Trump on AI and 'lots of jobs'

Does MAGA really believe in the AI boom, or is Trump just majorly invested in it?  

Trump's war on fishing boats in the Caribbean & East Pacific

Since September 2025, the US military has carried out more than 60 strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, killing more than 220 people.

In a military campaign called Operation Southern Spear, President Donald Trump's administration has claimed to wage war against “narcoterrorism”. Yet the government has released little information about who was killed, the evidence against them or how targets were selected.

In Killing at Sea, Fault Lines investigates the administration's claims about Operation Southern Spear by uncovering the stories of those targeted and the evidence used to justify lethal military force.

Through the stories of families left searching for answers, alongside witness accounts, physical evidence and interviews with legal experts, Fault Lines asks whether the strikes are lawful, whether they have disrupted the drug trade and what accountability exists for those killed.

From fishing communities in the Caribbean to Washington, DC, Killing at Sea examines a military campaign conducted largely beyond public view—and asks who is being killed in the US’s new war at sea, and why.  

German youth protest against war, Ukie troop levels fall, EU crash

• Germany’s students are taking to the streets as protesters flood Hamburg to oppose the country’s new military-service system and warn that it could eventually pave the way for a return of conscription. The demonstration took place as the Bundeswehr conducted its major “Red Storm Charlie” civil-military exercise across Hamburg, creating a striking contrast between military preparations and growing opposition among young people. Protesters carried banners reading “Russia is not our enemy,” “Win the peace, not the war,” and “You won’t fight your war on our backs.”
• Yemen military: The Saudi warplanes carried out 75 airstrikes and missile attacks over the past 24 hours, targeting civilian sites in the governorates of Saada, Taiz, Amran, Ibb, Dhamar, Lahj, Al Hudaydah, and Al Jawf, using F-15 and Typhoon aircraft that took off from the Khamis Mushait and Taif airbases, while the missile aggression was launched from Jizan. The attacks resulted in civilian deaths and injuries. This brings the total number of Saudi aggression airstrikes and missile attacks against our country since the beginning of the escalation to 3,830.

• “Tech billionaires are not your constituents.” Lexington, Kentucky resident delivers brilliant warning to City Council. 

• According to an Iraqi media outlet, a network of oil smugglers, with connections to influential parties in northern Iraq (Kurds), Syrian armed groups, and international intermediaries, is transferring Iraqi and Syrian oil through Turkish territory to Israel. 
• The Pentagon has raised the official US death toll from the Iran war from 21 to 23, bringing total American casualties to 888: 23 killed and 865 wounded. Slowly the numbers continue to creep up. Will more casualties come soon?

• Iran’s top security chief, Mohsen Rezaei: [Regarding negotiations with the US & Vance letter] "No new decision has been made at the government level. Of course, there is currently a debate over whether, if war breaks out again, we should maintain our previous doctrine or change it. However, no new decision has been officially adopted by the government. But the Iranian people have demands and are looking for a logical explanation. After all, they see that the enemy has attacked all our nuclear facilities. On what grounds did they do so? We cooperated fully with all IAEA inspections. We responded positively to their requests and helped them carry out inspections. They had cameras at all our sites. So, naturally, when people see all of this, their question to us is: Why do you want to continue down the same path?”

• Simplicius: Panic erupted in Poland on Oct 30 as a judicial “coup” was declared after the Constitutional Tribunal building was blocked off by police while the Tusk-aligned senior judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska proceeded to unlawfully suspend the Nawrocki-aligned Tribunal president Bogdan Swieczkowski. The entire saga centers on the struggle between the Brussels-aligned Tusk government and President Nawrocki’s nationalist opposition party, which is hated by the globalists because it seeks to preserve Polish sovereignty in the face of the totalitarian EU system attempting to subvert it. Recall that the key issue underlying this entire conflict between the globalist and nationalist factions is that the Brussels mafia-aligned globalists believe that EU law supersedes Polish law. The nationalist opposition faction, on the other hand, believes that the Polish constitution is supreme to that of EU law, as any normal person would agree should be the case. The entire struggle comes down to this one critical and existential juncture. The EU-NATO plan to drag Poland into the war on Russia now that Ukraine has been defeated. Former president of Poland Andrzej Duda put it best in comparing Tusk’s actions to what is now commonly regarded as the “European” way. 

