From Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Stephen Miller Gets Promoted to Trump's Chief of Staff

November 7, 2026

By Yiannis Damellos

I have always thought of Stephen Miller as a modern-day Goebbels, the man orchestrating Trump regime’s ideological counterattacks, shaping the narrative and mobilizing MAGA support from the shadows.

Miller’s new promotion to Chief of Staff brings this role into an unsettling political frame. The architect of Trump’s immigration crackdown, political messaging, and expanding executive agenda is moving into the White House’s most powerful unelected position, immediately after the Republican midterm defeat. Why? Because Trump has chosen to elevate one of his most uncompromising loyalists—not to signal a change of direction, but to wage the political fight with even greater determination. Rather than reconsider his course, he is preparing to dig in. GOOD, BECAUSE WE ARE SHARPENING OUR PENCILS.

Europe's Mind-Bomb Threats: Keep Calm and Let the Experts Deal With It

By Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 7, 2026

From passenger aircraft to television networks, a wave of anonymous threats is disrupting European life. Russian fingerprints are being suggested, but the identity of the perpetrators remains unknown. Europe must investigate without allowing intimidation to dictate the public agenda.

Europe does not need another round of public alarm. It needs competent intelligence work, professional investigations and a clear understanding of what is known and what remains speculation. A series of false bomb threats has disrupted passenger flights, prompted aircraft diversions and forced evacuations at television broadcasters. The threats have now spread across several countries and institutions, but no explosives have been discovered. European authorities should treat every credible threat seriously. The public, however, should not be invited to participate in a guessing game conducted by anonymous email senders.

Israel's Arab list backs Eisenkot as Netanyahu loses ultra-Orthodox support

Israel's largest Arab party grouping said Thursday it would recommend opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, potentially bolstering his bid after Arab-majority lists won a record 19 seats in last week's election and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lost the support of an allied religious party.

05/11/2026
By: FRANCE 24
Israel's largest Arab list on Thursday said it would back Gadi Eisenkot to form the next government, bolstering his chances of being picked over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who lost the support of an allied religious party.

The Fight for America's Social Contract Is Ongoing: Sanders and the Progressives Have Multiple Ways to Finance Their Economic Blueprint

By Yiannis Damellos

November 6, 2026

There was just one dark spot in this midterm election: the almost certain defeat of a proposed billionaire wealth tax in California. The skirmish was close, but it did not change the outcome of the broader battle that was won by a landslide, nor does it invalidate the demands for universal healthcare, affordable housing, better wages and accessible education that Democratic Socialists are fighting for. Instead, because the DSA managed something previously unthinkable, it calls for a broader economic strategy, one that distributes the responsibility for financing social progress across corporate America, Wall Street, inherited fortunes and public investment.

The fight for a more equitable American economy is far from over. The rejection of a proposed 5% tax on billionaire wealth represents a setback for one particular financing mechanism, not a rejection of the social programmes that progressive Democrats have been fighting to establish. Bernie Sanders and his allies should understand the result as an invitation to reconsider their strategy, broaden their political coalition and develop alternative ways to finance their ambitions.

Trump Does Not Own the Iran War. Congress Has a Say, and Democrats Now Have the Leverage

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 6, 2026

The president may command the armed forces, but he does not own America's foreign policy, its war-making authority or the future of a conflict that Congress has never authorized. After the Democratic victory in the midterms, Trump needs to understand that the political ground beneath him has shifted.

Donald Trump should stop talking as though the future of the war with Iran is his personal decision to make. He can threaten, announce military plans, promise escalation or declare that he intends to dictate the terms of an eventual settlement. But there is a constitutional institution in Washington that he cannot simply dismiss: the United States Congress.

Clean Water Before Data Centers: American Voters Deliver a Rebuke to Big Tech and Trump's Market Men

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 6 2026

Now wait a minute. What is this latest round of stupidity blaming Democrats for Wall Street's losses in tech stocks? The real stupidity was betting against the public interest, imagining that corporate power could replace quality of life, clean water and affordable electricity — and that Americans would quietly surrender their communities to the AI gold rush.

The midterm election has exposed a growing conflict between corporate power and the public interest. Communities are demanding clean water, affordable electricity and a say in their future while Wall Street is worried about profits. Intelligent people should understand the difference.

France Is Back in the Streets: 600,000 Protesters Challenge Macron's Economic Legacy

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 5, 2026

France - Demonstrations

France is facing another autumn of social unrest, but the latest demonstrations have grown into something larger than a conventional protest over wages. 

 

On Thursday, November 5, hundreds of thousands of workers, students, pensioners and other demonstrators filled streets across the country, demanding higher pay, better public services and action against the rising cost of living. The message was directed at a government increasingly pressed to reconcile its economic ambitions with the everyday difficulties facing ordinary households.

Payback Time: Elon Musk may soon discover what happens when political power changes hands

Elon Musk spent at least $445 million trying to help Republicans retain control of Congress. 

He lost the gamble.

By Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 5, 2026

Democrats swept the midterm elections, captured both chambers and turned the world's richest man into one of Washington's most immediate oversight targets. The billionaire who helped Donald Trump reshape the federal government may soon discover what happens when political power changes hands.

Nithya Raman ousts incumbent Karen Bass in Los Angeles mayor's race, CBS News projects

By Chelsea Hylton, Matthew Rodriguez

Updated on: November 5, 2026 / 6:55 PM PST / CBS LA

Councilmember Nithya Raman will be Los Angeles' next mayor after defeating incumbent Karen Bass in the November general election, CBS News projects.

