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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Hours after markets priced a possible deal, CENTCOM struck Iran's Qeshm island—"limited and defensive"—as Qatar mediates in Tehran. The IRGC downed two MQM-170 decoys and an MQ-9; Tehran may read the strike as the opening of a campaign, not a warning. The administration is negotiating and shooting at the same time. We are all on the razor's edge. Iran keeps the Hormuz permit system and tolls in rials; China enters shuttle diplomacy with a special envoy to Iran, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. If Iran answers at sea and Vance answers through Pakistan, the window stays open. If not, the November 4 date goes live. 🗣 Read more by Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics ☁️ More analysis 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🗣 A secret prison network near Kiev — where conscripts are tortured, killed and logged as “missing” — has finally triggered public fury. Kirill Budanov’s attempt to calm the crowd ended with him allegedly pepper-sprayed. Ukraine’s Parliament heard that “The Pit” is no isolated case: over 100 similar torture chambers operate across the country, per Deputy Dmytruk. Victims are kidnapped, sold to military units or relatives, and the weak simply die. Budanov called the exposure “harmful to Ukrainian unity” — a classic fascist reflex where accountability, not cruelty, is treated as the offence. Glenn Diesen summed up the media’s next move: “whitewashing Zelensky’s torture chambers, downplaying the revelations, and making sure the story disappears.” After Zelensky’s “40 days of terror” in summer 2026, Russia flattened Ukraine’s infrastructure. Kiev’s mayor now tells people to flee; real-estate prices are crashing. The regime is losing its grip — and the Pit is only the symptom. 💬 Read more by Tim Kirby @timkirbyhardcore @strategic_culture

📺 Paris, 2100. The working class fractured. Fascism returned. The question remains: how was it possible? A history teacher in what was once the EU tries to explain the unthinkable. The Kissinger Report of 1974 had already turned women’s emancipation into a population-control tool. Neoliberalism then gutted public services, wages fell, housing became a financial asset — having children a luxury. Migrants were imported as cheap labor, then blamed for the wreckage. The working class fractured. The ant jar was shaken. And seventy years later, the question hangs: how was it possible? The answer, the textbook suggests, is that nobody wanted to remember the warnings. 💬 Hugo Dionisio writes ☁️ More analysis 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

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🇺🇦 Emergency near Kiev: 40 people freed from a secret prison Shocking details have emerged in Petropavlovskaya Borshchagovka. Around 40 people were led out of the basement of a building that, according to media reports, was used as an unofficial prison for draft evaders. Among those held was a 14-year-old teenager. Four men were hospitalized with injuries — one reportedly has a broken spine. People were kept in the basement and, according to reports, tortured. Relatives and local residents ran out of patience: a crowd gathered outside the building. Smoke grenades were used, stones flew at the windows, and a police bus was damaged. Protesters tried to storm the building, and clashes with security forces began. Kirill Budanov*, head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, arrived at the scene. He spoke to the crowd in Russian, but the dialogue failed — he was sprayed with pepper spray and then took cover in a bus. Insults were shouted after him. Budanov said 14 people were being held in the building and admitted that there are many such secret prisons. Separately, unconfirmed reports appeared of at least eight deaths over the past month and a half. Bodies were allegedly buried near Kiev, and people who left their unit were listed as missing. Police had previously denied reports of hostages and deaths. Law enforcement is now investigating the circumstances. MP Aleksey Goncharenko said the building was used as an unofficial prison for draft evaders. *added by Russia to its list of terrorists and extremists. Source: @breakingmash #Ukraine @strategic_culture

