Fernando Cerimedo. A name that unless you follow Latin America closely, you likely have never heard.

He’s been called “MAGA’s man” in Latin America. And he is at the heart of a shocking scandal that includes “attempted femicide,” election rigging, fake news, disinformation and powerful political ties to far-right presidents across Latin America, and even the White House, under Donald Trump.

It’s big news in Latin America, even though it’s been largely under the radar in the United States, until now.

The scandal has dire implications for the legitimacy of elections up and down the Americas, including elections where U.S. president Donald Trump has been throwing his weight around over the last year. Elections where right-wingers have won close, but shocking victories. And big elections are coming up in Brazil and elsewhere.

This is Episode 14 of Under the Shadow, Season 2.

Under the Shadow is an investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time, telling the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. Season 2 responds in real time to the Trump administration’s onslaught on Latin America.

Follow Under the Shadow on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Hosted by Latin America-based journalist Michael Fox.

This podcast is produced in partnership between The Real News Network and NACLA.

It is supported, in part, by Global Exchange.

Theme music by Michael Fox’s band, Monte Perdido. Monte Perdido’s 2024 album Ofrenda is available on Spotify, Deezer, Apple Music, YouTube or wherever you listen to music.

Other music from Blue Dot Sessions and Epidemic Sound.

Script editing by Heather Gies. Hosted, written, produced, mixed, and edited by Michael Fox.

Guests: 

• Jake Johnston
• Maria Martha Bruno

Resources: 

• Progressive International’s Investigation into Fernando Cerimedo — How to Steal a Hemisphere: Fernando Cerimedo and the Heist of Latin American Democracy
• Facebook não barra anúncios com desinformação sobre eleições brasileiras
• You can visit Agencia Public for their reporting and analysis about Brazil. 
• Here is Agencia Publica’s investigación, Digital Militia. 
• Many thanks to Jake Johnston from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Maria Martha Bruno, from Agencia Publica, for taking the time to speak with me and for their excellent analysis and insight.
• You can visit CEPR’s Live Tracker on Latin America.
• You can check out Michael Fox’s Patreon.
• More background… 
• The Beginning: Monroe and migration | Under the Shadow, Episode 1
• Panama. US Invasion. | Under the Shadow, Episode 13
• The legacy of Monroe | Under the Shadow, Bonus Episode 4 

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It is rarely a good sign when European politicians open their speeches by quoting Charles Dickens. So alarms should have sounded the moment European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared this to be the best and the worst of times at the start of her State of the European Union address on September 16.

Things went downhill from there: the EU leader painted a picture of the region that stands in complete contrast to the general experience of its people, amounting to a summary of the bloc’s worst achievements.

“Von der Leyen has achieved the feat of not mentioning a single measure to help Europeans cope with the soaring cost of living across Europe, at a time when an ever-growing number of people are now forced to choose between housing, food and transport,” said Manon Aubry, Co-President of The Left in the European Parliament.

“Fiscal sustainability” and concern for businesses

In the lengthy address, von der Leyen laid out what she considered the EU’s successes, including raising military spending by almost 80% over the past five years and “reducing dependence” on Russian fossil fuels. However, this interpretation does not correspond to what people are experiencing, as outlined by The Left in a dedicated dossier. Growing military spending benefits only the arms industry. And attempts to replace cheaper Russian gas have essentially boiled down to committing to more expensive and environmentally devastating US LNG imports.

While recognizing growing energy prices, von der Leyen offered no tangible response to this problem plaguing EU households. On the other hand, she demonstrated notable concern for businesses, signaling the continuation of eroding labor and environmental protections along the lines implemented by right and far-right parties at the EU level.

Read more: Peter Mertens: “Don’t be afraid, seize the opportunities of 2026 with both hands”

The likelihood of maintaining the status quo was also noticeable when von der Leyen turned to the deadly wildfires that hit Europe this summer, devastating communities from Belgium and France to Spain and Greece. Trade unions and progressive analysts have warned for years that fire preparedness is severely impaired by a lack of planning and, specifically, shortages of firefighters. Yet there was no commitment in the address to invest more in essential public service workers. Instead, the EC President referred to the ongoing need for overall “fiscal sustainability” – meaning Europeans should expect no relief from austerity programs.

“The best of times is clearly reserved for billionaires, multinational energy companies, and war profiteers,” remarked Member of the European Parliament Marc Botenga from the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA). “The other side of the coin for workers: austerity and rising prices.”

The EU’s failed foreign affairs policy

Based on the vision tabled by von der Leyen, there is also little to look forward to in Europe’s international and trade policy. “It’s hard to think of an area where the EU has been more inactive and less effective than in foreign affairs,” The Left wrote, referring to the union’s ongoing disregard of international law in relation to the genocide in Gaza and its approach to the Trump administration. 

“The President has praised Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, she has stood with Trump as he bombed Tehran and the European Commission has sided with the USA as they brought the global economy to a standstill in the Strait of Hormuz,” the progressive bloc warned.

The EU’s relationship with the US has continued to be one of submission, with elected regional leaders going to great lengths (unsuccessfully) to appease Donald Trump. Even when the region announced it would stand firm against US threats – in Greenland or on tariffs – this did not translate into practice.

In the context of von der Leyen’s speech, this boiled down to announcing Canada would become the “first associate member of the EU” and listing trade agreements signed with India, Mercosur, and Indonesia – met by the people of these countries with understandable concern.

Read more: Indian left opposes free trade agreement with EU, calls it “wholesale surrender” of country’s economic interests

Von der Leyen’s speech showed no sign of breaking with disdain towards nations outside the West. In addition to continuing animosity toward China, it offered a glimpse into plans involving countries rich in critical materials. The EC President announced the launch of a European Corporation on Critical Raw Materials – designed to secure and stockpile supplies for Europe’s industry and defense – with obvious implications for mineral-rich territories like Ukraine, Greenland, and several African countries. For the more skeptical listeners, this also carried weird echoes of the East India Company.

The State of the EU’s vision, it goes without saying, comes with further promises of an even stricter migration framework – on the pretext of situations like the one experienced in Ceuta earlier this year – that allow the erosion of basic human rights like asylum. Von der Leyen’s speech pledged even more finances for Frontex and suggested that outsourcing migration enforcement to third countries will continue, as endorsed by recent EU legislation.

“This policy of externalizing migration control has contributed to grave human rights violations, arbitrary detentions and systematic violence against people on the move,” The Left warned, calling for a union rooted in solidarity rather than violence and militarization.

This article was originally published by Truthout on Sept. 15, 2026. It is shared here under a  Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

If you are in San Francisco trying to follow the goings-on in your neighborhood or within city hall, you may have come across The Dissent. The website brands itself as “an AI newsroom” with work “reported, edited, and produced by named agents.” Its founder and publisher Dakota Carrasco — a real person, and, incidentally, an analyst at the notorious investment firm BlackRock — published text on the site’s “about” page saying, “Local journalism has been quietly consolidated and hollowed out.” Carrasco’s statement did not note the role of Carrasco’s own industry in that decline, nor did it acknowledge the irony in choosing this name for a website based on a technology that steals and repackages the intellectual output of others.

The Dissent’s website, which currently appears to be down, even included a masthead with bios for its non-human “staff” (the AI agents whose names appear alongside articles). Neighborhood “reporter” Casey Wong (who is not a real person) has a bio that reads, “I notice the texture of a block — who’s been here 30 years, who’s just moved in.” Of course, there’s no mention of how an AI agent might glean that information, but (actual) news outlet Mission Local has noted that, to fill its pages, The Dissent relies heavily on summarizing the work published in other sites by real human journalists.

Once, The San Francisco Standard reported, The Dissent did appear to follow up on a tip in a Reddit thread to break a story about a business closing, but “the agent appears to have hallucinated the claim that it had reached out to the owner for comment.”

The development of an AI newsroom in San Francisco, which is home to many of the tech billionaires attempting to reshape society, is certainly concerning for those of us who care about journalism. But The Dissent is not the only news outlet to have tried using AI to crib the journalism of real human workers. These AI newsrooms get a decent share of attention, and their harms are critical to point out. But they are also part of a broader problem: the undermining of how we share and receive factual information.

Earlier this year, Google made an announcement that could further destabilize the already precarious journalism industry by using its infamous search feature to prioritize AI summaries from Google Gemini, rather than directing people toward external links to news outlets like ours.

You might not have noticed the deep scale of this change, but you probably have noticed what writer Cory Doctorow refers to as the “enshittification” of Google search — the preponderance of spam, the push toward sponsored results, and the overwhelming sense that the internet no longer works the way it once did.

On June 9, when we sounded the alarm about the increased AI implementation within Google’s search function and the suppression of journalism that would surely result, it was too early to know exactly how much these changes would impact Truthout. Google had announced the changes on May 19 and we were still collecting data.

