Global Crop Prices Log Biggest Quarterly Jump Since Ukraine Invasion As Sticky Inflation Hits Grocery Bills

October Election Surprise Season Is Here! Authored by Ed Dowd: Beyond the Narrative via Substack, October Surprise Season is back, right on schedule. The phenomenon is simple and well documented. Basically in the final weeks before a high-stakes election, an event, leak, crisis, or carefully timed disclosure appears that is meant to shift momentum, freeze the narrative, or force voters to reassess. The classic modern example remains 1980, when the Iran hostage crisis and the fear of a last minute Carter breakthrough gave the phrase its name. Bill Casey, running Reagan's...

Pentagon Plans To Withhold Report on Minab School Massacre Past Midterms Authored by Dave DeCamp via Antiwar.com, Bloomberg reported on Thursday that top Pentagon officials have expressed that they will withhold the release of an internal report on the US bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, which massacred at least 120 children, through the midterm elections. According to an earlier Bloomberg investigation into the attack, within hours of the strikes, Pentagon personnel were aware that the US was responsible, but the Trump administration has still not admitted...

On the second day of Lebanon’s Army deploying into the “pilot zone” villages in the country’s south, officials are trying to make much of this being the beginning of an end to the Israeli military occupation of the entire country, while from Israel’s perspective, the signs are that very little has changed. Israeli artillery attacks […]