Yemen, 10-12-26

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Links to six reports: from the Associated Press, Middle East Eye, Middle East Monitor, and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down for today’s IRAN and GAZA, and for YEMEN 10-8-26.) — MCM

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Saudi Arabia responds to drone and cruise missile attacks, and other Mideast developments. From AP.  Saudi forces have responded to a drone and cruise missile attack on the Kingdom from Yemen, according to state-run media. Meanwhile, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said airstrikes  on two districts in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa and in the country’s north killed 10 people and wounded 19 others. Report with photos is HERE. A second from AP is HERE. Other AP news from the Middle East is HERE. Click HERE for AP reports in Spanish. Click HERE and HERE for Oct. 11 and 12 reports from Middle East Eye and Middle East Monitor.

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Iran offers to mediate as Saudi-Houthi conflict escalates. From Middle East Eye. Iran has urged Saudi Arabia to avoid a military approach and pursue a political solution to its escalating conflict with Yemen’s Houthi group, offering to help facilitate dialogue after deadly attacks on Saudi airports intensified regional tensions. READ MORE.

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Saudi energy conference loses Shell, Exxon, BP execs amid Yemeni strikes. From the Cradle. Several top energy executives were dropped from the schedule of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing WPC Energy Congress in Riyadh today, as the kingdom insists on holding the conference despite the threat to the capital posed by the Ansarallah-led Yemeni Armed Forces. READ MORE.

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Iran, 10-12-26

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Links to reports from the Cradle, Middle East Monitor, and Middle East Eye; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up or down for today’s YEMEN and GAZA, and down for IRAN 10-5-26.) — MCM

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Tehran calls U.S. partial concessions to Iranian conditions ‘inadequate.’ From the Cradle. A top Iranian official on Sunday dismissed as “inadequate”Washington’s partial concessions regarding Tehran’s conditions for resolving the ongoing war. READ MORE.  Click HERE for report from Middle East Monitor.

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Iran offers to mediate as Saudi-Houthi conflict escalates. From Middle East Eye. Iran has urged Saudi Arabia to avoid a military approach and pursue a political solution to its escalating conflict with Yemen’s Houthi group, offering to help facilitate dialogue after deadly attacks on Saudi airports intensified regional tensions. READ MORE.

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Gaza, 10-12-26

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Links to reports from  the Cradle and Middle East Monitor; others are accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll up for today’s YEMEN and IRAN, and down for GAZA 10-9-26.) — MCM

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Israel expands occupation, strikes in Gaza on first anniversary of U.S. ‘ceasefire.’ From the Cradle. Israeli occupation forces expanded their presence in Gaza and escalated their bombing of the besieged strip on Sunday, coinciding with the one-year anniversary of U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called ceasefire, which has seen Tel Aviv continue genocide and kill nearly 1,500 Palestinians. READ MORE.

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Israeli soldiers say ordered to drop heavy bombs on inhabited Gaza buildings without evacuation: report. From Middle East Monitor. Four Israeli military intelligence soldiers acknowledged they received instructions to use “heavy bombs” against inhabited buildings in the Gaza Strip without evacuating residents first, in strikes that killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians, according to a media report today. READ MORE.

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All of it, 10-11-26

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Links to a discussion from Consortium News, a program from 21st Century Wire, and a report from the Associated Press; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down for today’s ALL OF IT 10-7-26.) — MCM

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The World This Week – ‘Russia to the rescue?’  Joe Lauria of CN hosts former CIA analyst Joe McGovern and Patrick Hennigsen of 21st Century Wire for two-hours of talk on topics including  * Columbus Day 1983, * President Trump’s state of mind, * the Europeans, * a geopolitical “isosceles triangle, * the 2014 Maidan coup, * Minsk accords 1 and 2 in 2014 and 2015, * nuclear threats and the paradox of international law, * Presidents Trump and Netanyahu at the UN, * the Israel lobby in the United States, * “our mainstream press,” * Netanyahu in extremis, * the Epstein files, * the Ivania Trump / Jared Kushner marriage, * the U.S. weapons inventory, * Nobel Peace Prize to jurist Navi Pillay of South Africa, * public executions in the U.S., * “Where the hell is the Church?” * Tulsi Gabbard, * Joe Kent, * U.S. consulting firms and the French government, * Spain and Pedro Sanchez, and  * Russia and “the long game.”  Click HERE for subtitled video, print intro and comments.

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Sunday Wire Episode 616 — Zelensky’s diesel downfall + Hegseth’s ‘holy war’ firing squad. From 21st Century Wire. Patrick Henningsen reviews and comments on some of the events of last week in a 90-minute monologue, followed by other material. Click HERE for three-hour video.

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FROM OCT. 8  Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, by Konstantin Toropin, Eric Trucker and Claudia Lauer | AP  WASHINGTON — The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being “public.” Click HERE for report including photos.

