Peaceniks,
Fabio Vighi illuminates the problematic economic forms devised by humans: The Architecture Is Credit - War, AI, and the Motor Behind the Stack
‘The Overlooked Compulsion’ by FuturEarly does something rare and valuable: it moves past usual suspects like AIPAC, Adelson, and Epstein. These belong to the visible layer, and the article is right to treat them as dog walkers rather than the lead. The real leverage, it argues, is structural: Israel sits inside the silicon, the scheduler, the security plane,... but I think it stops just short of the layer that matters most. It describes the mode of appearance of the dependency without confronting the engine that reproduces it.....That logic, I argue, can be stated plainly, though its implications are anything but simple: the architecture is credit. What the article calls ‘compulsion’ is the compulsion of credit capital to find a permanent technological frontier. War is how that frontier gets financed, made real, and kept hot. In this respect, war is not an aberration of modern historical progress but its modus operandi.
..The article’s most striking formulation — ‘No intent. No switch. Just structure’ — immunises the argument against the language of plot and agency. In doing so, however, it flirts with the “fetishism of the stack”: the tendency to treat the technical architecture as a self‑acting entity rather than the product of social and economic forces. The risk is a Heideggerian one: that the technical order comes to appear as an autonomous destiny, as Gestell or enframing, rather than as a fetishised form — the historically specific technical expression of credit, state power, and crisis management.....The article points out that the story of Chinese AI as an existential danger is a useful exaggeration. That story is being pushed and paid for by a political committee (a super PAC) that is itself funded by top executives from AI companies and major venture capital firms. This embodies the ideological form through which credit capital legitimises its own deployment. The threat does not need to be real; it just needs to be plausible enough to sustain procurement budgets and multi-year commitments...
..Israel as the Territorialisation of Credit’s NeedIf credit needs a frontier, the question is: where is that frontier located, and how is it held in place? The article’s rich empirical material (Mellanox into NVIDIA, Annapurna into AWS, Habana into Intel, Run:ai into NVIDIA, Wiz into Google, the Unit 8200 pipeline into Check Point and Native and Grip) maps how credit’s need for a permanent frontier has been territorialised (to use Gilles Deleuze’s famous term) in a specific geopolitical arrangement...
..It is the form, or mode of appearance, that credit’s restless nature takes when it encounters a geopolitically dense, militarily active, technologically sophisticated platform. The byproduct/design distinction assumes an intentional subject. But credit has no subjectivity, except its blind, automatic compulsion to grow. And that compulsion finds its outlets where it can, territorialising itself where the conditions are right; turning a specific state, a specific intelligence apparatus, a specific set of firms and acquisitions into the embodiment...
..Israel is where the frontier is kept hot. Its position in the stack ensures that the threat environment is never absent. By placing Israel under US Central Command (CENTCOM), and through measures such as Section 219 of the House-passed Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act — which would establish a formal US–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative — the US is seeking to make close defence-tech collaboration with Israel a more durable, legally structured arrangement. This arrangement would institutionalise a continuous demand for new security technologies, especially in areas like AI and autonomous systems...
..The 20th Century TemplateAt bottom, this is not an argument about AI, except insofar as AI is the current object of a much older process. It is an argument about credit capital that could be told through any of its modern frontiers, with AI as only the latest. The form is visible throughout the twentieth century, starting with the First World War.
WWI cannot be explained by the alliance system alone. The assassination at Sarajevo did not cause the war in any sufficient sense. Rather, it supplied the detonator. The combustible material was a European order increasingly unable to reproduce its imperial, industrial, and credit structures without violent reorganisation. The WWI carnage marked the moment when the “internal barrier” of valorisation – the extraction of surplus-value from productive labour – first became visible as a historical phenomenon; and war debt, inflation, and the suspension of the gold standard exposed the deep irrationality of a system that, since then, can only sustain itself through increasingly destructive, credit-financed expenditure... Hence WWII as the second round. And, subsequently, the Bretton Woods system, the Cold War, and the arms economy as attempts at managing the inner limit — the structural contradiction of contemporary capitalism that turns credit into an anxious and destructive entity...