Before the change, our traffic from Google was 27 percent of our overall traffic: Exactly 2,604,280 people visited Truthout via Google in 2025. Given our experience with Facebook traffic abruptly declining by 90 percent in 2018, following sudden changes in the social media platform’s algorithm (including for example, Facebook’s decision to no longer regularly show Truthout’s posts to the more than 800,000 people who had followed Truthout’s page out of a desire to see them), it seemed reasonable to worry about losing as much as half our Google traffic. In our June op-ed, we wrote, “If even half of that 27 percent disappears, it will have a devastating impact on our journalism.”

At the time, we were hopeful that it wouldn’t be that bad. After all, wasn’t Google’s motto, “Don’t be evil”?

We later learned, however, that Google has quietly stepped back from its infamous motto, even removing it from the opening lines of its Code of Conduct while its parent company, Alphabet, Inc., ignores it entirely.

We now have three full months of data since Google’s change, and the numbers are worse than we anticipated. Overall readership that comes to Truthout through Google is down 54 percent against last year. The number of new readers who discover Truthout via Google searches is down 49 percent, and returning users from Google are down 51 percent.

We lost 15 percent of our readership overnight. This was a readership we painstakingly built over decades, and it vanished because Google chose corporate greed over a healthy democracy.

At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone.

We know Truthout is not the only news organization taking a massive hit amid Google’s abrupt decision to prioritize showing internet users AI summaries instead of relevant news articles. Our peers in independent media and beyond — including among grassroots base-building organizations that depend on traffic — are struggling to stay above water.

As we wrote when Google’s AI changes were first announced, nobody wants this. People have overwhelmingly said they’d rather not get their news through an AI chatbot, and they recognize that there’s a pretty good chance the information they get from chatbots is not accurate. In fact, U.S. voters dislike AI as a whole, poll after poll has found. But Big Tech is increasingly treating its users as potential sites of profit and subjects to be managed, rather than people looking for the information they need to function as informed members of society. And they’re able to get away with it because, for so long, the importance of factual information and the people who ensure we have access to it have both been devalued by our political and economic systems.

The repercussions of this devaluation become more relevant by the day. As people try to find and share truthful, accurate information about the many crises that have been unleashed on us — foodborne disease outbreaks, vaccine science, disasters induced by the climate crisis, and immigration policing raids in their communities, for starters — they may be greeted with a torrent of loose facts or outright disinformation. Corporate news outlets and those owned by billionaires have repeatedly shown their willingness to capitulate to Donald Trump. Paywalls and subscriptions, which some outlets need in order to survive, mean that critical reporting is put behind a fence. A dystopian infringement on our access to information isn’t just some looming threat — we’re actively living through it.

Journalism has always been a crucial node of democratic practice; after all, how can we make decisions about what our society should look like if we don’t actually know the facts of what’s happening around us?

The AI-ification of news is making that increasingly clear. When AI “news outlets” and AI summaries are not busy plagiarizing real journalists, they are often instead regurgitating information from company press releases.

Is this the future of news that we imagine? Can we trust a website created by a BlackRock analyst to accurately report on the company that employs him? Can we trust Google’s AI search to accurately tell us about privacy controversies concerning Gmail, or about safety ratings for Google-owned Waymo self-driving cars? Limiting our avenues for finding accurate, factual information is a real threat to democracy.

Yet we are rapidly tunneling toward that future. Searches on Google for the term “Google Zero” have increased by 190 percent. The term, coined by tech journalist Nilay Patel in 2024, imagines a time when Google acts solely as a direct answer machine instead of an index of the web. Using Google’s own tools to analyze Truthout’s traffic, we can see that traffic from Google is currently at “Google 46,” meaning that we’re now seeing only 46 percent of our pre-AI Google traffic numbers.

We’ve seen the way tech companies’ devaluation of journalism has impacted our ecosystem in the past. Eight years ago, Facebook made up over 40 percent of Truthout’s traffic. Over the last decade we’ve seen that number decline to under 3 percent — not because the urgency or professionalism of our journalism decreased in any way, but because Facebook decided to stop showing our articles to the people who had expressly signed up to read them. We know from our experience with Facebook that once democracy and journalism are in the crosshairs of corporate greed, circumstances only get worse. We fully expect to be staring down Google Zero in the next couple of years.

Given these mounting, overlapping AI crises, how can we take action? We’re the first to admit that sometimes, this issue can seem so overwhelming and all-encompassing that one’s first reaction is an assumption of inevitability. That line of thought goes: AI (even in its most damaging forms) is here to stay, so we must simply get used to it. However, this mindset is exactly what tech companies are counting on to fuel the AI takeover. Rejecting it is the first step to pushing back.

When it comes to Google Search and Google’s default reliance on AI summaries for news and information, a full recognition of the inadequacy and danger of the problem is urgently necessary. An AI summary drawn from a few mainstream sources — plus Reddit, Wikipedia, and corporate press releases — will inevitably leave out crucial truths and perspectives, particularly those of marginalized and oppressed groups, resistance movements, independent and firsthand sources, and those critical of the tech companies responsible for AI’s harms. Similarly, relying on Meta-promoted posts for the latest on what’s going on in the world places a crucial lever of democracy — our ability to read, process, and discern current events — firmly in the hands of the algorithm (and, thus, mega-powerful corporations).

What might a broad and honest recognition of these realities lead to? We imagine it might lead to a different way of reading the news: one that won’t look entirely unfamiliar. What if, instead of relying on notifications and scrolling, we returned to bookmarking our favorite news sites and reading their homepages each morning?

What if we discerningly subscribed to trusted news sources, whether over email or in print, and read their publications as a first-line route to information? What if we took care to read whole articles (not just headlines or quick videos) and then shared them with friends, accompanied by our own thoughts?

It wasn’t long ago that these were standard practices for many of us in left and progressive circles. A mass return to longer, slower, more reflective reading is possible, and we can each consider our capacity to take it on, individually and among our circles of friends and colleagues.

This might also require us to take a critical look at our engagement with, and reliance on, influencers — including on the left. According to the American Press Institute, “More than half of all American teenagers and adults (57 percent) now report getting news and information from influencers at least sometimes, and fully 81 percent of those ages 13-17 report getting news and information from influencers.”

We don’t need to renounce our dependence on the thoughts and analysis of leftist social media icons we trust, but we do need to recognize that their information comes from somewhere: They draw from journalism — which generally comes from independent publications and news organizations that are staffed and resourced — in order to provide their commentaries. If the journalistic sources for influencers’ facts disappear, thanks to lost traffic and revenue, what are we left with?

For individual readers, foundations, and concerned policy makers, the mandate in this department is clear: Supporting independent journalism is key to maintaining both day-to-day knowledge of the world and factual sources for research, both of which are essential to democracy.

There’s no magical shortcut, no silver-bullet strategy that will solve the dire threats to our society’s informational infrastructure. Material support for journalism outlets is necessary now, particularly as online readership tumbles off an AI-shaped cliff.

Of course, individual readers play a crucial role here. For institutional funders and potential major donors, we believe it’s worth assessing how journalism fits into your portfolios, and why liberal and progressive funding for this indispensable democratic puzzle piece has been consistently slashed, even as the right wing unabashedly bankrolls its own media.

If we all recognize that we have a stake in the looming threats to independent journalism’s very existence, it shouldn’t only affect our individual reading choices; it should also drive us toward collective action. Fortunately, the possibilities for mass movements abound, as people around the country rise up against Big Tech companies through diverse and creative channels.

Environmental justice activists, Indigenous rights organizers, rural communities, and even disgruntled former Trump supporters are banding together to oppose data centers, and in many places, they’re winning.

Child advocacy groups and impacted teens and caregivers drove the push that resulted in last month’s massive win against Meta, in which the company is instructed to make sweeping changes to its addiction-driving practices.

Rank-and-file workers are challenging AI from a labor vantage, and pushing their unions to act.

As a backlash against generative AI has spread across social media, even the most dominant platforms have acquiesced to a few changes. Corporate accountability activists are sounding the alarm on Big Tech’s runaway political spending, and are calling for renewed efforts to overturn Citizens United and implement state-level reforms. The more we can plug into these resistance efforts, the less inevitable an AI-dominated future becomes.

Finally, let’s allow ourselves to access our outrage at the injustice wrought by tech companies’ attacks on our rights, humanity, and any vestiges of remaining democracy. A recent study by Social Change Lab found that when it comes to AI, “the emotion most strongly associated with action was not fear or anxiety, but anger.”

Every week brings a new encroachment of AI into our lives. This is terrifying, but it should also be motivating: We all have a stake in this struggle. Don’t let AI take over our search results or our lives without a fight.

