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Caitlin Johnstone – Eric Trump’s Humanoid Robots To Be Used In Gaza Genocide

Caitlin Johnstone, Nov 12, 2026, https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/eric-trumps-humanoid-robots-to-be?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=224536839&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The Financial Times has published a new article titled “Humanoid robot start-up backed by Eric Trump in talks with Israel’s military” which is exactly as horrifying as its headline suggests.

The article features photographs of bipedal armored robots which look like they came from the set of a post-apocalyptic Hollywood movie, and opens as follows:

“A company backed by Eric Trump is in talks with the Israel Defense Forces to supply humanoid robots to patrol Hamas tunnels beneath Gaza and potentially engage in combat.

“Foundation Future Industries co-founder and president Mike LeBlanc said he had met senior Israeli military officials for preliminary discussions in September and toured tunnels with the US start-up’s Phantom MK1.

“‘We’re in direct talks with the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces,’ the former US Marine told the FT, adding that his company was in discussions to supply up to 1,000 Phantoms.”

Foundation Future Industries is a San Francisco-based robotics company which is actively seeking lucrative contracts with US and foreign militaries. Financial Times reports that the two year-old company has already secured contracts worth $70 million from the American war machine.

In a July article titled “A Humanoid Company Backed by Eric Trump Is Preparing Its Robots for War,” Wired reported that Foundation robots are already operating on the battlefield in Ukraine:


“The war in Ukraine has served as a laboratory for the development and testing of many of these systems; Foundation says it has tested its humanoid, Phantom MK1, with Ukrainian forces.

“It’s unique in its targeting of the military market, and so far it’s been lucrative. The company has government contracts worth millions of dollars and high-profile backers to spread its message: Eric Trump, the president’s son, is both an investor and the company’s chief strategy adviser.”

I probably don’t need to explain to anyone reading this why it is insanely corrupt and dystopian for the president’s son to be making a fortune selling murderbot contracts to the US military while his warmongering father engages in reckless military expansionism around the world. But it really does highlight exactly where the US empire is at on the timeline of degradation and tyranny.

During an interview on Fox Business this past April in which Eric Trump appeared alongside Foundation CEO Sankaet Pathak, the American princeling gushed enthusiastically about how far the United States has come in what he describes as a robotics race with China.

“When you go up and you interact with these robots, and they fist-bump you, they high-five you, they follow your commands,” Trump said. “You bring in AI autonomy, it’s going to change industry, going to change military application, it’s going to change hospitality. The uses are unlimited, and I think it’s a very beautiful thing, but we must win this race.”

I often see people wondering why AI is being shoved down our throats with little to no regulation despite the fact that it isn’t improving our lives in any meaningful way, but that’s because AI isn’t intended to benefit ordinary people. It’s intended to power autonomous military robots who will fire upon the citizenry if they attempt a revolution in ways human soldiers might refuse to do. It’s intended to re-centralize control of information, to replace expensive skilled labor, to destroy the collective bargaining power of the working class, and to facilitate mass surveillance throughout our society.

Humanity needs to wake up to what’s going on, because we are fast approaching the point where they have the technologies in place to lock us in this dystopia forever.

November 14, 2026 Posted by | technology, USA | Leave a comment

A week later Democrats appear to be ignoring 64 million voters who told them “Peace Now”

After 47 years of calling Iran the great enemy of America for taking 66 hostages in 1979, Democrats simply cannot bring themselves to admit Iran has never been an enemy of the US, has never sought a nuclear weapon and has never deserved two dastardly unprovoked attacks in 7 months.


Walt Zlotow, West Suburban Peace Coaliton, Glen Ellyn IL, 11 Nov 26

Even President Trump and Vice President Vance are admitting their disastrous rejection by voters was fueled by rising fuel prices caused by Trump’s failed Iran war. Trnmp pulled his punches, “I think a part of it was Iran.” Vance delivered a haymaker: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night… everyone knows why we lost.”

Voters concurred. Nearly two thirds polled said the decision to attack Iran was wrong and over 90% cited the high cost of living it imposed on the country a crucial factor in their vote against Republican rule.

Likely Democratic congressional leaders Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Shumer are promising that affordability will be Agenda One in the Democratic led Congress beginning January 3. But while they bleat ‘affordability, affordability, affordability,’ the need to shut down the Iran war on Iran’s reasonable terms as the victor dare not speaks its name.