..What has changed since the Cold War is not the inner compulsion of credit but its object and scale: the frontier has moved from heavy industry and nuclear weapons to silicon, software, and now AI, while the debt bubble required to sustain accumulation has swollen to unprecedented proportions. The architecture of dependency the article describes is the grotesque twenty-first-century form of a late nineteenth- and twentieth-century credit addiction. It is credit capital, still needing a war to valorise itself, now embedded in the digital nervous system rather than the factory floor; in the inference cluster rather than the assembly line; in the security plane rather than the missile silo. The compulsion is the same, and its mode of appearance is familiar to anyone who has studied the long history of capital’s search for outlets. The “Rogue AI Alibi” as Credit’s Exculpatory Device
The rogue-agent narrative performs a further ideological task: it recodes the effects of a credit-driven technological buildout as technical accidents. If AI systems are said to act autonomously, the market disruptions, logistical failures, and escalations they facilitate can be treated as malfunctions rather than as consequences of a system designed around expansion, securitisation, and state-backed risk transfer. The sandbox is therefore more than a testing environment: it is an alibi, a way of making a system appear to have escaped human design precisely when its institutional function is most visible.
This is fetishism in its purest form. The social relation — credit’s need for a permanent frontier — appears as a property of the thing itself. The AI is rogue; the compulsion is overlooked; no one is responsible because no one intended it. Yet someone built and funded it, and someone profits from it. The structure does its work precisely by obfuscating the logic that requires it, by presenting itself as inevitable, neutral, technical, when in fact it is historical, partisan, financial.
Is There a Non-War Use of AI?The rogue-agent narrative performs a further ideological task: it recodes the effects of a credit-driven technological buildout as technical accidents. If AI systems are said to act autonomously, the market disruptions, logistical failures, and escalations they facilitate can be treated as malfunctions rather than as consequences of a system designed around expansion, securitisation, and state-backed risk transfer. The sandbox is therefore more than a testing environment: it is an alibi, a way of making a system appear to have escaped human design precisely when its institutional function is most visible.
This is fetishism in its purest form. The social relation — credit’s need for a permanent frontier — appears as a property of the thing itself. The AI is rogue; the compulsion is overlooked; no one is responsible because no one intended it. Yet someone built and funded it, and someone profits from it. The structure does its work precisely by obfuscating the logic that requires it, by presenting itself as inevitable, neutral, technical, when in fact it is historical, partisan, financial.
The question that follows from all this is unavoidable and no doubt difficult to answer: is there a use of AI that is not war-related? Is there a use of AI outside credit-addicted, ultra-financialised capitalism? Under present conditions, there doesn’t seem to be any such use. This is not because AI is inherently military, but because the scale of AI deployment required to justify its capital costs demands a state-backed threat environment.
AI’s civilian applications (language models, image generators, recommendation systems, etc.) are real but insufficient: they do not absorb or validate the amount of credit now being mobilised around the AI buildout... The civilian (including educational) uses, then, increasingly function as the public-facing justification, while the military uses are the foundation...
..AI’s current form is determined by the rationale of credit capital. A different form of AI — one developed and deployed according to different priorities — is conceivable and desirable. But it would require a different mode of production and form of social organisation. It would require that technological development be decoupled from the addiction to credit. In other words, it would require a world outside capitalism...
..If the compulsion the article names is real, then the only way to break the compulsion is to dismantle the social logic that reproduces it. To change what technology is for, to subordinate it to something other than the endless expansion of value.....The United States became addicted to Israeli tech slowly, then suddenly, and now indefinitely. One might put it differently: the United States was already mired in credit’s own compulsion to repeat. Naming this engine, of course, does not resolve anything. However, it changes what we are looking at. It shifts the question from “how do we decouple from Israel?” to “how do we decouple from the logic that makes Israel indispensable?” It changes the question from “how do we make AI safe?” to “how do we make technology answerable to something other than credit?”... The possibility — however distant — of a different architecture and a different world. https://substack.com/home/
AI-assassins might be particularly effective against rural Americans with firearms: Pentagon Announces Plan To Launch ‘Autonomous Warfare Command’ To Leverage ‘Super Intelligence’ In Warfare - The command would oversee the military’s expanding use of drones, robotics and AI https://news.antiwar.com/
Martin Armstrong has a computer-program that has been pretty good at projections for 20 years: The Light at The End of the Tunnel – It’s Not All Doom & Gloom
Many people have asked how bad it will get. Will there be civil war and blood in the streets? I do not see a revolution in the United States in the sense that one side is all-powerful and seeks to eradicate its opponent. The risk that the United States will break up, as in Canada and Europe, does not imply outright civil war. The break will likely come first, and it will form along the lines of the LEFT vs. the RIGHT.
