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Trump faces mounting pressure to address high gas prices
as the war in Iran on Friday reached a six-month milestone with no conclusion in sight.
The U.S. has tapped its strategic petroleum reserves,
which in early August fell below 300 million barrels, down by more than 100 million barrels since the start of 2026.
The U.S.-Israel war against Iran has led to a dramatic slowdown of Gulf oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz,
which about 20% of the world petrole…

Trump says US has reached deal with Venezuela on oil reserves
President Donald Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost. Trump said in a social media post Friday that the agreement was negotiated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez. The president calls it "THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN WORLD HISTORY!” Rodríguez’s g…

Ukraine update from Giorgio Provincialli: Russia's war on Ukraine compounds the difficulties of water scarcity and ecological collapse of fisheries and farmland.
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Ukraine Enters Winter With Its Rivers at Record Lows
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Asked about Trump’s "Lake America"
ploy during a press conference on Thursday,
Wab Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, was withering in his assessment.
“You know when a rock band is really over the hill and you see them in a casino playing some song from like 50 years ago?
I think that’s the part of Donald Trump’s presidency we’re at now,” Kinew said.
“He thought he had a real hit, a real golden oldie with the Gulf of Mexico,
and he’s trying to bring …

Trump the renamer-in-chief keen to leave his mark – or his stain – on world
As Americans face an affordability crisis and war with Iran, the president is focused on … changing the names of things

from my link log —
Colossus: the computers that helped win World War II.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/colossus-computer-ieee-milestone
saved 2026-07-27

The Computer That Helped Win World War II
Colossus cracked Germany’s encrypted communications

Enjoying MillMint today, and thinking about the way a world built by one person inevitably winds up uncannily unified in aesthetic to the point it undermines the project's credibility with regards to what it tries to express about ours
https://millmint.net

Are you really an AI chatbot at all if you haven't almost started World War 3 at least once? 😳🤦‍♂️
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

> “Who started the fire? That’s the question, isn’t it,” Burnham told reporters in Kyiv on Monday
Hold on, i know this one...
Begin? Reagan? Palestine? Terror on the airline?
https://www.the…

Burnham says UK with Ukraine ‘all the way’ despite ‘outrageous threats’ from Russia – Europe live
UK PM hits back at Kremlin comment that sharing long-range missile blueprints will ‘add fuel to fire’ by asking ‘who started the fire?’

The UAE gained broader US AI chip access after aiding the US in the Iran war, letting G42 buy freely for at least nine months; G42 plans to become a US company (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/uae-

" the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, reported that 600 drones were launched towards the capital’s region, of which 201 were destroyed.
Ukraine has rapidly expanded its long-range, deep-strike missile and drone capabilities in 2026, allowing it to attack warehouses, oil refineries, ports and military facilities at distances of up to 1,500 miles (2,400km) from its border."

‘Massive’ Ukrainian drone attack on Russia kills at least six, says Moscow
Kyiv launches what may be its largest attack wave of war, with fire breaking out at warehouse near Russian capital

An explosive-laden drone at a German airport.
A strike on a passenger train near the Polish border.
A rush of warnings about more chaos to come.
If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was hoping to heap pressure on Ukraine’s closest allies,
he’s succeeded with a series of provocations that Western officials have blamed on Russia and said could put citizens of NATO countries in danger.
The question is how Europe responds.
In the past week, European leaders…

Europe Warns of Russia’s Hybrid Attacks but Struggles to Counter Them
If President Vladimir V. Putin was hoping to get Europeans’ attention, he’s succeeded with a series of close-call incursions. The question now is what they will do about it.

Trump threatened retribution against Iran again in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday.
“From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” Trump posted on Truth Social.

