Radio Free
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description: Independent Media for People, Not Profits.
date: 2025-12-04T06:14:40Z
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items: Murder Most Foul—Double Tap Survivors
items: Why Settler Violence in West Bank Is Part of Larger Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
items: Chinese journalist Du Bin detained for third time, held since October
items: A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools
items: Encampments Criminalize the Unhoused
items: "We Outnumber These Corporations": Ralph Nader on Fighting Big Money
items: Sara Nelson on Why Worker Unity is Key to Success [Re-Air – Episode Cut]
items: A New New Orleans
items: Empty Hope
items: A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
items: Nick Turse On Reporting During Trump 2.0
items: ‘Microsoft workers refuse to be complicit in the genocide’
items: Free buses can be a reality — just look at Maryland
items: EPA Employees Challenge Firings for Signing Dissent Letter
items: Merchants of Myth: new report exposes plastic recycling as costly failure
items: How Israeli media reinforces government propaganda
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items: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 3, 2025
items: UN News Today 03 December 2025
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items: Ralph Nader on Trump’s "Entrenching Dictatorship," Reclaiming Congress, and Fighting Big Money
items: U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank
items: Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 3, 2025
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items: The Journey Through Anxiety and Healing
items: “WTO/99” Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: “These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”
items: Ralph Nader on Trump’s “Entrenching Dictatorship,” Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money
items: U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi
items: Headlines for December 3, 2025
items: Democracy Now! 2025-12-03 Wednesday
items: DN! Wednesday, December 3, 2025
items: Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.
items: Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
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items: Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches
items: UAE-backed paramilitary forces abduct political commentator in southwestern Yemen
items: Director Whitney White on how to lead with passion and foster opportunity for others
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items: Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
items: On Beauty Queens, the Press Corps, and the Collapse of Journalistic Courage
items: NATO’s Five Percent Gamble
items: Faunalytics, Cultivated Meat and Left-Wing Populism
items: COP30 Was Underwhelming, But a Path Away From Fossil Fuels Still Exists
items: Shootings, the National Guard and ‘Thoughts and Prayers’.
items: The Donroe Doctrine
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items: When Obedience Becomes Complicity: From Mỹ Lai to Today’s Military Conscience
items: The Trump Peace Plan: A Study in Diplomatic Malfeasance
items: Fog Of Bullshit: Racist Clowns, Liars and Psycopaths
items: Genocide by Corporate Oligarchy
items: Beyond Eco-Anxiety w/ Tori Tsui
items: Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott Seventy Years On
items: No More Blueprints
items: Trump Admin Sides With Bayer Over Cancer Patients In Supreme Court Bid to Block Pesticide Lawsuits
items: Mamdani & Sanders join Starbucks workers’ strike in NYC

Murder Most Foul—Double Tap Survivors
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creator: Kary Love
date: 2025-12-04T06:14:40Z
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description: Growing up surrounded by World War II veterans, most of whom refused to discuss their service fighting the horrid fascist enemies, as kids we turned to the movies to learn about war. The WWII Vets I knew did not brag about their “lethality,” or their “warrior ethos.” Most of them refused to talk about it More The post Murder Most Foul—Double Tap Survivors appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Why Settler Violence in West Bank Is Part of Larger Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
type: item
creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-04T00:01:03Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: bank
subject: cleansing
subject: Democracy
subject: ethnic
subject: larger,
subject: now
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: settler
subject: sources
subject: violence
subject: west
subject: why
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Chinese journalist Du Bin detained for third time, held since October
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2025-12-03T23:42:10Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: Chinese
subject: committee
subject: Detained
subject: for
subject: held
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: october
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subject: since
subject: sources
subject: third
subject: Time
description: New York, December 3, 2025—Chinese authorities must immediately release journalist Du Bin, drop all charges related to his work, and end the campaign of harassment against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Du, 53, was detained at his home in Beijing on October 15, a day before he was scheduled to fly to...
encoded: New York, December 3, 2025—Chinese authorities must immediately release journalist Du Bin, drop all charges related to his work, and end the campaign of harassment against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Du, 53, was detained at his home in Beijing on October 15, a day before he was scheduled to fly to Japan, according to his sister Du Jirong, who was quoted in multiple news reports. She said her brother is currently being held at the Shunyi Detention Center in Beijing and that police had told the family he is facing charges of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” an accusation commonly used against journalists and political dissidents in China. Chinese journalist Su Yutong, who is based in Berlin and familiar with the case, told CPJ she had been informed by a source that police detained Du because of a book he authored that was deemed to have “attacked state leaders.” The source did not specify which leaders or book authorities were referring to. “This is the third time Du Bin has been detained by Chinese authorities; this is a campaign of harassment,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi. “Du is a journalist, dedicated to reporting the truth, and should be freed immediately and unconditionally.” Du, a freelance writer, filmmaker, and photographer, has previously worked for state-owned newspapers such as Beijing Youth Daily and for international outlets including The New York Times. He has long reported on human rights issues and written multiple books about China’s leaders, politics, and historical events. In 2013, he released a documentary on the alleged abuses of women at a forced labor camp, and published a book about the Tiananmen Square crackdown that led to his first period of detention for 37 days in May of that year. He was detained for another 37 days in December 2020. On both occasions he was accused of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” China consistently ranks as the world’s worst jailer of journalists, with at…

A Quiet Revolution Is Improving Schools
type: item
creator: Jeff Bryant
date: 2025-12-03T22:24:53Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: improving,
subject: progressive
subject: quiet
subject: Revolution
subject: schools
subject: sources
subject: the
description: But media pundits and reporters ignore it, and Republicans are trying to kill it.
encoded: But media pundits and reporters ignore it, and Republicans are trying to kill it. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Jeff Bryant.

Encampments Criminalize the Unhoused
type: item
creator: Jesse Fairbanks
date: 2025-12-03T22:14:01Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: criminalize
subject: encampments,
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: unhoused
description: Building an entirely new carceral system for people experiencing homelessness, including the recently announced facility in Utah, will create harm instead of care.
encoded: Building an entirely new carceral system for people experiencing homelessness, including the recently announced facility in Utah, will create harm instead of care. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Jesse Fairbanks.

"We Outnumber These Corporations": Ralph Nader on Fighting Big Money
type: item
creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T22:00:22Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: ‘we
subject: big
subject: corporations
subject: Democracy
subject: fighting
subject: Money
subject: nader
subject: now
subject: outnumber
subject: ralph
subject: sources
subject: these
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Sara Nelson on Why Worker Unity is Key to Success [Re-Air – Episode Cut]
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-12-03T20:25:51Z
subject: Sources
subject: [re-air]
subject: cut
subject: episode
subject: key
subject: nelson
subject: Politics
subject: sara
subject: sources
subject: success
subject: Unity
subject: why
subject: worker
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.

A New New Orleans
type: item
creator: Alexandra Tempus
date: 2025-12-03T20:07:11Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: new
subject: orleans
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the city is still taking shape as a home of climate migrants.
encoded: Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the city is still taking shape as a home of climate migrants. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Alexandra Tempus.

Empty Hope
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creator: Nourdine Shnino
date: 2025-12-03T19:26:01Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: empty
subject: hope
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
description: A journalist reflects on fleeing Gaza City with his family—and returning to rubble after the announcement of a so-called ceasefire.
encoded: A journalist reflects on fleeing Gaza City with his family—and returning to rubble after the announcement of a so-called ceasefire. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Nourdine Shnino.

A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
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creator: Richard A. Webster
date: 2025-12-03T19:00:00Z
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
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subject: bail
subject: conviction
subject: Criminal Justice
subject: death
subject: execute
subject: him
subject: his
subject: inmate
subject: louisiana
subject: overturned
subject: prison
subject: propublica
subject: released
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subject: wants
subject: was
description: The post A Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail After His Conviction Was Overturned. Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Jimmie “Chris” Duncan walked out of the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center and into the arms of his parents last week after spending the last 27 years on death row. Seven months ago, a Louisiana district court judge vacated his murder conviction for killing his former girlfriend’s toddler, citing doubts about the evidence used to convict him. The judge granted bail after multiple legal delays, including an unsuccessful request by prosecutors to the Louisiana Supreme Court to stop his release. Now free, Duncan spent Thanksgiving with his family — then celebrated his 57th birthday the next day. “We thank God for Jimmie coming home,” Duncan’s stepmom, Sharon Duncan, said in an emailed statement on behalf of the family. But Duncan’s journey to freedom is far from over. Prosecutors have asked the state Supreme Court to reinstate his death sentence. Duncan’s attorneys declined to make him immediately available for an interview. The April decision by Judge Alvin Sharp to set aside Duncan’s conviction and death sentence came after a Verite News and ProPublica investigation examined the reliability of the key forensic evidence used to convict him. At the time, Duncan faced the possibility of being put to death as Gov. Jeff Landry, a staunch death penalty advocate, made moves to expedite executions after a 15-year pause. Sharp, of the 4th Judicial District in Ouachita Parish, found that Duncan’s conviction was based in part on bite mark evidence now considered by experts to be junk science. That original analysis came from forensic dentist Michael West and pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne, whose longtime partnership as state experts has been questioned following concerns about the validity of their techniques. West, who did not respond to previous requests for comment, admitted in a 2011 deposition in another case that he no longer believed in bite mark analysis. Hayne died in 2020. Over the past 27 years, nine prisoners have been set free after being convicted in part on inaccu…

Nick Turse On Reporting During Trump 2.0
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creator: The Intercept
date: 2025-12-03T18:59:15Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Intercept
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subject: during
subject: intercept
subject: nick
subject: reporting
subject: sources
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subject: trump
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description: This content originally appeared on The Intercept and was authored by The Intercept.
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‘Microsoft workers refuse to be complicit in the genocide’
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creator: Maximillian Alvarez
date: 2025-12-03T18:43:15Z
subject: Politics and Movements: International
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Sources
subject: video
subject: Working People
subject: and
subject: complicit
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: International
subject: israel
subject: Labor
subject: microsoft
subject: movements
subject: Palestine
subject: People
subject: Politics
subject: refuse
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: Video
subject: Workers
subject: working?
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Free buses can be a reality — just look at Maryland
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creator: Alexis Goldstein
date: 2025-12-03T18:39:51Z
subject: article
subject: Economy and Inequality
subject: Politics and Movements: US
subject: Reprint
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: baltimore
subject: buses
subject: can
subject: economy
subject: free
subject: inequality
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subject: maryland
subject: movements
subject: new york
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EPA Employees Challenge Firings for Signing Dissent Letter
type: item
creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2025-12-03T18:16:47Z
subject: Common Dreams
subject: Sources
subject: challenge
subject: common
subject: dissent
subject: dreams
subject: employees
subject: epa
subject: firings
subject: for
subject: Letter
subject: signing
subject: sources
description: Today, six former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees filed First Amendment legal challenges to their recent firings for signing a letter of dissent. The six employees were among approximately 160 EPA employees who publicly signed a J...
encoded: Today, six former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees filed First Amendment legal challenges to their recent firings for signing a letter of dissent. The six employees were among approximately 160 EPA employees who publicly signed a June 30th open letter to Administrator Lee Zeldin and members of Congress protesting the politization of science at EPA and warning that EPA’s actions under this administration were endangering public health and the environment. The EPA employees filed their claims before the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), a federal agency that resolves appeals from terminated federal government employees. Counsel for the fired employees includes Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), James & Hoffman, P.C., Minahan Muther Klinger, P.C., and Brown Gaines, LLC. The former employees argue, among other things, their removals were illegal because – They were fired for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech; Their firings were illegal retaliation for perceived political affiliation; Their firings were an arbitrarily harsh and inconsistent punishment for their actions in relationship to other signatories of the letter; and, They were fired without cause. EPA only fired a small number of employees, most of whom had long careers of distinguished government service. Many other workers who publicly signed the letter were suspended without pay for two weeks. “Federal employees have the right to speak out on matters of public concern in their personal capacities, even when they do so in dissent,” says Joanna Citron Day, General Counsel for PEER. “EPA is not only undermining the First Amendment’s free speech protections by trying to silence its own workforce, it is also placing U.S. citizens in peril by removing experienced employees who are tasked with carrying out EPA’s critical mission.” “Federal law protects these civil servants from arbitrary terminations,” said Daniel Rosenthal, a partner at James &…

Merchants of Myth: new report exposes plastic recycling as costly failure
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2025-12-03T18:12:49Z
subject: Common Dreams
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subject: merchants
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description: A new report from Greenpeace USA reveals plastic recycling has largely failed after decades of being touted by corporations as a solution to the pollution crisis. The report uncovered that only a fifth of the 8.8 million tons of the most commonly prod...
encoded: A new report from Greenpeace USA reveals plastic recycling has largely failed after decades of being touted by corporations as a solution to the pollution crisis. The report uncovered that only a fifth of the 8.8 million tons of the most commonly produced types of plastics — found in items like bottles, jugs, food containers, and caps — are actually recyclable. Moreover, plastic recycling rates in the United States have been cut in half since 2014, from 9.5% to roughly 5–6% today. The report concludes that plastic recycling is no more of a viable solution now than it was in the 1950s. Our team of researchers also uncovered the effort by the plastic industry, retailers, prominent plastic-reliant brands, and related trade associations — the so-called “Merchants of Myth” — to mislead the public, protect their profits, and delay regulatory action. Major brands like Coca-Cola, Unilever, and Nestlé have been quietly retracting sustainability commitments while continuing to rely on single-use plastic packaging. On top of this, the U.S. plastic industry is undermining meaningful plastic regulation by making false claims about the recyclability of their products to avoid bans and reduce public backlash. As global plastic production continues to climb and is projected to triple by 2050, our report investigates the ineffectiveness of voluntary measures without regulatory support. John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA oceans campaigner director, said: “Recycling is a toxic lie pushed by the plastics industry that is now being propped up by a pro-plastic narrative emanating from the White House. These corporations and their partners continue to sell the public a comforting lie to hide the hard truth: that we simply have to stop producing so much plastic. Instead of investing in real solutions, they’ve poured billions into public relations campaigns that keep us hooked on single-use plastic while our communities, oceans, and bodies pay the price.” Despite growing public awareness of the e…

How Israeli media reinforces government propaganda
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Who Was Behind The Violence After Bulgaria’s Mass Protests?
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 3, 2025
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 3, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

UN News Today 03 December 2025
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creator: Daniel Johnson
date: 2025-12-03T17:32:26Z
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description: Ukrainians brace for another winter of hardship amid Russian invasion: OCHAUN deminers appeal for greater support to slow deadly legacy from world’s conflictsGaza: As fragile ceasefire holds, aid teams continue vital work, WHO says
encoded: Ukrainians brace for another winter of hardship amid Russian invasion: OCHAUN deminers appeal for greater support to slow deadly legacy from world’s conflictsGaza: As fragile ceasefire holds, aid teams continue vital work, WHO says This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

India-based real estate firm Prestige Group has no connection with Hong Kong building that caught fire
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description: After the inferno at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po district claimed the lives of at least 151 people, an X account named RTSG News claimed that the... The post India-based real estate firm Prestige Group has no connection with Hong Kong building that caught fire appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: After the inferno at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po district claimed the lives of at least 151 people, an X account named RTSG News claimed that the owner of the firm that was responsible for the maintenance of the ill-fated project, Prestige Construction, was an Indian national, Irfan Razack. On November 26, 2025, seven out of eight phases of the Wang Fuk Court were engulfed in flames, marking Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in a decade. The blaze was fully extinguished by the morning of November 28, after around 40 hours of relentless efforts by more than 2,000 firefighters. The X account RTSG News, which claims to be “the only source that reports #RealNewsOnly”, posted two pictures, one supposedly of Irfan Razack and the other of the complex in flames. Describing the post as a “Report”, the user claimed that the firm that was responsible for the maintenance work at Wang Fuk Court, Prestige Construction, was owned by an Irfan Razack, an Indian. REPORT: The company Prestige Construction, which was responsible for the Hong Kong Fire, is owned by Irfan Razack, an Indian billionaire entrepreneur from Bangalore. Mainland China has been trying to update infrastructure in Hong Kong for years, but has not tried to… pic.twitter.com/AB3A3K6Q32 — RTSG News (@RTSG_News) November 29, 2025 According to its website, RTSG “is an international research collective that brings reality to a world of Fake News”. It further says, “We prize our independence, reliablity, and editorial discipline. All articles and posts are vigorously fact-checked and researched by our writers and editors”. Fact Check First, Irfan Razack, whose photo is attached in the above post, is the CMD of Prestige Group, which is a real estate company based in Bangalore, India. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-307985" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Screenshot-2025-12-03-014925.png" alt="" width="1181" height="641" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/w…

Trump Administration Proposes Gutting Mile-Per-Gallon Auto Rule
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date: 2025-12-03T17:29:14Z
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description: President Trump’s Department of Transportation today formally proposed gutting CAFE mile-per-gallon standards, which save billions of gallons of gas and save consumers billions at the pump. The agency signaled its intent to finalize the actions by yea...
encoded: President Trump’s Department of Transportation today formally proposed gutting CAFE mile-per-gallon standards, which save billions of gallons of gas and save consumers billions at the pump. The agency signaled its intent to finalize the actions by year’s end. Trump’s action is illegal because the CAFE law requires that the standards be set at the “maximum feasible” level, yet the new weak rule ignores not just the feasibility of clean technology but the existence of millions of efficient cars on the road. “In one stroke Trump is worsening three of our nation’s most vexing problems: the thirst for oil, high gas pump costs and global warming,” said Dan Becker, director of the <a href="https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rC-2FAMnoxH9oMW8MWXnEUYkVHpKfqX997S9BFSvP8PyYDCNiQr_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPyhKWA4iiF6MSH6OJ2-2BUNtBAHsM9WPS35FVKJVmFTjW-2FWiR-2BxlXLQn4Q9uVTJsSqLjOYjnblQyeNX7ltR5kgZBdcF50nQ2NFPsFsajFxru0bJrwwLfc58IsfF-2FWw1Nj1vn8uK8ysSD4gJTdEY9wM9BSSYqht9Rqo8NkNs-2FiN8fNxEKs9JKibMc76afFiTPR4KoZD053ob1iK9BpE8z5L9-2ByyIWG8OYIeELXU1LMbLIx7YLItVIqqQ3DhUqqsnzQlVrw5tjx3dD2VjlKCDn4und-2Br2Wp-2FP6MhK2A9Wf87AHEpXg-2FBcYpWejQ4oxAYkdnis-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >Center for Biological Diversity’s <a href="https://u7061146.ct.sendgrid.net/ls/click?upn=u001.gqh-2BaxUzlo7XKIuSly0rCzbe9BreIgTZu6qBWE-2FTCy1DaTx-2BovLZQjhA8NC6Milzg-B2_ciJuXYfraQrmEXzxHGEcWNeiZKy7tdzQawxB4GG8-2FLPyhKWA4iiF6MSH6OJ2-2BUNtBAHsM9WPS35FVKJVmFTjW-2FWiR-2BxlXLQn4Q9uVTJsSqLjOYjnblQyeNX7ltR5kgZBdcF50nQ2NFPsFsajFxru0bJrwwLfc58IsfF-2FWw1Nj1vn8uK8ysSD4gJTdEY9wM9BSSYqht9Rqo8NkNs-2FiN8fNwZwr93hdvWk-2FGGNs1SsEpa459t0c10oqQhWpM-2Fne0m1fnqRejHUp0P3CCYw7nLx1JJdjsy3tvAXc4pXbutluz9zvlyR8uoIQ5-2B-2B6ZfT9QPKx7qHREsUHn3Was2Dw1tCZ9XcMF0wSTx10GhQuZeQiDQ-3D" rel="noopener noreferrer" >Safe Climate Transport Campaign. “The cure for pollution and high gas costs is strong fuel economy standards, not killing them as a favor to the president’s Big Oil, Big Auto and OPEC g…

How to stand up to ICE: Lessons from Chicago and Charlotte
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creator: Marc Steiner
date: 2025-12-03T16:56:28Z
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subject: charlotte
subject: chicago
subject: Fascism
subject: from
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subject: ice
subject: lessons
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subject: Policing
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subject: Prisons
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How Is Moscow Creating A Parallel Banking System?
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-12-03T16:52:45Z
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subject: Banking
subject: creating
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subject: system
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Viral video of man trying to fly using makeshift wings is AI-generated
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creator: Oishani Bhattacharya
date: 2025-12-03T16:41:39Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
subject: ai-generated
subject: alt
subject: Featured
subject: fly
subject: makeshift
subject: man
subject: News
subject: Politics
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subject: trying
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subject: Video
subject: viral
subject: wings
description: A 10-second-long clip showing a man attempting to fly off a building using a makeshift flying machine and then falling down on the roof of a car is viral on... The post Viral video of man trying to fly using makeshift wings is AI-generated appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A 10-second-long clip showing a man attempting to fly off a building using a makeshift flying machine and then falling down on the roof of a car is viral on social media. Users are sharing the video and mocking the man by using the caption: “After the Wright brothers… the wrong brother”. X user DEBASHISH NEOGI (@DEBU_NEOGI) posted the above-mentioned video on December 1 with the aforementioned caption. (Archive) After wright brothers.. the wrong brother pic.twitter.com/zdMcMtbXT4 — DEBASHISH NEOGI (@DEBU_NEOGI) December 1, 2025 Another X user, The Legal Man (@LegalTL), also shared the viral clip on December 1 with the following caption: “The Indian James Bond @007 in Indian #Thunderball #SeanConnery #JamesBond”. (Archive) The Indian James Bond @007 in Indian #Thunderball #SeanConnery#JamesBond pic.twitter.com/ETWHwYSGrO — The Legal Man (@LegalTL) December 1, 2025 Several other users had shared the viral video mocking the man and implying that the clip portrays a real incident. Below are a few instances. Click to view slideshow. Alt News has received requests on its WhatsApp helpline to verify the video. Fact Check We noticed some discrepancies in the clip that raise doubts about its authenticity. While at the start of the video, one can see that the flying machine used by the man has two blades, once he jumps, two more blades appear, which seem to be floating in the air. <img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-308009" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Add-a-subheading.jpg" alt="" width="1080" height="1350" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Add-a-subheading.jpg 1080w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Add-a-subheading-240x300.jpg 240w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Add-a-subheading-819x1024.jpg 819w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Add-a-subheading-768x960.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /> Further, right before he falls on the roof…

We stand in solidarity with these organisations who continue fighting in the face of oppression.
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2025-12-03T16:40:12Z
subject: Amnesty International
subject: Sources
subject: ‘stand
subject: amnesty
subject: continue
subject: face
subject: fighting
subject: International
subject: oppression
subject: organisations
subject: Solidarity
subject: sources
subject: the
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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The attempted murder of a veteran journalist stirs fear, defiance in Colombia
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creator: John Otis/CPJ Andean Representative
date: 2025-12-03T16:28:26Z
subject: Alexander Díaz
subject: Ana Milena Torres
subject: Attacked
subject: Bloque Jorge Suárez Briceño
subject: Bogotá’s El Tiempo
subject: Camilo Ramírez
subject: Caracol Radio Guaviare
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Erika Londoño
subject: Es el Colmo
subject: Foundation for Press Freedom
subject: Gustavo Chicangana Álvarez
subject: Harassed
subject: Sources
subject: Threatened
subject: alexander
subject: Álvarez
subject: ana
subject: attacked,
subject: attempted
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subject: briceño
subject: camilo
subject: caracol
subject: chicangana
subject: colmo
subject: Colombia
subject: committee
subject: defiance
subject: díaz
subject: erika
subject: FARC
subject: fear
subject: for
subject: foundation
subject: Freedom
subject: guaviare
subject: gustavo
subject: harassed
subject: jorge
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: londoño
subject: milena
subject: murder
subject: press
subject: protect
subject: radio
subject: ramírez
subject: sources
subject: stirs
subject: suárez
subject: the
subject: threatened
subject: tiempo
subject: torres
subject: veteran
description: Wanted Colombian rebel leader Aníbal Hernández Garavito was irate when he called into the local Es el Colmo (“It’s the last straw”) radio program at 5:48 a.m. on March 14, 2025. His voice raised, Hernández slammed the station’s critical coverage of his guerrilla group, but show host Gustavo Chicangana Álvarez refused to be bullied. Hernández, who had a $13,000 bounty on...
encoded: Wanted Colombian rebel leader Aníbal Hernández Garavito was irate when he called into the local Es el Colmo (“It’s the last straw”) radio program at 5:48 a.m. on March 14, 2025. His voice raised, Hernández slammed the station’s critical coverage of his guerrilla group, but show host Gustavo Chicangana Álvarez refused to be bullied. Hernández, who had a $13,000 bounty on his head for killing Colombian army soldiers, claimed that his gunmen were a force for progress. However, Chicangana pushed back. Speaking on behalf of the rebel group’s victims, the journalist grilled Hernández over the group’s alleged crimes, such as drug smuggling, kidnappings and child recruitment, which have plunged the southern Colombian department of Guaviare into violence. “The people want to know why you are extorting farmers and business owners,” Chicangana declared during the 20-minute conversation. “They feel strangled by these demands for payments.” Over the next few days Chicangana, a veteran news director of Caracol Radio Guaviare, based in the department capital of San José del Guaviare, put the heated exchange behind him and moved on to other stories. But according to sources in the Colombian attorney general’s office, Chicangana’s critical questioning had angered the guerrillas to the point that they marked the journalist for death. Escaping death: ‘This guy suddenly appeared’ Hernández’s rebel group, called the Bloque Jorge Suárez Briceño, had “held a meeting and decided to assassinate the journalist,” a government investigator not authorized to speak on the record told CPJ on condition of anonymity. On the evening of July 5, Chicangana and his wife, Ana Milena Torres, were leaving their house in San José del Guaviare when they were confronted by a man with a revolver. The man, later identified by authorities as Wilmer Perea, fired a series of shots at them from point-blank range. “I fell to the floor and put my hands over my face,” Chicangana remembered, pain welling up in his eye…

‘Not journalism – theater’: Inside Israel’s press tours to Gaza
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creator: Kholod Massalha
date: 2025-12-03T16:08:38Z
subject: Censored
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Israel-Gaza war
subject: Legal Action
subject: Sources
subject: action
subject: censored
subject: committee
subject: gaza
subject: inside
subject: israel gaza
subject: israel’s
subject: journalism
subject: Journalists
subject: legal
subject: not
subject: Politics
subject: press
subject: protect
subject: sources
subject: Theater
subject: tours
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description: Nazareth, December 3, 2025 — Foreign correspondents entering Gaza under Israeli military escort describe conditions that prevent independent reporting and reinforce longstanding Committee to Protect Journalist concerns: escorted visits are not meaningful access and cannot satisfy Israel’s obligations under international law to enable independent newsgathering. Since the Israel-Gaza war began in October 2023, Israel has...
encoded: Nazareth, December 3, 2025 — Foreign correspondents entering Gaza under Israeli military escort describe conditions that prevent independent reporting and reinforce longstanding Committee to Protect Journalist concerns: escorted visits are not meaningful access and cannot satisfy Israel’s obligations under international law to enable independent newsgathering. Since the Israel-Gaza war began in October 2023, Israel has prevented journalists from outside Gaza entering independently, leaving Palestinians to document what human rights groups and UN experts agree is a genocide. CPJ spoke to three journalists who were taken on escorted visits to Gaza since the October 2023 ceasefire. Their experiences show consistent patterns of restricted movement, curated interactions, pre-publication review, and staged visuals. Three other journalists that CPJ asked to comment on their experience of military-controlled trips declined, citing fear of retribution. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" height="683" width="1024" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-11-05T180156Z_1573522546_RC2AQHALG1IE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-EMBED.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-542855" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-11-05T180156Z_1573522546_RC2AQHALG1IE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-EMBED.jpg 7252w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-11-05T180156Z_1573522546_RC2AQHALG1IE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-EMBED.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-11-05T180156Z_1573522546_RC2AQHALG1IE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-EMBED.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-11-05T180156Z_1573522546_RC2AQHALG1IE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-EMBED.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-11-05T180156Z_1573522546_RC2AQHALG1IE_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-GAZA-EMBED.jpg?resize=1536,1024 1536w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/20…

The UN’s Financing Crisis: Who Pays, Who Doesn’t, and Why China’s Delays Matter
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description: The United Nations is facing one of the gravest financial crises in its history. According to the UN Secretariat, by late 2025, only 145 of its 193 member states had paid their assessed contributions in full. That leaves 48 countries behind on their obligations, with total arrears amounting to $1.87 billion. The consequences are severe: […] The post The UN’s Financing Crisis: Who Pays, Who Doesn’t, and Why China’s Delays Matter first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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The Magic Begging Bowl
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subject: Gregory Peck
subject: John McEnroe
subject: Robbie Williams
subject: Ronnie O’Sullivan
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description: ‘One day a beggar knocked on the doors of a great king. By chance, the king himself opened the door. He saw the beggar: the beggar was not an ordinary beggar, he was almost luminous. He had such grace, such beauty, such a mysterious aura, that even the king felt jealous. He asked, “What do […] The post The Magic Begging Bowl first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Conditions Are Ripe for a Resistance Counter-Offensive
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creator: Ted Glick
date: 2025-12-03T15:53:49Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Joe McCarthy
subject: Margaret Taylor Green
subject: No Kings
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Sources
subject: Activism
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subject: taylor
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subject: voice
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description: It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: -Trump’s polling numbers keep going down, at 36% positive and 60% negative in the latest Gallup Poll; -Four […] The post Conditions Are Ripe for a Resistance Counter-Offensive first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: It’s been over ten long months that the forces of democracy have been on the defensive, doing our best to withstand the many and various assaults on us on issue after issue, but the tide is turning: -Trump’s polling numbers keep going down, at 36% positive and 60% negative in the latest Gallup Poll; -Four weeks after Democratic Party electoral victories all over the country on November 4, it’s possible as I write that, today, a Democrat running for Congress in a special election in Tennessee could win despite, in the 2024 election, the Republican candidate winning by a 22% margin of victory; -Long-time MAGA leader Margaret Taylor Green is resigning from Congress and publicly criticizing Trump on health care, the Epstein issue and more, with the likelihood that other Republican House members will follow her lead; -The Epstein sex trafficking crisis is not going away! -Trump’s “Justice” Department’s indictments against James Comey and Letitia James have been thrown out by a US District Court judge; -Congressional Republicans are on the defensive over what to do about the health care crisis, overall, with the specific problem of huge increases in premiums, doubling, tripling or more, for millions of people by the end of the year; this was one of the main reasons for Green’s resignation; -And now comes the Caribbean motorboat revelations about Pete Hegseth giving the illegal order to “kill everybody” on those boats even if a boat has been destroyed and there are survivors. True to form, exposed as they have been, rats like Hegseth are deserting a sinking ship by trying to shift the blame to a career military admiral. Remember that it was Joe McCarthy in the 1950’s attacking the US military that was the beginning of the end for his McCarthyite repressive campaign. There are probably some on the political Left who would counsel that we allow all of this to keep unfolding and not “rock the sinking boat,” just let it take its course, but I don’t agree at all. We should do j…

Casablanca’s Captain Renault Resurrected
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creator: Philip A. Faruggio
date: 2025-12-03T15:50:59Z
subject: Casablanca
subject: Claude Rains
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Humphrey Bogart
subject: Pete Hegseth
subject: Sources
subject: bogart
subject: captain
subject: casablanca
subject: casablanca’s
subject: claude
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subject: hegseth
subject: humphrey
subject: marco rubio
subject: pete
subject: Politics
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subject: renault
subject: resurrected
subject: sources
subject: United States
subject: Venezuela
subject: voice
subject: War Crimes
description: Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick’s Cafe he relayed the ultimatum to Rick (played by Humphrey Bogart). Rick questioned why his cafe was being shutting? Renault simply answered, “I’m shocked to find that there’s gambling going on in here!” […] The post Casablanca’s Captain Renault Resurrected first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Remember the famous line by Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca? After being told by his Nazi handlers to close Rick’s Cafe he relayed the ultimatum to Rick (played by Humphrey Bogart). Rick questioned why his cafe was being shutting? Renault simply answered, “I’m shocked to find that there’s gambling going on in here!” — this as he then took his chips from the croupier. The actions by my government since September of blowing up a score of speedboats from the sky is more than a war crime. You see, we are NOT at war with Venezuela, and this was another example of extra-territorial massacres, just as the Israelis have been doing since God knows how long. Trump and his crew, led by Little Marco (Rubio) and Pistol Pete (Hegseth) and a cast of characters too lame to ever be in any government, just continues to leave a trail of tears on the open waters. Shame on them and shame on any politician, and of course any American who supports this evil. The post Casablanca’s Captain Renault Resurrected first appeared on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by Philip A. Faruggio.

Director of "WTO/99" Documentary on Anti-Globalization Movement: "These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T15:47:31Z
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subject: issues
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Tierra Walker Wasn’t Offered an Abortion. Her High-Risk Pregnancy Killed Her.
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creator: ProPublica
date: 2025-12-03T15:45:02Z
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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Ralph Nader on Trump’s "Entrenching Dictatorship," Reclaiming Congress, and Fighting Big Money
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T15:44:45Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: big
subject: congress
subject: Democracy
subject: dictatorship
subject: entrenching
subject: fighting
subject: Money
subject: nader
subject: now
subject: ralph
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subject: trump’s
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T15:40:16Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: bank
subject: ceasefire
subject: cleansing
subject: cover
subject: Democracy
subject: ethnic
subject: for
subject: gaza
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: u.s.-backed
subject: west
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 3, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T15:16:55Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
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subject: World
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Demand Justice Launches $1 Million Advertising Blitz Targeting Senate Democrats Who Voted For Trump Judges
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2025-12-03T15:09:32Z
subject: Common Dreams
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description: Demand Justice today launched a $1 million television and digital advertising blitz aimed at Senate Democrats who have voted to confirm Donald Trump’s judicial nominees – beginning with state-specific TV ads in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Maine c...
encoded: Demand Justice today launched a $1 million television and digital advertising blitz aimed at Senate Democrats who have voted to confirm Donald Trump’s judicial nominees – beginning with state-specific TV ads in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, and Maine calling out Senators John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, and Angus King, as well as a national cable buy and a coordinated digital rollout across key battleground states. See the ads here (Pennsylvania), here (New Hampshire), and here (Maine). The ads will run on major broadcast and cable networks, high-impact streaming platforms, and targeted digital channels reaching Democratic base voters and politically engaged audiences. A new Demand Justice report found that Donald Trump’s second term judicial nominees have refused to tell the truth about who won the 2020 election and what happened on January 6th – with nominees using nearly-identical and evasive language to talk around the facts. Yet 16 Senate Democrats have voted for at least one of these judges. If judicial nominees demonstrate loyalty to the President by accommodating his Big Lies, and not to the Constitution, it undermines the legitimacy of the courts in all future cases about the Trump Administration, including cases related to political retribution, election interference, and Trump’s corruption. “It is outrageous that Senate Democrats are voting to confirm Trump’s judicial nominees who refuse to tell the truth about January 6th and the 2020 election,” said Josh Orton, President of Demand Justice. “This isn’t normal. If Senate Democrats don’t take a stand and strongly oppose these judicial nominees who have disqualified themselves – we will. And we won’t let up.” This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

How one Seattle organization is turning food waste into plant food
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creator: Grist Creative
date: 2025-12-03T15:04:34Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: ‘one
subject: Food
subject: how
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subject: sources
subject: Sponsored
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description: A program in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood is reducing garbage while helping residents grow their own gardens.
encoded: Lea esta nota en español. For Maria Perez, joining a project to reduce food waste in Washington wasn’t just a job. Her journey with the Duwamish Valley Sustainability Association (DVSA) began when she was 14 and enrolled in a youth program that sparked her interest in fighting climate change. Six years later, the association hired her to manage a program that turns waste from a Seattle neighborhood into a type of liquid plant food. The innovative program in the South Park area was launched by the DVSA in 2021, in partnership with nonprofits including Food Lifeline, Sustainable Seattle, and Black Star Farmers, as well as the company Chomp — which builds the initiative’s small-scale biodigesters. Perez spent hours learning about how the sealed container uses bacteria to reduce emissions while growing food for the predominantly Latino neighborhood. She spoke with residents, teaching young people who stood where she once had. Her enthusiasm for the project was impossible to miss — she talked about it constantly, sharing details with everyone in her life. “It was just really exciting [to see] how everything came into a circular economy,” Perez said. Slightly smaller than a shipping container, the sealed bins function much like a cow’s four-chambered stomach — introducing microbes that every year can turn 25 tons of rotting food into 5,400 gallons of fertilizer. It also creates biogas, a renewable energy source that can be used for electricity or fuel. “We started to develop a new project [focused on] organic waste, because when we worked in the South Park area, we saw a lot of garbage on the street,” said Edwin Hernandez, the association’s executive director. In a series of community meetings, DVSA asked local residents and businesses how they wanted to tackle the neighborhood’s waste problem. The answer that emerged was a biodigester, whose added benefits included providing sustainable infrastructure and green jobs, Hernandez said. <img decoding="async" src="https://gri…

Would you stand up to ICE? #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-12-03T14:02:16Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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The Journey Through Anxiety and Healing
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creator: VICE News
date: 2025-12-03T14:01:49Z
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“WTO/99” Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: “These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T13:47:55Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: “wto/99”
subject: anti-corporate
subject: away
subject: Democracy
subject: filmmaker
subject: Globalization
subject: gone
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subject: issues
subject: movement
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description: WTO/99 is a new “immersive archival documentary” about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization that uses 1,000+ hours of footage from the Independent Media Center and other archives. The historic WTO prote...
encoded: WTO/99 is a new “immersive archival documentary” about the 1999 protests in Seattle against the World Trade Organization that uses 1,000+ hours of footage from the Independent Media Center and other archives. The historic WTO protests against corporate power and economic globalization were met with a militarized police crackdown and National Guard troops. We feature clips from the film and discuss takeaways that have relevance today. “These issues haven’t gone away,” says Ian Bell, director of WTO/99. We also speak with Ralph Nader, who is featured in the movie. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Ralph Nader on Trump’s “Entrenching Dictatorship,” Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T13:31:34Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: big
subject: congress
subject: Democracy
subject: dictatorship
subject: entrenching
subject: fight
subject: Money
subject: nader
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description: As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of President Trump, we speak with Ralph Nader, who has been taking on the Democratic Party for decades. ...
encoded: As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of President Trump, we speak with Ralph Nader, who has been taking on the Democratic Party for decades. Sixty years ago this week, he published his landmark book, Unsafe at Any Speed, exposing the safety flaws of GM’s Chevrolet Corvair and leading to major reforms in auto safety laws. Nader discusses the legacy of his book, the current state of government regulation and why Congress must reclaim its authority from an out-of-control Trump administration. “Clearly, we’re seeing a rapidly entrenching dictatorship,” Nader tells Democracy Now! “The focus has to be on impeachment, and there will be a large majority of people in favor of it.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-03T13:14:52Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: bank
subject: bashi
subject: ceasefire
subject: cleansing
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description: Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American h...
encoded: Israel has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. However, the border will only open in one direction: for Palestinians to exit. Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.” This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that 2025 is the deadliest and most destructive year for Palestinians since 1967. Last week, the United Nations reported more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7, 2023. Violence in the West Bank and Gaza is “directed toward getting Palestinians to leave,” says Bashi. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for December 3, 2025
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description: Hegseth Says He Did Not See Survivors of First U.S. Boat Strike, Citing “Fog of War”, Israel Announces Plans to Reopen Rafah Border Crossing But Only for Palestinians to Leave Gaza, Russia and U.S. Fail to Reach Compromise to End the War in Ukraine, Republican Lawmakers Criticize Trump Decision to Pardon Former Honduran President Hernández, Pentagon Inspector General to Release Report on “Signalgate” Thursday, Trump Says He Doesn’t Want Somalis in the U.S. as ICE Plans Operation Targeting Them, Trump Administration to Pause Immigration Applications from Countries on Travel Ban List, Trump Administration Fires Eight Immigration Judges in New York City, Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Money for SNAP Benefits, Federal Vaccine Panel Prepares to Vote on Possibly Ending Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Cutting Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood, Trump Admin Puts FEMA Workers Back on Administrative Leave, Larry Summers Banned from American Economic Association Over Close Ties to Epstein, Republican Matt Van Epps Wins House Special Election by Closer-Than-Expected Margin, More Than 1,350 People Have Now Died in Devastating Floods and Landslides in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand
encoded: Hegseth Says He Did Not See Survivors of First U.S. Boat Strike, Citing "Fog of War" Israel Announces Plans to Reopen Rafah Border Crossing But Only for Palestinians to Leave Gaza Russia and U.S. Fail to Reach Compromise to End the War in Ukraine Republican Lawmakers Criticize Trump Decision to Pardon Former Honduran President Hernández Pentagon Inspector General to Release Report on "Signalgate" Thursday Trump Says He Doesn't Want Somalis in the U.S. as ICE Plans Operation Targeting Them Trump Administration to Pause Immigration Applications from Countries on Travel Ban List Trump Administration Fires Eight Immigration Judges in New York City Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Money for SNAP Benefits Federal Vaccine Panel Prepares to Vote on Possibly Ending Infant Hepatitis B Vaccines Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin from Cutting Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood Trump Admin Puts FEMA Workers Back on Administrative Leave Larry Summers Banned from American Economic Association Over Close Ties to Epstein Republican Matt Van Epps Wins House Special Election by Closer-Than-Expected Margin More Than 1,350 People Have Now Died in Devastating Floods and Landslides in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-12-03 Wednesday
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description: Headlines for December 03, 2025; U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi; Ralph Nader on Trump’s “Entrenching Dictatorship,” Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money; ”WTO/99” Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: “These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”
encoded: Democracy Now! 2025-12-03 Wednesday Headlines for December 03, 2025 U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi Ralph Nader on Trump's "Entrenching Dictatorship," Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money "WTO/99" Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: "These Issues Haven't Gone Away" Download this show This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

DN! Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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encoded: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4.

Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.
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description: The post Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly rising water. Several lashed out as a Kerr official representing the local river authority tried to explain why it declined money from a $1.4 billion state fund to help guard against destructive flooding. One state senator on the special legislative committee tasked with investigating the deadly floods called the decision “pathetic.” Another said it was “disturbing.” State Rep. Drew Darby, a Republican from San Angelo, said the river authority simply lacked the will to pay for the project. But Kerr leaders were not the only ones who rejected the state’s offer, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. In the five years since the fund’s launch, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in state grants and loans. Leaders from about 30 local governments that the news organizations spoke with said the state grants paid for so little of the total project costs that they simply could not move forward, even with the program’s offer to cover the rest through interest-free loans. Many hoped the state program would provide grants that paid the bulk of the costs, such as the ones from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which typically supply at least 75%. They believed that they could raise the rest. Instead, many were offered far less. In some cases, the state offered grants that paid for less than 10% of the funding needed. In Kerr’s case, the state awarded a $50,000 grant for a $1 million flood warning system, or roughly 5%. It said the river authority could borrow the rest and repay it over the next three decades, but local officials were not sure they would be able to pay back the $950,000 — and failure to do so could carry state sanctions. City officials in Robinson, located between Dallas and Austin, sought…

Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight
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creator: Jimmy Tobias
date: 2025-12-03T10:00:00Z
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description: The post Powerful Friends: Sympathetic Officials and “Cultural Power” Help Ranchers Dodge Oversight appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In late 2019, a pair of Montana ranchers got in trouble with the Forest Service, which oversees the federal lands where they had a permit to graze their cattle. Agency staff had found their cattle wandering in unauthorized locations four times during September of that year. The agency also found some of their fences in disrepair and their salt licks — which provide cattle with essential minerals — too close to creeks and springs, drawing the animals into those habitats. After repeated calls, texts and letters, the Forest Service sent the ranchers a “notice of noncompliance,” according to documents obtained via public records requests. The agency asserted that the ranchers had engaged in “a willful and intentional violation” of their permit and warned that future violations could lead to its revocation. The ranchers were hardly the largest or most politically influential among those who graze livestock on public lands. But they soon had help from well-placed people as they pushed back, hoping to get the warning rescinded based on their belief that they had been treated unfairly. “The Forest Service needs to work with us and understand that grazing on the Forest is not black and white,” the ranchers wrote to the agency. The agency’s acting district ranger, for his part, said his staff had “gone above and beyond” to help the ranchers comply with the rules. With assistance from a former Forest Service employee, the ranchers contacted their congressional representatives in early 2020. Staffers for then-Rep. Greg Gianforte and Sen. Steve Daines, both Republicans, leapt into action, kicking off more than a year of back-and-forth between the senator’s office and Forest Service officials. “When they hear something they don’t like,” they run to the forest supervisor and the senator’s office “to get what they want,” a Forest Service official wrote in a 2021 email to colleagues. Public lands ranching is one of the largest land uses in many Western states like Montana, where the…

EV sales are way down. Here’s why that might not be a big deal.
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creator: Tik Root
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description: Analysts say electric vehicle adoption in the United States will continue to grow — but maybe not at the same pace as before.
encoded: Electric vehicle sales have cratered. Across the country, dealers sold about 20 percent fewer used electric cars in October than in September and saw a staggering 50 percent drop for new ones, according to the latest data. No one was surprised. Congress voted in July to end the federal tax credits that helped consumers afford them on September 30, years before they were supposed to expire. That led to a rush of purchases before the deadline and a precipitous drop afterward. The question now is whether this dip is a sign of a prolonged slump or a mere blip in an otherwise upward trajectory. While only time will tell, many analysts believe that electric vehicle adoption in the United States will continue to grow — albeit maybe not at the same pace seen before Congress killed the credits and automakers started second-guessing themselves. “We’re definitely gonna see a slowdown,” said Stephanie Valdez Streaty, director of industry insights at Cox Automotive. Eliminating the federal credit of $7,500 on new EVs and $4,500 on used ones is certainly taking a toll. But the price of batteries, and thus cars, also continues to come down. Used models are becoming more of a bargain, too. As of this fall, the price gap between used EVs and their gas-powered equivalents had narrowed to just $900. In China, Valdez Streaty said, electric versions of cars often already cost less than their conventional counterparts. “It’s not going to just stop,” she said of momentum in the United States. “It’s going to be gradual adoption, but I still think we’re going forward.” Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/evs.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="collage of a photo of a truck bed sticking out of a garage and photo of a hand holding a phone showing an energy app" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/evs.jpg?quality=75&strip=all 2000w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/evs.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&quality=75&strip=a…

Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches
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description: The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the commissar-minded eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, “age-restricted social media platforms will have to take reasonable steps to prevent Australians under […] The post Experiments in Futility: Australia’s Teenage Social Media Ban Approaches first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: The messiness of Australia’s social media ban for those under 16 as part of the Online Safety Act 2021 is becoming more apparent by the day. From December 10 this year, as announced by the commissar-minded eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, “age-restricted social media platforms will have to take reasonable steps to prevent Australians under the age of 16 from creating or keeping an account.” This, she declares, is “not a ban” but “a delay to having accounts.” Last month, the office formed the opinion “that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Kick and Reddit are age-restricted platforms.” Showing a willingness to adapt to, if not outflank the regulations with gusto, curious teenagers are finding other platforms to indulge in. This has precipitated much fuss by the eSafety office to make sure that these discovered outlets are also brought within the scope of the ban. Lemon8, owned by TikTok parent company ByteDance, and the photo sharing app, Yope, have recently piqued the regulator’s interest. This promises to be a perennially futile exercise. Cyber Safety Solutions founder Susan McLean is clearly on firm ground in dismissing the restrictions as moribund before they even come into effect. “For every single bad thing that has been caused by a banned social media platform,” she attests to the Australian Financial Review, “I can provide you with a platform that is not going to be banned where the same thing has happened.” McLean also points to another crippling problem: that the age restricting measures can themselves be circumvented on designated platforms. “I’ve seen people scrunch up their face to look older, do full face and make-up tutorials. There are masks you can buy, making your face a darker colour, which apparently makes it harder to tell your age. God knows what’s true and what’s not.” Then come the qualifications and exemptions that make such a regulation increasingly foolish even before it comes into effect. The commis…

UAE-backed paramilitary forces abduct political commentator in southwestern Yemen
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date: 2025-12-03T08:45:32Z
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description: Washington, D.C., December 2, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of political commentator Adel al-Nazili, who rights groups and a family member say was abducted on November 18 from his home in Al-Mokha, southwestern Yemen, by the National Resistance Forces (NRF), paramilitary forces loyal to the internationally-recognised government and...
encoded: Washington, D.C., December 2, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of political commentator Adel al-Nazili, who rights <a href="https://sada-ye.org/%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B8%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D9%89-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B6-%D8%B6%D8%AF-%D9%82%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%B4%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%87%D9%85%D8%A7">groups and a family member say was abducted on November 18 from his home in Al-Mokha, southwestern Yemen, by the National Resistance Forces (NRF), paramilitary forces loyal to the internationally-recognised government and backed by the United Arab Emirates. Al-Nazili, who was previously held by pro-government forces in October 2024 and has written for the Al-Mokha-based outlet News Yemen and the independent media platform Al-Yawm Al-Thamin Foundation, was seized after criticizing the NRF leadership in Facebook posts that accused senior figures of nepotism and running the group as a “family project” rather than a national movement. “The abduction of Al-Nazili is the latest example of how paramilitary groups in areas under the control of the internationally-recognized government are acting outside the law, targeting journalists without legal justification, aiming to silence them,” said CPJ Chief Programs Officer Carlos Martínez de la Serna. “The IRG should ensure Al-Nazili’s release and hold those responsible accountable.” The SAM Organization for Rights and Liberties reported that he was being held in “Al-Qanuniya”, a secret detention facility run by the NRF in Al Hudaydah Governorate that is notorious for its poor conditions. According to the family member who requested anonymity for …

Director Whitney White on how to lead with passion and foster opportunity for others
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description: Could you walk me through how you first got into theater and how you started directing?
encoded: Could you walk me through how you first got into theater and how you started directing? I got into theater through music in the church. I grew up in Chicago and my grandfather went to a Black apostolic church, which is still there on the South Side. It’s a phenomenal church. And he used to take me. When you walk in there, there’s like a choir of 50 people and a full eight-piece band playing and that music just… It fueled me, it inspired me. And then weirdly at the same time, my mother had enrolled me in a Catholic school on the North Side and they had something called liturgical music. So I was getting this dual church music experience. Through Catholicism and liturgical music I learned how to read music and sing these more classical melodies, and through the Black church I found rhythm and community and soul and all these things. So music was my gateway drug to theater. I was a performer in many, many shows and then I hit a wall performing. At the time when I was coming up, I felt like the roles available to me were very limited and I just wanted more. I wanted to be a storyteller, but I didn’t know how. So I did a MFA program at Brown University. It wasn’t until this graduate program that I really understood myself as a director, as someone who could tell stories from an omniscient view. And then things really jumped off when I graduated from Brown. I’m really fascinated that you started out as a performer and then moved into directorial work because in my head, I feel like those feel like really different roles and like different personality types would be drawn to those two things. So I’m curious if you could speak a little bit about how you realized that you wanted to be a storyteller from an omniscient point of view, like you said. I think that being an artist is a fluid thing and capitalism and the Western world tells you you have to segment yourself and you can only be one thing. I’m a woman, I’m a mother, I’m a daughter, I’m an artist, I’m all these things.…

I Bet I Know Where You Got Your Jackboots: Immigration Sweeps in New Orleans
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creator: Kathleen Wallace
date: 2025-12-03T07:00:40Z
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description: Another city is readying itself to be the recipient of an immigration force “deployment”. This time, it’s the Crescent City that’s up to bat. The details on the New Orleans plan aren’t entirely clear yet, but indications are leaking out that the forces that were in Charlotte earlier this year may be coming to Southeast More The post I Bet I Know Where You Got Your Jackboots: Immigration Sweeps in New Orleans appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Apocalypse Soon?
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creator: William Astore
date: 2025-12-03T06:57:31Z
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description: It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new More The post Apocalypse Soon? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trumpian Nonsense on Employing Native-Born Workers
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2025-12-03T06:54:39Z
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subject: Workers
description: There are so many absurdities coming out of the Trump administration on the economy that it’s hard to keep up. But one recurring theme with a solid basis in a misunderstanding of statistics is the claim that employment of native-born workers is exploding under Trump, after plummeting under Biden. We even got an official tweet More The post Trumpian Nonsense on Employing Native-Born Workers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
type: item
creator: Roger Harris
date: 2025-12-03T06:53:34Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: closed
subject: commands
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: heavens
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: venezuela’s
description: US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any more so than Washington’s phony More The post Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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On Beauty Queens, the Press Corps, and the Collapse of Journalistic Courage
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creator: John G. Russell
date: 2025-12-03T06:52:23Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: beauty
subject: collapse
subject: corps
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: courage
subject: journalistic
subject: press
subject: queens
subject: sources
subject: the
description: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Desmond Tutu In November, the director of the Miss Universe Thailand publicly called More The post On Beauty Queens, the Press Corps, and the Collapse of Journalistic Courage appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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NATO’s Five Percent Gamble
type: item
creator: Imran Khalid
date: 2025-12-03T06:52:09Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: five:
subject: gamble
subject: nato’s
subject: percent
subject: sources
description: The agreement by NATO members to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 has been welcomed across Western capitals as a moment of strategic clarity. After years of uneven commitments and familiar handwringing, the alliance finally appears ready to shoulder more responsibility in a world that feels less secure by the day. More The post NATO’s Five Percent Gamble appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Faunalytics, Cultivated Meat and Left-Wing Populism
type: item
creator: Jon Hochschartner
date: 2025-12-03T06:51:01Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: cultivated
subject: faunalytics,
subject: left-wing
subject: meat
subject: populism
subject: sources
description: Recently, Faunalytics, the animal-welfare research nonprofit, put out a report about how American voters respond to nonhuman policy proposals. I’ve seen activists with views similar to mine despair about the findings on social media, specifically in regards to cultivated meat. Cellular agriculture may or may not take off, but I don’t think the report, in More The post Faunalytics, Cultivated Meat and Left-Wing Populism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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COP30 Was Underwhelming, But a Path Away From Fossil Fuels Still Exists
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creator: Daphne Wysham – Trina Chiemi
date: 2025-12-03T06:50:26Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: away
subject: but
subject: cop30
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: exists
subject: fossil
subject: from
subject: fuels
subject: path
subject: sources
subject: still
subject: underwhelming
subject: was
description: It appeared to be a grim déjà vu when the final gavel dropped in Belem, Brazil and the COP30 text once again avoided naming fossil fuels. But this apparent diplomatic failure obscured something more consequential: after hours of fraught, last-minute negotiations, countries reaffirmed the “United Arab Emirates consensus” from COP28 — the only UN agreement More The post COP30 Was Underwhelming, But a Path Away From Fossil Fuels Still Exists appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Shootings, the National Guard and ‘Thoughts and Prayers’.
type: item
creator: Robert Fantina
date: 2025-12-03T06:49:44Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: guard
subject: national
subject: Prayers
subject: shootings
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: thoughts
description: United States President Donald Trump has, not unexpectedly, overreacted to the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. He is ‘permanently pausing’ all migration from developing nations, ending all government benefits to non-citizens, and will review all the asylum cases that were approved under the administration of former President Joe Biden. More The post Shootings, the National Guard and ‘Thoughts and Prayers’. appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Donroe Doctrine
type: item
creator: Matthew Hoh
date: 2025-12-03T06:45:55Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: doctrine
subject: donroe
subject: sources
subject: the
description: I don’t know who came up with The Donroe Doctrine, but I am grateful for that bit of glibness. Any day now, we seem on the verge of something in Venezuela that may very well savage and ruin the lives of 30 million Venezuelans. The likelihood of that spreading to neighbors in Latin America should be near-certain More The post The Donroe Doctrine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Phillis Wheatley: Genius, Poet, and Pioneer in the Face of Slavery
type: item
creator: Vincent Carretta
date: 2025-12-03T06:42:07Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: face
subject: genius
subject: phillis
subject: pioneer
subject: poet
subject: slavery
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: wheatley:
description: Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in English, using her poetry to navigate freedom, fame, and the politics of her time. The African American poet Phillis Wheatley has achieved iconic status in American culture. A 174-word letter from her to a fellow servant of African More The post Phillis Wheatley: Genius, Poet, and Pioneer in the Face of Slavery appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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When Obedience Becomes Complicity: From Mỹ Lai to Today’s Military Conscience
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description: Courage is rarely convenient. Sometimes it is condemned. Ask Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. On March 16, 1968, Thompson, a young Army helicopter pilot in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, flew over the South Vietnamese village of Sơn Mỹ and witnessed something unimaginable. American soldiers were systematically killing unarmed civilians—women, children, and More The post When Obedience Becomes Complicity: From Mỹ Lai to Today’s Military Conscience appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Trump Peace Plan: A Study in Diplomatic Malfeasance
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creator: Mel Gurtov
date: 2025-12-03T06:24:07Z
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description: Coaching Russia The official US line on how the peace plan to end the Ukraine war emerged has Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner developing it, Marco Rubio endorsing it, and then Russia assenting to it. But that story does not hold up. First, Rubio told two Senators that the plan was made More The post The Trump Peace Plan: A Study in Diplomatic Malfeasance appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Fog Of Bullshit: Racist Clowns, Liars and Psycopaths
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creator: Abby Zimet
date: 2025-12-03T05:54:03Z
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description: The surreal and deadly lurches on. In the last, frantic, script-flipping week, MAGA went from threatening to kill Dems who reminded troops to obey the law to scurrying to parse or ignore the news their macho, bungling Secretary of War Crimes evidently...
encoded: The surreal and deadly lurches on. In the last, frantic, script-flipping week, MAGA went from threatening to kill Dems who reminded troops to obey the law to scurrying to parse or ignore the news their macho, bungling Secretary of War Crimes evidently blew apart (at least) two guys in the water for no reason - an action universally deemed either murder or war crime, but def against the law. Now see Kegseth et al thrash, bluster, scapegoat the other guy. Trump doctrine: Deport, raze, blame, kill first; think (sic) later. Most notably, a flailing presidency of "malevolence tempered by incompetence" - Cue the bonkers holiday greeting, "A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at" - is now embroiled in the detritus of a toxic, slapdash revenge tour targeting perceived, if often outlandish, enemies, both here and abroad. Last week's berserk campaign focused on six, uppity Democratic lawmaker and veterans who dared post a brief video reminding the military of their oaths to follow all laws and if needed disobey orders that don't - a bedrock tenet of the military engraved on a plaque at West Point: "Should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers obey the law." Pretty radical. The measured response from the Mob-Boss-in-Chief: Charging them with "SEDITION," "TREASON," "MILITARY TRIBUNALS," and calling them "traitorous sons of bitches" who should be "EXECUTED." Even as death threats followed, he was swiftly joined by every MAGA lickspittle, especially the lickspittlest - Whiskey Pete, the preening, fragile, manly creator of the War Dept. famed for strutting on stages to spout lethal bullshit about a "warrior ethos" that demands "more lethality, less (sic) lawyers" 'cause who needs rules and laws? Shrieking the Dems' "screed" was "despicable, reckless, and false," he zeroed in on Sen. Mark Kelly - Macho T…

Genocide by Corporate Oligarchy
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2025-12-03T04:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
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description: In this week's Gaslit Nation, Andrea and Kyiv-based journalist Terrell Starr discuss how American corporate oligarchs act like authoritarian regimes. It's a lot like Trump, Kushner, and their real estate buddy Steve Witkoff's plan to sell out Ukraine to Russia. Once again we're reminding you that the war against oligarchy here at home is global. Amazon, one of the 37 donors who helped bankroll Trump's illegal and unnecessary ballroom, was exposed in an investigation by Rolling Stone for possibly causing a cancer cluster near one of its data centers in Oregon, an allegation the company denies, because they know, under Kremlin-backed mass-murdering Trump, escalating a war for oil in Venezuela, they will get away with it. This is the same Jeff Bezos who celebrated in the White House with Trump, Kushner, and the Saudis who murdered Washington Post writer and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Democracy doesn't just die in darkness; it dies under cheap gold fixtures and chandeliers. We also discuss why both Trump and Putin need a war in Venezuela to distract from their corruption at home, how oligarch ownership of the press continues to hollow it out, and how much more Americans can take of this abuse and gaslighting. And yet, amid all this lawlessness, democracy defenders around the world are fighting back. Bolsonaro's escape plan got foiled as he faces 27 years in prison, New Yorkers joined other American cities and towns in shutting down Trump's gestapo, and MAGA continue to be punished for voting for him–with a recent poll showing one in four Trump voters are disappointed or regret their vote. Join us for Gaslit Nation's bonus show out Thursday as we debate whether America is ready for a woman president–and how to stop Kushner and Ivanka from winning the MAGA succession war to install Ivanka with the help of their dictator friends. To listen and join our community of supporters, be sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller ($5/month level) or higher. Thank you to everyone …
encoded: In this week's Gaslit Nation, Andrea and Kyiv-based journalist Terrell Starr discuss how American corporate oligarchs act like authoritarian regimes. It's a lot like Trump, Kushner, and their real estate buddy Steve Witkoff's plan to sell out Ukraine to Russia. Once again we're reminding you that the war against oligarchy here at home is global. Amazon, one of the 37 donors who helped bankroll Trump's illegal and unnecessary ballroom, was exposed in an investigation by Rolling Stone for possibly causing a cancer cluster near one of its data centers in Oregon, an allegation the company denies, because they know, under Kremlin-backed mass-murdering Trump, escalating a war for oil in Venezuela, they will get away with it. This is the same Jeff Bezos who celebrated in the White House with Trump, Kushner, and the Saudis who murdered Washington Post writer and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi. Democracy doesn't just die in darkness; it dies under cheap gold fixtures and chandeliers. We also discuss why both Trump and Putin need a war in Venezuela to distract from their corruption at home, how oligarch ownership of the press continues to hollow it out, and how much more Americans can take of this abuse and gaslighting. And yet, amid all this lawlessness, democracy defenders around the world are fighting back. Bolsonaro's escape plan got foiled as he faces 27 years in prison, New Yorkers joined other American cities and towns in shutting down Trump's gestapo, and MAGA continue to be punished for voting for him–with a recent poll showing one in four Trump voters are disappointed or regret their vote. Join us for Gaslit Nation's bonus show out Thursday as we debate whether America is ready for a woman president–and how to stop Kushner and Ivanka from winning the MAGA succession war to install Ivanka with the help of their dictator friends. To listen and join our community of supporters, be sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller ($5/month level) or higher. Thank you to everyone …

‘Microsoft workers refuse to be complicit in the genocide’
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2025-12-03T02:27:00Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Beyond Eco-Anxiety w/ Tori Tsui
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date: 2025-12-03T01:18:47Z
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description: On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with climate justice campaigner and author Tori Tsui. Tori is a Senior Advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and is a climate justice lead for Brian Eno’s Earth Percent. Her debut book, It’s Not Just You, explores the intersection of mental health and climate change More The post Beyond Eco-Anxiety w/ Tori Tsui appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with climate justice campaigner and author Tori Tsui. Tori is a Senior Advisor for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and is a climate justice lead for Brian Eno’s Earth Percent. Her debut book, It’s Not Just You, explores the intersection of mental health and climate change and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. The U.S. version is scheduled for release in April 2026. The post Beyond Eco-Anxiety w/ Tori Tsui appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by CounterPunch Radio.

Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott Seventy Years On
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creator: Rann Miller
date: 2025-12-03T00:50:43Z
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description: The current movement against the fascist regime in the United States can learn from Black resistance, including the famed bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement.
encoded: The current movement against the fascist regime in the United States can learn from Black resistance, including the famed bus boycott during the Civil Rights Movement. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Rann Miller.

No More Blueprints
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creator: Alexandra Tempus
date: 2025-12-03T00:32:58Z
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description: A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on the unprecedented social and political moment we’re in.
encoded: A note from Features Editor Alexandra Tempus on the unprecedented social and political moment we’re in. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Alexandra Tempus.

Trump Admin Sides With Bayer Over Cancer Patients In Supreme Court Bid to Block Pesticide Lawsuits
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2025-12-02T20:01:56Z
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description: The Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up pesticide manufacturer Bayer’s case Monsanto Company v. Durnell, angling for a ruling capable of blocking thousands of lawsuits brought by cancer patients who...
encoded: The Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up pesticide manufacturer Bayer’s case Monsanto Company v. Durnell, angling for a ruling capable of blocking thousands of lawsuits brought by cancer patients who allege its Roundup product was to blame. Bayer bought Monsanto in 2018, and has since spent over $11 billion settling over 100,000 cancer lawsuits related to Roundup, whose active ingredient glyphosate is under investigation as a possible carcinogen. The Trump Administration has repeatedly come under fire for its failure to take a hard-line stance on pesticides’ human health impacts; the recent “Make America Healthy Again” policy report avoided the issue of increased regulation altogether. Food & Water Watch Staff Attorney Dani Replogle issued the following statement: “The Trump Administration’s filing encourages the Supreme Court to slam judiciary doors in the faces of cancer patients across the country. No political posturing can undo the clear message this brief sends to sick Americans harmed by toxic pesticides: Trump has Bayer’s back, not theirs. Monsanto/Bayer’s push to silence cancer patients and keep the sick from pursuing justice is cruel — and Trump’s support is even more despicable.” At issue in Monsanto Company v. Durnell is whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) preempts state laws that protect citizens when companies fail to provide adequate warnings about the harms their products may cause. If Bayer is successful, a Supreme Court ruling would have the same effect as the unpopular Cancer Gag Act Campaign. This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.

Mamdani & Sanders join Starbucks workers’ strike in NYC
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-02T20:00:11Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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‘Monday afternoon massacre’: Trump fires 8 immigration judges in NYC
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date: 2025-12-02T19:06:04Z
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UN News Today 02 December 2025
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creator: Daniel Johnson
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description: Mozambique: close to 100,000 flee violence and attacks in the past fortnight alone, warns UNHCRAsia: Lives upended by cyclones, ‘extreme’ rainfall on the rise, warn UN agenciesMillions of jobs at risk in Asia-Pacific as AI surges in wealthy nations
encoded: Mozambique: close to 100,000 flee violence and attacks in the past fortnight alone, warns UNHCRAsia: Lives upended by cyclones, ‘extreme’ rainfall on the rise, warn UN agenciesMillions of jobs at risk in Asia-Pacific as AI surges in wealthy nations This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Daniel Johnson.

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 2, 2025
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creator: KPFA
date: 2025-12-02T18:00:00Z
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 2, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Russian journalist Nika Novak missing from prison
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creator: Lauren Wolfe
date: 2025-12-02T17:39:01Z
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subject: Nika Novak
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description: Berlin, December 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on Russian authorities to immediately disclose the whereabouts of journalist Nika Novak, who has gone missing from a prison in Bozoy, in the Siberian region of Irkutsk. Novak is serving a four-year prison sentence after being convicted in November 2024 on charges of “confidential cooperation with a foreign organization,”...
encoded: Berlin, December 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on Russian authorities to immediately disclose the whereabouts of journalist Nika Novak, who has gone missing from a prison in Bozoy, in the Siberian region of Irkutsk. Novak is serving a four-year prison sentence after being convicted in November 2024 on charges of “confidential cooperation with a foreign organization,” stemming from her work for U.S. Congress-funded broadcaster Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). On November 29, the journalist’s lawyer, Yulia Kuznetsova, said that prison authorities had not allowed anyone to meet with Novak that week. Kuznetsova and the journalist’s mother said that she may have been transferred to another location, an allegation the prison administration has neither confirmed nor denied. During a prison transfer, which can take several weeks, the prisoner cannot be reached. “Russian authorities must immediately provide information on Nika Novak’s location and ensure her safety,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Her disappearance raises serious concerns for her well-being and underscores the ongoing risks journalists face in Russia.” RFE/RL President Stephen Capus wrote in a December 2 statement: “It is deeply alarming that Nika Novak has vanished while in Russian custody. We are gravely concerned for Nika’s safety and demand that Russian authorities immediately reveal her whereabouts and allow her to contact her legal counsel.” In recent months, Novak has been placed in isolation and solitary confinement several times, complained about a “dangerous” cellmate, and went on at least three hunger strikes to protest her detention conditions. On November 12, 2025, CPJ and nine partner organizations urged the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to issue an opinion finding that Novak’s continued detention by the Russian government is arbitrary, and violates international law. Russia is currently holding at …

Why Trump’s boat strikes are illegal
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Cocks Coming Back Home to, well, not Roost, but to Gouge, Scratch, Cut, Swipe, Kill
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creator: Paul Haeder
date: 2025-12-02T17:18:17Z
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description: Hmm, genocide and boat captains and mates murdered by accused sexual predator and alcohol abusing Cap’n Crunch Pete, a-okay, but cock fights in how many states, a federal crime? This is yet more breaking news (sic) I have to contend with as I get ready to give a crowd a short-short master class on why […] The post Cocks Coming Back Home to, well, not Roost, but to Gouge, Scratch, Cut, Swipe, Kill first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Kazakhstan police raid Orda, charge top editor over ‘false information’
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description: New York, December 2, 2025—Kazakh authorities should drop criminal “false information” charges against Gulnara Bazhkenova, editor-in-chief of the independent outlet Orda, and allow the outlet and its staff to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On December 1, armed police raided Orda’s editorial offices in the capital, Astana, and in the southern city of...
encoded: New York, December 2, 2025—Kazakh authorities should drop criminal “false information” charges against Gulnara Bazhkenova, editor-in-chief of the independent outlet Orda, and allow the outlet and its staff to work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. On December 1, armed police raided Orda’s editorial offices in the capital, Astana, and in the southern city of Almaty, detained at least five staff members, and searched Bazhkenova’s home. Authorities accused Bazhkenova of “repeated and deliberate distribution of knowingly false information” and ordered her to be placed under house arrest for two months pending investigation. The remaining staff members were released after questioning. The actions come after months of alleged harassment of Bazhkenova and Orda — one of Kazakhstan’s most popular critical media outlets — including cyberattacks, hacking attempts, threats of violence, and fake announcements of Bazhkenova’s death. “The police raid of Orda and the criminal charges against Gulnara Bazhkenova mark a deeply concerning escalation of pressure on Kazakh independent media and once again show how susceptible Kazakhstan’s ‘false information’ laws are to abuse,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “Kazakh authorities should drop the charges against Bazhkenova and urgently reform the law to ensure that defamation cases are resolved exclusively through civil law proceedings.” Orda reported that police held the outlet’s Almaty staff for around five hours during the search of the editorial office, denied entry to lawyers, and refused to show a search warrant. Officers confiscated computer equipment, documents, cash from the outlet’s safe, and journalists’ phones, and took Bazhkenova, Orda’s Astana and Almaty bureau chiefs, a news editor, and an accountant into custody for questioning. Almaty police announced multiple false information charges against Bazhkenova, citing reporting from 2024, and said that investigations…

Donald Trump, Union Buster
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description: Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most flagrant Trump action along these lines occurred in March 2025, when he issued an […] The post Donald Trump, Union Buster first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most flagrant Trump action along these lines occurred in March 2025, when he issued an executive order that terminated collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal government employees. This measure, the largest single union-busting action in American history, ended union representation and protections for 1 out of 14 unionized workers in the United States. Trump’s anti-union campaign dovetailed with his efforts to terminate the employment of hundreds of thousands of federal workers, many of them union members. Federal workers, Trump claimed, are “destroying this country,” and are “crooked” and “dishonest.” “Many of them,” he said, “don’t work at all.” To supervise his massive purge of public employees, Trump chose Elon Musk―the world’s wealthiest individual and largest donor to his presidential campaign―to direct a mysterious Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Delighted with the job, Musk declared, without any evidence, that there were “people on the government payroll who are dead” and others “who are not real people.” Addressing a conference of conservatives, the flamboyant multibillionaire charged that “waste is pretty much everywhere” and brandished a chain saw against what he called “bureaucracy.” As Musk’s minions rampaged through federal agencies, planning large-scale firings, DOGE informed workers that, if they voluntarily resigned, they would be paid without working during the remainder of the fiscal year. Confronted with the difficult choice of possible termination or resignation with some financial compensation, 154,000 employees signed up in the first six months for the new voluntary resignation program. “Nobody really knew if your job was safe,” recalled a…

Trump’s Cuts to AIDS Prevention Are Devastating LGBTQ+ Communities Globally: Steven Thrasher
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Don’t Believe the Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau
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creator: Black Alliance for Peace
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description: BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet government in Guinea-Bissau, led by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, to subvert the democratic will […] The post Don’t Believe the Simulated Coup d’État in Guinea-Bissau first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: BAP’s U.S. Out of African Network & Africa Team co-sign the positions of our comrade, member organizations A-APRP & PAIGC It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet government in Guinea-Bissau, led by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, to subvert the democratic will of the Bissau-Guinean people. Before completing the country’s November 23rd election process, military leaders loyal to Embaló suspended it and seized “total control” of the country, claiming to have done so to prevent election manipulation. The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unite with the assessments and positions of our member organization, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP), and the African Party of Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC) that holds representation on the USOAN Steering Committee: “Upon completion of voting, official reports to the Regional Electoral Commissions (CRE) from the 10 Regions indicate that Fernando Dias da Costa won the election with a confirmed vote tally of 54%, while Embaló Sissoco, the illegitimate president seeking re-election, garnered 44% of the vote.” This declaration was backed up by both domestic and international observers who reportedly agreed that Embaló was voted out of the presidency and that the National Electoral Commission (CNE) was about to publish the results that opposition candidate Fernando Dias won. Embaló then claimed that he was arrested by the military, yet was still able to make the declaration in interviews with media outlets RFI, France 24 and Jeune Afrique. Meanwhile, the armed forces installed as the new head of state one of Sissoco Embaló’s own appointees, Major General Horta Inta-A. Embaló was able to leave for Dakar, Senegal, and then on to Congo Brazzaville, while his opponents were held in custody. On November 29th, armed masked men raided the headquarters of the PAIGC. As far as B…

"This Is a Union Town": Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-02T15:54:53Z
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"A War Crime & Murder": David Cole on U.S. Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean
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date: 2025-12-02T15:53:17Z
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 2, 2025
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"If you’re watching this video that means I have been arrested" – Chaima Issa
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Sudanese journalist Taj al-Sir Ahmed Suleiman killed by RSF paramilitary in EL-Fasher
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description: New York, December 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an urgent investigation into the killing of journalist Taj al-Sir Ahmed Suleiman, director of the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) office in Sudan’s western city of El-Fasher, after reports that fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces executed him and his brother in their home....
encoded: New York, December 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for an urgent investigation into the killing of journalist Taj al-Sir Ahmed Suleiman, director of the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) office in Sudan’s western city of El-Fasher, after reports that fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces executed him and his brother in their home. “We are appalled by the reported killing of SUNA bureau chief Taj al-Sir Ahmed Suleiman and his brother after RSF forces advanced into El-Fasher,” said CPJ Chief Programs Officer Carlos Martínez de la Serna. “Sudanese authorities must urgently investigate this killing and hold those responsible to account. All parties to the conflict must stop targeting journalists and civilians and immediately ensure the safety of members of the press.” On October 26, the RSF, a paramilitary group born from the Janjaweed militias and accused by the European Union of ethnically-motivated crimes, claimed full control of El-Fasher. The city, besieged by the RSF for 18 months, was the group’s final barrier to controlling all of Darfur and establishing a parallel government in the region. In a statement on November 27, SUNA said Suleiman had reported and documented developments in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, until he went missing during the RSF takeover. The agency stated that he was killed in the Al-Daraga neighborhood, when RSF fighters entered his home and allegedly executed him and his brother. A local journalist, who spoke to CPJ on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, said Suleiman was one of the key sources of verified information from El-Fasher during the siege. His disappearance, and now his reported killing, has had “a devastating impact on the flow of independent reporting from North Darfur.” Since the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF began in April 2023, CPJ has documented the killing of at least 15 journalists and media workers in Sudan. Journalists in the El-Fasher have faced …

CPJ welcomes four eminent executives to its board of directors
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description: New York, December 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced on Tuesday four new members to its board of directors: Rebecca Blumenstein, president, editorial of NBC News, Gary Briggs, marketing executive and and advisor to notable technology and retail firms; Phil Chetwynd, global news director of Agence France-Presse; and Katherine Moran Meeks, executive vice...
encoded: New York, December 2, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) announced on Tuesday four new members to its board of directors: Rebecca Blumenstein, president, editorial of NBC News, Gary Briggs, marketing executive and and advisor to notable technology and retail firms; Phil Chetwynd, global news director of Agence France-Presse; and Katherine Moran Meeks, executive vice president and general counsel of Fox News. “I am thrilled to welcome four prominent leaders with careers in journalism, media, and strategic litigation to CPJ’s board,” said CPJ Chair Jacob Weisberg. “Amid spiking threats to journalists worldwide, I am confident that their formidable experience will prove to be a great asset to our team and the journalists we serve.” Rebecca Blumenstein leads journalism and original content across NBC broadcast and digital platforms. She oversees editorial teams, newsgathering, field operations, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, NBC Nightly News, and NBC News Studios. Previously, Blumenstein was deputy managing editor at The New York Times and deputy editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal. Gary Briggs serves on the boards of Etsy, Petco, Combe, and Omaze Inc. He is currently a senior marketing advisor at OpenAI. Previously, Briggs was Facebook’s first chief marketing officer, responsible for the company’s brand, consumer, and product marketing. Prior to joining Facebook, Briggs served in various roles at Google. Phil Chetwynd is responsible for AFP’s global editorial strategy. At AFP, Chetwynd has occupied the posts of global editor-in-chief and chief Asia editor, while also positioning the organization as a leading voice on information integrity and press freedom. He began his career in British regional newspapers. Chetwynd is a member of the World Editors Forum and sits on the advisory board of the International News Safety Institute. He will join CPJ’s board of directors in June 2026. Before joining Fox News, Katherine Moran Meeks was a litigation partner…

Be There Programme Highlights 2019-2025
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2025-12-02T14:30:29Z
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A coming of age moment for democracy #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Why Starting at Zero Builds Better Leaders
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Trump’s Cuts to AIDS Prevention Are Devastating LGBTQ+ Communities Globally: Steven Thrasher
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date: 2025-12-02T13:49:27Z
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description: President Trump has gutted the U.S. government’s support for AIDS healthcare around the world while ordering an end to commemorations of World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1. Cuts to U.S. foreign aid are having a disproportion...
encoded: President Trump has gutted the U.S. government’s support for AIDS healthcare around the world while ordering an end to commemorations of World AIDS Day, observed annually on December 1. Cuts to U.S. foreign aid are having a disproportionate impact on LGBTQ+ communities in many countries, says journalist and scholar Steven Thrasher, speaking from Uganda. “There are people who’ve been harmed very immediately,” he says. Thrasher, who teaches at Northwestern University, also comments on the school’s $75 million payout to the Trump administration to settle a discrimination probe and restore frozen federal funding, calling it a “travesty.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“This Is a Union Town”: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-02T13:34:42Z
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description: New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay t...
encoded: New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking Starbucks workers on the picket line Monday to demand the coffee giant reach a fair contract with its unionized workforce after years of delay tactics. Speaking outside a store in Brooklyn, Mamdani said New York is a “union town,” and vowed to continue joining pickets even after he is sworn in as mayor on January 1. Responding to a question from Democracy Now!, Sanders said Mamdani’s successful campaign for mayor was a blueprint for the Democratic Party, with affordability and workers’ rights at the center of the agenda. “We have the grassroots of America behind us,” Sanders said. Starbucks workers at unionized stores across the United States launched an open-ended strike November 13 accusing the company of unfair labor practices. Starbucks Workers United has been bargaining for a contract with the company since early last year. Monday’s picket came just hours after Starbucks reached a $38 million settlement with New York City for labor violations including denying workers stable and predictable schedules. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“A War Crime & Murder”: David Cole on U.S. Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-02T13:13:55Z
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description: As bipartisan criticism intensifies over U.S. attacks on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the White House is defending a September 2 operation that killed 11 people. The Washington Post reports Defense Sec...
encoded: As bipartisan criticism intensifies over U.S. attacks on alleged “drug boats” in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the White House is defending a September 2 operation that killed 11 people. The Washington Post reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second attack to kill two survivors of an initial strike, an order that legal experts say would constitute a war crime. The White House on Monday confirmed the second strike but said the authorization came not from Hegseth, but from Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, then head of Joint Special Operations Command. This comes as Hegseth threatens to court-martial Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a former naval officer, after Kelly and five other Democratic veterans urged service members to refuse unlawful commands. “Killing civilians who are not engaged in armed conflict against us is a war crime,” says law professor David Cole of Georgetown University. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for December 2, 2025
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description: White House Defends “Double Tap” Strike on Alleged Drug Boat, Says Admiral Gave Order to Kill, Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Teens During Raids Across Occupied West Bank, Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Gaza Refugee Camp in Latest Ceasefire Violation, Pope Leo Visits Lebanon, Urging Peaceful Coexistence Across Middle East, Netanyahu Asks Israeli President to Pardon Him over Corruption Charges, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Meet Vladimir Putin as U.S. Pushes for Ukraine Peace Deal, Trump Threatens “Hell to Pay” in Honduras If Presidential Election Results Change, Heavily Armed Gangs Kill Nearly a Dozen People in Haiti as Trump Admin Cancels TPS for Haitians, Indiana Lawmakers Unveil New Voting Map to Allow GOP to Win All Nine House Seats, Speaker Johnson and Trump Try to Prevent Upset House Loss in Tennessee Special Election, Appeals Court Rules Trump’s Personal Attorney Alina Habba Is an Unlawful U.S. Attorney, Senate Minority Leader Schumer Says His Offices Received Emailed Bomb Threats, Trump Commutes Seven-Year Prison Sentence of Private Equity CEO Convicted of Fraud
encoded: White House Defends "Double Tap" Strike on Alleged Drug Boat, Says Admiral Gave Order to Kill Israeli Forces Kill 2 Palestinian Teens During Raids Across Occupied West Bank Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian in Gaza Refugee Camp in Latest Ceasefire Violation Pope Leo Visits Lebanon, Urging Peaceful Coexistence Across Middle East Netanyahu Asks Israeli President to Pardon Him over Corruption Charges Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Meet Vladimir Putin as U.S. Pushes for Ukraine Peace Deal Trump Threatens "Hell to Pay" in Honduras If Presidential Election Results Change Heavily Armed Gangs Kill Nearly a Dozen People in Haiti as Trump Admin Cancels TPS for Haitians Indiana Lawmakers Unveil New Voting Map to Allow GOP to Win All Nine House Seats Speaker Johnson and Trump Try to Prevent Upset House Loss in Tennessee Special Election Appeals Court Rules Trump's Personal Attorney Alina Habba Is an Unlawful U.S. Attorney Senate Minority Leader Schumer Says His Offices Received Emailed Bomb Threats Trump Commutes Seven-Year Prison Sentence of Private Equity CEO Convicted of Fraud This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-12-02 Tuesday
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Police Race To Evacuate Pokrovske Families As Russia Closes In | Ukraine Front Line Update
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Pakistani journalist Sohrab Barakat detained over interview with opposition politician
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description: New York, December 2, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately release journalist Sohrab Barkat, drop all pending charges against him, and cease intimidating members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. Barkat, an Islamabad-based correspondent for Pakistani news outlet Siasat and the host of his own YouTube channel, was detained at Islamabad International...
encoded: New York, December 2, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately release journalist Sohrab Barkat, drop all pending charges against him, and cease intimidating members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. Barkat, an Islamabad-based correspondent for Pakistani news outlet Siasat and the host of his own YouTube channel, was detained at Islamabad International Airport on his way to a United Nations conference on November 26, said multiple news reports and the journalist’s lawyer, Saad Rasool, who spoke to CPJ via a messaging app. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) registered a case against Barkat on August 5, alleging he had made “derogatory remarks” and spread misinformation about state institutions, according to news outlet Dawn and a court document reviewed by CPJ. Rasool said the allegedly insulting remarks were made by Sanam Javed, a member of the main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, in an interview with Barkat that was published on Siasat’s YouTube channel. “The detention of journalist Sohrab Barkat is yet another disturbing example of Pakistani authorities harassing the media,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi. “Authorities must immediately release him and ensure that journalists in Pakistan can report without fear of detention, threats, or intimidation.” On November 28, NCCIA officials presented the journalist before a Section 30 Judicial Magistrate at Lahore District Courts, where the cybercrime agency was granted a four-day physical remand of Barkat to recover his social media accounts and complete the investigation. The journalist is due to appear in court again on December 2, his lawyers said, adding it remained unclear whether the magistrate would order an additional remand period. The NCCIA’s office in Lahore did not immediately reply to CPJ’s emailed request for comment on Barkat’s detention. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar also did not reply to a text messag…

Pakistani journalist Sohrab Barakat detained over interview with opposition politician
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description: New York, December 2, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately release journalist Sohrab Barkat, drop all pending charges against him, and cease intimidating members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. Barkat, an Islamabad-based correspondent for Pakistani news outlet Siasat and the host of his own YouTube channel, was detained at Islamabad International...
encoded: New York, December 2, 2025—Pakistani authorities must immediately release journalist Sohrab Barkat, drop all pending charges against him, and cease intimidating members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. Barkat, an Islamabad-based correspondent for Pakistani news outlet Siasat and the host of his own YouTube channel, was detained at Islamabad International Airport on his way to a United Nations conference on November 26, said multiple news reports and the journalist’s lawyer, Saad Rasool, who spoke to CPJ via a messaging app. The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) registered a case against Barkat on August 5, alleging he had made “derogatory remarks” and spread misinformation about state institutions, according to news outlet Dawn and a court document reviewed by CPJ. Rasool said the allegedly insulting remarks were made by Sanam Javed, a member of the main opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, in an interview with Barkat that was published on Siasat’s YouTube channel. “The detention of journalist Sohrab Barkat is yet another disturbing example of Pakistani authorities harassing the media,” said CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi. “Authorities must immediately release him and ensure that journalists in Pakistan can report without fear of detention, threats, or intimidation.” On November 28, NCCIA officials presented the journalist before a Section 30 Judicial Magistrate at Lahore District Courts, where the cybercrime agency was granted a four-day physical remand of Barkat to recover his social media accounts and complete the investigation. The journalist is due to appear in court again on December 2, his lawyers said, adding it remained unclear whether the magistrate would order an additional remand period. The NCCIA’s office in Lahore did not immediately reply to CPJ’s emailed request for comment on Barkat’s detention. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar also did not reply to a text messag…

Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE
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description: The post Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with his team’s immigration crackdown or lose your federal homeland security funding. Oregon and 19 other states including Illinois, New York and California fought back and won. A federal judge ruled in September that the Department of Homeland Security couldn’t attach such strings to its grants, which states rely on for counterterrorism and emergency planning. For Oregon, nearly $18 million was at stake. The money in the past has paid for everything from bomb detectors to a security analyst’s salary. But after winning in court, Oregon officials logged in to a federal grant website to formally accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled. They thought it might be a system glitch until they talked to counterparts in other states. The button did not come back online. Homeland Security officials signaled to the states that despite losing in court, they were likely to appeal. If states wanted the money now, they would have to sign a declaration promising to cooperate with immigration enforcement if they lost in the future. States argued this would violate the judge’s order, and they won in court again. Finally in October, the department officially removed the immigration wording to which states had objected and that the judge had said wasn’t legal. But the administration continued to dangle the money out of reach. This time, the department rolled out a whole new set of criteria that made it harder for all states — “sanctuary” or not, blue or red — to obtain any federal terror or emergency management funding at all. They required states to estimate their populations’ net of people who had been deported and they dramatically tightened the deadline for spending the money. Trump and his appointees have faced intense scrutiny since September, when he cited “violent radical left terrorism” as the reason for ordering National Guard troops to Portland.…

Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE
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description: The post Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, his administration gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with his team’s immigration crackdown or lose your federal homeland security funding. Oregon and 19 other states including Illinois, New York and California fought back and won. A federal judge ruled in September that the Department of Homeland Security couldn’t attach such strings to its grants, which states rely on for counterterrorism and emergency planning. For Oregon, nearly $18 million was at stake. The money in the past has paid for everything from bomb detectors to a security analyst’s salary. But after winning in court, Oregon officials logged in to a federal grant website to formally accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled. They thought it might be a system glitch until they talked to counterparts in other states. The button did not come back online. Homeland Security officials signaled to the states that despite losing in court, they were likely to appeal. If states wanted the money now, they would have to sign a declaration promising to cooperate with immigration enforcement if they lost in the future. States argued this would violate the judge’s order, and they won in court again. Finally in October, the department officially removed the immigration wording to which states had objected and that the judge had said wasn’t legal. But the administration continued to dangle the money out of reach. This time, the department rolled out a whole new set of criteria that made it harder for all states — “sanctuary” or not, blue or red — to obtain any federal terror or emergency management funding at all. They required states to estimate their populations’ net of people who had been deported and they dramatically tightened the deadline for spending the money. Trump and his appointees have faced intense scrutiny since September, when he cited “violent radical left terrorism” as the reason for ordering National Guard troops to Portland.…

CPJ’s lifeline for Palestinian journalists in Gaza
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description: New York, December 2, 2025 — Since what human rights groups and UN experts agree is a genocide in Gaza began in October 2023, the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked relentlessly to sustain the journalists documenting the deadliest war for the press ever recorded. CPJ has spent more than $500,000 to provide both humanitarian...
encoded: New York, December 2, 2025 — Since what human rights groups and UN experts agree is a genocide in Gaza began in October 2023, the Committee to Protect Journalists has worked relentlessly to sustain the journalists documenting the deadliest war for the press ever recorded. CPJ has spent more than $500,000 to provide both humanitarian and professional assistance to Gaza’s press corps — reaching 2,195 Palestinian journalists despite the extreme constraints of siege, famine, and mass displacement. Balancing humanitarian survival and journalistic duty <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" height="1024" width="768" src="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg?w=768" alt="Members of the press work at the Gaza Journalists Hub." class="wp-image-541259" style="width:331px;height:auto" srcset="https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg 960w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg?resize=225,300 225w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg?resize=768,1024 768w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg?resize=570,760 570w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg?resize=652,869 652w, https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Journalism-Hub-Gaza-5.jpeg?resize=760,1013 760w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /> Members of the press work at the Gaza Journalists Hub. (Photo: Courtesy of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)) Gaza’s media landscape has been devastated over the course of two years of war. Journalists have lost colleagues, homes, and equipment, yet continue to report under bombardment and blackout. CPJ’s support—split between large-scale projects (costing more than $400,000) and individual grants (over $100,000)—has aimed to meet both urgent survival needs and the core requirements of journalism itself. “Given the fluidity of the situation on the ground,” said CPJ Chief …

Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab.
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description: The post Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Stan Kroenke doesn’t need federal help to make a business flourish. He is worth an estimated $20 billion, a fortune that has allowed him to become one of America’s largest property owners and afforded him stakes in storied sports franchises, including the Denver Nuggets and England’s Arsenal soccer club. Yet Kroenke, whose wife is an heiress to the Walmart fortune, benefits from one of the federal government’s bedrock subsidy programs, one that props up ranching in the West. As owner of the Winecup Gamble Ranch, which sprawls across grasslands, streams and a mountain range east of Elko, Nevada, Kroenke is entitled to graze his cattle on public lands for less than 15% of the fees he would pay on private land. The public lands grazing program, formalized in the 1930s to contain the rampant overgrazing that contributed to the Dust Bowl, has grown to serve operations including billionaire hobby ranchers, mining companies, utilities and large corporate outfits, providing benefits unimagined by its founding law. President Donald Trump’s administration plans to make the program even more generous — pushing to open even more of the 240 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service grazing land to livestock while reducing oversight of the environmental damage. This, members of the administration contend, will further its goal of using public lands to fuel the economy and eliminate the national debt. “That’s the balance sheet of America,” Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said of federal lands at his confirmation hearing in January, “and, if we were a company, they would look at us and say, ‘Wow, you are really restricting your balance sheet.’” ProPublica and High Country News set out to investigate the transformation of the grazing system, established to prevent abuse of public lands, into a massive subsidy program. In the late 1970s, Congress raised the fees to graze on public lands to reflect open market prices at the time. But the fees have barely budg…

5 countries gave formal notification to withdraw from the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty: why it matters
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DN! Tuesday, December 2, 2025
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Pennsylvania bailed on a carbon market to appease Republicans
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description: Governor Josh Shapiro pulled out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in exchange for a budget. Critics say he “got rolled.”
encoded: Last month, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro withdrew from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (pronounced “Reggie”), a cap-and-trade program that establishes a regional limit on carbon emissions from power plants located in the Northeast. Here’s how RGGI works: Each year, credits allowing the power plants to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide, up to the cap, are auctioned off. The proceeds from these auctions go to RGGI member states, which can reinvest them into clean energy and consumer affordability programs. Crucially, the emissions cap gradually lowers over time, theoretically ensuring that total emissions continue on a downward trend. Pennsylvania is a giant within the program, because it has higher power sector emissions than all of the other RGGI states — Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia — combined, so Shapiro’s exit sent shockwaves through the system. The Democrat withdrew from the program as part of a compromise to convince Republicans in the legislature to pass the state’s budget, which has been delayed since June, forcing schools and public transportation to dip into rainy day funds or take on debt to support services. As he signed the withdrawal bill, Shapiro said that state Republicans have used RGGI “as an excuse to stall substantive conversations about energy.” (Though Pennsylvania joined the regional pact in 2022, the move was immediately tied up in litigation, which was ongoing at the time of Shapiro’s withdrawal, meaning the state had yet to actually participate in the auctions.) “Today, that excuse is gone,” Shapiro added. “It’s time to look forward — and I’m going to be aggressive about pushing for policies that create more jobs in the energy sector, bring more clean energy onto the grid, and reduce the cost of energy for Pennsylvanians.” Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/rooftop-solar-panel-inst…

Street Clashes Erupt During Mass Protests In Bulgaria Against Government
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Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory
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description: A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying happens, transgressions inevitable. Some are genuine enough: silly misunderstandings, hot headed confusion, a fear that the other side has broken […] The post Gaza’s Prolonged Purgatory first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: A ceasefire can be a strange thing. The assumption, generally speaking, is that the parties to it restrain themselves for a period of time, ordering their forces and disciplining their charges from straying. But straying happens, transgressions inevitable. Some are genuine enough: silly misunderstandings, hot headed confusion, a fear that the other side has broken it. Room for error, and a degree of death and injury, is crudely permitted. In the case of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, transgressions have become the lingua franca of the parties, though Israel remains, by far, the perpetrator par excellence. The latter’s departures from the agreement have been so vicious as to prompt the observation that they are pursuing a mutilated reading of the agreement, essentially a “reducefire”. The deaths of 347 Palestinians in Gaza since October 10, including 136 children, do not point to cooling restraint. On October 28, at least 104 Palestinians were slaughtered in a single day. This might have suggested a breach so serious as to suggest a repudiation. Not so, claimed Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani. “Fortunately,” he told a US audience, “I think the main parties – both of them [Israel and Hamas] – are acknowledging that the ceasefire should hold and they should stick to the agreement.” What is becoming apparent is that the ceasefire has led to a state of affairs where Israeli forces have been permitted enormous latitude in the way it inflicts violence on local Gazans. The UN Women’s Chief of Humanitarian Action, Sofia Calltorp, reveals how Gazan women told her “again and again: there may be a ceasefire, but the war is not over. The attacks are fewer, but the killings continue.” Agnès Callmard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, goes so far as to declare that the ceasefire has created “a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal.” What has in fact happened is a mere reduction of “the scale of [Israel’s] attacks” and t…

Artist Zoe Koke on creating space for reflection
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description: Your solo exhibition tide was recently on view at Franz Kaka in Toronto. Could you talk about how that body of work came together?
encoded: Your solo exhibition tide was recently on view at Franz Kaka in Toronto. Could you talk about how that body of work came together? I wanted to make something really slow. In my own work, I was feeling, I guess, pressure—but also welcome pressure—to meet deadlines and make a lot of work for different contexts. I’m not just a painter but a lot of the work that I’ve shown in the last couple years is painting. It can be overwhelming to be on deadlines for paintings. In a way, the work looks the way it does because I wanted to make something that would slow me down in the process of making the paintings. I was thinking a lot about where we are at in the world and politics and this feeling of helplessness and dissociation that I know a lot of people have been experiencing, myself included. I wanted to make something that could become a contemplative space, almost as if the paintings form one painting. Zoe Koke, iv, 40 x 40, oil on canvas, 2025 I rented a studio the same size as the gallery so I could walk through this space and feel this sort of embodied sense of the transition between the colors and the light that I was trying to evoke in the paintings. And I was thinking about a lot of my heroes in art. In a way, the works that they made are very simple. To name a few, there’s Agnes Martin, there’s Rothko, there’s Robert Irwin, who has this beautiful work at Chinati in Marfa that’s called “untitled (dawn to dusk).” It’s in an old army hospital in a horseshoe configuration. The space is painted so that it goes from white walls to black; the heights of the windows were altered, and there’s just a scrim running through the space. When you walk through, you experience all these shadows and this slight transition of color, and if you go at sunset, it’s one of the most beautiful art experiences. There’s another work that really changed me, called Meeting. James Turrell has this little room at MoMA PS1. There is a bench in the room, around the periphery of the space and a skyl…

A Tale of Two ICEs
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creator: Laura Flanders
date: 2025-12-02T07:02:57Z
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description: This Saturday, DHS apparently had another of their so-called “enforcement surges” planned, this time involving some 600 agents and an even bigger sweep of Canal Street. Once again, they were met with Manhattan mayhem. When word got out that ICE was using a local garage as a staging area, hundreds of people massed outside, whistles blowing, drums beating, livestreams livestreaming. More The post A Tale of Two ICEs appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Angry Tide of the Latin American Far Right
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creator: Vijay Prashad
date: 2025-12-02T06:58:18Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: american
subject: angry!’:
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: far
subject: latin
subject: right
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: tide’
description: The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump’s own brand More The post The Angry Tide of the Latin American Far Right appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will
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creator: Ramzy Baroud
date: 2025-12-02T06:58:13Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: break
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: gaza
subject: Leading Article
subject: palestinian
subject: partition
subject: scheme
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: us-israeli
subject: war
subject: will
description: United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank and elsewhere in the Middle East. The resolution, passed on November 14, 2025, was a consolation prize to Israel after failing to achieve its ultimate objective from the two-year Gaza genocide: the ethnic cleansing of the population and the complete takeover of the Gaza Strip. More The post The US-Israeli Scheme to Partition Gaza and Break Palestinian Will appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban
type: item
creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-12-02T06:53:39Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: action
subject: articles 2015
subject: ban
subject: challenging
subject: clownish
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Palestine
subject: proscriptions:
subject: sources
subject: the
description: On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Airforce base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the Middle East.” This was deemed so horrible as to draw the ire of then Home Secretary Yvette More The post Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Sitting Targets: Negligence and Occupational Risk in Sri Lanka
type: item
creator: Shiran Illanperuma
date: 2025-12-02T06:52:12Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: lanka
subject: negligence’:
subject: occupational
subject: risk
subject: sitting
subject: sources
subject: sri
subject: targets
description: Sundays at Paramasivam Pushpalatha’s home used to be a much livelier affair. It was her only day off from the factory and so she would pack seven days of domesticity into one. Her husband, Govindasamy Sivakumar, would sometimes take walks to avoid the hustle and bustle of the house being turned upside down in a More The post Sitting Targets: Negligence and Occupational Risk in Sri Lanka appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Environmental Crisis: It’s All About the Money
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creator: David Rosen
date: 2025-12-02T06:52:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: all
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: crisis
subject: environmental
subject: it’s
subject: Money
subject: sources
subject: the
description: For regular viewers of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Program, she and her team recently reported from the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil. This COPS spotlighted Indigenous people, and the program had numerous interviews with not only representatives of different Indigenous groups but also environmental activists challenging fossil-fuel hegemony. The Money Sadly, none of the well-meaning people interviewed mentioned that the More The post Environmental Crisis: It’s All About the Money appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Increase in Social Security Payments Undercut by Greater Medicare Deduction
type: item
creator: Rick Baum
date: 2025-12-02T06:50:53Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: deduction
subject: greater
subject: increase
subject: medicare
subject: payments
subject: Security
subject: social
subject: sources
subject: undercut
description: Almost a year ago, I wrote a CounterPunch article on how the social security cost of living increase was eroded by higher charges for Medicare coverage. That is again happening in 2026 as reported in a recent New York Times news story that deserves widespread coverage. The 2026 social security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) More The post Increase in Social Security Payments Undercut by Greater Medicare Deduction appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome
type: item
creator: Patrick Bond
date: 2025-12-02T06:45:49Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘appeasement’
subject: africa
subject: articles 2015
subject: brics
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: from
subject: like
subject: sources
subject: south
subject: suffer,
subject: syndrome:
subject: the
subject: trump
description: The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, might the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (plus Egypt-Ethiopia-Indonesia-Iran-United Arab Emirates) BRICS bloc More The post Like South Africa, the BRICS Suffer From Trump Appeasement Syndrome appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Provoking China Again: Macedonia’s Unlearned Lessons
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creator: Biljana Vankovska
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description: A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke that the Vice Speaker of the Macedonian Parliament, accompanied by two MPs, formally received a Taiwanese parliamentary delegation. The visit came less than two weeks after the new Ambassador More The post Provoking China Again: Macedonia’s Unlearned Lessons appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump Crazy #27542: Replacing the Income Tax with Tariffs
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description: Everyone in my public school third-grade class learned arithmetic. Apparently, this puts us way ahead of Donald Trump and much of the punditry. They somehow take seriously the idea that we can replace $2.6 trillion in annual income tax revenue with $280 billion in Donald Trump tariff revenue. My third-grade class all know better. While More The post Trump Crazy #27542: Replacing the Income Tax with Tariffs appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-385619" class="size-medium wp-image-385619" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_4577-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Everyone in my public school third-grade class learned arithmetic. Apparently, this puts us way ahead of Donald Trump and much of the punditry. They somehow take seriously the idea that we can replace $2.6 trillion in annual income tax revenue with $280 billion in Donald Trump tariff revenue. My third-grade class all know better. While this is absurd on its face, Donald Trump keeps repeating the idea. He draws approving nods from Republican politicians and the conservative punditry. The arithmetic here is straightforward. We currently are running annual budget deficits of around $1.7 trillion, a bit less than 6.0 percent of GDP. The deficit, measured as a share of GDP, is projected to rise gradually over the next decade as the growing debt leads to a larger interest burden. This is the context in which Donald Trump is saying that he wants to replace the income tax with his tariffs. This is the story on the relative size of the two taxes. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-38787" src="https://cepr.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Book2_30568_im…

The Clarifying Power of Nonviolence
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description: There is a clarifying power to nonviolence. When Dr. Martin Luther King was jailed in Birmingham in 1963 for protesting racial segregation in that city, he declared that such protests were needed to create a “constructive nonviolent tension” that would lift individuals out of the “dark depths of prejudice and racism.” As he explained, “the purpose of the More The post The Clarifying Power of Nonviolence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
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description: US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any more so than Washington’s More The post Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-392164" class="wp-image-392164 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-680x450.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="450" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-680x450.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-953x630.jpg 953w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-768x508.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-2048x1354.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-500x331.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/claudio-luiz-castro-WGjQx5KiEe0-unsplash-600x397.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Cláudio Luiz Castro. US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any more so than Washington’s phony pretext of drug interdiction for their deadly regime-change offensive against Venezuela. To date, the Yankee military has murdered over 80 people in alleged “drug boats” in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific but has yet to confiscate a single milligram of narcotics from Venezuela. The Venezuelan authorities, in contrast, have seized 64 tons of cocaine this year that were being transited through their country and have done so without killing a single person. However, Venezuela’s interdiction pales…

Colombian rebel group threatens investigative journalists as ‘armed actors’
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description: Bogotá, December 1, 2025—Colombian authorities should thoroughly investigate threats made by a rebel group against the investigative unit of news outlet Caracol Noticias and ensure that its reporters can safely do their jobs, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. In a November 27 video reviewed by CPJ, negotiators with the General Staff of Blocks and Front,...
encoded: Bogotá, December 1, 2025—Colombian authorities should thoroughly investigate threats made by a rebel group against the investigative unit of news outlet Caracol Noticias and ensure that its reporters can safely do their jobs, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. In a November 27 video reviewed by CPJ, negotiators with the General Staff of Blocks and Front, a guerrilla group currently in peace talks with the Colombian government, accused Caracol Noticias of spreading hate and disinformation in connection with their November 23 report linking government officials to allegations that they helped a rebel leader evade security protocols and procure weapons. The reporting led to the suspension of a Colombian army general and the chief of Colombia’s National Intelligence Directorate. “If some journalists like war so much, why don’t they put on boots, a camouflage uniform, pick up a gun and go to the battlefield?” said an unidentified rebel fighter in the video. “This severe threat against Caracol Noticias must be fully investigated, and those responsible must be quickly held accountable,” said CPJ’s Latin America program coordinator, Cristina Zahar. “Reporters are civilians who should not be targeted by criminal groups, and the Colombian government must guarantee their safety if they are to continue reporting on issues of public interest.” Ricardo Calderón, one of the Caracol Noticias reporters who worked on the story, told CPJ that the guerrillas’ declaration constituted a “grave threat” against journalists but said the station would continue to broadcast investigative reports about the rebels. In a statement on X, the office of the Colombian government’s human rights ombudsman called the rebel threats “inadmissible” and said they “generate a grave and unjustifiable risk for the integrity of journalists and for the free exercise of their work.” The office further called on the Colombian government to protect journalists and for rebels to publicly acknowledge …

On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts and Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center
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date: 2025-12-01T21:54:47Z
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description: The HHS report on transgender care is a sham--yet at the Washington Post, it's a "dispute" among people with "strong opinions."
encoded: President Donald Trump, having campaigned heavily on anti-trans fear mongering, issued an executive order within days of taking office that banned federal support for gender-affirming care. That same order commanded the secretary of Health and Human Services to produce a report on “best practices” for the care of trans youth. When the report was released in May, exactly zero people were surprised that its conclusions echoed the executive order’s anti-trans stance—condemning gender-affirming care and instead recommending “exploratory” therapy—and were grounded in ideology, not science or medical expertise. The May report was not peer-reviewed and did not even disclose its authors’ names. And it was sharply criticized by every major medical association and several rights groups (e.g., Human Rights Campaign, 5/1/25; Lambda Legal, 5/1/25). A continuing sham Erin in the Morning (11/20/25) noted that the Health & Human Services report’s authors were missing “any actual transgender people, medical professionals with notable experience treating trans people, or any academics who have conducted principal research on patients with gender dysphoria.” Now, as the Trump administration is working on new rules to further block gender-affirming care for youth, the HHS has re-released the report—summarized by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as showing that gender-affirming care is “malpractice”—which now discloses its nine authors and claims to have undergone peer review. As trans-focused news site Erin in the Morning (11/20/25) details, the list of authors excludes “any actual transgender people, medical professionals with notable experience treating trans people, or any academics who have conducted principal research on patients with gender dysphoria.” Instead, the primary qualification for selection of authors seemed to have been skepticism of or flat-out opposition to gender-affirming care. As Erin in the Morning points out, one author previously compared gender-affirming c…

59,000 Dead: The Toxic Air Choking Iran
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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“Kill Everybody”: Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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‘An accountability vacuum’: How Baltimore is enabling ICE’s lawlessness
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date: 2025-12-01T19:56:22Z
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description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2231296720-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="A supporter holds an upside down American flag after Salvadoran migrant and US resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrived and entered a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 25, 2025. Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images" data-attachment-id="338871" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/an-accountability-vacuum-how-baltimore-is-enabling-ices-lawlessness/gettyimages-2231296720" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2231296720-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="GettyImages-2231296720" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" A supporter holds an upside down American flag after Salvadoran migrant and US resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia arrived and entered a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Baltimore, Maryland, on August 25, 2025. Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2231296720-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-2231296720-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1"> “Our neighbors are disappearing without a trace,” Kori Skillman reports at Baltimore Beat.
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How Baltimore is enabling ICE’s lawlessness
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Photojournalist struck in head with pepper ball amid Minnesota protest
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description: Aaron Nesheim, photojournalist for the Sahan Journal, was shot with a crowd-control munition by law enforcement while reporting on protests in response to a federal immigration enforcement raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25, 2025.The Minnesota Sta...
encoded: Aaron Nesheim, photojournalist for the Sahan Journal, was shot with a crowd-control munition by law enforcement while reporting on protests in response to a federal immigration enforcement raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25, 2025. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that while federal authorities — including agents from Homeland Security Investigations — conducted a raid at a home, St. Paul Police Department officers formed a perimeter to keep the mounting protest at bay. Nesheim and two fellow photojournalists — Kerem Yücel of Minnesota Public Radio and Tim Evans, on assignment for Reuters — were working near each other much of the day, according to MPR. As federal officers prepared to leave, police tried to clear the area, but the scene devolved into chaos. Evans told the outlet that police began shooting pepper balls at the feet of protesters, who in turn threw objects toward the officers. Amid the protest response, all three photojournalists were shot with crowd-control munitions. Evans was shot in the stomach with a pepper ball, which left a black-and-blue welt. Nesheim, who did not respond to a request for comment, told MPR he witnessed the moment a crowd-control munition struck Yücel in the shoulder. “They opened fire,” he said of police officers. “And I heard Kerem yell, and saw him kind of grab himself just below his collarbone.” He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and later released. Moments after, Nesheim told MPR, he too was struck. “I felt a round graze the side of my head and left a small bump,” he said. “A matter of an inch and I might have been in the ambulance there with [Yücel].” All three photojournalists told MPR that they were clearly identifiable as press and believe police deliberately targeted them for doing their jobs. None of them reported hearing any verbal warnings before officers opened fire. In an emailed statement to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, police Chief Axel Henry said that a full review of the department’s respo…

Photojournalist struck in stomach with pepper ball at Minnesota protest
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2025-12-01T18:30:40Z
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description: Freelance photojournalist Tim Evans was shot with a crowd-control munition by law enforcement while reporting on protests in response to a federal immigration enforcement raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25, 2025.The Minnesota Star Tribune reported...
encoded: Freelance photojournalist Tim Evans was shot with a crowd-control munition by law enforcement while reporting on protests in response to a federal immigration enforcement raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25, 2025. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that while federal authorities — including agents from Homeland Security Investigations — conducted a raid at a home, St. Paul Police Department officers formed a perimeter to keep the mounting protest at bay. Evans, who was not immediately available for comment, told the Minnesota Public Radio that he was on assignment that day for Reuters and was wearing a vest marked with “Press.” He was also working near two fellow photojournalists — Kerem Yücel of MPR and Aaron Nesheim of Sahan Journal — most of the day. As federal officers prepared to leave, police tried to clear the area, but the scene devolved into chaos. Evans told the outlet that police began shooting pepper balls at the feet of protesters, who in turn threw objects toward the officers. Amid the protest response, all three photojournalists were shot with crowd-control munitions. “One of the guys looks at me and shoots me in the stomach as I’m photographing,” Evans told MPR. The pepper ball left a black-and-blue welt, he added. Nesheim said he saw Yücel struck in the shoulder with a crowd-control munition. Shortly after, a pepper ball grazed Nesheim’s head. All three photojournalists told MPR that they were clearly identifiable as press and believe police deliberately targeted them for doing their jobs. None of them reported hearing any verbal warnings before officers opened fire. In an emailed statement to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, police Chief Axel Henry said that a full review of the department’s response Nov. 25 is underway. “We are committed to a thorough review. This consists of viewing hundreds of hours of body camera footage, as well as footage being shared by community members,” Henry wrote. “We are also actively seeking to arrange meetings wi…

Photojournalist shot with crowd-control munitions amid Minnesota protest
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2025-12-01T18:28:22Z
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subject: photojournalist
subject: Protest
subject: shot
subject: sources
subject: with
description: Kerem Yücel, senior visual journalist for Minnesota Public Radio, was shot with crowd-control munitions by law enforcement while reporting on protests in response to a federal immigration enforcement raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25, 2025.The Mi...
encoded: Kerem Yücel, senior visual journalist for Minnesota Public Radio, was shot with crowd-control munitions by law enforcement while reporting on protests in response to a federal immigration enforcement raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25, 2025. The Minnesota Star Tribune reported that while federal authorities — including agents from Homeland Security Investigations — conducted a raid at a home, St. Paul Police Department officers formed a perimeter to keep the mounting protest at bay. Yücel and fellow photojournalists Tim Evans and Aaron Nesheim were working near each other much of the day, according to MPR. As federal officers prepared to leave, police tried to clear the area, but the scene devolved into chaos. Evans told the outlet that police began shooting pepper balls at the feet of protesters, who in turn threw objects toward the officers. Amid the protest response, all three photojournalists were shot with crowd-control munitions. Nesheim said he witnessed the moment Yücel was struck in the shoulder. “They opened fire,” he said of police officers. “And I heard Kerem yell, and saw him kind of grab himself just below his collarbone.” Moments later, Nesheim said, a round grazed his head; Evans was struck in the stomach. As the photojournalists tried to leave the area, a canister of tear gas landed near them. Yücel told MPR that it blinded and burned him. “Everybody tried to help me to get water and clean my eyes, but I couldn’t open my eyes and [it was] hard to breathe,” he said. “Paramedics came, and then they decided to send me to the ER with the ambulance.” All three photojournalists told MPR that they were clearly identifiable as press and believe police deliberately targeted them for doing their jobs. None of them reported hearing any verbal warnings before officers opened fire. Neither Yücel nor MPR responded to requests for comment. In an emailed statement to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, police Chief Axel Henry said that a full review of the departm…

“Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-01T18:18:57Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Afghanistan
subject: Blowback
subject: CIA
subject: d.c.
subject: death
subject: Democracy
subject: imperial
subject: now
subject: part
subject: Shooting
subject: sources
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 1, 2025
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creator: KPFA
date: 2025-12-01T18:00:00Z
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subject: 2025
subject: december
subject: evening
subject: News
subject: pacifica
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – December 1, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

‘Who wants to live like this?’ Locals fume as Meta AI data center upends entire community
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creator: Brad Reed
date: 2025-12-01T17:39:05Z
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subject: Economy and Inequality
subject: Reprint
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subject: center
subject: Community
subject: Data
subject: economy
subject: entire
subject: fume
subject: inequality
subject: like
subject: live
subject: locals
subject: meta
subject: reprint
subject: sources
subject: this
subject: upends
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subject: who
description: This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Nov. 24, 2025. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. The tiny town of Holly Ridge, Louisiana will soon be home to a massive $27 billion artificial intelligence dat...
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David Sacks’ Financial Conflicts Mean He Can No Longer Credibly Serve as White House AI Advisor. He Should Resign.
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creator: Newswire Editor
date: 2025-12-01T17:37:37Z
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description: A damning investigation by the New York Times has found that top White House A.I. and Tech Advisor David Sacks has “positioned himself to personally benefit” from his official government role – which he has only been allowed to hold because of his des...
encoded: A damning investigation by the New York Times has found that top White House A.I. and Tech Advisor David Sacks has “positioned himself to personally benefit” from his official government role – which he has only been allowed to hold because of his designation by President Trump as a “Special Government Employee” exempted from key financial disclosure requirements and anti-corruption laws. The Times investigation found that Sacks – despite claims that he had sold most of his A.I. assets – has retained at least 449 stakes in companies with ties to A.I. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies. The Times investigation also found that Sacks has recommended A.I. policies that have sometimes run counter to national security recommendations and has dramatically raised the profile of his weekly podcast, “All-In,” through his government role, expanding its business and sharing profits in areas such as event tickets and liquor sales, with a new $1,200 “All-In”-branded tequila. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: “These revelations explain so much about why the Trump Administration’s A.I. policies have looked like a big juicy government giveaway to tech billionaires – because they’ve been written by one of them. Mr. Sacks should resign from his government role and Congress should step up and investigate whether he has improperly benefited himself.” In April, a Public Citizen report titled “Isn’t That Special?” named Sacks as one of a dozen other high-level Trump Administration officials who, like Elon Musk, had been designated “Special Government Employees” but were likely to have disqualifying conflicts-of-interest that should prevent them from serving in those sensitive roles. The author of that report, Public Citizen Democracy Advocate Jon Golinger, said: “The Trump Administration’s wild abuse of the Special Government Employee law has enabled people to enrich themselves from their government jobs at th…

How prisons and temp agencies exploit the most vulnerable workers
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creator: Mansa Musa
date: 2025-12-01T17:27:10Z
subject: Economy and Inequality
subject: Prisons and Policing
subject: Rattling the Bars
subject: Sources
subject: agencies’
subject: and
subject: bars
subject: economy
subject: exploit
subject: how
subject: inequality
subject: Labor
subject: most
subject: podcast
subject: Policing
subject: prison reform
subject: Prisons
subject: rattling
subject: sources
subject: temp
subject: the
subject: vulnerable”
subject: Workers
description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-1471686667-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="Excluded workers take a knee as they observe a moment of silence as they march across the Manhattan Bridge on March 06, 2023 in New York City. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images" data-attachment-id="338850" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/prisons-and-temp-agencies-exploit-vulnerable-workers/gettyimages-1471686667" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-1471686667-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1707" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="GettyImages-1471686667" data-image-description="" data-image-caption=" Excluded workers take a knee as they observe a moment of silence as they march across the Manhattan Bridge on March 06, 2023 in New York City. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-1471686667-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/GettyImages-1471686667-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1"> “Historically, temp workers and prison labor… [have] been used to bust union strikes,” Katherine Passley of Beyond the Bars says. “Well, what would it look like if we were to bring those people into the union so that they can't bust these union efforts?”
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Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure
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creator: Kate Horgan
date: 2025-12-01T17:16:40Z
subject: Project Censored
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: censored
subject: coverage
subject: epstein
subject: higher
subject: Power
subject: pressure
subject: project’:
subject: scrutinizing
subject: sources
subject: The Project Censored Show
subject: Threats
subject: under
description: This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, “Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press’s Failures.” We also delve into the increasingly problematic world of Artificial Intelligence, the challenges and th...
encoded: This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, “Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press’s Failures.” We also delve into the increasingly problematic world of Artificial Intelligence, the challenges and threats AI poses, and the importance of critical AI literacy. Next, Mickey speaks to Brown University first year student James Libresco about his latest Dispatch on Media and Politics for Project Censored titled, “A Direct Attack on Freedom of Speech: Trump Takes on Higher Ed.” Libresco addresses media freedom and the student press, as well as the massive pushback to Trump’s so-called “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education,” which actually poses major threats to academic freedom. The post Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Journalist found guilty of threatening Turkish president
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2025-12-01T17:00:10Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Farih Altaylı
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Sources
subject: altaylı
subject: committee
subject: farih
subject: found
subject: guilty
subject: imprisoned
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: president
subject: protect
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subject: threatening
subject: turkish
description: Istanbul, December 1, 2025—Turkish authorities should immediately release journalist Farih Altaylı pending his appeal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. An Istanbul court on November 26 found prominent commentator Altaylı, who was arrested pending trial in late June, guilty of the charge of threatening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and sentenced him to four years and two months in prison....
encoded: Istanbul, December 1, 2025—Turkish authorities should immediately release journalist Farih Altaylı pending his appeal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. An Istanbul court on November 26 found prominent commentator Altaylı, who was arrested pending trial in late June, guilty of the charge of threatening Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and sentenced him to four years and two months in prison. “Finding Fatih Altaylı guilty of threatening the president is not only a misguided verdict but an open call for self-censorship by the country’s entire news media,” said Özgür Öğret, CPJ’s Turkey representative. “Turkish authorities should immediately release Altaylı pending appeal and stop choking the flow of reporting and commentary in Turkey.” On June 20, Altaylı — who regularly shares content to his 1.6 million YouTube subscribers and 2.7 million X followers — commented on a public poll in which 70 percent of Turkish voters indicated that they preferred to vote for another leader after Erdoğan, who won’t be eligible to run in the country’s 2028 elections because of term limitations, despite talk of changing the constitutionally imposed two-term limit. In his commentary, Altaylı said the Turkish people “love the ballot box” and wouldn’t want to abandon the right to determine their own future. He added: “This nation is a nation that strangled their sultan when they didn’t like things; didn’t want him. A nation that booed their sultan.” Altaylı once again pleaded innocent at the November 26 hearing and asked: “Why would the president be afraid of me? I’m not a [terrorist] organization member or anything. I never resorted to violence.” CPJ’s emailed request for comment from the chief prosecutor’s office in Istanbul did not receive a reply. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

Trump administration’s ‘media bias’ list raises alarm, CPJ says
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creator: Committee to Protect Journalists
date: 2025-12-01T16:52:28Z
subject: CBS News
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Harassed
subject: Sources
subject: The Boston Globe
subject: The Independent
subject: administration’s
subject: alarm
subject: bias
subject: Boston
subject: cbs
subject: committee
subject: cpj
subject: donald trump
subject: globe
subject: harassed
subject: independent
subject: Internet
subject: Journalists
subject: list
subject: Media
subject: News
subject: protect
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subject: the
subject: trump
subject: trump administration
subject: white house
description: Washington, D.C., December 1, 2025—A White House website purporting to tackle “media bias” in fact creates a skewed representation of the work of journalists and creates an environment that seems to deliberately undermine independent reporting in the United States, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. The page, published on November 28 and accessed...
encoded: Washington, D.C., December 1, 2025—A White House website purporting to tackle “media bias” in fact creates a skewed representation of the work of journalists and creates an environment that seems to deliberately undermine independent reporting in the United States, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Monday. The page, published on November 28 and accessed via whitehouse.gov/mediabias, posts a “Media Offender of the Week,” accusing outlets of unfair coverage against the administration’s policies and statements made by President Trump, according to multiple reports. In its first update, the page accused outlets CBS News, The Boston Globe, and The Independent of being media that “misrepresents and exaggerates,” and listed the names of four reporters employed by those outlets. “This latest move from the Trump administration should be a wakeup call to Americans that their tax dollars are being used to suppress, rather than encourage freedom of speech,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen. “The Trump administration’s landing page creates a dangerous permission structure for attacks on journalists and an attempt to undermine newsrooms across the country. This type of behavior is more in line with an authoritarian regime, and has no place in a democracy.” The White House did not immediately respond to CPJ’s request for comment. CPJ has detailed the Trump administration’s unprecedented moves that appear to target independent media in the report, “Alarm bells: Trump’s first 100 days ramp up fear for the press, democracy,” as well as alerts and letters to the administration calling for respect for independent journalism. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Protect Journalists.

What Went Wrong With This Chinese Megaproject?
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-12-01T16:36:24Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: Chinese
subject: europe/rl
subject: free
subject: megaproject?
subject: radio
subject: sources
subject: this
subject: went
subject: what
subject: with
subject: wrong
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan?
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creator: Kim Petersen
date: 2025-12-01T16:06:49Z
subject: 1972 Japan-China Joint Communiqué
subject: Cairo Declaration of 1943
subject: comfort women
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Fu Cong
subject: ianfu
subject: Iris Chang
subject: LDP
subject: Potsdam Proclamation of 1945
subject: Rape of Nanking
subject: remorse
subject: Sanae Takaichi
subject: Sources
subject: Treaty of Shimonoseki
subject: Unit 731
subject: Wang Yi
subject: Yasukuni shrine
subject: $731
subject: 1943
subject: 1945:
subject: 1972:
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subject: cairo:
subject: chang
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subject: japan-china
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subject: Militarism
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subject: proclamation
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subject: right
subject: sanae
subject: shimonoseki
subject: shrine
subject: sources
subject: Taiwan
subject: takaichi
subject: treaty
subject: unit
subject: voice
subject: wang
subject: what
subject: women
subject: World War Two
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description: Chinese chairman Xi Jinping met with Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, at her request in Gyeongju, on 31 October, in the Republic of Korea. The recently ensconced Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi began her early leadership with a major diplomatic gaffe when she said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could constitute “a survival-threatening situation” for […] The post What Right Does Japan Have to Pronounce about Taiwan? first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-163415" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/takaichi_xi-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="281" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/takaichi_xi-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/takaichi_xi-300x169.jpg 300w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/takaichi_xi-768x432.jpg 768w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/takaichi_xi-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/takaichi_xi.jpg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" />Chinese chairman Xi Jinping met with Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi, at her request in Gyeongju, on 31 October, in the Republic of Korea. The recently ensconced Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi began her early leadership with a major diplomatic gaffe when she said a Chinese attack on Taiwan could constitute “a survival-threatening situation” for Japan requiring the use of force. Beijing is apoplectic. Fu Cong, Beijing’s ambassador to the UN, accused Takaichi of committing “a grave violation of international law.” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, “It is shocking that Japan’s current leaders have publicly sent the wrong signal of attempting military intervention in the Taiwan issue, said things they shouldn’t have said, and crossed a red line that should not have been touched.” Takaichi seems oblivious of Article 9 of Japan’s constitution which renounces war and forbids Japan from using force to settle international disputes. Moreover, two of the principles agreed to in the 1972 Japan-China Joint Communiqué read: 2. The Government of Japan recognizes the Government of the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal Government of China. 3. The Government of the People’s Republic of China reiterates that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China. The…

Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
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description: US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any more so than Washington’s […] The post Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any more so than Washington’s phony pretext of drug interdiction for their deadly regime-change offensive against Venezuela. To date, the Yankee military has murdered over 80 people in alleged “drug boats” in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific but has yet to confiscate a single milligram of narcotics from Venezuela. The Venezuelan authorities, in contrast, have seized 64 tons of cocaine this year that were being transited through their country and have done so without killing a single person. However, Venezuela’s interdiction pales in comparison to the 400 tons of cocaine smuggled into the US enabled by one Juan Orlando Hernández, according to the US Department of Justice. Hernández is a former Honduran president and right-wing Washington ally. He was convicted in a US jury trial for running his country like a narco state, taking bribes from Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The day before Trump “closed” Venezuela’s airspace as part of his so-called “crackdown on drug cartels,” he announced his intention to pardon convicted cartel-enabler Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence at a penitentiary in West Virginia. If Washington succeeds in blocking air travel to Venezuela, the action has an added cruelty. It coincides with the winter holidays, when overseas Venezuelans would return home to visit family. Many of these migrants are economic refugees, driven from their homeland largely by the US’s unilateral coercive measures designed to asphyxiate Venezuela’s economy. The CEO of America’s empire has ambitions for vast powers and now claims dominion over the firmaments. Yet the US Congress has not approved his no-fly zone, nor has any international …

As Public Support for ICE Drops, Women’s March WIN Launches Campaign Urging Agents to Walk Away
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description: As the Trump administration enters its eleventh month pushing aggressive immigration crackdowns, public sentiment appears to be shifting. A new YouGov survey finds growing discomfort with the broad and aggressive methods being employed by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to the poll, a majority (53%) of Americans somewhat or strongly disapprove of […] The post As Public Support for ICE Drops, Women’s March WIN Launches Campaign Urging Agents to Walk Away first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
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Trump Announces New Immigration Restrictions After D.C. Shooting
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Soldiers of Solidarity — Part III
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creator: Sammy Attoh
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description: Our soldiers did not go to Africa to conquer, but to liberate.” — Fidel Castro Read Part I and Part II. In late 1975, as Angola prepared to cast off Portuguese rule, its fragile independence was threatened by apartheid South Africa’s armies and CIA‑backed mercenaries. Into this storm stepped Cuba. Within weeks, Havana launched Operación […] The post Soldiers of Solidarity — Part III first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Our soldiers did not go to Africa to conquer, but to liberate.” — Fidel Castro1 Read Part I and Part II. In late 1975, as Angola prepared to cast off Portuguese rule, its fragile independence was threatened by apartheid South Africa’s armies and CIA‑backed mercenaries. Into this storm stepped Cuba. Within weeks, Havana launched Operación Carlota, named after an enslaved woman who led a rebellion in Cuba in 1843. Though Carlota was killed, her spirit lived on — carried across the Atlantic as a symbol of resistance.2 Cuba’s intervention was not driven by material gain. Thousands of Cuban lives were lost, yet Havana demanded no oil, diamonds, or gold. Fidel Castro made clear the mission’s purpose: “We are fulfilling our duty to humanity. We are not seeking oil, diamonds, or gold. We are seeking justice.”3 Historians have emphasized the significance of this choice. Piero Gleijses, a leading scholar of the conflict, concluded that “Cuba’s role in Angola changed the course of African history.”4 His research shows how Cuban solidarity altered the balance of power in southern Africa. Nelson Mandela himself recognized this sacrifice. Speaking in Havana in 1991, he declared: “The defeat of the apartheid army at Cuito Cuanavale was a turning point for the liberation of our continent — and of my people — from the scourge of apartheid.”5 Over sixteen years, more than 337,000 Cuban soldiers and advisors served in Africa. They fought alongside liberation movements in Guinea‑Bissau, Mozambique, and Namibia, living among the people and sharing their hardships.67 Their presence offered protection against colonial aggression and apartheid expansion. The decisive moment came at Cuito Cuanavale in 1987–1988. Cuban, Angolan, and Namibian forces halted South Africa’s advance in what became the largest battle on African soil since World War II.8 The confrontation forced Pretoria to the negotiating table, opening the road to Namibian independence and accelerating the demise of apartheid. Vi…

Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?
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Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — December 1, 2025
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Protesters storm La Stampa headquarters
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description: Berlin, December 1, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Italian authorities to swiftly complete their investigation into the recent attack on the headquarters of the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, ensure the safety of its journalists, and bring all perpetrators to justice. “CPJ condemns the attack against La Stampa, which appears to...
encoded: Berlin, December 1, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Italian authorities to swiftly complete their investigation into the recent attack on the headquarters of the Italian daily newspaper La Stampa, ensure the safety of its journalists, and bring all perpetrators to justice. “CPJ condemns the attack against La Stampa, which appears to be an attempt to intimidate journalists because of their coverage of the Israel-Gaza war,” said Attila Mong, CPJ’s Europe representative. “This attack marks a dangerous escalation in violence against journalists in Italy. Such acts of aggression risk having a chilling effect on reporting. Italian authorities must make it clear that there is no place for violence and intimidation against journalists in a democracy.” On 28 November 2025, in Turin, northern Italy, about a hundred demonstrators broke away from a protest against a new budget proposal and in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. They headed to La Stampa’s headquarters, where around a dozen, some wearing masks, forced their way into the building, shouting threats — including death threats – against journalists, scattering newspapers and documents, and spray-painting slogans on the walls. Outside, other protesters threw manure at the gates and left anti-journalist and pro-Palestinian graffiti. The newsroom was largely empty because many staff were participating in a national strike themselves. La Stampa called the incident a “violent assault on our newspaper and information.” The attack drew widespread condemnation, including from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who expressed solidarity with the newspaper’s journalists. Police in Turin said they have opened an investigation and have identified about 30 suspects. They have also increased security for several other newspapers. CPJ emailed questions to the Turin police press office but received no response. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by Committee to Prot…

UN News Today 01 December 2025
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creator: Katy Dartford
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description: • Landmine casualties hit four-year high as global ban faces withdrawals, new use and funding cuts• Sri Lanka: UN warns of severe humanitarian impact after Cyclone Ditwah triggers deadly flooding• Gaza: Winter conditions worsen as OCHA scales up relief...
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A ‘forgotten hero’ against Imperial Japan, but the legacy of ‘Bintao’ Vinzons is being revived
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description: COMMENTARY: By David Robie Vinzons is a quiet coastal town in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Norte in Bicol. With a spread out population of about 45,000. it is known for its rice production, crabs and surfing beaches in the Calaguas Islands. But the town is really famous for one of its sons —
encoded: COMMENTARY: By David Robie Vinzons is a quiet coastal town in the eastern Philippines province of Camarines Norte in Bicol. With a spread out population of about 45,000. it is known for its rice production, crabs and surfing beaches in the Calaguas Islands. But the town is really famous for one of its sons — Wenceslao “Bintao” Vinzons, the youngest lawmaker in the Philippines before the Japanese invasion during the Second World War who then took up armed resistance. He was captured and executed along with his family in 1942. READ MORE: Filipino radio storytelling and community empowerment — a Vinzons update Other Philippines reports One of the most interesting assets of the municipality of Vinzons — named after the hero in 1946, the town previously being known as Indan — is his traditional family home, which has recently been refurbished as a local museum to tell his story of courage and inspiration. “He is something of a forgotten hero, student leader, resistance fighter, former journalist — a true hero,” says acting curator Roniel Espina. As well as a war hero, Vinzons is revered for his progressive politics and was known as the “father of student activism” in the Philippines. His political career began at the University of Philippines in the capital Manila where he co-founded the Young Philippines Party. The Vinzons Hall at UP-Diliman was named after him to honour his student leadership exploits. Student newspaper editor He was the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Collegian, the student newspaper founded in 1922. At 24, Vinzons became the youngest delegate to the 1935 Constitutional Convention and six years later at the age of 30 he was elected Governor of Camarine Norte in 1941 — the same year that Japan invaded. In fact, the invasion of the Philippines began on 8 December 1941 just 10 hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbour in Hawai’i. The invading forces tried to pressure Governor Vinzons in his provincial capital of Daet to collaborate. He absolutely refuse…

What it’s like to be a "politivist" in 2025 #shorts
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What it’s like to be a "politivist" in 2025 #shorts
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The Unexpected Path to Power
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“Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-01T13:54:40Z
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subject: CIA
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subject: death
subject: Democracy
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description: Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by human rights groups...
encoded: Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by human rights groups. “The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror,'” says Spencer Ackerman, journalist and author focused on U.S. military and foreign policy. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump Vows to Pause Migration from “Third World Countries” After Fatal National Guard Shooting
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-01T13:44:41Z
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description: We look at President Trump’s call to pause all asylum decisions after an Afghan man who once worked for the CIA opened fire near the White House last Wednesday, shooting two National Guard members, killing one. Rahmanullah Lakanwal enter...
encoded: We look at President Trump’s call to pause all asylum decisions after an Afghan man who once worked for the CIA opened fire near the White House last Wednesday, shooting two National Guard members, killing one. Rahmanullah Lakanwal entered the United States in 2021 through Operation Allies Welcome, a program that saw the U.S. evacuate thousands of Afghans who faced reprisals from the Taliban over their work with the U.S. and the former U.S.-backed government. Trump has since said that he will “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries.” Afghan refugees have “been stuck in limbo in the United States, and now they’re being targeted by President Trump’s political stunts,” says Shawn VanDiver, founder and president of #AfghanEvac. Laila Ayub, executive director of Project ANAR, says the Trump administration is using the tragedy to “scapegoat and collectively punish an entire community.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“Kill Everybody”: Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-01T13:36:11Z
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description: Democracy Now! speaks with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the Trump administration’s deadly, ongoing attacks on alleged “drug boats” amid reports President Trump is preparing to attack Venezuela, with all airspace surround...
encoded: Democracy Now! speaks with journalist Spencer Ackerman about the Trump administration’s deadly, ongoing attacks on alleged “drug boats” amid reports President Trump is preparing to attack Venezuela, with all airspace surrounding Venezuela now closed. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and others are “turning the military into a criminal operation,” says Ackerman. “This shows the moral degeneracy that the 'war on terror' has left as a legacy in the U.S. military.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-12-01T13:16:57Z
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subject: election
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description: President Trump has announced plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. In 2024, Hernández was convicted in New York ...
encoded: President Trump has announced plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. In 2024, Hernández was convicted in New York of drug trafficking and weapons charges. “The evidence from the Southern District of New York was overwhelming,” says Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a longtime observer of Honduran politics. Trump’s announcement came on Friday, and he also threatened to cut off funding if Hondurans did not elect his chosen conservative candidate as they went to the polls Sunday to pick a new president. “He’s almost threatening Honduras that if we don’t do what he is demanding … he will wreak vengeance against Honduras,” says Rodolfo Pastor, former secretary of the presidency under Xiomara Castro in Honduras. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for December 1, 2025
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date: 2025-12-01T13:00:00Z
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description: Venezuela Condemns Trump’s Declaration That All Airspace Surrounding Venezuela Is Closed, Trump Says He Will Pardon Honduras’s Former President Convicted of Drug Trafficking, Death Toll from Israel’s War in Gaza Surpasses 70,000 Palestinians, Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Two Palestinian Men in Occupied West Bank, Israeli Authorities Free Palestinian American Teen Mohammed Ibrahim After Holding Him Without Trial, Israeli Forces Conduct Raid in Syria, Killing 13 People, Trump Admin Halts Decisions on All Asylum Applications After Shooting of National Guard Members, Trump Announces He’s Canceling All Executive Orders Signed by Biden Using an Autopen, Trump Calls New York Times Reporter “Ugly” over Her Story Raising Questions About His Health, Hong Kong Officials: At Least 151 People Died in Blaze That Engulfed a High-Rise Apartment Complex, Babson College Student Deported to Honduras During Trip Home for Thanksgiving, Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against President Trump, Floods and Landslides Kill Over 1,000 Across Southeast Asia, Protests in Manila Demand President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Resign over Corruption, 4 Killed, 11 Wounded in Mass Shooting at Children’s Birthday Celebration in Stockton, CA, Trump Administration Ends U.S. Commemorations of World AIDS Day
encoded: Venezuela Condemns Trump's Declaration That All Airspace Surrounding Venezuela Is Closed Trump Says He Will Pardon Honduras's Former President Convicted of Drug Trafficking Death Toll from Israel's War in Gaza Surpasses 70,000 Palestinians Israeli Forces Fatally Shoot Two Palestinian Men in Occupied West Bank Israeli Authorities Free Palestinian American Teen Mohammed Ibrahim After Holding Him Without Trial Israeli Forces Conduct Raid in Syria, Killing 13 People Trump Admin Halts Decisions on All Asylum Applications After Shooting of National Guard Members Trump Announces He's Canceling All Executive Orders Signed by Biden Using an Autopen Trump Calls New York Times Reporter "Ugly" over Her Story Raising Questions About His Health Hong Kong Officials: At Least 151 People Died in Blaze That Engulfed a High-Rise Apartment Complex Babson College Student Deported to Honduras During Trip Home for Thanksgiving Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against President Trump Floods and Landslides Kill Over 1,000 Across Southeast Asia Protests in Manila Demand President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Resign over Corruption 4 Killed, 11 Wounded in Mass Shooting at Children's Birthday Celebration in Stockton, CA Trump Administration Ends U.S. Commemorations of World AIDS Day This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-12-01 Monday
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Algerian authorities arrest journalist Saad Bouakba for comments on independence war
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description: New York, December 1, 2025—Algerian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release veteran columnist Saad Bouakba, who was arrested on November 27 on charges of defaming the late President Ahmed Ben Bella, and drop all charges related to his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Bouakba was placed in detention in the capital Algiers...
encoded: New York, December 1, 2025—Algerian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release veteran columnist Saad Bouakba, who was <a href="https://aawsat.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A/%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%A7/5214141-%D8%B3%D8%AC%D9%86-%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%8A%D9%86-%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%B2-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1">arrested on November 27 on charges of defaming the late President Ahmed Ben Bella, and drop all charges related to his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. Bouakba was placed in detention in the capital Algiers after Mahdia Ben Bella, daughter of Algeria’s first president, filed a complaint about Bouakba’s interview on the local YouTube-based channel Vision TV News. In that interview, Bouakba discussed the former president’s alleged unlawful distribution of funds belonging to the National Liberation Front (FLN), which led the fight for independence from France during Algeria’s 1954 to 1962 war. “Jailing 79-year-old journalist Saad Bouakba over remarks on Algeria’s independence-era history is an alarming escalation in the country’s crackdown on critical voices,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Algerian authorities must free Bouakba and stop using vague laws on false news and offenses to ‘national symbols’ to silence the press.” A prosecutor at Algiers’ Bir Mourad Raïs Court<a href="https://www.france24.com/ar/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%AE%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9/20251128-%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D8%B9%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B9%D9%82%D8%A8%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B4%D9%83%D9%88%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8…