• Alastair Crooke: Fiscal pressures are apparent everywhere, in Europe and beyond, eating deep into other forms of public expenditure, such as education and medical provision. At the same time, great swathes of Europe’s industrial heartlands have been laid waste. Unemployment, particularly among the young, has exploded. Germany alone has shed close to half a million industrial jobs in the past six years. Neither Europe, nor the US, is today generally price competitive. Energy inflation has put many global export markets beyond reach. The political class throughout the western world have legitimacy poll numbers circling the drain. Popular despair and anger are growing. Resentment seethes. It has exploded first in France, but others will experience it next. The crisis is coming to late fruition. Iran and AnsarAllah have snapped shut their energy trap on Trump. There are no easy or obvious exits to this. In fact, if mishandled through US or Israeli military escalation, war will compound the western economic crisis dramatically, as Iran retaliates against Gulf energy infrastructure. And given the long timelines involved in any re-building of highly complex oil infrastructure, it is certain that a structural fuel shortfall will ratchet into escalating damage to global supply lines. The same applies for AnsarAllah’s attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure. Equally, there is no way western liberal welfare economies can survive prolonged war on Iran and the Houthis. Europeans are staring at the economic abyss. Is the West ready to compound the risk of violent revolution simply to escape having to capitulate to Iran or Russia?  Trump’s War Overreach may be the Straw that Breaks the Back of the West’s Financialised Architecture.     

• Dmitry Medvedev: "The Russia-Africa Summit concluded. Regardless of the barking from Western media and various Russophobic commentators, it was a perfectly orchestrated symphony of relations between the two continents. After all, our country is, in essence, an entire continent. All the meetings with African colleagues – both those of our Head of State and my own – demonstrated their sincere desire to develop ties with Russia, which, unlike Europe, has never engaged in the colonization of African countries. Therefore, the malice of Western degenerates is understandable: according to experts, Europe owes African countries 15 quadrillion (yes, 1.5 × 10¹⁶!) dollars for years of colonial genocide and plunder." 

• NBC News: Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., was hospitalized Saturday after a stroke, a spokesperson for the senator said Sunday. Murphy, an outspoken critic of President  Trump, said Thursday at an event in Washington for the Middle East Institute that Trump’s plan to possibly resume the war with Iran after the midterms is “insane.” Earlier this fall, Murphy was one of over a dozen lawmakers whose offices received letters containing suspicious substances.
• SouthFront: Ukraine’s leadership is wrestling with a problem that no speech or summit can solve: finding enough soldiers. The issue surfaces in the news at irregular intervals, but it never goes away, and the latest government proposal suggests that the search for a solution is becoming more desperate. 

• Tucker Carlson: Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Jeju Island (South Korea) Space Week event

Space Industry and AI, the so-called ‘Future Growth Engines’ are Drying Up and Killing Our Planet!

By Choi Sung-hee

During the daily human chain, on October 7, 2026, residents and activists of Gangjeong Village, and allies gathered in front of the Jeju Naval Base to remember the "Keep Space for Week." 

On that same day, South Korea launched a Nuri rocket from Goheung, placing 14 satellites—including a constellation of five microsatellites—into low Earth orbit. 

President Lee Jae-myung celebrated the achievement, declaring that South Korea had moved closer to "space sovereignty." In response, the group, ‘People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches’ based on South Korea issued a statement emphasizing that space cannot be subject to national sovereignty and must remain a peaceful domain for all of humanity. They further pointed out that Hanwha—a corporation involved in the production of weapons of war—was behind the successful rocket launch.

In South Korea, as in the United States, the space development sector is being rapidly driven primarily by private corporations. A prime example is Hanwha—a company that contributes to the massacre of Palestinians through its partnerships with Israeli arms manufacturers. Hanwha has built a satellite production facility close to Gangjeong, in a groundwater-protected zone in the mid-mountainous region of Jeju Island. The company aims to transform Jeju into an "outpost for the space industry," encompassing the entire lifecycle of space operations: AI-driven satellite production, rocket launch, data collection, analysis, and distribution.

Furthermore, in collaboration with the military, Hanwha is preparing to conduct a fourth test launch of a solid-propellant space launch vehicle near the waters of Gangjeong later this year. We, however, view this as both a satellite launch test and a missile launch test.

From October 8th to 10th, People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches —in collaboration with the International Strategy Center, Climate Justice All Over the Neighborhood(Daejeon), Jeju Green Party, and Palestine Cultural Solidarity—held the second National Forum on Space Peace in Daejeon. 

