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[l] at 10/12/26 8:11pm
There’s a viral video clip showing a group of wild boars getting caught in a corral trap. When the gate snaps shut the poor animals run around in a panic, searching in vain for an exit. According to the caption that’s been going around, the trapper waited patiently for five days for the entire sounder to get comfortable enough to take the bait and enter the trap all at once. The gate didn’t close until the final pig walked into the enclosure. Yaban domuzlarını yakalamak için 5 gün boyunca tuzak alanına alışmalarını bekleyen bir kişi, tüm sürünün içeri girdiği anda kapıyı kapatarak onlarca domuzu tek seferde yakaladı. https://t.co/03qLo270oc — Bulvar Medya (@Bulvarpress) October 9, 2026 And, yeah. That’s pretty much where we’re at right now. We’ve been standing around munching on our bait, enjoying our bread and our circuses, blissfully unaware of the trapper who is patiently waiting for the perfect moment to slam the gate shut on us all. “Man, AI sure is great.” “Check it out, we’re all Miyazaki characters!” “I let ChatGPT choose my outfit for today!” “I wrote a song just by typing in a prompt! Can you believe it? I’m making music!” “We’re ALL artists now!” “Oh shit, the gate just closed!” “They’re listening to everything we say!” “Fuck, there are police drones everywhere!” “They’re putting guns on those robot dogs!” “The state AI canceled my digital money because I tried to start a union!” “I said Free Palestine and now I can’t access the internet!” They’ve been quietly constructing a cage around us this entire time in order to lock us into this capitalist dystopia forever. The oligarchs and empire managers have been rapidly developing technologies that will facilitate mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems — already being field-tested in places like Gaza — which just so happen to be exactly what the ruling class would require in order to undermine and quash any revolutionary movements which might emerge in response to the ever-increasing abuses and inequalities of capitalism. The trapper is patiently pacing us into accepting mass surveillance, unfettered artificial intelligence advancement, militarized robots, police drones, digital currencies, propaganda, censorship, and the AI-assisted manipulation of the flow of information. And then, when the time is right, the gate will come crashing down. It’s essentially a race between revolution and high-tech totalitarianism. A race between the awakening of public consciousness to the urgent need for revolutionary change, and the ability of our rulers to prevent revolutionary change from ever occurring. A race between our ability to start using the power of our numbers to force an end to the abusive systems under which we live, and the ability of rich and powerful dominators to use surveillance, robotics and AI-assisted control mechanisms to nullify all the advantages we hold over them. And right now our biggest disadvantage is that most of us don’t even know we’re in this race. Our rulers know it, but the average member of the public does not. Most of us are still chewing on the bait in the trap. There is still time. The trap isn’t shut yet. But we need to awaken the other piggies in the pen to the reality of what the bastards have planned for us, and help them understand that the race is underway. Video reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/when-the-gates-of-tech-dystopia-snap The post When The Gates Of Tech Dystopia Snap Shut appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/12/26 6:35am
Israel is so evil that it’s actually illegal for Israelis to tell the truth about it. Benjamin Netanyahu has just ordered Israel’s military, its attorney general, and its security agency Shin Bet to investigate and prosecute the soldiers who anonymously shared their experiences in the Gaza Strip with the award-winning investigative documentary “NAZA”. According to Haaretz, Netanyahu accused the soldiers of “serious information security offenses, criminal defamation and harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests,” adding that “there is concern that those involved in the defamatory film committed serious criminal offenses by exposing highly classified information and creating a breach in the information security of a highly sensitive intelligence unit.” Netanyahu’s accusations of “defamation” are contradicted by his other accusation of “exposing highly classified information”. The 24 soldiers interviewed for the film are being prosecuted not because they told lies about Israel, but because they told the truth. The prime minister is claiming the truth causes “harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests” because Israel is a state that can only exist on a foundation of endless lies. Netanyahu accidentally confirms NAZAs exposè Instead of Israels earlier claim that the movie is a "hoax," Netanyahu is formally saying the soldiers in NAZA "exposed classified information" & "breached information security in a sensitive intelligence unit" pic.twitter.com/FUhIIvuXZR — Muhammad Shehada (@muhammadshehad2) October 11, 2026 If Israel considers the truth a national security threat, then Israel should not exist. “That which can be destroyed by the truth should be.” This quote by PC Hodgell certainly applies to an apartheid state which assassinates Palestinian journalists, bans the foreign press from witnessing its atrocities in Gaza, constantly attacks press outlets who report on its abuses, spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on foreign propaganda, and prosecutes soldiers who tell the truth about its war crimes. It also applies to the US empire, which prosecutes whistleblowers, imprisons journalists for exposing US war crimes, shrouds its actions in a veil of government secrecy, exerts extensive control over the flow of information via Silicon Valley, and