The good news is that the fall of the West is inevitable since no political state lasts forever. However, this time it is different, for it is not people rising up against tyranny that produces the blood in the streets as in the American and French Revolutions. Here we are dealing with the facade of Republican forms of government worldwide that have become unresponsive to the people, but are economically crumbling from within at their very foundations.This is the Sovereign Debt Crisis. The fall of the West can be largely silent, much like the fall of the Soviet Union. As I have said many times, Russia collapsed all by itself because COMMUNISM was not economically sustainable. Here in the West, rising “progressive” movements are also undermining the economy; like the USSR, they are economically inefficient.
A USSR-style collapse of the United States, a sudden, negotiated dissolution of the entire federal union into separate successor states, without a civil war, is highly unlikely without a Sovereign Default. The key is the government’s ability to muster forces against the people. That requires the fiscal capability that becomes nonexistent in the middle of a Sovereign Debt Default. Therefore, a non-violent collapse is not theoretically impossible. https://www.
By late 2024, global debt reached $323 trillion. That is not a typo. Three hundred twenty-three thousand billion dollars, owed by governments, corporations, and households who have spent four decades treating the future as a credit card with no limit. The Institute of International Finance tracked this figure with the clinical detachment of coroners weighing organs. It equals 88% of world GDP, up from 60% before the 2008 crisis and 84% before COVID-19...
..We will examine why 295 million people currently face acute food insecurity while grain reserves thin to levels not seen since the years before world wars. Why power grids from Texas to Cuba to Sri Lanka fail with increasing regularity even as demand skyrockets from data centers and electric vehicles. Why military spending hit $2.88 trillion in 2025, the highest in human history, while diplomatic solutions atrophy. Why water systems serving 3.2 billion people approach breaking points. And why leadership across major economies seems paralyzed or actively hostile to preparation, preferring instead the anesthesia of denial.....These three numbers—debt, hunger, blackout—are not separate crises. They are symptoms of a single underlying condition: the depletion of margin. Civilization operates on buffers. Grain stocks for bad harvests. Reserve capacity for peak demand. Fiscal space for emergencies. We have spent forty years converting these buffers into consumption, treating redundancy as inefficiency to be eliminated by market optimization. The margin is gone. What comes next will not be managed. It will simply be endured...
Prepping—once stigmatized as paranoid fringe behavior—has entered mainstream discourse, though often in commodified forms emphasizing gear acquisition over skill development. Genuine preparedness involves community resilience, not individual bunkers. It means knowing neighbors, maintaining local food networks, understanding water purification, and possessing skills that function without electricity...
What comes next is not predetermined. Collapse is a process, not an event, and processes can be slowed, redirected, or survived. But survival requires seeing clearly what we face, abandoning comforting illusions, and building relationships and systems that function when the large structures fail. The individual cannot prevent global debt crises or climate change. But individuals can learn skills, store resources, strengthen community bonds, and face reality without despair. https://therossreporthq.
..Freshwater represents the ultimate constraint because it cannot be substituted or manufactured. While Earth is 70% water, only 0.5% is freshwater readily accessible for human use, and much of that is becoming scarcer due to demand growth and climate disruption. Currently, 3.2 billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high water shortages or scarcity, and 1.2 billion live in severely water-constrained regions where agricultural production requires unsustainable groundwater extraction.
Groundwater depletion has reached crisis proportions. The Ogallala Aquifer in the United States, which irrigates 20% of American corn and wheat production, is declining at rates of 1-2 feet annually in some regions. India’s Punjab region, the breadbasket of the subcontinent, faces aquifer depletion that could reduce irrigated area by 20% within a decade. Saudi Arabia exhausted its fossil aquifers and now relies on desalination for 60% of municipal water, consuming 20% of national electricity production to produce water at costs of $3-4 per cubic meter compared to $0.10 for groundwater...