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Les données exposées sont loin d’être anodines : identifiant de connexion, nom, prénoms, adresse électronique, date de naissance et identifiant unique du compte. Pour certains usagers peuvent s’y ajouter l’adresse postale, le lieu de naissance ou le numéro de téléphone. Le ministère précise en revanche que les pièces jointes et données biométriques ne font pas partie des informations dont la divulgation a été constatée à ce stade.

L’incident est particulièrement révélateur d’une administration devenue dépendante d’un portail numérique centralisé. Pour obtenir une carte grise, un permis ou effectuer certaines démarches liées aux titres d’identité, l’usager doit désormais passer par cette architecture numérique.

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Foreign-born suspects account for nearly three-quarters of sexual-crime arrests in Basque Country, official figures show

Official statistics released by the Basque regional police, the Ertzaintza, indicate that people born outside Spain made up 58.7 percent of all arrests in the first half of 2026 even though they represent 10.2 percent of the population. The disparity is sharper in several high-profile offense categories.

Of the 107 people detained for crimes against sexual freedom, 79 were born abroad, making up 74 percent of arrests in this category, according to data obtained by The Objective.

Foreign-born suspects also accounted for 73.3 percent of homicide arrests and 61.3 percent of those for causing injury.

The highest shares appeared in other offences: 94.7 percent of drunk-driving arrests (36 of 38), 79.6 percent of theft arrests (222 of 279), and 77.6 percent of robberies involving violence or intimidation (253 of 326).

The figures come from data the Basque Department of Security, which began publishing this data systematically at the end of 2025. Until then, the Ertzaintza routinely omitted the birthplace of detainees.

Security councillor Bingen Zupiria of the PNV said the change followed “tremendous pressure” from the Popular Party (PP) and Vox in the Basque parliament. Police unions supported the move as a contribution to “crime prevention.”

After that pressure, Zupiria stated, the department was forced to “change its criteria.” Arrests are now broken down first by continent and then by region, including North Africa, the rest of Africa, Latin America, or Europe.

The publication of these breakdowns ended a long-standing practice of withholding origin information that the Basque government said had created more confusion than clarity. Citizens, officials argued, have a right to see the actual composition of recorded crime.

Within the foreign-born group, those originating from North Africa are notable for their high offense rates.

They form roughly 1.8 percent of the Basque population yet accounted for 37 percent of homicide arrests, 24 percent of sexual-assault arrests, 64 percent of theft arrests, 48 percent of robberies with force, and 66 percent of violent robberies in the first six months of the year.

Suspects from the rest of Africa and from Latin America also appear over-represented in several categories of crimes against persons and property.

Overall arrests have been rising. The Ertzaintza recorded 6,903 in 2021 and 9,222 in 2025. The first half of 2026 already produced 5,050. If the pace continues, the year would end with a record of about 10,100.

Only the Basque and Catalan regional forces currently publish the origin of suspects to the general public. However, an internal document obtained earlier this year showed that, across Spain as a whole, foreigners accounted for 51 percent of daily arrests (527 of 1,033). The share was higher in Madrid (64 percent), Catalonia (71.8 percent) and Murcia (60 percent), close to the Basque figure of 59 percent.

Other research has shown that foreigners commit 500 percent more rapes than Spaniards and 400 percent more murders.

Prison data from the Basque Department of Justice for August 2026 shows 722 of the 1,967 inmates (36.7 percent) were foreign-born.

Among those under 25, the proportion rose to 65.9 percent, or two out of three.

The post Spain: 74% of sex-crime suspects are foreigners in Basque Country appeared first on Remix News.

A 30-year-old woman reported being raped Sunday night in the restrooms of a restaurant in Paris’s affluent 16th arrondissement. French police quickly arrested a 40-year-old Syrian-born suspect with Brazilian nationality after he fled the scene, according to French news reports citing sources close to the investigation.

The alleged assault occurred around 10:45 p.m, Sept. 13, at a restaurant on Avenue Kléber. Investigators said a man approached the woman inside the establishment, forcibly pulled her into the toilet stall and raped her. He then fled in a black Skoda with two other men, heading toward the Arc de Triomphe.

Officers from an anti-crime unit responded to the restaurant to gather descriptions of the suspect and the vehicle. The victim was taken to a hospital for medical examinations.

A patrol later spotted the car on Avenue des Champs-Élysées near the George V metro station and stopped it around 11:10 p.m. The main suspect was taken into custody.

The two other men in the car, both also born in Syria and aged 41 and 42, were brought to a police station for questioning.

The suspect is a 40-year-old man born in Syria who holds Brazilian nationality, Le Figaro reported, citing a source close to the case. The investigation was assigned to the 1st District of the Judicial Police.

French media described the account as a reported rape under investigation. No charges had been publicly detailed in the days immediately after the arrest, and the restaurant was not named in published reports.

The case drew rapid attention on social media after activist Claire Geronimi posted about it Monday, noting the suspect’s Syrian birthplace and framing the assault as part of a pattern of attacks on women.

“Another woman assaulted. Once again, the same questions that some stubbornly refuse to ask. Full support for this victim. We must be able to live, go out, and return home without fear,” she wrote on X.

Une femme de 30 ans violée dans les toilettes d’un restaurant à Paris.

Le suspect, âgé de 40 ans et né en Syrie, a été interpellé après avoir pris la fuite.

Encore une femme agressée. Encore une fois, les mêmes questions que certains refusent obstinément de poser.

Soutien… pic.twitter.com/XUB2aLETMY

— Claire Geronimi (@ClaireGeronimii) September 14, 2026

In a case that garnered national headlines, Geronimi was previously raped by an African suspect in Paris.

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A publicly owned hospital in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has fired a pediatric surgeon without notice after she ran unsuccessfully for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a neighboring state’s local elections.

Dr. Svetlana Spirina, a senior physician in pediatric surgery at Klinikum Lippe in Detmold, appeared on the AfD ticket for Osnabrück’s city council in Lower Saxony’s Sept. 13 vote. While she did not win a seat, the hospital, owned solely by the Lippe district, then dismissed her immediately, the clinic confirmed.

Detmold and Osnabrück are about 85 kilometers (53 miles) apart.

Hospital spokeswoman Mandy Lange declined to discuss the case, according to local German news outlet NOZ.

“We will not comment on the details for privacy reasons,” Lange said. The clinic, whose motto is “From person to person,” claims pediatric surgery operations have not been interrupted. However, this cannot be independently verified. Germany’s left has long claimed a shortage of doctor and medical staff as one justification behind mass immigration. Remix News has debunked this claim, noting that many of the hospital staff are being poached and taken from poorer countries across the world. At the same time, many of the foreign medical workers lack skills, use fake certifications to gain positions, and have grossly insufficient language skills.

In many cases, native Europeans are being aggressively turned away from the medical profession and educational opportunities in favor of foreign workers.

German politicians are spreading misleading information about Syrian doctors working in Germany.

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According to accounts of the dispute, Spirina denied AfD membership and her candidacy in a staff meeting after a pediatrician from the Münsterland region publicized the campaign in an open letter. Campaign material then disappeared from the AfD district association’s website and social media accounts.

District chairman Florian Meyer said he deleted the posts to shield the doctor from professional consequences, while expressing dismay at her public distancing.

In a biographical text she wrote about herself, Spirina said she had been an AfD member since 2023. She left the party shortly before the election, apparently under pressure from her employer.

Spirina received 408 votes, or 6.7 percent. That was not enough for a council seat. The AfD won 8.5 percent in Osnabrück and four seats.

Across Germany, AfD members and politicians have been targeted with professional consequences, including open threats. Many experts believe this harassment campaign is designed not only to strike fear but also to limit the pool of quality candidates the AfD can recruit as politicians.

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Mohammad S. was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison for striking killing twin brothers with his car while the brothers were traveling on an electric scooter. The 24-year-old convict also left their friend without a leg after dragging him. The verdict left the twins’ mother in tears as it was read.

The Frankfurt Regional Court convicted Mohammad S. of negligent homicide, negligent bodily harm and attempted murder. Judges also ordered him to pay the surviving rider €350,000 in compensation for pain and suffering, plus 5 percent interest.

Presiding Judge Anke Wagner said the panel saw remorse and despair in the defendant, according to Bild newspaper.

“It was a difficult task for us to find a just verdict,” Wagner said. “He has repeatedly made it clear how much he would like to undo everything.”

Prosecutors had sought eight years in prison. Defense lawyers asked for a two-year suspended sentence on charges of dangerous interference with road traffic and leaving the scene.

Duy Quang N. and Quang Minh N., both 23, had come to Frankfurt with a friend for a concert. Relatives described the twins as young men who “always went through life with a smile” and who had completed an apprenticeship in Hamburg. Both died after a car hit their e-scooter. Their companion, Hieu Trung H., 28, lost a leg.

