max blumenthal, thegrayzone.com

responsiblestatescraft.org

While it is somewhat cliche to say that the “whole world changed” after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, it does not detract from the reality of the statement. In numerous tangible ways, the culture, security, and politics of the nation were never the same after al-Qaida hijackers in passenger planes left nearly 3,000 people dead in smoldering ruins across lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

by John H. & Nisha Whitehead

Days before the 25th anniversary of 9/11, President Trump flooded his Truth Social account with AI-generated fantasies of himself commanding armies of giant, red-eyed robots.

Dave DeCamp, antiwar.com

More than 100 US military advisers are in Saudi Arabia assisting Riyadh with intelligence and targeting support for its renewed war in Yemen, CNN reported on Thursday.

One of CNN’s sources, an unnamed US official, put the number of US troops assisting in the effort at 200 and said they were part of a new joint task force that was formed in recent weeks as the war in Yemen began to escalate.

by Norman Solomon, antiwar.com

by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

Pakistan's defense minister also said that Ansar Allah's attacks on Saudi Arabia could activate the new Mecca defense pact

Pakistan is likely to carry out airstrikes against Yemen’s Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, at Saudi Arabia’s request, Türkiye Today reported on Wednesday, citing Pakistani sources.

by Tyler Durden

Readers are familiar by now with the broad-based commodity rally, with energy, agricultural products and metals moving sharply higher as former Goldman Sachs commodities head Jeff Currie warned this summer of growing scarcity in the physical economy.

The Bloomberg Commodity Index has climbed to levels last seen in 2012...

by Dave De Camp, antiwar.com

US Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby has told the US’s European allies to prepare for a “protracted” war in Ukraine and to continue providing US-made weapons to Ukrainian forces.

13 killed in Kfar Roumine strike, deputy mayor reports

By Jason Ditz, Antiwar.com

Whether you consider it a town or a village, Kfar Roumine was a modest place before the Israeli invasion in March. Some 1,400 people lived there at the time. Forced displacement and persistent attacks, including Monday’s airstrike that killed over a dozen people, have substantially reduced that population.

by Tyler Durden

European natural gas prices are trading near their highest level in more than three years as the race to replenish storage puts a bid under prices, while ongoing disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz intensify competition for scarce LNG cargoes ahead of winter.

On Tuesday morning, European natural gas benchmark futures edged up nearly 3% to trade around 75 euros per megawatt-hour, the highest level since early January 2023.