You are being watched. Not just by a camera or a satellite or a data broker.

But by your smart mirror.
Your fitness ring.
Your gut biome dashboard.
Your digital assistant that noticed you’ve been coughing more lately.

Precision Consumer 2030: Wellness as a Window into You
BY Zakariyas James

This isn’t surveillance in the dystopian, authoritarian sense. It’s subtler than that. It’s called “precision wellness”.

By 2030, so they say especially if certain think tanks have their way, it’ll be normalized. Incrementally, then all at once. After that, it’ll more than likely be dystopian but let’s take a step back.

Donald Trump chose Alaska as the place to hold his meeting with Vladimir Putin for two reasons, argues Tiberio Graziani, chairman at Vision & Global Trends - International Institute for Global Analyses:

To assert his administration’s intent to “enhance the US' role as a diplomatic actor”

Putin and Trump May 'Reconfigure the World Order' in Alaska

Due to the region’s shared history with both the US and Russia, and its location, that both highlights the closeness between Trump and Putin and the distance between Trump and the EU

My new report prepared for Friends of the Earth Australia demonstrates that the development of a nuclear-powered, conventionally-armed nuclear submarine fleet entails multiple public health risks and would inevitably suffer from delays and cost-blowouts.

The British experience with SSNs reveals a litany of problems and it can confidently be predicted that problems will beset the AUKUS submarine program ‒ the joint development of nuclear-powered submarines by the UK, the US and Australia.

Tim Deere-Jones

President Donald Trump and his supporters have turned the US Government into a juggernaut that uses cruel and often immoral and illegal means to amass power and protect and increase the wealth of a select few, notably Trump himself.

William Grimm

Vital health programs that protect millions of poor Americans are under threat. Researchers into diseases, climate change and other crises have been fired. Disaster relief from wildfires, storms and flooding is itself a disaster with budgets and personnel cuts. Aid to poor parts of the world has been ended without warning, explanation or alternative planning.

Washington is not going to fund Ukraine anymore, US Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox News on Sunday.

Ukraine’s European backers can buy the weapons from American producers if they want to continue supporting Kiev, and the US will be “okay with that,” Vance added. “But we're not going to fund it ourselves anymore,” he said.

The interview was published after Vance met with several European and Ukrainian officials in London, including UK Foreign Minister David Lammy. According to media reports, Vance’s trip was intended to pave the way for a summit between the Russian and US presidents in Alaska on Friday, where resolving the conflict between Kiev and Moscow is expected to be at the top of the agenda.

“It was a coup, and I’m using that term literally … One egregious felony after another.” — Stephen Miller

America is tired of being driven insane, of having absurdities crammed into our collective consciousness. Reality is an agreement about what is going on in the world. That act of faith requires such an agreement be based on what is demonstrably true. Without it, society dissolves into chaos and failure.

Suspicious Minds
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER

A number of European nations have joined Ukraine to present their own “counterproposal” for a resolution of the conflict with Russia, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing anonymous European officials. The plan was hastily drawn up after US President Donald Trump confirmed that he would be meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska next Friday.

The Journal said on Saturday that representatives of Ukraine, the UK, France, and Germany had “scrambled to respond” to a proposal reportedly floated following a meeting between US special envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Canberra Theatre. Patrons are advised that, for tonight’s performance of The Castle, the role of Mr Darryl Kerrigan will be played by Mr Vladimir Putin.”

In the classic 1997 Australian movie, Kerrigan’s case turned on Section 51(xxxi) of the Constitution which provides that the Commonwealth can only acquire property “on just terms”.

Andrew Fraser

How many more Mahmouds must die before the world wakes up?

A recent batch of humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza landed directly on a camp housing displaced Palestinians, crushing multiple tents, footage circulating online shows. Human rights groups have criticized the high-risk practice, insisting it should only be used as a last resort.

The video, said to be taken on Thursday, shows pallets with aid descending by parachute onto a coastal area of the Palestinian enclave after being offloaded offscreen by a military transport plane.

Several packages collide mid-air, with their parachutes entangling and pallets plummeting to the ground.

The packages land in a badly damaged urban area which has been turned into a refugee camp, directly hitting several tents while Palestinians rush to collect the supplies, footage shows.

Like him, hate him, Otto von Bismarck – Prussian aristocrat, arch conservative, user of German nationalism, maker of wars, and then keeper of the peace – was no dummy. And his ego was Reich-sized. Yet even Bismarck had a grain of humility left. Smart politics, he once remarked, consists of listening for “God’s step” as He walks through “world history,” and then to grab the hem of His mantle.

Listen to Lavrov: Here’s why Russia won’t take crap from the EU anymore
On the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords, there’s little to celebrate for those who wanted a harmonious coexistence

BY Tarik Cyril Amar

The peace deal to settle the Russia-Ukraine conflict would likely involve some exchange of territory between the two nations, US President Donald Trump said on Friday.

The US president made the remarks as he hosted the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia at the White House to ink a joint declaration on opening a major transport route between the two ex-Soviet nations that had been locked in a conflict for over three decades. 

Trump mulls territory swap between Russia and Ukraine
The US president has shared new insight on the contents of a potential peace deal between Moscow and Kiev

The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces penned an article and posed for Vogue Ukraine in late July. Though the article appeared in the magazine’s 2025 Leaders edition, Valery Zaluzhny nowhere declared an intention to run for Ukraine’s leadership, nor has he declared an intention to run at any other time. But, perhaps, he did not need to.

Why Zelensky Should Fear His Own Former General
Valery Zaluzhny looks to be maneuvering to replace Ukraine’s wartime president—perhaps with America’s support

While hiding their children abroad, the Ukrainian political elite is resorting to radical measures such as the mobilization of women and children. In conditions of general mobilization, mass desertion, and increasing resistance to the war, the Kiev regime is losing legitimacy. Ukrainian authorities are leading the country into a demographic and moral catastrophe through war, mobilization, and militarization, while resistance to the war is growing massively in the country.

400,000 soldiers have deserted the Ukrainian military, says MP.

Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher.