In recent days, we’ve seen a remarkable, significant uptick in false flag provocations, rumors, denials and hysteria, painting an increasingly volatile, destabilizing picture internationally in escalated, staged tensions aimed and destined to spread World War III to a neighborhood near you. Or so our usual control freak suspects will have it.

More than half of Americans believe President Trump will refuse to accept a Republican defeat in November.

The Daily Mail/YouGov poll also reveals doubts over whether his backing is helping or hurting his party's chances of holding Congress. 

Fifty-two percent of respondents said Trump would not accept the results, compared to just 23 percent who believed he would. Another 25 percent were unsure.

by Jason Ditz, antiwar.com

Quneitra farmers increasingly cut off from their fields

Among the towns and villages impacted by Israel’s incursions into southwest Syria, few have had more problems than Jabata al-Khashab. The village, in northern Quneitra Governorate, is within the UNDOF demilitarized zone and subsequently is de facto occupied by the Israeli military, who seized much of the UNDOF zone starting at the end of 2024.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times,

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on Oct. 29 on rules that restrict electronics testing to U.S. labs and countries that offer reciprocal recognition, with Chinese labs expected to be hit hardest.

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2026, pp. xx-xx 

Special Report By Elizabeth Murray

A NEW FREEDOM FLOTILLA, led by the aptly named Tenacity, set sail from Bristol, UK in September and headed for Gaza in yet another attempt to break Israel’s siege and blockade of Gaza.

by Tyler Durden

Update(1604ET): There are reports that possibly several parked aircraft were damaged or destroyed after the earlier Thursday Houthi ballistic missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. And now international reports are saying a slew of airliners are suspending flights to the city, some tentatively for up to a week:

Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org,

BY:  Quoth the Raven, Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

What if the global oil crisis gets much, much worse?

I’m not talking about another $10 move in crude. I’m talking about a genuine global energy emergency, where oil reaches $150 or even $200 a barrel, physical shortages begin shutting down meaningful portions of the global economy, and central banks find themselves confronting an inflationary recession.

US military aid and arms transfer continue unchanged, as US public sentiment shifts.

aljazeera.com

Washington, DC – Three years into Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, little has changed in terms of official US support.