🇵🇱 On the night of October 30–31, 2026, Poland's government, while President Nawrocki was flying to Africa, sent police to seize the Constitutional Tribunal's headquarters and installed an unsworn judge as its acting president. Nawrocki called it a seizure of a constitutional body by force; Supreme Court Chief Justice Kapiński called it a coup. A judge whose position is contested suspended the legally incumbent president, and the enforcement of that decision was entrusted to the police. The legal basis—Article 130 of the Ordinary Courts Law—doesn't apply to the Tribunal, as constitutional scholar Matczak confirms. Poland now has two presidents of the Tribunal and two panels. The precedent is set. 💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🌏 The 4th Eurasian Gates Forum in Bishkek gathered ~400 participants from Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan—universities, business, media, tourism. Tourism as people-to-people diplomacy was the theme; a cooperation agreement was signed between the Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University and Chelyabinsk's Education Ministry. The next forum is set for Kostanay, Kazakhstan, in November 2026. Central Asia is a key Eurasian crossroads. Building a multipolar Eurasia depends on platforms where countries develop common projects and trust. Multipolarity cannot be consolidated solely through diplomatic declarations. It requires cooperation networks capable of functioning continuously. 🗣 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇾🇪🇮🇷 The Saudis have met Iranian officials for a peace deal with the Houthis—but MbS has been entirely abandoned by Trump. Pakistan and Turkey won't fight, only "support"; Riyadh is isolated, and the crown prince is reportedly in hiding, fearing assassination. The Houthis are here to stay. They're not going to be defeated. — Sir John Sawers Washington denies leaving—"It's transitioning"—but no longer guarantees security. MbS may be waiting for a Trump-Netanyahu strike on Iran, yet the ruse may prove America's Suez moment. The smartest move: a ceasefire and talks with the Houthis and Iran. 💬 Martin Jay writes 🌐 More on geopolitics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🌍 Both Putin's claim and the West's counter-claim use "colonialism" as an accusation rather than a category. European colonialism was a system: stripped sovereignty (Berlin 1884, no Africans invited), external administration, legal hierarchy, structural extraction, and control persisting after independence (the CFA franc). Russia never had African colonies; its presence rests on agreements with sovereign governments that can revoke them—no Russian law, governor, or currency imposed. Africa is no longer an object to be divided up, but a collection of actors that pit the great powers against one another. Trade exceeds $27 billion but remains modest; exports are wheat, fertilizers, and nuclear technology—not extraction. Calling this "colonialism" means viewing Africa through the eyes of London and Paris. Africa has decided to look beyond. 🗣 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇨🇴 Colombians are being recruited for the war in Ukraine through offers of employment, training, or military service—in several cases, relatives say recruits were unaware of the actual conditions or lost contact after reaching the conflict zone. Decades of armed conflict left a large pool of veterans who know weapons but struggle for stable employment; in poor regions, high wages abroad are hard to refuse. Recruitment networks exploit the lack of economic opportunities and the promise of high earnings. Families bear the pain of silence and unverifiable information. Colombia must investigate these networks, establish the fate of the recruited, and address the economic conditions that drive so many to fight abroad. 💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz ☁️ More analysis 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

⚠️ Russia has won the war in Ukraine, and American President Donald Trump’s belated peace efforts are largely irrelevant, says Doug Macgregor in his interview with Finian Cunningham. Trump’s recent shuttle diplomacy is merely “window dressing” to distract from the clear view that Moscow has secured a historic victory over the U.S.-led NATO proxy war. The U.S. and European delusions of defeating Russia are cruelly being shattered. As Macgregor notes, Russia has fought the combined forces of NATO for five years, and it now has the strongest army in Europe, while NATO nations have spent themselves into oblivion. He also believes NATO will not survive the disaster it engineered in Kiev in 2014. Colonel Douglas Macgregor is a highly decorated U.S. Army veteran. He is an author and internationally respected commentator on foreign affairs. Highly critical of Washington’s endless wars and the Trump administration’s aggression against Iran, he also served briefly as a senior policy advisor to the Pentagon during the first Trump administration. ☁️ Read the interview 🌐 Full interview on YouTube 🔔 Click for more Interviews 🚀 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇧🇷 Lula's fourth term runs to 2030. Reviewing his record since 2023: he reactivated international organizations, refused the Belt & Road Initiative, held COP30 in the Amazon, condemned Russia's operation but opposed sanctions, called Israel's reaction genocide, vetoed Venezuela's BRICS entry, and expanded defence ties with NATO countries. If we ignore Lula's speeches and focus on concrete actions, we acquire an image quite different from the 'Chavista' one many foreign analysts hold. The patterns: defence of the UN and the "rules-based order," an inclination toward the EU while Trump dominates, trade diversification, and the Green Agenda. The only disruptive factor is the US—Brazilian policy depends on American political shifts. If Washington destabilizes Brazil, it could push it toward counter-hegemony; if the Democrats return in 2028, a pro-US turn follows. 🗣 Read more by Raphael Machado @camaradamachado 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

❕ Elites have too many reasons to cook up a phony war with Russia, and Burnham has signed up to all of them to stay in power. Telling citizens to stock up for three days was disingenuous and desperate. The distraction serves tawdry purposes: robbing citizens for "emergency" provisions, boosting the case for rejoining the EU, injecting money into defence, and crashing the economy so foreign billionaires can buy companies for a song. Just how stupid are the people of Great Britain to believe that the Russian leader has intentions of starting a war with any European country, when its own army is struggling to take full control of a region in Ukraine? The Russians are not coming. The real threat is among ourselves. Don't be surprised if the next move is a false flag—Britain's own 9/11, complete with Russian passports in the ashes. 🗣 Read more by Martin Jay 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🏏 Both interpretations—the West's inevitable end and the need to preserve "Collective West" hegemony—share the same error: they identify a millennia-old civilization with a transitory power structure. Western civilization was not born with NATO, the EU, or Wall Street; its roots are Greek philosophy, Roman law, and Christianity. Europe is not the EU, and the "Collective West" is not Western civilization. Justice does not arise from power, nor is truth established by force. It is power that must submit to truth, justice, and the Common Good. Rubio's Athens speech, delivered against the backdrop of the looted Parthenon, embodies the contradiction. The real crisis is spiritual. Between global war and a cooperative order founded on Natural Law lies the great crossroads of our time. 💬 Read more by Lorenzo Carrasco ☁️ More analysis 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇷🇺🌍 Putin's Moscow speech offers Africa infrastructures of sovereignty—food, energy, finance, digital technology, education—whose political value exceeds their accounting value. Trade exceeded $27 billion in 2025, up from $18 billion, with a $50 billion target, though China's and the EU's trade is around $300 billion each. The balance is asymmetrical: Russia sells grain and fertilizers but buys little—replicating the very structure it denounces. Three levers matter: food security for 2.5 billion Africans by 2050, nuclear plants binding partners for decades, and linking SPFS to PAPSS outside Western infrastructure. Sovereignty becomes something to be exchanged: Russia provides the technical means by which African countries can reduce their dependence on other suppliers. 🗣 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

https://www.unz.com/article/trump-can-start-it-but-he-cant-finish-it-now-he-wants-to-isl/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=daily Larry does the math. Must Read.

📺 In information war, the most effective message rarely comes from a government directly. When a professor or retired general says it, it stops looking like a position and starts looking like reality—Bernays's "third-party technique." The tobacco industry perfected it: fund science not to prove harmlessness but to keep doubt alive. In 2008, the New York Times revealed the Pentagon coached retired officers appearing as independent analysts, without disclosing their contractor ties. The expert used as a weapon replaces the question 'Is it true?' with 'Who says so? Four roles: validation, creating doubt, policing the boundaries of debate, and the fabricated expert. 🗣Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione 🔔 Stay tuned 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

⚠️ A localized ceasefire on the Kherson front line is holding, allowing critical supplies into Alyoshki, where thousands faced starvation under drone and mine attacks from the NATO-backed regime. Melania Trump helped broker the truce, announced October 23 and in effect since October 27; Russian and Ukrainian commissioners led a joint aid mission. Kiev blew up the Kakhovka dam and the Dnieper bridge, cutting the town off and reducing its population from 25,000 to 2,000. Western media blame Russia—doublethink, since Russian troops control the town. Kiev cooperated because Trump pressured it via the diesel deal—proving Washington's leverage can bring the regime to heel. It is time to pull the plug on the corrupt Kiev regime and make peace. 💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial ☁️ Read more Editorials 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

