Clashes broke out in the French capital today between police and demonstrators calling for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister, and the education minister, with police using tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds.

Al Mayadeen’s envoy to Paris reported injuries and arrests as confrontations carried on between security forces and protesters. He said more demonstrators kept arriving at the square while police continued to fire tear gas canisters without pause.

Founder Dave Donovan and managing editor Michelle Pini explore the one consistent thread in the rise of One Nation: the links between Hanson’s right-hand man James Ashby and Liberal Party Far-Right factions.

THERE is a stench about Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON) — the party whose pinup boy is Donald Trump.

One Nation’s James Ashby and the Liberals: Why orange is the new blue

In her new book, The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato argues governments should stop merely fixing market failures and start actively shaping economies around public purpose, shared rewards and the common good.

John Hawkins

Jewish actor and comedian Billy Crystal says a series of devastating personal losses has shaken his trust in God, including the destruction of his longtime family home in the 2025 Pacific Palisades wildfire and the killing of one of his closest friends.

In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning,” Crystal, 78, said he no longer turns to God as he once did because too many painful events have changed his outlook.

Billy Crystal says he doesn't 'trust' God after house burned in wildfire, Rob Reiner killed

By Samantha Kamman, Christian Post Reporter

As governments prepare for COP17 on biodiversity and COP31 on climate, the challenge is no longer setting goals but accelerating the changes in energy, food and finance needed to restore nature.

Nature is humanity’s life-support system, but it is being depleted at an alarming rate, leaving our world increasingly vulnerable. From deadly heatwaves and raging wildfires to catastrophic floods and prolonged droughts, the effects of environmental change have been impossible to ignore this year. With El Niño forecast to intensify, the risks to people, nature and economies are only increasing.

Kirsten Schuijt

When United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned world leaders last week in his UN address about the unchecked power of both Big Oil and artificial intelligence, he treated them as two of the defining challenges facing governments.

AI Was Supposed to Cut Emissions. Instead, Fossil Fuel Companies Are Using It to Find More Oil and Gas.

A new study found AI-driven fossil fuel productivity could increase emissions. Here are examples of companies already using AI to boost production.

The bell tower of the 143-year-old town hall in the French city of Limoges collapsed on Saturday evening after the building was set ablaze amid nationwide protests over the rising cost of living. The incident came as clashes between police and demonstrators escalated across France, with officers firing tear gas as tens of thousands took to the streets demanding economic relief and education reform.

J.D. Vance is approaching the halfway point of his term as vice president in an administration that has committed the United States to wars in locations from Ukraine to Venezuela to Somalia to Iran and beyond. All the while, the administration has threatened sending the military into other places across the world including Mexico, Greenland, and Cuba. In short, this presidential administration is fully committed to a warmongering agenda.

Vice President J.D. Vance’s Deceptive ‘Antiwar’ Campaign Speech

by Adam Dick

Communications minister Anika Wells has introduced Labor's Digital Duty of Care Bill, draft legislation amending the Online Safety Act, and it is off to committee. NSW premier Chris Minns has put armed police with automatic rifles on Sydney beaches under a social cohesion squad. Discretionary trust reform is also headed to committee, with the top 2% facing the 30% rate. Meta settled a $17 billion case over its algorithms.

Chapters:
00:00 Machine Guns on Beaches
00:40 Bondi and Gun Licences
01:43 Free Speech and Language
02:16 Trust Reform
03:20 Digital Duty of Care
04:26 Free Speech Hypocrisy
05:45 Palantir and Cellebrite
06:50 Regulating the Platforms
07:56 Algorithms and Addiction
08:57 Shifting Risk to Platforms
10:05 Anika Wells Slip-Up
10:50 Scam of the Week

This time it is over a humble, yet critically important hydrocarbon resource—diesel.

Pranay Kumar Shome, October 16, 2026

As has so often been the case lately, yet another round of U.S. exercises with its satellites has ended, but the aftertaste of violated international agreements and heightened international tensions remains. Live-fire drills, practice of amphibious operations and the transport of personnel, weapons, and military equipment, and even the largest scale of the exercises in their history (involving about 3,700 service members) – these are all perfectly typical, standard, and, one might say, expected aspects.

Security Exercises Over, Typhon Stays

Ksenia Muratshina, October 06, 2026

On Oct. 9, the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize Was awarded to Navi Pillay, the South African international lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid political prisoners on Robben Island, and went on to serve as a judge on the U.N. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court (ICC), then as U.N. high commissioner for human rights.

Human beings did not always believe in progress. At least not in the way we have. These days we say, “It’s 2026!” to express exasperation at a failing piece of technology, a persistent social problem like homelessness or a regressive social attitude. But no one said, “It’s 1148!” in the same way. In ancient and medieval times, people might conceivably have spoken about being on the right side of God but the idea of being on “the right side of history” would have been incomprehensible.

TIME OF MONSTERS

What Future for Liberalism?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing mounting accusations that he ignored warnings ahead of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack, as a bitter blame game over one of Israel’s worst security failures emerges in the final weeks of the election campaign.

Former Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar has filed a defamation suit against Netanyahu, accusing him of falsely blaming intelligence officials for the attack despite receiving repeated alerts about security threats.

The Hamas-led assault killed around 1,200 people in southern Israel, with another 251 taken hostage. Israel’s subsequent military offensive in Gaza has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, according to the local health authorities.