The Economic Rights Americans Never Got But Desperately Need (w/ Susan Neiman)

October 2, 2026

Even though I, until now, have never voted for a socialist government believe this, or not, but at the time, I was one of Thatcher’s greatest fans!—but in my opinion, America needs a good dose of socialism to begin to try and correct the damage that Trump has done. It needs socialism badly! The best man for the White House, in my opinion, would be Bernie Sanders who, by European standards, is moderate indeed. Just a little left of centre. —© Mark Alexander

Iran Has DESTROYED U.S. Bases in the Gulf (w/ John Mearsheimer)

September 30, 2026

Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It

Screenshot taken from this NYT article. | Gold miners at work in El Callao, Venezuela. Credit: Adriana Loureiro Fernandez for The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.

In early March, as President Trump basked in the success of a military intervention in Venezuela, he joined Interior Secretary Doug Burgum in the West Wing for a private celebration. A businessman also attended, and brought along a pile of gold.

The president looked approvingly at the 10 Venezuelan gold bars stacked in the Roosevelt Room, across from the Oval Office, White House officials recalled. Aides took photos and joked about keeping the gold.

Mr. Trump himself had once blacklisted Venezuelan gold, declaring that it destroyed the environment, poisoned people and financed gangsters and corrupt military officials. But after Mr. Trump toppled the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, his view changed.

On the same day that the bars arrived at the White House, the Trump administration issued a new policy allowing traders to import Venezuelan gold from one of the world’s most violent and corrupt mining regions. The first supplies would come from a state-owned mining company that remained a designated U.S. national security threat. » | Anatoly Kurmanaev, Tyler Pager and Rebecca R. Ruiz | Anatoly Kurmanaev reported from Caracas and the mining town of El Callao; Tyler Pager from Washington; and Rebecca R. Ruiz from London and Geneva. | Monday, September 28, 2026

I Know the Secret of Why Trump Truly Fears Putin | The Daily Beast Podcast

Sep 14, 2026 | Luke Harding, author of the new book Betrayal: Trump, Putin and The New Age of Conquest, speaks with Joanna Coles about the decades-long relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and the Russian intelligence operation that Harding argues helped cultivate Trump as a potential target for influence.

Harding traces Trump’s early connections to Moscow, the murky financial dealings that followed, and the compromising information that may give Putin leverage over the president, including what could have been captured during Trump’s visits to Russia. He also explains why Russia viewed Trump’s 2016 victory as a historic intelligence triumph, how Trump’s approach to Ukraine has benefited Putin, and why Russia and China see an opportunity to reshape the global order.

Harding reveals what he experienced first-hand while reporting in Moscow, including the surveillance and intimidation campaign that ultimately led to his expulsion, before turning to the startling possibility that Russian state television has used Melania Trump as a warning to her husband.

Trump Just Sent China a Dangerous Message | Steve Schmidt

Sep 25, 2026 | As Donald Trump hosts Xi Jinping alongside America’s billionaire elite, concerns grow over what it signals about U.S. strength. Steve Schmidt breaks down Trump’s approach to China and the consequences for Taiwan and America’s standing in the world.

The ‘Emphatic’ Insult from Xi that Trump May Have Missed | Peter Frankopan

September 25, 2026

Trump Meets Xi on Equal Terms in ‘Huge Geopolitical Shift’ | Richard Spencer

Sep 25, 2026 | “That’s a very significant shift from where we were a few years ago in America.”

In a marked shift from his first term, President Trump met Xi Jingping in the US “on equal terms”, says china correspondent for The Times Richard Spencer.

Trump Meets Xi: The Moment America Looked Smaller Than China

Donald Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a revealing glimpse of how dramatically the balance between the United States and China has changed. As Trump and Xi discussed trade, technology, artificial intelligence, Taiwan and the future of US-China relations, the encounter raised a much bigger question: is America still setting the terms of global power, or is China increasingly negotiating with Washington as an equal?