In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.
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description: The post In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Time is winding down for Howard Miller, the storied furniture company and clockmaker in western Michigan that said this summer it will close after 99 years. It identified the Trump administration’s tariffs as a main culprit. Howard Miller’s closure will cost about 195 people their jobs, most in Michigan. “Our hopes for a market recovery early in the year were quickly dashed as tariffs rattled the supply chain, sparked recession fears and pushed mortgage rates higher,” the company’s president and CEO said in a July press release. In November, the company hosted a factory closeout sale. Locals shuffled through makeshift aisles bounded by curio cabinets, wardrobes and home bars styled with faux cocktails for an imaginary party. And there were, of course, the signature grandfather clocks that made Howard Miller famous, both traditional designs of fluted hardwood and contemporary deconstructions with visible gears. Some sported a red, white and blue “Made in Michigan” sticker on their glassy faces. For nearly a century, Howard Miller was an American success story. But it struggled when President Donald Trump unleashed aggressive and fast-changing tariffs this year on both specific countries and business sectors. Some countries responded with retaliatory tariffs. Along the way, there were pauses, escalations and reports of progress toward some 14 trade agreements, falling short of the administration’s prediction of 90 deals in 90 days. Companies like Howard Miller — a domestic manufacturer that imports certain goods and products — were caught in the middle. Tariffs led to rising costs on essential components that were unavailable domestically, according to the company. Pete Hoekstra saw it coming. Now the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Hoekstra was a nine-term congressman until 2011, representing the Michigan community where Howard Miller is based. He also was a vice president at the modern furnishings company now known as MillerKnoll that was co-founded by Howard Miller’s fa…

A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact
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creator: Mark Olalde
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description: The post A Loophole Allows Ranchers to Renew Grazing Permits With Little Scrutiny of the Environmental Impact appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Once every 10 years, ranchers must renew the permits that allow their cattle, sheep and other livestock to graze on the West’s public domain. These renewals are the government’s best opportunity to address how those livestock are harming the environment. The Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service, the federal agencies that manage the majority of public lands, are required by law to review each permit before deciding whether to place additional conditions on it or — in rare cases — to deny its renewal. But in 2014, Congress mandated that the agencies automatically renew permits for another decade if they are unable to complete the reviews. This exemption has dramatically reduced scrutiny of grazing’s impact on public lands. In 2013, the BLM approved grazing on 47% of its land open to livestock without an environmental review, a ProPublica and High Country News analysis of agency data showed. (The status of about another 10% of BLM land was unclear that year.) A decade later, the BLM authorized grazing on roughly 75% of its acreage without review, the analysis found. A similar study by conservation group Western Watersheds Project found a steep decline in environmental reviews on grazing land managed by the Forest Service. This diminishing oversight has coincided with a sharp drop in the number of federal staff who complete the reviews. These staffers also conduct land health assessments of large parcels to help inform whether permits in the area need changes to protect natural resources. The BLM’s rangeland management staff shrank 39% between 2020 and 2024, according to Office of Personnel Management data. President Donald Trump’s administration is further hamstringing the BLM — about 1 in 10 rangeland staff members left the agency between last November’s election and June, according to agency records. When agency staff aren’t monitoring the land, cattle can graze where they’re not supposed to, or in greater numbers or for longer periods than permitted. Such ov…

Hurricane season is over. Here’s why the US never got hit.
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description: For the first time in a decade, the country avoided landfall, thanks to an atmospheric anomaly. But this hurricane season was exceptional in other bad ways, too.
encoded: Back in April, scientists read the tea leaves — or, more accurately, heaps of data — and predicted an above-average hurricane season over the summer and autumn, with nine or 10 named storms, four of which could grow to major strength. Yet hurricane season ended Sunday without even one of them making landfall in the United States for the first time in a decade. That was extraordinary in a good way, but the season was also extraordinary in many bad ways. So how did the U.S., which was walloped by Hurricane Helene and four other tropical cyclones last year, escape disaster even as the Caribbean suffered mightily from Melissa in September? First off, forecasters could make those predictions in April by considering a few factors. Hurricanes are atmospheric engines fueled by warm water, and the Atlantic Ocean has been downright hot of late, meaning more juice for bigger storms. “The main consideration going into the season was just very, very warm ocean temperatures, either record-breaking in parts, or close to record-breaking,” said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane scientist at the University of Miami. Forecasters also considered the way that the Pacific Ocean off the coast of South America switches between anomalously warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) cycles, or remains neutral, as was the case this hurricane season. An El Niño pattern usually reduces hurricane activity by creating vertical wind shear over the Atlantic, which prevents the storms from spinning up, while La Niña encourages them by reducing those winds. But as hurricane season unfolded, nature dealt a wildcard. High in the atmosphere, air currents blow in something called a jet stream, which has waves in it. The part of the wave that humps up is called a ridge, and it is associated with more benign weather. The part that dips down south is called a trough, which is associated with stormy weather. In August, September, and October — when hurricane season is really ramping up, because oceans are warming throughout…

DN! Monday, December 1, 2025
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A drying Great Salt Lake is spewing toxic dust. It could cost Utah billions
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date: 2025-12-01T09:30:00Z
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description: A new report lays out the case for action -- instead of waiting for more data.
encoded: Note to readers • This story is made possible through a partnership between The Salt Lake Tribune and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The dust blowing from the dry bed of the Great Salt Lake is creating a serious public health threat that policymakers and the scientific community are not taking seriously enough, two environmental nonprofits warn in a recent report. The Great Salt Lake hit a record-low elevation in 2022 and teetered on the brink of ecological collapse. It put millions of migrating birds at risk, along with multi-million-dollar lake-based industries such as brine shrimp harvesting, mineral extraction and tourism. The lake only recovered after a few winters with above-average snowfall, but it sits dangerously close to sinking to another record-breaking low. Around 800 square miles of lakebed sit exposed, baking and eroding into a massive threat to public health. Dust storms large and small have become a regular occurrence on the Wasatch Front, the urban region where most Utahns live. The report from the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment and the Utah Rivers Council argues that Utah’s “baby steps” approach to address the dust fall short of what’s needed to avert a long-term public health crisis. Failing to address those concerns, they say, could saddle the state with billions of dollars in cleanup costs. “We should not wait until we have all the data before we act,” said Brian Moench, president of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, in an interview. “The overall message of this report is that the health hazard so far has been under-analyzed by the scientific community.” After reviewing the report, however, two scientists who regularly study the Great Salt Lake argued the nonprofits’ findings rely on assumptions and not documented evidence. The report warns that while much of the dust discussion and new state-funded dust monitoring network focus on coarse particulates, called PM 10, Utahns should also be concerned about…

Deepfake alert: Videos of Ravish Kumar, Shiv Aroor and Palki Sharma reporting on NDA leaders’ Pak overtures viral
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description: A video circulating online shows journalist Ravish Kumar accusing Bihar’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders of funding Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) through offshore accounts to propagate a pro-India stand around Operation... The post Deepfake alert: Videos of Ravish Kumar, Shiv Aroor and Palki Sharma reporting on NDA leaders’ Pak overtures viral appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video circulating online shows journalist Ravish Kumar accusing Bihar’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) leaders of funding Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) through offshore accounts to propagate a pro-India stand around Operation Sindoor. Breaking News: Senior Indian Journalist Ravish Kumar explains how PTI of Pakistan established links with NDA in Bihar elections, funneling Indian tax payers money right under the nose of Modi Government to PTI leaders to prove that India won Op Sindoor. pic.twitter.com/ML0wbIdDns — Dr. Shakeel Ahmad Khan (@Shakeel_A_Khan0) November 20, 2025 The same video can be found on Instagram and Facebook as well. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-307939" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-30-160622-1024x443.jpg" alt="" width="810" height="350" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-30-160622-1024x443.jpg 1024w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-30-160622-300x130.jpg 300w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-30-160622-768x332.jpg 768w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-30-160622-1536x665.jpg 1536w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-30-160622.jpg 1913w" sizes="(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px" /> Fact Check Upon closer observation, we noticed several anomalies in the viral video. One noticeable issue is Kumar’s voice, which has a monotonous pitch without any modulation — a common characteristic of AI-generated videos. Additionally, there are instances of mispronunciation. For example, at the 0:26 mark, Kumar incorrectly pronounces the Hindi word ‘नेता’ as ‘नेताहं.’ We found the original video on the official YouTube page Ravish Kumar Official. No mention of the NDA’s connection with the PTI was mentioned by Kumar at any point during the video. Journalist Vrinda Sharma, who works for…

Poet and translator Terrence Arjoon on the value of making productive mistakes
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description: When did you start writing your book, The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025)?
encoded: When did you start writing your book, The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025)? I started writing this book in 2021, or, some of the poems are that old. And then I got into grad school and went to Brooklyn College, and I feel like I kept on building up manuscripts and deleting half of them and adding more. In school, I kept on trying to think of a unifying idea, for a long or sequence poem, because my second chapbook centered on this vandalized Albrecht Durer painting, where I tried to come at the painting from several point-of-views, Duhrer’s, a lapis lazuli miner, and paint merchant. I had this bodega idea which I worked on for six months, where the book would be kind of a metaphysical bodega, where each poem moves along the supply chain of a specific item. Do you think you felt pressure to create a book while in graduate school? I like the form of the poetry book. At the bookstore where I work, people ask me all the time: “How do you ‘read’ a poetry book?” I think it’s common to have this sort of laissez-faire attitude towards it, that you can dip in and out, skip around, and read individual poems. But I think so much of constructing a book of poems is considering structure and rhythm, over the course of the book. So, I recommend people read front to back. I have a lot of conflicting ideas about what kind of poetry book might be interesting right now, generally. I feel like a lot of new books are arranged into suites or long poems, as a way of giving them structure. And as I continued with my own project though, I loosened my ideas and I just wanted to have a collection of poems that I liked and that went well together. The Dishinherited is technically a translation, right? Yeah. I wrote it at the very end of grad school because I took this workshop with Mónica de la Torre on translation. I had a little anxiety because everybody in the class spoke Spanish or Yiddish or Farsi, and I don’t speak anything well. I kept on telling her I’m not a translator, so she…

Poet and translator Terrance Arjoon on the value of making productive mistakes
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encoded: When did you start writing your book, The Disinherited (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025)? I started writing this book in 2021, or, some of the poems are that old. And then I got into grad school and went to Brooklyn College, and I feel like I kept on building up manuscripts and deleting half of them and adding more. In school, I kept on trying to think of a unifying idea, for a long or sequence poem, because my second chapbook centered on this vandalized Albrecht Durer painting, where I tried to come at the painting from several point-of-views, Duhrer’s, a lapis lazuli miner, and paint merchant. I had this bodega idea which I worked on for six months, where the book would be kind of a metaphysical bodega, where each poem moves along the supply chain of a specific item. Do you think you felt pressure to create a book while in graduate school? I like the form of the poetry book. At the bookstore where I work, people ask me all the time: “How do you ‘read’ a poetry book?” I think it’s common to have this sort of laissez-faire attitude towards it, that you can dip in and out, skip around, and read individual poems. But I think so much of constructing a book of poems is considering structure and rhythm, over the course of the book. So, I recommend people read front to back. I have a lot of conflicting ideas about what kind of poetry book might be interesting right now, generally. I feel like a lot of new books are arranged into suites or long poems, as a way of giving them structure. And as I continued with my own project though, I loosened my ideas and I just wanted to have a collection of poems that I liked and that went well together. The Dishinherited is technically a translation, right? Yeah. I wrote it at the very end of grad school because I took this workshop with Monica de la Torre on translation. I had a little anxiety because everybody in the class spoke Spanish or Yiddish or Farsi, and I don’t speak anything well. I kept on telling her I’m not a translator, so she…

West Papuan liberation fighters risk ‘extermination’ by Indonesia’s high-tech forces
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description: As activist groups around the world observe December 1 — flag-raising “independence” day for West Papua today marking when the Morning Star flag was flown in 1961 for the first time — Kristo Langker reports from the Highlands about how the Indonesian military is raising the stakes. SPECIAL REPORT: By Kristo Langker in Kiwirok, West
encoded: As activist groups around the world observe December 1 — flag-raising “independence” day for West Papua today marking when the Morning Star flag was flown in 1961 for the first time — Kristo Langker reports from the Highlands about how the Indonesian military is raising the stakes. SPECIAL REPORT: By Kristo Langker in Kiwirok, West Papua While DropSite News usually reports on, and from, parts of the world where the US war machine operates, in this story, the weaponry in question is made by a multinational French weapons manufacturer and Chinese manufacturer. However, you will see the structure is the same — the Indonesian government using drones and helicopters to terrorise and displace the people of West Papua, while the historical reason imperial interests loom over the region stems from a US mining project in the 1960s. The videos in this story are well worth watching — exclusive interviews with the guerilla group fighting off the drones and airplanes with bows and arrows. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dtyk!,w_5760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff0d4acd-3f84-49c9-a6df-28a6555e3e49_2560x1440.jpeg" alt="A still from a video of Embraer EMB 314 Super Tucano bombing and strafing the mountains of Kiwirok on October 6, 2025" width="2560" height="1440" data-attrs="{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff0d4acd-3f84-49c9-a6df-28a6555e3e49_2560x1440.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":false,"imageSize":"full","height":819,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":126843,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://www.dropsitenews.com/i/180269620?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff0d4acd-3f84-49c9-a6df-28a6555e3e49_2560x1440.jpeg","isProcessing":false,"…

The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty
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creator: Vijay Prashad
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description: Since the Monroe Doctrine (1823), the United States has treated all Latin America and the Caribbean as its “backyard”. The United States has intervened in at least thirty of the thirty-three countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (90 percent of the countries, in other words) —from the US attack on Argentina’s Malvinas Islands (1831-32) to the current threats against Venezuela. More The post The Caribbean Faces Two Choices: Join the US Attempt to Intimidate Venezuela or Build Its Own Sovereignty appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Ceasefire “Holding” so Long as Only Non-Israeli-Jews are Murdered
type: item
creator: Jamal Kanj
date: 2025-12-01T06:58:32Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: are
subject: articles 2015
subject: ceasefire
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: holding
subject: long
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subject: non-israeli-jews
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subject: sources
description: Amnesty International warned on November 27, that “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal…. the world must not be fooled. Israel’s genocide is not over.” Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire almost 600 times, killed and injured over 1350, including murdering 136 Palestinian children, under various pretexts. More The post Ceasefire “Holding” so Long as Only Non-Israeli-Jews are Murdered appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Venezuela Isn’t the Global Threat, Trump and Rubio Are
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creator: Daniel Falcone
date: 2025-12-01T06:55:42Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: are
subject: articles 2015
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subject: Global
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subject: threat
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description: U.S. warships and aircraft have gathered in the Caribbean as part of Washington’s latest military buildup in a renewed effort to combat narcotics trafficking. Many analysts see a familiar mix of political posturing and regime-change ambitions rather than a serious security operation. In this exclusive interview for FPIF, sociologist and Venezuela specialist David Smilde talks More The post Venezuela Isn’t the Global Threat, Trump and Rubio Are appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Scapegoating of Peasants for the Pollution Crisis
type: item
creator: Bodapati Srujana
date: 2025-12-01T06:54:15Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: crisis
subject: for
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description: It is that time of year again when India’s national capital Delhi’s air quality turned acutely hazardous. Official Indian air quality indicators hit their maximum adverse readings of 500, while indices based on international norms shoot past 1,000 or even 2,000 —a level that effectively turned the city into a gas chamber. The thick smog, More The post The Scapegoating of Peasants for the Pollution Crisis appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Americans Need a Raise!
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creator: Jeffrey Sommers
date: 2025-12-01T06:53:59Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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description: Workers are stuck in a low wage, high cost, rut. We’ve been here before. During the Great Depression labor frequently was paid too little. Franklin Delano Roosevelt responded by establishing a wage floor in 1938 by passing the minimum wage. Since being introduced it was then raised 22 times up to 2009, on average roughly More The post Americans Need a Raise! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Devil’s Chickens Back in the Barnyard?
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creator: Ron Jacobs
date: 2025-12-01T06:53:47Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: articles 2015
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description: The death of the National Guard soldier Sgt. Beckstrom in Washington, DC was an easily averted tragedy that should never have occurred. To begin with, the Guard should never have been deployed in DC. Their presence in the District was motivated by some combination of Trump’s racism, his hatred of Democrats and the fascist posturing More The post The Devil’s Chickens Back in the Barnyard? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned
type: item
creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-12-01T06:53:34Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: cop30
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: fossil
subject: fuels
subject: profane
subject: sacred
subject: sources
subject: unmentioned
description: If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil were bound to be ungainly, weak, and messy. That is what you get from an emitting gathering of over 56,000 mostly subsidised attendees keen to etch their way into More The post Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump RX: The Merger of Pharma Corruption and Trump Crazy
type: item
creator: Dean Baker
date: 2025-12-01T06:53:18Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: Corruption
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: crazy.
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subject: rx:
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description: I haven’t given my diatribe on cheap drugs for a while, but what the hell. It’s a huge deal and no one in a position of power gives a damn (just like the housing bubble), but I’ll keep trying. Just to remind everyone of where things stand, drugs are cheap. The government makes them expensive More The post Trump RX: The Merger of Pharma Corruption and Trump Crazy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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How Wage Inflation Became the Fed’s Red Line
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creator: John P. Ruehl
date: 2025-12-01T06:53:01Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: became
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: feds
subject: how
subject: inflation
subject: line
subject: red
subject: sources
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description: The 2021-2023 inflation surge saw sudden and persistent increases in prices for consumer goods, housing, and assets. Wage inflation also rose, but it lagged behind other inflation measures. When wages finally accelerated, the Fed began hiking rates to cool the economy, consistent with its longstanding view of wage inflation as a precursor to spiraling inflation More The post How Wage Inflation Became the Fed’s Red Line appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
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description: Spanning nine nations and covering more than 5.5 million square kilometers—roughly the size of the continental United States—the Amazon is the world’s largest rainforest. Often called the “lungs of the Earth,” it regulatesthe global climate, maintains freshwater cycles, and sustains life on a planetary scale. Yet the Amazon is not a single uniform forest. It More The post Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Rivette’s The Nun: a Note on Cinematic Censorship
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description: We think of France as being more liberated culturally and sexually than the US. And perhaps it is, today. But in the 1960s, post-war/pre-Mai ’68 France was still in the grip of the Catholic Church and right-wing Gaullist politicians. In 1965, France banned the showing of Jacques Rivette’s film of Denis Diderot’s 1792 novel, La More The post Rivette’s The Nun: a Note on Cinematic Censorship appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Ashes of Another Kind
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description: The news got so absurd I watched only the cricket. Especially when it said the American peace plan for Ukraine was likely written by Russia. The Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal had fast become the “DimWit Plan.” That’s when sport is at its best. I thought this watching the Ashes in Australia against England, though feeling discomfort at More The post Ashes of Another Kind appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: The news got so absurd I watched only the cricket. Especially when it said the American peace plan for Ukraine was likely written by Russia. The Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal had fast become the “DimWit Plan.” That’s when sport is at its best. I thought this watching the Ashes in Australia against England, though feeling discomfort at enjoying a slow, rule-bound sport while following a lawless, lethal war. The mental endurance may look the same on paper, but exists miles apart morally. The Ashes are governed by a playbook thicker than a cricket bat. Ukraine’s reality is defined by rule-breaking—treaties torn up, borders violated, norms smashed. Ashes cricket is an escape from lawlessness. In Tests, you lose one match and look to the next. In war, each “session” changes the map or ends someone’s life. The Ashes trophy is a tiny urn. A 19th-century keepsake. About the size of a perfume bottle, it supposedly contains the “ashes” of a burnt wooden bail. Teams don’t even get to take it home. They just get a replica. Both pretend the urn is theirs, even if no one actually owns it, as the real one sits in the museum at Lord’s, cricket’s headquarters in North London. Australia “wins” it but can’t touch it. England “loses” it, but still physically possesses it. If cricket is a space in which nations project aggression only symbolically, it still uses the language of conflict (battles, barrages, attacks, collapses). It plays within boundaries. War, on the other hand, begins where boundaries collapse. Meanwhile, as Europe still grits its teeth over the would-be peace plan, I am trying to concentrate. As 19th-century mathematician G. H. Hardy said: “If I knew I was going to die today, I think I should still want to hear the cricket scores.” Kim Philby was the same. Nicholas Elliot, his former pal, said he just wanted to follow cricket after slinking off to Moscow. To think the Ashes started with a joke obituary. After England lost in 1882, The Sporting Times published a mock obit s…

On Being Female in a Potentially Fascist Country
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description: It’s strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if I’m living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing earlier in this century. To start, let me tell you a little something about that. For decades as a young adult, More The post On Being Female in a Potentially Fascist Country appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Donald Trump, Union Buster
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description: Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions. The most flagrant Trump action along these lines occurred in March 2025, when he issued an More The post Donald Trump, Union Buster appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump escalates threats on Venezuela
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Why did Marjorie Taylor Greene resign?
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Pro-Israel speaker blames ‘wall of carnage’ for anti-Israel Jewish youth
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Is Dave Portnoy really a victim?
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Max Blumenthal debates Venezuela war in NYC
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News Junkie? Those Daily Newspaper Days, the Competing AM v. PM Dailies
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creator: Paul Haeder
date: 2025-12-01T01:43:55Z
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description: “Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can’t fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.” It is an amazing g-force terminal velocity, neck whipping mad mad mad mad world of cardboard characters, […] The post News Junkie? Those Daily Newspaper Days, the Competing AM v. PM Dailies first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Four Papuan activists jailed on treason charges – NZ advocate says ‘abuse of law’
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description: By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific reporter Four Papuan political prisoners have been sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment on treason charges. But a West Papua independence advocate says Indonesia is using its law to silence opposition. In April this year, letters were delivered to government institutions in Sorong West Papua, asking for peaceful dialogue between Indonesia’s
encoded: By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific reporter Four Papuan political prisoners have been sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment on treason charges. But a West Papua independence advocate says Indonesia is using its law to silence opposition. In April this year, letters were delivered to government institutions in Sorong West Papua, asking for peaceful dialogue between Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto and a group seeking to make West Papua independent of Indonesia, the Federal Republic of West Papua. READ MORE: Other West Papua reports Four people were arrested for delivering the letters, and this triggered protests, which became violent. West Papua Action Aotearoa’s Catherine Delahunty said Indonesia claims the four, known as the Sorong Four, caused instability. “What actually caused instability was arresting people for delivering letters, and the Indonesians refused to acknowledge that actually people have a right to deliver letters,” she said. “They have a right to have opinions, and they will continue to protest when those rights are systematically denied.” Category of ‘treason’ Indonesia’s Embassy based in Wellington said the central government had been involved in the legal process, but the letters fell into the category of “treason” under the national crime code. Delahunty said the arrests were in line with previous action the Indonesian government had taken in response to West Papua independence protests. “This is the kind of use of an abuse of law that happens all the time in order to shut down any form of dissent and leadership. In the 1930s we would call this fascism. It is a military occupation using all the law to actually suppress the people.” Delahunty said the situation was an abuse of human rights and it was happening less than an hour away from Darwin in northern Australia. The spokesperson for Indonesia’s embassy said the government had been closely monitoring the case at arm’s length to avoid accusations of overreach. This article is republish…

Honduras: Defender of rivers and forests murdered
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The Shocking Night in Beverly Hills
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Hawaiʻi’s green fee is the latest climate effort challenged by Trump
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creator: Marcel Honore, Honolulu Civil Beat
date: 2025-11-30T14:00:00Z
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description: The Department of Justice wants to join the cruise ship industry’s lawsuit against the state over a new tax on passengers visiting the islands.
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Unmasking ‘Dr. Evil’: The Russian Prison Medic Accused Of Torturing Ukrainian POWs
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Tucker Carlson ‘tuckered out’ with Donald Trump and Israel – insights for New Zealand rightwing politics
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description: COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell The origin of the expression “tuckered out” goes back to the east of the United States around the 1830s. After New Englanders began to compare the wrinkled and drawn appearance of overworked and undernourished horses and dogs to the appearance of tucked cloth, it became associated with people being exhausted. Expressions
encoded: COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell The origin of the expression “tuckered out” goes back to the east of the United States around the 1830s. After New Englanders began to compare the wrinkled and drawn appearance of overworked and undernourished horses and dogs to the appearance of tucked cloth, it became associated with people being exhausted. Expressions such as this can be adapted, sometimes with a little generosity, to apply to other circumstances. READ MORE: Other Ian Powell articles This adaptation includes when a prominent far right propagandist and activist who, in a level of frustration that resembles mental exhaustion, lashes out against far right leaders and governments that he has been strongly supportive of. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="moz-reader-block-img" src="https://politicalbytes.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tariq-ali.jpg?w=1024" alt="Tariq Ali " width="1024" height="683" data-attachment-id="1150" data-permalink="https://politicalbytes.blog/2025/11/30/tucker-carlson-tuckered-out-with-donald-trump-and-israel-insights-for-new-zealand-rightwing-politics/tariq-ali-4/" data-orig-file="https://politicalbytes.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tariq-ali.jpg" data-orig-size="2000,1335" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="Tariq Ali" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://politicalbytes.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tariq-ali.jpg?w=300" data-large-file="https://politicalbytes.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/tariq-ali.jpg?w=750" /> Tariq Ali . . . reposts revealing far right lament. Image: politicalbytes.blog This came to my attention when reading a frustrated far right lament reposted on Facebook (27 November) by British-Pakistani socialist Tariq Ali. If anything meets the threshold for a passionate expression of grie…

David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on
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description: A transition in global emphasis from “nuclear to climate crisis survivors”, plus new geopolitical exposés. REVIEW: By Amit Sarwal of The Australia Today Forty years after the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, award-winning journalist and author David Robie has revisited the ship’s fateful last mission — a journey that became
encoded: A transition in global emphasis from “nuclear to climate crisis survivors”, plus new geopolitical exposés. REVIEW: By Amit Sarwal of The Australia Today Forty years after the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, award-winning journalist and author David Robie has revisited the ship’s fateful last mission — a journey that became a defining chapter in New Zealand’s identity as a nuclear-free nation. Robie’s newly updated book, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior, is both a historical record and a contemporary warning. It captures the courage of those who stood up to nuclear colonialism in the Pacific and draws striking parallels with the existential challenges the region now faces — from climate change to renewed geopolitical tensions. READ MORE: Other Rainbow Warrior reports Information about the Eyes of Fire book “The new edition has a completely new 40-page section covering the last decade and the transition in global emphasis from ‘nuclear to climate crisis survivors’, plus new exposés about the French spy ‘blunderwatergate’. Ironically, the nuclear risks have also returned to the fore again,” Robie told The Australia Today. “The book deals with a lot of critical issues impacting on the Pacific, and is expanded a lot and quite different from the last edition in 2015.” In May 1985, the Rainbow Warrior embarked on a humanitarian mission unlike any before it. The crew helped 320 Rongelap Islanders relocate to a safer island after decades of radioactive contamination from US nuclear testing at Bikini and Enewetak atolls. Robie, who joined the ship in Hawai’i as a journalist, recalls the deep humanity of that voyage. <source type="image/webp" data-srcset="https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EOF-LOOP-44-Henk-David-Davey-1024x692-1.jpg.webp 1024w, https://www.theaustraliatoday.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/EOF-LOOP-44-Henk-David-Davey-1024x692-1-300x203.jpg.webp 300w, https://w…

The Return of Elliot Abrams
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description: Elliot Abrams, U.S. special envoy to Venezuela during Trump’s first term, said in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the president’s advisors should promptly persuade him that the point of no return has already been passed in Venezuela, and that the only possible outcomes are that either Trump or Maduro will win the contest that is now well underway. Forthrightly titled, “How To Topple Maduro,” Abrams calls for doing more than blowing up “narco-trafficking boats” (i.e. Caribbean fishing vessels), though he does not go so far as to advocate the deployment of U.S. ground troops in the South American nation. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post The Return of Elliot Abrams appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Elliot Abrams, U.S. special envoy to Venezuela during Trump’s first term, said in a recent Foreign Affairs article that the president’s advisors should promptly persuade him that the point of no return has already been passed in Venezuela, and that the only possible outcomes are that either Trump or Maduro will win the contest that is now well underway. Forthrightly titled, “How To Topple Maduro,” Abrams calls for doing more than blowing up “narco-trafficking boats” (i.e. Caribbean fishing vessels), though he does not go so far as to advocate the deployment of U.S. ground troops in the South American nation. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post The Return of Elliot Abrams appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Michael K. Smith.

Drugs Aren’t the Problem
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creator: Phil Mandelbaum
date: 2025-11-30T06:55:44Z
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description: Drugs are used at the same rate by white and Black people, and white people are more likely to sell drugs than Black people; yet, Black men are incarcerated on drug charges at a rate six to 13 times that of white men, and between 36% and 62% of people in state prison for drug charges are Black, despite Black people comprising only 13% of the US population. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Drugs Aren’t the Problem appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Drugs are used at the same rate by white and Black people, and white people are more likely to sell drugs than Black people; yet, Black men are incarcerated on drug charges at a rate six to 13 times that of white men, and between 36% and 62% of people in state prison for drug charges are Black, despite Black people comprising only 13% of the US population. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Drugs Aren’t the Problem appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Phil Mandelbaum.

Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-30T01:21:39Z
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subject: Huda Ammori
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subject: Toby Cadman
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description: On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the Middle East.” This was deemed so horrible as to draw the […] The post Clownish Proscriptions: Challenging the Palestine Action Ban first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: On June 20, members of Palestine Action broke into a Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, going on to spray paint two military aircraft activists claimed were being used in “direct participation in the commission of genocide and war crimes across the Middle East.” This was deemed so horrible as to draw the ire of then Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, who went on to invoke section 3 of the Terrorism Act to proscribe the organisation. At the time, it seemed impulsive, rash, and most likely intended to placate Israeli voices that something was being done about these bleeding hearts in Albion. Toby Cadman, Member of the International Bar Association’s War Crimes Committee Advisory Board, was in no doubt that the proscription was fashioned “as a blunt instrument to silence certain voices on Palestine at a moment when public opinion and government policy are sharply at odds.” It did not take long for those well-versed in human rights to protest this scrappy measure as absurd and needlessly authoritarian. The UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, which counts among its members Francesca Albanese, Ben Saul, and Irene Khan, issued a press release in early July expressing its bafflement at the proscription. “According to international standards, acts of protest that damage property, but are not intended to kill or injure people, should not be treated as terrorism.” Since the addition of Palestine Action to the naughty list of outlawed organisations, over 2,200 arrests have been made citing terrorism legislation, with 254 people charged with terrorism offences merely for participating in peaceful protests. Even within government circles, this measure did not fly smoothly. That most terrier-like human rights activist and former diplomat Craig Murray got his hands on a leaked report by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) revealing that the impulsive decision to proscribe the organisation had been a fumbling episode riddled with mendacity. The JTAC co…

Two Peace Prizes: The Nobel Legitimizes the Empire’s War on Venezuela While the US Peace Prize Honors Resistance
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creator: Roger D. Harris
date: 2025-11-29T20:28:07Z
subject: Ajamu Baraka
subject: Ann Wright
subject: Christine Ahn
subject: Cindy Sheehan
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subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: Mahatma Gandhi
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Two Peace Prizes: The Nobel Legitimizes the Empire’s War on Venezuela While the US Peace Prize Honors Resistance
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creator: Roger D. Harris
date: 2025-11-29T20:28:07Z
subject: Ajamu Baraka
subject: Ann Wright
subject: Christine Ahn
subject: Cindy Sheehan
subject: David Swanson
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Gerry Condon
subject: Golden rule peace boat
subject: Gustavo Petro/Francia Márquez
subject: Kathy Kelly
subject: Mahatma Gandhi
subject: Maria Corina Machado
subject: Michael Knox
subject: Sources
subject: Spanish American War
subject: US Peace Memorial Foundation
subject: US Peace Prize
subject: US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
subject: Veterans For Peace (VFP)
subject: ‘mahatma’
subject: (ofac)
subject: (vfp)
subject: ahn
subject: ajamu
subject: american
subject: ann
subject: assets
subject: barack obama
subject: baraka
subject: boat
subject: Chelsea Manning
subject: christine
subject: cindy
subject: codepink
subject: Colombia
subject: condon
subject: control
subject: corina
subject: Dan Kovalik
subject: david
subject: dennis kucinich
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: Drones
subject: empires:
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subject: foundation
subject: gandhi
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subject: gerry
subject: golden
subject: gustavo
subject: henry kissinger
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Because Democracy Depends On It
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2025-11-29T17:25:39Z
subject: Ralph Nader
subject: Sources
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subject: ralph
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description: Ralph welcomes distinguished educators Dr. Tina Ellsworth and Kelly McFarland Stratman of the National Council for the Social Studies to discuss how our democracy depends on our children learning the civic tools of social studies. Then, civic legend Lo...
encoded: Ralph welcomes distinguished educators Dr. Tina Ellsworth and Kelly McFarland Stratman of the National Council for the Social Studies to discuss how our democracy depends on our children learning the civic tools of social studies. Then, civic legend Lois Gibbs, who exposed the Love Canal toxic dump that was poisoning families in her area and then went on to found a national organization to help other ordinary people fight toxic exposure joins us to update us on her latest campaigns. Kelly Stratman is the Executive Director of National Council for the Social Studies. Ms. Stratman’s career began in education, first teaching English to middle and high school students in Japan, and later as a classroom teacher for kindergarten and 4th grade in Ohio and Massachusetts. Currently, she serves as vice chair of AFS-USA, a nonprofit that promotes global citizenship and intercultural learning through international exchange. Dr. Tina Ellsworth is president of the National Council for the Social Studies. Dr. Ellsworth is currently an assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University. Dr. Ellsworth is also an assistant professor of social studies education at the University of Central Missouri. Her research interests center on history education, pedagogical content knowledge for teaching history, and teaching with primary sources. She is currently a co-writer and co-editor for a book on teaching with primary sources expected to be released in fall 2026. The emphasis at certain levels of education and government is on STEM, computer skills, learning about AI. And of course, these are just tools to use or misuse. They are taught by asking the question: how? And the social studies ask the question: why? Much more fundamental, much more portentous in order to make sure that these tools are wisely used—or, at times, not used at all. Ralph Nader I hardly remember my physics and chemistry courses. Why? Because they were sterile. For example, in the physics course, while we learn…

Not All Picket Fences Are Perfect
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creator: VICE News
date: 2025-11-29T14:01:55Z
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New England kicks off $450M plan to supercharge heat pump adoption
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creator: Sarah Shemkus, Canary Media
date: 2025-11-29T14:00:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: $450m
subject: Adoption
subject: Energy
subject: England
subject: heat
subject: kicks
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subject: plan
subject: pump’:
subject: solutions
subject: sources
subject: supercharge
description: The program aims to use federal funds awarded under the Biden administration to deploy more than 500,000 heat pumps in the chilly region over the next few years.
encoded: New England winters can get wicked cold. This week, five of the region’s states launched a $450 million effort to warm more homes in the often-frigid region with energy-efficient, low-emission heat pumps instead of by burning fossil fuels. “It’s a big deal,” said Katie Dykes, commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. ​“It’s unprecedented to see five states aligning together on a transformational approach to deploying more affordable clean-heat options.” The New England Heat Pump Accelerator is a collaboration between Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The initiative is funded by the federal Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program, which was created by President Joe Biden’s 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The accelerator’s launch marks a rare milestone for a Biden-era climate initiative amid the Trump administration’s relentless attempts to scrap federal clean energy and environmental programs. The goal: Get more heat pumps into more homes through a combination of financial incentives, educational outreach, and workforce development. New England is a rich target for such an effort because of its current dependence on fossil-fuel heating. Natural gas and propane are in wide use, and heating oil is still widespread throughout the region; more than half of Maine’s homes are heated by oil, and the other coalition states all use oil at rates much higher than the national average. The prevalence of oil in particular means there’s plenty of opportunity to grow heat-pump adoption, cut emissions, and lower residents’ energy bills. Read Next <img src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GettyImages-1230149811j.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" alt="A photo shows a billowing smokestack in the background of a small waterfront town" class="js-modal-gallery__hidden" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GettyImages-1230149811j.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all 1600w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uplo…

His Survival Story: 1,304 Days In Russian Captivity
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-11-29T11:37:39Z
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His Survival Story: 1,304 Days In Russian Captivity
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date: 2025-11-29T11:37:39Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
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subject: Survival
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Fiji, NZ protesters kick off UN day of solidarity for Palestine amid calls for sanctions, boycotts on Israel
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-29T09:46:20Z
subject: Amnesty International
subject: Aotearoa Christians for Peace in Palestine
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network
subject: Gaza ceasefire
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Israeli attacks
subject: Israeli genocide
subject: Israeli impunity
subject: Justice for Palestine
subject: Occupied Palestine
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subject: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
subject: Sources
subject: amid
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subject: aotearoa
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: attacks
subject: bank
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subject: calls
subject: ceasefire
subject: christians
subject: Civil Society
subject: Crimes against Humanity
subject: day
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
subject: fijians
subject: for
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Impunity
subject: Indigenous
subject: International
subject: israel
subject: israeli
subject: Justice
subject: kick
subject: military
subject: network
subject: new zealand
subject: occupied
subject: off
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: Peace
subject: Politics
subject: protesters
subject: PSNA
subject: report
subject: Sanctions
subject: Security
subject: Self Determination
subject: Solidarity
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
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description: Asia Pacific Report Protesters in Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand kicked off the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People today as Israel faced global condemnation over more “war crimes” against Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. At least 13 people, including two children, were killed and 25 were wounded as Israel launched another incursion into
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Protesters in Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand kicked off the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People today as Israel faced global condemnation over more “war crimes” against Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. At least 13 people, including two children, were killed and 25 were wounded as Israel launched another incursion into Syrian territory in the Damascus countryside, according to state media. The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned “the criminal attack carried out by an Israeli occupation army patrol in Beit Jinn”. READ MORE: Syria calls Israeli incursion, strikes that killed 13 a ‘war crime’ No, there is no ceasefire in Gaza Israel attacks three countries Other Gaza reports At Albert Park in Fiji’s capital Suva today, members of Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network (F4PSN) defied police repression and gathered to celebrate Solidarity Day. They issued a statement declaring: “On the 48th anniversary of this day, we must be clear: Fiji cannot claim to stand for human rights while aligning itself with GENOCIDE, APARTHEID and OCCUPATION. “We refuse to let our government speak in our name while supporting systems of colonial oppression.” Fiji ‘not on side of Palestine justice’ The statement went on to state that in 1977, the UN General Assembly had called for the annual observance of November 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. But now, Palestinians faced dispossession, military occupation, forced displacement, and the systematic destruction of their homes and lives. “The world is watching genocide unfold in Gaza — entire families wiped out, children buried under rubble, hospitals bombed, and civilians starved — while governments continue to fund Israel’s genocidal campaign and shield it from accountability,” the network said. Fiji was not on the side of justice and humanity, added the network. These were some of the reasons why: Fiji has repeatedly abstained or voted against resolutions protecting Palestinian…

Sonam Wangchuk ‘safe & sound’, confirms his wife amid deepfakes announcing his ‘death’ going viral
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description: Clippings from news bulletins apparently reporting Sonam Wangchuk’s death in the Jodhpur Central Jail have surfaced on social media and are being widely shared across social media platforms. Some of... The post Sonam Wangchuk ‘safe & sound’, confirms his wife amid deepfakes announcing his ‘death’ going viral appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: Clippings from news bulletins apparently reporting Sonam Wangchuk’s death in the Jodhpur Central Jail have surfaced on social media and are being widely shared across social media platforms. Some of these purported bulletins are by prominent news anchors while one shows Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi addressing the news at a press conference. Pakistani propaganda account M. (@Mushk_0) circulated four such videos, alleging India was facing “major and sensitive developments” following the “reports” of the death of renowned Ladakh activist Sonam Wangchuk while in detention at Jodhpur Central Jail. Video 1 This is a video depicting a press conference by Indian Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi. He can be heard extending his condolences to Wangchuk’s family. In the clip, he also calls for a “thorough and transparent inquiry”. (Archive) Following the custodial death of Sonam Wangchuk, Indian Army chief Gen. Upendra Dwivedi offered condolences, now being suppressed by media. Even the Army seems exhausted by Hindutva fascists forcing their own agenda. pic.twitter.com/YOmc5Z3dwK — M. (@Mushk_0) November 27, 2025 The post has garnered around 201,500 views. Fact Check A reverse image search on a keyframe led us to a YouTube video uploaded by WION whose logo is visible on the viral clip. It shows an address by General Upendra Dwivedi where he speaks on Operation Sindoor. <iframe class="youtube-player" width="810" height="456" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LzVMZ9xn1ZY?version=3&rel=1&%23038;showsearch=0&%23038;showinfo=1&%23038;iv_load_policy=1&%23038;fs=1&%23038;hl=en-GB&%23038;autohide=2&%23038;start=2&%23038;wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"> We compared the two frames and found several similarities, indicating that the clip shared by the X user is digitally manipulated. The comparison can be seen below: <img fetchpriority="high" …

Sara Nelson on Why Worker Unity is Key to Success [Re-Air]
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Israel attacks three countries as NZ protesters prepare for UN day of Palestine solidarity
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description: Asia Pacific Report As New Zealand pro-Palestinian protesters prepared for demonstrations across the country today to mark the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, they awoke to news of Israel attacking three countries in the Middle East — Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. This is the 112th consecutive week that the Palestine Solidarity
encoded: Asia Pacific Report As New Zealand pro-Palestinian protesters prepared for demonstrations across the country today to mark the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, they awoke to news of Israel attacking three countries in the Middle East — Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. This is the 112th consecutive week that the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has held protests over the Israeli genocide in Gaza, and Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network has also held frequent rallies in defiance of Fiji police restrictions. At least 13 Syrians have been killed and others wounded during an Israeli ground incursion and air strikes on the town of Beit Jinn, southwest of Syria’s capital Damascus. READ MORE: Israel strikes Palestine, Lebanon, Syria threatening stability Other Gaza reports Palestine’s Foreign Ministry is demanding action from the international community to halt Israel’s “war crime” as it continues its large-scale military assault on the occupied West Bank. Ibrahim Olabi, Syria’s representative to the UN, has condemned Israel’s latest attack on the southern town of Beit Jinn, saying it further exposes Israel’s disregard for international law and reflects its fear of a strengthening Syria. The incident is “yet another indication to the world of which country in the region is the one abiding by international law and which isn’t,” Olabi told Al Jazeera. It highlights “who really wants a peace deal, a security agreement — who wants to be able to get the region into stability — and who doesn’t,” he said. Israel is acting out of anxiety over Syria’s trajectory and its growing “regional and international prominence” he said. ‘Israel is terrified’ “Israel is terrified by a strong and prosperous and stable Syria. We are heading in that direction no matter what.” Olabi described Israel’s latest assault as a signal aimed not only at Syria, but also at its allies. The attack indicated Israel was “running out of options”. Since the declaration…