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Heinberg, 10-10-26

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Links to Richard Heinberg’s final Museletter (#400), to an obituary, and to an interview: from richardheinberg.com, the Press Democrat, and the KunstlerCast. (Scroll down or click HERE for HEINBERG 4-30-26.

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FROM APRIL 2026  As America turns 250, its attention to continued survival fades and fractures, by Richard Heinberg | richardheinberg.com / Post Carbon Institute  United States politicians, even Democratic ones, no longer mention climate change, according to a recent report by Grist. Evidently, after their 2024 election losses, Democrats concluded that global warming isn’t a winning issue. Their calculus is . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM c. JULY 21  Richard Heinberg, 1950-2026. Obituary from the Press Democrat. Richard Heinberg, world renowned author and educator, musician, artist, and husband to Janet, passed away on July 19, 2026 at the age of 75 to pancreatic cancer. He was the award-winning author of fourteen books and known the world over as an expert on sustainability issues. READ MORE . . .

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FROM AUGUST 2013  ‘Snake Oil’: Heinberg on the great shale snooker. James Howard Kunstler of the KunstlerCast talks on Episode 241 with Richard Heinberg about his book Snake Oil: How Fracking’s False Promises of Plenty Imperil Our Future. Heinberg is also the author of the peak oil primer The Party’s Over and other books about the converging dilemmas of our time, including Peak Everything and The End of Growth. He was a founder and senior fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. Click HERE to listen.

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Gaza, 10-9-26

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Links to reports from Middle East Eye and Reuters, and to an editorial from the Boston Globe; other published material is accessible by clicking on their names. (Scroll down today’s WEST BANK, and for GAZA 10-6-26.) — MCM

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Israel kills eight in Gaza as families forced to flee homes. From Middle East Eye. Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today as they issued fresh expulsion orders in several areas, according to local reports. READ MORE . . .

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Palestinians set to delay legislative elections due to worsening conditions, letter says, by John Irish | Reuters  PARIS — Palestinian Vice President Hussein ‌Al Sheikh has informed ​France that a Palestinian ​legislative election planned for Nov. 28 will be postponed, possibly until September 2027, because of worsening conditions throughout the Palestinian territories, according to a letter seen by Reuters. READ MORE . . .

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FROM OCT. 7  Israel needs a thorough investigation of Oct. 7. Editorial in the Boston Globe.  At a cere­mony on Monday, Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Net­an­yahu of Israel pro­claimed that the work of aven­ging the bru­tal Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas inva­sion of Israel was not fin­ished. “Every­one who was involved in the attack against us,” he said, “every­one who . . . READ MORE . . .

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West Bank, 10-9-26

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A link to a report from Middle East Eye; other published material is accessible by clicking on its name. (Scroll up for today’s GAZA, and down for WEST BANK 9-28-26.) — MCM

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Almost 20 Israeli settler attacks target Palestinians in day of mass violence. From Middle East Eye. At least 19 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians were recorded by midday today, according to field reports, in a wave of violence across the occupied West Bank. READ MORE . . .

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Ukraine, 10-8-26

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A link to a report from the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on its name or initials. (Scroll down for today’s YEMEN, and for UKRAINE 10-7-26.) — MCM

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Strike on Ukrainian public buses leaves 30 dead as blackouts worsen in Kyiv, by Hanna Arhirova | AP  KYIV — Thirty people were killed and at least 18 were wounded after a powerful Russian guided bomb exploded next to public buses filled with passengers in eastern Ukraine, authorities said today, as an intensive pre-winter wave of attacks continued across the country and power outages worsened in the capital, Kyiv. Report including photos is HERE. Same AP report in Spanish is HERE; others are HERE.
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Yemen, 10-8-26

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Links to four reports: from the Associated Press and the Cradle; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll up for today’s UKRAINE, and down for YEMEN 10-6-26.) — MCM

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Houthis claim new attack against airport in Saudi capital as witness reports evacuation, by  Toqa Ezzidin and Cara Anna | AP  CAIRO — Several explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh today, including a large blast at the city’s international airport, a witness said, a day after the kingdom said an attack on the airport killed one person and wounded others. Report including map is HERE. Same AP report in Spanish is HERE, and others are HERE. Three reports from the Cradle are HERE, HERE and HERE.
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All of it, 10-7-26

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First, links to reports from National Public Radio and the Associated Press; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials. (Scroll down for today’s UKRAINE and GAZA so far, and for ALL OF IT 10-6-26.) — MCM

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Thousands protest in France to support students calling for more resources in schools. | NPR  In France, hundreds of thousands rallied nationwide on Tuesday to support high school students demanding more education funding. Click HERE to listen and, later, read. Click HERE and HERE for a second NPR report and Oct. 6 video from AP.

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