..Human psychology is poorly adapted to slow-moving catastrophes. We evolved to respond to immediate threats—predators, enemies, natural disasters visible on the horizon. We did not evolve to respond to statistical projections, compound curves, or gradual degradation. This mismatch explains why populations continue patterns of consumption, location, and dependence even as evidence accumulates that these patterns are unsustainable.Groundwater depletion has reached crisis proportions. The Ogallala Aquifer in the United States, which irrigates 20% of American corn and wheat production, is declining at rates of 1-2 feet annually in some regions. India’s Punjab region, the breadbasket of the subcontinent, faces aquifer depletion that could reduce irrigated area by 20% within a decade. Saudi Arabia exhausted its fossil aquifers and now relies on desalination for 60% of municipal water, consuming 20% of national electricity production to produce water at costs of $3-4 per cubic meter compared to $0.10 for groundwater...
Prepping—once stigmatized as paranoid fringe behavior—has entered mainstream discourse, though often in commodified forms emphasizing gear acquisition over skill development. Genuine preparedness involves community resilience, not individual bunkers. It means knowing neighbors, maintaining local food networks, understanding water purification, and possessing skills that function without electricity...
..Serious preparation would require acknowledging that economic growth as currently defined is incompatible with planetary boundaries. It would mean accepting debt write-downs as necessary evils rather than unthinkable taboos. It would involve rebuilding grain reserves to 120-day supply levels, upgrading electrical grids to smart distributed systems with storage redundancy, and relocating populations from zones of unsustainable risk.
The costs would be enormous—estimated at $100-200 trillion globally over two decades. But the cost of non-action is higher, measured in lives lost, civilizational regression, and geophysical changes that lock in suffering for centuries. Current global military spending of $2.88 trillion annually, if redirected to infrastructure and climate adaptation, could fund necessary transitions...
..The trajectory is clear to anyone willing to look. Yet the response remains inadequate because the problem exceeds our current political and economic frameworks.The costs would be enormous—estimated at $100-200 trillion globally over two decades. But the cost of non-action is higher, measured in lives lost, civilizational regression, and geophysical changes that lock in suffering for centuries. Current global military spending of $2.88 trillion annually, if redirected to infrastructure and climate adaptation, could fund necessary transitions...
What comes next is not predetermined. Collapse is a process, not an event, and processes can be slowed, redirected, or survived. But survival requires seeing clearly what we face, abandoning comforting illusions, and building relationships and systems that function when the large structures fail. The individual cannot prevent global debt crises or climate change. But individuals can learn skills, store resources, strengthen community bonds, and face reality without despair. https://therossreporthq.
This would be a form of debt-default. I've read that it could work if gold were re-valued to $150,000/oz. Trump Says Inflation Will Pay Off The $40 Trillion Debt "Very Rapidly" https://www.zerohedge.com/
Me too; I keep signing petitions: US senator urges Congress to cut off funding for Iran war
Trump 'now sending up to another 10,000 troops to his illegal war of choice in Iran,' says Chris Van Hollen https://www.aa.com.tr/en/ Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-10-05
Saudi Arabia stopped pumping on the East-West pipeline after Pumping Station No. 2 was hit again. That pipeline is the kingdom's only export route that avoids Hormuz. Meanwhile Ansarallah took Al-Turbah and cut the main road into Taiz. Iran's oil minister quit as the reported Hormuz hit rate roughly doubled, Moscow told diplomats to leave Kyiv, and Flavio Bolsonaro won Brazil's first round, which no poll predicted. The France bond-and-street crisis and the gap between strong gold demand and a falling gold price are continuation...
..Moscow tells foreign diplomats and Kyiv residents to leave. - Russia's MFA says "foreign diplomats and Kiev residents should leave the city" (rusembassynl).
The MoD says strikes will intensify in response to Zelensky's refinery threats (TheOtherSideRu, JovanaXYZ).
The Pivnichnyi Bridge was hit again, in daytime traffic (wartranslated). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-10-05
The Yemen war has crossed into Saudi Arabia's oil system. Ansarallah formally claimed missiles and drones on Aramco's Riyadh refinery, Saudi jets hit Sanaa twice, and overnight thermal hits showed up at Yanbu and near the East-West pipeline at Khurais.
Parliament speaker Qalibaf says the strait won't reopen until Tehran's conditions are met (FirstSquawk).
The same day, Hegseth said more oil goes through Hormuz now than before the war (MenchOsint). OSINT tanker counts put the 7-day average at 64% of pre-war (LVision_Trading)...
Iran tells Washington there is no "military solution" (FirstSquawk). https://no1sdailydigest.
