Yemen beating Saudi Arabia - U.S. troops wounded in Jordan - Trump creates 'Space Academy'

• A large number of injured US soldiers were flown to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, some with life-threatening injuries, following the Iranian ballistic missile strikes on the Muwaffaq Salti and Prince Hassan air bases in Jordan, per Al Arabiya. Brent crude has again jumped to over $100 per barrel for the first time since July. Diesel history is about to be made. $6/gal nationally. 

• In statements made to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting spokesman for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) declared that all US vessels had retreated at least 400 kilometers from Iran’s coastal waters following Iranian strikes at the ships. He noted that prior to Operation “Ramadan,” approximately 30-40 warships had been present in the Persian Gulf. He added that all U.S. vessels had pulled back at least 400 kilometers from Iran’s  coastline.  

• Simplicius: Whenever the rules are abused and violated by the West to its advantage, it is simply treated as ‘part of the game’, a kind of ‘grandfathered-in’ geopolitical entitlement. But when other nations begin to level the playing field, by following the same set of “unspoken rules” accorded only to privileged Western nations, suddenly the world’s largest, oldest, and most esteemed EU consortiums must cry foul: “But the laws of the garden and the jungle are not interchangeable!”  The West should be careful of further provoking the entire world.  
• Sovereignista: And slowly, without fanfare, with no chaos, quietly, Russia is letting the cat out of the bag.  This is the real reply on Kushner and Wikoff’s visit, the telephone call with Trump, as well as the previous visit of the CIA Director, John Ratcliffe.  All the rest of what we saw, the visits to Kiev, the descriptions of wonderful and productive discussions and so on, was made up of spin. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says he has not seen any US roadmap for ending the war in Ukraine. Ushakov called on Washington to halt its assistance to Kiev as a condition for ending the war.
• The Port Elizabeth 4 have been given a new trial date for the third time. Now on Monday, September 14, 9 am, at 1 Police Plaza, Elizabeth, New Jersey. Before dawn, on October 3, 2025, the four arrestees were part of an autonomous coalition of 100 protestors who stopped truck traffic delivering 1,000 tons of military weapons to the Port of Elizabeth bound that week for Israel on the Maersk Sentosa vessel. The defendants plan to represent themselves and use defenses of necessity, and, US and international law. The 4 are Teresa Grady, Danny Creamer, Ellen Grady and Mark Scibilia-Carver, all from Ithaca, NY, are charged with three disorderly persons’ offenses.

• Yemen’s AnsarAllah have liberated the city of Al-Mokha and its port from Saudi Arabia. This is a very strategic city for Yemen, because it increases their authority over the Red Sea. With the advances made over the past three days, the necessary groundwork has been laid for the complete clearing of Yemen's southwestern coast and the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait. The aerial and ground dominance of Yemeni armed forces over Yemen's western coast will prevent the Saudi coalition from expanding threats against maritime shipping and will pave the way for breaking the naval siege on Yemen. Yemen published footage showing the wreckage of a Saudi military Karayel drone that was shot down in Yemen’s Hajjah Province. The way that Saudi Arabia and the UAE immigrant mercenaries fled, it appears Yemen is winning. The Saudi 'royalists' sure aren't going to fight.            

• “As we get to the end of the MQ-9 Reaper drones life, there was some early talk of where do we want to go afterwards, and candidly, as a result of some of the losses that we've experienced in combat operations, that discussion sort of got accelerated,” said Lt. Gen. Christopher J. Niemi, the Air Force’s chief modernization officer. The service has lost at least 45 MQ-9s during Trump’s war on Iran, roughly one-quarter of its fleet, the Washington Post reported. The unit cost of one MQ-9 is $51 million in 2011 dollars - or nearly $82 million today. Niemi said the service wants to buy at least 180 MQ-9 replacements. “What we're seeing, in part based on our assessment of the threats around the world, and in part based on our real-world experience, is that you're going to lose more military hardware in future conflicts than you have historically, and that's what's driving us to this sort of fundamental principle that we need things that are easier to produce, cheaper to buy, and that we can afford to lose more of them,” he said. [It also signals that the US is being shot at which they are not used to at the Pentagon.]

• In the EU: Brussels is deepening military and technological cooperation with Israel – despite its own ministers calling Israeli settlements illegal and Israel’s actions in Gaza a “stain on the conscience of the world.”
• United Airlines: While passengers sat above, military hardware was reportedly traveling below. According to an investigation published by The Intercept, United passenger flights have carried thousands of shipments connected to Israeli weapons including F-35 components, tank parts, communications equipment and other military hardware — without passengers being told what was traveling beneath their feet.

• Israel has deepened its ties with Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb-dominated Republika Srpska, opening an Israeli Chamber of Commerce office in Banja Luka as its international isolation over the Gaza genocide grows.  The move strengthens relations with the entity’s separatist leadership and reflects Israel’s efforts to build new political and economic partnerships in the Balkans.
• NASA in its infancy employed Hitler's former Nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 100 members of his V-2 rocket production team, and it appears to be returning to its roots. Pistol Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Endless War) attended the first meeting of the new US Space Academy on Sept 9 and said: "We need to dominate [in space]; and it's not just what we do at the War Department — it's what we do across government, at NASA, in private industry, in collaboration at every echelon. And so, we see this academy as a key component of ensuring we don't just lead, but we dominate."  NASA Administrator Jared Isaacson told the assembled that the US is currently in another space race, namely with China and Russia, and that "success and failure comes down to months, not years."  [Yeah, they do resemble Nazis.]

• The Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space will hold its annual 'Keep Space for Peace Week' during October 3-10. We urge people and groups around the planet to help us spread word about the destabilizing and environmentally deadly impacts of the current military and corporate activities and plans for US space 'control and domination'. 

• Popular Information: Workers in the US are earning a historically low share of the value they produce, according to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS estimates that the labor share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) “was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026.” This is the lowest level that the BLS has seen since it first began recording labor share in 1947.
• Thailand’s Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow held a “frank discussion” with Israeli Ambassador Alona Fisher-Kamm over complaints involving Israeli nationals and tourists. Complaints reported in Phuket, Pattaya, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Pai, include intimidation, harassment and disputes involving Israeli nationals and businesses. Thai authorities are also investigating business arrangements involving Israeli nationals, including a case concerning land on Koh Phangan (island known for its stunning beaches).

• Medical debt alone has reached at least $220 billion nationwide. People aren't struggling with medical debt because they don't care about their health. They're struggling because health care is too expensive. Health care is a human right, not a privilege reserved for people who can afford it. We must confront the medical debt working-class families are carrying. We have the resources to build a health care system that puts people before profits.  Health care not warfare!