The EU's Digital Gulag Is (Apparently) Ready To Roll

Syrian Protests Spread To Aleppo, Raqqa While Jolani Enjoys Red Carpet At Dubai Media Event Syria's fuel price hike protests have persisted from Sunday into the heart of this week, and increasingly they are becoming full on anti-Sharaa regime demonstrations. Of course Sharaa - whose al Qaeda/ISIS name is Jolani - was never elected in the first place. Monday into Tuesday the protests have spread across multiple cities and governates, including Raqqa in the east and Aleppo in the north. Syria's self-declared President at the Arab Media Summit 2026 in Dubai, United...

Good Faith Vs Bad Faith Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Clusterfuck Nation, "In conditions of mass democracy, the soft and the infantilising will be preferred over the hard and the necessary again and again." - Eugyppius on X Clusterfuck Nation never sleeps, even while everybody else lays aside their labors. Later today we'll light up the ceremonial grill, but for now it's onto the tribulations of this dolorous moment in history. It was just such a sparkling September morning twenty-five years ago when those hijacked airliners knifed into the World Trade Center towers...

Change Of Plans? By Bas van Geffen, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Brent prices held steady just below the $80-level, as Iran said it reached an agreement with Oman on a proposed shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz. That’s not the Iran-US deal that Trump had been eyeing, but this agreement raises the prospect of more energy flows resuming through the critical waterway. However, Iran has also said that the deal does not work until the US stops blocking traffic. We are yet to hear when the US lifts its blockade...