The Saudi front got much worse. The Aramco refinery in Riyadh was burning on Saturday morning after a reported Houthi strike, Reuters leaked a Saudi plan to retake Bab el-Mandeb, and Trump's war cabinet met in secret at Camp David while a carrier group sailed.
Lots of loose ends: Israel planned ‘false flag’ aircraft hijacking to draw US into new war with Iran: Report
Press TV cites unnamed regional source alleging plan linked to incident involving flydubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia https://www.aa.com.tr/en/
Aircraft ‘False Flag’ Allegations Emerge as Saudi Arabia Investigates Flydubai Incident https://www.
FlyDubai False Flag? Larry Johnson Explains Key Elements of Incident That Are Not Adding Up https://trendsinthenews.
Updated Google Satellite Images Show ‘Apocalyptic’ Destruction of Gaza by Israel https://scheerpost.com/2026/
Eight Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks on Gaza https://israelpalestinenews.
Israel Kills Gaza Imam and Radio Journalist while He Prepares Quran Report https://www.
Israeli Strikes Kill Three Across Gaza as Girl and Elderly Woman Wounded https://www.
Cruelty, Deprivation, Indignity: My 22 Months in Israeli Prison
Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documents his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin. https://www.dropsitenews.com/
Israeli Drone Kills Palestinian in Gaza Displacement Tent as Another Dies of Wounds https://www.
Israeli Soldiers Abduct At Least 22 Across Occupied West Bank https://israelpalestinenews.
Harvest Under Attack: Settlers Beat Farmers, Israeli Forces Target Activists
Olive harvest begins under attack as 628 settler incidents recorded in West Bank https://english.palinfo.com/
Israeli Settlers Kill 19-Year-Old Palestinian Near Ramallah, His Body Seized https://www.
Israeli Strike Kills Christian Mother and Daughter, Academic; Her Mother in Gaza https://www.
Israeli artillery hits areas near Syria’s Quneitra https://en.mehrnews.com/news/
Inside Lebanon’s 200-page dossier on Israeli war crimes https://israelpalestinenews.
The Saudi-Israeli War On Yemen’s Resistance: Intelligence Sharing, Civilian Targets & Sectarian Propaganda https://scheerpost.com/2026/
The MoD says strikes will intensify in response to Zelensky's refinery threats (TheOtherSideRu, JovanaXYZ).
The Pivnichnyi Bridge was hit again, in daytime traffic (wartranslated). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-10-05
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-10-04
US carrier cover near Iran is down to one ship now that the Bush is docked in Thailand, and Russia hit Kyiv's Northern Bridge two days running. The rest is continuation: Treasuries are wrapping up their worst decade on record, French spreads are still under stress and AI leverage keeps piling up. Next week's watch list is ISM services on Monday, Ueda plus a 10Y JGB auction on Tuesday, FOMC minutes on Wednesday, and ECB accounts plus a 30Y auction on Thursday (haru_fxlog)...
..Hormuz: attacks continue while Washington declares the strait fine. - UKMTO reports another tanker struck by a projectile (MenchOsint).Parliament speaker Qalibaf says the strait won't reopen until Tehran's conditions are met (FirstSquawk).
The same day, Hegseth said more oil goes through Hormuz now than before the war (MenchOsint). OSINT tanker counts put the 7-day average at 64% of pre-war (LVision_Trading)...
..Camp David: Vance chaired an unannounced Friday session with Rubio, Hegseth, Witkoff, Ratcliffe and Gen. Caine. One official told Axios "things were decided, or at least deeply discussed" (Mark4XX, HormuzReport).
The talk of ground operations traces to an unnamed "briefing". No reporting shows orders sending US troops into Iran (Shanaka).
Trump, same day: He will soon decide between "the easy way or the hard way" (Nostre_damus).
He also says Iran has "virtually given up any plans of a nuclear weapon" (Amena__Bakr).
Tehran: Qalibaf says the strait won't open "until our seven conditions are met" (StraitReport).The talk of ground operations traces to an unnamed "briefing". No reporting shows orders sending US troops into Iran (Shanaka).
Trump, same day: He will soon decide between "the easy way or the hard way" (Nostre_damus).
He also says Iran has "virtually given up any plans of a nuclear weapon" (Amena__Bakr).
Iran tells Washington there is no "military solution" (FirstSquawk). https://no1sdailydigest.