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Nazi Town, USA (2024) | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

Sep 23, 2026 | Nazi Town, USA tells the story of the German American Bund, a pro-Nazi group which in the 1930s had scores of chapters across the country, representing what many believe was a real threat of fascist subversion in the United States. They held joint rallies with the KKK and ran summer camps for children centered around Nazi ideology and imagery, melding patriotic values with virulent anti-Semitism.

Falklands: Milei Is 'Harassing' Us, Say Locals

Sep 9, 2026 | “If someone's polls start failing, if the president starts doing badly and losing popularity, we become a national bastion to try to stand behind, which is incredibly harassing.”

Argentina President Javier Milei’s constant questioning of the Falkland Islands sovereignty is “physiologically traumatising” for the people of the Island says former member of the Falklands Islands legislative assembly, Tesyln Barman.


Interesting Informamtion:

The name "Malvinas" means "people from Saint-Malo." It is a Spanish translation of a French name used to describe the origin of the sailors who first colonized the territory.

The Etymology Trail:

The name evolved through a chain of languages and historical events:

1. St. Malo (The Saint): The root of the name comes from St. Malo (also known as Maclou), a 6th-century Christian evangelist traditionally believed to have been born in Wales before founding a city in Brittany, France.

2. Saint-Malo (The Port): This French port city was named in his honour. Residents and mariners from this specific town are called Malouins.

3. Îles Malouines (The French Name): In 1764, French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville founded the first human settlement on the islands. Because his crew and colonists departed from the port of Saint-Malo, he named the archipelago Îles Malouines (literally, "The Malouin Islands").

4. Islas Malvinas (The Spanish Name): When Spain later took control of the French settlement, they adapted the French phonetic sound into Spanish, turning Malouines into Malvinas.

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Trump vor Entscheidung über Iran: „Wann sprenge ich das ganze Land in die Luft?“

BERLINER ZEITUNG: US-Präsident Donald Trump erwägt eine neue massive Eskalation im Krieg mit dem Iran. Zugleich zeigt er sich offen für ein Treffen mit Präsident Masoud Peseschkian in New York.

Screenshot stammt aus diesen Artikel. | US-Präsident Donald Trump beantwortet im Weißen Haus Fragen von Journalisten. | © Samuel Corum/imago
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat mit einer drastischen Verschärfung des Krieges gegen den Iran gedroht. „Meine Frage ist: Ob und wann sprenge ich das ganze Land in die Luft? Sie sollten sich besser benehmen“, sagte Trump nach Angaben des Fox-News-Korrespondenten Trey Yingst in einem Telefongespräch am Sonntag.

Yingst berichtete anschließend bei Fox News, Trump befinde sich mit Blick auf das weitere Vorgehen gegen den Iran im „Entscheidungsmodus“. Der Präsident habe drei mögliche Wege beschrieben: den Iran militärisch „auszulöschen“, das Land wirtschaftlich weiter „verrotten“ zu lassen oder eine Vereinbarung mit Teheran zu erreichen. „In nicht allzu ferner Zukunft werden sehr große Dinge passieren“, zitierte Yingst den Präsidenten. » | Alexander Schmalz | Montag, 21 September 2026

Wäre es vielleicht eine bessere Idee, wenn die USA selbst in die Luft gesprengt würden? 😊 – © Mark Alexander

US and Denmark Reach Deal on Greenland, Trump Claims 'Permanent Control' over Island • FRANCE 24

Sep 19, 2026 | Not so long ago, inhabitants of Greenland feared that the US was preparing to invade, after US President Donald Trump repeatedly claimed the US wanted to control the Arctic territory. But Trump now says he has struck a deal with Denmark to give Washington "permanent control" over Greenland's security, while ensuring the territory remains firmly in the hands of Denmark. Denmark and Greenland have both hailed the deal, but its exact terms remain unclear. Details by FRANCE 24 correspondent in Washington, Fraser Jackson.

