USA - The Pentagon is planning for its major military installations across the United States to be able to operate off-grid for at least 90 days without relying on civilian power grids, external fuel, or water supplies, its chief spokesman confirmed on October 25. Parnell said he created FORTRESS America “because we can no longer rely on two oceans to protect us.” “That outdated assumption no longer reflects the threats we face,” he said. “We don’t want to rely on standard civilian municipal infrastructure to run our national defense. We just simply can’t. It’s an intolerable risk,” Parnell told Fox News. “Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures.”

EUROPE - The streets may eventually fall silent, but the struggle over who governs, who pays and what survives is only beginning. These days, European headlines resemble reports from a war zone: from stormed city halls in Marseilles and Lille, to looted boutiques along the French Riviera, burned tourist offices in Lyon, and clouds of tear gas enveloping the Élysée Palace. The ‘day of rage’ in France drew over 800,000 protesters onto the streets – an event that was dismissed by Paris and the European mainstream as merely the “spontaneous revolt of the outskirts” or a “raid by migrants.” However, a closer look at the ‘rebels’ reveals respectable, bourgeois-looking students and well-off citizens engaging in destruction and violence. None of these people know what to expect from the future of mainstream European politics. In this shifting landscape, old institutions are losing their legitimacy, while right-wing political forces – whose ideas are increasingly seen as rational amid the chaos – are emerging on the broader European stage.

USA - Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail. What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.

GERMANY - German Federal Police recorded 98,026 crimes at train stations and on trains in the first half of 2026, with foreign nationals substantially overrepresented among identified suspects in violent, property and sexual offenses relative to their share of the population. In the crime of sexual offenses, foreigners represented 53 percent of suspects. The figures, provided by the Interior Ministry in response to a parliamentary inquiry from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) group, exclude high-volume offenses such as fare evasion. They include roughly 14,000 violent crimes, 1,104 sexual offenses, about 24,000 property crimes, approximately 16,000 cases of property damage, nearly 4,500 drug offenses, and 796 weapons offenses, according to German newspaper Berliner Zeitung. For sexual offenses, 53 percent of known suspects were non-German, with Syrians, Poles and Afghans again ranking highest.

UK - As you travel the highways and byways of Britain in the coming days, a grotesque phenomenon will become apparent: for some unfathomable reason, millions of our fellow citizens have seen fit to adorn the exteriors of their homes (and, Lord knows, their interiors too) with gaudy plastic replicas of ghouls, ghosts, cobwebs, skeletons and other synthetic spectral motifs of the undead.

USA - Red-Green Alliance is two groups who hate each other a little less than they hate us. Muslims fighting the patriarchy. Queers for Palestine. The contradictions only make sense when we realize the alliance is built on a common enemy, not common goals. They despise each other’s doctrines. Marxists treat religion as opium for the masses and view any faith that rejects gender ideology or “LGBTQIA+ supremacy” as a threat that must be outlawed. Islamists treat free thought and expression as heresy the moment it collides with Sharia. One side wants to abolish God. The other wants to enforce Allah’s law by the sword. One celebrates the very things the other would execute people for. Yet they march together because they hate Western society, America, and Christianity more than they hate each other.

ISRAEL - Could we soon witness nuclear war in the Middle East? Benjamin Netanyahu seems to think so. I realize that what I have to share in this article is not pleasant to think about, but the truth is that we are far closer to an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East than most people think. The US and Israel are going to start striking Iran again very soon. It probably won’t happen until after the midterm elections in the United States, but it is coming. As you will see below, Iran is threatening to respond with overwhelming force if the US and Israel attack. In fact, we are being warned that Iran intends to make Israel uninhabitable in less than one hour. Needless to say, that cannot be accomplished with conventional weapons. If Iran uses unconventional weapons against Israel, the Israelis will break out their own unconventional weapons. We really are on the brink of the unimaginable, but hardly anyone seems to realize it.

EUROPE - France is working with 10 other European nations to expand its capacity as a nuclear weapons power on the continent and a deterrent to Russian aggression as Europe's faith in the US's commitment to its security wanes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday morning. The 'forward deterrence' plan involves the creation of new infrastructure, communications, early-warning and intelligence-sharing links with France's allies as well as deployments of French nuclear-enabled Rafale jet fighters across Europe. The UK, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have all joined the project with varying degrees of involvement since French President Emmanuel Macron announced it in March. The plan comes as faith in the US's willingness to defend Europe wanes.

IRAN - Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote in Hebrew on his social media account that any action against Iran's security and national interests would make the occupied territories uninhabitable in less than an hour. "Know that in the event of any action against our security and national interests, making the occupied territories uninhabitable will take less than an hour," Azizi stressed.

SAUDI ARABIA - A Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia’s second busiest airport threatens to drag Britain deeper into another conflict in the Middle East. On October 10, a missile strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport caused an explosion that killed 13 people and injured 308 in the deadliest attack on the Gulf state in more than a decade. Wes Streeting, the Defence Secretary, labelled the attacks “despicable” and announced that the UK would deploy RAF Typhoon fighter jets to the kingdom to help defend Saudi airspace from drones and missiles. Analysts say London is likely to deepen assistance further if the attacks continue.