Trump threatens to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for each strait of Hormuz attack – Middle East crisis live
Threat from US president comes after US military completes 11th night of strikes on Iran

RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117243404728349033
The monarchs of the Russian Empire were well aware, more than 200 years ago, that freedom anywhere was a threat to empire everywhere. That's why a collection of European autocrats formed The Holy Alliance in 1815.
But the corollary is also true: empire anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere. Sure, we can learn rules from each other, because these autocrats all play the same game. They've been playing roughly the same game for hundreds of years. But it's more than we can just share notes. We are in the same war.
The fall of any dictator threatens the legitimacy of all other dictators. While authoritarian countries may be at war, it's little more than a game of chess for them. They want to win, not to kill the other player. More than even needing an opponent to keep the game going, dictators prop each other up.
Autocrats have been internationalist for hundreds of years, and that's part of how they've kept coming back. After the fall of Russia, the torch of autocracy passed to the US who really picked it up after the end of WWII. They toppled countries around the world for daring to fall outside of one imperial sphere or another. And, eventually, they got the chance to do the same to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. American intervention helped put Putin in power, and he very much repaid the debt with Trump.
Dictatorship is an infection that spreads until it is contained and destroyed. There is one war, the class war, and we should learn from and support all our comrades fighting the same fight everywhere.

The feeling of unity soon gave way to anger and division,
in large part due to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars,
begun by the George W Bush administration
and framed as necessary conflicts to help the US win the "war on terror".
“We launched two forever wars that were wholly ineffective at making us safer militarily,
and only sank our prestige in the world
– especially [in] Europe and the Middle East
– at the cost of thousands of American sold…

Americans on how 9/11 changed their lives: ‘It completely unraveled the US’
Twenty-five years later, the Guardian asks US readers how the attacks affected their lives, and their country

Ukrainians, already drone innovators, are turning their focus to psychological operations aimed at undercutting Russian support for the war.
Maria Berlinska has formed a nonprofit organization,
Victory Neurones,
and last month gathered specialists in cognitive influence,
a term that includes everything from strategic communications to cyberwarfare.
“Wars begin and end not in the trenches,
but in people’s heads,”
she told the gathering.
“You ar…

The Next Phase in Ukraine’s War With Russia: The Battle for Minds
Ukrainians, already drone innovators, are turning their focus to psychological operations aimed at undercutting Russian support for the war.

Ukraine will only halt attacks on Russian energy targets if the enemy does likewise and the US guarantees it,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The announcement came after Donald Trump’s uncorroborated claim that both sides have agreed to such a ceasefire.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia had said so at time of writing.
The US president regularly claims to have brokered what turn out to be nonexistent or extremely shortlived deals between foreign adversaries or with his o…

Ukraine war briefing: No energy ceasefire until Russia stops, Zelenskyy confirms after Trump claim
Moscow would need to commit ‘honestly and on a long-term basis’ to ending the war before Kyiv would de-escalate. What we know on day 1,665

A far-right leader who has won an important state election in Germany has
thanked Elon Musk for his support,
as voices in Europe warn the result is a serious moment for the continent.
No far-right party has led or formed a government in Germany since the defeat of nazism at the end of the second world war.
Ulrich Siegmund, the Alternative für Deutschland’s lead candidate, thanked Musk on X
after the tech billionaire said “Well done!” in German to the AfD co-fou…

First Thing: German far-right leader thanks Elon Musk after landmark election win praised by Russia
The populist, far-right, anti-immigration AfD won the vote in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt

Now in Iran:
Beside the coffin of the assassinated former Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei at a packed prayer hall in Tehran on Sunday there were calls for the killing of Donald Trump.
Iran is staging a week of mass funeral processions ⁠for Khamenei, who was killed along with other members of his family on the first day of the US and Israeli war on 28 February. The funeral was delayed because of the war.

Calls for killing of Trump at funeral of Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei
New supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei still absent from public view as his three brothers stand beside father’s coffin

A Ukrainian greengrocer narrowly escaped death when he was hunted by a Russian drone on the streets of Kherson.
Footage shows the market vendor, named as Yuri, trying to evade the remotely controlled aircraft as it stalks him in the city, which is on the front line of the war in Ukraine.
The incident is being seen as an example of a Russian "human safari" targeting civilians.
In the video, the first-person view (FPV) drone can be seen making several lunges at Yuri …

Russian drone targets grocer in ‘human safari’ attack
A Ukrainian greengrocer narrowly escaped death when he was hunted by a Russian drone on the streets of Kherson.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@metrolandmedia/york-region-news-g1koru29z/-/a-9vF7HMvnTE6-u0MSQpixAw:a:2864275383-/0
At a Roadwork conference (1994? Lloyd was asked if he was ever censored by his producers over war news. He said no, but the newsroom did regularly censor itself, and gave the example of body counts where relatives may be watching, they would tone it down. At the same conf, a panel was asked if the Internet could be censored, Bill Buxton replied that it would require the most draconian government the world had ever seen.