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-10-03
Europe gave in on diesel with a G7 release of 100M barrels, after which Trump said the export ban was never going to happen, and Friday's 29K payrolls miss was wiped out in the bond market within hours. https://no1sdailydigest.
Press TV cites unnamed regional source alleging plan linked to incident involving flydubai flight diverted to Saudi Arabia https://www.aa.com.tr/en/
Palestinian journalist Mujahed Al-Saadi documents his harrowing experience in Israeli detention two years after being arrested from his home in Jenin. https://www.dropsitenews.com/
Illegal Israeli Jewish settlers injured three Palestinian olive harvesters near Nablus on Friday, while Israeli occupation forces targeted farmers and accompanying activists with tear gas. https://www.
Sterilizing the land: As Israel Continues To Pound Southern Lebanon, UN Warns of Impact on Agriculture - Homes continue to be destroyed as villages, countryside lie in ruins. https://news.antiwar.com/
"It's not a good look.", Trump to Netanyahu, 2025 - Jonathan Cook, The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill https://jonathancook. Professor Michel Chossudovsky, Bibi Netanyahu is a Criminal. The October 2023 Plan to Commit Genocide against Palestine. The False Flag
Genocide against Palestine Had been Prepared by Israeli Intelligence. It was Approved by the Netanyahu Cabinet on October 13, 2023 https://www.globalresearch.ca/bibi-netanyahu-is-a-criminal-the-october-2023-plan-to-commit-genocide-against-palestine-the-false-flag/5940569Saudi-puppet "In The Name Of God": Yemen Leader Orders All-Out Offensive Against Iran-Backed Houthis https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/name-god-yemen-leader-orders-all-out-offensive-against-iran-backed-houthis
Saudi warplanes pound Yemen in 51 new strikes https://en.mehrnews.com/news/
Iran war updates: UAE frees Iranian prisoners, Yemeni forces strike Sanaa https://www.aljazeera.com/
Chancellor Merz arrived in Kiev this morning together with a delegation of German business leaders come to show support and to discuss new joint business projects with their Ukrainian counterparts. Virtually at the time of their arrival, Russian drones struck the North Bridge across the Dnieper River, sending up plumes of black smoke, causing undetermined damage to the structure of the bridge and setting off air raid alarms across the city.
Merz’‘s visit was unannounced but we can be sure it was anticipated by the Russians, who on Saturday already issued the following warning to “foreign nationals, personnel of diplomatic missions, to refrain from remaining in or travelling to Ukraine; responsibility for any possible adverse consequences lies entirely with those who choose to disregard this warning,”
As I said on the interview, Merz wants to have a third go at the Russian-German wars of 1914-1918, 1941-45. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/todays-breaking-news-from-kiev
(AKA: "desperation") Arab Views: Saudi restraint is no longer operable, says Prince Turki Al-Faisal https://www.arabnews.com/
John Helmer, DOES RUSSIA SPEAK AGAINST THE RULING CLASS OF THE WORLD OR FOR JOINING IT?
Not since Stalin has a Russian leader attempted to explain in public what he thinks to be the root causes of these wars; and what he has decided must be the Russian method for dealing with the ruling classes of enemy states.
Unsaid, the President’s implication is that Russia doesn’t have a ruling class; that he doesn’t represent a ruling class himself; and that in the absence of capitalism ruling at home and expanding as imperialism abroad, he can negotiate for Russia’s immediate defence and long-term security with the “national interests” of the enemy states, “especially under President Trump”.
And not only Putin for Russia and Trump for the US, but also Netanyahu for Israel in its wars in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.
“The problem of Israel,” he told Taha Ozhan, a Turkish state advisor who asked about Israel’s five wars, “must be determined by the Israeli people. The people of Israel must define in the course of their democratic electoral procedures all Israel’s problems.” In response to an Iranian question about the Israeli-American wars against Iran and Palestine, Putin said the killing of Iran’s national security advisor Ali Larijani was “a mistake”, and that the genocide in Gaza “is one of the most acute and sensitive humanitarian problems.”
“The whole world is watching closely,” Putin continued, “and admires the courage, heroism of the Iranian people and its steadfastness, and …in the state management, in the armed forces, in the IRGC, and in the people, the readiness for self-sacrifice in the name of the people’s future.”