manipulates the minds of the public using the most sophisticated propaganda system ever devised. It also applies to abusive relationships that would collapse if the community could see what was happening, or if the victim fully understood what was being done to them. It also applies to marriages where one spouse isn’t being truthful about who they are and what they do in secret. It also applies to worldviews that would crumble if contradicting facts were heard and deeply listened to with courage and intellectual honesty. It also applies to the psychological constructs we hold within ourselves that were built when we were too young to understand the traumas we were experiencing and the maladaptive coping habits we were subconsciously forming to deal with them. It also applies to the ego itself, which dissolves when sufficient attention and clarity has been brought to its mechanisms through rigorous self-inquiry. Netanyahu signed a formal letter ordering the IDF chief, Shin Bet head, and Attorney General to open a criminal investigation against everyone involved in the NAZA film. He demands an urgent investigation into the soldiers (serving and discharged from Unit 8200) who were… pic.twitter.com/DUZyIJfgXj — Clash Report (@clashreport) October 11, 2026 At all levels, human dysfunction is held in place by untruth and dispelled by truth. The lies we hold onto as individuals, as communities, and as a society are what allows suffering and abuse to continue at whatever scale you’re looking at. Humanity’s collective quest is to become a truth-driven species with a truth-based relationship with reality, because if you’re not dealing with reality as it actually is then you’re not able to respond to your challenges with wisdom and efficacy. We move in this direction by seeing through the mental narratives and perceiving reality as it is actually happening: as individuals, as a society, and as a species. Tell the truth uncompromisingly, come what may. Let all that would crumble under untruth do so as swiftly as possible. May all be revealed. Let us face the ever-expanding light of truth with heroic courage. Video reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-the-truth-is-a-threat-to-israel The post If The Truth Is A Threat To Israel, Then Israel Should Not Exist appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/11/26 7:05am
Techno-utopianism is the naive belief that technological innovation is going to create a paradise on earth for all of humanity. In the age of AI this notion has been enjoying a bit of a resurgence. Techno-utopianism is an infantile worldview to hold in the year 2026, because it is assumes we live in some kind of children’s cartoon show with wild-haired inventors in laboratories lined with beakers and microscopes who create helpful new machines which are then either purchased by consumers on the free market or implemented by the government to make the country a nicer place to live in. In reality, we live under a globe-spanning empire run by plutocrats and secretive government agencies who manipulate our entire society to ensure that all outcomes expand their wealth and power. They’re not interested in making the world a better place. The most powerful among them are not even simply interested in money. They are interested in dominating the planet and maintaining the political status quo which allows them to rule. The plot hole in techno-utopianism is that technologies don’t emerge in a vacuum: they are always controlled by somebody, and those somebodies always wind up being the people who control everything else. They’ve been doing it with the internet, they’re doing it with AI, and they’ll keep doing it with anything else that comes up for as long as they hold power. If anything like free energy ever emerged, the empire managers would immediately restrict access to it and then start working on turning it into a weapon. If we ever developed neurological implants which allowed our brains to interface wordlessly with machines, the CIA and the NSA would with absolute certainty have a backdoor into every single one operating inside the western empire. Anything that could end poverty and lack would be suppressed, because capitalism doesn’t work without scarcity and have-nots. Artificial superintelligence would be used solely to preserve and bolster the imperial status quo. Nanobots and anti-gravity would be immediately weaponized by the Pentagon. Dramatic lifespan extension would be priced to accessibility only by billionaires and trillionaires. And that’s assuming our capitalist system is still capable of producing major improvements to human life anymore, which doesn’t really seem to be the case. These days most “innovation” takes the form of coming up with an app designed to extract labor from the working class in some new form of exploitation, or these new AI technologies that we all know are going to end up being used for domestic surveillance and horrifying weapons of mass military slaughter. Apart from that, innovation has largely stagnated, because it turns out that only permitting inventions which both (A) generate profit and (B) do not threaten existing power structures is an incredibly constricting limitation to hamstring ourselves with. So we’re not going to innovate our way out of this mess. The technological deus ex machina solution to all our problems is not going to arrive at our doorstep while we sit on our couches scrolling Instagram. If we are to survive the existential hurdles our species is approaching and begin building a healthy world, we’re going to have to actually change how we are and how we live. That’s what I find so off-putting about techno-utopianism: it’s a faith-based belief system which discourages humanity from changing. We don’t need to push toward revolution; the robots are coming to save us. We don’t need to change our collective behavior and stop destroying our ecosystem; the superintelligent AI gods will change the world around us. We don’t need to adapt as a species beyond this awkward evolutionary transition phase and shatter the bonds of the ego; all we need to do is passively wait around for High Tech Jesus to come and rapture us all to paradise. It ain’t gonna happen, kids. The metallic messiah’s not coming. If we survive as a species, it will be because we grew up and made the necessary changes to our hearts and our minds to transcend our self-destructive patterning. Video reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/advanced-technology-will-not-save The post Advanced Technology Will Not Save Us appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/10/26 4:19pm
Dear Jonas, Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT https://www.theinteldrop.org/2026/10/10/trumps-letter-war-with-norway-for-nobel-price-for-pedophilia-snub-says-he-discovered-greenland/ The post Trump’s Letter: War with Norway for Nobel Price for Pedophilia Snub – says He Discovered Greenland appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/10/26 4:18pm
The post Trump’s Letter: War with Norway for Nobel Price for Pedophilia Snub – says He Discovered Greenland appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 8:23pm
A US-based nonprofit is planning to use AI surveillance to check for “hateful” speech about Israel inside classrooms in the genocide-ravaged Gaza Strip. The Associated Press reports: “A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed ‘hateful’ or ‘inciting.’ “The plans laid out by the founder of the Gaza Children Village in a webinar last month have elicited ethical, safety and privacy concerns from some Palestinian and advocacy groups and at least one of the charity’s partners. “There is no indication the charity intends to share its classrooms’ recordings with anybody else, but fears about the potential misuse of surveillance technology are heightened in Gaza after three years of war. The Israeli military has used AI to sift through intercepted communications and find suspicious speech, including to identify targets for strikes.” Absolutely psychotic: people are digging their families out of rubble with their bare hands and an American charity is installing AI audio recording to make sure nobody sounds too resentful about it. https://t.co/8YaL0tOQJr — Mondoweiss (@Mondoweiss) October 9, 2026 AP reports that the founder of Gaza Children Village, Dr David Hasan, seeks the “de-radicalization” of Gaza and has removed from his curriculum any language that “encouraged anti-Israel or antisemitic beliefs.” Meanwhile exactly zero resources are being spent de-radicalizing Jewish Israelis, who consistently tell polls that they overwhelmingly support the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. What AP neglects to mention in its write-up is that a significant portion of the charity’s funding comes from Israeli donors, as we learn in a puff piece published this past May by Jewish News titled “Gaza school founder backed by Israeli donors says children are taught ‘we are better together’”. Hasan told Jewish News that he’s been very transparent about the Israeli funding pouring into his so-called “Academies of Hope” because it would cause a scandal among Palestinians if the information came out later. Hasan’s operation will reportedly be using video games to indoctrinate young survivors of the Gaza holocaust into having sympathy for Israelis and teach them about Adolf Hitler’s mistreatment of the Jews, though it’s unclear how teaching Palestinians that genocide is bad will improve their perception of Israel. So inside the ruins of Gaza an American charity funded by Israelis is going to be teaching schoolchildren not to hold negative beliefs toward the US-backed ethnostate which just destroyed their neighborhoods, killed their families, and laid siege to their entire population, and will be enforcing these standards using AI tech surveillance which will be shared with God knows whom. Gaza is the laboratory for so many of the evils exported to the rest of the world Coming soon to a school near you: AI monitoring of classrooms for signs of “antisemitism” https://t.co/s9wSW5jEme — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) October 9, 2026 Take a good look, ladies and gentlemen, because this is what they’ve got planned for the rest of us as well. Do not succumb to the delusion that artificial intelligence is being aggressively advanced because the oligarchs and empire managers just want to sell us helpful chatbots. These technologies are being developed as rapidly as possible because they want mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems to suppress revolutions and revolutionary sentiment and keep us trapped in this capitalist dystopia forever. It’s just amazing how quickly AI is making everything worse. It’s assaulting the environment, ruining art, turning everyone into an unthinking moron, making people crazy and suicidal, flooding the information ecosystem with fake videos and misinformation, all while rapidly making it possible for a small group of powerful individuals to control and monitor every facet of our lives using advanced technology. This perversion of the human species is what we are being told we need to make sacrifices for in order to ensure that AI develops very quickly, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proclaimed. “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology,” Altman told Politico in a recent interview, arguing that too many safeguards and regulations will slow down the advancement of these new technologies. It’s already bad, and they’re trying to make it so much worse. We’ve got to find some way to stop these freaks. Video reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-setting-up-ai-surveillance The post Theyre Setting Up AI Surveillance To De-Radicalize Classrooms In Gaza appeared first on TheAltWorld.