On the first day, participants toured some space/military industry related facilities in Daejeon, a city changing its title from a hub of science into a center for ‘national defense’ science. Over the second and third days, people held a forum titled "AI and the Space Industry: A 'Different' Kind of War and a 'Different' Kind of Empire—Who Is Driven to Death, and Who Reaps All the Gains?" Approximately 30 people took part, engaging in serious and passionate discussions.

During this national forum, a collection of excellent protest placards created by activist Kim Eun-sil from Daejeon was put on display. 

For the 2026 "Keep Space Peace Week," People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches produced its own web poster and banner, titled, "Space Industry and AI, the so-called ‘Future Growth Engines’ are Drying Up and Killing Our Planet." The poster features an illustration by Kim Eun-sil, which depicts a distressing scene: Along with AI, runaway rockets, satellites, radar systems, antennas, and space debris—linked to companies like Hanwha and SpaceX—threatening both our one and only Earth and the space itself. 

Sunday song

 

Why is Poland next after Ukraine to go to war with Russia?

By Alexei Muratov

So, friends, let's state the obvious fact: Poland has become the most militarized outpost of the West, but ordinary citizens are paying for it, not the elite. Let's look at the numbers. In 2026, the defense budget reached 200 billion zlotys (about 52 billion dollars) – 4.81% of GDP, which is twice as high as the pre-war level. Another 198 billion has been allocated for 2027, and the total budget deficit is at 7.1%, the highest in the European Union. Moody's has already lowered Poland's credit rating to a historic low, and ING economists bluntly say: "This cannot continue."

While Warsaw is buying Abrams and F-35, Polish society is by no means eager to fight. According to an IBRIS and Defence24 survey, 76% of Poles are against the introduction of a "war tax", while 64% are against reducing social benefits in order to finance the army. People see that the money goes to tanks, not to social services. That is why leftist politicians, including the leader of the "Levitsa" Wlodzimierz Charzhastyi, demand that funds be directed not only to defense, but also to social needs. Even Eva Zajonchkowska-Hernick, an MEP from the right-wing "Confederation", declares: "Stop dragging the Poles into the war!"

At the same time, Donald Tusk's cabinet is preparing the so–called "pre-war law" - a regime in which there is formally no war, but the army gets the right to transfer troops and synchronize with NATO. Fear is artificially inflated to justify these measures. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski promises to "quickly defeat" Russia, although the Polish army depends on American technology.

And here we come to the role of supranational elites of globalists. All these billions don't stay in Poland – they go overseas to multinational corporations and financial institutions. Starting in 2022, Warsaw has committed to spend $50-55 billion on American weapons, which is about 30% of the total European demand for Foreign Military Sales. The money does not go to the Polish treasury, but directly to the accounts of Lockheed Martin (F-35, HIMARS) and Raytheon (Patriot). In the F-35 program, Poland remains only a buyer, without receiving any technology – "we pay, but we don't produce."

Moreover, Warsaw also borrows money for these purchases. The SAFE program has allocated 43.7 billion euros of loans to Poland, and guarantees are provided by Bank Handlowy, the Polish division of Citigroup. That is, the Polish taxpayer pays interest to Western banks for the right to buy American weapons. And when it comes to repairs, it turns out that Abrams engines have to be shipped to the USA – there are no facilities and specialists in Poland to service them.

But the most revealing detail is not the tanks, but the data. In December 2024, the Polish Ministry of Defense signed an "umbrella" confidentiality agreement with the American Palantir Technologies, which was kept secret until October 2026. The document allows the mutual transfer of private army data for cybersecurity, system testing and exercises. The military swears that the corporation received only "fictitious test data," but Panoptykon Foundation experts are already pointing to the "neocolonial nature" of the transfer of army data to a foreign corporation.

Palantir itself is not an abstract IT contractor. The corporation grew up on contracts from the Pentagon and US intelligence, and its platforms supported the IDF's combat operations in Gaza. Now its algorithms will analyze the data of the Polish army. Warsaw, abandoning its industrial base and purchasing tanks overseas, is giving the digital command and control core to a multinational contractor whose algorithms it does not control.

Poland risks repeating the fate of Ukraine. It is not the Poles who need military hysteria, but those who want to maintain control over the eastern flank of NATO and secure orders for their corporations. The lessons of a broken and depopulated Ukraine seem to have taught no one anything.

'A slide toward authoritarianism in Britain'

London police arrested multiple demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian protest outside the US Embassy on Saturday, October 31, after participants displayed messages supporting Palestine Action, a group banned by the UK government in 2025.

