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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.

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.

Saudi Economy On The Ropes As Yemen Raises Cost Of War

October 12, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Riyadh has suffered significantly as a result of its renewed war on Yemen and Sanaa’s retaliatory strikes, widening the country’s budget deficit and pushing the Saudi economy to the brink of “contraction,” the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on 12 October. “The conflict is jeopardizing Saudi efforts to build travel and tourism into a pillar of the economy, including [the] international investment conference scheduled for the end of the month that is now increasingly in doubt. The costs of the war have already widened the budget deficit and threaten to push the economy into contraction,” WSJ writes.

Zelensky Offers To Halt Strikes On Russian Oil Refineries

October 11, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
Ukraine is willing to stop attacks on Russian oil refineries if Russia stops its strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on 11 October, adding that strikes could stop as "early as today." "The real cause of the war in Europe is Russia and Russia alone. It is possible to stop strikes on energy infrastructure as early as today, but Putin does not want to do so," Zelensky claimed in a post on X. "Any de-escalation steps must be reciprocal and backed by real guarantees." Later in the day, US President Donald Trump announced that an “energy ceasefire” had been reached between Russia and Ukraine.

Iranian Troops, Police Targeted By Deadly Attacks In Sistan-Baluchestan

October 10, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
More than a dozen Iranian military and law enforcement personnel have been killed or wounded in the past 24 hours in a series of attacks in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, a Baloch rights group reported on 9 October. Haalvsh, which monitors human rights violations in Sistan and Baluchestan, reported that seven Iranian security personnel were killed and four were wounded in four separate armed attacks from Wednesday to Thursday evenings. Sistan and Baluchestan borders Pakistan and Afghanistan and is populated mainly by Iran's ethnic Baloch and Sunni Muslim communities in the country's southeast.

Pakistan Faces Domestic Opposition Over Military Deployment To Saudi Arabia

October 8, 2026 Abdul Rahman, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
The Pakistan government’s decision on Monday, October 5, to deploy its armed forces to Saudi Arabia and provide other military assistance in its fight against Yemen is facing widespread criticism from the left and other progressive sections within the country. Critics have questioned the rationale behind the decision, expressing concerns that it will further erode the credibility of Pakistan among the people in the region and unnecessarily drag it into endless wars. According to the joint statement, the constituents decided “to move immediately to the practical implementation of the collective defense commitments” under the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement and provide military force and other capabilities to Saudi Arabia to protect its security and territorial integrity.

The Unconcluded War

October 8, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , ,
As I argued in a 2025 article, “Peace is a Haunting Specter of War,” the 1951 Japanese Peace Treaty should be understood as the foundation of a U.S.-Japan postwar alliance. It departed from the territorial framework the Allies established during the war and produced no regional settlement comparable to the one established for Germany at Potsdam. Read against the documents of that peace process, Kavanagh’s report describes the cost of maintaining an unconcluded war. Bertrand presents its conclusion as a strategic withdrawal, closer to a modern-day Dunkirk, in which an untenable forward position is abandoned while the military perimeter is preserved farther east.

Ansarallah Unveil Strategic Weapons; Israeli-US Backed Offensive Backfires

October 7, 2026 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. , , , ,
Yemen’s Armed Forces have imposed a no-fly zone over Riyadh following a massive assault by Saudi Arabia using 100 aircraft, combined with a shock offensive aimed at capturing Bab el-Mandeb. In this Monday’s edition of The Target, MintPress News’ Robert Inlakesh breaks down the conflict on the ground and why the US-Israeli backed surprise attack is a failure. In the early hours of Monday morning, Saudi Arabia carried out over 1,000 airstrikes across Yemeni territory, in what would soon be declared by the Kingdom’s proxy forces as Operation Yemen’s Dawn.

IRGC Warns ‘Illicit’ Hormuz Routes ‘Will Soon Be Blocked’

October 7, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, senior advisor to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander-in-chief, said on 7 October that Tehran will “soon” block the “illegal routes” established in the Strait of Hormuz.  “A small number of routes created by individuals engaged in illicit activities, by blasting and destroying sections of rocky passages in the Strait of Hormuz, will soon be blocked,” said Naqdi. “The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran have complete control over it. This situation will continue until Iran’s legitimate demands are met.

Yemeni Strikes Hit Aramco In Saudi Capital

October 4, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced on the evening of 3 October its latest missile and drone strikes on the Saudi capital Riyadh, which hit an Aramco energy facility, causing massive fires.  The strikes were a response to continued Saudi bombardment of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa.  “As part of the response to the Saudi aggression against the capital, Sanaa, and [other] provinces, which amounted over the past 24 hours to 60 airstrikes and missile attacks … the YAF carried out a qualitative military operation using a number of ballistic missiles and drones, targeting Saudi Aramco in the Saudi enemy’s capital, Riyadh,” the Yemeni army said. 

Corporate Media Don’t Understand The Houthis

October 4, 2026 Belen Fernandez, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. , , , ,
It’s that time of year again: The Houthis are making the news—and so is the Western corporate media narrative that surrounds them. The Houthis—formally Ansar Allah, “Supporters of God”—are from the Zaydi Shia minority in Yemen, and have governed the most populous sections of the country, including the capital Sanaa, since the start of Yemen’s civil war in 2014. Like many a “civil” war, the conflict has plenty of outside participants—most notably Saudi Arabia, which led a coalition of Arab states (with the backing of the United States) in an effort to bomb and starve Yemen away from Houthi control.

Fatuous False Flags

October 3, 2026 Craig Murray, Consortium News. , , ,
Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot. It remains quite possible the men were indeed fuel thieves, simply stealing fuel from farms. They appear to have been equipped for fuel theft and all they were carrying was petrol. It is worth a footnote that there is a very real history of U.S. military personnel, and indeed British personnel, selling military fuel from bases. Stolen red diesel meant for HMS Bulwark fuelled fairground rides throughout England, which I think is rather lovely. 

Top US Officials Discuss Renewed War In Iran, Yemen Intervention

October 3, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , , ,
US President Donald Trump's senior national security team held an unannounced meeting at Camp David on 2 October to discuss renewing the war in Iran and developments in Yemen, Axios reported, citing three US officials. Vice President JD Vance chaired the hours-long Friday session, attended by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, special envoy Steve Witkoff, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine. A similar meeting took place in June 2025, just days before Israel launched an unprovoked war on Iran. The US joined the 12-day war, bombing three Iranian nuclear facilities.

The War In Sudan Is Teaching Society To Govern Without The State

October 1, 2026 Eglal Hamid Abdulgadir, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
What if one of the most consequential political effects of Sudan’s war is not simply that the state collapsed, but that millions of people were forced to discover what society could organize without it? In Sudan, that discovery did not begin with a political declaration. In many places, it began with food. Khalid, a young man who had been involved in Sudan’s resistance committees during the revolution, was among those who remained in his city after many residents fled. Some of those who left already knew him and the other young people who stayed.

Venezuela’s Battle For Sovereignty Continues

September 30, 2026 Francisco Dominguez and Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Underneath the appearance of “normalcy” in the ongoing relationship between Venezuela and the US lies a manifest asymmetry of power. Even commentators from mainstream international news outlets frame their analyses by drawing attention to the proverbial US gun held to acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s head and, by implication, to the whole Chavista movement. That movement, founded by Hugo Chávez and carried forward by Nicolás Maduro, has broadly united behind her. The US attack of January 3 killed over 100 persons and succeeded in kidnapping President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, an elected member of the National Assembly.
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