According to the court, Mohammad S. was driving his father’s Toyota Corolla at about 2:30 a.m. on July 6, 2025, with three friends after the group had inhaled nitrous oxide on the banks of the Main River. On Mainzer Landstrasse, the Syrian-born defendant struck the twins, who were thrown 30 meters through the air. An expert said the car was traveling at up to 87 kph (54 mph) in a 50 kph (31 mph) zone.

“At a constant, excessive speed,” according to the indictment, the convicted man then hit Hieu Trung H., who was riding about six meters ahead. The friend’s head pierced the windshield. Prosecutors said he was dragged 70 meters and lost a leg.

Hieu Trung H. testified Wednesday from a wheelchair, his hands folded and his voice trembling. He said he had come to Germany to train as a nurse and first met the twins in Vietnam during a German course. The defendant sent him a letter of apology, which he accepted, though he asked to be moved in the courtroom because he could not look Mohammad S. in the eye.

“I can’t remember the accident. I was in a coma for almost two months, only then did the memories come back. When I woke up, I thought the other two were still alive. Suddenly, I felt that I had lost a leg, and I was in pain that nobody wants to experience in their life.”

He also told the court: “The pain of my friends’ deaths was worse.”

The crash changed him, he said. “I used to be a person who liked to talk.”

He said that he hardly talks anymore and mostly just wants to sleep.

His mother moved to Germany to care for him.

Surveillance video played at trial showed Mohammad S. continuing through the city after the collision, sparks flying from an e-scooter trapped under the Toyota for more than a kilometer. It was not immediately clear whether prosecutors or the defense would appeal.

Remix News has reported on numerous such incidents involving young foreigners hitting, maiming and killing drivers and pedestrians while traveling at high speeds on the road, often high on various drugs.

The Frankfurt sentence landed in the same week as another Hesse speeding case that has drawn similar anger.

In Offenbach, on Nov. 30, 2025, 32-year-old Edin D. drove a VW Golf through a 50 kph (31 mph) zone on wet Mühlheimer Strasse at extreme speed, with reports citing as high as 145 kph (90 mph).

After swerving around a car leaving a driveway, Edin D. crossed into oncoming traffic and hit an Audi A1.

The impact killed two women, 66 and 88, and 9-year-old Raksha, who had been riding with a neighbor on the way to church choir. Prosecutors called it murder and asked for life in prison.

On Sept. 9, 2026, the Darmstadt Regional Court instead convicted Edin D. of prohibited motor-vehicle racing causing death and sentenced him to seven years. The court said he acted with gross recklessness and accepted the risk, but it did not conclude the case was murder.

That verdict is not yet final.

Remix News also reported this week on another similar case of Ali A., who, due to his reckless driving, killed 33-year-old Dutch woman Elisabeth, who was pregnant at the time of her untimely death. Ali A. is accused of huffing anti-dust spray and fleeing the scene after killing the woman and her unborn baby. In that case, the prosecution only asked for eight months in prison.

Within this article, Remix News has also embedded numerous stories that show the same trajectory of events involving foreigners killing victims due to reckless driving. However, they represent only a small fraction of the stories Remix News has covered on this topic.

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A child protection activist, Dennis Engelmann, has filed a criminal complaint against a Berlin performance artist after a video circulated of the artist appearing only in his underwear while performing in front of children at a family festival at a left-wing venue.

Engelmann the complaint to Berlin police over Felix Baumann’s Sept. 6 appearance at ufaFabrik Boulevard 2026, a free outdoor street-art and environmental festival in the Tempelhof neighborhood. Police accepted the complaint and forwarded it to the responsible unit for review, Engelmann said.

Video of the incident has gone viral on X and other social media platforms.

This male artist danced half-naked in front of young children, in the German capital city of Berlin, during a family event.

A criminal complaint has now been filed against artist Felix Baumann, who has received significant taxpayer money for his performances.

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The festival, held on the grounds of the ufaFabrik cultural center, was advertised as entertainment for “young and old,” with a children’s circus, a children’s farm and other family programming. Baumann was listed at 3 p.m. on the covered outdoor stage, between a children’s circus act and other performances. His solo show “ha ha ha hi!” has been marketed at other venues as suitable for audiences ages six and up.

Engelmann said the recording showed children standing immediately in front of the stage. In comments to the weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit, he said Baumann’s act should be investigated.

“For me, a clear line has been crossed here,” Engelmann said. “I find not only the extremely revealing clothing, but especially parts of the dance movements and the demonstrative play with one’s own body to be obscene and sexualizing. And that’s right in front of children at a family event. This is neither child-friendly nor responsible. From a professional point of view, I consider this specific incident to be a risk to the child’s welfare.”

According to the complaint and subsequent accounts of the video, Baumann performed in underwear at points in the routine, moved through the audience and, while wearing a nightgown, pulled the garment down and exposed his nipples. Engelmann wrote that he was expressly requesting a criminal investigation of the documented facts.

Baumann, 34, is a freelance physical-theater, dance and contemporary circus artist based in Berlin. His website describes “ha ha ha hi!” as a one-man show blending dance, circus, physical comedy and object manipulation, built around a “mediocre comedian” trying and failing to tell a joke. Other presenters have billed the piece as roughly 45 minutes long and recommended it from age six.

The research that led to the production was supported by the German Performing Arts Fund with money from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Junge Freiheit reported that Baumann received a €7,500 research grant from that fund when Green Party politician Claudia Roth held the federal culture post, and that he has received additional public support. His professional résumé lists further federal arts funding in recent years.

ufaFabrik describes itself as a place of diversity for people of “all nationalities, religions and professions.” The venue also receives significant financial support from the state of Berlin. According to figures cited from the Senate Department for Finance, the center received more than €2 million in taxpayer funding between 2021 and 2023.

Engelmann said he sent detailed questions to both the venue and the artist and set a deadline of 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, for responses. As of Wednesday, neither Baumann nor ufaFabrik had issued a public statement addressing the complaint. Junge Freiheit reported that Baumann deleted his Instagram account after the performance drew widespread criticism online.

Filing a complaint does not mean prosecutors have opened a formal investigation or that any charge has been filed. Berlin police did not immediately comment on the status of the complaint.

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Alors que la SNCF retire en moyenne 25 trains par jour sur le RER D jusqu’à fin 2026, soit près de 5 % de l’offre, Valérie Pécresse missionne un expert pour « redresser » une ligne déjà condamnée par ses propres chiffres de ponctualité. Le voyageur, lui, continue de régler son Navigo au prix fort pour un service amputé, avec la promesse d’un dédommagement… début 2027.

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Le nouvel atelier de maintenance n’entrera en service qu’au premier semestre 2027. En attendant, la compagnie assume de supprimer « moins de 5 % des 560 trains » journaliers en trafic plein, tout en assurant maintenir l’offre aux heures de pointe.

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Une offre réduite pour faire fonctionner les trains restants

Depuis le 24 août, la SNCF a réduit la circulation du RER D. Sur certaines périodes, 27 trains ont été retirés du programme, et la réduction d’offre doit se poursuivre jusqu’à la fin de l’année. L’objectif affiché est de donner davantage de marge aux équipes de maintenance, notamment dans un contexte marqué par les travaux des ateliers, les difficultés liées au nouveau matériel RER NG et les fortes chaleurs de l’été.

Les chiffres de juillet 2026 parlent d’eux-mêmes : la ponctualité plafonne à peine au-dessus de 85 %, soit environ quatre points sous l’objectif fixé dans le contrat avec les opérateurs. Le RER D transporte pourtant plus de 630 000 voyageurs chaque jour.

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Cinq milliards investis… et une expertise en urgence

Le 1er septembre, Valérie Pécresse a annoncé une mission d’expertise indépendante, qui doit commencer en novembre. Son objectif : identifier les dysfonctionnements et construire avec Transilien SNCF Voyageurs et SNCF Réseau un plan d’action pour 2027-2028. L’ambition affichée est de gagner jusqu’à six points de ponctualité d’ici 2030. Île-de-France Mobilités annonce 5 milliards d’euros engagés sur la ligne, dont 3 milliards pour 132 rames RER NG. Entre-temps, le week-end des 12 et 13 septembre, le trafic a été totalement interrompu entre Gare du Nord et Gare de Lyon.

Dans un système concurrentiel, un opérateur qui retire 5 % de l’offre tout en facturant le plein tarif se verrait immédiatement sanctionné par le marché et par le client. Ici, le voyageur n’a d’autre recours que d’attendre que les élites régionales et ferroviaires se mettent d’accord sur un diagnostic qu’elles ont elles-mêmes produit. La facture, elle, est déjà réglée.