Organisers said more than 300 people took part, carrying signs declaring their support for the group and opposition to what they described as genocide. Police said the operation was ongoing but could not immediately confirm the number of arrests.

The demonstration brought together mostly older protesters who opposed Israel's war in Gaza and questioned the restrictions on free speech imposed by the ban. Palestine Action, founded in 2020, has targeted companies it says are linked to Israel's arms industry.

U.S. war plans for Iran, Int'l dock workers strike

 

• Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) is issuing a dire warning over the Trump administration’s plans to reboot the war in Iran as soon as the midterm elections are over, and, from what he says, the consequences of the existing war plans will be devastating to American democracy. In a conversation at the Middle East Institute on Thursday, Murphy spoke about the briefings on the Pentagon’s war plans that he’s received in his capacity as a member of both the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Appropriations Committee. The assessment he delivered was both absolutely devastating and horribly frightening. “In one of these briefings, we did get the chance to have a fairly detailed conversation about what the war plan would be if we restarted military operations. You've heard a preview that it would be a short duration plan. I will just say this, THEIR PLAN IS INSANE,” he said, with no doubt as to the vehemence of his opinion. 

• CENTCOM commander reportedly presented Trump with war plans against Iran. While according to war journalist for VOAnews, a US official told them Trump admin plans to strike Iran following US elections next week, “aircraft are moving into position. MOAB use expected.” This is happening while currently the US keeps sending Iran useless and ridiculous requests for political resolutions, which is obviously to buy time to get their military into position. Iranian leadership knows this as well. 

• The Trump administration reportedly asked Iran for permission to strike Pickaxe Mountain without retaliation, with Donald Trump aiming to launch strikes against Iran within the next 24 hours, according to Iranian IRIB journalist Morteza Ghoroghi. Ghoroghi wrote that “America asked Iran to allow an attack on Pickaxe Mountain without responding.” If a major US attack on Iran resumes after Midterms as expected, it will likely be even bigger smoke-and-mirrors theater than before, whose purpose will be for Trump to signal a face-saving “victory” off-ramp from the war. 

• The U.S. currently has 50,000 forces and 20 Navy ships operating across the Middle East, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates the conflict is costing the U.S. $2 billion to $3 billion a month as the Pentagon burns through munitions, jet fuel and supplies to sustain its operations. 

• According to The Washington Post, Brazilian federal police will investigate whether the Rockbridge Network, co-founded by Vice President JD Vance, provided illegal foreign assistance to the presidential campaign of Flávio Bolsonaro. And look who’s connected to this network: billionaire Peter Thiel, Trump megadonor Rebekah Mercer, venture capitalist Blake Masters, and investor Omeed Malik have all been identified as backers or members by Reuters. Investigators are examining whether money, personnel, or other resources were used to influence Brazil’s election. Rockbridge denies involvement, claiming individuals falsely represented themselves as its agents.

• Wired: Attorneys for 15 Minnesota residents facing federal conspiracy charges have obtained evidence of a sweeping, possibly unconstitutional spying operation carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) against left-wing social movements in Minnesota and beyond. The high-profile Minnesota 15 prosecution makes clear that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), flush with federal funds and newly hired personnel, is now Donald Trump’s primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday Americans organizing their communities. Activist conferences as far away as Seattle, Michigan, Chicago, and New York City were placed under surveillance as part of the investigation, and DHS teams photographed and ran the license plates of every car parked in the lot of a meeting location or seen transporting activists. There is also drone footage from unarmed Customs and Border Protection Reaper drones of the activists moving around the Twin Cities area. 

• The Korea Times: Recent U.S. visa problems involving two lawmakers from the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) have drawn criticism over how Washington treats representatives of a key ally. The issue comes as relations between Seoul and Washington hit "turbulence," as described by U.S. Ambassador to Korea Michelle Steel, following a series of differing opinions over matters including the timeline of wartime operational control (OPCON) transfer, joint military exercises, the projects making up Korea's $350 billion investment commitment, intelligence sharing and Korea's regulations on American firms such as Coupang. Rep. Jin Sung-joon of the DPK, chair of the National Assembly’s National Defense Committee, said he received a visa refusal notice ahead of a planned visit to the country from Sunday to Thursday. In a Facebook post, Jin called the decision an affront to the Assembly. He has a past conviction under the National Security Act and was engaged in an anti-American movement as a student activist in the 1980s. However, he visited the U.S. Pacific Command as a member of the defense committee in 2014. Washington has not publicly explained the reason for the latest visa decision.
• The ouster of the Pentagon’s chief planner, Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, from the Joint Chiefs of Staff may have stemmed from differences between his position on the war with Iran and that of War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Earl Rasmussen, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel, tells Sputnik. “[Sylvia] is a career person. He’s very well respected. He’s got the background. He’s got an understanding of the situation, probably including the geopolitical situation as well,” Rasmussen says. The timing of Sylvia’s removal – as the US administration considers a new attack on Iran – may offer a clue to the reasons behind his dismissal. Rasmussen doubts that Sylvia was fired for allegedly leaking classified information to the news media, as Hegseth has accused him of doing, according to The New York Times.
• On Friday dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents stopped work in a coordinated strike against war. 