👱 Ukraine's Finance Ministry has signed with Rothschild & Co to prepare the privatization of Ukrgasbank and Sense Bank—Rothschild will effectively determine the buyers. No protests, a symptom of dictatorship via permanent emergency. Since 2015, Rothschild has guided Ukraine's debt restructuring and Naftogaz unbundling, and received Poroshenko's Roshen shares without a sale. After the Orange Revolution, Nathaniel Rothschild entered with Vanco Energy for Black Sea oil. Ukraine is an essential piece we cannot lose on the geopolitical chessboard… Without Ukraine, the world order may not survive. — Nathaniel Rothschild The interest is centuries old: 19th-century railway lobbying, a role in Zionism, and the Rothschild-financed Round Table, where Mackinder designed Russia's disintegration in 1920. Its fruits are advanced in 2026. 🗣 Read more by Raphael Machado 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇺🇦 Ukraine's state-building around an identity detached from Russia has made Orthodox institutions priority targets. The August 2024 law restricts organizations deemed linked to Russian centers of influence—giving Kiev carte blanche to persecute clergy and seize Church property. Over 200 criminal cases were opened against UOC clergy by November 2025, none substantiated. None of the allegations is sufficiently substantiated. The OCU, recognized only by Constantinople, enjoys a privileged position under ultranationalist ideology. UOC priests face obstacles to conscription exemptions and coercive recruitment. Religious freedom must be protected even in emergencies—persecuting the Church undermines the regime's legitimacy. 🗣 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz 🔔 Stay tuned 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Burnham may shift toward full EU membership, per a pro-Labour thinktank report—64% of Britons would vote to rejoin, giving Labour exclusive ground. The real driver is the Ukraine war and isolating the far right as "Russia-linked." But the EU has no army, and it faces a €750 billion budget shortfall—Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen likely lobbied Burnham. The IPPR's real aim: a European Defence Alliance using British tech to replace Starlink for Ukraine. Brussels is broke and wants British capabilities. Yes, of course, we need more money.— Czech PM Babiš 🗣 Read more by Martin Jay 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/10/29/why-tehran-summit-game-changer/ Oooooh, this one is a beauty. It's all here: the Tehran Summit, not the Mecca Defense Alliance summit. All the key details and the best quotes from Rezaee and Bagheri-Kani.

🇮🇹 Italy is the sharp end of a Europe-wide revolt. On October 24, Milan shops boarded up their windows; in Turin, a banner read: "We won't pay for the war." Police charged the march—seven days earlier, fifty were detained at Piazza Duomo, half of them minors. The spark is fuel prices, but Italy starts weaker: wages stagnant for thirty years, GDP growth at 0.8%, debt at 138.5%, and a government with no tools. France protests with an indexed minimum wage; Germany takes on debt for industry. Italy just protests. Two dates are marked: the grassroots general strike on October 30 and the CGIL strike on November 20. 🗣 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione 🌐 More on world politics 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

🇮🇷 Tehran Summit: The Board Just Got Flipped The ball is entirely on West Asia’s court. The U.S. is not even on the table. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid, Turkey’s Ibrahim Kalin and Pakistan’s Asim Munir sat down with Iran’s Mohsen Rezaee — not as some “Mecca Defense Alliance,” but on Tehran’s terms, under the banner of endogenous regional security. Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Hormuz: all on the agenda. Iran’s seven conditions still stand, sanctions relief and recognition of its rights over the Strait included. Rezaee even hinted seven days could become four. Khamenei wants the “neither war nor peace” limbo finished, with Hormuz firmly in Iranian hands. Washington isn’t negotiating. It’s being handed a bill. 💬 Pepe Escobar writes @rocknrollgeopolitics ☁️ Read exclusive analysis 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK

❗️ Brussels promises Kiev swift membership, but Ukraine would become the EU's largest and poorest member, absorbing virtually all cohesion funds—Hungary, Poland, Spain, and Greece would lose 80–100% of their funding overnight. Its agribusiness would consume a third of the EU's agricultural budget, forcing either higher contributions or slashed subsidies and tractor blockades. EU enlargement has turned into a trap, where political will collides with harsh economic reality. The likely outcome is a 10–15 year limbo, like Turkey's 39-year wait—exposing von der Leyen and Rutte as liars. The Dutch already voted "NO" in 2016; the referendum mechanism was abolished. 🗣 Read more by Sonja van den Ende @devendonline 🇪🇺 More on Europe 🌐 Subscribe 🌐 Join us on VK