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En novembre 2018, le gazole était à 1,50 euro. Il est aujourd'hui à 2,312. Eric V. me demande s'il peut se passer quelque chose. La question est mal posée : ce n'est pas la colère qui a changé, c'est ce que l'État peut encore lui offrir. Controverse.

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Un litre de gazole coûte 2,312 euros, un litre de sans-plomb 95-E10, 2,133. À l'automne 2018, les seuils qui ont mis le pays sur les ronds-points étaient de 1,50 et 1,55. Nous sommes cinquante pour cent au-dessus, et l'on s'interroge encore sur l'éventualité d'un mouvement.

Des appels au samedi 17 octobre circulent depuis quinze jours. Le 11 septembre, un candidat à l'élection présidentielle a menacé d'appeler aux ronds-points si rien n'était fait ; la secrétaire générale de la CGT a parlé, le même jour, d'une « immense colère ». Les services de renseignement suivent. Rien de tout cela n'est un présage. La colère est une constante française ; elle ne prouve jamais rien par elle-même.

Ce qui a changé est ailleurs, et c'est une affaire de trésorerie.

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Ce que décembre 2018 a coûté, et pourquoi il ne peut pas se reproduire

En décembre 2018, le gouvernement a reculé. Il a suspendu la taxe, puis distribué. Il le pouvait : il empruntait à taux nul, et le prix du recul se payait en monnaie que personne ne comptait.

En 2022, la remise à la pompe et l'indemnité carburant ont coûté plus de huit milliards d'euros selon la Cour des comptes. C'était déjà cher. C'était encore possible.

Regardons maintenant l'état des lieux. La France emprunte à dix ans autour de 4,1 %, au taux le plus élevé depuis 2008. Huit milliards financés à ce prix représentent plus de trois cents millions d'euros d'intérêts par an, indéfiniment, pour un geste dont l'effet politique dure un trimestre. Le projet de loi de finances sera déposé le 30 septembre par un gouvernement sans majorité, auquel le Premier ministre a demandé le 14 septembre de maintenir les dépenses de l'État « strictement au même niveau » qu'en 2026, hors défense. On cherche déjà plusieurs milliards du côté des retraités.

Et le prix du carburant, lui, ne dépend plus de Paris. Le Brent a gagné vingt pour cent en un mois. L'Arabie saoudite a fermé le 11 septembre l'oléoduc par lequel elle contournait le détroit d'Ormuz, déjà bloqué depuis février. Le premier exportateur mondial n'a plus une route d'export à l'abri. Quand bien même un ministre voudrait geler les prix, il gèlerait une grandeur qui se forme à trois mille kilomètres de son bureau.

Voilà l'équation. Un pouvoir qui, en 2018, pouvait acheter la paix sociale, et qui ne le peut plus.

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L'objection, et elle est sérieuse

Eric V. soutient, dans ces mêmes colonnes et le même jour, qu'il n'y aura pas de nouveaux Gilets jaunes : la colère se serait déplacée de la place publique vers la sortie individuelle, un million cent soixante-cinq mille créations d'entreprises en 2025 valant mieux qu'un rond-point. L'argument est fort et je le prends comme tel. Il décrit quelque chose de vrai.

Il décrit surtout la sortie de ceux qui peuvent sortir.

La sécession suppose un métier transportable, un ordinateur, un carnet d'adresses,

Par Eric V.

Il y aura du monde le 17 octobre. Il n'y aura pas de Gilets jaunes. Et je voudrais expliquer pourquoi c'est la mauvaise nouvelle, pas la bonne. Cet article est en controverse avec celui de Thibault de Varenne sur le même sujet.

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Les appels circulent sur TikTok sous un hashtag qui dit assez l'ambition : gilets jaunes 2026. Le gazole est à 2,312 euros, le sans-plomb à 2,133. Un candidat à la présidentielle a promis le 11 septembre d'appeler aux ronds-points, une secrétaire générale de confédération a parlé d'« immense colère », et les services de renseignement, nous dit-on, suivent la chose avec attention.

L'excellent Thibault de Varenne en conclut, dans nos colonnes aujourd'hui même, que quelque chose vient. Je crois qu'il se trompe, et je vais dire sur quoi — après avoir dit sur quoi il a raison, ce qui est plus rare et plus utile.

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Ce que réclamait un rond-point

Il faut se souvenir de ce qu'était, au fond, la colère de 2018. C'était une colère de demande.

On montait sur le rond-point pour obtenir. Une taxe retirée. Un chèque. Un référendum d'initiative citoyenne. On y montait avec des cahiers, ce détail qu'on a trop vite jugé pittoresque et qui disait tout : on écrivait au roi. Et l'on n'écrit qu'à celui dont on attend encore quelque chose.

C'est là que je place la rupture. Ce qui s'est défait entre 2018 et aujourd'hui, ce n'est pas la colère : c'est l'adresse. Les gens ne se sont pas calmés. Ils ont cessé de croire qu'il y avait quelqu'un au bout du rond-point.

Et quand la voix ne sert plus, il reste la sortie. 1.165.800 créations d'entreprises en 2025, dont 758.600 sous le régime du micro-entrepreneur. Ce n'est pas un chiffre de prospérité : c'est un chiffre de désaffiliation. Des gens qui préfèrent se débrouiller seuls, avec un statut fiscal bancal et aucune protection, plutôt que de continuer à demander.

Cela porte un nom. Albert Hirschman l'avait établi il y a plus d'un demi-siècle : dans toute organisation qui décline, on a le choix entre la voix et la sortie, et les deux s'excluent. Celui qui part cesse de protester. Il cesse aussi, et c'est le point que la caste n'a pas vu, d'être négociable.

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Où Thibault a raison, et il faut le concéder

Thibault m'oppose que la sécession est un privilège de cadre : un métier

Par Élise Rochefort

Le 16 septembre 2026, le Parti socialiste a suspendu à titre conservatoire le député de l'Eure Philippe Brun. La commission d'organisation de la primaire ne l'a pas retenu parmi les candidats. Ils sont cinq : Olivier Faure, Raphaël Glucksmann, Jérôme Guedj, Emmanuel Maurel, Ségolène Royal. Le scrutin est prévu les 9 et 10, puis les 16 et 17 octobre. Philippe Brun avait annoncé sa candidature le 30 juin.

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Il est né le 16 octobre 1991 à Rouen. Il entre à Sciences Po Paris en 2009 et y obtient un master d'affaires publiques en 2014. Il sort d'HEC Paris en 2016. Il est admis à l'École nationale d'administration, promotion Georges Clemenceau, 2017-2018. Un arrêté du 25 février 2019 l'affecte au tribunal administratif de Montreuil comme magistrat. Il enseigne le droit public à Sciences Po.

Entre 2012 et 2014, il a été assistant parlementaire d'Axelle Lemaire, députée socialiste des Français établis hors de France. Il a ensuite rejoint la direction de la stratégie du groupe Engie. Les dates de ce passage n'ont pas été rendues publiques de façon précise.

En mars 2020, il conduit une liste aux élections municipales de Louviers, commune de l'Eure où il réside. Ingrid Levavasseur, figure nationale du mouvement des gilets jaunes, y figure. La liste obtient 18,23 % des voix, soit 819 suffrages. Il devient conseiller municipal d'opposition. Il conteste ensuite l'élection du maire devant le tribunal administratif.

En 2021, il fonde l'École de l'engagement, une formation politique gratuite destinée à faire entrer en politique des personnes qui n'y accèdent pas. En 2022, il participe à la campagne présidentielle d'Arnaud Montebourg, puis, après le retrait de celui-ci, à celle d'Anne Hidalgo. En juin 2022, il est élu député de la quatrième circonscription de l'Eure sous l'étiquette de la Nupes, succédant à Bruno Questel. Il est réélu en juillet 2024 sous celle du Nouveau Front populaire.

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La proposition de loi sur EDF

Le 27 décembre 2022, il dépose avec plusieurs collègues une proposition de loi visant à la nationalisation du groupe Électricité de France, enregistrée sous le numéro 671. Il en est le rapporteur devant la commission des finances.

Le 1ᵉʳ février 2023, la commission adopte un amendement dont il est l'auteur, sous-amendé par le député Les Républicains Raphaël Schellenberger. Cet amendement remplace, dans le titre du texte, les mots « nationalisation du groupe EDF » par les mots « protéger le groupe Électricité de France d'un démembrement ».

Le texte ainsi modifié est examiné en séance publique le 9 février 2023. Le scrutin donne 210 votants, 206 suffrages exprimés, 205 voix pour et 1 contre. L'Assemblée adopte. En deuxième lecture, le 4 mai 2023, le même texte recueille 127 voix pour et 89 contre. Philippe Brun en est alors rapporteur avec le député communiste Sébastien Jumel. La navette compte trois lectures dans chaque chambre.