  1. Complete end to US military opeations
  2. Lifting of the US naval blockade on Iranian ports
  3. Removal of US economic sanctions on Iran
  4. Release of upwards of $100 billion in Iranians assets held worldwide
  5. Compensation for war damages
  6. Reduction of Us military presence in the region
  7. No future military attacks on Iran

Democrats cannot bring down the cost of gas, diesel and all the commodities fuel delivers to consumers without confronting the failed Iran war head on. But Democrats are loathe to do this.

Why? Democrats have been locked into demonizing Iran as the No. 1 enemy of Israel which is America’s partner in dominating the Middle East. Democrats refused to condemn Trump’s February 28 Iran war as being instigated by Israel simply to rid Israel of its last hegemonic rival. Democrats refused to call out Trump’s delusional war rationale Iran was imminently close to acquiring a nuclear weapon and was prepared to use it on California cities. Democrats refused to call for Trump to be charged wth war crimes for launching a war of choice that killed thousands in a failed attempt to please his master Netanyahu in Israel.

After 47 years of calling Iran the great enemy of America for taking 66 hostages in 1979, Democrats simply cannot bring themselves to admit Iran has never been an enemy of the US, has never sought a nuclear weapon and has never deserved two dastardly unprovoked attacks in 7 months.

With Trump refusing to return to the June 17 Memorandum of Understanding he signed which would have ended the war on Iran’s 7 sensible terms, there will be no end to the oil shortages fueling unaffordability in America and world0wide.

And until Democrats stop ignoring the wishes of the American people who gave them a mandate to make peace with Iran to truly make life affordable, there will be no affordability relief from the Democrats in 2027 and beyond.

For Democrats its not the economy stupid…it’s the war stupid.

November 14, 2026 Posted by | politics, USA | Leave a comment

Fitch Ratings Revises Sizewell C Limited’s Outlook from Stable to Negative

Fitch Ratings – London – 10 Nov 2026:

Fitch Ratings has revised Sizewell C Limited’s (SZC) Outlook to Negative from Stable, while affirming its Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at ‘BBB+’. The rating action is a direct result of the revision of the Outlook of Electricite de France (EDF) to Negative from Stable (IDR: BBB+), in turn related to the sovereign action on France (A+/Negative).

During the construction period, SZC relies heavily on Framatome, which is contracted to provide the nuclear island. This caps the rating of the company at the level of EDF, as EDF guarantees Framatome’s (capped) financial obligations towards SZC under its contract.

KEY RATING DRIVERS

For an overview of the issuer’s credit profile, including key rating drivers, see “Fitch Affirms Sizewell C Limited at ‘BBB+’; Outlook Stable” published 20 October 2026 on www.fitchratings.com.


KEY RATING DRIVERS

For an overview of the issuer’s credit profile, including key rating drivers, see “Fitch Affirms Sizewell C Limited at ‘BBB+’; Outlook Stable” published 20 October 2026 on www.fitchratings.com.


RATING SENSITIVITIES

Factors that Could, Individually or Collectively, Lead to Negative Rating Action/Downgrade

– Negative rating action on EDF as guarantor of Framatome

– The projected Fitch Rating Case (FRC) net debt/regulatory asset base (RAB) above 65%, which gives the Secretary of State the right to suspend elements of the UK government’s (AA-/Stable) support package…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. https://www.fitchratings.com/research/infrastructure-project-finance/fitch-revises-sizewell-c-limited-outlook-to-negative-affirms-rating-at-bbb-10-11-2026

November 14, 2026 Posted by | business and costs, UK | Leave a comment

BRITAIN HAS DISINCENTIVISED ZELENSKY FROM SUING FOR PEACE

Ukraine wants to stop and re-stock before resuming war with western help.

UK STATE VISIT INVITATION TO ZELENSKY A CONSIDERED ATTEMPT TO SCUPPER US-BROKERED DJPLOMACY

Ian Proud, 12 Nov 26, https://thepeacemonger.substack.com/p/britain-has-disincentivised-zelensky?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3221990&post_id=224572014&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ise1&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

With impeccable timing, on the eve of US-brokered peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi, the United Kingdom has invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to the UK in 2027 for a full State Visit. This will undoubtedly disincentivise Zelensky from suing for peace. Little surprise that the Abu Dhabi talks delivered nothing concrete beyond agreement on another prisoner swap. In Dublin, Zelensky has doubled down on not making any concessions in the negotiations.

It’s clear to me that the British state has priced in Zelensky still being President of Ukraine for the next year and, therefore, there being no peace deal with Russia.