[Category: SOCIAL/CULTURAL, AI, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, schools, surveillance]

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[l] at 10/9/26 5:25pm
ICE is funded through 2029, the Pentagon budget is at record highs – and plenty of Democrats voted for both. So what does winning Congress actually change? With an ad spend set to hit $11.6 billion and record dark money pouring into the 2026 midterms, BreakThrough News editor-in-chief Ben Becker joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to break down whats really at stake on November 3. He lays out how billionaires and untraceable super PACs are buying the election, the threat of Trump deploying ICE at the polls, and why a likely Democratic majority is unlikely to claw back DHS funding or end Trump’s war on Iran – recalling how Democrats failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform or universal childcare the last time they held power. And with self-proclaimed socialists like Zohran Mamdani saying Gaza’s a genocide while capitulating to pro-Israel pressure, Becker warns of the Democratic Partys history of co-opting mass movements – while arguing the pattern reveals real radicalization across US society. And he makes the case for what comes next, pointing to mobilizations now in the streets of France and Spain, and Januarys general strike in Minneapolis. Its sort of like asking whether youd prefer to die by being hit by a bus or through long-term cancer. Ben Becker on why midterm votes alone wont save US democracy from Trump or his billionaire friends Midterms 2026: ‘The Worst Democracy Money Can Buy’ | w/ Ben Becker The post Midterms 2026: ‘The Worst Democracy Money Can Buy’ | w/ Ben Becker appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 4:51pm
Saudi Air Force Joins Massive Offensive at Bab al-Mandab The post Saudi Air Force Joins Massive Offensive at Bab al-Mandab appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 3:29pm
Les tensions internationales atteignent un point de rupture critique. Depuis plusieurs années, les dirigeants occidentaux font face à un basculement des rapports de force mondiaux et à un recul net de leur influence. Au lieu daccepter cette nouvelle réalité multipolaire, la caste au pouvoir multiplie les provocations militaires et les récits bellicistes pour désigner de nouveaux ennemis. Tout indique que ce risque de conflit généralisé n’a plus rien d’accidentel. Selon toute vraisemblance, l’escalade actuelle servirait de bouclier politique à des élites refusant de voir leur hégémonie seffondrer. En transformant chaque crise diplomatique en affrontement existentiel, le système semble privilégier la confrontation directe plutôt que la négociation. La Troisième Guerre mondiale ne naîtrait pas dun malentendu, mais dune accumulation de décisions délibérées et dune obstination idéologique. Les observateurs notent que les conditions dun embrasement total sont activement créées pour masquer léchec de la gestion occidentale. Découvrez lanalyse complète de ce sabotage de la paix mondiale dans notre émission en direct. Lara Stam, Marc Gabriel Draghi, Patrick Pasin, Thierry Meyssan et John Williamson passent au crible l’escalade vers une Troisième Guerre mondiale et les tensions géopolitiques qui menacent l’équilibre international, en direct dans La Matinale de GPTV. LES CHAPITRES DE LA VIDÉO : 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:09 Revue de presse 00:15:05 Marc Gabriel Draghi Actus nationales et internationales 01:04:23 Patrick Pasin Moyen-Orient, Ukraine, accord USA-Biélorussie, dette française & Japon 01:35:46 Thierry Meyssan Troisième Guerre mondiale 02:18:24 John Williamson ANC en Afrique du Sud, livre Un oeil sur l’Ile Maurice 02:44:47 Conclusion The post THIERRY MEYSSAN brise le mythe dune GUERRE mondiale accidentelle ! appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 1:01pm
Saudi Arabia has $142 billion in American weapons. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world. So why cant Riyadh win? Last month, Ansar Allah seized Mokha and Perim Island, and with them the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, cutting off Saudi Arabias alternative oil route around the closed Strait of Hormuz. Mohammed bin Salman begged Trump for US airstrikes, then backed Dawn of Yemen, a 100-warplane offensive aimed at Sanaa, as crude oil again tops $100 a barrel. Veteran war correspondent and analyst Elijah Magnier joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra on the Red Sea front, as nearly 1,000 Yemenis have been killed and 184,000 displaced since fighting resumed. But Magnier argues Ansar Allah – often referred to in US media as the Houthis – hasnt lost much ground. He explains why Saudi warplanes are largely powerless in Yemens mountainous terrain, and why he sees the movement advancing on Taiz and Marib. And Magnier breaks down how Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb have become two fronts of the same war – different demands, same enemies – and how Israels quiet push into Somaliland could drag it directly into the Red Sea fight. Destruction and assassinations dont achieve victory. Victory is achieved when the other side raises a white flag. Analyst Elijah Magnier (@ejmalrai) on why Saudi escalation in Yemen can’t break Ansar Allah, despite $142B in US weapons The post Why Saudi Arabia Can’t Stop Ansar Allah in Yemen appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 6:10am