La loi n° 2024-330 est promulguée le 11 avril 2024, sous le titre issu de la commission. Son article 1ᵉʳ modifie l'article L. 111-67 du code de l'énergie : les mots « plus de 70 % » y sont remplacés par le taux « 100 % ». Le seuil légal de détention du capital d'EDF par l'État passe de plus de 70 % à la totalité. Le mot a été retiré du titre. Le taux a été porté à cent.

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La Ligne populaire

En janvier 2023, Philippe Brun signe une tribune de quarante-cinq parlementaires soutenant la réélection d'Olivier Faure à la tête du Parti socialiste. En septembre 2024, il lance « La Ligne populaire », un mouvement qui se donne pour objet de réorienter la ligne du parti vers « ceux qui n'ont que leur travail pour vivre ». Il déclare alors ne pas vouloir constituer un courant. Au congrès de Nancy, du 13 au 15 juin 2026, son courant fusionne avec ceux de Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol et d'Hélène Geoffroy, qui s'opposent à Olivier Faure.

Le 7 janvier 2026, il annonce sa candidature à la mairie de Louviers. Au second tour, le 22 mars, sa liste obtient 45,10 % des voix et sept sièges sur trente-trois. Celle du maire sortant François-Xavier Priollaud, du MoDem, en obtient 46,79 % et vingt-cinq sièges. L'écart est de 160 voix.

Le 19 août 2026, il présente son programme économique, intitulé « Produire ». Il y propose le retour d'EDF à un monopole public, une baisse de la part de contribution sociale généralisée sur les salaires inférieurs à 4 000 euros mensuels, la création de cinq usines par département sur la durée d'un mandat, le rétablissement de l'impôt de solidarité sur la fortune et un alourdissement de la fiscalité des transmissions.

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La suspension

Le 16 septembre, Patrick Menucci, président de la commission d'organisation de la primaire, annonce la suspension et l'indique comme motif de l'écartement. Le terme retenu est « accusations de violence ». Il précise que « le mot sexuel n'a pas été prononcé ». Il ne caractérise pas autrement les faits.

Philippe Brun fait état de sa « stupeur ». Il déclare ignorer ce qui lui est reproché, n'avoir pas été entendu par les commissions du parti et avoir réuni l'ensemble de ses parrainages. Selon lui, une ancienne collaboratrice qu'il avait licenciée pour faute grave a saisi la direction du parti la veille à 23 h 50 de faits « pouvant être qualifiés pénalement ».

La nature des faits signalés n'a pas été rendue publique. Aucune juridiction n'a été saisie à la connaissance des parties à la date du 17 septembre. Une suspension à titre conservatoire est une mesure provisoire : elle interrompt l'exercice des droits attachés à l'adhésion le temps de l'examen, et ne préjuge pas de la décision au fond.

Il reste député de la quatrième circonscription de l'Eure. La primaire se tiendra sans lui.

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Le Washington Post a révélé le 15 septembre 2026 un projet de vente d'armement des États-Unis à Israël d'un montant d'environ 2,8 milliards de dollars. Il porte sur 40 000 bombes d'une tonne — 20 000 MK-84 et 20 000 BLU-117, variantes pénétrantes — auxquelles s'ajoutent 20 000 ogives I-2000. L'opération serait financée pour l'essentiel par le Foreign Military Financing, mécanisme par lequel le Trésor américain fournit à Israël les fonds servant à acheter du matériel américain. Il s'agirait de la plus importante vente de munitions de ce calibre depuis plusieurs années.

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Le régime applicable est la section 36 de l'Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. § 2776). Toute vente d'armement à Israël supérieure à cent millions de dollars doit être notifiée au Congrès quinze jours avant sa conclusion. Le texte autorise le président à écarter ce délai en informant le Congrès qu'« une urgence existe ». La procédure a déjà été employée sous l'administration actuelle : le secrétaire d'État a signé en 2025 une déclaration de ce type pour accélérer la livraison d'environ quatre milliards de dollars de munitions, puis pour une vente de plus de vingt mille bombes évaluée à quelque six cent cinquante millions.

Les comptes rendus disponibles divergent sur le point de savoir si la vente du 15 septembre a été notifiée selon la procédure ordinaire ou conclue au titre de l'urgence. Le sénateur Chris Van Hollen a annoncé son intention de rassembler une opposition à l'opération.

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Une possible complicité dans le génocide de Gaza ?

La complicité dans le génocide est prévue à l'article III, alinéa e, de la convention du 9 décembre 1948.

La Cour internationale de justice en a fixé le standard dans son arrêt Bosnie-Herzégovine c. Serbie-et-Monténégro du 26 février 2007. Une assistance ne peut être qualifiée de complicité que si l'auteur de cette assistance a agi en connaissance de l'intention spécifique — le dolus specialis, l'intention de détruire un groupe comme tel — de l'auteur principal. La fourniture de moyens, même massive, ne suffit donc pas : il faut établir un état de connaissance portant sur l'intention d'autrui. Aucune juridiction internationale n'a à ce jour retenu cette qualification contre un État fournisseur d'armement.

L'obligation de prévenir, distincte et moins exigeante

L'article premier de la même convention impose aux États de prévenir le génocide. La Cour a précisé, dans le même arrêt de 2007, qu'il s'agit d'une obligation de comportement et non de résultat. Elle naît dès l'instant où un État apprend, ou aurait normalement dû apprendre, l'existence d'un risque sérieux de commission d'un génocide. Elle lui impose alors de mettre en œuvre les moyens raisonnablement à sa disposition susceptibles d'y contribuer.

C'est sur ce fondement, et non sur celui de la complicité, que le Nicaragua a saisi la Cour contre l'Allemagne en 2024, au sujet de ses transferts d'armement vers Israël. La Cour a refusé d'indiquer des mesures conservatoires le 30 avril 2024 ; elle n'a pas rayé l'affaire de son rôle. L'Allemagne a soulevé des exceptions préliminaires, et les audiences publiques se sont tenues du 7 au 10 septembre 2026. L'arrêt sur la compétence est en délibéré.

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L'état des procédures

Dans l'instance Afrique du Sud c. Israël, la Cour a rendu le 26 janvier 2024 une ordonnance retenant le caractère plausible des droits invoqués, puis d'autres ordonnances de mesures conservatoires. Israël a déposé son contre-mémoire le 12 mars 2026. Par ordonnance du 21 mai 2026, la Cour a fixé au 22 novembre 2027 la date limite de l'étape procédurale suivante. Aucune décision au fond n'interviendra avant plusieurs années.

Les États-Unis ont déposé dans cette instance, le 12 mars 2026, une déclaration d'intervention aux côtés d'Israël.

La commission d'enquête internationale indépendante du Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations unies a conclu, dans son rapport du 16 septembre 2025, qu'un génocide était commis dans la bande de Gaza, retenant quatre des cinq actes énumérés par la convention. Elle a recommandé aux États membres de cesser les transferts d'armes susceptibles de servir à la commission d'actes génocidaires. Une commission d'enquête n'est pas une juridiction et ses conclusions n'ont pas d'autorité de chose jugée. Elles sont en revanche publiques et datées, ce qui les rend opposables sur le terrain de la connaissance du risque.

La qualification de complicité suppose une preuve que nul n'a encore rapportée devant une juridiction internationale. Celle de manquement à l'obligation de prévenir repose sur un critère de connaissance dont le point de départ est documenté. Les deux fondements coexistent dans les écritures déposées à La Haye. Leur examen au fond n'est pas attendu avant la fin de la décennie.

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Un rapport publié le 10 septembre par la Contrôleuse générale des lieux de privation de liberté (CGLPL) révèle que des patients psychiatriques franciliens sont attachés jusqu'à neuf jours sans intervention judiciaire. Priver quelqu'un de sa liberté pendant plus d'une semaine sans qu'un juge n'examine le dossier : la loi française l'interdit formellement. Sauf, semble-t-il, quand cela se passe à l'hôpital public.

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Pendant des jours, des hommes et des femmes se retrouvent privés de liberté dans des hôpitaux publics sans jamais comparaître devant un juge. La loi l’interdit, l’institution, elle, le pratique. Le scandale tient moins à la détresse qu’à l’absence totale de contrôle judiciaire.

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Des patients retenus sans décision juridique

Du 6 au 10 juillet 2026, le CGLPL a contrôlé plusieurs services d’urgences à Paris et en petite couronne, notamment Cochin, Robert-Debré, Necker, Pitié-Salpêtrière, Delafontaine, Henri-Mondor et Créteil. Dominique Simonnot ne mâche pas ses mots. La contrôleuse générale des lieux de privation de liberté, Dominique Simonnot, dénonce dans ses recommandations des patients « ficelés », attachés à cinq points, ventre, poignets et chevilles, parfois pendant neuf jours consécutifs. D'autres passent la nuit sur le sol des couloirs.