Why do I take this view? We do not know when a State Visit to Britain might take place but the media reports suggest that it could be as late as November 2027 when Britain will host the G20 Summit in Manchester. Ukraine isn’t a G20 member, but, again, it is understood that Zelensky has been invited to attend in any case.

While the peace process for Ukraine has been stop-start, it’s not inconceivable that the latest initiative delivers a draft peace treaty within a matter of a few short months. The draft Istanbul Peace deal in April 2022 was initialled after a mere five weeks of intensive talks. Boris Johnson famously discouraged Zelensky from taking that deal at the time Had the peace process not fallen apart, Presidents Putin and Zelensky might have met to sign the draft and implement the peace.

The idea of Zelensky and Putin meeting to sign any peace deal has cropped up increasingly in recent weeks as the prospects of renewed peace talks loomed larger. From the Russian perspective, a meeting won’t happen until such time as there is a worked up draft peace treaty is ready to discuss. But the point is that any possible future meeting will serve the purpose of hammering through any outstanding issues in the peace Treaty that cannot be resolved by officials leading, possibly, to signature and a cessation of the fighting.

Let’s imagine for a moment that a peace deal is inked in early 2027, that would happen right in the middle of planning for Zelensky’s State Visit. Having organised the visit to Britain in 2002 of the President of Indonesia at that time – I know that planning for a State Visit would not happen if there was any doubt about whether Zelensky would still be in office.

And yet, if the latest round of talks in Abu Dhabi did, ultimately deliver a substantive peace deal and an end to the fighting, Presidential elections in Ukraine would soon follow. We cannot know now who will win a future plebiscite but the polling suggests that Zelensky will not win. Indeed, half of Ukrainians say that he should not even run in a future contest.

And here, I fear, the cunning Brits have announced a Zelensky State Visit on the eve of peace talks; because they don’t see those elections happening any time soon. Neither do they see the war ending on terms imposed by Washington. This appears, at least to me, to be a blatant and cynical move by Britain to derail Trump’s peace efforts.

The Brits have acted as major spoilers of US efforts to end the Ukraine war from the start. Against the backdrop of a generally troubled relationship between the Labour government and President Trump, Keir Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing idea’ in which Britain and France would send troops to Ukraine – was seen by many as an attempt to stall US peace overtures. It’s obvious today that European leaders are not enthused by Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ plan to overhaul Europe’s security architecture as part of a peace deal. Zelensky has been adept at playing the US Administration off against the Brits and Europeans who has vastly different views on the prosecution of the war.

Just last week the former Prime Minister of Ukraine, Arseniy Yatseniuk – made famous by Victoria Nuland’s leaked ‘Yats the guy’ phone call in February 2014 – was at Chatham House in London talking about conditions for Ukraine to sign a peace deal. Those conditions included no cap on Ukraine’s military, western support in helping Ukraine built up its long-range missile capabilities and produce ‘much more ammo’. All this so that, in his works, Ukraine could ‘liberate an entire territory’ occupied by Russia in the future. I am afraid to say that these are terms of a peace settlement that Russia will never agree to, on the basis that they are an explicit admission that Ukraine wants to stop and re-stock before resuming war with western help. As I have said before, a genuine peace for Ukraine requires several interlocking deals to avoid pressing the pause button.

The enthusiastic reception Yatseniuk received at Chatham House is a reminder that the default UK setting remains in defeat Russia mode. To paraphrase Victoria Nuland, officials in the Foreign Office see Zelensky as ‘the guy’, irrespective of the various corruption scandals swirling around his team.

So the red carpet is royally being laid out for President Zelensky to pay a State Visit to the UK. Let’s not forget the massive importance Britain attached to the unprecedented second State Visit of Donald Trump in September 2025 at a time of strain in the bilateral relationship. While State Visits are upon the invitation of the King, they are proposed by the Foreign Office. I fear the current UK Ambassador to Kyiv – Neil Crompton – who solidified the current UK strategy of non-engagement with Russia when he was the Eastern Europe Director for a brief while starting in late 2014, is the brains behind this cunning plan.

State Visits are by far the biggest honour Britain can extend a foreign Head of State and his Majesty the King hosts a maximum of two state visits in any year because of the enormous preparation that is required. Zelensky will be processed along the Mall in a State Carraige with mounted Horseguards in their gleaming armour, before staying at Buckingham Palace with the King and being treated to a White Tie banquet (big question over what he would wear).