"If it’s not safe, we’re not gonna go": Flight Attendant Union Leader Sara Nelson [EXCERPT]
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Sports Press Covers WNBA Negotiations From Owners’ Point of View
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description: Too many news reports have catered to owners' interests when reporting on the negotiations between the players' union and the league.
encoded: A New York Times graphic (10/3/25) tells the story: The WNBA brings in a lot of money, an a tiny fraction goes to the players. Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players have quickly become some of the most recognizable female athletes in the world, with ballooning ticket sales and record-breaking viewership over the past two seasons. As a result, league revenues have soared. But unlike their male counterparts in the National Basketball Association, who are guaranteed 50% of the NBA’s basketball-related income, WNBA players are not guaranteed a percentage of such income—which includes things like media deals, merchandise and ticket sales, and concessions. So the players haven’t shared in the league’s flood of new revenue; a recent estimate put the women’s 2025 pay at about 7% of revenue. As a result, the Women’s National Basketball Player’s Association (WNBPA) opted out of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in October of last year, and the league has been careening toward a lockout as negotiations soured, with revenue-sharing the biggest sticking point. Despite the massive amount of money coming into the WNBA, the league—which is majority-owned by NBA owners—wants to keep their revenue-sharing structure the same, guaranteeing far more profit for owners and investors than for the people who actually play the game. And too many news reports have catered to owners’ interests when reporting on the negotiations between the players’ union and the league. ‘An unstable business’ “Realistically,” WNBA players should hope for a quarter of the share of revenues that their male counterparts get, according to Bleacher Report (9/18/25). A prominent talking point when it comes to WNBA contract negotiations is profitability. During these negotiations, news outlets have continued to push the idea that the WNBA is not profitable, exclusively relying on anonymous sources, without ever referencing any corroborating financial documents. NBC Sports’ (11/3/25) recent …

Ximdo; Peoples Peace Movement Grows in Horn of Africa
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description: Ximdo is a people’s peace movement that has been growing in the war and famine-plagued Horn of Africa for several months now. The word is from the Tigrinya language, used by Eritreans and Tigrayans in Ethiopia. It has a number of meanings, but the best is “coexistence and cooperation” between people, peacefully. Like when two […] The post Ximdo; Peoples Peace Movement Grows in Horn of Africa first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Ximdo is a people’s peace movement that has been growing in the war and famine-plagued Horn of Africa for several months now. The word is from the Tigrinya language, used by Eritreans and Tigrayans in Ethiopia. It has a number of meanings, but the best is “coexistence and cooperation” between people, peacefully. Like when two cows are harnessed side by side to plow a field? Its first manifestation was the work of Eritrean activist/entertainer Awel Seid, and it took place exactly where the Eritrean and Tigrayan border met, with Awel sitting on the Eritrean side and Bro. Berhane, a prominent Tigrayan peace activist, on the other side. It was a direct, non-governmental people-to-people peace movement between two peoples, the Eritrean and Ethiopian Tigrayans, who have been at war, or no war, no peace, for almost all of the last 27 years. Since the first “Ximdo” took place, it has spread, with Awel Seid hosting the Ethiopian Afars and the Eritrean Afars in a peace program. Attempts are being made to have Ximdo come to bring the Afars and the Tigrayans together. Talk is even that efforts are being made to have Amharas and Tigrayans sit and talk peace between their peoples. Hope is that it will spread to include the Afars and Somalis in Djibouti and beyond across the Horn of Africa. You must understand that a civil war has been raging in Ethiopia since the end of 2020 with the TPLF, the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front, the de facto government of Tigray, and before that in Ethiopia for the past 34 years, attacking the Ethiopian government of PM Abiy Ahmed and eventually its neighbors in Amhara, Afar, and even Eritrea. I will never forget those evenings when TPLF rockets landed near our home in Asmara, Eritrea, where we were living at the end of 2020. There are a lot of Ethiopians who use the word “genocide” to describe the TPLF and later the Abiy Ahmed army’s invasion of Amhara and Afar. In the actual fighting alone, some 500,000 Tigrayans, child soldiers mainly, were moved…

KENTA NAKAGOME + SHOGO KOMATSUZAKI (Kodo Village, Sado Island, Japan)
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date: 2025-11-28T19:37:01Z
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Jean Su on Challenging COP30 Narratives
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date: 2025-11-28T19:14:48Z
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description: Focusing on what people, including those most harmed, are doing, along with what’s being done to them, could help move debate off an outdated dime.
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Nine Days in Gaza: Dr. Amr Gharib’s Testimony from Nasser Hospital
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date: 2025-11-28T18:52:16Z
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description: The post Nine Days in Gaza: Dr. Amr Gharib’s Testimony from Nasser Hospital first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 28, 2025
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 28, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-28T17:40:51Z
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description: If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil, were bound to be ungainly, weak, and messy. That is what you get from an emitting gathering of over 56,000 mostly subsidised attendees keen to etch their way […] The post Fossil Fuels at COP30: Sacred, Profane and Unmentioned first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: If the camel is a committee’s version of a horse, then the concluding notes of the 30th United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP30) at Belém, Brazil, were bound to be ungainly, weak, and messy. That is what you get from an emitting gathering of over 56,000 mostly subsidised attendees keen to etch their way into posterity. Leave aside the fact that some of the conference mongers might have been well-meaning, the final agreement was always going to be significant for what it omitted. It was also notable for lacking any official role from the United States, a country where Make America Great Again has all but parted ways with the notion of climate change. For three decades, these events have drawn attention to climate change ostensibly to address it. For three decades, the stuttering, the vacillation, the manipulation have become habitual features, making the very object of condemnation – fossil fuels – both sacred and profane. The message is that humanity must do without it lest we let planet Earth cook; the message, equally, is that it can’t. “COP30 will be the ‘COP of truth,’” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva declared extravagantly at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in September, immediately dooming it to comic platitude. The sacred and profane – fossil fuels – would remain strong at the end of the show. There was some initial promise that attending member states might do something different. Initial pressure was exerted by the Colombia-led coalition (“mutirão” or joint effort) of 83 countries to abandon the use of fossil fuels and chart a Roadmap to decarbonise the global economy. Then came a soggy threat from a group of 29 countries in a letter to the Brazilian COP presidency that any agreement lacking a commitment to phase out fossil fuels would be blocked. “We cannot support an outcome that does not include a roadmap for implementing a just, orderly, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels,” emphasised the authors, which includ…

Mass Murder As “Public Service” In “Our Democracy”
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creator: Michael K. Smith
date: 2025-11-28T17:05:34Z
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subject: Elliot Abrams
subject: Iran-Contra Scandal
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subject: Northwest Highland massacres
subject: Palo Negro
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subject: anastasio
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subject: donald trump
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“This Isn’t Fog”: A Community Breathing Toxic Air from a Coke Plant
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The Rise of Zohran Mamdani: From 2021 Hunger Strike to Mayoral Election Victory
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-28T15:01:14Z
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Maisie Peters & Marcus Mumford – Say My Name In Your Sleep | Live Session
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UN News Today 28 November 2025
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creator: Katy Dartford
date: 2025-11-28T14:54:42Z
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description: Jenin: UN “appalled” by apparent summary execution in the West BankMyanmar: Civilians pressured to return to unsafe areas before junta electionMeasles: WHO warns cases surging worldwide despite major drop in deaths
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The Real Toxins Faced by People with Disabilities
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creator: Sam Streuli
date: 2025-11-28T14:30:00Z
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description: By taking away rights and making life harder for us people with disabilities, our government is creating an environment that will cause more disability.
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Renowned activist Dolores Huerta on fascism in 2025 #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-11-28T14:01:50Z
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The Problem with Endless Movie Sequels
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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Another Reason to Boycott Amazon
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creator: Mike Ervin
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description: The company is accused of discriminating against employees with disabilities.
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Misreport by Zee News: Showing old video, channel claims Muslim doctors boycotted after Nov 10 Delhi bast
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creator: Pawan Kumar
date: 2025-11-28T13:48:49Z
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description: On November 15, 2025, Zee News ran a news bulletin claiming that the call for boycotting “terrorist Muslim doctors” after the Delhi blast was yielding results. The channel reported that... The post Misreport by Zee News: Showing old video, channel claims Muslim doctors boycotted after Nov 10 Delhi bast appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: On November 15, 2025, Zee News ran a news bulletin claiming that the call for boycotting “terrorist Muslim doctors” after the Delhi blast was yielding results. The channel reported that patients were now fleeing upon hearing the name of Muslim doctors. It then aired a video of a doctor who said while waiting in a queue outside his chamber, a patient reportedly asked another patient the doctor’s name. Upon learning that the doctor’s name was Zulfiqar, he changed lines and went to another OPD clinic. This segment begins at 2:22 in the Zee News report embedded below. On the same day, the same video was played again with the same claim in another bulletin on Zee News. The segment begins at 2.37-minute mark below: At least 15 people were killed in a car-bomb blast near Delhi’s Red Fort on November 10. The car was allegedly being driven by a doctor named Umar Nabi, the mastermind of the attack and assistant professor of medicine at the Al Falah Medical College in Faridabad. There are several other doctors in what the investigators have described as a ‘white-collar module’ behind the attack. Some of them have been arrested, some detained and questioned. While reporting on this, Zee News stated that following the exposure of the white-collar terror network in Delhi and the arrests, Hindu seers had called for a boycott of Muslim doctors. The channel aired a video of controversial Hindutva preacher Yati Narasimhanand Giri, the chief of the Dasna Devi Temple in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. He states that animals disguised as Muslim doctors were massacring Hindus, and that Hindus should not seek treatment from Muslim doctors even in an emergency. He also described Al-Falah University, Aligarh Muslim University, Jamia University, and Darul Uloom Deoband University as terrorist havens and threatened to send the army to destroy them with cannons. Alt News has reported in the past on Yati Narsinghanand’s penchant for hate speech and anti-Muslim invectives. In the same bulletin, Zee Ne…

The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night
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description: As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January 1, we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in...
encoded: As Zohran Mamdani prepares to become New York’s first Muslim and first South Asian mayor on January 1, we look at the historic rise of the democratic socialist who shocked the political establishment. We spend the hour hearing Mamdani in his own words and look at the grassroots coalition that helped him pull off what’s been described as “one of the great political upsets in modern American history.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-11-28 Friday
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encoded: Democracy Now! Friday, November 28, 2025 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Russia’s Fuel Crisis? What Burning Refineries Reveal About The War’s Future
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups
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description: RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time today — fronting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Suva. The TRC was set up by Rabuka’s coalition government with the aim of promoting truth-telling and reconciliation regarding political upheavals dating back to 1987. The
encoded: RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time today — fronting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Suva. The TRC was set up by Rabuka’s coalition government with the aim of promoting truth-telling and reconciliation regarding political upheavals dating back to 1987. The five-member TRC began its work earlier this year. It was led by Dr Marcus Brand, who was appointed in January, and has reportedly already finished his role. READ MORE: Other Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports Rabuka had stated earlier this year he would “voluntarily appear” before the commission and disclose names of individuals involved in his two racist coups almost four decades ago. The man, often referred to as “Rambo” for his military past, has been a permanent fixture in the Fijian political landscape since first overthrowing a democratically elected government as a 38-year-old lieutenant-colonel. But now, at 77, he has a weatherbeaten face yet still carries the resolute confidence of a young soldier. He faced the TRC commissioners, wearing a tie in the colours of the Fiji Army, to give a much-anticipated testimony by Fijians locally and in the diaspora. He began by revisiting his childhood and the influences in his life that shaped his worldview. He fundamentally accepted the actions of 1987 were rooted in his racial worldview. Protecting Indigenous Fijians He acknowledged those actions were a result of his background, being raised in an “insulated” environment (i.e. village, boarding school, military), and it is his view that he was acting to protect Indigenous Fijians. Asked if the coups had served their purpose, Rabuka said: “The coups have brought out more of a self-realisation of who we are, what we’re doing, where we need to be.” “If that is a positive outcome of the coup, I encourage all of us to do that. Let us be aware of the sensitivity of numbers, the sensitivity of a perceived imbalance in…

Fiji PM Rabuka blames ‘insulated’ upbringing for racially motivated 1987 coups
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description: RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time today — fronting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Suva. The TRC was set up by Rabuka’s coalition government with the aim of promoting truth-telling and reconciliation regarding political upheavals dating back to 1987. The
encoded: RNZ Pacific Sitiveni Rabuka, the instigator of Fiji’s coup culture, took to the witness stand for the first time today — fronting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in Suva. The TRC was set up by Rabuka’s coalition government with the aim of promoting truth-telling and reconciliation regarding political upheavals dating back to 1987. The five-member TRC began its work earlier this year. It was led by Dr Marcus Brand, who was appointed in January, and has reportedly already finished his role. READ MORE: Other Fiji Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports Rabuka had stated earlier this year he would “voluntarily appear” before the commission and disclose names of individuals involved in his two racist coups almost four decades ago. The man, often referred to as “Rambo” for his military past, has been a permanent fixture in the Fijian political landscape since first overthrowing a democratically elected government as a 38-year-old lieutenant-colonel. But now, at 77, he has a weatherbeaten face yet still carries the resolute confidence of a young soldier. He faced the TRC commissioners, wearing a tie in the colours of the Fiji Army, to give a much-anticipated testimony by Fijians locally and in the diaspora. He began by revisiting his childhood and the influences in his life that shaped his worldview. He fundamentally accepted the actions of 1987 were rooted in his racial worldview. Protecting Indigenous Fijians He acknowledged those actions were a result of his background, being raised in an “insulated” environment (i.e. village, boarding school, military), and it is his view that he was acting to protect Indigenous Fijians. Asked if the coups had served their purpose, Rabuka said: “The coups have brought out more of a self-realisation of who we are, what we’re doing, where we need to be.” “If that is a positive outcome of the coup, I encourage all of us to do that. Let us be aware of the sensitivity of numbers, the sensitivity of a perceived imbalance in…

Musician Gelli Haha on getting out of your own way
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creator: Max Freedman
date: 2025-11-28T08:00:00Z
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description: The Gelli Haha project has been an intentional transformation from your previous music and identity. What doubts or challenges did you face along the way?
encoded: The Gelli Haha project has been an intentional transformation from your previous music and identity. What doubts or challenges did you face along the way? A lot of them. I would say my biggest—I think everyone’s biggest enemy, especially creatively, is usually themselves. Obviously, there’s resource accessibility things as well, but for the most part, what gets people down the hardest is their mental space. I’ve always had the determination to create things. That was never my fear. … I was kind of perfectionist, or there was something I was trying to control, or it was hard to go outside the box. I grew up playing violin, and I was in choir, so more traditional musical structures—I was raised that way musically, where it was just, you learn the music, and you do it well. But I found my ways to be creative through that. I also was taking it too seriously. I wanted people to take me seriously so badly, but then, this whole Switcheroo thing for me was like, “I don’t take anything seriously anymore,” and that actually has freed up my process exponentially. Can you talk more about how you overcame these challenges and doubts? It was a process. I definitely shed some tears in some studio sessions in the beginning because I was nervous to just let loose. I would come into the studio, and I would have two versions of the song, a whole version of a song in my head, and be like, “This is it. Let’s record this.” There’s no room for error in a process like that, when I feel like I have to control every bit of it. I think why this music comes across the way it does is because we were so honest with ourselves throughout the whole process. The more we recorded [Switcheroo], the less I came into the studio with anything prepared, which sounds kind of funny. I would prepare things if they were coming to me intuitively, but I wouldn’t force anything. I did allow our time in the studio to be exploratory and off-the-cuff, whatever was coming to mind. I recorded [Switcheroo] with Sean G…

Attack against Muslims in India? No, viral video of woman collapsing is from Bangladesh
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date: 2025-11-28T04:48:02Z
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description: A video showing a woman in a burqa being hit by a man on the head is viral on social media with some users claiming that it was a case... The post Attack against Muslims in India? No, viral video of woman collapsing is from Bangladesh appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video showing a woman in a burqa being hit by a man on the head is viral on social media with some users claiming that it was a case of an attack on a Muslims in India. The woman in the video collapses on the ground as people from passing vehicles look on. X user New Muslims (@Muslims_2025) posted this clip on November 26 and mentioned in the caption: “Attacks against Muslims in India continue, and we call on the Indian authorities to protect the Muslim community”. At the time of this report being written, the post has received over 363,000 views and has been reposted over 4,800 times. (Archive) Attacks against Muslims in India continue, and we call on the Indian authorities to protect the Muslim community. https://t.co/FYdnvJ40Ss — New Muslims (@Muslims_2025) November 26, 2025 Another X user, Parmanand Azamgarhi (@parmanandyadavv), whose bio states that he is the national secretary of Samajwadi Party chatra sabha, also posted the same clip on November 26 and mentioned in the caption: “Sanatani people are mistreating women of other religions, especially Muslim women, and no action is being taken against these people. The Constitution grants equality to everyone.” This post has received more than 370,000 views so far and has been reposted over 1,800 times. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-307855" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-27-151713.jpg" alt="" width="883" height="1122" srcset="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-27-151713.jpg 883w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-27-151713-236x300.jpg 236w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-27-151713-806x1024.jpg 806w, https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Screenshot-2025-11-27-151713-768x976.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px" /> Several other users posted the viral clip with the claim that it is an incident i…

How Israel has set a dangerous precedent in international law
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date: 2025-11-28T01:42:48Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: Justice for Palestine
subject: Sources
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subject: ceasefire
subject: Crime
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subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
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subject: how
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description: ANALYSIS: By Emad Moussa “Israel appears set on destroying the framework created to ensure compliance with international law . . . ”, the International Court of Justice heard in April 2025. To a similar effect, Norway’s Development Minister said in May that Israel was setting a dangerous precedent for international human rights law violations in
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Emad Moussa “Israel appears set on destroying the framework created to ensure compliance with international law . . . ”, the International Court of Justice heard in April 2025. To a similar effect, Norway’s Development Minister said in May that Israel was setting a dangerous precedent for international human rights law violations in Gaza. Both accounts stem from the belief that Israel’s crimes in Gaza are so extreme that they have broadened the scope of impunity under international law. That would make future conflicts more fluid and the world more dangerous, possibly precipitating the emergence of a New World Order. READ MORE: Other Gaza reports The First World Order emerged in 1920 with the creation of the League of Nations, the first intergovernmental organisation. The goal was to prevent conflicts and wars from ever happening again. But because of, inter alia, structural weaknesses and the unresolved injustice of the defeated parties, the Second World War erupted in 1939 and the world order crumbled. The horrors of the Second World War thus paved the way to the emergence of the Second World Order. It rallied universalism with the establishment of the United Nations and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was reinforced by numerous bodies and treaties to maximise compliance with international law. While International law was never perfect, let alone fully implementable, it has had an indirect, normative influence on shaping domestic politics, academia, civil society, and journalism. It set in motion the emergence of a global rights-based consciousness, setting a frame of reference against which states are morally and legally judged, even if lacked enforcement. ‘Self-defence’ claim Israel is the product of the Second World Order. It was initially legitimised by the UN Partition Plan of Palestine in November 1947, and was admitted as a full UN member state in May 1949. It is today a signatory of multiple UN treaties and engages with in…

How Israel has set a dangerous precedent in international law
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-28T01:42:48Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
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subject: Sources
subject: asia
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description: ANALYSIS: By Emad Moussa “Israel appears set on destroying the framework created to ensure compliance with international law . . . ”, the International Court of Justice heard in April 2025. To a similar effect, Norway’s Development Minister said in May that Israel was setting a dangerous precedent for international human rights law violations in
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Emad Moussa “Israel appears set on destroying the framework created to ensure compliance with international law . . . ”, the International Court of Justice heard in April 2025. To a similar effect, Norway’s Development Minister said in May that Israel was setting a dangerous precedent for international human rights law violations in Gaza. Both accounts stem from the belief that Israel’s crimes in Gaza are so extreme that they have broadened the scope of impunity under international law. That would make future conflicts more fluid and the world more dangerous, possibly precipitating the emergence of a New World Order. READ MORE: Other Gaza reports The First World Order emerged in 1920 with the creation of the League of Nations, the first intergovernmental organisation. The goal was to prevent conflicts and wars from ever happening again. But because of, inter alia, structural weaknesses and the unresolved injustice of the defeated parties, the Second World War erupted in 1939 and the world order crumbled. The horrors of the Second World War thus paved the way to the emergence of the Second World Order. It rallied universalism with the establishment of the United Nations and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This was reinforced by numerous bodies and treaties to maximise compliance with international law. While International law was never perfect, let alone fully implementable, it has had an indirect, normative influence on shaping domestic politics, academia, civil society, and journalism. It set in motion the emergence of a global rights-based consciousness, setting a frame of reference against which states are morally and legally judged, even if lacked enforcement. ‘Self-defence’ claim Israel is the product of the Second World Order. It was initially legitimised by the UN Partition Plan of Palestine in November 1947, and was admitted as a full UN member state in May 1949. It is today a signatory of multiple UN treaties and engages with in…

Tahiti landslide: no survivors – all 8 bodies retrieved
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-27T21:45:05Z
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description: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesian authorities have retrieved a total of eight bodies that were buried following a major landslide on its main island of Tahiti. The disaster struck several houses in the town of Afaahiti-Taravao, southeast Tahiti, on Wednesday, about 5am local time (Thursday NZT). The final toll
encoded: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Polynesian authorities have retrieved a total of eight bodies that were buried following a major landslide on its main island of Tahiti. The disaster struck several houses in the town of Afaahiti-Taravao, southeast Tahiti, on Wednesday, about 5am local time (Thursday NZT). The final toll comes after one day and one night of searching for potential survivors. The search operations involved about 200 emergency staff, gendarmes and firemen, medical emergency teams, underground cameras, radars, drones but also an army helicopter as well as sniffer dogs. One of the victims was a three-year-old girl. Earlier, in this hillside village, search operations had to stop due to more landslides and collapse of whole portions of the mountainside soaked by days of torrential rain. French Polynesia President Moetai Brotherson said a medico-psychological assistance unit remained active to help local people cope with the disaster. French High Commissioner Alexandre Rochatte said an investigation for “manslaughter” was underway to try and establish the causes of the tragedy and whether the affected buildings and location met the requirements for dwellings of this type and the constructed zone. “This type of tragedy reminds us why there are rules,” Brotherson said. “Some of these houses are over 40 years old.” He said current building regulations and requirements were now “stricter”. Flags flying at half mast All flags at public buildings in French Polynesia are flying at half mast and Friday’s sitting of the Territorial Assembly will be marked by one minute of silence in homage to the victims. Brotherson also said an ecumenical religious service was currently being prepared. Messages of condolence, support and solidarity have flowed, including from French President Emmanuel Macron and French Minister for Overseas Territories Naïma Moutchou. Moutchou said a team of geological experts was on its way from Nouméa (N…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 27, 2025
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creator: KPFA
date: 2025-11-27T18:00:00Z
subject: Pacifica Evening News
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subject: Politics
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subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 27, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Two Hundred Fifty Years Since the Declaration of Independence
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creator: Greg Godels
date: 2025-11-27T16:11:33Z
subject: A People's History of the United States
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subject: Declaration of Independence
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Eric Hobsbawm
subject: Gerald Horne
subject: Greg Grandin
subject: Herbert Aptheker
subject: Herbert Morais
subject: Richard Bell
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subject: people’s
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description: Next year will mark 250 years since the “official” date assigned to the rebellion against British sovereignty in its North American colony, popularly known as the “American Revolution.” In early July of 1776, a number of prominent figures and leaders of colonial resistance to the authority of the English Crown met in the port city […] The post Two Hundred Fifty Years Since the Declaration of Independence first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Next year will mark 250 years since the “official” date assigned to the rebellion against British sovereignty in its North American colony, popularly known as the “American Revolution.” In early July of 1776, a number of prominent figures and leaders of colonial resistance to the authority of the English Crown met in the port city of one of the English colonies and signed a resolution and an audacious document declaring independence. The impressively crafted and innovative document drew an administrative and military response from English authorities in both London and the colonies and forced the colonies to plan their next defiant move. If Philadelphia was the cradle of the revolution, the Declaration of Independence was its founding document. As with past celebrations of the revolution, there will be reenactments, speeches, and other self-congratulatory virtue-signaling. Politicians will compete to ascribe their own views to the founding principles. Every opportunity will be taken to commercialize the event from Ken Burns’ calculated-to-be-unchallenging televised take (already underway!) on the colonial uprising to meaningless flyovers of outdoor events and endless volleys of fireworks. Anniversaries, like next year’s, understandably bring out a reconsideration, a reevaluation, and a renewed search for the meaning of the widely regarded event. And given the fractures in US politics, the conclusions will be contested between diverse perspectives and hostile ideologies. For many, if not most, the US is at a crossroads and understanding its past is likely a crucial determinant of the way forward. One must begin with the account of the revolution foisted on young minds in the mandatory American History classes of the US public high schools. While these courses may stop short of the extreme fabulism of Founding Father sainthood, they reproduce the mythology of the liberation of a “discovered” land marching through history as a virtuous exception to the greed and malice…

Takaichi’s Claim of “Theory of Undetermined Taiwan Status” Shows She Remains Unrepentant
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creator: Global Times
date: 2025-11-27T16:07:07Z
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subject: Cairo Declaration
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Guo Jiakun
subject: Japan’s Instrument of Surrender
subject: Potsdam Proclamation
subject: San Francisco Peace Treaty
subject: Sanae Takaichi
subject: Sources
subject: UN Charter
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subject: 1972:
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subject: charter:
subject: China
subject: claim
subject: declaration
subject: Diplomacy
subject: dissident
subject: francisco,
subject: guo
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subject: japan
subject: japan’s
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subject: joint
subject: Peace
subject: potsdam
subject: proclamation
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subject: statement
subject: status
subject: surrender
subject: Taiwan
subject: takaichi
subject: takaichi’s
subject: theory
subject: treaty
subject: undetermined
subject: voice
description: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun Responding to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s claims that under the “San Francisco Peace Treaty,” Japan “is not in a position to determine or recognize the legal status of Taiwan,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Thursday that Takaichi’s remarks deliberately ignore internationally binding documents while relying […] The post Takaichi’s Claim of “Theory of Undetermined Taiwan Status” Shows She Remains Unrepentant first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img decoding="async" class="entry-thumb td-animation-stack-type0-2" title="Guo Jiakun" src="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Guo-Jiakun.png" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" srcset="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Guo-Jiakun.png 600w, https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Guo-Jiakun-300x169.png 300w" alt="" width="505" height="283.6" /> Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun Responding to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s claims that under the “San Francisco Peace Treaty,” Japan “is not in a position to determine or recognize the legal status of Taiwan,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Thursday that Takaichi’s remarks deliberately ignore internationally binding documents while relying solely on the illegal and invalid “San Francisco Peace Treaty,” once again showing she remains unrepentant and disregards UN authority. Guo warned that the international community should also remain highly vigilant. According to the Yomiuri Shimbun, during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi claimed that under the “San Francisco Peace Treaty,” Japan renounced all right, title, and claim to Taiwan, and Japan is not in a position to determine or recognize the legal status of Taiwan. When asked to comment on Takaichi’s such remarks, Guo stressed at Thursday’s press briefing that Taiwan island’s return to China is an important part of the victory in World War II and the post-war international order. A series of internationally binding documents, including the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and Japan’s Instrument of Surrender, all confirmed China’s sovereignty over Taiwan. Guo noted that the question of Taiwan’s status was thoroughly resolved in 1945 with the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. On October 1, 1949, the Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic …

Mass Media, Social Media, the Press, Journalism, Influencers, Propaganda!
type: item
creator: Paul Haeder
date: 2025-11-27T16:05:27Z
subject: Critical thinking
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Migizi Pensoneau
subject: Sources
subject: Activism
subject: corporate media
subject: critical
subject: Deep State
subject: Democracy
subject: dissident
subject: Fake News
subject: Indigenous Peoples
subject: influencers
subject: journalism
subject: mass,
subject: Media
subject: Media literacy
subject: migizi
subject: pensoneau
subject: press
subject: Propaganda
subject: Public media
subject: social
subject: Social media
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: thinking
subject: voice
subject: war
subject: War Crimes
subject: World War Two
description: Note: In the Local Newspaper, Newport News Times, now called, The Leader. These are unprecedented times for human intelligence and collective memory. We are seeing turbo charged the scarfing up of the American and Western collective consciousness through the illicit actions of billionaires and their hoarding henchmen millionaires. So much common sense and clear thinking […] The post Mass Media, Social Media, the Press, Journalism, Influencers, Propaganda! first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Note: In the Local Newspaper, Newport News Times, now called, The Leader. These are unprecedented times for human intelligence and collective memory. We are seeing turbo charged the scarfing up of the American and Western collective consciousness through the illicit actions of billionaires and their hoarding henchmen millionaires. So much common sense and clear thinking have been virtually memory holed by the advancing armies of information and data controllers. Larry Ellison isn’t just hoarding all the data of the world through his many operations tied to Oracle. He’s Big Brother of another Mother. This isn’t your grandparents’ world: Ellison believes governments need to consolidate data about citizens for the sake of AI. He said AI models can help improve government services while also saving money and cutting down on fraud. Imagine the power of this one fellow and his henchmen demanding the U.S. and other countries converting to a world of AI, after governments (corporations) unify the data they collect into one easily digestible database. His son David has become the current “hostile takeover honcho” with acquiring Paramount studios, CBS, CNN and with an eye for more media outfits. Imagine if “we the people” demanded a takeover of all Fortune 500 corporations’ data, while also wresting control of the private and corporate secrets of Exxon, Raytheon, Monsanto or the other tens of thousands of corporations which have turned the world into an Inverted Totalitarian Game of Thrones. Note: Daddy Larry is the second richest person on the planet. Those who control the water, oil, food, money, and now data, control the people and the world. Look up variations on a theme and discover which oligarchs have worked hand in hand with despotic and ill-intended creeps to grift, gouge and rip-off the public. “Marks” is one way to describe how the rich see us. “Useless eaters” is another of their terms for us. The “wretched of the earth” is yet another way the titans of tech, war …

Tunisia frees prominent commentator Sonia Dahmani
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2025-11-27T16:00:51Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Legal Action
subject: Released
subject: Sources
subject: action
subject: commentator
subject: committee
subject: dahmani
subject: frees
subject: imprisoned
subject: Journalists
subject: legal
subject: prominent
subject: protect
subject: released
subject: sonia
subject: sources
subject: Tunisia
description: New York, November 27, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the Thursday release of Tunisian commentator and lawyer Sonia Dahmani, who had been held since May 2024 over comments made during a television appearance, and calls on authorities to clarify the conditions of her release and ensure she can work and move freely....
encoded: New York, November 27, 2025 — The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the Thursday release of Tunisian commentator and lawyer Sonia Dahmani, who had been held since May 2024 over comments made during a television appearance, and calls on authorities to clarify the conditions of her release and ensure she can work and move freely. Dahmani — this year’s International Press Freedom Award (IPFA) honoree — has become a symbol of Tunisia’s escalating repression of independent voices. She was arrested after authorities accused her of “spreading false information,” part of a broader pattern in which officials have increasingly relied on restrictive legislation to silence dissent and intimidate critical commentators. Her release comes on the same day the European Parliament adopted a resolution expressing deep concern over Tunisia’s deteriorating press freedom climate and urging authorities to free Dahmani and other detained journalists. Despite her return home, key details surrounding her release remain unclear. Dahmani’s sister, Ramla Dahmani, told CPJ “I spoke with Sonia by phone moments after learning the news, and she told me that she had been informed only minutes beforehand of the release and without explanation”. She added, “Sonia is home, at least.” Several media outlets reported that Dahmani was released conditionally, though authorities have not disclosed any terms. However, her lawyer, Sami Ben Ghazi, told CPJ her release is “unconditional”. He explained that “the remaining charges were not dropped, she is still facing three trials, one of them tomorrow morning.” Dahmani faces two other outstanding cases that carry potential sentences of 20 years combined under the same cybercrime law, Benghazi said, and adding that “her release did not mention that she can’t travel or work.” “While we welcome the release of Sonia Dahmani, Tunisian authorities must go further and immediately drop all remaining charges,” said CPJ Deputy Advocacy Director, EU Tom Gibson. “Aut…

New Russian Fighter Destroys “Patriots” Days after Delivery from Germany
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creator: Drago Bosnic
date: 2025-11-27T15:50:00Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: SEAD
subject: Sources
subject: Su-30SM2
subject: surface-to-air missile
subject: after
subject: days
subject: delivery
subject: Denmark
subject: destroys
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: fighter
subject: from
subject: germany
subject: Militarism
subject: missile
subject: new
subject: norway
subject: patriots
subject: Russia
subject: russian
subject: sead
subject: sources
subject: su-30sm2
subject: surface-to-air
subject: Ukraine
subject: United States
subject: voice
subject: Weaponry
description: In the unforgiving battlefields of the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, the Kiev regime is yet to learn that any perceived superiority complex is nothing but that – a set of dangerous delusions that may seem “real” (or even “crystal clear”, “natural”, etc). Probably the most dangerous of such delusions is the near-total disregard of Moscow’s military might […] The post New Russian Fighter Destroys “Patriots” Days after Delivery from Germany first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image" src="https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/B_Su-30SM-400x267.jpg" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" srcset="https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/B_Su-30SM-400x267.jpg 400w, https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/B_Su-30SM-300x200.jpg 300w, https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/B_Su-30SM-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/B_Su-30SM.jpg 1024w, https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/B_Su-30SM-120x80.jpg 120w" alt="" width="400" height="267" /> In the unforgiving battlefields of the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, the Kiev regime is yet to learn that any perceived superiority complex is nothing but that – a set of dangerous delusions that may seem “real” (or even “crystal clear”, “natural”, etc). Probably the most dangerous of such delusions is the near-total disregard of Moscow’s military might due to the Neo-Nazi junta’s stubborn refusal to accept battlefield realities, one of which has a name – the Su-30SM2. Russia’s latest upgrade to the legendary Su-30SM, the “Flanker-H” (its NATO reporting name) is part of a long line of Su-30 series, by far the most successful commercial Su-27 derivative. For Moscow, in addition to the legendary Su-35S and MiG-31BM, the Su-30SM is instrumental in maintaining not only air superiority, but also conducting SEAD (suppression of enemy air defenses) missions, drone hunting, etc. However, one of the most pressing issues faced by the Russian Aerospace Forces (VKS) is the diversity of the “Flanker” fleet. Although the expected advantage of determining which is best suited for a certain role and then perfecting the said role, this significantly complicates maintenance, logistics, training, etc. This is why the VKS made a decision to start upgrading the Su-30SM to the SM2 st…

Leonard Peltier’s Daughter Marquetta: My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-27T15:15:01Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: daughter
subject: Democracy
subject: father?”:
subject: hero
subject: leonard
subject: marquetta
subject: now
subject: peltier’s
subject: sources
subject: warrior
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

"I’m Not Going to Give Up": Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Decades in Prison, Coming Home
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-27T15:00:47Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: coming
subject: decades’
subject: Democracy
subject: give
subject: going
subject: his
subject: home
subject: i’m
subject: Indigenous
subject: leonard
subject: not
subject: now
subject: peltier
subject: prison
subject: rights
subject: sources
subject: up”:
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Joy Harjo on the vision of democracy #shorts
type: item
creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-11-27T14:01:33Z
subject: Sources
subject: #shorts
subject: Democracy
subject: harjo
subject: joy
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: vision
description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.

Making the World More Imperiled Again
type: item
creator: Jim Carrier
date: 2025-11-27T14:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: again
subject: imperiled
subject: making
subject: more
subject: progressive
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: World
description: Trump’s plan to revive nuclear weapons testing threatens to undermine decades of progress.
encoded: Trump’s plan to revive nuclear weapons testing threatens to undermine decades of progress. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Jim Carrier.

My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier’s Daughter Marquetta
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-27T13:50:26Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: daughter
subject: Democracy
subject: father?”:
subject: hero
subject: Interview
subject: leonard
subject: marquetta
subject: now
subject: peltier’s
subject: sources
subject: warrior
subject: with
description: Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about the campaign to free her father and what it m...
encoded: Marquetta Shields-Peltier was just a toddler when her father, Leonard Peltier, was jailed in 1976. During our recent trip to Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota, we spoke to Marquetta about the campaign to free her father and what it meant to see him released in February. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Tensions Explode: Afghan Refugees Rounded Up After Deadly Border Clashes
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-11-27T13:28:11Z
subject: Radio Free Europe/RL
subject: Sources
subject: afghan
subject: after
subject: border
subject: clashes
subject: deadly
subject: europe/rl
subject: explode
subject: free
subject: radio
subject: Refugees
subject: rounded
subject: sources
subject: tensions
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
encoded: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-27T13:01:50Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: coming
subject: Democracy
subject: give
subject: going
subject: half-century
subject: his
subject: home
subject: i’m
subject: Indigenous
subject: leonard
subject: not
subject: now
subject: peltier
subject: prison
subject: rights
subject: sources
subject: up”:
description: In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. ...
encoded: In September, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to home confinement in February. Before his commutation by former President Joe Biden, the 81-year-old Peltier spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Peltier has always maintained his innocence for the 1975 killing of two FBI officers. He is expected to serve the remainder of his life sentences under house arrest at the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Nation in Belcourt, North Dakota. In a wide-ranging conversation, we spoke to Peltier about his case, his time in prison, his childhood spent at an American Indian boarding school and his later involvement in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and more. “We still have to live under that, that fear of losing our identity, losing our culture, our religion,” Peltier says about his continued commitment to Indigenous rights. “The struggle still goes on for me. I’m not going to give up.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Remembering Nuremberg
type: item
creator: Ed Rampell
date: 2025-11-27T13:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: nuremberg
subject: progressive
subject: remembering
subject: sources
subject: the
description: A look at how the world is observing the eightieth anniversary of this historic military tribunal.
encoded: A look at how the world is observing the eightieth anniversary of this historic military tribunal. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Ed Rampell.

Democracy Now! 2025-11-27 Thursday
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-27T13:00:00Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2025-11-27
subject: Democracy
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: thursday
description: Democracy Now! Thursday, November 27, 2025
encoded: Democracy Now! Thursday, November 27, 2025 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

‘Bangal khali ho raha hai’: Old video from Muslim religious gathering shared as Bangladeshis leaving amid SIR
type: item
creator: Ankita Mahalanobish
date: 2025-11-27T11:02:04Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
subject: ‘bangal
subject: alt
subject: amid
subject: bangladeshis’?
subject: Featured
subject: from
subject: gathering
subject: hai”
subject: khali
subject: leaving
subject: muslim
subject: News
subject: old
subject: Politics
subject: raha
subject: religious
subject: shared
subject: sir
subject: sources
subject: Video
description: A video captured from a slowly moving train, showing a crowd of men gathered along the railway tracks, many of whom are wearing skullcaps and traditional Muslim attire, is going... The post ‘Bangal khali ho raha hai’: Old video from Muslim religious gathering shared as Bangladeshis leaving amid SIR appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video captured from a slowly moving train, showing a crowd of men gathered along the railway tracks, many of whom are wearing skullcaps and traditional Muslim attire, is going viral on social media. The clip is shared with claims that it shows the mass exodus of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from West Bengal amidst the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. An Instagram account, Balwant Singh Parmar (@kattar.bsparmar), shared the purported video as a reel on November 23, 2025. The reel was accompanied by a caption “Hail for SIR”, and the footage had an on-screen text reading “Bangal khali ho raha hai”, which can be roughly translated in English as “Bengal is emptying”. (Archive) View this post on Instagram A post shared by बलवंत सिंह परमार (@kattar.bsparmar) The reel has garnered around 3.3 million views and over 95,200 likes. It is noteworthy that the Instagram user’s bio says, “राष्ट्रीय स्वयं सेवक यदि हम धर्म की रक्षा करेंगे, तो धर्म हमारी रक्षा करेगा….” An X user, Trisha Pandey (@itrishapandey), shared the same video with a caption hailing the SIR drive, suggesting that it shows “infiltrators” who are being driven out of Bengal. (Archive) Bengal is being emptied, infiltrators are being driven out, Jai Ho SIR pic.twitter.com/dPVmhs9mBF — Trisha Pandey (@itrishapandey) November 25, 2025 The bio of this X user says, “Proud Hindu Die hard nationalist”. Another Instagram user, Dharamveer Pandey (sanatani_dharamveer), with 107,000 followers, shared the same video with the hashtag SIR. (Archive) View this post on Instagram A post shared by DHARAMVEER PANDEY (@sanatani_dharamveer) Several other social media users have also shared the video with similar claims. A few of them can be seen in the gallery below: Click to view slideshow. Fact Check A reverse image search on a few keyframes led us to the Facebook profile of Animesh Halder, who had originally uploaded the video clip on December 23, 2024. In the accompanied caption, “Today, the Diamond Harbour l…

Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a ‘broken’ status quo
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-27T10:29:27Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Gaza operation
subject: Gaza peacekeeping
subject: Gaza Stabilisation Force
subject: Hospital ships
subject: Israeli security forces
subject: Moral voice
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Oppression
subject: Political resolution
subject: Sources
subject: Status quo
subject: ‘mission
subject: Analysis
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: broken
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: donald trump
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: enforcing
subject: Featured
subject: force
subject: forces
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: hospital
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: indonesia
subject: indonesia’s
subject: Indonesian military
subject: israeli
subject: Justice
subject: military
subject: moral
subject: occupied
subject: operation
subject: Opinion
subject: oppression
subject: Pacific
subject: Palestine
subject: Peacekeeping
subject: political
subject: quo
subject: report
subject: resolution’
subject: risks
subject: Security
subject: ship’s
subject: sources
subject: stabilisation
subject: status
subject: voice
description: ANALYSIS: By Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history — a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers, medics and logistics personnel — to enter the shattered and starving Gaza Strip. Three brigades, three hospital ships, Hercules aircraft, a three-star general, a reconnaissance team, battalions for health services,
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history — a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers, medics and logistics personnel — to enter the shattered and starving Gaza Strip. Three brigades, three hospital ships, Hercules aircraft, a three-star general, a reconnaissance team, battalions for health services, construction and logistics — Jakarta is moving with remarkable speed and confidence. But the moral clarity that Indonesia prides itself on in its support for Palestine is now in danger of being muddied by geopolitical calculation. READ MORE: Amnesty warns ‘genocide not over’ as Israel strikes across Gaza Indonesian Navy says 3 hospital ships ready for Gaza mission Other Gaza reports And that calculation, in this case, is deeply entangled with a plan conceived and promoted by US President Donald Trump — a plan that critics argue would freeze, not resolve, the structures of domination and blockade that have long suffocated Gaza. Indonesia must ask itself a hard question: Is it stepping into Gaza to help Palestinians — or to help enforce a fragile order designed to protect the status quo? For years, Indonesian leaders have proudly stated that their support for Palestine is grounded not in expediency but in principle. President Prabowo Subianto has reiterated that Jakarta stands “ready at any moment” to help end the suffering in Gaza. But readiness is not the same as reflection. And reflection is urgently needed. Tilted towards Israel Trump’s so-called stabilisation plan envisions an International Stabilisation Force tasked with training select Palestinian police officers and preventing weapons smuggling — a mission framed as neutral but structurally tilted toward Israel’s long-standing security demands. The plan does little to address the root political causes of Gaza’s devastation. It does not confront Israel’s decades-long military occupation. It does not propose a just political horizon…

Indonesia’s Gaza peacekeeping mission risks enforcing a ‘broken’ status quo
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-27T10:29:27Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Gaza operation
subject: Gaza peacekeeping
subject: Gaza Stabilisation Force
subject: Hospital ships
subject: Israeli security forces
subject: Moral voice
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Oppression
subject: Political resolution
subject: Sources
subject: Status quo
subject: ‘mission
subject: Analysis
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: broken
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: donald trump
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: enforcing
subject: Featured
subject: force
subject: forces
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: Global
subject: hospital
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: indonesia
subject: indonesia’s
subject: Indonesian military
subject: israeli
subject: Justice
subject: military
subject: moral
subject: occupied
subject: operation
subject: Opinion
subject: oppression
subject: Pacific
subject: Palestine
subject: Peacekeeping
subject: political
subject: quo
subject: report
subject: resolution’
subject: risks
subject: Security
subject: ship’s
subject: sources
subject: stabilisation
subject: status
subject: voice
description: ANALYSIS: By Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history — a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers, medics and logistics personnel — to enter the shattered and starving Gaza Strip. Three brigades, three hospital ships, Hercules aircraft, a three-star general, a reconnaissance team, battalions for health services,
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Dr Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat Indonesia is preparing one of the largest peacekeeping deployments in its history — a 20,000-strong force of soldiers, engineers, medics and logistics personnel — to enter the shattered and starving Gaza Strip. Three brigades, three hospital ships, Hercules aircraft, a three-star general, a reconnaissance team, battalions for health services, construction and logistics — Jakarta is moving with remarkable speed and confidence. But the moral clarity that Indonesia prides itself on in its support for Palestine is now in danger of being muddied by geopolitical calculation. READ MORE: Amnesty warns ‘genocide not over’ as Israel strikes across Gaza Indonesian Navy says 3 hospital ships ready for Gaza mission Other Gaza reports And that calculation, in this case, is deeply entangled with a plan conceived and promoted by US President Donald Trump — a plan that critics argue would freeze, not resolve, the structures of domination and blockade that have long suffocated Gaza. Indonesia must ask itself a hard question: Is it stepping into Gaza to help Palestinians — or to help enforce a fragile order designed to protect the status quo? For years, Indonesian leaders have proudly stated that their support for Palestine is grounded not in expediency but in principle. President Prabowo Subianto has reiterated that Jakarta stands “ready at any moment” to help end the suffering in Gaza. But readiness is not the same as reflection. And reflection is urgently needed. Tilted towards Israel Trump’s so-called stabilisation plan envisions an International Stabilisation Force tasked with training select Palestinian police officers and preventing weapons smuggling — a mission framed as neutral but structurally tilted toward Israel’s long-standing security demands. The plan does little to address the root political causes of Gaza’s devastation. It does not confront Israel’s decades-long military occupation. It does not propose a just political horizon…