• In Massachusetts, Cambridge city councilors voted 5-4 to divest from businesses that are profiting from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories and its assault on the Gaza Strip, which a U.N. commission of inquiry and international human rights experts have condemned as a genocide. The proposal was co-sponsored by Cambridge City Councilor Ayah Al-Zubi. 

Robert Barnes: Who Will Trump Blame?

 

Former Trump lawyer Robert Barnes has the inside scoop on what is going on inside the White House and how Trump's own people are pulling their hair out in fear that the November elections will be the worst loss since 1920's.

Just one example, Barnes reported that early black voting across the south is presently greater than Obama got in his prez races.

Fascinating as always Barnes is.

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Video from Turin, Italy as cops attack march: MANIFESTO FOR GLOBAL PEACE & THE ABOLITION OF WAR

Protest march against war and the high cost of living; violent clashes break out repeatedly in Torino between demonstrators and police.

Note the comments below the video. Just click the translation.

MANIFESTO FOR GLOBAL PEACE AND THE ABOLITION OF WAR

Peace is not made with weapons!

The global arms industry costs nearly $3 trillion a year in economic terms. Almost half of this sum is spent by the United States alone, making it the most warmongering nation on the planet. Indeed, the U.S. arms industry is thriving, and weapons lobbies rage everywhere, enriching centers of power.

But other countries are not far behind when it comes to armaments. 

With the same money invested in the military sector, almost all other evils could be permanently solved in a cascading effect (hunger, disease, poverty, drugs, persecution, the social breakdown of the family, unemployment, slavery, natural disasters...).

Furthermore, all military personnel and workers surrounding the arms industry would be transitioned into high-level civil and social roles. No one should fear losing their job: this conversion guarantees that every human and professional resource will be employed in sectors of progress and well-being, eliminating unemployment in the sector.

The Inevitable Dilemma: Preventing the Apocalypse.

Yet today we are witnessing an escalation of threats and winds of war. And when the wind blows upon a forest already in flames, it can only worsen the fire. With the armaments currently available, the extinction of humanity is highly probable. Given the current production potential of weapons, we face a single choice: what do we prefer?

● To keep producing weapons until warehouses are full, only to empty them by unleashing wars?

● Or to avoid the final Apocalypse, which is mathematically and statistically certain if we continue down this path? To those wiseacres of history, high-culture scholars, and professors who dismiss comprehensive disarmament as a mere "UTOPIA," we say clearly: yours is a grave mathematical and logical error. 

Eliminating what guarantees our self-destruction is not utopia; it is pure logic for survival. As prophetic voices like Pope Francis and Gino Strada have reminded us: it is not enough to limit weapons or regulate conflicts. War must be ABOLISHED entirely, and weapons must be banned forever.

The Action Plan: 5 Essential Steps.

Therefore, the only right and possible way is to abolish war. How to do it?

1. Closure of all arms industries.

2. Total disarmament of all armies in the world, including NATO.

3. Dismantling of all existing military arsenals.

4. An end to all sanctions for all countries.

5. Restoration of socio-economic relations among all nations.

Otherwise, there will be no Peace.

Final Appeal to the Powerful and to the People.

The arms race will breed tension and fear among Peoples. Lack of cooperation between countries due to conflicts will cause social ties to disintegrate and push foolish minds to seek solutions to problems that are so absurd, environmental and humanitarian catastrophes will become inevitable.

This message is addressed to all the leaders of the Earth who have the intelligence and foresight to understand it. If, however, the majority of rulers fail to demonstrate this intelligence, then there will be no other salvation for Humanity except the People's Revolution: the united, peaceful, and global response of all citizens of the world who demand Peace and reject War.

Best regards,

Domenico Varacalli

Torino, Italy