Yemen Trap: Why Turkish and Pakistani Troops Could Face Disaster The post Yemen Trap: Why Turkish and Pakistani Troops Could Face Disaster appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 2:23am
Russia Has Already Defeated NATO and Ukraine The post Russia Has Already Defeated NATO and Ukraine appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/9/26 2:09am
Pakistan’s de facto military dictatorship, which was imposed after April 2022’s post-modern coup against former multipolar Prime Minister Imran Khan, appears to be seriously considering its armed forces’ large-scale direct involvement in the Yemeni War. The Pakistani Ministry of Information denied the New York Times’ report, which cited two anonymous Pakistani officials, alleging that their country is carrying out airstrikes against Yemen’s Iranian-aligned Houthi rebels and plans to continue air support for its Saudi allies’ local forces as part of the Mecca Pact. Nevertheless, Pakistan’s rapid deployment of forces to Saudi Arabia proves that it’s plunging into mission creep (and without parliamentary approval either), about which five thoughts will now be shared: - * Pakistan Risks Sectarian Killings At Home The Pakistani Establishment, which refers to its powerful military and intelligence agencies that are considered to have run the country since its inception one way or another, has a history of weaponizing sectarianism and radicalism for domestic and foreign purposes. They might therefore do so once again to rally the majority-Sunni public behind any direct involvement in the Saudis’ war against the Zaydi Shia Houthis at the risk of local radicals lynching members of Pakistan’s substantial Shia minority as a result. * Its Armed Forces Ignoble Reputation As “Hired Guns” Could Be Reaffirmed The Pakistan Armed Forces are widely perceived as “hired guns” due to their historical alignment abroad with the US, Saudi Arabia, and even recently Turkiye. Their alignment with the first two is thought to be rewarded with bailouts, which their struggling country desperately needs, while the third is thought to reward it with military (specifically drone) technology. It doesn’t matter whether the Pakistan Armed Forces’ reputation is accurate since the point is that their ignoble reputation might soon be reaffirmed. * Pakistan Is Strategically Aligning With Israel Despite its officials’ public support of Palestine and harsh rhetoric against Israel, which Pakistan doesn’t officially recognize, there’s no denying that their armed forces’ potentially direct involvement in the Yemeni War would align Pakistan with Israel. As a reminder, Israel also opposes the Houthis, but its prior bombing campaign failed to defeat them. Pakistan might now try to do what Israel couldn’t, which might lead to its ruling clique being perceived among some as Israeli servants, whether rightly or wrongly. * Its Relations With Iran Might Be At Risk With All That Could Dangerously Entail Building upon the above, any direct involvement of the Pakistan Armed Forces in the Yemeni War at scale could risk a rupture in their country’s relations with Iran, whose threat perception of Pakistan might accordingly spike as a result of perceiving it as strategically aligning with Israel. Its leadership therefore might not rule out the scenario of Pakistan participating in another round of Israeli and/or US strikes in the coming future like some outlets have reported is being considered with all that entails. * What Other Rewards Might Pakistan Expect? Apart from yet another US and/or Saudi bailout, Pakistan might expect geopolitical rewards from both in the scenario that its direct involvement in the Yemeni War results in the Houthis’ defeat. From the US, Pakistan might request to be treated as its top partner in the subcontinent once more like it historically was before the US began eyeing India as a counterweight of sorts to China, while it could demand air and naval bases in Yemen from the Saudis as Damocles’ swords that could sever Indo-EU trade in a crisis. - Pakistan’s de facto military dictatorship, which was imposed after April 2022’s post-modern coup against former multipolar Prime Minister Imran Khan, appears to be seriously considering its armed forces’ large-scale direct involvement in the Yemeni War. That scenario could result in significant and far-reaching consequences, not least for the hitherto largely positive perception of Pakistan among many in the Alt-Media Community, who might then perceive it to be a joint American-Israeli puppet regime. https://korybko.substack.com/p/five-thoughts-about-pakistans-rapid The post Five Thoughts About Pakistan’s Rapid Mission Creep In The Yemeni War appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/8/26 8:29pm
The Pentagon plans to live-stream the firing squad execution of the Fort Hood shooter, and my head is so very heavy, and everything is covered in the ashes of a burning planet. I found the corpse of a water spirit down by the creek where my parents live. She used to play with me when I was small. She was tangled in plastic and mail-order clothes, and someone had torn off her wings. She would have been older than the country I live in. So hell, why not. Why not live-stream the firing squad execution. Run commercials for Kalshi and Crypto dot com and recruitment ads for the US Marine Corps. Let Joe Rogan host it with Kevin Hart, and then auction off pieces of the body to horny socialites from the Epstein files. Let’s just go all-in with this thing. My head is heavy, and the earth spirits are dying, and I feel so fucking old. I get down on the ground and place my hands on the dirt. “Please, tell me what to do,” I whisper. “Please tell me what you need.” Video reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/pentagon-to-live-stream-firing-squad The post Pentagon To Live Stream Firing Squad Execution appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/8/26 4:56pm
