Daily News 10/18
Daily News 10/18
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
2026 State of the Climate Report ‘Shows a Planet Reaching Its Limits’“This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present,” the report’s authors warned. Earth’s life-support systems are “moving deeper into uncharted territory,” with greenhouse gas concentrations, ocean heat, and other vital indicators reaching unprecedented levels as human activity continues to push the planet toward points of no return, an international team of scientists warned Wednesday. “We are witnessing the rapid destabilization of the Earth’s climate system. This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present,” the authors of The 2026 State of the Climate Report wrote. “Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond.”
Video: Reports from the front line – Spain, France and Germany In this special episode of Against the Stream, we talk to comrades of the Revolutionary Communist International on the ground in Spain, France, and Germany about what’s happening, and about the huge potential for building the forces of communism. Today’s youth have grown up with nothing but war and crisis. As Marx explained, it’s the real conditions of society that shape consciousness. So it’s no surprise that many are reaching revolutionary conclusions on their own. Class questions are coming to the fore everywhere. A decade ago, protests were often framed as calls for ‘more democracy’, or for voting in a different government. Those illusions are gone. On the streets of Spain, tens of thousands are chanting ‘Esto es lucha de clases, no podemos hacer las paces’ [this is class struggle, we cannot make peace] and ‘Los invasores son los inversores’ [the invaders are the investors]. Whilst the causes of these youth-led movements vary from country to country, the same host of issues are present everywhere: militarism, racism, police violence, housing, Palestine, and the climate crisis. Together they’re feeding a revolutionary mood across the continent.Europe’s rulers have no way out. With inflation rising and governments buried in debt, they can’t keep the economy stable without provoking social and political upheaval. Years of austerity, decay, and inequality have built up the pressure, and now it’s bursting out.
Cost of Lving:
Sent to Me By Email Shadow Government Statistics 10/16 Commentary
U.S. Government’s Deliberate Understatement of the Headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Has Been Used to Understate and to Suppress Annual Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) for Social Security The Private Sector Also Commonly Uses the Understated Headline COLAUnderstated Inflation Estimates Also Have the Effect of
Overstating Headline Real (Inflation-Adjusted) Economic Growth Back in 1980, the U.S. Congress Successfully Pressured the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) to Revise Its CPI Reporting Methodology
So as to Underreport the Headline CPI Inflation with Systemic Regularity
— Always to the CPI’s Downside for the Above Referenced Effects The ShadowStats Detail, Corrected for the CPI Understatement
Shows Both a Sharply Intensifying, Inflationary Circumstance
for the United States as Well as What Rapidly Is Gaining Recognition
As an Already Unfolding and Seriously Intensifying Contraction
In Headline U.S. Economic Activity The Inflation and Recession Combination Should Push Interest Rates Higher,
Along with Intensifying Negative Financial-Market and Economic Impact,
From the Combination of Surging Prices and Sinking Corporate Profits
Shadow Government Statistics Alternate Inflation our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980. In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living. The Shadow Government Alternate Statistcs Rate for July was 11.36%
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
ICE Is Fast-Tracking a Nationwide Domestic Spy Program Across Dozens of Cities The agency plans to contract with around 142 agents to take part in domestic spying operations.
Man Shot by ICE in NYC Last Week Yet to Receive Surgery for Bullet in His Neck Lawyers for Oscar Belgal have called for his immediate release, citing inadequate care.
As Resistance to Flock Cameras Grows, Another Surveillance Network Is Spreading Fusus software is being used in at least 324 US communities, with nearly 624,000 cameras connected to a Fusus network.
Lee Camp: An Empire That Values Oil Over Lives—and Silence Over Truth
Trump Administration Reportedly Trying to Denaturalize and Deport Ilhan Omar Officials conducted a raid on her home and have issued over a dozen subpoenas to her family members.
Trump Profited From His Giveaway to Big Pharma While Jacking Up Drug Costs An analysis estimates Trump increased his stock holdings from $1.7 million in 2024 to up to $56.2 million last year.
Americans’ Confidence in Food Safety Plummets After Summer of Recalls Experts have expressed deep concern over Trump administration cuts to federal food monitoring systems.
“Because of the Price of Oil … We’re Making a Fortune,” Trump Says at Rally Trump, who has profited massively from his second term in the White House, is a major investor in oil and gas companies.
Trump Profited From His Giveaway to Big Pharma While Jacking Up Drug Costs An analysis estimates Trump increased his stock holdings from $1.7 million in 2024 to up to $56.2 million last year.
