France’s Economic Strain: Public Debt, Monetary Constraints, and Political Deadlock

By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa, October 21, 2026

France occupies a distinctive position in the European economy. It is one of the Eurozone’s largest economies, a central political actor in the European Union, and a state whose public sector, welfare system, and pension arrangements remain unusually extensive by international standards.

America’s “Humanitarian Wars” against Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 21, 2026

Military operations are invariably planned well in advance. Was “Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” a “surprise attack”? Or was it “a false flag”?

European Civil Unrest Highlights the Social Crisis in the Western Industrial States

By Abayomi Azikiwe, October 21, 2026

Students in France are serving as a behavioral social barometer which is measuring the pulse of the people living within the capitalist states. The implications for events in France which have spread to several other European countries extends beyond their continent. Events over the last several months have aggravated underlying weaknesses and contradictions internationally.

US Pressuring Ukraine for Peace Talks

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida, October 21, 2026

The Ukrainian insistence on prolonging the conflict with Russia indefinitely is drawing increasing criticism from some of the regime’s backers. While the EU and the UK continue to endorse Ukraine’s approach, the administration of Vladimir Zelensky is viewed with distrust and dissatisfaction in the US.  

Did The Ukrainian Drone Raid On St. Petersburg Pass Through Baltic-Finnish Airspace?

By Miguel Santos García, October 21, 2026

The Ukrainian drone operation mounted against St. Petersburg on the night of October 17-18 has revived an awkward question that the Baltic governments and Helsinki have preferred to leave unexamined, which is whether such a large attacking force could possibly have reached its objectives without crossing NATO airspace.

Attempted Assassinations: The Attack on Helen Haines

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, October 21, 2026

Haines has shown herself to be a most unusual Australian politician. Untied to the direction and directives of a party machine, unclouded by tribal judgments and collectivist buffoonery, she has, along with various other independents in the Parliament, returned politics to a mature Athenian state: a representative for her constituents.

Monetary Reform for the 2028 Election: Monetary Wars Begin in the US: 1795-1832. Part 1.4

By Richard C. Cook, October 21, 2026

When Thomas Jefferson was elected president by defeating the incumbent Adams, who served only one term, it was so much a triumph over Hamilton’s Federalists that it was called “The Revolution of 1800.” The number one issue was war and peace. The Federalists, who had controlled the government until then, had become the party of what we are calling throughout this series the “Money Power,” starting with Hamilton’s creation of the First Bank of the United States which was heavily oriented toward European investors.