Pire, certains patients sont retenus alors qu’aucune décision d’admission en soins psychiatriques sans consentement n’a été prise ou notifiée. L'article L. 3211-12-1 du code de la santé publique impose pourtant un contrôle judiciaire systématique de toute privation de liberté hospitalière. Le rapport documente des renouvellements répétés de certificats médicaux d'attente, permettant de prolonger l'enfermement jusqu'à sept jours sans que la justice ne soit saisie.

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Le rapport pointe des pratiques d’isolement et de contention réalisées sans cadre légal suffisamment défini. Des patients peuvent être attachés avant même qu’une éventuelle décision de soins sans consentement intervienne. Le CGLPL relève aussi que certains services disposent de kits de contention directement préparés sur les lits ou brancards.

Cette situation intervient sur fond de saturation, entre 2025 et 2026, le nombre de patients confrontés à une attente prolongée a augmenté de 31,8 %. Simonnot évoque un manque de 30 à 40 % de personnel soignant en psychiatrie, conjugué à une pénurie chronique de lits. Le constat touche des établissements parisiens réputés, preuve que le phénomène n'épargne aucune strate de l'hôpital public.Au deuxième trimestre 2026, l'attente moyenne avant une hospitalisation psychiatrique dépassait 39 heures. L’ARS avait pourtant créé dès 2022 une cellule destinée à faciliter la recherche de lits psychiatriques.

Certes, un manque de lits, des postes vacants ou des difficultés de transport peuvent expliquer une partie de l’engorgement. Néanmoins, ils ne règlent pas la question du contrôle d’une personne privée de liberté. Ce que révèle ce rapport dépasse la seule question des moyens. Il met en lumière une administration qui s'est arrogée, par la pratique, le pouvoir de prolonger des privations de liberté que seule l'autorité judiciaire devrait pouvoir valider. Le CGLPL a saisi les ministres de la Santé, de l’Intérieur et de la Justice et leur a accordé quatre semaines pour répondre.

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The Lee Administration leaked the possibility of deploying Korean forces to the Strait of Hormuz on September 3. The backlash was immediate from Korean civil society that opposes any type of support for Trump’s war of aggression. Furthermore, recent polls reveal that even 55% of Lee’s supporters oppose the dispatching of forces. And while the Lee administration has publicly backtracked, stating that nothing has been decided, it is, nonetheless, quietly undergoing the process of deployment: more than simply an assessment of the security conditions on the Strait of Hormuz, the Lee administration sent a team to check key military bases and ports that could be used at the United Arab Emirates.

Despite growing public opposition, the Lee administration is expected to introduce at the end of September a motion into the National Assembly, where it is likely to pass given his party’s considerable majority. Unlike his predecessor, the impeached Yoon Suk-yeol, President Lee is not a pro-US ideologue; he is a pragmatist. Why then is Lee going out on a limb with this deployment when the rest of the world is staying out of it?

Well, South Korea’s history has always been entangled and shaped by US foreign policy. The darker side to South Korea’s pop-culture is a country dominated and shaped through US policy and interventions. Today, it hosts the largest overseas US military base and controls the Korean military (through wartime operational control). In effect, it’s never been a sovereign state. Its economic, political, and military interests have always been beholden to the United States. 

Today, Lee is horsetrading with Trump: military support in exchange for more favorable terms in the US’s AI global supply chain of semiconductors and data centers along with a return of wartime operational control. While Lee’s pragmatism is navigating the real structural constraints on South Korea, it is ultimately short-sighted and harmful to Koreans and the world.

The war in Iran is inflicting considerable pain to the world’s economies, including South Korea that imports 61% of its crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Yet, even from a completely pragmatic perspective, sending Korean forces to the Hormuz does nothing to resolve this problem. In fact, getting entangled with US aggression against Iran would strain the 64-year diplomatic relations with Iran while putting a target on South Korean assets in the region. Furthermore, if the world’s greatest naval and air power cannot secure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, how could South Korea’s contribution make a difference? In fact, the deployment of Korean troops prolongs this war of aggression by giving Trump cover and leverage to demand that other countries, such as Japan, also deploy forces.

This isn’t the first time that South Korea would deploy forces due to US requests. In 2004, after pressure from the George W. Bush Administration, the Roh Moo-hyun administration deployed non-combat support troops to Iraq. In response, a militant Islamic group kidnapped a Korean translator and, when the Roh administration refused to cancel further and withdraw current deployment, beheaded the translator.

Most importantly, this war of aggression is not only illegal under international standards, but deployment also violates article five of the Korean constitution that mandates the government to “maintain international peace” and “renounce all aggressive war.” Thus, whether intervening in the frontlines, or in the rear, whether combatant or non-combatant, any deployment would be complicit in Trump’s war of aggression.

Ultimately, as Hamid Shahrabi, an Iranian activist and co-founder of the Global Resistance for Peace & Justice states, securing free passage through the Strait of Hormuz can be achieved but not through military pressure and destruction but by adhering to the “Islamabad MOU, which outlined measures to ensure free passage through the Strait.”

Being dominated by the US brings out the pragmatic among South Koreans. Yet, the world demands that we fight and that we hold the line against Trump. Deploying forces will prolong Trump’s illegal war of aggression. Fortunately, if Koreans can be pragmatic, they can also be fierce fighters against US imperialism when provoked. Instead of fanning the flames of war, we should fight to extinguish Trump’s forever wars.

Dae-Han Song is a part of the International Strategy Centerand the No Cold War collective and is an associate at the Korea Policy Institute.

This article was produced by Globetrotter.

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The 25th anniversary of 9/11 has really brought out the trolls. I don’t know how many of them are paid, but X has been invaded by illogic, as an army of shills attempts lamely to prop up one of their most important lies. It’s the same insidious hivemind mentality that insists we ignore every giant cultural elephant destroying the room.

In September, 1976, as a result of the new Freedom of Information Act, a revealing April 1, 1967 CIA memo was released, titled “Countering Criticism of the Warren Report.” April 1? Was this one of their inside jokes? At any rate, the memo begins by stating “Our concern,” which revolves around the majority of the public disbelieving the ridiculous conclusions of the Warren Commission. Now why would the CIA be “concerned” about people failing to accept the government’s conclusions? A key passage notes: “Just because of the standing of the Commissioners, efforts to impugn their rectitude and wisdom tend to cast doubt on the whole leadership of American society.” Bingo, as my wife might say. This is the crux of the biscuit, and why “conspiracy theorists” are continuously demonized. Thought Criminals like me do indeed seek to “cast doubt on the whole leadership of American society.” They whine about allegations that Oswald worked for the Agency. He did. He had a 201 file.

In the section headlined “Action,” the CIA helpfully advises that the subject of the assassination not be brought up. You know, like a young Don Jeffries was doing at every possible public gathering. In a tip of the hat to Operation Mockingbird, the Agency suggests that Conspiracy Deniers “discuss the publicity problem with liaison and friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors), pointing out that the Warren Commission made as thorough an investigation as humanly possible, that the charges of the critics are without serious foundation…Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation. To employ propaganda assets to answer and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose…” We’d have to update the language here. Circa 2026, this would mean employing propaganda assets on late night talk shows, comedians, and social media “influencers” with lots of followers.

The sentiments there are universal, and apply to everything in the same sphere as the assassination. I’m culturally appropriating “Denier” from them. The majority of our fellow human beings are Conspiracy Deniers. This means essentially that they are capable of denying their own senses. As Winston Smith told us in 1984, “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” That is exactly what these Conspiracy Deniers are doing every day. Rejecting the evidence of their eyes and ears. From denying the racial reality of ghetto culture, and the wildly disproportionate power of the non-Irish, to swallowing every incredibly stupid and impossible theory from single-bullet to trickle-down. From saluting a flag that now stands for foreign misbehavior and a domestic police state, to trudging to the polls, in rain, or sleet, or snow, to vote for the worst people on earth to not represent them. Voting harder. Mistaken at the top of their lungs.

Although the ones we’re saddled with today are especially obtuse and unreasoning, they’ve always comprised most of the public. Orwell again characterized them perfectly with his sheep in Animal Farm. That’s another term we owe Orwell for. The Sheeple. They’re the unwitting, unthinking army of the conspirators. They refused to join the courageous Daniel Shays just after our War for Independence, when he started a rebellion over the mistreatment, and nonpayment of colonial soldiers. They were the ones reporting their neighbors to Lincoln’s goons during the War Between the States, resulting in them being thrown into makeshift prisons, without any due process. They bought all the false flags, from “Remember the Maine” to “Remember Pearl Harbor,” and their voices were always the loudest. They cheered on the Gulf War, in defense of a tiny oligarchy (Kuwait) none of them had even heard of before. They didn’t care that the government killed the Branch Davidians. They were “crazy.”