The Collapsing World OrderAmerican polls show record levels of angst, fear, and deep concern about America’s present and future. This begs the question of whether a collapsing world order is at the root of these high levels of concern.
A CNN survey claims 67% of US adults feel either afraid or deeply pessimistic about the country’s future. A Pew Research Center Survey says 59% of Americans believe the country’s best years are behind it.
The American Psychiatric Association claims an “anxiety crisis” is widespread among American adults. “The global order is breaking down, driven by shifting centers of power, technological disruption and growing rivalry among nations.” (The Global Order is Breaking Down, but What Comes Next, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Sept 8, 2026)
Millions on the Streets for Lula Across Brazil: A View From the GroundLast Sunday, the fact that Lula brought out the largest crowd to São Paulo’s Paulista Avenue since the Diretas Já movement in the waning days of the U.S.-backed military dictatorship, with estimates of over 1 million, has rightfully occupied a lot of headline space, even in bourgeois media outlets like Globo which notoriously lies about crowd size at leftist marches and protests. But across Brazil, scores of other campaign marches have brought out huge crowds in the past few days, even in small and mid sized cities, like the conservative city of Uberlândia, which saw 50,000 people come out to show their support for Lula on October 8.
What makes Marxism scientific? – a scientific enquiry“There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.” – Karl Marx, Preface to the French edition of Capital.[1… The scientific method of Marxism arises out of the development of life itself – in what Marx called mankind’s metabolic exchange with nature. Marxism is the most conscious and consistent expression of that ongoing process. It is a result derived from that process, applied back to it as a method. Without its application and its result, the method is an empty abstraction. Without a correct method, the enquiry will go astray and not reach a correct result. And the result, the aim of every enquiry, can only stand if it has been based on a correct method and proven through the necessary course of the enquiry itself. What emerges is the dialectical unity of the Marxist scientific method, its application and result, none of which can stand separately. It is precisely in the necessary interconnection of each link to the others that a science is justified. This is no longer a dead set of rigid principles, but a living concrete science which is deepened with every application. That is the scientific method of Marxism. Let us begin.
Is 2027 going to be a particularly destabilizing year? I would love it if folks here could argue against me, though I fear you’re more likely to come up with even more factors.: The major factors coalescing in 2027 that I see are: Monster El Niño – Certain Risk – Temperatures from the El Niño event are likely to peak in December, but the aftereffects will go on well into 2027. So many potential outcomes. But to put it in economic terms, the biggest factor is widespread agricultural disruptions. Central Asia, Central America, and Southern Africa may be worst hit, but many other places will suffer as well.
Fertilizer Shortages – High Risk – The Iran war is unlikely to end any time soon, and global fertilizer markets may continue to be destabilized. Again we’re looking at significant global agricultural impacts.
Diesel/Oil Shortages – High Risk – An outcome of the Iran war, the Ukraine war, and the Yemen war, none of which seem to be cooling off. Global oil and diesel reserves are being severely depleted, leaving no buffer. Edit: And more and more refineries are being destroyed (and can take 10 years to rebuild). Likely outcomes are widespread economic impacts… including on agriculture (industrial agriculture runs on diesel).
Market Bubble – Medium-high Risk – Warnings are continuing to escalate that the American stock market and economy are being propped up by AI expansion and that this bubble could burst soon (ie, 2027). Many economic fundamentals are showing that the market/economy is overextended. Impacts would be a retraction or crash of the US and then global economy.
European War – Medium Risk – Many/most NATO countries are actively preparing for a potential war with Russia. So many variables and uncertainties here that it’s anyone’s guess what will happen. But it’s worth noting that Russia has recently lowered their policy for when they would go nuclear.
Other lower-risk concerns – All the usual collapse stuff like potential pandemics (outbreaks seem to be increasing significantly), exceptionally destructive environmental catastrophes, new wars, malignant AI, and so on. However, a particularly 2027 risk is the possibility of a non-peaceful transfer of power in the US. The president’s party is expected to get trounced in the midterms, and we can’t entirely rule out that the president might fight against the transfer of power in Congress in January.
Combinations of above effects. None of these things are happening in a vacuum. Civilizational deterioration/collapse is mostly measured in economic terms. Putting several of these factors together can lead to significant-to-enormous economic impacts.
Am I wrong, or is 2027 going to be exceptionally “interesting times?” And if we do see a major economic retraction, will we ever recover from it, or will that be the new baseline?