“Armed soldiers have been patrolling the streets of Kathmandu, ordering people to remain in their homes, following a wave of deadly protests in Nepal’s capital. The Nepali army checked vehicles and people on Wednesday amid an indefinite curfew, imposed in a bid to ‘normalise’ the capital after mass unrest saw demonstrators set fire to several government buildings and force Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to resign. The protests, triggered by a social media ban, have escalated since Monday, when security forces killed 19 demonstrators and injured hundreds.” (09/10/25)
“Last week, China showcased its military might and growing alliance with U.S. adversaries including Russia, North Korea and, at least for now, India. But that show of force is not the only threat posed by today’s axis of evil. Equally alarming is the insidious attack by China and its allies on the U.S. dollar, ringing alarms across global financial markets. China and other central banks have been stockpiling gold, diversifying their reserves away from U.S. government bonds, driving gold prices higher and Treasury yields up. Their allies have followed suit. Does it matter to most Americans? Yes. A weaker dollar means traveling abroad and imported goods are more expensive, even without tariffs. Higher interest rates inflate borrowing costs.” (09/09/25)
“Way back in January of 2015, six months before Donald Trump began America’s escalator-like descent, Sen. John McCain of Arizona took to the floor of the Senate to describe Russia as ‘a gas station masquerading as a country.’ He was responding to the invasion of Crimea, and demanding the US stand up to Moscow; within a few weeks others has shortened his bon mot to ‘gas station with nukes.’ It hit at an essential truth: Russia, for all its size and might, hadn’t developed much of anything in recent decades; Vladimir Putin survived by pumping gas to the rest of the world, resting on the weapons his Soviet predecessors had bequeathed him. Eight months into the second Trump administration, what are we?” (09/09/25)
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“A drone appears to have struck a boat from the Global Sumud Flotilla while it was docked at a Tunisian port on its way to bring aid into Gaza, temporarily starting a fire. Nobody on board was harmed. The boat was reportedly crewed by the same activists who had attempted to sail to Gaza on the Madleen this past July, including Greta Thunberg. And it is here worth noting that Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir recently said that Global Sumud Flotilla activists must be designated as terrorists and treated accordingly, in order to ‘create a clear deterrent’ against foreign parties attempting to bring aid into Gaza by sea. It is no mystery who the prime suspect is in this attack.” [editor’s note: At the moment, it’s unclear whether there WAS any attack – TLK] (09/09/25)
“For all their screaming and hollering about ‘democracy,’ the Democratic Party of today believes in totalitarian government. And I’m going to prove it in this article. Most rank-and-file members of the party are truly ignorant of this matter, but it is the logical implications of what they believe. Again, to quote Senator Tim Kaine’s recent statement on the source of human rights: ‘The notion that rights don’t come from laws, and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator … That’s what the Iranian government believes. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.’ This is a statement of totalitarian government. To Tim Kaine, the Declaration of Independence is ‘extremely troubling.'” [editor’s note: As opposed to “rights come from Mark Lewis’s whims … – TLK] (09/09/25)
“Nothing good will come of the chaos that has already been created by the Trump administration. In just a few months, it’s taken a wrecking ball to institutions, agencies, and programs. The administration has taken dramatic steps to: gut the federal work force; withhold billions of dollars in research grants intended to address health and a range of other scientific concerns; eliminate foreign aid programs and the entities that deliver them; dismantle governmental health institutions; slash programs that provide healthcare and food to the poor and disabled; wreak havoc in international trade relations by imposing, then withdrawing, then reimposing tariffs based on whim or personal vendetta; and create fear and panic in cities across the country …” (09/09/25)
“Iryna Zarutska, 23, had recently arrived in the United States from Ukraine and was ‘seeking safety from the war and hoping for a new beginning,’ according to her family. On August 22, she was looking at her phone on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, when the man sitting behind her stood up, pulled a knife out of his pocket, and stabbed her in the neck three times. ‘I got that white girl’, he can be heard saying over and over again. She was pronounced dead within minutes. Video of the attack, released Friday, made it seem like a random, senseless, unexplainable tragedy. It actually was the opposite. It was completely avoidable. The man charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, is a career criminal (a familiar term in America), with at least 14 previous arrests, including robbery and assault.” (09/09/25)
“Socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani would still beat Andrew Cuomo in the general election even if President Trump somehow cleared the field for a one-on-one match-up, according to a new poll published Tuesday. The sobering survey for ex-governor Cuomo has Mamdani still beating him — 48 to 44 — even if Mayor Eric Adams and GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa manage to get their names off the ballot, the poll from Siena Research/NY Times shows. ‘The big ‘if’ is what would happen if both Sliwa and Adams were to drop out of the race and make it a two-person showdown,’ said Siena director Don Levy. ‘Cuomo would capture the vast majority of both Adams’[s] and Sliwa’s current support and win a majority of voters over [age] 45. At present, Cuomo would need both Adams and Sliwa to drop out in order to close the gap’.” [editor’s note: The next question would be, if Cuomo dropped out, and it was Commdani (D) vs Guardian Angel founder Sliwa (R), how would that fare? – SAT] [additional editor’s note: My guess would be Mamdani 80, Sliwa 20 – TLK] (09/09/25)
“Scientists have discovered a gamma ray explosion outside our galaxy that’s not only exceptionally powerful, but also long-lasting. Telescopes on Earth and in space — including Hubble — have teamed up to study the unique explosion of high-energy radiation first observed in July. Astronomers reported Tuesday it’s unlike anything they’ve witnessed before. The repeated bursts of gamma rays were detected over the course of a day, according to scientists. That’s highly unusual since these kinds of bursts normally last just minutes or even milliseconds — rarely no more than a few hours — as dying stars collapse or are torn apart by black holes. Scientists said such a long and recurrent gamma ray explosion is puzzling — a cosmic whodunit, at least for now. More observations are needed to confirm its precise whereabouts. The European-led team announced its findings in the Astrophysical Journal Letters in August.” (09/09/25)
“Becca Kelly Slaughter, a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission, got her job back last Wednesday. She immediately requested a vote to restore the FTC’s ‘click to cancel’ rule, which would make it easier to end recurring subscriptions. On Friday, she issued a dissent in the FTC’s decision to stop defending its ban on employee noncompete agreements in federal court. In just a few days, she had fulfilled the mission of the agency of protecting workers and consumers. So by Monday, she was out of a job again. U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts, in a perverse ruling at odds with a 90-year-old direct precedent, issued a stay of a D.C. district court’s order reversing the illegal firing of Slaughter by President Trump earlier this year. This effectively allows Trump to fire Slaughter for now, pending ongoing review of the case.” (09/09/25)