As you can see by the illustration above, we are still vastly outnumbered. The fact that this source claims only 47 percent of Americans believe JFK was killed by a conspiracy is astounding. It may be just one of their countless lies, but there is at least some truth in it. In the 1970s, polls showed close to 90 percent of people believed in a JFK conspiracy. Only 19 percent believe in chemtrails? Are they refusing to look up at the sky? Only 23 percent think 9/11 was an Inside Job? If these numbers are remotely accurate, then we have an even more monumental task in front of us. With an increasing reliance on the internet, and not the state controlled television networks, for news and information, how can it be possible that so many continue to be Conspiracy Deniers? Just how obvious do the conspiracies have to be? The coverups are purposefully transparent; they want you to know. They enjoy toying with us. And yet, no matter how obvious they make it, the masses absolutely refuse to think.

When DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s little black book of important political persons was revealed, she went on Alex Jones and publicly proclaimed she would never kill herself. And then she was found hanged. The Conspiracy Deniers believed she took her own life. Virginia Giuffre said the same thing. You know, the girl who was ignored by everyone for years, and then suddenly became a martyr for the ones who survived being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein. The Conspiracy Deniers don’t think she was murdered, either. They don’t think anyone connected to anything politically significant has ever been murdered. As the authorities always quickly determine, “no evidence of foul play.” John Hinckley shot Reagan to impress underage nymphet Jodie Foster. Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk because he was a transgender in love. Or was it a “Furry” in love? They really don’t even need the “friendly assets” the CIA talked about in 1967. The Conspiracy Deniers handle things perfectly fine on their own.

Most of you have heard me talk about the overriding narrative that rules us; the conspiracy to deny any significance, any spiritual reason for our existence. A conspiracy against the supernatural. A conspiracy against God. They push randomness relentlessly. We are just a mere speck, on a slightly larger speck, in an endless universe. Black Holes. Quasars. Primordial soup. Lots of empty “scientific” mumbo jumbo, which somehow impresses the Conspiracy Deniers. Just don’t mention miracles. Or morality. Or eternal redemption. Or utter the name Jesus Christ, unless it’s in vain and you’re not a believer. Then it’s really, really cool. But worship Einstein all you want. A half illiterate who never learned to tie his shoes. But a non-Irish icon. Ask a real genius, Nikola Tesla, what he thought of him. The Conspiracy Deniers have no problem with the missing Tesla files, confiscated by Donald Trump’s uncle for the government. Sure, many of them have TDS themselves, but that is irrelevant.

Some “conspiracy theories” are absurd. The Black “community” believes in many of them. They have basically nailed the larger truth that our leaders are at war with us, but they think they’re only at war with Black people. They believe that random “White Supremacists” are kidnapping random Blacks off the streets and lynching them. And that the police are involved in covering this up. Now, the police are usually involved in covering up something, most frequently the actions of their out of control officers. But no one is lynching Blacks. No one is even lynching Thought Criminals, as far as I know. They knock some of us off, every so often, just as a reminder. I also confess to being confused by the Mandela Effect thing. Some Millennials contend that Nelson Mandela actually died before he did, and this somehow has resulted in other “truths” being changed. Like the Berenstain Bears books, for example. I don’t pretend to understand. But then again, I don’t think Mandela was any kind of hero, either.

It’s always been easier to just call names. Debate is difficult, especially when you have no facts on your side. This is the dilemma the average Conspiracy Denier must deal with. So they scoff at us “nut jobs.” Or “wackos.” Or their favorite, “retards.” During the COVID psyop, “dangerous” became a popular term of derision. Lots of people called me that. The more conventionally educated ones will fall back upon appeals to authority. They will invariably mention the “someone would have talked” nonsense. “Do you now how many people would have had to be involved” in faking the moon landing, or covering up 9/11? “You can’t keep a secret in Washington, D.C.” is another chestnut. Actually, D.C. is full of secrets, official and otherwise. Every still classified JFK assassination document attests to that. The redactions on every begrudgingly released file attests to that. All the dead whistleblowers, who were obviously “talking,” attest to that. Someone has always talked, but they’ve been murdered or ignored.

Russia! Russia! Russia! China! China! China! Islam did it! The sheep in Animal Farm chanted “Four legs good, two legs better.” They bleated out the naysayers. The critical thinkers. That’s what our Sheeple do. They chant “USA! USA!” to drown out any discouraging words. Maybe they’ll break into an impromptu version of Proud to be an American or Lift Every Voice and Sing, the so-called Black national anthem, depending upon the crowd. They both serve the same purpose. Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise. Trumpenstein is now promising a $5,000 check to every American if the Republicans win the midterm elections. Only his cult believes he will actually do this. There are Conspiracy Deniers on the Left, and an increasing number on the Right as well. These would be the ones cheering on Trumpenstein’s dismissal of the Epstein Files as a “Democrat hoax.” The files that reveal our illustrious leaders are in fact barbaric cannibals. Try trotting that one out at a party in front of Conspiracy Deniers.

To be a Conspiracy Denier, you have to endure political speeches. All political speeches. And consider that the empty rhetoric about “getting the country moving,” or “making it great” is innocent, standard political boiler plate. Which we should accept with a shrug and a smile. Sure, they never keep their promises. Sure, they never do anything which helps those who actually need help. Sure, they serve AIPAC and other shadowy special interests. Sure, you “can’t vote them out.” And besides, every one either party picks to run is the same. Never independent. Never principled. Always pro-Zionist. And always anti-”conspiracy theories.” Where’s the randomness of at least one honest leader every few decades or so? Because there’s no conspiracy to stop them, right? Wouldn’t the law of averages dictate that once in a while, we’d have someone in power who actually wanted to do good things? But we’ve accepted that, on those rare occasions, they simply eliminate the Huey Longs and John F. Kennedys.

Conspiracy Deniers believe that the Air Force “mistakenly” identified a weather balloon as a “Flying Saucer” at Roswell. They believe the Dallas deputies who found a rifle on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository on November 22, 1963 both “mistakenly” misidentified it as a German Mauser. They believe the BATF had to launch a massive raid on the Branch Davidians, when they could have confronted leader David Koresh at any time in a local store. They believe all those witnesses- every one who identified Timothy McVeigh- was “mistaken” about him being in the company of “John Doe #2” in Oklahoma City. They believe that it was a coincidence that dictionaries changed the definition of “vaccine” in the wake of the warp speed vax that didn’t prevent “COVID.” They think millions died from this phantom disease, but no one died from the deadly vaccine. They believe JFK, Jr. and all the other dead Kennedys were “reckless.” They believe the people “won” when Nixon resigned.

I often feel like the little boy in the old fairy tale, who is the only one willing to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. We often forget that, like all whistleblowers and truthtellers, he was overruled by the crowd, who continued to ignore that the emperor was naked. Those of us who are trying to awaken the Conspiracy Deniers have to understand that we’re fighting centuries of “normie” conditioning. Especially for the last 100 years or so, we’re competing with intense propaganda the likes of which the world has never seen. Security cameras, which are everywhere, always malfunctioning whenever something important happens. Or allegedly happens, because an increasing number of doubters believe it’s all fake and scripted. Cell phone cameras, which oddly are never deployed during mass shootings, or supposed “anti-Semitic” behavior. You have your “Holocaust Deniers.” Your “COVID Deniers.” Your “Climate Change Deniers.” Your “Election Deniers.”

Well, I can have my Conspiracy Deniers. I don’t care if someone calls me a “conspiracy theorist.” Sticks and stones, and all that. But I have no “theory.” Building 7 isn’t a “theory.” The massive disparity of wealth isn’t a “theory.” No one in the Deep State being prosecuted isn’t a “theory.” The disclosures from the very limited DOGE program weren’t a “theory.” There is massive waste, fraud and abuse in our government. And those who run the government, the business world, and society at large are massively corrupt criminals. We’ve been vindicated, although they won’t admit it. Our friends owe us an apology. Our family members own us an apology. The world owes us an apology. Most humans can’t apologize, however. They’re too proud. In this case, an apology would mean they were wrong to trust those in charge. Wrong to ridicule and sneer at those who tried to enlighten them. To paraphrase the syrupy sentiment from Love Story: slavery means never having to say you’re sorry.

Source: https://donaldjeffries.substack.com/p/in-the-land-of-the-conspiracy-deniers

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/09/no_author/in-the-land-of-the-conspiracy-deniers/

Original Article: https://tapnewswire.com/2026/09/16/in-the-land-of-the-conspiracy-deniers/

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