Just ask yourself, if you were in Zelensky’s shoes, would you go for a peace deal with Russia and a significant chance of losing political office at elections, or revelling in the pomp, pageantry and crowd adoration of a State Visit to London? Call me weak, but I know what I’d do.

November 14, 2026 Posted by | politics international, UK, Ukraine | Leave a comment

Massie introduces articles of impeachment against Hegseth over ‘unlawful’ war on Iran

The Republican lawmaker warned that Hegseth ‘will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office’

News Desk, NOV 10, https://thecradle.co/articles/massie-introduces-articles-of-impeachment-against-hegseth-over-unlawful-war-on-iran

US Representative Thomas Massie introduced eight articles of impeachment against War Secretary Pete Hegseth on 9 November, accusing him of violating the War Powers Resolution of 1973 through unauthorized attacks on Iran and Yemen.

Massie introduced the articles as a privileged resolution – meaning the House of Representatives must act on it within two days.

Hegseth “knowingly executed and implemented unlawful orders” by carrying out US President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, Massie said.

The war was launched illegally without congressional authorization.

“In all of this, Secretary Hegseth has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as secretary of defense, and subversive to constitutional government,” the lawmaker added.

He added that the war secretary showed “that he will remain a threat to the Constitution if allowed to remain in office.”

Massie also accused Hegseth of acting “in a manner grossly incompatible” with his duties and with US law. This warrants impeachment, removal from office, and disqualification to hold any other position, he stressed.

The 1973 War Powers Resolution specifies that a US president cannot send the military into combat without “a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization, or a national emergency created by attack” on US territory or forces.

Additionally, Massie pointed to heavy civilian casualties inflicted by Washington, particularly the US strike on the girl’s school in Minab during the opening hours of the war.

“Those killed include at least 120 school children, 26 teachers, seven parents attempting to evacuate their children, a school bus driver, a pharmacy technician from a nearby clinic, and the six-month-old unborn child of one of the teachers also killed in the attack,” Massie told the House of Representatives.

Hegseth is being accused of defying congressional directives to cease hostilities, bypassing legal frameworks within the War Department, and gutting civilian casualty mitigation protocols in both Iran and Yemen.

The resolution further details severe extrajudicial actions, including overseeing lethal strike guidelines in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific that have killed over 260 fishermen under the pretext of combating drug smuggling.

Trump is reportedly looking for a “fall guy” to blame for the failed war on Iran, which resulted in a retaliatory campaign that devastated US military infrastructure across the region.

Hegseth is among these potential scapegoats.

Earlier this month, The Atlantic cited sources as saying that the war secretary has been “dishonest” about the state of the war.

“Hegseth is good at telling the president what he wants to hear,” one of the sources said.

The war secretary reportedly told the president the war would be quick and easy, without accurately describing Tehran’s retaliation.

“He is conducting state terrorism. He is 100 percent a war criminal. He needs to be prosecuted,” former Pentagon official Wes J. Bryant said in early November.0

November 14, 2026 Posted by | politics, USA | Leave a comment

America Leans on Fusion Breakthroughs to Turbocharge Its Nuclear Weapon Arsenal

The Trump administration has reversed Obama-era prohibitions on pursuing new nuclear warheads or capabilities. The New START Treaty, which had put constraints on Russian and U.S. nuclear weapons development, expired in February without a replacement. No arms-control agreement exists with China.

Facing a three-way arms race with Russia and China, the U.S. is turning to an energy startup

By Heather Somerville, WSJ, Sept. 9, 2026

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—On an expanse of desert here between a Netflix studio and self-storage facility, construction is under way on a fusion plant meant to help America win an escalating nuclear-arms race.

By the decade’s end, its developers say, the site will be home to a nuclear-fusion facility designed to subject weapons parts to the sorts of stresses they would experience in an all-out nuclear blast.

Testing with fusion reactors helps ensure America’s nuclear weapons still work after decades in storage, components are reliable and that new designs will have the desired effect, without resuming the explosive nuclear tests of decades prior.

At the Albuquerque groundbreaking ceremony, the site was mostly dirt, punctuated by a pair of Deere excavators holding up an American flag. Keith LeChien, chief technology officer of three-year-old startup Pacific Fusion, said it wouldn’t be barren for long.

“We’re watching what China’s doing and how fast they’re going in fusion,” he said. “We’re staying ahead of that.”

The project marks a new era in America’s nuclear posture. Once completed, Pacific Fusion’s facility will produce more than 1,000 times more fusion power than the government-operated machine that was put into service for weapons experiments after the U.S. stopped underground blasts in 1992.

