On the eve of Israel’s election, Gideon Levy warns that another Netanyahu term would deepen war, democratic repression and international isolation, with sanctions no longer unthinkable.

The list of looming catastrophes is far longer and far more frightening than just another pointless round of fighting with Iran.

Gideon Levy

My first encounter with Steiner education was some years ago. 

And, as is the norm, it took the form of muddling them up with Montessori schools. 

However, last week, Newsnight ran a report on the 30 or so private Steiner schools that showed how different they are from anything else. 

The schools are known for being playful and hippyish. 

But it was his estimate of how quickly that advantage could be translated into military results that made the argument particularly striking.

Six Weeks to Defeat Russia? The Cost Missing from Sikorski’s Calculation

BY Adrian Korczyński

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski made an unusually confident assessment of a hypothetical war between NATO and Russia during the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kiev on September 12.

Six Weeks 

Some studies have linked disgust sensitivity to socially conservative attitudes. But ahead of the US midterm elections, does disgust shape our politics, or do our beliefs shape what we find disgusting?

The smell of rotten food can make us recoil. Certain sexual practices can provoke a similar reaction. And in today's polarized political climate, even political opponents can become objects of disgust.

Rotten food, sex and politics: What connects them?

BY Richard Connor

Why Trump no longer wants to see or hear anything about Zelensky ?

Mohamed Lamine KABA, October 25, 2026

Before the ceasefire last year, Israel subjected Gaza to a comprehensive and enforced siege which prevented countless necessities from entering the Strip, including cooking gas. However, after the Witkoff Agreement was signed in October 2025, which contained a humanitarian clause allowing 600 trucks to enter daily, including 50 trucks designated for fuel and cooking gas, we Gazans believed that we would finally be able to use healthy and safe gas and that our suffering of looking for alternatives to cook would be over.

Israel Restricts Cooking Gas Into Gaza, So We Must Burn Toxic Plastic to Cook

The vile fumes saturate our food with their smell. Our daily inhalation of toxic burned plastics is slowly killing us.

By Nour Abo Aisha, TRUTHOUT

Senior CSIRO scientists are discussing scenarios in which parts of northern Australia become unliveable and reef ecosystems collapse, and asking why the country is not confronting those risks openly.

Senior CSIRO scientists have had a candid internal discussion about the threats posed by a warming world and how to convey them to the public, including that northern Australia will become unliveable and Great Barrier Reef corals that “all turn white forever”.

Peter Hannam

Hopes that the federal anti-corruption watch puppy might be resuscitated by a change of leadership have been dashed, writes Michael Pascoe. The NACC is only capable of embarrassing itself. 

The National Anti-Corruption Commission is now making the case itself that it is useless. On a bang-for-buck basis, any marginal difference the NACC might be making to corruption at the federal level simply isn’t worth the candle. 

NACC declares itself useless, the joke worsens

by Michael Pascoe

SpaceX has closed a “loophole” that allowed the Ukrainian military to use the civilian satellite internet network for offensive drone strikes, Elon Musk has announced, telling warmongers who prolong the conflict to “burn in hell.”

The billionaire’s harsh remarks on Saturday come amid a deepening rift between Washington and Kiev, with US President Donald Trump accusing Vladimir Zelensky of repeatedly rejecting opportunities to end the conflict and worsening global fuel shortages by attacking Russian oil infrastructure.

These days, European headlines resemble reports from a war zone: from stormed city halls in Marseille and Lille, to looted boutiques along the French Riviera, burned tourist offices in Lyon, and clouds of tear gas enveloping the Élysée Palace. The ‘day of rage’ in France drew over 800,000 protesters onto the streets – an event that was dismissed by Paris and the European mainstream as merely the “spontaneous revolt of the outskirts” or a “raid by migrants.” However, a closer look at the ‘rebels’ reveals respectable, bourgeois-looking students and well-off citizens engaging in destruction and violence.

Europe’s next crisis is already hiding behind the riots

The streets may eventually fall silent, but the struggle over who governs, who pays and what survives is only beginning

BY Ksenia Smertina

In 1989 peaceful revolutions reunited East and West Germany and Eastern and Western Europe. Or at least most of Eastern and Western Europe. It was the year that Europeans chose freedom, rejected socialism, bound democracies in an ever closer union, and embraced “living in truth.” 

It was also the year that USA strategists armed the Gates of Europe to expand NATO ever eastward. Thirty-seven years later the fabric of the Velvet Revolution is stained and torn. Did Europe choose freedom and truth in that heady year, or did 1989 make Europe into a vassal serving the Atlantic Ring of Power?

The Other Europe: How Europe Chose Freedom, Truth and Unity in 1989, But . . .

Then Lost Them To Gain The Atlantic Ring of Power

BY Jeff Rich

You’ve heard many tributes to Helen Haines. You’re about to hear many more. Don’t be fooled. Australia is on the brink of missing the moment. If so, nothing significant will change. We’d not be returning to business as usual. We’d be descending into violence as foretold.

Anthony Albanese must call Angus Taylor stat, and here’s what he must say

BY Peter Hartcher/SMH

What we’ve heard about so far today — and will continue to hear about — is not a collection of separate problems. It’s all one problem: the deep state of the world is trying to consolidate the entire world into a one-world government and has developed many different mechanisms of control to achieve that end. A major part of that initiative is to cause all our institutions to fail us. 

Deep State of the World

BY MERYL NASS

What you’ve heard about the fundamental problems in education, healthcare, agriculture, government regulation, the news media, censorship, and propaganda is all part of that same agenda, in my view.

A number of American lawmakers intend to block the Trump administration’s deal to ease sanctions on Russian diesel through April and are threatening action against US companies involved in the trade. The bipartisan group is also planning to block the US Treasury from issuing such a waiver in the future. 

US President Donald Trump announced the deal earlier this month, as US diesel prices hit a record $6.50+ per gallon in September and prices in parts of California topped $8. Under the waiver, struck just weeks ahead of the impending November midterm elections, Moscow agreed to immediately put 300,000 tons of diesel into the market, and commit to further releases.