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Marco Rubio Declares West Must Dominate World

October 13, 2026 Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. , , ,
The second-most powerful official in the US government, foreign-policy chief Marco Rubio, delivered a speech that openly praised colonialism, engaged in egregious erasures of history, and demanded a return to Western domination of the world. Rubio asserted that the West must use military force to “maintain its place at the head of the world”. The West is “the greatest civilization in the world”, he declared, emphasizing that it is a “civilization that we must fight to defend today with the same passion as our forefathers did”. Rubio warned that “Western civilization” must “choose to act now or lose the choice to act at all”.

Doctors Mobilize To Hold Israeli Medical Association Accountable

October 13, 2026 People's Health Dispatch, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
Doctors and healthcare workers gathered in parallel to the World Medical Association (WMA) General Assembly in Rotterdam on October 8-10, demanding the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) over its breaches of medical ethics throughout the Gaza genocide.  Activists held mobilizations warning against the IMA’s attempts to obscure attacks on Palestinian health workers and infrastructure. These actions included a petition demanding the organization’s suspension from the WMA signed by nearly 6,850 health professionals. “The petition demands that the IMA is suspended by the WMA for its gross violations of medical ethics over decades.

United Nations And The Hague Confront Impunity For War Crimes

October 13, 2026 Nicolas J. S. Davies, Counter Punch. , , , ,
On October 9th, 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 UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court (ICC), then as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 2025, Navi Pillay led the UN Commission of Inquiry that confirmed that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. With the world in the grip of seemingly intractable war and chaos, the Nobel Committee clearly wanted to honor someone who has worked against the tide of militarism and violence to uphold international law.

‘Requiem For Gaza’ Bears Witness To A People Israel Cannot Erase

October 13, 2026 Joshua Scheer, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Genocide seeks to destroy more than lives. It seeks to erase a people’s history, culture and memory—and bury the evidence beneath the rubble. At the launch of Requiem for Gaza, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges explains how he and cartoonist Joe Sacco set out to preserve what Israel’s destruction threatens to obliterate: the voices and experiences of Palestinians themselves. Drawing on interviews with 29 Palestinian families who fled to Egypt, Hedges describes parents struggling to protect their children, survivors haunted by the relatives they left behind, and the devastation of a society’s doctors, writers and journalists.

Indigenous Peoples Day: From Turtle Island To Palestine – Land Back!

October 13, 2026 Steve Gillis, Workers World. , , ,
Boston - In a powerful demonstration of global Indigenous solidarity, Boston-area Native American and Palestinian-led organizations combined forces with the Boston Coalition for Palestine on Oct. 10 at the Massachusetts Statehouse — an original outpost of European settler colonialism — to demand “Land Back!” and “Free Palestine!”  Speakers and the hundreds who joined them called for the abolition of the U.S. holiday named after the genocidal enslaver Columbus — and state recognition of  “Indigenous Peoples Day now!” Organizers also chose the date to commemorate the third anniversary of the October 7 Al-Aqsa Flood.

US Tech Searches For Rules On AI; China Already Has Them

October 13, 2026 Madeline Carr, Consortium News. , , ,
Recent warnings from American AI leaders have created the impression that the world is only beginning to confront the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence. Dario Amodei, chief executive of tech company Anthropic, has called for governments to intervene to slow the development of increasingly powerful AI models. His proposal begins with independent evaluators embedded inside AI companies, moves on to regulation and progresses to government-backed coordination among democratic states. Ultimately, it seeks global agreements with China on testing of AI systems, dangerous applications of the technology and the pace of AI development.

Veterans For Peace: ‘Stop The Machinery Of State Killing’

October 13, 2026 Veterans For Peace, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
There are moments when silence becomes complicity. This is one of them. Veterans For Peace will not remain silent while the machinery of killing is being normalized at home. Across the country, governments are once again embracing state killing—the so-called death penalty—with disturbing enthusiasm. Oklahoma is preparing to execute veteran James Pavatt on November 12. The federal government is preparing to execute former Army Major Nidal Hasan by military firing squad. Tennessee recently attempted to execute Christa Pike and failed, leaving behind yet another brutal example of the fiction that there is some clean, clinical, humane way for the state to kill a human being.

How Self-Organization Can Beat Repression

October 13, 2026 Vincent Rissier and Enzo Tresso, Left Voice. , , , , ,
A brutal crackdown is being unleashed on France’s high school student movement.  The number of arrests of minors is reaching historic highs. Horrific images are flooding social media and the news: a 14-year-old maimed by a Cougar round fired at point-blank range; two high school students blinded, the first by a rubber bullet, the second likely by a grenade; a teenager whose hand was torn off after a grenade exploded; ram-car attacks in Troyes and Dunkirk carried out by the national police, who charged at high speed into groups of high school students; a helicopter deployed in Toulouse; a police commander accused by a high school student of attempting to drown him.