French students shut down 1,800 schools and brought more than 450,000 people to the streets Tuesday, as the nationwide youth revolt grows against Macron austerity. Danièle Obono, La France Insoumise MP in the French National Assembly, joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to unpack how one protest in Saint-Denis over teacher shortages and overcrowded classrooms has transformed into a movement that’s shaking Paris to its core. Obono lays out a decade of neoliberal attacks on public education under Macrons austerity agenda, and explains why the viral video of Saint-Denis Mayor Bally Bagayoko shielding students from riot police has transformed him into a symbol of solidarity for young and working-class people across France. And she responds to Trumps claims that immigrants and Islam are behind the rebellion; Obono argues that a growing movement of working-class youth from diverse neighborhoods singing La Marseillaise and demanding their rights is the only answer to the far right: We tell Donald Trump to mind his own business. We have absolutely no lessons to learn from him. Mind your own business. We have absolutely no lessons to learn from him. French MP @DanieleObono of @FranceInsoumise respond to Trumps racist attacks on Frances youth revolt, as students rise up against Macrons austerity The post French MP Tells Trump to ‘MIND YOUR BUSINESS’ Over Mass Protests appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/8/26 4:35pm
No One Negotiating with the US The post No One Negotiating with the US appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/8/26 10:15am
What is his justification? And will these countries respond to his blackmail? And why would they refuse? U.S. President Donald Trump suffers from a chronic diarrhoea of foolish and inconsistent utterances, setting a precedent in the history of American presidents, who previously delegated this responsibility to their spokespersons. For nearly eight months, Assad has insisted that his forces have eradicated Iran’s military presence and have complete control of the Strait of Hormuz. Large oil shipments continue to leave the strait on a daily basis, with him asserting that the US Navy has complete control of Hormuz. We’ve heard this tired and repetitious tune about controlling the strait before, but the new and alarming statement that piqued our interest came yesterday evening during his involvement in a ceremony at a shipyard in Baltimore. He said, “Leaders of many countries in the region called him and thanked him after the American-Israeli aggression on Iran,” further stating, “I told them, When will you pay the price for that?” Trump is referring to the leaders of Gulf states, not Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, or Sudan, whose thrones are supported by trillions of dollars in oil and gas profits. This means he will order them to pay for the American war and possibly the Israeli one as well. Perhaps for these reasons, he promotes day and night the return of commercial navigation and oil and gas exports via the strait as usual, but the reality is rather different. Whoever began this war and caused all of this destruction, namely the United States and Israel, should bear the costs of the war from their own coffers, not the Gulf countries, which have suffered massive material losses as a result of this destructive American choice. Especially since the American bases, which cost hundreds of billions of dollars to erect in these countries and from which they conducted attacks on Iran, did not defend these countries against Iranian missile strikes. For these logical and legal grounds, Gulf countries should not respond to the American blackmail that President Trump is preparing to use, possibly in the coming months. First, the American assault on Iran was entirely Israeli, with Benjamin Netanyahu and the Zionist lobbies under his command using America’s formidable strength to destroy Iran, a rising power whose nuclear and missile ambitions represent an existential threat to the Hebrew state. Second, American military bases in the Gulf countries, as well as Jordan, from where missiles, stealth planes (F-35), and hundreds of drones were launched to strike Iran, were heavily damaged as a result of the Iranian missile retaliation. Third, most Gulf countries are currently experiencing huge financial losses as a result of the eight-month suspension in oil and gas exports at prior rates, as well as the entire closing of the Strait of Hormuz and the partial closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Some of these countries have even begun borrowing from global banks to cover their budget deficits, as withdrawing cash is difficult; the majority of them have been invested in various projects, and liquidating them takes time. According to official figures, Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit for this year totalled 44 billion dollars. Trump, who announced that he is ready to sacrifice Los Angeles and San Diego to defeat Iran, destroy it, and have America emerge victorious from the war, will not hesitate for a moment to sacrifice all the Gulf countries, or extort them financially, and force them to pay the costs of his failed war against Iran, and possibly even compensate Iran itself for the destruction and damage it has suffered, which compensation would be the first item in any final diplomatic settlement. There is a common phrase, “With such friends, who needs enemies?” This particular saying literally relates to the Gulf countries and their American partner, Donald Trump. https://www.raialyoum.com/trump-demands-gulf-countries-to-pay-bills-for-his-and-israels-battle-with-iran/ The post Trump demands Gulf countries to pay bills for his and Israels battle with Iran appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/8/26 3:35am