The startup’s design creates all that energy by linking together 156 modules, or movable shipping container-sized machines, that each emit pulses of energy. It is building them at its San Leandro, Calif., factory.

The reactor will help serve the Trump administration’s goal of maintaining and modernizing nuclear weapons that have been in storage for decades, as well as designing and producing new ones, something that was anathema to prior administrations. Motivating this are Russia’s nuclear threats to the West and China’s fast-track to nuclear parity.

“We are entering now a very complex time where we have to be postured to deter two near-peer adversaries,” said Paul Dean, vice president of the nuclear policy program at Nuclear Threat Initiative, a Washington nonprofit that works on reducing nuclear threats.

The Trump administration has reversed Obama-era prohibitions on pursuing new nuclear warheads or capabilities. The New START Treaty, which had put constraints on Russian and U.S. nuclear weapons development, expired in February without a replacement. No arms-control agreement exists with China.

“Without some guardrails around those relationships, we have the potential to have an unregulated arms race,” Dean said. “It’s starting to become a pretty dangerous era.”…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

“There is no limitation on what you can do now,” said Hans Kristensen, director of the nuclear information project at the Federation of American Scientists, a scientific nonprofit that works to reduce threats of global catastrophe, including nuclear war. The U.S. has “swung back to what is fundamentally a revitalized nuclear-weapons production enterprise.” https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/nuclear-fusion-weapons-testing-china-russia-0b5fcfa9?mod=business_lead_story

November 14, 2026 Posted by | technology, USA, weapons and war | Leave a comment

Is a nuclear maintenance crisis looming?

Contractor shortages and ageing
infrastructure are putting additional pressure on nuclear maintenance and
reactor restart plans. According to a survey with engineers, operators and
maintenance teams working in the nuclear industry across the United States
and Canada, more than two-thirds reported a shortage of qualified
contractors as one of the two issues most likely to extend a planned outage
or delay a return to service.

Energy Live News 11th Nov 2026, https://www.energylivenews.com/2026/11/11/is-a-nuclear-maintenance-crisis-looming/

November 14, 2026 Posted by | safety | Leave a comment

Direction to modify Sizewell C Price Control Financial Model (PCFM)

9 November 2026, https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/decision/direction-modify-sizewell-c-price-control-financial-model-pcfm

Our decision to modify the Sizewell C Price Control Financial Model (PCFM) to determine the Variable Values as part of the 2026 Annual Revenue Setting Process.

Details

Having considered the matters set out in the proposed modification and the representation received in response, Ofgem has decided to direct modifications to the Sizewell C Price Control Financial Model (PCFM) to set the Variable Values for the 2026 Annual Revenue Setting Process (ARSP).

We received one response to the proposed modifications from the licensee, Sizewell C Limited. Following consideration of the response and subsequent engagement with Sizewell C Limited, we have made five changes to the Variable Values set out in the proposed direction to modify Sizewell C Price Control Financial Model (PCFM).

PCFM Variable Values are defined parameters within the Price Control Financial Handbook (PCFH) that are used to calculate the Allowed Revenue through the PCFM as part of the ARSP.

Documents

Decision to set the Sizewell C Variable Values [PDF, 137.39KB]

Annex 1: Variable Values table [XLSX, 44.57KB]

Sizewell C response to Ofgem proposal to modify the PCFM [PDF, 171.63KB]

November 14, 2026 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Ukrainian nuclear plant switches to generators after losing final power line

THE HILL, Mira Bhakta – 11/08/26

A Ukrainian nuclear plant switched to generators after losing its final external power line, though the cause of the latest disconnection is still unknown.

“The Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has once again lost all off-site power, forcing it to rely on emergency diesel generators for reactor cooling and other essential nuclear safety and security functions,” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) wrote on social media Sunday.

The plant’s last power line, Ferosplavna-1, stopped working early Sunday but “the cause and location of the latest disconnection are not yet known.”

“It is the 27th such event during the conflict, underlining the continued precarious nuclear safety situation,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of IAEA, said in the statement.

IAEA said they were told by ZNPP that there were enough fuel reserves to operate a limited number of emergency diesel generators for around two weeks. Grossi called to raise the amount of diesel fuel reserves at ZNPP and stressed the need for the plant to be reconnected with the grid……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………https://thehill.com/policy/international/6206805-ukraine-nuclear-safety-threatened/

November 14, 2026 Posted by | safety, Ukraine | Leave a comment