haaretz.com - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday sent a warning letter ahead of a libel suit against Haaretz and journalists Shlomi Eldar and Ruth Yuval over a report he received a warning from UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed about a major Hamas operation before the October 7 attack.

Haaretz said in response that it stands by its reporting.

In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come.

By Tareq S. Hajjaj, mondoweiss.net

reuters.com

Top White ⁠House ⁠advisers, including Vice ⁠President JD Vance and Secretary ​of State Marco Rubio, have privately warned ‌President Donald Trump that ‌the conflict with Iran could ⁠extend ⁠through the remainder of his presidency, the Wall ​Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. officials.

The White House did not immediately ​respond to a Reuters request for comment.

by Andrew Napolitano

A failed war does not end when the drones stop flying. It creates a new danger: A government that refuses to admit defeat and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere.

The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution’s separation of powers. It was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent and — by the standards by which wars must be judged — a geopolitical failure.

On Sunday President Donald Trump posted an AI-created image of himself nuking planet earth.

In the fictional image, Trump is seen aboard a space ship or space station with hands on control panels as large nuclear-like explosions are seen on the surface of the planet.

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

China, the world's largest oil importer, is bidding up crude prices across Africa, Canada, and Latin American markets as disruptions in the Hormuz chokepoint and limited Iranian supplies intensify competition for alternatives. The scramble is squeezing smaller Chinese refineries that once relied on heavily discounted Iranian barrels, according to a new Bloomberg report. 

The following was posted by Martin Armstrong on X today:

"I am concerned about nuclear war, mainly with Netanyahu. I think he is really a loose cannon. I believe he has been trying to talk Trump into it, but I do not think Trump will do it. If Trump does not do it, I think he will. His opponents are saying they are too weak to defend Israel. I would look at the week of October 5th.

rt.com

EU leaders worked to derail Washington’s compromise proposals and restore a united Western front against Russia, the foreign minister has said.

“If Western diplomacy comes down to restraining countries that put forward reasonable, balanced, compromise initiatives, then so be it,” Lavrov said. Moscow would then pursue its objectives “not at the negotiating table,” which he said Russia would prefer, “but on the battlefield.”