"Fast Food Nation," Mystery Meat & Trump's Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser

Sep 17, 2026 | Amid growing concerns over food safety in the United States, President Donald Trump last month authorized the duty-free importation of 660 million pounds of cheap beef trimmings that will get mixed in with other cuts to make ground beef. Imported beef and pork were once labelled with their country of origin, but Congress voted in 2015 to end that requirement, so customers at the grocery store will have no way to identify this "mystery meat," which is coming mostly from Brazil.

President Trump's proclamation in August came just a day after he met in the White House with Joesley Batista, whose family controls the Brazilian company JBS, the largest beef producer in the world. JBS is notorious for food safety violations and admitted in 2017 to bribing thousands of Brazilian officials for favourable treatment.

"It smells like a pretty corrupt deal," says investigative journalist Eric Schlosser. He says Trump's move is "basically screwing over American ranchers," and the imported beef is "some of the meat most likely to be contaminated."

Schlosser is author of the landmark book Fast Food Nation, first published in 2001. He says that in the 25 years since then, the United States has developed "two food systems." While affluent and well-educated people increasingly favor sustainable, organic foods and care deeply about how food is grown and consumed, working people and the poor are relegated to the "fast-food industrial system" of cheap, mass-produced food of dubious safety.


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Trump Climate Policies Will Kill Millions as EPA Plans to Repeal Power Plant Emissions Rules

Sep 17, 2026 | Under Donald Trump, executive policy has shifted from mere skepticism to the active dismantling of the planet's regulatory emergency brakes. The tone was set when his Environmental Protection Agency announced a move to rescind its landmark 2009 Endangerment Finding, the legal bedrock establishing that greenhouse gases endanger public health. Stripping this core finding effectively guts federal authority to limit carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act, neutralizing decades of legal precedent and setting the stage for unmatched long-term mortality. At the epicenter of this push is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, tasked with orchestrating what the administration frames as energy liberation. The EPA officially abandoned carbon pollution limits on fossil-fuel power plants, a single policy rollback expected to dump an extra 123 million metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere over the next decade.

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The geriatric that leads America is a brake on progress. The sooner the free world is rid of his so-called leadership, the better. — © Mark Alexander

Iran Declates "No Negotiations" Until Its Terms Are Met – w/ Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi

September 12, 2026

It's All a Scam: US Politicians Are Robbing Their Own Supporters

Sep 11, 2026 | More and more US politicians are promoting crypto rug pull scams targeting their own supporters. Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, created a meme coin called the Laptop token, the price of which crashed by 99% an hour after launching. Donald Trump and his wife Melania also launched meme coins that immediately imploded, with fans losing their money while insiders cashed out. Ben Norton explains the extreme corruption in the United States, which is spreading to other countries like Argentina.

9/11 After 25 Years: Did America Lose the ‘War on Terror’? | Andrew Neil

Sep 10, 2026 | “The terrorists didn't just hijack airliners, they hijacked US foreign policy.”

25 years, 6 trillion dollars, and thousands of lives later, Times Radio presenter Andrew Neil delivers his verdict on the “war on terror”, saying that America remains trapped in the same forever wars it set out to end.

‘What I Saw with Putin Is Happening with Trump’ | Martin Sixsmith

Sep 9, 2026 | “I saw it happen in Russia and I can see it happening in America”

The direction of Trump’s presidency “needs to be a wake-up call” for an American society that “doesn’t realise the danger it’s in” of falling to Putin’s authoritarian playbook, warns Martin Sixsmith.

Iran Warns of 'Heavier Response' after Trading Strikes with US in Strait of Hormuz | BBC News

Sep 7, 2026 | Iran's top negotiator warns of "a faster, heavier, and more painful response" to US attacks, after the sides traded strikes in the Strait of Hormuz.

It comes as Iran's security chief says Tehran will announce a prohibited zone outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, saying any ship entering the area will be added to a sanctions list.

Seyed M. Marandi: U.S.-Iran War Enters a New Dangerous Phase

Sep 6, 2026 | Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. Marandi discusses a new phase of the US-Iran War as both the US and Iran aim to assert escalation dominance.