Not the Palestinians, Putin omitted to say. About them, he said: “the Palestinian problem, I said, again I repeat, it can be solved only on the basis of the creation of a full-fledged Palestinian state. As for the fact that US policy towards Palestine is determined by Israel, this is unlikely, I will allow myself to say." https://johnhelmer.net/does-
10/4/26 Gilbert Doctorow, Today's breaking news from Kiev
Unsaid, the President’s implication is that Russia doesn’t have a ruling class; that he doesn’t represent a ruling class himself; and that in the absence of capitalism ruling at home and expanding as imperialism abroad, he can negotiate for Russia’s immediate defence and long-term security with the “national interests” of the enemy states, “especially under President Trump”.
And not only Putin for Russia and Trump for the US, but also Netanyahu for Israel in its wars in Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran.
“The problem of Israel,” he told Taha Ozhan, a Turkish state advisor who asked about Israel’s five wars, “must be determined by the Israeli people. The people of Israel must define in the course of their democratic electoral procedures all Israel’s problems.” In response to an Iranian question about the Israeli-American wars against Iran and Palestine, Putin said the killing of Iran’s national security advisor Ali Larijani was “a mistake”, and that the genocide in Gaza “is one of the most acute and sensitive humanitarian problems.”
“The whole world is watching closely,” Putin continued, “and admires the courage, heroism of the Iranian people and its steadfastness, and …in the state management, in the armed forces, in the IRGC, and in the people, the readiness for self-sacrifice in the name of the people’s future.”
Not the Palestinians, Putin omitted to say. About them, he said: “the Palestinian problem, I said, again I repeat, it can be solved only on the basis of the creation of a full-fledged Palestinian state. As for the fact that US policy towards Palestine is determined by Israel, this is unlikely, I will allow myself to say." https://johnhelmer.net/does-
10/4/26 Gilbert Doctorow, Today's breaking news from Kiev
Merz’‘s visit was unannounced but we can be sure it was anticipated by the Russians, who on Saturday already issued the following warning to “foreign nationals, personnel of diplomatic missions, to refrain from remaining in or travelling to Ukraine; responsibility for any possible adverse consequences lies entirely with those who choose to disregard this warning,”
As I said on the interview, Merz wants to have a third go at the Russian-German wars of 1914-1918, 1941-45. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/todays-breaking-news-from-kiev
Meryl Nass MD, Lutnick employee who revealed Lutnick and Epstein had continuing ties and potential business through 2018 dies “by suicide”
Lutnick lived next door to Epstein in adjacent townhouses, previously lied about the relationship, and missed going to his office at the WTC on 9/11/01. Good neighbors? https://merylnass.substack.com/p/lutnick-employee-who-revealed-lutnickComing soon? Turkey's Fix For Its $20 Billion Hedge Fund Meltdown: Kindly Ask The Winners To Give The Money Back https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turkeys-fix-its-20-billion-hedge-fund-meltdown-kindly-ask-winners-give-money-back
“Children were 60% more likely to suffer recurrent respiratory disease with at least double the risk of recurrent ear and strep infections,” said Children’s Health Defense Chief Scientific Officer Brian Hooker, co-author of a new preprint study published last week. “In general, the risk increased in the vaccinated group based on increasing number of vaccines.” https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaccinated-kids-significantly-higher-risk-multiple-chronic-health-conditions-chd-study/
In 2020, Andy Hodge broke his leg in a work-related accident. The accident, subsequent surgeries and hospitalizations, and a positive COVID-19 PCR test set off a cascade of events that his sister, Ellie Hodge Hayse, says led to his death on March 2, 2021. Ellie alleges doctors and hospital staff ignored her brother’s complaints about his leg, and instead subjected him to COVID-19 hospital protocols. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/he-sought-help-for-broken-leg-hospital-treated-him-for-covid-then-declared-him-brain-dead/
COVID Vaccines for Kids Now Available Through CDC Program That Serves Low-Income Children
State health departments can now purchase this season’s COVID-19 vaccines for low-income children through the CDC’s Vaccines for Children Program. Vaccine advocates had complained about a delay — but families and pediatricians concerned about vaccine safety criticized the decision. “The days of just injecting everyone without considering the individual landscape of each child’s biologic terrain should come to a final curtain,” said Dr. Michelle Perro. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccines-for-kids-now-available-through-cdc-program-that-serves-low-income-children-vfc/Exercising Anyway (pictured with cerial rye coming up to be harvested next May)