Meet the Women Unionizing Sri Lanka’s Garment Workers
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2025-11-27T10:27:16Z
subject: Amnesty International
subject: Sources
subject: amnesty
subject: garment
subject: International
subject: lanka’s
subject: meet
subject: sources
subject: sri
subject: the
subject: unionizing
subject: women
subject: Workers
description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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Vietnamese journalist Do Van Nga held on anti-state propaganda charge
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2025-11-27T09:38:03Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Do Van Nga
subject: Sources
subject: Thoibao.de
subject: anti-state
subject: charge
subject: committee
subject: Detained
subject: held
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
subject: ngā
subject: Propaganda
subject: protect
subject: sources
subject: thoibao.de
subject: van
subject: vietnamese
description: Bangkok, November 27, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to immediately account for and release journalist Do Van Nga, drop all pending charges against him, and stop harassing journalists with baseless anti-state charges. Nga, a contributor to the Germany-based Thoibao.de, went missing on November 8, soon after landing at Ho Chi Minh City’s...
encoded: Bangkok, November 27, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to immediately account for and release journalist Do Van Nga, drop all pending charges against him, and stop harassing journalists with baseless anti-state charges. Nga, a contributor to the Germany-based Thoibao.de, went missing on November 8, soon after landing at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport, according to Le Trung Khoa, the editor of the independent Vietnamese-language publication, who communicated with CPJ via messaging app. Nga had traveled from Thailand, where he has lived in exile for several years, to renew his passport, said Khoa. He never emerged from immigration control after texting with his family upon arriving at the airport, the editor said, adding that the journalist’s current location and detention status are unknown. Nga’s family have contacted Vietnamese authorities and not received any information, said Khoa. On November 17, the Ministry of Public Security began prosecution proceedings against Nga and Khoa on charges of disseminating anti-state propaganda, a criminal offense under Section 117 of the Penal Code, according to news reports and Khoa, who is based in Germany. Convictions under the law carry a maximum 20-year prison sentence. “Do Van Nga’s detention is yet another example of Vietnam’s relentless campaign to silence independent journalism and commentary,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Nga is a journalist, not a criminal, and should be released immediately and unconditionally.” Khoa said the charges are likely in retaliation for a German court’s dismissal of all but one defamation complaint filed by Vingroup, one of Vietnam’s largest business conglomerates, over his site’s critical reporting on its Vinfast car maker. Khoa told CPJ he has faced death threats and lived under police protection in Germany since breaking news in 2017 about Vietnam’s abduction of Vietnamese official Trinh X…

East Sepik Governor Bird slams Marape’s ‘risky’ 2026 Budget overspend
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subject: Community development
subject: Financial strain
subject: PNG budget
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: allan
subject: asia
subject: bird
subject: budget
subject: Community
subject: Democracy
subject: Development
subject: east
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subject: governor
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description: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s 2026 National Budget has drawn immediate opposition criticism from East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, who says the government continues to overspend, overestimate revenue, and deliver few tangible results for ordinary citizens. The K$30.9 billion (about NZ$12.8 billion) spending plan, unveiled earlier this week, has been
encoded: By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea’s 2026 National Budget has drawn immediate opposition criticism from East Sepik Governor Allan Bird, who says the government continues to overspend, overestimate revenue, and deliver few tangible results for ordinary citizens. The K$30.9 billion (about NZ$12.8 billion) spending plan, unveiled earlier this week, has been characterised by analysts as highly political and aligned with next year’s election cycle. Critics argue the Marape government has again prioritised high-visibility projects over long-term structural programs that would strengthen essential services. READ MORE: Other PNG politics reports Bird said this year’s budget followed a familiar pattern — record allocations on paper, but limited real-world improvements. He pointed to ongoing shortages in medicines, persistent law and order challenges, and what he viewed as a widening gap between spending announcements and service delivery outcomes. He has also raised concerns about revenue assumptions, noting that last year’s budget was short by K$2.5 billion and required significant mid-year corrections. Bird believes similar risks exist in the 2026 plan, warning that overly optimistic revenue forecasts could again lead to financial strain. Flawed fiscal discipline Another key criticism centres on fiscal discipline. According to Bird, spending outside the formal budget framework remains common, with additional expenditures later reconciled in the Final Budget Outcome. He said this practice undermines transparency and highlights deeper issues in the government’s financial management. While the government insists the budget focuses on infrastructure, job creation, and community development, public reaction online has been overwhelmingly sceptical. Many Papua New Guineans are questioning why record-high spending has not translated into better healthcare, education, or security. For Bird and many critics, the central measure of any budget is whether i…

Nixon Ran so Trump Could Fly – TEASER
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
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subject: teaser
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description: In Part II of our conversation, Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, shares his insights from his time in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon. So, what happened? In this week's bonus show, we're looking for checks-and-balances. With a grifter-in-chief enriching himself and his family, following in the footsteps of overthrown Kremlin-backed kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych, we're especially curious about the Hatch Act–whatever happened to that? This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for our Gaslit Nation listeners with us in the fight of our lives, for a livable future for our families and the world. We wish you all a restful holiday season, as we charge up for battle in the 2026 Midterms–building another blue tsunami together. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A sessions, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Art is a big source of our power. We're proud to share with you a Kickstarter by longtime Gaslit Nation listener Leslie Nuss to help her release her next album, Ride at Dawn. Check out and support her work here!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leslienuss/ride-at-dawn-the-new-12-track-vinyl-lp-cd-by-leslie-nuss/posts EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: December 1st 4pm ET – Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky + Total Resistance by H. Von Dach – Poetry and guerrilla strategy: tools for survival and defiance. Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: join on Patreon. Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: join on Patreon. Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, join on Patreon. Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to…
encoded: In Part II of our conversation, Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight, shares his insights from his time in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon. So, what happened? In this week's bonus show, we're looking for checks-and-balances. With a grifter-in-chief enriching himself and his family, following in the footsteps of overthrown Kremlin-backed kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych, we're especially curious about the Hatch Act–whatever happened to that? This Thanksgiving, we're grateful for our Gaslit Nation listeners with us in the fight of our lives, for a livable future for our families and the world. We wish you all a restful holiday season, as we charge up for battle in the 2026 Midterms–building another blue tsunami together. Join our community of listeners and get bonus shows, Q&A sessions, invites to exclusive events like our Monday political salons at 4pm ET over Zoom, ad free listening, group chats with other listeners, ways to shape the show, and more! Sign up at Patreon.com/Gaslit! Art is a big source of our power. We're proud to share with you a Kickstarter by longtime Gaslit Nation listener Leslie Nuss to help her release her next album, Ride at Dawn. Check out and support her work here!: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leslienuss/ride-at-dawn-the-new-12-track-vinyl-lp-cd-by-leslie-nuss/posts EVENTS AT GASLIT NATION: December 1st 4pm ET – Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky + Total Resistance by H. Von Dach – Poetry and guerrilla strategy: tools for survival and defiance. Minnesota Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: join on Patreon. Vermont Signal group for Gaslit Nation listeners in the state to find each other: join on Patreon. Arizona-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to connect, join on Patreon. Indiana-based listeners launched a Signal group for others in the state to…

Press Remembers Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Massacre—But Not Press’s Role in Massacre
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creator: Janine Jackson
date: 2025-11-26T23:32:47Z
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description: The white-owned press didn't just fuel the Tulsa Race Massacre, which killed 300 overwhelmingly Black people and destroyed a thriving community; it also helped cover it up.
encoded: Joe Torres (Free Press, 5/27/21): “As Tulsa observes the 100th anniversary of the massacre, it’s crucial that we remember the role the city’s newspapers played in weaponizing anti-Black narratives.” The New York Times (11/24/25), Washington Post (12/24/25), CBS News (11/24/25), USA Today (11/24/25)—seems as though everyone had space to acknowledge the passing, at age 111, of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. That’s when 300 overwhelmingly Black women, men and children were murdered, their killings sparked by a sensationalized front-page article in the local Tulsa Tribune (5/31/1921) about a 19-year-old Black shoeshiner, Dick Rowland, falsely accused of assaulting a 17-year-old white girl. A white mob destroyed businesses, churches, doctor’s offices and groceries in Greenwood, a prosperous neighborhood known as Black Wall Street or Little Africa, along with the homes of more than 10,000 Black Tulsans. As Joe Torres (Free Press, 5/27/21), co-author of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, recounted, the local white-owned press didn’t just fuel the massacre; it also helped cover it up. The other main local paper, the Tulsa World, provided the white narrative of the massacre in its headline (6/1/1921) the next day: “Two Whites Dead in Race Riot.” The World (6/15/1921) explained the situation by quoting Tulsa Mayor T.D. Evans: Let the blame for this Negro uprising lie right where it belongs—on those armed Negros and their followers who started this trouble and who instigated it. And any persons who seek to put half the blame on the white people are wrong, and should be told so in no uncertain language. The newspaper (6/4/1921) called on “the innocent, hardworking colored element of Tulsa” to “cooperate fully and with vast enthusiasm” with officials, and “band themselves together for their own protection against this element of non-working, worthless Negros.” (The World is still published toda…

Thanks to Epstein, America’s elite are losing control of the narrative
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creator: Taya Graham and Stephen Janis
date: 2025-11-26T23:11:21Z
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description: <img width="1024" height="683" src="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2194424292-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&ssl=1" class="attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image" alt="" data-attachment-id="338804" data-permalink="https://therealnews.com/epstein-files-americas-elite-losing-control-of-narrative/gettyimages-2194424292" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2194424292-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1708&ssl=1" data-orig-size="2560,1708" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="GettyImages-2194424292" data-image-description=" (L-R) Former US President Bill Clinton, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former US President George W. Bush following US President Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, January 20, 2025. (Photo by SHAWN THEW / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) " data-image-caption=" (L-R) Former US President Bill Clinton, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former US President George W. Bush following US President Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th President of the United States in the rotunda of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC, January 20, 2025. Photo by SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images " data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2194424292-scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/therealnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/GettyImages-2194424292-scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&ssl=1"> The Epstein Transparency Act may trigger the most significant crack in oligarchic power in a generation. With Congress compelling the DOJ to reveal Epstein’s s…
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The American aristocracy is panicking, and the Epstein scandal is why…
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date: 2025-11-26T22:53:03Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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Thanksgiving Ceremony on Alcatraz: Remembering the 1969 Native American Occupation
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creator: Michael Fox
date: 2025-11-26T21:29:00Z
subject: Indigenous communities
subject: Politics and Movements: US
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Fiji MP: Violence against women and girls ‘permeates every dimension of society’
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-26T21:07:20Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Assaults
subject: GBV
subject: Gender abuse
subject: Gender activism
subject: Sashi Kiran
subject: Sources
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subject: Abuse
subject: Activism
subject: against
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: assaults
subject: Crime
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subject: Featured
subject: Fiji
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subject: Gender violence
subject: girls
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
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subject: Pacific Report
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subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: sashi
subject: Security
subject: Society
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
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subject: who
subject: WHO Pacific
subject: women
description: RNZ Pacific Fiji marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls this week with the government saying the day is a reminder that for too many women and girls violence is a daily reality — not a headline or a statistic. The day also kicked off 16 days of activism
encoded: RNZ Pacific Fiji marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls this week with the government saying the day is a reminder that for too many women and girls violence is a daily reality — not a headline or a statistic. The day also kicked off 16 days of activism against gender-based violence — a worldwide UN campaign running from November 25 to December 10. The country’s Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection Sashi Kiran told Parliament violence against women and girls was not limited to the private sphere — “it permeates every dimension of society”. “Addressing this issue is therefore not only a woman’s matter; it is a national priority — requiring engagement from every sector, every institution and every leader in our country. “It manifests in various forms including physical, emotional, sexual and economic abuse as well as harmful practices such as trafficking.” She said the cost of violence against females was estimated to be equivalent to seven percent of Fiji’s gross domestic product (GDP), affecting families, the health system, productivity and the nation’s development. “The cost of violence is not only emotional — it is national.” She pointed out several statistics, including that around 60 percent of Fijian women had experienced some form of violence in their lifetime; girls as young as 13 remained the most vulnerable to sexual assault; and from 2020-2024, more than 4000 child sexual offences were reported — most involving young girls. “Our response must be survivor-centred, and above all accessible to everyone — including women and girls with disabilities and those from diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.” In the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Western Pacific Region, more than a quarter of girls and women experience some form of intimate partner or sexual violence. But WHO said in several Pacific island countries and areas, the prevalence of lifetime intimate partner violence is as high as …

NYT Mourns Lost Glamour of Jeffrey Epstein’s New York
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creator: Raina Lipsitz
date: 2025-11-26T20:24:08Z
subject: FAIR
subject: Sources
subject: Action Alerts
subject: Blog
subject: epstein’s
subject: fair
subject: Featured Posts
subject: glamour
subject: jeffrey
subject: lost
subject: mourns
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description: In reporting on Epstein and his orbit, the New York Times seems more concerned with the problems of the powerful than the circumstances of their victims.
encoded: New York Times (11/16/25): “In those days, print newspapers and magazines still held sway, and Mr. Epstein had close ties to many key players in the news media and adjacent industries.” The late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is best known for having been accused of operating a sex-trafficking ring that supplied elite men with girls as young as 14. Epstein and his associates are believed to have abused hundreds of women and girls on Little Saint James, a private island Epstein owned from 1998 until his death in 2019. But in the New York Times’ telling, it’s not the girls on Epstein’s island but rather President Donald Trump—an Epstein associate many suspect of having participated in the alleged abuse—who is being “held captive” by a “news cycle he can’t avoid or defeat” (New York Times, 11/18/25). In reporting on Epstein and those in his orbit, the Times has frequently focused on the men and the supposedly bygone era in which they committed their crimes with impunity. “Epstein Emails Reveal a Lost New York,” read one such headline—later changed to “Epstein Emails Reveal a Bygone Elite”—above a story (11/16/25) that expressed nostalgia for “a clubby world that is all but gone.” Epstein’s emails, reporter Shawn McCreesh wrote, are “like a portal back to a lost Manhattan power scene.” Epstein’s inbox, he added, was “larded with boldface names…that once meant everything to status-obsessed New Yorkers.” These emails, which stretched back decades, “show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” ‘They are not mass rapists’ David Brooks (New York Times, 11/21/25) suggests a message for Democratic politicians: “No governing majority will ever form if we’re locked in a permanent class war.” New York Times columnist David Brooks seemed to want to bring back that protected realm, calling for less talk about Epstein’s documented ties to members of the global elite, u…

Mamdani’s Affordability Agenda: Incoming NYC Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan on How to Make It Happen
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-26T20:24:05Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: affordability
subject: agenda
subject: dean
subject: Democracy
subject: deputy
subject: fuleihan
subject: happen
subject: how
subject: incoming
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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DOJ and RealPage Agree to Settle Rental Price-Fixing Case
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creator: Heather Vogell
date: 2025-11-26T20:05:00Z
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subject: Sources
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subject: and
subject: case
subject: doj
subject: price-fixing
subject: propublica
subject: realpage,
subject: Regulation
subject: rental
subject: settle
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subject: Technology
description: The post DOJ and RealPage Agree to Settle Rental Price-Fixing Case appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: What Happened: The Department of Justice and Texas software-maker RealPage announced Monday that they have reached a settlement in a case involving price-fixing allegations in some of the nation’s largest rental markets. At issue was algorithmic rent-setting software the tech company sold that prosecutors said enabled landlords to compete less and boost prices in apartment buildings in ways that could violate antitrust laws. The proposed settlement, which must now be approved by a judge, said RealPage will stop offering software that uses nonpublic, “competitively sensitive” data shared among landlords to recommend how much to charge tenants, officials said. Under the agreement, RealPage will stop conducting market surveys to gather such information, and it agreed not to discuss pricing strategies or trends based on nonpublic data at meetings it holds for property managers, officials said. The company also must remove or redesign software features that restrict rent decreases or align pricing among competitors, they said. A court-appointed monitor will ensure compliance with the settlement, if it is accepted. The company also agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in their lawsuit against property managers that have used its software. A 2022 ProPublica investigation showed RealPage was helping landlords decide rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior. The DOJ also sued six big landlords, accusing them of using algorithmic software to work together and raise rents. Some have reached settlements with prosecutors. What They Said: The Justice Department said in a statement that “the proposed settlement would help restore free market competition in rental markets for millions of American renters.” “Competing companies must make independent pricing decisions, and with the rise of algorithmic and artificial intelligence tools, we will remain at the forefront of vigorous antitrust enforcement,” Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater said.…

Left the Department of Veterans Affairs? We Want to Hear From You.
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description: This content originally appeared on ProPublica and was authored by ProPublica.
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Reporter temporarily blocked from Ohio courtroom proceedings
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creator: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Incident Database
date: 2025-11-26T18:19:48Z
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description: Investigative reporter Mark Puente was blocked from observing court proceedings and briefly ordered out of a Lorain, Ohio, municipal courtroom by security on Oct. 29, 2025.Puente, an investigative reporter for The Marshall Project, told the U.S. Press ...
encoded: Investigative reporter Mark Puente was blocked from observing court proceedings and briefly ordered out of a Lorain, Ohio, municipal courtroom by security on Oct. 29, 2025. Puente, an investigative reporter for The Marshall Project, told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker that he had passed through two security checkpoints at Lorain Municipal Court when a security officer directed him toward a courtroom. Puente’s media badge was visible around his neck. As he entered, another security officer rushed toward him and asked what he was doing. Puente told the Tracker he identified himself as a journalist, there to observe the proceedings. The officer ordered him to leave. Puente asked for a copy of the policy restricting his access. “He approached, saying: ‘Get out.’ I could only walk backwards. I did,” Puente wrote in an account on LinkedIn. Once Puente was outside the courtroom, the officer locked the door. When Puente asked to speak with a supervisor, the judge’s bailiff came out and said she required him to submit his request in writing. “I pulled out my reporter’s notebook, wrote out the question and refused to leave,” wrote Puente. He was later directed to wait in another room until the judge was available, and meanwhile completed the required form to photograph and record proceedings. He was eventually allowed into the courtroom. Moments later, however, during the subsequent arraignments, a security officer yelled at Puente to put away his phone while he was taking photos. Puente explained he was using it as a camera, and the bailiff confirmed he had completed the required paperwork, so he was able to continue documenting the proceedings. Afterward, the judge called Puente to the bench, saying, “I know who you are.” Puente explained that he objected to being denied entry. The judge cited courtroom confidentiality but did not provide a written policy. He said he had called the Ohio Supreme Court for guidance and was following a “common policy.” “He started talking in c…

Crimean journalist Vilen Temeryanov sentenced to 14 years in jail
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description: New York, November 26, 2025—Russian authorities should immediately release Crimean Tatar journalist Vilen Temeryanov and end their crackdown on independent voices in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. On November 26, the Southern District Military Court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don convicted Temeryanov on charges of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and preparing for a violent...
encoded: New York, November 26, 2025—Russian authorities should immediately release Crimean Tatar journalist Vilen Temeryanov and end their crackdown on independent voices in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. On November 26, the Southern District Military Court in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don convicted Temeryanov on charges of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and preparing for a violent seizure of power, and sentenced him to 14 years in prison. The court ruled that Temeryanov will serve the first three years of his sentence in a prison, and the remainder in a strict-security prison colony. Temeryanov denied the charges and plans to appeal his sentence, a source close to his case told CPJ under condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. Russia cracked down on independent media following its 2014 occupation of Crimea and the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Many Ukrainian journalists, including Crimean Tatars, the predominantly Muslim indigenous ethnic group of the Crimean peninsula, have been persecuted in connection with their reporting. Russia currently holds at least 12 Ukrainian journalists behind bars; seven of them are Crimean Tatars. “After holding Crimean journalist Vilen Temeryanov captive for over three years, Russian occupation authorities sentenced him to 14 years behind bars in retaliation for his work,” said Gulnoza Said, CPJ’s Europe and Central Asia program coordinator. “This signals how scared Russia is of any independent reporting from Ukraine’s occupied territories. Russian authorities must immediately release Temeryanov and all other imprisoned members of the press.” Russian authorities have detained Temeryanov, a correspondent for the human rights group Crimean Solidarity and the independent news website Grani, since August 11, 2022, after searching his home in the village of Vilne, in Crimea. Authorities also arrested five Crimean Tatar activists that day. Four of…

The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 26, 2025
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creator: KPFA
date: 2025-11-26T18:00:00Z
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subject: Politics
subject: sources
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subject: weekdays
description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – November 26, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

The Uncertain Future of SNAP Leaves Schools Filling the Hunger Gap
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creator: Brianna Nargiso Newton
date: 2025-11-26T17:30:50Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
subject: filling
subject: future
subject: gap
subject: Hunger
subject: leaves
subject: progressive
subject: schools
subject: snap
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subject: the
subject: uncertain
description: Federal delays in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are rippling through classrooms and putting thousands of school-meal programs under pressure.
encoded: Federal delays in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits are rippling through classrooms and putting thousands of school-meal programs under pressure. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Brianna Nargiso Newton.

Why is Trump cozying up to Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-26T17:04:05Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: cozying
subject: Democracy
subject: mohammed
subject: now
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subject: salman
subject: saudi
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: why
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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The UK unveils "cruel" new asylum and returns policy
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2025-11-26T16:55:36Z
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subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: Asylum
subject: cruel
subject: human
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subject: Policy
subject: returns
subject: rights
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subject: unveils
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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CPJ joins international press freedom mission to Turkey
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2025-11-26T16:44:18Z
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subject: cpj joins
subject: Freedom
subject: International
subject: Journalists
subject: press
subject: protect
subject: sources
subject: Turkey
description: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the International Press Institute and six other press freedom and human rights organizations in the seventh year of a joint press freedom mission to Ankara, Turkey. The delegation also included representatives from the ARTICLE 19 Europe, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa as...
encoded: The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the International Press Institute and six other press freedom and human rights organizations in the seventh year of a joint press freedom mission to Ankara, Turkey. The delegation also included representatives from the ARTICLE 19 Europe, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso Transeuropa as part of Media Freedom Rapid Response, Reporters Without Borders, and the South East Europe Media Organisation. “Ensuring a safe, free and pluralistic media environment is essential to democracy, the rule of law, and the meaningful protection of human rights,” the delegation said in a press release Wednesday. “The steps taken in 2025 have moved Turkey further away from these standards.” Representatives of the Turkish governmental bodies either rejected or ignored the mission’s requests for meetings. The delegation held meetings with the Turkish Constitutional Court, the opposition representatives of the Radio and Television Supreme Council, the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, several foreign diplomatic missions, the Association of Journalists in Ankara, and representatives of from the Republican People’s Party and the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party. Read the full press release here. This content originally appeared on Committee to Protect Journalists and was authored by CPJ Staff.

UN News Today 26 November 2025
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creator: Ileana Exaras
date: 2025-11-26T16:23:18Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
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subject: UN News
subject: 2025
subject: News
subject: november
subject: podcasts/un
subject: sources
subject: today
description: Somalia declares drought emergency as hunger crisis deepens after failed rainsUkraine: more than 340 educational facilities damaged or destroyed this yearOver 600 million children exposed to violence at home, UNICEF warns
encoded: Somalia declares drought emergency as hunger crisis deepens after failed rainsUkraine: more than 340 educational facilities damaged or destroyed this yearOver 600 million children exposed to violence at home, UNICEF warns This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Ileana Exaras.

Winter Returns to Gaza
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creator: Hassan Herzallah
date: 2025-11-26T16:18:53Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Progressive
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subject: winter
description: Despite a so-called ceasefire, people in Gaza are about to face harsh winter conditions while living in tents.
encoded: Despite a so-called ceasefire, people in Gaza are about to face harsh winter conditions while living in tents. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Hassan Herzallah.

It’s Not Only about Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect
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creator: John Perry and Roger D. Harris
date: 2025-11-26T16:04:59Z
subject: Christopher Landau
subject: Claudia Sheinbaum
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subject: Marshall Billingslea
subject: narcoterrorism
subject: Salvador Nasralla
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subject: Cuba
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subject: Media
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subject: Nicaragua
subject: nicolas maduro
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description: It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse the region of governments deemed […] The post It’s Not Only about Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse the region of governments deemed undesirable to Washington. As international relations professor at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer reminds us, the US “does not tolerate left-leaning governments… and as soon as they see a government that is considered to be left-of-center they move to replace that government.” In the Financial Times, Ryan Berg, head of the Americas programme at the Washington think-tank CSIS, which is heavily funded by Pentagon contractors, said that Trump’s vision is for the US to be the “undisputable, pre-eminent power in the western hemisphere.” The New York Times dubbed Trump’s ambitions the “Donroe Doctrine.” After Venezuela, in the current US line of fire, is Honduras. This Central American country faces an election on November 30 which will determine whether the leftist Libre Party stays in power or whether the country reverts to neoliberalism. The crisis in the Caribbean engineered by the Trump administration is being actively instrumentalized to distract Hondurans from domestic issues when deciding how to vote. Honduras’s mainstream media repeatedly draw attention to the likelihood that Washington will threaten Honduras militarily if it votes the “wrong way” on November 30. Interviewed on television, opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla was asked what would happen if the Libre Party won. He replied: “Those ships that are soon going to take over Venezuela are going to come and target Honduras.” Amplifying the supposed threat, opposition candidates have posted street signs labelling themselves “anti-communist,” as if communism were actually on offer in the election. In a bizarre article, the Wall Street Journal alleges that Venezuela aims to “…

Ages in Turmoil: The Rise and Fall of States in and out of Yankeedom
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date: 2025-11-26T16:00:18Z
subject: Adolphe Quetelet
subject: Alexander II
subject: Andrew Carnegie
subject: Conspiracy
subject: Corn Laws
subject: Danilevsky
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Domhoff’s class domination theory
subject: Economic Crisis
subject: elite overproduction
subject: Ibn Khaldun
subject: Instability
subject: Jay Gould
subject: JD Rockefeller
subject: JP Morgan
subject: Monogamy
subject: Peter the Great
subject: Peter Turchin
subject: policy discussion groups
subject: political stress index
subject: Reform Act of 1832
subject: Robert Dahl
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subject: Sorokin
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subject: Spengler
subject: Steven Lukes
subject: Taiping Rebellion
subject: Think Tanks
subject: wielding power
subject: World-systems Theory
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UK Planning Smear Campaign against Trump – Russian Intelligence
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creator: RT
date: 2025-11-26T15:58:23Z
subject: Dissident Voice
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subject: planning
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subject: trump
subject: Ukraine
subject: United Kingdom
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subject: vladimir putin
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description: London is counting on arms contracts fueling the Ukraine conflict and won’t let the US just put and end to it, the SVR has warned. © Getty Images / Win McNamee; pcruciatti Britain is preparing a smear campaign aimed at damaging US President Donald Trump’s reputation in order to derail his efforts to end the Ukraine […] The post UK Planning Smear Campaign against Trump – Russian Intelligence first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Lawrence Bishnoi released on bail? No, 2020 video shared falsely
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creator: Oishani Bhattacharya
date: 2025-11-26T15:54:50Z
subject: Alt News
subject: Sources
subject: 2020
subject: alt
subject: bail
subject: bishnoi
subject: falsely
subject: Featured
subject: lawrence
subject: News
subject: no.
subject: Politics
subject: released
subject: shared
subject: sources
subject: Video
description: A 31-second clip featuring jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi being escorted by police is viral with the text, “Lawrence Bishnoi got bail”. Social media users, many of whom are vocal BJP... The post Lawrence Bishnoi released on bail? No, 2020 video shared falsely appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A 31-second clip featuring jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi being escorted by police is viral with the text, “Lawrence Bishnoi got bail”. Social media users, many of whom are vocal BJP supporters, have shared this clip claiming Bishnoi has got bail. Gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has been behind bars since 2014 and faces multiple criminal charges, including several high-profile murders, including that of Punjabi singer-rapper Sidhu Moosewala and Mumbai political leader Baba Siddique. He was moved to Gujarat’s Sabarmati jail on August 28, 2023, and some reports have alleged that he continues to operate from his prison cell. More recently, men linked to Lawrence Bishnoi’s brother fired shots at Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s house in Mumbai. X user @JaipurDialogues posted the above-mentioned clip on November 26. At the time of this report being written, the post has gained over 136,000 views and has been reposted over 1,100 times. (Archive) It should be noted that this user has been found spreading misinformation several times in the past. Lawrence Bishnoi Ko Bail Mil Gayi! pic.twitter.com/GHLrScQ0UO — The Jaipur Dialogues (@JaipurDialogues) November 26, 2025 Another X user, @Warlock_Shubh, also shared the same video with the following caption: “Lawrence Bishnoi has got bail. Now the game will begin”. The post has received over 33,000 views and has been reposted over 800 times. (Archive) Readers should note that this user has been <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aaltnews.in+%22%40Warlock_Shubh%22&sca_esv=4454c456fe1e2f55&rlz=1C1CHBF_enIN1076IN1076&ei=Efomaf-9KILgseMP7Z6P-QU&ved=0ahUKEwi_ioDq74-RAxUCcGwGHW3PI18Q4dUDCBE&uact=5&oq=site%3Aaltnews.in+%22%40Warlock_Shubh%22&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiIHNpdGU6YWx0bmV3cy5pbiAiQFdhcmxvY2tfU2h1YmgiSMIFUOgCWOgCcAF4AJABAJgBjgGgAY4BqgEDMC4xuAEDyAEA-AEC-AEBmAIAoAIAmAMAiAYBkgcAoActsgcAuAcAwgcAyAcA&sclient=gws-wiz-serp" rel="noopener">found amplifying misinformation several times in the past. Lawrence Bishnoi got bail, Ab Hog…

Canada Exploits the US Loophole to Send Weapons to Israel
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creator: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
date: 2025-11-26T15:51:23Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Israel (part of Mandate Palestine)
subject: Mark Carney
subject: Sources
subject: Canada
subject: carney
subject: complicity
subject: Corporate Globalization
subject: dissident
subject: exploits
subject: Genocide
subject: israel
subject: loophole
subject: mandate
subject: mark
subject: Palestine
subject: part
subject: Racism
subject: send
subject: sources
subject: Tax
subject: the
subject: voice
subject: Weaponry
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description: On Tuesday, the Arms Embargo Now campaign launched a damning new report, co-authored by CJPME, which exposes the weapons pipeline running from Canadian factories and ports to Israel through the United States to send weapons. In direct contradiction to our government’s many claims that Canadian military exports are not being used in this genocide, this new […] The post Canada Exploits the US Loophole to Send Weapons to Israel first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Viral video of woman claiming she married her father-in-law is scripted
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description: A 13-second-long clip showing a man and a woman is viral on social media, where the woman says that she married her father-in-law and is pregnant with his child. Social... The post Viral video of woman claiming she married her father-in-law is scripted appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A 13-second-long clip showing a man and a woman is viral on social media, where the woman says that she married her father-in-law and is pregnant with his child. Social media users are sharing this clip while slamming the unusual marriage. X user @MairaP_SpeakS posted the clip on November 20. The post has received over 31,000 views and has been reposted over 200 times. (Archive) Ab me kuch bolungi to vivad hojayega!! pic.twitter.com/Ad7cjqtCdm — Dr Maira (@MairaP_SpeakS) November 20, 2025 Another user, Baba Thoka (@Baba_Thoka) posted the above-mentioned clip on November 21 claiming Indian TV serials were responsible for this. “Father-in-law becomes husband-in-law,” they wrote. Here is an archived version of the post. Several other users posted the viral video slamming the ‘marriage’ between a man and his daughter-in-law. Click to view slideshow. Fact Check To verify the authenticity of this clip, we broke it down into multiple keyframes and ran a reverse image search on a few of them. This led us to a YouTube short posted by the channel Kanhaiya Singh shorts (@KanhaiyaSinghshorts) on August 16, 2025. This is the viral video. Going through the videos posted on the channel, we found several videos with a similar premise featuring different women and men. Secondly, the man and woman in the viral clip appear in another video posted on this channel on September 1. In this clip as well, the woman says that she and her father-in-law have entered a relationship out of their own will and she is pregnant with his child. The channel also has a similar video featuring a different woman, with very similar makeup, telling the interviewer that she has married her father-in-law and chooses him over her husband. This same woman also appears on another video, in a different setting and donning a different role. <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-307781" src="https://www.altnews.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/FI-Template-Oishani-17.jpg" alt="…

"Policy Violence": ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber
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Mamdani’s Affordability Agenda: Incoming NYC Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan on How to Make It Happen
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Sarah Leah Whitson on Israel, Gaza & Trump-MBS Meeting
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — November 26, 2025
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In Gaza, ‘the suffering does not stop’ after the ‘ceasefire’
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Nigerian authorities detain another journalist for cybercrimes over governance reports
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description: Abuja, November 26, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to release journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been in detention since September on cybercrime charges, for which he could face up to three years in jail. “Nigerian authorities should swiftly drop the cybercrime charges against journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been...
encoded: Abuja, November 26, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to release journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been in detention since September on cybercrime charges, for which he could face up to three years in jail. “Nigerian authorities should swiftly drop the cybercrime charges against journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been sick and required hospital treatment since he was taken into custody in September,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “Nigerian authorities must stop criminalizing the press and act urgently to prevent police and politicians intimidating journalists who report critically on governance issues.” On September 23, police arrested Alefia, publisher of the Naija News Today site, published by Asiwaju Media Company, at his home in Ikorodu in western Lagos State, and transferred him to detention facilities in Gudu district in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Police also confiscated Alefia’s phone and laptop, a person with knowledge of the case told CPJ, on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisals. On October 8, Alefia and Asiwaju Media Company were charged with five counts of “false” statements on a media platform and social media, including Facebook, under sections 24 and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, according to a copy of the charge sheet, reviewed by CPJ, and the journalist’s lawyer, Israel Opah Abida. The charge sheet included the headlines of four reports, which alleged that a lawmaker was involved in intimidation, extortion, electoral fraud, and land grabbing. On November 12, Alefia appeared in court and pleaded not guilty, according to news reports, which said he was remanded at Kuje Prison, outside Abuja, until a hearing on January 27, 2026. On November 24, the prosecution opposed Alefia’s application for bail and the matter was adjourned to November 27, his lawyer told CPJ, adding that the prosecution was fined 50,000 naira ($34) for delaying the process. CPJ research shows that at least 25 journal…

Nigerian authorities detain another journalist for cybercrimes over governance reports
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description: Abuja, November 26, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to release journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been in detention since September on cybercrime charges, for which he could face up to three years in jail. “Nigerian authorities should swiftly drop the cybercrime charges against journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been...
encoded: Abuja, November 26, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Nigerian authorities to release journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been in detention since September on cybercrime charges, for which he could face up to three years in jail. “Nigerian authorities should swiftly drop the cybercrime charges against journalist Friday James Alefia, who has been sick and required hospital treatment since he was taken into custody in September,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “Nigerian authorities must stop criminalizing the press and act urgently to prevent police and politicians intimidating journalists who report critically on governance issues.” On September 23, police arrested Alefia, publisher of the Naija News Today site, published by Asiwaju Media Company, at his home in Ikorodu in western Lagos State, and transferred him to detention facilities in Gudu district in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Police also confiscated Alefia’s phone and laptop, a person with knowledge of the case told CPJ, on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisals. On October 8, Alefia and Asiwaju Media Company were charged with five counts of “false” statements on a media platform and social media, including Facebook, under sections 24 and 27 of the Cybercrimes Act, according to a copy of the charge sheet, reviewed by CPJ, and the journalist’s lawyer, Israel Opah Abida. The charge sheet included the headlines of four reports, which alleged that a lawmaker was involved in intimidation, extortion, electoral fraud, and land grabbing. On November 12, Alefia appeared in court and pleaded not guilty, according to news reports, which said he was remanded at Kuje Prison, outside Abuja, until a hearing on January 27, 2026. On November 24, the prosecution opposed Alefia’s application for bail and the matter was adjourned to November 27, his lawyer told CPJ, adding that the prosecution was fined 50,000 naira ($34) for delaying the process. CPJ research shows that at least 25 journal…

Authoritarians don’t deescalate #shorts
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The Rise of Technology Over Traditional Business
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“Policy Violence”: ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber
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description: Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an end to ICE raids. “​​What you have is ...
encoded: Protests have erupted in North Carolina after federal agents arrested 370 people in immigration raids. On Monday, Bishop William Barber and other religious leaders gathered in Charlotte to demand an end to ICE raids. “​​What you have is a conglomerate of policy violence, and it’s deadly,” says Barber, who is organizing protests against ICE and Medicaid cuts across the country. Barber notes that 51,000 people may die from preventable deaths because of the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania and Yale. “This is not just about Democrat and Republican and left versus right. This is literally about life versus death.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Mamdani’s Affordability Agenda: Incoming NYC Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan on How to Make It Happen
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description: Zohran Mamdani will be taking office as mayor of New York in just five weeks. His transition team continues to make announcements about the new administration, recently unveiling a 400-person advisory group, broken up into 17 committees. Democ...
encoded: Zohran Mamdani will be taking office as mayor of New York in just five weeks. His transition team continues to make announcements about the new administration, recently unveiling a 400-person advisory group, broken up into 17 committees. Democracy Now! speaks with the incoming first deputy mayor, Dean Fuleihan, on how Mamdani plans to implement his progressive vision. “Government, working together across agencies with clear direction, can accomplish the needs of New Yorkers, and that’s what the mayor-elect has put forward,” says Fuleihan. Fuleihan also comments on Mamdani’s meeting with President Trump, which was surprisingly warm. “We look for help wherever we can get it, while also maintaining our principles and defending New Yorkers,” he said. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“From Apartheid to Democracy”: Sarah Leah Whitson on New Book, Israel, Gaza & Trump-MBS Meeting
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description: During a controversial Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump defended Mohammed bin Salman when a reporter asked about the Saudi crown prince’s involvement in the 2018 murder of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi. ...
encoded: During a controversial Oval Office meeting last week, President Trump defended Mohammed bin Salman when a reporter asked about the Saudi crown prince’s involvement in the 2018 murder of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi. “The man sitting in the White House next to President Trump is a murderer,” says Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN, an organization founded by Khashoggi in 2018. To Whitson, Trump’s main motivation for cozying up to Saudi Arabia is financial. “The U.S. government [is] promising to deploy American men and women soldiers to defend the Saudi crown prince … in exchange for profits for U.S. companies, U.S. businesses and U.S. officials.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for November 26, 2025
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description: U.N.: Israel’s War on Gaza Will Cost More Than $70 Billion in Reconstruction Over Several Decades, Human Rights Groups Call on Israel to Release Palestinian Journalist and Activist Ayman Ghrayeb, Brazil’s Former President Jair Bolsonaro Starts Serving 27-Year Prison Sentence, Trump to Send Witkoff to Moscow Next Week to Meet with Putin, Dr. Abraham, a Skeptic of COVID-19 Vaccines, Tapped to Serve as Second in Command at the CDC, FBI Probes 6 Congressional Democrats Who Filmed Video Warning Military of Illegal Orders, ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor with Valid H-1B Visa, Judge Orders Trump Admin to Provide Bond Hearings for Detained Immigrants, DOJ Admits Noem Decided to Deport Venezuelan Men to CECOT Prison in El Salvador, Labor Leader David Huerta Pleads Not Guilty to Obstructing ICE Raid in Los Angeles, Flooding in Thailand Kills 33 People and Displaces More Than 2 Million People, All 24 Schoolgirls Kidnapped in Northwest Nigeria Have Been Rescued, Trump Fat-Shames Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at Annual Turkey Pardon, Trump Reportedly Considering a Proposal to Extend Health Insurance Subsidies Under the ACA
encoded: U.N.: Israel's War on Gaza Will Cost More Than $70 Billion in Reconstruction Over Several Decades Human Rights Groups Call on Israel to Release Palestinian Journalist and Activist Ayman Ghrayeb Brazil's Former President Jair Bolsonaro Starts Serving 27-Year Prison Sentence Trump to Send Witkoff to Moscow Next Week to Meet with Putin Dr. Abraham, a Skeptic of COVID-19 Vaccines, Tapped to Serve as Second in Command at the CDC FBI Probes 6 Congressional Democrats Who Filmed Video Warning Military of Illegal Orders ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor with Valid H-1B Visa Judge Orders Trump Admin to Provide Bond Hearings for Detained Immigrants DOJ Admits Noem Decided to Deport Venezuelan Men to CECOT Prison in El Salvador Labor Leader David Huerta Pleads Not Guilty to Obstructing ICE Raid in Los Angeles Flooding in Thailand Kills 33 People and Displaces More Than 2 Million People All 24 Schoolgirls Kidnapped in Northwest Nigeria Have Been Rescued Trump Fat-Shames Illinois Governor JB Pritzker at Annual Turkey Pardon Trump Reportedly Considering a Proposal to Extend Health Insurance Subsidies Under the ACA This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-11-26 Wednesday
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Yellow lines and green zones – Israel’s de facto partition into ‘two Gazas’
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description: ANALYSIS: By Alessandra Bajec Last week, the UN Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, effectively installing American supervision over the Palestinian territory’s postwar future. The resolution, which mandated a transitional administration and an international stabilisation force, faced sharp rejection from several Palestinian factions, who warned that it would undermine the national will.
encoded: ANALYSIS: By Alessandra Bajec Last week, the UN Security Council endorsed President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza, effectively installing American supervision over the Palestinian territory’s postwar future. The resolution, which mandated a transitional administration and an international stabilisation force, faced sharp rejection from several Palestinian factions, who warned that it would undermine the national will. The US roadmap sets out a future path to a Palestinian state, although its opaque wording and lack of concrete details on what it would look like cast doubt on any real commitment towards Palestinian self-determination. READ MORE: Palestinians in Gaza: ‘This is a nightmare, not a ceasefire’ Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds Other Gaza reports While the UNSC contemplates a “possible” pathway to an independent Palestinian state, the Israeli government firmly rejected Palestinian statehood, calling it an “existential threat”. The vote came amid American plans to split the Gaza Strip into two zones. The arrangement envisions a potentially indefinite division of the war-ravaged enclave along the Israeli-established Yellow Line, creating a “green zone” under Israeli military control — where reconstruction would begin — and a “red zone,” which would remain under de facto Hamas control. Under the US-brokered ceasefire agreement reached in October, which Tel Aviv is repeatedly violating, Palestinians have been pushed into a small zone on the coastline that makes up less than half of Gaza, with Israeli forces controlling 53 to 58 percent of the Strip. The Israeli army maintains roughly 40 active military positions in the area that falls beyond the Yellow Line, the invisible military demarcation boundary set during the first phase of the truce, where Israeli troops had to withdraw to. Armed militias and clans A mix of armed militias and clans, some supported by Israel, has emerged across the areas of Gaza now under Israeli…

From Pain to Poetry: Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s “Girl Warrior” Guide [episode cut]
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Do You Work at a Federal Prison? Help ProPublica Investigate the Federal Prison System
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description: Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons posted a video of Deputy Director Josh Smith vowing to “make the BOP great again.” The seven-minute clip echoes the promises of change agency leaders have repeated in video announcements for months as the ...
encoded: Last week, the Federal Bureau of Prisons posted a video of Deputy Director Josh Smith vowing to “make the BOP great again.” The seven-minute clip echoes the promises of change agency leaders have repeated in video announcements for months as the BOP struggles with a staffing crisis and budget shortfalls. As a reporter covering the federal prison system, I want to know: How’s that going? It has been a chaotic year in the Bureau of Prisons. The same day Trump took office, the agency director was fired. Then, bonuses were canceled. The union contract was scrapped. Dozens of prisoners and prison staff told me about shortages of basic needs, from toilet paper to food. And hundreds of exhausted officers have left, many lured away by better pay at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as I reported last week. The same day my story published, the agency posted another video of Smith, this time announcing a plan to boost the BOP ranks by bringing back “significantly enhanced” retention incentives and offering one-time bonuses, paid for in part, he said, from savings from the canceled union contract. “Now we’re all back working as one team,” he said. “Everything’s not going to get fixed immediately. But the hard work has started, and, thanks to President Trump, we are building a bureau where every staff member is proud to serve.” The announcement riled union officials. In an email to members, union leaders wrote that the video was “designed to create a narrative that the union was the problem” and that canceling the contract somehow “fixed” it. I’ve been investigating the federal prison system for years, and I’m going to report on what comes next. I’m especially interested in tips about the leadership’s priorities, contracting and budget decisions, and concerns about wrongdoing or abuses of power. And I’m always interested in any documents or data you can share to paint a fuller picture of what’s going on inside the bureau. At ProPublica, we appreciate you sharing your story, …

Amid Confusing CDC Guidance About Vaccines, Study Highlights New Risk of COVID-19 During Pregnancy
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creator: Duaa Eldeib
date: 2025-11-26T10:00:00Z
subject: Pregnancy
subject: ProPublica
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: amid
subject: cdc
subject: confusing
subject: covid-19
subject: during
subject: guidance
subject: health care
subject: highlights
subject: new
subject: pregnancy
subject: propublica
subject: risk
subject: sources
subject: Study
subject: Vaccines
description: In the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of pregnant women were wheeled into hospitals where they fought for their lives and the lives of the babies they carried. It took the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
encoded: In the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of thousands of pregnant women were wheeled into hospitals where they fought for their lives and the lives of the babies they carried. It took the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until August 2021, eight months after the first vaccine was administered, to formally recommend the COVID-19 shot for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. The CDC had found that pregnant women with COVID-19 faced a 70% increased risk of dying, compared with those who weren’t. They also faced an increased risk of being admitted to the intensive care unit, needing a form of life support reserved for the sickest patients, and delivering a stillborn baby. In recommending the vaccine, the CDC assured them that the shot was safe and did not cause fertility problems. ProPublica examined the harm caused by the delay in rolling out and endorsing the vaccine for pregnant mothers. Federal officials at the time told us that they wanted to ensure “an abundance of evidence” before issuing guidance. But a surprising turn of events this summer reversed that guidance. In May, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health and Human Services secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced on X that “the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from @CDCgov recommended immunization schedule. Bottom line: it’s common sense and it’s good science. We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again.” The next month, Kennedy fired all 17 sitting members of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and replaced them with a selection of hand-picked members. The committee has since shifted its guidance, encouraging people to decide on their own whether to get the shot and to consider individual risk factors. Doctors and national medical organizations said the new guidance from the CDC has caused confusion among patients and could put pregnant women and their babies at risk of se…

Everyone hates gas-powered leaf blowers. So why is it so hard to ban them?
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creator: Kate Yoder
date: 2025-11-26T09:45:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: ban
subject: blowers.
subject: Culture
subject: everyone
subject: gas-powered
subject: hard
subject: hates
subject: health
subject: leaf
subject: Politics
subject: solutions
subject: sources
subject: them
subject: why
description: Cities and states are trying to ditch America's most hated appliance. They're running into challenges.
encoded: The push to ban gas-powered leaf blowers has gained an unlikely figurehead: Cate Blanchett, the Australian actress. “Leaf blowers need to be eradicated from the face of the Earth,” she said in an interview in March. Her complaints have gone viral on TikTok and other social media platforms. “It’s a metaphor for what’s wrong with us as a species,” Blanchett said. “We blow shit from one side of our lawn to the other side, and then the wind is just going to blow it back!” Her complaints about leaf blowers — equal parts entertaining and earnest — stretch back nearly 20 years, and now the mood has caught up with her. Today, more than 200 local governments in the U.S. have restricted gas-powered lawn equipment or provided incentives to switch to quieter, less-polluting electric tools. The first bans date back to the 1970s, but the trend picked up after the pandemic lockdowns in 2020, when newly homebound workers discovered just how inescapable the whine of their neighbor’s leaf blower can be. “With every year that passes, more and more communities across the country are taking action to address the shocking amount of pollution and noise from gas lawn equipment,” said Kirsten Schatz, clean air advocate at the Colorado Public Interest Research Group, called CoPIRG. Gas-powered leaf blowers aren’t just annoying; they’re bad for public health. Closing the windows can’t shut out their low-frequency roar, which can be louder than the World Health Organization’s recommended limit of 55 decibels up to 800 feet away. The unwanted sound can lead to high levels of stress, along with disturbing people’s sleep and potentially damaging hearing over time. Leaf blowers’ two-stroke engines also churn out a noxious blend of exhaust: fine particulate matter, smog-forming gases, and cancer-causing chemicals like benzene and formaldehyde. By one estimate, running a gas-powered leaf blower for an hour emits as much smog-forming pollution as driving a car from Los Angeles to Denver. And while la…

DN! Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4
date: 2025-11-26T09:31:17Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: 2025
subject: 26,
subject: Democracy
subject: dn!
subject: november
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subject: sources
subject: wednesday
description: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
encoded: Wednesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4 and was authored by Democracy Now! for Broadcasters - HD MP4.

