach. In 2026, 333 million Europeans-more than the entire population of the United States-have fallen into energy poverty, a euphemism that cannot conceal the raw human suffering it describes, a bureaucratic term that sanitizes the screams of families watching their lives dismantled piece by piece.
By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
The Intercept-TomDispatch
July 31, 2026
There's no I in war. But there is in Iran. And in Iraq, too. Both these wars were about ME - that is, the Middle East. It's a region rife with supposed American security interests, but this wordplay points to another very all-too-real dynamic: These wars are as much about the "I" and "ME" of the White House as they are about the countries we attack.
By John & Nisha Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute
July 31, 2026
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By Michael Snyder
End Of The American Dream
July 31, 2026
It has been said that if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, it doesn't appear that we have learned much from the last pandemic. Mad scientists continue to monkey around with some of the deadliest diseases ever known to humanity, and in many cases they are purposely trying to make them even more deadly. It is so easy for an "accident" to happen, but they don't seem to care.
By Karen Kwiatkowski
July 31, 2026
Long ago, great Senators existed. Resolute and accountable, they represented their governors and state legislatures and asserted those interests in Washington. They aspired to conduct themselves as statesmen; we the people expected statesmanship. We the people also hoped they would be better than we could be, while we agreed with the fundamental truth of youtube in Legends of the Fall.
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
July 31, 2026
The government gets the privately collected data and in return dismantles or disables the guardrails that once protected the public from state and private-sector encroachments on privacy.
One of the core traits of a 1984-type totalitarian dystopia is 24/7 surveillance of every prisoner, oops, I mean citizen. Surveillance collects the data that leverages the tools of control: without surveillance, the structures of control do not have the data needed to monitor, track and control the populace in a profitably fine-grained manner.
By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics
July 31, 2026
Student loan defaults have surged to 9.2 million borrowers, representing roughly one in every five people with student debt. What is astonishing is the speed of the deterioration. There were approximately 6 million borrowers in default last August. That figure jumped to 7.7 million by December. By April it had reached 9.2 million. Another 3 million borrowers are reportedly at least 90 days delinquent and appear headed in the same direction.
When those we view as evil seem happy in our eyes, we usually mean they are wealthy and so without want, while failing to consider their wellbeing in light of eternity.
By Scott Ventureyra
Crisis Magazine
July 31, 2026
Arecent conversation with a friend at a concert in Canada brought an old question back to mind. The two performers-British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Social Distortion-did not wait long before criticizing the "big bad orange man" and some of his administration's policies, seemingly eager to display their moral purity through a little virtue signaling.
Beginning of pardon period precisely coincides with NIH review of Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak's proposal for NIH grant "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence"
By John Leake
The Focal Points
July 31, 2026
President Biden's preemptive pardon of Anthony Fauci covered the period from January 1, 2014, through January 19, 2025.
NIH grant R01AI110964, titled "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence," was submitted by Peter Daszak as PI/contact PI of EcoHealth Alliance, with Ralph Baric as a key collaborator on June 5, 2013.
Par Lucas Leiroz, le 30 juillet 2026
La récente escalade entre l'Iran et l'Ukraine laisse entrevoir l'émergence d'un nouveau théâtre de conflit.
La guerre en Ukraine n'a jamais été un conflit confiné à l'Europe de l'Est. Elle a eu très tôt des répercussions mondiales évidentes, et les événements récents ne font que confirmer cette réalité. L'incident impliquant un navire iranien en mer Caspienne pourrait représenter bien plus qu'un épisode isolé.
Par Peter Koenig
Chaque année, depuis au moins cinq ou six ans, environ depuis le lancement de l'Agenda 2030 des Nations unies - vous vous souvenez des 17 objectifs de développement durable (ODD) ? -, les feux de brousse et de forêt sont devenus plus violents.
Fin juillet 2026, les feux de forêt dans l'Union européenne (UE) avaient ravagé environ 254 400 hectares (2 544 km²) depuis le début de l'année, la France, l'Espagne, le Portugal et l'Italie figurant parmi les pays les plus touchés.