the US has only redeployed troops from Iraq to elsewhere in West Asia as part of its ongoing war on Iran; the US maintains immense administrative, economic, and covert/proxy military power over Iraq and until that changes, Iraq remains subordinated to/occupied by the US; The so-called Mecca Alliance is little more than US burden sharing extended over Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan; It remains to be seen how extensive the Mecca Alliance will be mobilized as part of the wider US war on Iran and its network alliance which includes Ansarallah in Yemen; US Project Meridian is a desperate attempt to leverage technology to reassert US military dominance over the world, but fails to recognize, let alone address the actual systemic problems causing a US decline in the first place; Resources: Reuters Explainer: How the US controls Iraqs oil revenues (Sep. 30, 2026): https://www.reuters.com/business/ener BBC Last UK and US troops leave Iraq as anti-Islamic State mission ends (Oct. 1, 2026): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c65 AJ Turkiye, Pakistan agree Saudi Arabia military deployment under Mecca pact (Oct. 5, 2026): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1 NYT Saudi-Backed Yemeni Government Declares War Against Houthis (Oct. 4, 2026): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/wo US White House National Security Strategy (2025): https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content US DoD/DIA Intel Memo (2012): https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-cont Reuters US defense firm Anduril faces setbacks from drone crashes (2025): https://www.reuters.com/business/aero Militarnyi SSU Abandons Altius Attack Drones after Failures at Front (Nov. 2025): https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ssu-ab Business Insider Inside Americas $66 billion bet to beat Chinas shipbuilding empire (Oct. 3, 2026): https://www.businessinsider.com/insid NEO US Cannibalizes Its Proxies and Itself as War on Multipolarism Expands (Sep. 29, 2026): https://journal-neo.su/2026/09/29/us- The post US Reorganizes Forces and Proxies in West Asia + What is Project Meridian? appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/7/26 9:55pm
I never asked to know what a dismembered child looks like. Israel imposed that knowledge upon me. I never wanted to know what it looks like when military explosives blow an infant’s head off. I only know it because Israel forced me to know it. The reason the Gaza holocaust hit westerners so hard is because it punched through the wall of our shitbrained western supremacist narcissism and our vapid mainstream culture and shook us violently awake to something real and terrifying. All of a sudden the idea that our bombs are killing people in the middle east was no longer a vague abstraction sitting in the periphery of our awareness. It was a reality hitting us right in the guts in the middle of the day while we casually scrolled our phones, forcing us to run to the toilet to vomit up our lunch. It made it personal. We were being kicked in the stomach over and over again by the state of Israel with the backing of our own western governments. The abuse of the Palestinians wasn’t something that was happening exclusively to the Palestinians; to a much smaller degree, it was also something that was happening to everyone who witnessed it. Westerners aren’t accustomed to such confrontations. We are accustomed to bustling around in our mind-controlled dystopia with our first world problems and our neuroses and distractions, our attention going into treats and screens and our consumerist preferences and the petty dramas playing out in our respective social circles. Then all of a sudden we find ourselves in the bathroom puking up our sushi because our phone had just shown us the most unimaginably horrific thing we have ever seen. And we were at all times aware that all the nausea and horror and rage and disgust we experienced when witnessing the Gaza holocaust happened because of the real material actions of real material people. The Israelis were deliberately causing as much devastation as possible to advance their longstanding goal of forcibly transferring all Palestinians out of Gaza. Our leaders were deliberately stalling and equivocating from behind their podiums to buy Israel enough time to make Gaza uninhabitable. We all understood that the waking nightmare we were witnessing was not some natural disaster that was passively occurring; it was being actively inflicted by people who were fully aware of what they were doing. That’s the sort of thing that changes you as a person. Changes your whole worldview. Changes your politics. Changes your beliefs. The average westerner needs to do a lot of internal restructuring to truly reckon