Raman's win comes after resounding victories for Democrats across the country on Election Day.

When Donald J. Trump met Wile E. Coyote: The Dummymander

Trump Tried to Gerrymander His Way to a Republican House. 

The Voters Turned His Map Against Him. 

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

There is a particular moment in every Wile E. Coyote cartoon when the audience knows what is coming. The Coyote has studied the terrain, purchased an elaborate invention from ACME, calculated the trajectory, checked the wind and prepared what he believes is an absolutely foolproof plan to catch the Roadrunner. Then the machine goes off, the dust settles, and somewhere below the cliff a tiny cloud of smoke marks the end of another brilliant operation. Donald Trump might want to study those cartoons. His Republican Party has just experienced something remarkably similar.

To Shape the Future of Digital Money, Jamie Dimon Wants Crypto to Play by Wall Street's Rules

Jamie Dimon has a message for the cryptocurrency industry: if you want to behave like a bank, you should be regulated like one

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 5, 2026

The JPMorgan Chase CEO is drawing a hard line over one of the most contentious questions in American finance: should cryptocurrency companies be allowed to pay customers interest-like rewards on stablecoin balances without accepting the regulatory obligations imposed on traditional banks?

US midterms result may change how world treats Donald Trump and his administration

ABC NEWS AUSTRALIA

By global affairs editor Laura Tingle

Topic: World Politics

Posted about 1h ago

For the past two years, much of the world — as represented by both its leaders and its media — has been held in awe of the increasingly dangerous whims of a visibly declining and erratic old man.

When that old man is the president of the United States — from the moment he was elected for a second time — there seemed to be little choice but to take his actions seriously and to believe they were part of a thought-through strategy.

Deutsche Welle: French blood banks targeted by refrigerator cyberattack

Wesley Rahn with AP, AFP, Reuters

13 hours ago

A cyberattack attempted to destroy blood plasma by raising the temperatures in cold storage facilities past the boiling point.

Blood banks in France were included among cyberattacks that hit refrigeration systems in several European countries on Sunday and Monday, French authorities said on Wednesday.

John Ossof Made Accountability Impossible to Ignore - as an Investigator and a Senator

By Yiannis Damellos

November 5, 2026

Vancouver, BC Canada

Jon Ossoff, a former journalist and Senator won reelection to the U.S. Senate in Georgia on November 3, defeating Republican Mike Collins. 

The Associated Press called the race.

Source:  Washington Post's article "Jon Ossoff’s films exposed corruption. 

Then his colleague was murdered." by By Ian Ward. 

In January 2019, Jon Ossoff received a series of calls that changed how he thought about the limits of his work. Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela, a Ghanaian journalist who had worked with Ossoff’s documentary company, had been shot and killed. The two had collaborated on an investigation into corruption in African soccer—an inquiry that had helped expose officials taking bribes and set off a political storm. Before Divela’s death, a Ghanaian politician had publicly urged people to attack him. No one has been convicted in connection with the killing.

Go Nithya, Go! From New York to Los Angeles, the Progressive Challenge Is Reshaping Democratic Politics

Mamdani's political breakthrough was no isolated victory. With progressive candidates advancing in congressional races, a historic Senate victory in Michigan and a possible earthquake in Los Angeles, the movement is challenging the Democratic establishment on multiple fronts. 

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 4, 2026

LOS ANGELES — The political establishment in America's second-largest city may be facing a restructuring of its own. Nithya Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has opened a lead over incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in a closely watched contest that has exposed the growing divide between traditional Democratic power brokers and a younger, more progressive political coalition.

A NATO That Lasted a Few Weeks

The “Islamic NATO” has proved to be little more than a public-relations firework, with no credible deterrent or capacity to intervene. The initiative exposes the confusion and insecurity of its founding members.
By Giorgos Kapopoulos for EFSYN.GR
Thursday, November 5, 2026 - ATHENS, GREECE

At first, everything appeared to be unfolding better than expected, particularly when it came to public relations. An “Islamic NATO” with three founding members — Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan — and a fourth, Egypt, which came close to joining but dropped out along the way. It was a sudden development that offered an early warning of just how limited the substance of the Mecca Agreement might prove to be.

Data centers are the midterms' other big loser

Candidates who promised to crack down on data centers 

won big Tuesday night

By Timothy Cama and Amelia Davidson

04/11/2026 9:43 AM GMT-7

The small army of congressional candidates who ran to victory Tuesday vowing to halt the expansion of data centers — including some of the country’s most prominent incoming Democratic senators — are poised to make Capitol Hill far more antagonistic toward the AI infrastructure build-out and increase pressure on their colleagues to act on new regulations.

FLIP MODE ACTIVATED: America Shows the Exit on Trump as Democrats Capture Congress

By Yiannis Damellos and Mars Strangelove Jr.

November 3, 2026

We are not going to brag here at The Greek Courier. While it might seem like Trump will flip like the states he lost, we are simply going to enjoy the moment after a long, exhausting, and often stressful fight. Frankly, it felt like the good old days, when Democrats stood for something, when political commitment meant showing up, getting organized, and turning out to vote en masse. At the end of the day, this was more than an election; it was an act of participation by millions of people who understood that their democracy could not be taken for granted. They mobilized, they galvanized, and they delivered.

Democrats captured both chambers of Congress in a stunning midterm reversal, flipping Republican-held seats across the country and turning the political map upside down. Washington has a new balance of power, and the Demos made it happen.