Minneapolis Educators Fight Back Against School Closures

October 13, 2026 Drake Myers, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Minneapolis, MN – Students, families and educators of Minneapolis Public Schools have been busy over the past month organizing the community to reject the Minneapolis Public School (MPS) district’s “Transformation Plan.” The district’s plan, announced on September 15, would close around 15 of the district’s best schools starting in the 2027-2028 school year. In response, the educators represented by Minneapolis Federation of Educators, Local 59 (MFE 59) have been holding rallies and feedback sessions, and using every public forum they can, to raise their concerns with the plan and educate the community around the impacts the plan would have.

Indigenous Community Quickly Mobilized As Fire Raged On Reservation

October 13, 2026 Kevin Foster, Truthout. , , ,
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs are still reeling from the Bench Fire, which tore through more than 60,000 acres of the reservation in north central Oregon in July and August, but Indigenous activists are working hard to provide for the community amid an ongoing water crisis with limited state resources. Wildfires continue to grow more prevalent as a result of global warming, an outcome fossil fuel companies were well aware would come about decades ago, and Indigenous communities are forced to manage disproportionate impacts during a crisis that some see as a continuing erasure of their culture, people, and land.

Up To 12.4 Million Fewer Americans Enrolled In Public Health Coverage

October 13, 2026 Ruth Milka, Nation of Change. , , , , ,
Between 10.88 million and 12.40 million fewer Americans were enrolled in a public health coverage program as of June 2026 than in January 2025, according to an analysis published October 8 by the independent analyst Charles Gaba. The figure is a net change in enrollment, and Gaba wrote that it “isn’t quite the same thing as counting how many lost coverage.” Gaba reported that Medicaid and CHIP enrollment was about 6.22 million lower. He put the decline in Affordable Care Act exchange enrollment at between 4.57 million and 6.09 million, and Basic Health Plan enrollment at about 272,000 lower.

Building Community Work Exchange Networks

October 13, 2026 Chuck Collins and Tristan Roberts, Resilience. , , ,
Last December, a gust of wind signaled the arrival of a blizzard, followed by wet, heavy snow that accumulated in Chuck’s garden storage and forced his 20-by-8-foot barn door off its hinges. Between Chuck, perched atop a stepladder, and his wife Mary, who held the door in place, it was clear how the barn door might be returned to its roller—all they needed was Roz from the Wild Robot, Marvel’s Iron Man, or the draft horses, oxen, and rope-and-pulley expertise of homesteaders of an earlier era. Having none of those, Chuck saw only the cost of a repair he could not handle himself, and he wasn’t sure who to call for such an unusual job.

Yemen: Ansarallah Revolution And US/Saudi’s Failed Attempts To Stop It

October 12, 2026 Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. , , , , , , ,
Corporate media rarely covers events in Yemen, and when it does, it is usually from an imperialist viewpoint. Thus, it is no surprise that many in the West are unfamiliar with the rise of Ansarallah, the legitimacy of its power and the fake US/Saudi-created ‘ Yemeni government’ that operates out of Riyadh. Journalist Robert Inlakesh joins Clearing the FOG to dispel many of the myths about Yemen, a country that, despite decades of war and blockades, has risen as a powerhouse in West Asia that is taking on the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Inlakesh provides historical context for current events and explains why Yemen is a target and how it is helping to reshape regional politics.

‘Tortured’ Or ‘Torturer’? – Corporate Media Fail To Ask The Question

October 12, 2026 Becca Renk Foster and John Perry, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
On 1 October 2026, Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin, a 35-year-old Nicaraguan man, was deported from the United States by ICE and, on arrival in Managua, was immediately sent to prison by Nicaraguan authorities. Reports described him as a “torture victim,” a “political prisoner,” and a “prominent figure in the anti-government protests” that occurred in Nicaragua in 2018. His story was covered by the Washington Post, CNN, ABC News, The LA Times and other outlets. It featured on Democracy Now and he received support from the former head of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth.

New York Times Report On AIPAC Hides A Central Truth

October 12, 2026 James North, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
At first glance, that recent New York Times article on AIPAC, the wealthy pro-Israel lobbying organization, may have looked promising. It ran on the front page of the Sunday print edition, the week’s most prominent location. It jumped inside, where it covered nearly an entire page. It was 53 paragraphs long. The byline indicated that 4 Times reporters had worked on the article. But, astonishingly, not a single one of those 53 paragraphs explained that AIPAC’s efforts to influence American elections have changed dramatically in recent years.
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