with the Gaza holocaust and all its implications. That, I think, has been the biggest reason why the genocide of the Palestinians has gotten so much attention and sympathy. It’s because its live-streamed nature caused it to affect us in ways other acts of mass military slaughter usually don’t. Westerners are so propaganda-addled and indoctrinated that we are largely apathetic to what our bombs are doing to human bodies on the other side of the world. It’s only when we are given some skin in the game, as in the Vietnam draft, that we start caring in any politically significant way. Gaza gave us skin in the game in the way it entered into our lives through our electronic devices and showed us things that were so jarring it left a permanent mark upon our lives. Gaza forced us to look, and forced us to see, against all the efforts the propagandists have expended trying to keep us from noticing such things. That’s why this thing isn’t going away. People are only getting angrier and angrier. The empire has spent three years scrambling around unsuccessfully trying to get us to close our eyes again, and it keeps failing and failing and failing. Video reading by Tim Foley: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-took-a-live-streamed-genocide The post It Took A Live-Streamed Genocide To Punch Through The Wall Of Western Apathy appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/7/26 3:47pm
Did the US Really Leave Iraq? The post Did the US Really Leave Iraq? appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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[l] at 10/6/26 9:08am
Why is it deploying thousands of soldiers, aircraft, and rockets to Tel Aviv? Is the Great War approaching? And how will Iran respond? The “New York Times,” which is close to the decision-makers in the US administration, has confirmed that President Donald Trump has approved military and intelligence intervention to support the Saudi side and its allies in the currently escalating Yemeni war against the Houthi movement. If the report is true—and it appears to be, given what is happening on the battlefields—this step could accelerate a comprehensive military confrontation between Iran and the United States. This notion is supported by reports of so-called Yemeni legitimacy troops making advances on the western coast, recapturing vital places such as the island of Mayyun, which overlooks the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the port of Mocha with the assistance of American surveillance satellites. The Houthi “Ansar Allah” movement denied these reports, but American support for Saudi Arabia in this war has become tangible, particularly after the American administration announced that the United States and Saudi Arabia have a binding mutual defence treaty and that the US Central Military Command will intervene to support the Saudi side in the Yemeni war under this treaty. The question that arises is whether this American support for Saudi-backed Yemeni brigades is a prelude to securing the opening of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and bringing it under the control of the Saudi-American alliance, followed by the grand battle of controlling the Strait of Hormuz and possibly destroying Iranian military capabilities. And how will Iran respond in this case? It was notable that American priorities in the war against Iran shifted, with a renewed emphasis on the Iranian nuclear file, including the need for Iran to completely halt uranium enrichment, hand over more than 500 kilograms of highly enriched uranium, and allow immediate access for International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to monitor and inspect all nuclear enrichment facilities. General Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of the Iranian National Security Council, succinctly summarised US President Donald Trump’s current situation: “He (Trump) is now mired in a swamp where he cannot wage war or negotiate.” Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will face a critical election in nearly three weeks. Victory in it means remaining in power, whilst failure means an ignominious exit, isolation, appearing in court, and possibly spending the rest of their life in prison. Sending 3,000 American soldiers to the occupying state, additional bombers and fighter planes, advanced air defence systems, and declaring a state of emergency in the Israeli army all point to an impending Israeli-American aggression against Iran, especially after Trump rejected the seven-point peaceful diplomatic initiative to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It is certain that the Iranian leadership is fully aware of the American-Israeli move toward a military solution and has prepared well for it, whether by targeting the three aircraft carriers and more than 20 American warships in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Red Sea, or by increasing the range of its missiles to over 1,000 kilometres to achieve this goal, and recruiting well over 33 million martyrs, including battalions of women who have been trained. The next three weeks could be critical not just in redrawing the frontiers of West Asia (the Middle East) and its power centres, but possibly for the entire planet. https://www.raialyoum.com/is-the-us-really-backing-saudi-arabia-against-ansar-allah/ The post Is the US really backing Saudi Arabia against Ansar Allah? appeared first on TheAltWorld.

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