The populist, far-right,
anti-immigration
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
has emerged as the winner in a crucial state election in Germany,
exit polls have projected,
securing a historic result
and more than doubling its support.
The AfD now appear on the brink of becoming the first far-right party to gain power in Germany at state level since the second world war.
Initial exit polls showed the party to have secured 44.4% of the vote,
…

Far-right AfD wins key German state election but may fail to secure majority
Exit poll shows Alternative für Deutschland on 44.4% of vote in Saxony-Anhalt after huge turnout, with votes still being counted

Trump is considering candidates to replace the Army Secretary
and possibly the Deputy Defense Secretary
as frustrations over the Iran conflict persist,
though officials deny a formal review of the Deputy role.
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Trump eyes Pentagon leadership changes as frustration over Iran war grows: Report
At least four candidates have reportedly emerged as potential replacements for former US army secretary Dan Driscoll, as the Trump administration moves to fill the post following his resignation.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has argued for Ukraine to be allowed to join Nato at its annual summit
– saying it would be wrong to exclude a country that had built up strong defences in its long struggle against the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian president said his country had developed almost all the weapons it needed,
and now only required European help in developing an alternative to the US Patriots to protect against ballistic missile attack.
“I have a question for you.

Nato should let Ukraine join to ‘make all of us stronger’, says Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s president argues defensive capabilities built up in war with Russia mean it shouldn’t be excluded

Speaking at the Nato summit,
Trump says the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iranis “over”
because
“I do not want to deal with them any more,
they are scum”.
They are sick people, they are vicious, violent people.”
He then adds:
As far as I am concerned, it’s just a waste of time dealing with them.
They are liars. …
There is something wrong with them. They are cuckoo. As far as I am concerned, it is over.”
Investors are spooked …

Middle East crisis live: Trump threatens US will hit Iran ‘hard again tonight’ after saying truce is over
Iranian foreign ministry said earlier US and Israeli attacks had rendered interim accord to end war ‘ineffective’

Here is the transcript of the meat of Carney’s proposal for a deeper Canada and EU partnership in text. Full text of the speech at the second link. The 2 minute video clip got a chuckle (“better manners”).
“So let me say plainly what Canada proposes.
Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defence industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space, and payments.
We should move toward seamless, digital trade in non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.
We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to live, work and study where they want on either side of the Atlantic.
Canadian membership of Erasmus can give your students, and ours, more opportunity to learn at some of the world’s top universities, to broaden their horizons, and to build lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future.
Canadian membership of the next generation of Horizon would allow us to pool resources, cooperate on frontier technologies, and leverage our world-class research institutes and universities.
Yesterday, President von der Leyen announced a “new European Corporation on Critical Raw Materials” to obtain and stockpile the material needed for electric cars, chips and batteries, clean technology, and defence. Canada has deposits of over 34 critical minerals, and we are among the top producers of the 10 most essential for the world’s energy transition. Our alliance can help fill Europe’s need for reliable supply, Canada’s need for advanced processing capabilities, and our common objective to build complete value chains.
Canada can contribute LNG and hydrogen at large scale to support Europe’s energy security including by developing and leveraging new port infrastructure in the High North and on our East Coast. We, in turn, can benefit from your leadership in many clean energy technologies.
We can pool new sovereign compute capacity and build more secure broadband connections between Europe and Asia via our common geography.
Canada and Europe can join forces to develop AI safety protocols, coordinate common standards, and strengthen transparency, all while developing applications so our governments and companies can serve our citizens better.
Canada and Europe should also consider exploring an integrated market for financial services to broaden choice and reduce costs for our citizens, improve access to capital for our companies while maintaining our world-leading financial resilience.”
Official Text of speech: #canada #eu #europe #canPoli #cdnpoli #trade #security #war #russiaUkraineWar #theAmericanFascist