I have entered the age of incomprehension

Possibly because of the infernal confusion

Up there in my old lofty pigeon

Due to a blow from a truncheon

Not even wearing an hearing aid

Would sort this inner devil afraid

Did she say a bunch of arseholes 

Or announced the next batch of households

Should I say I am too old for this piss

As Donald trumpets talks of peace

When I understand nothing any more

And everyone seems to be a freegin’ bore

Someone said political progress

I really heard decrepit congress

My brain has passed beyond the age of reason

So I could be accused of deluded treason

For thinking she said towards the future

When in truth I heard tower of King Arthur

It could be my past mixing with eternity

Which makes as much sense as the nativity

 

An Australian Navy destroyer has joined ships from the Philippines and Canada for a joint sail in the South China Sea, an area of flaring tensions following a collision between two Chinese vessels last week.

The Philippine frigate BRP Jose Rizal, Australian ship HMAS Brisbane and Canadian frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec were participating in the operation, which a Philippine military official said was not directed at any country.

This is no longer about partisan politics, wag-the-dog distractions from the Epstein debacle, or even genuine national security concerns.

This is martial law disguised as law-and-order—the oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook.

We have been traveling this slippery slope toward a police state for some time, but under Trump 2.0, the descent towards outright tyranny is accelerating.

 

The Police State Has a New Playbook: Martial Law, One City at a Time

 JOHN & NISHA WHITEHEAD, OFFGUARDIAN, RUTHERFORD INSTITUTE

 

Amid an ongoing assault on its neighbors, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) is attempting to improve its image by posting highly sexually suggestive content featuring its soldiers, changing the prevailing emotion of onlookers from outrage to lust.

 

Gooning For Apartheid: How Israel Uses Sex to Whitewash Genocide

 

ALAN MACLEOD, MINTPRESS NEWS

 

A wide range of IDF thirst trap accounts—many with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of followers—proliferate on social media. These accounts are quietly sanctioned by the Israeli government, in an attempt, in its own words, to “appeal” to a young male demographic.

MintPress News explores the phenomenon of Israel using sex to whitewash its actions.

In the wake of the much-anticipated Anchorage summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian philosopher and nationalist ideologue Alexander Dugin ignited controversy with a social media post on X.

Dugin claimed that Putin had handed Trump “solid, considerable documents on Russian history proving that Ukraine is a fake.”

 

 

“Putin has supplied Trump with solid considerable documents on Russian history proving that Ukraine is a fake”-Russian most Influential Political Thinker Alexander Dugin, also known as “Putin’s brain”, Claims.

by Smriti Singh

 

The statement, made late on August 15, quickly went viral, garnering both support and ridicule, and spotlighting the Kremlin’s longstanding narrative that challenges Ukraine’s sovereignty.

Flexelectronics in Ukraine refers to the Flex Ltd. electronics manufacturing plant in Mukachevo, a city in the Zakarpattia region of western Ukraine. The plant was hit by two Russian cruise missiles on August 21, 2025, causing a massive fire and wounding at least 19 people. The facility employed thousands of people and was one of the main employers in the city. The company is a Singaporean-American multinational with headquarters in Singapore and Austin, Texas.

 

Many targets were in western Ukraine. Zelenskiy said a missile strike on a U.S.-owned electronics firm was a "telling" indicator of Russian intentions in U.S.-led peace initiatives.

After a flurry of diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump said earlier this week there was agreement for a bilateral meeting between Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) brought together a selection of major thinkers from the American right to launch its new podcast, Project Cosmos, which debuted Tuesday. Project Cosmos is intended to be a forum that can explore at length the differences and similarities of the newly fractious right, examining the possibilities for forming a new synthesis from the disparate strains of the tech right, religious postliberalism, right-populism, and traditional American conservatism.

 

Yarvin, Rufo, Caldwell, Deneen: Whither America?
State of the Union: The Intercollegiate Studies Institute launches its podcast with a star-studded guest list.

Joseph Addington

A German opposition leader has accused the EU of hypocrisy, pointing out that those who once rejected dialogue with Moscow are now praising US President Donald Trump’s diplomatic efforts to settle the Ukraine conflict. 

Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, made the remarks after a White House meeting earlier this week involving Trump, Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, and key Western European leaders, including German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The talks came two days after a summit in Alaska between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

“The same people who for three and a half years denounced diplomacy as the devil’s work are now praising Trump for his diplomatic efforts,” Weidel wrote on X. “That is hypocrisy and an admission of their own failure at the same time.” 

Israel’s decision under its fanatic ethno-nationalist government to both approve more West Bank settlements and invade Gaza City now tragically defines the whole Zionist project: a 70-year campaign to purge Palestinians and create a greater Israel. Netanyahu’s criminality now defines Israel’s mission and recasts its history.

 

Bob Carr

Statement by former NSW Premier and Foreign Minister Hon Bob Carr

 

An Israel run by settlers and religious fanatics will now demolish the last houses of Palestinians in Gaza and starve them, “concentrating” them (this verb chosen with deliberation) into tents in the south and offering them evacuation to South Sudan or Libya.

Australia’s $368 billion submarine program is apparently wobbling again, not because US shipyards can’t keep up, or because a future president could cancel the deal with the flick of a pen.

Those are mere details.

The real “problem”, we’re told, is tonal.

 

Fred Zhang

Pay up, shut up, speak up against China, or we won't get the subs (some wise Americans demand)

 

According to a recent report by Nine Newspapers, John Bolton (he of moustache and missile fame), Bryan Clark (Hudson Institute, Pentagon whisperer), and Alexander Gray (Trump-era adviser turned Atlantic Council fellow) all offered the same diagnosis:

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky if all the issues relating to the settlement of the conflict between Moscow and Kiev are worked out, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.

Following his recent talks with Putin and Zelensky, US President Donald Trump suggested that the Russian and Ukrainian leaders should next meet one-on-one before a potential trilateral summit with him. Zelensky, who visited Washington on Monday, claimed he is eager to negotiate with Putin.

Lavrov stated on Thursday that the Russian president “repeatedly said that he is ready to meet, including with Zelensky, if there is understanding that all issues that require consideration at the highest level have been worked out thoroughly” by experts and ministers.

 

Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian man who it is claimed is suspected of involvement in the bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, German prosecutors reported on Thursday.

The man, referred to only as Sergey K, was detained near Rimini on the basis of a European arrest warrant. German investigators believe he led a unit that blew up sections of the pipelines in September 2022.

The attacks, which ruptured both the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea, were, improbably, initially blamed on Russian operatives. But German prosecutors later traced a rented sailing yacht to the operation and linked it to Ukrainian nationals.

In Nature, researchers warn of a series of "abrupt" changes affecting Antarctica, the consequences of which could potentially be catastrophic for the entire world. Another study published at the same time highlights the impact of tourism and scientific expeditions on this continent, which has been losing 135 billion tons of snow and ice per year since 2002.

 

"Abrupt" changes are shaking Antarctica, particularly affected by tourism
ENVIRONMENT/FRANCE 24

 

Last week, during a video posted on YouTube for the War Abolisher Awards, Roger Waters shared a new song titled "Sumud."

SUMUD

There is a word in Arabic

Sumud

It means

Steadfast

Perseverance

Particularly

In Resistance

To the occupation of your homeland

I just want that thing

When voices join in harmony

And in that fleeting moment

When meaning coalesces there

All dark dissolving

Clouds the alleyways no more

And fresh bread scent of home

Pervades the air

No sandal soles

In dust of broken homes

Peep bloody from the garment hem

And all the big parades

And shock and awe

And swagger on the carrier deck

And medals jangle helpless

In the face of what is fair

Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaaaaaah!

Yeah! Give me an Oh Yeaaaaaah!

US President Donald Trump has declared that the world is no longer facing the prospect of the Ukraine conflict escalating into World War III.

Trump has repeatedly said that global tensions peaked when relations between Moscow and Washington hit their lowest point during former President Joe Biden’s tenure. He has also accused his predecessor of provoking the Ukraine conflict by backing Kiev’s NATO ambitions despite Moscow’s legitimate concerns.

In a podcast with radio host Mark Levin published on Wednesday, Trump said that when he came into office earlier this year, the Ukraine conflict was “raging” and “heading to World War III.”

However, he argued that now “you’re not going to have that anymore.”