FEMA’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year
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creator: Rebecca Egan McCarthy
date: 2025-11-26T09:30:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
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subject: bad
subject: fema’s
subject: horrible
subject: Politics
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description: Internal turmoil and delayed aid expose the agency's fragility under Trump.
encoded: As 2025 draws to a close, the departure of the beleaguered acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Richardson, caps a tumultuous year for FEMA. In January, President Donald Trump took office and vowed to abolish the department. Though the administration subsequently slow-walked that proposal, its government-wide staffing cuts have led to a nearly 10 percent reduction in FEMA’s workforce since January. Now it faces a long-awaited report issued by a review council, commissioned by the president and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, just as a new interim FEMA chief prepares to take the reins in December. Although some expected the review council to recommend further cuts or try to fulfill the president’s suggestion of disbanding FEMA entirely, a leaked draft of the report, obtained by the New York Times, recommends preserving the agency. “There’s been a need for emergency management reform for a while,” said Jeffrey Schlegelmilch, a professor at the Columbia Climate School and the director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness. “But the wrecking balls came in before there was a blueprint for what to do.” The Trump administration’s first pick to lead FEMA, Cameron Hamilton, was fired after telling Congress that the agency should not be eliminated. Richardson was tapped to replace him, despite a lack of emergency management experience; he reportedly told staff members he had been unaware the United States had a hurricane season, although he later claimed to be joking. “There’s been a lot of mistrust with expertise in this administration,” said Schlegelmilch, when asked why Richardson was chosen as FEMA administrator. Richardson’s first test in the national spotlight came in early July, when devastating floods struck Central Texas, killing 135 people. A month earlier, Noem had instituted a new rule requiring her personal sign-off on any FEMA expenditures over $100,000. That meant that, in order to get aid to the region, FEMA off…

What would happen if multinational corporations and wealthy people paid their fair share of taxes?
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2025-11-26T09:27:15Z
subject: Human Rights Watch
subject: Sources
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subject: corporations
subject: fair
subject: happen
subject: human
subject: multinational
subject: paid
subject: People
subject: rights
subject: share
subject: sources
subject: Taxes
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description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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Activists slam Mayor Brown’s ‘free beer’ cavalier response to Palestine genocide issue
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-26T09:10:41Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Ethical policies
subject: Gaza ceasefire
subject: Gaza genocide
subject: Genocide-free policies
subject: Occupied Palestine
subject: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
subject: Peter Lusk
subject: Procurement
subject: Procurement policies
subject: Sources
subject: Wayne Brown
subject: Activists
subject: aotearoa
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: beer
subject: brown
subject: brown’s
subject: cavalier’
subject: ceasefire
subject: Decolonisation
subject: Democracy
subject: Editor's Picks
subject: ethical
subject: Featured
subject: free
subject: gaza
subject: Genocide
subject: genocide-free
subject: Global
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: International Law
subject: issue
subject: John Minto
subject: lusk:
subject: mayor
subject: military
subject: network
subject: new zealand
subject: occupied
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: Peace and justice
subject: peter
subject: Policies
subject: Politics
subject: procurement
subject: PSNA
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subject: response
subject: slam
subject: Solidarity
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: wayne
description: Asia Pacific Report A news report highlighting Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown yelling “free beer” at pro-Palestine protesters at an Auckland Council governing body meeting on Tuesday has stirred an angry response over the failure to face up to a serious human rights issue. Mayor Brown was called a ”shameful man” by protesters after they were
encoded: Asia Pacific Report A news report highlighting Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown yelling “free beer” at pro-Palestine protesters at an Auckland Council governing body meeting on Tuesday has stirred an angry response over the failure to face up to a serious human rights issue. Mayor Brown was called a ”shameful man” by protesters after they were refused an opportunity to speak at the meeting over ethical procurement policies in response to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. At the start of the meeting, the mayor said a request from the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) to speak had been declined, saying the governing body did not have responsibility for Palestine. READ MORE: Mayor says ‘free beer’ to pro-Palestine group after refusing their request to speak Other Gaza genocide reports A point of order was then raised by Councillor Mike Lee, who questioned the decision and asked for an explanation, said a Stuff news report. Two other councillors also challenged the mayor, but Brown doubled down on his refusal to allow the PSNA deputation to speak. When protesters started chanting “free Palestine”, Brown shouted “free beer”. Brown again reiterated that the governing body did not have responsibility for Palestine, said the Stuff report. ‘Depraved comment’ “It’s hard to know who is more to blame for this story in Stuff,” said PSNA co-chair John Minto to supporters in a social media post. “Is it Wayne Brown’s depraved comment ‘free beer’ in response to genocide in Gaza or is it the mainstream media which presents such a half-arsed account of our request to speak at the council meeting?” Minto pointed out that so far the Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington and Palmerston North city councils — as well as Environment Canterbury and Environment Southland — had passed motions to exclude from their procurement policies any company on the United Nations Human Rights Council list of companies building and maintaining illegal Israeli settlements on illegally occupied Palestinian land.…

Musician Paz Lenchantin on making the journey the goal of your work
type: item
creator: J. Bennett
date: 2025-11-26T08:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
subject: creative
subject: goal
subject: independent
subject: journey
subject: lenchantin
subject: making
subject: Music
subject: Musician
subject: paz,
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: work
subject: your
description: You sing, you play bass, violin, piano. You’ve made music videos. I heard you took up pottery during the pandemic. Is there a consistent attitude or spirit that you bring to all of these different disciplines?
encoded: You sing, you play bass, violin, piano. You’ve made music videos. I heard you took up pottery during the pandemic. Is there a consistent attitude or spirit that you bring to all of these different disciplines? I’m just very dedicated to the craft of music for the most part. I’m also very interested in design, and when I don’t have instruments, I try to find things to create shapes because music in a sense is like a shape. It’s a different kind of shape, but it is architecture to me. When I don’t have an instrument, I like to look at things as design or create in a different form that still stimulates the musical artistry that is fundamentally my first kind of language, I guess you would say. What are you striving for when you make music? I don’t look at the goal; I’m in the journey. I’ve made many, many records, but this new record is my real first attempt at doing something by sitting with myself and being like, “Well, who are you in music on your own?” Not like it was something too pre-thought in that way. In retrospect, I could see the intensity of what I was doing once I was in it: I didn’t want anyone in my studio, and it was a lot of tipping of the hat to where I came from. All the songs, for the most part, started on the piano with the freedom of playing without thinking too much about structure and then applying the vocal after. It was a strange kind of way of, again, architecture. Fundamentally it started with piano, but then I would remove things. Like I would play the drums to my bass, but then I would replace the drums and then replace the bass. So, a lot of things were moving parts, but the piano was always fundamentally there. Sometimes I didn’t use a click, sometimes I did. I have a Steinway in the living room, and I had a remote keypad, but I couldn’t see the screen because it’s in another room, so it reminded me of playing to tape because I had to do one take, perfect. I was very focused because I couldn’t go back and punch in because I wasn’t in fr…

Pay to Pollute, Starting in 2026
type: item
creator: Robert Hunziker
date: 2025-11-26T06:59:40Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: 2026
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: pay
subject: pollute
subject: sources
subject: starting
description: The United States of America was unofficially represented at COP30, the annual UN climate conference (November 10-21) in Belem, Brazil by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). He was not granted the privilege of officially representing the U.S. The State Department refused to facilitate his trip, refused to acknowledge the senator as a representative of a congressional delegation, refusing to acknowledge COP30, refusing to acknowledge global warming. This is the first time in Senator Whitehouse’s career that the executive branch of government has dictated a congressional member’s CODEL (Congressional Delegation paid trip for members). More The post Pay to Pollute, Starting in 2026 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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It’s Not Just About Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect
type: item
creator: Roger D. Harris - John Perry
date: 2025-11-26T06:59:33Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: about
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: domino
subject: effect:
subject: intends
subject: it’s
subject: just
subject: Leading Article
subject: not
subject: sources
subject: trump
subject: Venezuela
subject: wider
description: It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela. This is the objective – on a longer timescale in some cases – across several of the countries in the Caribbean Basin, aiming to cleanse the region of governments deemed undesirable to Washington. More The post It’s Not Just About Venezuela: Trump Intends a Wider Domino Effect appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Annals of the Covert World: How Assassination Became Policy at the CIA
type: item
creator: Jeffrey St. Clair
date: 2025-11-26T06:58:00Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: annals
subject: articles 2015
subject: assassination
subject: became
subject: CIA
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: covert
subject: how
subject: Leading Article
subject: Policy
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: World
description: The CIA’s role in assassination is one of those topics handled gingerly by the press or Congress from time to time and then hastily put aside, with the habitual claim that the CIA may have dreamed of it, thought about it and maybe even dabbled in it, but had never actually gone successfully all the way. But in fact, the Agency has gone all the way many times. More The post Annals of the Covert World: How Assassination Became Policy at the CIA appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The New Kill Zone: Gaza’s Borders after the ‘Ceasefire’
type: item
creator: Ramzy Baroud
date: 2025-11-26T06:57:54Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: articles 2015
subject: Borders
subject: ceasefire
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: gaza’s
subject: kill
subject: Leading Article
subject: new
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: zone
description: The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day of the announced ceasefire, Israel transitioned tactics: moving from indiscriminate aerial bombardment to the calculated, engineered demolishing of homes and vital infrastructure. Satellite images, corroborated by almost hourly media and ground reports, confirmed this methodical change. More The post The New Kill Zone: Gaza’s Borders after the ‘Ceasefire’ appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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It’s Long Past Time for One Bi-National State in Israel-Palestine
type: item
creator: Eve Ottenberg
date: 2025-11-26T06:57:34Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: ‘one
subject: articles 2015
subject: bi-national
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: for
subject: Israel/Palestine
subject: it’s
subject: long
subject: past,
subject: sources
subject: State
subject: Time
description: Until recently, Zionists liked to say the Israeli/Palestinian fiasco was “insoluble,” and they were saying this well before October 7. “Insoluble.” Some may still say it. This is convenient, because it shunts aside the obvious solution, namely a single, binational state with equal rights for all. So when someone says to you that this particular More The post It’s Long Past Time for One Bi-National State in Israel-Palestine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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New Bach, Old Doubts
type: item
creator: David Yearsley
date: 2025-11-26T06:57:33Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: bach
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Culture
subject: doubts
subject: new
subject: old
subject: sources
description: Bach is back, bigger than ever and just in time for the holiday buying season in this 275th year since his death. The bicenterquasquigenary Bach buzz reached a frenzied fortissimo after last week’s officially sanctioned—not to say sanctified—addition of two keyboard pieces to the Baroque master’s hefty catalog already running well beyond the 1,000 mark. More The post New Bach, Old Doubts appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Nuclear Arms Control Disappearing Before Our Eyes
type: item
creator: Mark Muhich
date: 2025-11-26T06:56:47Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: arms
subject: articles 2015
subject: before
subject: control
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: disappearing
subject: eyes
subject: Nuclear
subject: our
subject: sources
description: When NewSTART (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 2010) expires on February 5, 2026, Russia and the U.S. will face the prospect of a new nuclear arms race unconstrained by bilateral agreements. Since coming into force during the Obama Administration, ratified by the Senate 71-26, NewSTART has reduced the number of nuclear weapons deployed by Russia and More The post Nuclear Arms Control Disappearing Before Our Eyes appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Starbucks Ignores Workers Demands at Its Peril
type: item
creator: Sonali Kolhatkar
date: 2025-11-26T06:56:31Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: demands
subject: economics
subject: ignores
subject: it’s
subject: peril
subject: sources
subject: starbucks
subject: Workers
description: Thousands of baristas at nearly 100 Starbucks locations are on strike this holiday season, picketing outside the iconic cafes for a contract. While the corporate coffee chain has claimed little to no disruption to its bottom line so far, the union chose one of the most lucrative sales days of the year to launch its More The post Starbucks Ignores Workers Demands at Its Peril appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Seattle
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creator: Daniel Warner
date: 2025-11-26T06:56:23Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: Cities
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: new
subject: seattle
subject: sources
subject: tale
subject: two
subject: york
description: “It was the best of times” – two democratic socialists elected mayors of New York and Seattle – “it was the worst of times” – Donald Trump is still president and opposition has failed to materialize nationally. Yet the elections of Zohran Mamdani in New York and Katie Wilson in Seattle suggest that something positive More The post A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Seattle appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Article 5 Illusion
type: item
creator: John Whitbeck
date: 2025-11-26T06:56:12Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: article
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: illusion
subject: sources
subject: the
description: The European counter-proposal to the original Trump “peace plan” for Ukraine has proposed changing point 5 from reading, super-vaguely, “US guarantee” to reading “US guarantee that mirrors Article 5.” It is difficult to understand why NATO member states believe that the value of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty justifies the enormous costs of More The post The Article 5 Illusion appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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G20, COP30 and More Mickey-Mouse Multilateralism to Come
type: item
creator: Patrick Bond
date: 2025-11-26T06:56:02Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: come
subject: cop30
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: g20
subject: mickey-mouse
subject: more
subject: multilateralism
subject: sources
description: The third weekend in November offered the world two disastrous days for solving polycrisis problems, starting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém at the United Nations climate summit (‘COP30’) on November 22, just as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa hosted (most of) the Group of 20 leaders in Johannesburg. The G20 comprises 19 of More The post G20, COP30 and More Mickey-Mouse Multilateralism to Come appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Ezra Klein Needs to Look More Closely at His Housing Chart
type: item
creator: Dean Baker
date: 2025-11-26T06:55:24Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: chart
subject: closely
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: ezra
subject: his
subject: housing
subject: klein:
subject: look
subject: more
subject: needs
subject: sources
description: Ezra Klein had a classic column in the New York Times today where he advertises in his title, “America’s Housing Crisis, in One Chart.” The chart he highlights — new housing units per capita — is informative, but not quite in the way he says. The chart shows the cyclical ups and downs in the More The post Ezra Klein Needs to Look More Closely at His Housing Chart appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline
type: item
creator: Alfred W. McCoy
date: 2025-11-26T06:55:16Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: american
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: decline
subject: Energy
subject: Policy
subject: Politics
subject: sources
subject: the
description: At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain. In Shelly’s stanzas, a traveler in Egypt comes across the ruins of a once-monumental statue, with “a shattered visage lying More The post Energy Policy and the Politics of American Decline appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391656" class="wp-image-391656 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-680x453.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="453" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/matthew-henry-yETqkLnhsUI-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Matthew Henry. At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the inevitable decline of all empires, whether in ancient Egypt or then-modern Britain. In Shelly’s stanzas, a traveler in Egypt comes across the ruins of a once-monumental statue, with “a shattered visage lying half sunk” in desert sands bearing the “sneer of cold command.” Only its “trunkless legs of stone” remain standing. Yet the inscription carved on those stones still proclaims: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” And in a silent mockery of such imperial hubris, all the trappings of that awesome power, all the palaces and fortresses, have been utterly erased, leaving only a desolation “boundless and bare” as “the lone and level sands stretch far away.” Taken too literally, those verses might l…

The Trump-Mamdani Show Was Amazing. But Downsides for Progressives Could Turn Out to Be Steep
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creator: Norman Solomon
date: 2025-11-26T06:54:42Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: Across the political spectrum – with alarm on the right and delight on the left – the display of warmth from President Trump toward Zohran Mamdani on Friday set off shock waves. Trump’s lavish praise of New York’s mayor-elect in the Oval Office was a 180-degree turn from his condemnation of the democratic socialist as “a pure true communist” and “a More The post The Trump-Mamdani Show Was Amazing. But Downsides for Progressives Could Turn Out to Be Steep appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="680" height="453" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-680x453.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3.jpg 1241w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="680" height="453" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-680x453.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-680x453.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-945x630.jpg 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-500x333.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-600x400.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3.jpg 1241w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="680" height="453" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Trump_and_Mamdani_meeting_3-680x453.jpg" class="alignleft wp-post-image" alt="" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp…

Keith Hammer: the Road Scholar of the U.S. Northern Rockies
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creator: Tom Skeele
date: 2025-11-26T06:54:37Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: environment
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subject: rockies
subject: scholar
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description: Here’s a bold statement about Keith Hammer, the 2025 recipient of Fund for Wild Nature’s Activist of the Year award: no one knows more about the policies and practices of managing roads on National Forest lands in the U.S. Northern Rockies than Keith. The same could be said about Keith’s knowledge of the harm those More The post Keith Hammer: the Road Scholar of the U.S. Northern Rockies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Keith Hammer: the Road Scholar of the U.S. Northern Rockies
type: item
creator: Tom Skeele
date: 2025-11-26T06:54:37Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: environment
subject: hammer
subject: keith
subject: northern
subject: road
subject: rockies
subject: scholar
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: u.s.
description: Here’s a bold statement about Keith Hammer, the 2025 recipient of Fund for Wild Nature’s Activist of the Year award: no one knows more about the policies and practices of managing roads on National Forest lands in the U.S. Northern Rockies than Keith. The same could be said about Keith’s knowledge of the harm those More The post Keith Hammer: the Road Scholar of the U.S. Northern Rockies appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Strategic Hamlets 2.0
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creator: Howard Lisnoff
date: 2025-11-26T06:54:06Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: 2.0
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: hamlets
subject: sources
subject: strategic
description: For those who either remember or have read about the Vietnam War, the idea of strategic hamlets will leap off the page at them. Strategic hamlets (Strategic Hamlet Program) were a program of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) to take people, peasant farmers, away from the villages in which they lived and relocate them More The post Strategic Hamlets 2.0 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: A strategic hamlet in South Vietnam, c. 1964. Photograph Source: Brotherreuse – Public Domain For those who either remember or have read about the Vietnam War, the idea of strategic hamlets will leap off the page at them. Strategic hamlets (Strategic Hamlet Program) were a program of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) to take people, peasant farmers, away from the villages in which they lived and relocate them to places where they were supposed to be immune from the influence of the Viet Cong. The Viet Cong was the communist guerrilla force supported by North Vietnam fighting in South Vietnam. They were also supported by the North Vietnamese Army and fought from 1954 until the fall of South Vietnam in 1975. The strategic hamlets, a “project” of the Diem regime in the south, were colossal failures and actually helped forces from North Vietnam and the Viet Cong recruit fighters and supporters. Try to imagine an organized military force of regular fighters, guerrillas, with the authority of the US government ordering masses of people to relocate and live within regulated areas in the US. The US is far removed from being an agrarian society, but the issue of relocating masses of people away from their homes and work is an example of how outrageous the Strategic Hamlet Program was. Many of sound mind may have believed that the idea of strategic hamlets was long since abandoned in the dustbin of history. But this is not so with the Trump administration, Netanyahu’s government, and allies of both governments. Try to forget about the genocide in Gaza for a moment, the ongoing subjugation of the West Bank by Israel, and all of the attendant war crimes of the Gaza war and try to imagine a plan similar to strategic hamlets being considered in Gaza (“US Plans Compounds to House Palestinians in Israeli-Held Half of Gaza,” New York Times, November 25, 2025). The Trump administration is “pushing for the rapid construction of residential compounds to provide housing for Palest…

Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny
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creator: John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead
date: 2025-11-26T06:53:26Z
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subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: blessings
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subject: for
subject: giving
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description: “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands…for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”—Daniel Webster We find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety More The post Giving Thanks for Our Blessings Means Saying ‘No Thanks’ to Police State Tyranny appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-383156" class="size-medium wp-image-383156" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/IMG_3935-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands…for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”—Daniel Webster We find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. It’s not an easy undertaking. The contrast between George Washington’s first Thanksgiving proclamation and the state of the nation today reveals how far we have drifted—and how low we have fallen—since Washington called upon early Americans (a nation of immigrants) to give thanks for a government that protected their safety and happiness, and for a Constitution designed to safeguard civil and religious liberty. But how do you give thanks for freedoms that are constantly being eroded? How do you express gratitude for one’s safety when the perils posed by the American police state grow more treacherous by the day? How do you come together as a nation in thanksgiving when the powers-that-be continue …

Parochialism, Justice and International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants for Israel
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-26T06:53:00Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: articles 2015
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subject: for
subject: Genocide
subject: International
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subject: Justice
subject: Law
subject: parochialism,
subject: sources
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description: The authorities in Türkiye have hit their stride regarding international humanitarian law, a subject they are not always consistent about. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister Israel Katz, and others, are facing arrest warrants for genocide from the Istanbul Criminal Court of Peace. This is plucky, assertive, and undoubtedly, from the perspective of the More The post Parochialism, Justice and International Law: Türkiye’s Genocide Warrants for Israel appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Where Labour, Capital, and a National Institution Still Collide
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creator: Peter Bach
date: 2025-11-26T06:52:46Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: capital
subject: collide
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: institution
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subject: national
subject: sources
subject: still
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description: The weather was desultory as I walked from Wimbledon Station to the Communication Workers Union headquarters at 150 The Broadway. I was supposed to be filming a conflict in East Africa, but my visa still hadn’t materialised. I was trying to recall that line from Thoreau: “You must live in the present, launch yourself on More The post Where Labour, Capital, and a National Institution Still Collide appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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You Must Refuse Illegal Orders, If This be Treason, Make the Most of It
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creator: Thomas Knapp
date: 2025-11-26T06:52:08Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: illegal
subject: make
subject: most
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subject: orders
subject: refuse
subject: sources
subject: the
subject: this
subject: treason
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description: “You can refuse illegal orders … you MUST refuse illegal orders.” That’s the message from a recent video featuring six Democratic members of Congress, all former members of the US armed forces and/or intelligence services, and directed at current members of those organizations. Seems non-controversial, but someone else would like a word. Er, several words: More The post You Must Refuse Illegal Orders, If This be Treason, Make the Most of It appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-369631" class="size-medium wp-image-369631" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-680x508.jpeg" alt="" width="680" height="508" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-680x508.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-843x630.jpeg 843w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-768x574.jpeg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-1536x1149.jpeg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-2048x1531.jpeg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-500x374.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/IMG_7860-600x449.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “You can refuse illegal orders … you MUST refuse illegal orders.” That’s the message from a recent video featuring six Democratic members of Congress, all former members of the US armed forces and/or intelligence services, and directed at current members of those organizations. Seems non-controversial, but someone else would like a word. Er, several words: “Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? … SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” As you’ve probably guessed, that someone else is US president Donald Trump. And he’s not just talking. He’s had US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth threaten to recall one of the politicians in question, US Senator Mark Kelly, to active duty in the Navy for a potential court-martial. He’s having the Federal Bureau of Investigation request “interviews” with with all six politicians. Yes, really. But, like I said, the whole thing seems uncontroversial. This is, to use a turn of phrase Trump seems to like, a “witch hunt.” It’s been 40 years since I spent the summer in San Diego becoming …

Black Friday Deals Won’t Save You From Electronic Art’s New Private Equity Overlord
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creator: Daniel Stone
date: 2025-11-26T06:51:46Z
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description: For gamers, Black Friday is the time of year to take advantage of the sales and buy the latest games. From Steam’s all-encompassing sale to the assortment of deals on the PlayStation and Xbox stores, there’s a reason why Q4 accounts for a massive spike in gaming purchases. But this year, the deals come with More The post Black Friday Deals Won’t Save You From Electronic Art’s New Private Equity Overlord appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391654" class="wp-image-391654 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-680x486.png" alt="" width="680" height="486" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-680x486.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-500x357.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-600x429.png 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer.png 722w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Cover of Command and Conquer, Electronic Arts. For gamers, Black Friday is the time of year to take advantage of the sales and buy the latest games. From Steam’s all-encompassing sale to the assortment of deals on the PlayStation and Xbox stores, there’s a reason why Q4 accounts for a massive spike in gaming purchases. But this year, the deals come with a catch. Electronic Arts (EA) has earned a notorious reputation over the past two decades. EA won “Worst Company in America” in 2012 and then again in 2013 — gaming’s equivalent of winning back-to-back Golden Raspberry Awards for worst film of the year. This was not one bad decision or an isolated public relations disaster. As many gamers familiar with the brand today know, this was the culmination of years of business practices so openly hostile to consumers that the gaming community voted to put the video game publisher into the same category as Bank of America, AT&T, and Comcast. Let that sink in. The 2012 and 2013 votes pitted EA against institutions broadly despised by the American public at a time when memories of the 2008 financial crisis and bank bailouts were fresh. Major banks that had triggered economic collapse and received massive TARP bailouts, telecom monopolies that gouged customers with impunity, and health insurance companies denying life-saving claims were E…

Black Friday Deals Won’t Save You From Electronic Art’s New Private Equity Overlord
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creator: Daniel Stone
date: 2025-11-26T06:51:46Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: black
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: deals
subject: electronic
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subject: new
subject: overlord
subject: private
subject: save
subject: sources
subject: won’t
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description: For gamers, Black Friday is the time of year to take advantage of the sales and buy the latest games. From Steam’s all-encompassing sale to the assortment of deals on the PlayStation and Xbox stores, there’s a reason why Q4 accounts for a massive spike in gaming purchases. But this year, the deals come with More The post Black Friday Deals Won’t Save You From Electronic Art’s New Private Equity Overlord appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391654" class="wp-image-391654 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-680x486.png" alt="" width="680" height="486" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-680x486.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-500x357.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer-600x429.png 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/commandandconquer.png 722w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Cover of Command and Conquer, Electronic Arts. For gamers, Black Friday is the time of year to take advantage of the sales and buy the latest games. From Steam’s all-encompassing sale to the assortment of deals on the PlayStation and Xbox stores, there’s a reason why Q4 accounts for a massive spike in gaming purchases. But this year, the deals come with a catch. Electronic Arts (EA) has earned a notorious reputation over the past two decades. EA won “Worst Company in America” in 2012 and then again in 2013 — gaming’s equivalent of winning back-to-back Golden Raspberry Awards for worst film of the year. This was not one bad decision or an isolated public relations disaster. As many gamers familiar with the brand today know, this was the culmination of years of business practices so openly hostile to consumers that the gaming community voted to put the video game publisher into the same category as Bank of America, AT&T, and Comcast. Let that sink in. The 2012 and 2013 votes pitted EA against institutions broadly despised by the American public at a time when memories of the 2008 financial crisis and bank bailouts were fresh. Major banks that had triggered economic collapse and received massive TARP bailouts, telecom monopolies that gouged customers with impunity, and health insurance companies denying life-saving claims were E…

Two Billion Dead at 2C Warming?
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creator: Christopher Ketcham
date: 2025-11-26T06:51:37Z
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description: Doomscrolling, an addictive habit, can be destructive if not managed – the way an alcoholic, say, manages drinking herself to death. It must be done with care, with binges considered for the long haul. “Overindulging…may be detrimental to your mental health,” warns the doomscrolling subreddit r/Collapse. “Anxiety and depression are common reactions when studying collapse…If More The post Two Billion Dead at 2C Warming? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Make Thanksgiving Day History
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creator: Lee Hall
date: 2025-11-26T06:50:56Z
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description: Listen! Listen to the truth-tellers who renamed Thanksgiving a day of mourning. It started in Connecticut—but not the way we were told at school. In 1637, the English colonizers carried out a pre-dawn raid on a Pequot community. When the Pequot fought back against the marauders, the English brought firebrands into the wigwams, and set More The post Make Thanksgiving Day History appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-390024" class="wp-image-390024" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-scaled.png" alt="" width="5472" height="3648" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-scaled.png 5472w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-680x453.png 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-945x630.png 945w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-768x512.png 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-2048x1365.png 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-500x333.png 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390023-1-600x400.png 600w" sizes="(max-width: 5472px) 100vw, 5472px" /> Photo by Magda Ehlers, via Pexels/Canva Listen! Listen to the truth-tellers who renamed Thanksgiving a day of mourning. It started in Connecticut—but not the way we were told at school. In 1637, the English colonizers carried out a pre-dawn raid on a Pequot community. When the Pequot fought back against the marauders, the English brought firebrands into the wigwams, and set the villages afire. They killed hundreds of Pequot villagers—adults and children alike. And then the colonizers celebrated this spectacular obliteration of a people who had lived in a place for ten thousand years. Governor John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony made the massacre date an annual holiday. Surviving Pequot were executed, or sold into slavery. Rick Green described it in 2002 in The Hartford Courant: Among the Pequots caught in the bog in what’s now part of Fairfield, a group of perhaps 17, mostly children, were thought to have been exported as slaves. Ot…

Most International Airlines Servicing Venezuela Suspend Flights as US Intensifies Pressure
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creator: Ricardo Vaz
date: 2025-11-26T06:50:37Z
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description: Multiple international airlines have suspended flights to and from Caracas amidst a heightened US military presence in the Caribbean, after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issuance of a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Friday. Iberia (Spain), TAP (Portugal), LATAM (Chile), Avianca (Colombia) and Turkish Airlines (Turkey) were among the companies to cancel upcoming flights connecting More The post Most International Airlines Servicing Venezuela Suspend Flights as US Intensifies Pressure appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Multiple international airlines have suspended flights to and from Caracas amidst a heightened US military presence in the Caribbean, after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issuance of a Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) Friday. Iberia (Spain), TAP (Portugal), LATAM (Chile), Avianca (Colombia) and Turkish Airlines (Turkey) were among the companies to cancel upcoming flights connecting the Venezuelan capital to international destinations. At the time of writing, Venezuelan airlines Avior, Laser, Estelar and state-owned Conviasa continue to service foreign destinations. The Copa Airlines-operated flight from Caracas to Panama City, one of the region’s main connection hubs, remains active as well. The airlines’ cancellations were in response to an FAA NOTAM that urged “caution” in Venezuela’s Maiquetía Flight Information Region (FIR) due to a “worsened security situation and heightened military activity.” Venezuela’s FIR covers the country’s territory and a section of the Caribbean Sea north of Caracas. Since August, the Donald Trump administration has amassed military assets in the region on a self-declared anti-narcotics mission. The large-scale deployment presently includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, guided-missile destroyers, aircraft and around 15,000 troops. US fighter jets and bombers have repeatedly flown inside the Maiquetía flight information region, often with transponders turned off. The FAA issued similar NOTAMs for Curazao and Puerto Rico FIRs, though no flight cancellations have been reported. All three warnings are in place until February 2026. The contiguous areas could provide US aircraft with a corridor from bases in Puerto Rico to Venezuelan territory. US forces have destroyed 22 vessels that US officials claimed were carrying US-bound drugs, killing 83 civilians in the process. Nevertheless, US authorities have not disclosed evidence of the boats’ cargoes or crews. UN experts have labeled the bombings as extraj…

Rob the Victim and Reward the Aggressor
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creator: Walter Clemens
date: 2025-11-26T06:49:57Z
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description: The two real estate developers, President Donald Trump and his envoy Steven Witkoff, gave Ukraine a deadline. By the American Thanksgiving holiday, Ukraine had to accept their plan to give Vladimir Putin key elements of Ukrainian sovereignty or suffer the loss of American support. A few days later, the deadline and terms were softened, but More The post Rob the Victim and Reward the Aggressor appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: The two real estate developers, President Donald Trump and his envoy Steven Witkoff, gave Ukraine a deadline. By the American Thanksgiving holiday, Ukraine had to accept their plan to give Vladimir Putin key elements of Ukrainian sovereignty or suffer the loss of American support. A few days later, the deadline and terms were softened, but the president’s pro-Putin tilt is still evident. If Kyiv capitulates, will Ukraine then still exist? Yes, as a ragged shell of its former self—like Czechoslovakia after UK, French, and Italian leaders at Munich 1938 gave Hitler the very region, the Sudetenland, that had been heavily fortified to thwart a Nazi invasion. Effectively disarmed and jilted by its nominal allies (including Stalin’s USSR), Czechoslovakia did not fight in 1939 to keep Germany from dividing and occupying what remained. British PM Neville Chamberlain got peace in his time, but it lasted only a year. This is the kind of future that looms if Ukrainians surrender to Trump and Putin. Much of Europe and probably the United States will suffer, sooner if not later. Trump’s ultimatum warns that American support will stop if Kyiv rejects the deal. But how helpful was that assistance? In 1994 at Budapest the US, UK, and Russia promised to support Ukraine’s security if it joined the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and returned its Soviet-era nuclear weapons to post-Soviet Russia. Kyiv did so but when Putin seized Crimea in 2014, the Western response was minimal. When Trump made what he called a “perfect” phone call to President Volodymyr Zelensky in 2018, he tried to barter more US aid for dirt on the Bidens father and son (an operation that triggered Trump’s impeachment). After Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, US assistance increased, though Europe over the next three years gave more. Trump in 2025 slowed the flow and demanded mining rights in exchange for more weapons. Kyiv accepted the terms, but US weapons deliveries stopped unless Europeans paid for …

Will Trump Seize His Hour and Push for His Admired Universal Health Insurance?
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creator: Ralph Nader
date: 2025-11-26T06:48:18Z
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description: When asked what they like most about Trump, fervent supporters often say, “He says what he thinks.” Well, not always. Donald Trump has long supported government-run universal healthcare – well before he had to deal with a crazed Congressional GOP in his first term. The controlling Republicans repealed Obamacare dozens of times in the House More The post Will Trump Seize His Hour and Push for His Admired Universal Health Insurance? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Make or Break Time: Small Business and Trump’s Trade Tariffs
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creator: Seth Sandronsky
date: 2025-11-26T06:48:14Z
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description: According to the Pew Research Center, Americans have big trust in small businesses than in big corporations. Mom-and-pop shops will need that positive vibe and more as they approach the make-or-break year-end business season, beginning with Small Business on Saturday, November 29. While small business owners can’t compete on prices with larger companies, there are More The post Make or Break Time: Small Business and Trump’s Trade Tariffs appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: According to the Pew Research Center, Americans have big trust in small businesses than in big corporations. Mom-and-pop shops will need that positive vibe and more as they approach the make-or-break year-end business season, beginning with Small Business on Saturday, November 29. While small business owners can’t compete on prices with larger companies, there are other factors in play, such as personal service. Nevertheless, prices of goods and services do matter, so the rising costs that small business owners are paying for imports due to President Trump’s trade tariffs, a tax on American consumers and businesses, is roiling mom-and-pop shops across the U.S. On April 2, 2025, Trump announced that he intended to use tariffs to enact “fair trade policies that will restore our workforce, rebuild our economy, and finally put America First.” According to Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler, mom-and-pop shops would reap a bounty of benefits from tariffs on imports from global trading partners. “Small businesses will no longer be crushed by foreign governments and unfair trade deals. Instead, we will put American industry, workers, and strength FIRST.” How are these claims working out on Main Street? We turn to Fabrice Moschetti, owner of Moschetti Artisan Roasters, in Vallejo, California. Imported coffee he buys from Brazil was tariff-free until the president imposed a baseline “reciprocal tariff” of 10 percent on imported goods globally, then increased tariffs on Brazilian imports another 40 percent in July because the government of Brazil was prosecuting its past president Jair Bolsonaro, awaiting a 27-year prison sentence on appeal currently after conviction for planning a military coup against his successor, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. It’s been a struggle to find an adequate supply of coffee, according to Moschetti, forcing us to truck it in from cities such as Seattle versus the nearby Port of Oakland. “It’s been difficult…

A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela
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creator: Michelle Ellner
date: 2025-11-26T06:46:03Z
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description: Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that shaped his work in the 1980s, when More The post A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391679" class="wp-image-391679 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Engin Akyurt. Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that shaped his work in the 1980s, when U.S. foreign policy turned Central America into a graveyard. My childhood in Venezuela was shaped by stories from our region that the world rarely sees: stories of displacement, of death squads, of villages erased from maps, of governments toppled for daring to act outside Washington’s orbit. And I know exactly who Elliott Abrams is, not from think-tank biographies, but from the grief woven into Central America’s landscape. Abrams writes with the confidence of someone who has never lived inside the countries his policies have destabilized. His newest argument rests on the most dangerous assumption of all: that the United States has the authority, by virtue of power alone, to decide who governs Venezuela. This is the original sin of U.S. policy in the hemisphere, the one that justifi…

A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela
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creator: Michelle Ellner
date: 2025-11-26T06:46:03Z
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subject: Venezuela
description: Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that shaped his work in the 1980s, when More The post A Response to Elliot Abrams’s Latest Call for Regime Change in Venezuela appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391679" class="wp-image-391679 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-680x510.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-680x510.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-840x630.jpg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-500x375.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/engin-akyurt-kONFcNPiD1k-unsplash-600x450.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by Engin Akyurt. Elliott Abrams has resurfaced with familiar instructions on how to “fix” Venezuela, a country he neither understands nor respects, yet feels entitled to rearrange like a piece of furniture in Washington’s living room. His new proposal is drenched in the same Cold War fever and colonial mindset that shaped his work in the 1980s, when U.S. foreign policy turned Central America into a graveyard. My childhood in Venezuela was shaped by stories from our region that the world rarely sees: stories of displacement, of death squads, of villages erased from maps, of governments toppled for daring to act outside Washington’s orbit. And I know exactly who Elliott Abrams is, not from think-tank biographies, but from the grief woven into Central America’s landscape. Abrams writes with the confidence of someone who has never lived inside the countries his policies have destabilized. His newest argument rests on the most dangerous assumption of all: that the United States has the authority, by virtue of power alone, to decide who governs Venezuela. This is the original sin of U.S. policy in the hemisphere, the one that justifi…

Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot
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creator: Jackson Albert Mann
date: 2025-11-26T06:43:13Z
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description: Political movements without music may still be called movements, but they are not worth joining. No recent scholarship on music and politics has proven this more thoroughly than that of anarchist graphic designer and archivist Josh MacPhee. Over the past decade, MacPhee has produced groundbreaking, encyclopedic work on the musical activity of twentieth-century left-wing and More The post Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot
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creator: Jackson Albert Mann
date: 2025-11-26T06:43:13Z
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subject: while
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description: Political movements without music may still be called movements, but they are not worth joining. No recent scholarship on music and politics has proven this more thoroughly than that of anarchist graphic designer and archivist Josh MacPhee. Over the past decade, MacPhee has produced groundbreaking, encyclopedic work on the musical activity of twentieth-century left-wing and More The post Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot
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date: 2025-11-26T06:43:13Z
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description: Political movements without music may still be called movements, but they are not worth joining. No recent scholarship on music and politics has proven this more thoroughly than that of anarchist graphic designer and archivist Josh MacPhee. Over the past decade, MacPhee has produced groundbreaking, encyclopedic work on the musical activity of twentieth-century left-wing and More The post Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Why Mark Cuban Is Wrong About Pharmacy Benefit Managers
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creator: Iulia Lupse
date: 2025-11-26T06:39:48Z
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description: Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are back in the crosshairs. PBMs negotiate drug prices down on behalf of consumers and insurers – to the ire of pharmaceutical companies. Mark Cuban recently went on CNBC to call them “middlemen” and accuse them of “ripping off” employers and “colluding” with insurers, claiming patients would pay less if PBMs disappeared. More The post Why Mark Cuban Is Wrong About Pharmacy Benefit Managers appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are back in the crosshairs. PBMs negotiate drug prices down on behalf of consumers and insurers – to the ire of pharmaceutical companies. Mark Cuban recently went on CNBC to call them “middlemen” and accuse them of “ripping off” employers and “colluding” with insurers, claiming patients would pay less if PBMs disappeared. Cuban has misunderstood the issue. To understand what drives high drug prices, we must start at the beginning of the chain. Manufacturers set the initial list price. It is them who raise it year after year. In 2024, drugmakers increased list prices on at least 775 brand-name medications. Newly-launched drugs carried a median price of around $300,000, roughly one-third higher than the previous year. Those price hikes occur long before a PBM or insurer ever negotiates a rebate. The pattern continues. Between April and July 2025, there were 281 brand price changes across the market. Among them were 271 increases and only 10 reductions. In July alone, manufacturers hiked prices on 162 drugs. The average increase was about 4 percent, with high-spend therapies like Trikafta rising closer to 7 percent. These are the figures PBMs face when they sit across the table from drugmakers. Cuban is right about one thing: the system can be opaque. Employers often feel they don’t know where the money goes. But removing PBMs from the process wouldn’t fix that problem. It would eliminate the only major player pushing prices down, rather than up. PBMs aggregate the purchasing power of millions of people to negotiate lower net prices, forcing drugmakers to compete within their therapeutic classes. That’s how the system keeps some discipline in a market where list prices keep climbing. There’s solid evidence this model works. Studies show PBMs lower overall prescription drug spending by about 40 to 50 percent compared to an unmanaged market, saving plan sponsors and patients an average of roughly $1,154 per person each year. In short, PBM…

On Trump and Mamdani’s Surreal Summit
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creator: Ashley Smith
date: 2025-11-26T06:37:53Z
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description: It was the most anticipated meeting at the White House since Donald Trump’s confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Would Trump dress down and insult New York City Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani? Would Mamdani give as good as got and humiliate Trump as effectively as he did Andrew Cuomo in their Mayoral debates? But it More The post On Trump and Mamdani’s Surreal Summit appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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From Balaclavas to Bioreactors
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creator: Jon Hochschartner
date: 2025-11-26T06:36:16Z
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description: Everyone, so far as I’m aware, creates narratives in their head explaining how past versions of themselves connect to the current one. It’s reasonable to ask how accurate these stories we tell ourselves are, but I imagine they at least have a hint of truth. I mention this because sometimes I wonder how, as an More The post From Balaclavas to Bioreactors appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Everyone, so far as I’m aware, creates narratives in their head explaining how past versions of themselves connect to the current one. It’s reasonable to ask how accurate these stories we tell ourselves are, but I imagine they at least have a hint of truth. I mention this because sometimes I wonder how, as an animal activist, I’ve gone from someone who backed underground and quasi-underground groups to someone who seeks to accelerate the development of cellular agriculture through the political process. I first became interested in the nonhuman movement around 2005. Animal Liberation Front activists like Peter Young and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty campaigners like Kevin Kjonaas, Josh Harper, Lauren Gazzola, Jake Conroy, Andrew Stepanian and Darius Fullmer were the toast of the American grassroots movement as they faced prosecution for their efforts. In retrospect, this seems like the last gasp of a hyper-militant strategy inaugurated by the New Left. Increased government repression showed this to be a dead end. There are lots of stories I could tell about how I changed from someone who uncritically supported groups like the ALF and SHAC to the activist I am today, who advocates for increased state and federal funding of cultivated-meat research. Perhaps, for instance, I have less of a psychological need for the macho posturing so often associated with revolutionary violence. However, the story I actually want to focus on here is one of continuity. In what ways are the strategic assumptions I held two decades ago similar to those I hold now? Most clearly, the militant approach and the technological approach share an underlying cynicism about the ability of ethical arguments alone to create significant change for animals. Both, to a certain degree, viewed economic pressure as a powerful force capable of doing immense damage to animal-exploitation industries. Where the former sought to drive such businesses into bankruptcy through sabotage, the latter seeks to do th…

Black Student Unions are Under Pressure
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creator: Antar A. Tichavakunda
date: 2025-11-26T06:30:35Z
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description: Black student unions have been a vital part of many Black college students’ lives for more than 60 years. But since 2024, Black student unions have lost their institutional support, campus space and funding with the rise of anti-diversity, equity and inclusion laws in Utah and Alabama. Black student unions now face a new wave More The post Black Student Unions are Under Pressure appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Black student unions have been a vital part of many Black college students’ lives for more than 60 years. But since 2024, Black student unions have lost their institutional support, campus space and funding with the rise of anti-diversity, equity and inclusion laws in Utah and Alabama. Black student unions now face a new wave of pressure, as more than 400 colleges and universities under the Trump administration have rebranded or eliminated programs and centers that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. Amy Lieberman, education editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with Antar A. Tichavakunda, a scholar of race and higher education, to better understand what Black student unions are and how they influence Black students’ experiences in higher education. Why are Black student unions important, particularly for Black students? Aside from Black fraternities and sororities, Black student unions were among the first ethnic student organizations at colleges to be established. A group of students started the first Black student union in 1968 at San Francisco State University. This happened during the Black Campus Movement, when Black college students advocated for themselves, making demands for resources, respect, spaces and programs to support Black student life. At the time, Mariana Waddy, a student at San Francisco State University and the first president of a Black student union, said, “This college had done little for Black students except try to whitewash them.” Black students wanted to make the school more engaging and responsive to their needs. Today, these student unions are essential for Black student life on college campuses. They offer a place of belonging, where Black students can figuratively exhale from a predominately white campus or student environment. Black student life on campus isn’t a given – just because there are Black students, it doesn’t mean there is a Black student community. These unions allow Black students to come together as a community. W…

Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Grizzlies, Lynx, and Sage Grouse on the Continental Divide
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creator: Mike Garrity
date: 2025-11-26T06:27:30Z
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description: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Council on Wildlife and Fish filed a federal lawsuit to protect habitat for three rare wildlife species — grizzly bears, lynx, and sage grouse — on the Continental Divide, just north of Lemhi Pass, where Lewis and Clark first crossed the Continental Divide from present-day More The post Conservation Groups File Lawsuit to Protect Grizzlies, Lynx, and Sage Grouse on the Continental Divide appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391622" class="wp-image-391622 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-680x383.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="383" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-680x383.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-1120x630.jpg 1120w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-768x432.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-500x281.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass-600x338.jpg 600w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/lemhipass.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Lemhi Pass. Photo: US Forest Service. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Council on Wildlife and Fish filed a federal lawsuit to protect habitat for three rare wildlife species — grizzly bears, lynx, and sage grouse — on the Continental Divide, just north of Lemhi Pass, where Lewis and Clark first crossed the Continental Divide from present-day Montana into present-day Idaho. This area provides a critical wildlife corridor connecting the greater Yellowstone ecosystem to the Northern Continental Divide and Bitterroot ecosystems in Montana and Idaho. The challenged Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest action, called the “Selway-Saginaw” project, allows destructive logging, road-building, and burning activities across thousands of acres of public lands in this 66,884 acre (or 104.5 square miles) project area in a critical wildlife corridor. We are deeply disappointed that the government would authorize this destructive project on our public lands considering the number of court rulings that have found similar projects illegal because such projects violate a number of federal laws desig…

Monet and Venice
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creator: David Carrier
date: 2025-11-26T06:02:35Z
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description: Monet and Venice The Brooklyn Museum October 11, 2025 – February 1, 2026 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, March 21, 2026- July 26, 2026 “One could say, in fact, that Monet attempted to eliminate time as a variable to better concentrate on the interrelationships between atmosphere, light, color — and of course, how the More The post Monet and Venice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Palestine Doesn’t Need Another Oslo: Could Hamas Become the New Fatah?
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description: It stuck. Donald Trump nailed it. The impossible peace deal that will remake the Middle East in his own gawdy gilded image. After just over two years straight of total war, after billions of dollars of bombs and tens if not hundreds of thousands of dead civilians, the Master of the Deal brokered a truce More The post Palestine Doesn’t Need Another Oslo: Could Hamas Become the New Fatah? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino’s Border Patrol
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2025-11-26T04:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
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subject: gestapo
subject: gregory
subject: nation?
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description: This week we go into the dark heart of American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino's Border Patrol, which pushes ICE to become even more aggressive in his fascist feverdream. Here to help us make sense of this hellscape is Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight and former Communications Director at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon–more on that in this week's bonus show out Thursday. Bovino grew up a Border Patrol fanboy idolizing fascist fiction and now stalks American cities in a Nazi-style trench coat with a taxpayer-funded film crew glamorizing his violent raids. Like Trump is a showman, Bovino is cruelty as a recruitment tool to consolidate power. Under his un-checked leadership, his border patrol army operates deep inside the U.S., smashing car windows, kidnapping U.S. citizens, and rounding up tens of thousands of people, including veterans and children, into detention centers where deaths are spiking at unprecedented rates. With the help of questions submitted by a Gaslit Nation listener (thank you, Isabel!) we go into all the pressing questions about Bovino's Border Patrol and also ICE, including what happened to the children who disappeared under Trump's first term and what can be done to protect vulnerable immigrants today? As you listen to this episode, which opens with a clip of Bovino justifying shooting protesters with pepper balls, keep in mind Republicans gave ICE, which works closely with Bovino's Border Patrol, $75 billion over the next four years. They're also operating under aggressive weekly quotas. But is their war chest also for general population control? For our bonus episode this week, we look at the safeguards that could have prevented Trump's return and why they didn't. To listen to the bonus, subscribe to our Patreon at the Truth-Teller level ($5/month) or higher. We are extremely grateful to our listeners who are keeping …
encoded: This week we go into the dark heart of American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino's Border Patrol, which pushes ICE to become even more aggressive in his fascist feverdream. Here to help us make sense of this hellscape is Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight and former Communications Director at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon–more on that in this week's bonus show out Thursday. Bovino grew up a Border Patrol fanboy idolizing fascist fiction and now stalks American cities in a Nazi-style trench coat with a taxpayer-funded film crew glamorizing his violent raids. Like Trump is a showman, Bovino is cruelty as a recruitment tool to consolidate power. Under his un-checked leadership, his border patrol army operates deep inside the U.S., smashing car windows, kidnapping U.S. citizens, and rounding up tens of thousands of people, including veterans and children, into detention centers where deaths are spiking at unprecedented rates. With the help of questions submitted by a Gaslit Nation listener (thank you, Isabel!) we go into all the pressing questions about Bovino's Border Patrol and also ICE, including what happened to the children who disappeared under Trump's first term and what can be done to protect vulnerable immigrants today? As you listen to this episode, which opens with a clip of Bovino justifying shooting protesters with pepper balls, keep in mind Republicans gave ICE, which works closely with Bovino's Border Patrol, $75 billion over the next four years. They're also operating under aggressive weekly quotas. But is their war chest also for general population control? For our bonus episode this week, we look at the safeguards that could have prevented Trump's return and why they didn't. To listen to the bonus, subscribe to our Patreon at the Truth-Teller level ($5/month) or higher. We are extremely grateful to our listeners who are keeping …

American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino’s Border Patrol
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creator: Andrea Chalupa
date: 2025-11-26T04:11:00Z
subject: Gaslit Nation
subject: Sources
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subject: gestapo
subject: gregory
subject: nation?
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description: This week we go into the dark heart of American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino's Border Patrol, which pushes ICE to become even more aggressive in his fascist feverdream. Here to help us make sense of this hellscape is Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight and former Communications Director at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon–more on that in this week's bonus show out Thursday. Bovino grew up a Border Patrol fanboy idolizing fascist fiction and now stalks American cities in a Nazi-style trench coat with a taxpayer-funded film crew glamorizing his violent raids. Like Trump is a showman, Bovino is cruelty as a recruitment tool to consolidate power. Under his un-checked leadership, his border patrol army operates deep inside the U.S., smashing car windows, kidnapping U.S. citizens, and rounding up tens of thousands of people, including veterans and children, into detention centers where deaths are spiking at unprecedented rates. With the help of questions submitted by a Gaslit Nation listener (thank you, Isabel!) we go into all the pressing questions about Bovino's Border Patrol and also ICE, including what happened to the children who disappeared under Trump's first term and what can be done to protect vulnerable immigrants today? As you listen to this episode, which opens with a clip of Bovino justifying shooting protesters with pepper balls, keep in mind Republicans gave ICE, which works closely with Bovino's Border Patrol, $75 billion over the next four years. They're also operating under aggressive weekly quotas. But is their war chest also for general population control? For our bonus episode this week, we look at the safeguards that could have prevented Trump's return and why they didn't. To listen to the bonus, subscribe to our Patreon at the Truth-Teller level ($5/month) or higher. We are extremely grateful to our listeners who are keeping …
encoded: This week we go into the dark heart of American Gestapo: Gregory Bovino's Border Patrol, which pushes ICE to become even more aggressive in his fascist feverdream. Here to help us make sense of this hellscape is Nick Schwellenbach, a Senior Investigator at the Project on Government Oversight and former Communications Director at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel–a government agency set up after Watergate, meant to protect us from the next Nixon–more on that in this week's bonus show out Thursday. Bovino grew up a Border Patrol fanboy idolizing fascist fiction and now stalks American cities in a Nazi-style trench coat with a taxpayer-funded film crew glamorizing his violent raids. Like Trump is a showman, Bovino is cruelty as a recruitment tool to consolidate power. Under his un-checked leadership, his border patrol army operates deep inside the U.S., smashing car windows, kidnapping U.S. citizens, and rounding up tens of thousands of people, including veterans and children, into detention centers where deaths are spiking at unprecedented rates. With the help of questions submitted by a Gaslit Nation listener (thank you, Isabel!) we go into all the pressing questions about Bovino's Border Patrol and also ICE, including what happened to the children who disappeared under Trump's first term and what can be done to protect vulnerable immigrants today? As you listen to this episode, which opens with a clip of Bovino justifying shooting protesters with pepper balls, keep in mind Republicans gave ICE, which works closely with Bovino's Border Patrol, $75 billion over the next four years. They're also operating under aggressive weekly quotas. But is their war chest also for general population control? For our bonus episode this week, we look at the safeguards that could have prevented Trump's return and why they didn't. To listen to the bonus, subscribe to our Patreon at the Truth-Teller level ($5/month) or higher. We are extremely grateful to our listeners who are keeping …

Contract Bikies and Bribed Politicians: Australia’s Nauru Refugee Deal
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-26T02:42:55Z
subject: Ali Bilal
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subject: Jacqui Lambie
subject: National Anti-Corruption Commission
subject: Oisin Donohoe
subject: President Adeang
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description: It began with the colourful confessions of former Australian Army rifleman Oisin Donohoe. In a report published in The Age on November 8, Donohoe made salty allegations that the private security intended for overseeing “unlawful noncitizens” transferred from Australia to Nauru would be staffed by members of the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang. “It was pretty […] The post Contract Bikies and Bribed Politicians: Australia’s Nauru Refugee Deal first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: It began with the colourful confessions of former Australian Army rifleman Oisin Donohoe. In a report published in The Age on November 8, Donohoe made salty allegations that the private security intended for overseeing “unlawful noncitizens” transferred from Australia to Nauru would be staffed by members of the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang. “It was pretty confronting to know that an outlaw motorcycle group was running a company that had got a government contract,” he stated with consternation. It was “mind-boggling” that such figures could participate in a “contract to oversee quite a significant national security item on the agenda.” This was certainly taking the privatisation of security, a policy already revolting in its harm and depravity, to another order. Safe Hands Security, the labour-hire company responsible for recruitment, is steered by the Finks gang leader Ali Bilal and generously staffed by members of his bikie gang. Since February, the company has been negotiating with Nauru Community Security, the entity responsible for providing escort to the Nauru Regional Processing Centre in the form of a Quick Reaction Team (QRT). According to Donohoe, no security clearance was needed for recruits, while Australian Federal Police were engaged in logistical matters relating to the transfers. Furthermore, he has evidence that Bilal was directly overseeing recruitment for the QRT. In further bruising revelations for the Australian government, a second whistleblower, Assistant Secretary of Home Affairs Derek Elias, has shown how rotten the awarding and implementing of contracts regarding offshore detention has been. This decay was already noted in a 2023 investigation by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes. A snaking money trail could be found slithering from the Home Affairs Department, only to terminate in the form of oily payments to businesses controlled by Nauru’s politicians. A good number benefited, including the resourceful current President Da…

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom
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date: 2025-11-26T02:02:10Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions to protect these rights. It is especially concerned over the threats to press freedom, the use of laws to criminalise online expression, and failure to establish national human rights institutions
encoded: Asia Pacific Report The global civil society alliance Civicus has called on eight Pacific governments to do more to respect civic freedoms and strengthen institutions to protect these rights. It is especially concerned over the threats to press freedom, the use of laws to criminalise online expression, and failure to establish national human rights institutions or ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). But it also says that the Pacific status is generally positive. READ MORE: Civicus reports in the Pacific <img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-121655 size-full" src="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Civicus-on-Pacific-300tall.png" alt="The Civicus Pacific civic protections report" width="300" height="393" srcset="https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Civicus-on-Pacific-300tall.png 300w, https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Civicus-on-Pacific-300tall-229x300.png 229w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> The Civicus Pacific civic protections report. Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Solomon Islands have been singled out for criticism over press freedom concerns, but the brief published by the Civicus Monitor also examines the civic spce in Fiji, Kiribati, Tonga and Vanuatu. “There have been incidents of harassment, intimidation and dismissal of journalists in retaliation for their work,” the report said. “Cases of censorship have also been reported, along with denial of access, exclusion of journalists from government events and refusal of visas to foreign journalists.” The Civicus report focuses on respect for and limitations to the freedoms of association, expression and peaceful assembly, which are fundamental to the exercise of civic rights. Freedoms guaranteed “These freedoms are guaranteed in the national constitutions of all eight countries as well as in the ICCPR. “In several countries — including Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, PNG and Samoa — the …

Grad workers union accuse Hopkins private police of union busting
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2025-11-26T00:42:16Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Real News Network and was authored by The Real News Network.
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‘We Need to Recommit to Building a Nation Free From Hunger’: CounterSpin interview with Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP cuts
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creator: Janine Jackson
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description: "The problem isn't that we have 42 million people on SNAP. The problem is that we have 42 million people who live in poverty."
encoded: Janine Jackson interviewed the Food Research and Action Center’s Crystal FitzSimons about cuts to SNAP for the November 21, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. <!--[if lt IE 9]> <![endif]--> https://media.blubrry.com/counterspin/content.blubrry.com/counterspin/CounterSpin251121FitzSimons.mp3 Extra! (11–12/97) Janine Jackson: In 1997, corporate news media were feeling good. A program they had vigorously championed—it was called “welfare reform”—was in the books. “The debate is over,” then-President Bill Clinton announced. “We now know that welfare reform works.” Neil deMause reported it for FAIR, noting, among many examples, Newsweek’s declaration that one year in, the Personal Responsibility Act that abolished federal guarantees of aid to struggling people “blows the doors off even the most optimistic predictions.” At the Cleveland Plain Dealer, it was, “Despite the Chicken Little warnings, welfare reform has been a success.” Now, the foundation for this excitement was a White House report saying that the welfare rolls had dropped by 1.4 million people between August 1996 and May 1997. Clinton advisor Bruce Reed told the Houston Chronicle that that 12% decrease was “totally unprecedented in the history of welfare.” What Reed didn’t answer, because he wasn’t asked, was: Where did those people go? Did they get jobs, or did they just get so frustrated by new requirements that they stopped applying for aid? Did localities cut their caseload figures by ignoring the long-acknowledged “churning,” wherein people are kicked off for missing an appointment, and then have to reapply? The Dallas Morning News declared that “researchers have found no evidence of widespread suffering.” But they later admitted that in Wisconsin, which implemented welfare restrictions sooner than any other state in the nation, homeless shelters were reporting increased demand for aid, and that most states didn’t even study what had happened to those who had lost aid. Th…

Philippines testimony reveals torture, abuses by police, says Amnesty
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-25T21:13:46Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Philippines police unlawfully targeted protesters with unnecessary and excessive force during anti-corruption marches in September, according to harrowing new testimony gathered by the human rights watchdog Amnesty International ahead of fresh protests planned across the country this weekend. Ten people interviewed by Amnesty International detailed physical abuse — including violations that may
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Philippines police unlawfully targeted protesters with unnecessary and excessive force during anti-corruption marches in September, according to harrowing new testimony gathered by the human rights watchdog Amnesty International ahead of fresh protests planned across the country this weekend. Ten people interviewed by Amnesty International detailed physical abuse — including violations that may amount to torture and other ill-treatment — by state forces following demonstrations in the capital Manila on 21 September 2025. The research comes as thousands prepare to return to the streets on November 30 in renewed protests against government corruption, said the Amnesty International report. READ MORE: Other Philippines reports “The disturbing evidence we have gathered of unlawful force unleashed by the police against protesters and others on September 21 makes a mockery of the Philippine government’s repeated claim that it exercises ‘maximum tolerance’ during protests,” said Jerrie Abella, Amnesty International regional campaigner. “Victims have described how police punched, kicked and hit people — including children — with batons as they were arrested, with appalling ill-treatment continuing in detention. The police must change course and respect people’s right to protest on November 30 and beyond.” Police only stopped beatings “when they saw the media coming”. The Philippines’ biggest demonstrations in years took place on September 21, as tens of thousands in Manila and elsewhere protested against corruption by government officials, high-level politicians and contractors in flood-control and infrastructure projects. Isolated incidents Isolated incidents of violence from some protesters, including setting vehicles on fire and throwing stones at the police, were reported in Manila. Manila police said they arrested and detained 216 people who were allegedly involved in the violence, including 91 children. Many are facing criminal charges. However, Am…

‘It Is Sacred Work’: Abortion Clinics Are Stepping Up After the Fall of Roe
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creator: Eleanor J. Bader
date: 2025-11-25T21:05:34Z
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description: Organizations across the country are ensuring people continue to have access to reproductive care.
encoded: Organizations across the country are ensuring people continue to have access to reproductive care. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Eleanor J. Bader.

Even with SNAP, Workers Face Food Crisis
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creator: Saru Jayaraman
date: 2025-11-25T20:01:26Z
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description: The federal government is neglecting its responsibility to American workers and families by failing to fully fund the SNAP program.
encoded: The federal government is neglecting its responsibility to American workers and families by failing to fully fund the SNAP program. This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Saru Jayaraman.

What’s behind the Trump campaign against Maduro in Venezuela?
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T19:48:46Z
subject: Democracy Now!
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subject: Venezuela
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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‘Life goes on without you’: Q&A with Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko
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creator: Gulnoza Said
date: 2025-11-25T19:14:30Z
subject: Committee to Protect Journalists
subject: Farid Mehralizada
subject: Imprisoned
subject: Nika Novak
subject: RFE/RL
subject: Sources
subject: Viktoria Roshchina
subject: Vladyslav Yesypenko
subject: committee
subject: farid
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subject: imprisoned
subject: journalist
subject: Journalists
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subject: nika
subject: novak
subject: protect
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subject: rfe/rl
subject: roshchina
subject: Russia
subject: sources
subject: Torture
subject: ukrainian
subject: viktoria
subject: vladyslav
subject: with
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subject: yesypenko
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description: Captured by Russian security services and sentenced on false charges, Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko spent over four years in a Russian prison, enduring torture while trying to maintain his sanity and physical strength. Yesypenko, who covered Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea for the U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was released in June. He was first detained by Russian authorities...
encoded: Captured by Russian security services and sentenced on false charges, Ukrainian journalist Vladyslav Yesypenko spent over four years in a Russian prison, enduring torture while trying to maintain his sanity and physical strength. Yesypenko, who covered Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea for the U.S. Congress-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), was released in June. He was first detained by Russian authorities in March 2021. Since his release, Yesypenko has been actively advocating for the release of many other Ukrainians languishing in Russian jails. Russia is currently holding 28 journalists behind bars, according to CPJ’s research. Twelve of them are Ukrainians. Journalist Viktoria Roshchina, who reported from the occupied territories after Russia started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, was killed in Russian captivity in 2024. Seven out of the 12 Ukrainians are ethnic Crimean Tatar journalists who reported on human rights violations after Russia occupied and annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014. They are serving lengthy prison sentences on anti-state charges. CPJ’s Gulnoza Said spoke to Yesypenko on several occasions in Prague and New York in recent weeks about what having international support meant to him while he was imprisoned, and how his life has changed since his release. This interview was edited for length and clarity. Can you tell us the circumstances of your arrest in 2021 and conviction in 2022? Before my arrest, I was traveling to Crimea to cover various political, social, and other events and to do vox-pop with local people. I also contributed to RFE/RL’s investigative reporting about Western companies that continued working in Crimea even though it was illegally occupied by Russia. In March 2021, I was on assignment when I was stopped by FSB [Russian security service] officers. They planted a grenade in my car and accused me of possessing and transporting explosive ammunition. It was clearly fabricated. They t…

The Israeli and Palestinian combatants building a shared movement for peace
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Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters
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creator: A.C. Thompson
date: 2025-11-25T18:35:00Z
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description: The post Trump’s Immigration Forces Deploy “Less Lethal” Weapons in Dangerous Ways, Skirting Rules and Maiming Protesters appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: As the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet intensified in June, a nurse in Portland, Oregon, left work one midafternoon and drove to a nearby detention facility to voice his opposition. Federal agents had set off smoke grenades, driving away many protesters at the front of the facility, but Vincent Hawkins lifted his megaphone anyway. “You should stop and think about what you’re doing!” The shot came seconds later, a silver projectile launched through the small facility’s closed gate, hitting him in the face. The tear gas canister shattered his glasses, ripped apart his brow, crushed against his eye and concussed him. In video footage, the projectile can be seen bouncing off his face and arcing back toward the unknown Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fired it. Hawkins, a 25-year veteran of the emergency room, was rushed to one, bleeding and wondering if he’d ever see through his left eye again. A frequent demonstrator, he knew the risks. He’d seen friends struggling to breathe through toxic chemical clouds, others pelted with pepper balls. But Hawkins was undeterred. “I have things to say,” he said. “And if it means being wounded to do it, then here I am.” The 55-year-old said he’d be blind in one eye if not for the shielding effect of his glasses. He’s regained most of his vision but suffers from dizziness and vertigo, sometimes causing him to miss work. Vincent took a less lethal to the eye. He’s says he’s an ER nurse. Protesters call him an ambulance. — Suzette Smith (@suzettesmith.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T00:41:57.628Z Since President Donald Trump’s administration launched high-intensity immigration sweeps this year, federal agents have routinely countered protestors using crowd control weapons — rubber bullets, flash-bang grenades, tear gas and pepper balls. They’ve fired on American citizens and noncitizens alike in ways that some experts say might be criminal. The so-called less lethal weapons are designed to break up mobs engaged in danger…

Gen Z march against ‘vote theft’? No, unrelated video from Jaipur shared with false claims
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description: A video of a candlelight march is viral on social media as a Jaipur to Delhi Gen Z rally. The clip is being shared with hashtags like #votechorgaddichhod and #VoteChorBJP... The post Gen Z march against ‘vote theft’? No, unrelated video from Jaipur shared with false claims appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video of a candlelight march is viral on social media as a Jaipur to Delhi Gen Z rally. The clip is being shared with hashtags like #votechorgaddichhod and #VoteChorBJP implying that it is a protest against the BJP, in line with the Congress-led Opposition’s allegations of vote theft. X user @MissSiddiquiiii tweeted the video with these hashtags. (Archive) Jaipur to Delhi Indian GenZ slogans #votechorgaddichhod #VoteChorBJP pic.twitter.com/bQo2ut8wEj — Maira Siddiqui (@MissSiddiquiiii) November 18, 2025 Several other X users also tweeted the same video, claiming that it shows protests against the alleged voter theft by the Modi government. (Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Click to view slideshow. Fact Check Upon conducting a reverse image search with some key frames from the viral video, we discovered that the same video was uploaded on X by the user @premrajmeena71 on September 25, 2025. In his caption, he stated that the rally was being held in support of independent politician Naresh Meena from Rajasthan. आज राजस्थान की राजधानी जयपुर मे भाई साहब नरेश मीणा जी के प्रति युवाओं का उमड़ा जनसैलाब…..@NareshMeena__ pic.twitter.com/11R7H32fmA — PREMRAJ MEENA (@premrajmeena71) September 25, 2025 A relevant keyword search in Hindi led us to additional footage of the rally on Instagram. The march was held in support of Meena’s demand for justice for the children who died on July 25 in a roof collapse at the Piplodi Government School in the Jhalawar district of Rajasthan. Seven students had lost their lives and 27 had been injured. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Report Rajasthan (@reportrajasthan) Meena had been on a 14-day hunger strike, demanding a compensation of 50 lakh rupees for the families of the victims. He began a silent fast to further support his demand. A few days later, his health deteriorated, and he was admitted to SMS Hospital in Jaipur. We were also able to geo-locate the viral video to the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/ALLEN/@26.871927…

Zelensky to meet Trump to discuss revised Ukraine peace plan; Bipartisan bill would create federal grant program for public transit safety – November 25, 2025
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subject: transit
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Zelensky ready to meet with Trump to discuss revised US peace plan for Ukraine; Bipartisan bill in House of Representatives would create grant program to boost safety in public transit; Trump pardons Thanksgiving turkeys, may also have accidentally issued blanket pardon for all 2020 voter fraud; Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever, wiping out decades of progress, according to UN report; November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, also International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People The post Zelensky to meet Trump to discuss revised Ukraine peace plan; Bipartisan bill would create federal grant program for public transit safety – November 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
encoded: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Zelensky ready to meet with Trump to discuss revised US peace plan for Ukraine; Bipartisan bill in House of Representatives would create grant program to boost safety in public transit; Trump pardons Thanksgiving turkeys, may also have accidentally issued blanket pardon for all 2020 voter fraud; Gaza facing worst economic collapse ever, wiping out decades of progress, according to UN report; November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, also International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People The post Zelensky to meet Trump to discuss revised Ukraine peace plan; Bipartisan bill would create federal grant program for public transit safety – November 25, 2025 appeared first on KPFA. This content originally appeared on KPFA - The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays and was authored by KPFA.

Why elites around Epstein could ignore his crimes
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T17:25:12Z
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subject: could
subject: crimes
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subject: epstein
subject: his
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subject: now
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subject: why
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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UN News Today 25 November 2025
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creator: Katy Dartford
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description: Palestine: UNCTAD reports deepest economic collapse ever recordedGaza’s women face hunger, repeated displacement and rising disability crisis50,000 women and girls killed by partners or family in 2024: UNODC, UN WomenHuman trafficking: IOM launches glo...
encoded: Palestine: UNCTAD reports deepest economic collapse ever recordedGaza’s women face hunger, repeated displacement and rising disability crisis50,000 women and girls killed by partners or family in 2024: UNODC, UN WomenHuman trafficking: IOM launches global campaign urging stronger survivor support This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Katy Dartford.

Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T16:43:56Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T16:39:39Z
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subject: trump’s
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around Epstein
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T16:37:53Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — November 25, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T16:35:49Z
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subject: Democracy
subject: headlines
subject: november
subject: now
subject: Politics
subject: sources
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subject: u.s.
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Gaza: Trump’s Fake Peace Plan Approved by UK
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creator: Stuart Littlewood
date: 2025-11-25T16:01:52Z
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subject: Genocide
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subject: Keir Starmer
subject: Militarism
subject: Occupation
subject: Palestine
subject: Peace
subject: plan
subject: right
subject: Self Determination
subject: sources
subject: trump’s
subject: un security council
subject: United Kingdom
subject: United Nations
subject: United States
subject: unrwa
subject: voice
description: Britain is a founding member of the United Nations and pledged to uphold international law and ensure UN resolutions are implemented – many of which (in relation to Israel-Palestine) have been waiting decades to be actioned. So why did Britain vote for Trump’s Gaza plan at the UN Security Council meeting when it was clearly […] The post Gaza: Trump’s Fake Peace Plan Approved by UK first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Britain is a founding member of the United Nations and pledged to uphold international law and ensure UN resolutions are implemented – many of which (in relation to Israel-Palestine) have been waiting decades to be actioned. So why did Britain vote for Trump’s Gaza plan at the UN Security Council meeting when it was clearly not aligned with international or humanitarian law and the UN’s team of experts had already listed 15 serious objections to it? And why didn’t you, the Opposition, hold our Government to account over this? Warnings issued in good time by the experts included the following: Any peace plan must respect the ground rules of international law. The future of Palestine must be in the hands of the Palestinian people, not imposed under duress by outsiders. The ICJ has ruled that fulfilling the right of self-determination cannot be conditional on negotiations Who governs is a matter for the Palestinians only, without foreign interference. The ICJ has been crystal clear: Conditions cannot be placed on the Palestinian right of self-determination. The Israeli occupation must end immediately, totally and unconditionally, with due reparation made to the Palestinians. The United Nations – not Israel or the US – has been identified by the ICJ as the legitimate authority to oversee the end of the occupation and the transition towards a political solution in which the Palestinians’ right of self-determination is fully realised. The Trump plan does not guarantee the Palestinian right of self-determination as international law requires; and vague pre-conditions put Palestine’s future at the mercy of decisions by outsiders, not in the hands of the Palestinians themselves as international law commands. The “temporary transitional government” is not representative of Palestinians and even excludes the Palestinian Authority, which further violates self-determination and lacks legitimacy. Ignorance was no excuse. So can anyone explain why the UN community allowed a ‘peace…

Artificial Intelligence: At Heaven’s Gate
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creator: Michael Brenner
date: 2025-11-25T15:40:57Z
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subject: mass homelessness
subject: Sources
subject: artificial
subject: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
subject: Benjamin Netanyahu
subject: bugsy
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description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises all sorts of wonderous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average. Doubtless, AI does carry the […] The post Artificial Intelligence: At Heaven’s Gate first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Artificial Intelligence (AI) promises all sorts of wonderous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average. Doubtless, AI does carry the potential to improve some aspects of our lives. To gain perspective on the impacts that it will and will not make, though, prudence tells us to ponder how exactly AI will resolve the following matters that are bedeviling us. * Americans’ selection as their President a demonstrable psychotic neo-Fascist, convicted felon, sexual predator and whose hallmarks are vulgarity, insult and sadist pleasure in hurting people * Our depraved partnership with Israel in crimes against humanity in Gaza – following on the United States’ participation in the murderous assault in Yemen * The raucous Congressional reception of Bibi Netanyahu the orchestrator of genocide whose very presence defiles the chamber * Picking a fight with China over the status of a territory, Taiwan, we acknowledged 50 years ago was an integral part of that country. Accompanied by a veritable campaign of provocations, this ensures a hostile relationship with the world’s other great power – the tenor of that relationship destined to shape global affairs for the balance of the century * A Supreme Court that has arrogated to itself the unbridled power to rewrite the Constitution to accord with its ideological dogmas and political biases while superimposing its judgement on any action of Executive agencies, the Congress or lower judicial bodies and regulatory agencies * Financialization of the economy in a way that guarantees periodic crises while continuing to redistribute trillions of national wealth into the pockets of the 1% — a process that will be accelerated by Cloud Capital’s exploitation of AI * Permitting a locust-like plague of hedge funds and private equity to scythe throug…

Marks on the Calendar: Two Years into Eradication of a People, “So Move on”!
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creator: Paul Haeder
date: 2025-11-25T15:40:35Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Nick Estes
subject: Project Censored
subject: Rick Santorum
subject: Sources
subject: The Librarians
subject: Theresa Montaño
subject: abraham lincoln
subject: Activism
subject: Andrew Jackson
subject: calendar
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subject: Censorship
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description: Note: Again, smalltown news, a newspaper that is now as thin as a tissue, once a week, and here we are — a 900 to 1000 word piece by yours truly once a month. This November, some catching up with October’s Banner Books week, and other funky things. Next month I do a bit of […] The post Marks on the Calendar: Two Years into Eradication of a People, “So Move on”! first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Note: Again, smalltown news, a newspaper that is now as thin as a tissue, once a week, and here we are — a 900 to 1000 word piece by yours truly once a month. This November, some catching up with October’s Banner Books week, and other funky things. Next month I do a bit of jujitsu, and I was begged to speak, and I both look forward to it and dread it: I am NEVER in friendly territory, and in most cases, it’s ‘friendly fire’ against me, the messenger and the dude who is anti-authority and is not a sheeple, but again, Haeder does not spell H-A-T-E. In a week, another Op-Ed runs, twice in a month, and that pisses people off, for sure. So much copy, and why so long, why 956 words? I’m introducing this talk to the wider community, tied to the death of journalism, with a trigger warning and redressing the zombification and infantalilization of AmeriKKKa. Oh, maybe 60 Power Point slides, a media literacy quiz, and a box full of Project Censored “year in review books on the most censored stories of that respective year” and some Covert Action magazines and Z-Magazines, too. Public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 book bans in the 2024-25 school year. A new documentary, The Librarians, examines the experiences of school librarians who’ve found themselves on the front lines of a battle against censorship. Maybe they will make connection between schooling and libraries and media illiteracy? The documentary, The Librarians. It’s a lot of work, working with democrats, mostly grayhairs, and alas with the Anti-Antisemitism virus hitting may of us, those in the audience do not like the word “genocide” or the concept of “ethnic cleansing” or the very big tent idea of 130 Jewish billionaires and a few million multi-millionaire Jews, well, having that outsized “control of banking and media and tech and AI and war mongering and finance and real estate and, well, governments from her to Sudan to Venezuela, et al.” Now, this op-ed continues with the bloody lies of, well, Capit…

The Epstein Island of Everyday Capitalist Reality
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creator: Phil Rockstroh
date: 2025-11-25T15:39:36Z
subject: “The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea”
subject: cankles
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Jennifer Jacobs
subject: sex slaves
subject: Sources
subject: William Blake
subject: Zohran Mamdani
subject: [jennifer
subject: and
subject: beast:
subject: blake?
subject: Capitalism
subject: capitalist
subject: Corruption
subject: Crime
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: dragon
subject: epstein
subject: everyday
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subject: island
subject: jacobs
subject: mamdani
subject: Opinion
subject: piggy
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subject: Sex
subject: slaves
subject: sources
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subject: United States
subject: voice
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description: A missing story thread of the Epstein scandal involves his connection to and service in behalf of Israel. Yes, we know the marketing platitude: “sex sells.” It goes without saying, genocide doesn’t. But there is a connection: The confederacy of pervs of the economic elite’s sense of entitlement includes possessing a proprietary attitude towards all […] The post The Epstein Island of Everyday Capitalist Reality first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-163285" src="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Epstein-Trump.png" alt="" width="505" height="283" srcset="https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Epstein-Trump.png 505w, https://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Epstein-Trump-300x168.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px" /> A missing story thread of the Epstein scandal involves his connection to and service in behalf of Israel. Yes, we know the marketing platitude: “sex sells.” It goes without saying, genocide doesn’t. But there is a connection: The confederacy of pervs of the economic elite’s sense of entitlement includes possessing a proprietary attitude towards all they survey — whether it involves exploitation of the bodies of women and teenage girls or parceling off for profit the real estate of Gaza by means of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Ecocide, perpetual war, for profit Big Medicine, non-living wages, exorbitant rent and housing cost — all have the same root cause: structures of power created for the massive exploitation of the powerless. Term it, The Epstein Island of Everyday Capitalist Reality. Seems like yesterday, Trump seemed to thrive in his persona of a pervy creepopathic tub of noxious goo. But the mania attendant to the predilection has, by all indications, caused him to lapse into a doom spiral. Study his face. There is no amount of fake tan lacquer that can continue to camouflage the rot festering in his rancid soul nor hide the signs auguring that he is nearing a collapse into his corrupt and rotted out core. Trump is the emblem of the massive animus required to distract from the decaying conditions of neoliberal capitalism and overstretched empire. All nations have bodies buried on their property. But empires are maintained by the mindset, evinced in a collective basis, and, on a subliminal basis, mimicked below by its citizenry, of criminals, from grift…

What happened at COP30?
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2025-11-25T14:24:25Z
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Is Trump’s end goal to intimidate voters with the National Guard? #shorts
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creator: Laura Flanders & Friends
date: 2025-11-25T14:02:02Z
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subject: voters’
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description: This content originally appeared on Laura Flanders & Friends and was authored by Laura Flanders & Friends.
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South Africa: A child lost his life after falling into a pit toilet at his pre-school
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creator: Amnesty International
date: 2025-11-25T14:01:22Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Amnesty International and was authored by Amnesty International.
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Battle For Pokrovsk Update: Ukrainian Troops Battle Russia’s Push Toward Pokrovsk
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date: 2025-11-25T13:56:12Z
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Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T13:45:23Z
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subject: chico
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subject: Democracy
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subject: mendes
subject: now
subject: rainforest
subject: rubber
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subject: tapper
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description: We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assassinated by ranchers in December 1988. She discussed her father’s legacy and her on...
encoded: We recently spoke to Brazilian environmental activist Angela Mendes, the daughter of Amazonian forest defender and labor leader Chico Mendes, who was assassinated by ranchers in December 1988. She discussed her father’s legacy and her ongoing work to protect the Amazon rainforest from encroachment by ranching and mining industries. “They come here, build their companies, bringing death to the territories, bringing death for the forests and threatening the peoples of the forest,” Mendes said, speaking to Democracy Now! at the COP30 U.N. climate summit in Belém. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T13:33:09Z
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description: As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow. The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats, killing at lea...
encoded: As the Trump administration escalates pressure on Venezuela, U.S. military activity across the Caribbean continues to grow. The U.S. has deployed more than 15,000 troops to the region and carried out airstrikes on over 20 boats, killing at least 83 people in operations the White House has justified, without providing evidence, as targeting drug traffickers. On Monday, the administration also designated the so-called Cártel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization, alleging President Nicolás Maduro leads the group. “It’s certainly not a cartel,” says Phil Gunson, senior analyst for the Andes region with the International Crisis Group. He explains that while some parts of the Venezuelan military are involved in the drug trade, “these people are in it for the money,” and declaring them terrorists is “ridiculous.” We also speak with Alexander Aviña, associate professor of Latin American history at Arizona State University, who says the anti-Maduro campaign is part of a “broader plan” to remake the entire region. “It’s not just about Venezuela.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

“The Epstein Class”: Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-25T13:19:27Z
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description: While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predator’s relationship with President Donald Trump, his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politi...
encoded: While much of the recent interest in Jeffrey Epstein has focused on the late sexual predator’s relationship with President Donald Trump, his emails also reveal his close relationships with other powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, academia and beyond. The thousands of files released by the House Oversight Committee earlier this month include his correspondence from April 2011 through January 2019, after he was already a registered sex offender for abusing underage girls in Florida. The fact that so many prominent and influential people could ignore those crimes is indicative of their membership in a “borderless network of people who are more loyal to each other” than anything else, says journalist Anand Giridharadas. “He had chosen this particular kind of social network, this American power elite, because he could be sure that it would be able to look away.” Giridharadas is author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World and recently wrote about the Epstein emails for The New York Times opinion section. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

The Impact of Elon Musk’s Lack of Empathy
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creator: VICE News
date: 2025-11-25T13:00:59Z
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Headlines for November 25, 2025
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description: GOP Lawmaker Presses U.S. to Invade Venezuela, Promising “Field Day” for U.S. Oil Companies, Sudan’s RSF Announces Unilateral Ceasefire as Military Rulers Reject U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Plan, Israel Continues to Violate Gaza Ceasefire as GHF Closes Aid Sites Condemned as “Death Traps”, Sen. Van Hollen Calls for Release of Mohammed Ibrahim, a Florida Teen Jailed for Months by Israel, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Met Secretly in July with Convicted Spy Jonathan Pollard, Russia Launches Deadly Attacks on Ukraine Even as Peace Talks Continue, Trump Administration to Review Status of Refugees Admitted to U.S. Under Biden, Federal Appeals Court Ruling Limits Trump’s Plans to Fast-Track Deportations, Costa Rica Rebuts Trump Administration’s Claims It Would Not Accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 31 Arrested While Protesting Inhumane Conditions at Miami-Dade ICE Jail, Marjorie Taylor Greene to Quit Congress After Break with Trump over Gaza, Healthcare and Epstein, Pentagon Threatens Court-Martial of Sen. Mark Kelly, Who Told Service Members to Disobey Illegal Orders, Judge Tosses Indictments Against James Comey and Letitia James over Unlawfully Appointed Prosecutor, EPA Approves Pesticides Containing “Forever Chemicals” and Rolls Back Drinking Water Standards, Viola Ford Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
encoded: GOP Lawmaker Presses U.S. to Invade Venezuela, Promising "Field Day" for U.S. Oil Companies Sudan's RSF Announces Unilateral Ceasefire as Military Rulers Reject U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Plan Israel Continues to Violate Gaza Ceasefire as GHF Closes Aid Sites Condemned as "Death Traps" Sen. Van Hollen Calls for Release of Mohammed Ibrahim, a Florida Teen Jailed for Months by Israel U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee Met Secretly in July with Convicted Spy Jonathan Pollard Russia Launches Deadly Attacks on Ukraine Even as Peace Talks Continue Trump Administration to Review Status of Refugees Admitted to U.S. Under Biden Federal Appeals Court Ruling Limits Trump's Plans to Fast-Track Deportations Costa Rica Rebuts Trump Administration's Claims It Would Not Accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia 31 Arrested While Protesting Inhumane Conditions at Miami-Dade ICE Jail Marjorie Taylor Greene to Quit Congress After Break with Trump over Gaza, Healthcare and Epstein Pentagon Threatens Court-Martial of Sen. Mark Kelly, Who Told Service Members to Disobey Illegal Orders Judge Tosses Indictments Against James Comey and Letitia James over Unlawfully Appointed Prosecutor EPA Approves Pesticides Containing "Forever Chemicals" and Rolls Back Drinking Water Standards Viola Ford Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111 This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Democracy Now! 2025-11-25 Tuesday
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Chile plans to launch global campaign seeking to expel ‘pariah’ Israel from United Nations
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-25T11:02:47Z
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description: Ma’an News Agency in Santiago Civil society forces in Chile are preparing to launch an international campaign to demand the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations. This is based on Article 6 of the United Nations Charter against the backdrop of what the campaign describes as “continuous and systematic violations” of international law and
encoded: Ma’an News Agency in Santiago Civil society forces in Chile are preparing to launch an international campaign to demand the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations. This is based on Article 6 of the United Nations Charter against the backdrop of what the campaign describes as “continuous and systematic violations” of international law and resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Security Council. The official launch of the campaign is due to take place tomorrow during a public event in the capital Santiago while a collection of signatures by electronic petition has already begun. READ MORE: Israel kills four Palestinians in Gaza — resistance fighters recover body of captive Other Gaza reports Campaign data indicated that the petition addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had already exceeded 57,000 signatures, with a goal of quickly reaching 100,000 signatures. The organisers of the civil society initiative say the rapid response reflects a “broad popular response” to the dire humanitarian situation in Palestine, and embodies “international civil pressure” to get the international system moving after decades of inaction. At the media event introducing the initiative, lawyer and former Chilean ambassador Nelson Haddad presented the legal framework for the campaign, explaining that Israel had become a “pariah state according to the definitions of international law,” and that it “does not abide by UN resolutions, nor by the basic rules of international humanitarian law, and practises systematic violations that have been ongoing for more than seven decades”. Campaign organisers say this mechanism has been used in historical moments, such as the Korean War and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and that activating it now could constitute an “institutional pressure tool” capable of overcoming obstruction within the UN Security Council. ‘Reforming the UN’ The organisers also believe that the goal is not limited to imposing measures against Israel, but exte…

Chile plans to launch global campaign seeking to expel ‘pariah’ Israel from United Nations
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-25T11:02:47Z
subject: Article 6
subject: Asia Pacific Report
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subject: Ma'an News Agency
subject: Power of veto
subject: Sources
subject: Systematic violations
subject: UN Resolutions
subject: United Nations reform
subject: ‘systematic
subject: agency
subject: article
subject: asia
subject: Asia Report
subject: campaign
subject: Chile
subject: Civil Society
subject: Decolonisation
subject: equality
subject: expel
subject: expulsion
subject: Featured
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subject: Global
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subject: Indigenous
subject: International Law
subject: israel
subject: israeli
subject: Justice
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subject: nations
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subject: Pacific Report
subject: Palestine
subject: pariah
subject: plans
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subject: Power
subject: reform
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subject: Resolutions
subject: seeking
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subject: veto
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description: Ma’an News Agency in Santiago Civil society forces in Chile are preparing to launch an international campaign to demand the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations. This is based on Article 6 of the United Nations Charter against the backdrop of what the campaign describes as “continuous and systematic violations” of international law and
encoded: Ma’an News Agency in Santiago Civil society forces in Chile are preparing to launch an international campaign to demand the expulsion of Israel from the United Nations. This is based on Article 6 of the United Nations Charter against the backdrop of what the campaign describes as “continuous and systematic violations” of international law and resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Security Council. The official launch of the campaign is due to take place tomorrow during a public event in the capital Santiago while a collection of signatures by electronic petition has already begun. READ MORE: Israel kills four Palestinians in Gaza — resistance fighters recover body of captive Other Gaza reports Campaign data indicated that the petition addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had already exceeded 57,000 signatures, with a goal of quickly reaching 100,000 signatures. The organisers of the civil society initiative say the rapid response reflects a “broad popular response” to the dire humanitarian situation in Palestine, and embodies “international civil pressure” to get the international system moving after decades of inaction. At the media event introducing the initiative, lawyer and former Chilean ambassador Nelson Haddad presented the legal framework for the campaign, explaining that Israel had become a “pariah state according to the definitions of international law,” and that it “does not abide by UN resolutions, nor by the basic rules of international humanitarian law, and practises systematic violations that have been ongoing for more than seven decades”. Campaign organisers say this mechanism has been used in historical moments, such as the Korean War and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and that activating it now could constitute an “institutional pressure tool” capable of overcoming obstruction within the UN Security Council. ‘Reforming the UN’ The organisers also believe that the goal is not limited to imposing measures against Israel, but exte…

Connecticut DMV Fires Employee Who Made Thousands Selling Towed Cars
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creator: Ginny Monk
date: 2025-11-25T10:00:00Z
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description: The post Connecticut DMV Fires Employee Who Made Thousands Selling Towed Cars appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: The Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles has fired a longtime employee nearly five years after investigators found he used his position to garner steep discounts on cars he bought from a towing company, according to a termination letter obtained last week. The Connecticut Mirror and ProPublica reported in March on the accusations against Dominik Stefanski and the DMV’s failure to take action against him or the towing company. The story was part of a larger series about how Connecticut’s towing laws have come to favor tow truck companies over vehicle owners and how the DMV’s lack of oversight has allowed abuses in the system. The DMV investigated Stefanski for over a year beginning in 2020 but didn’t fire him until early November, months after the news organizations’ story. According to the 2020-21 DMV investigation, when employees of D&L Auto Body & Towing in Berlin, Connecticut, went to the main DMV office in nearby Wethersfield, they would make eye contact with Stefanski, who would then allow them to cut the slow-moving DMV lines. In exchange for this favor, the report said, D&L employees would allow Stefanski to select vehicles that had been towed by the company weeks or months before. D&L would then undervalue the cars on DMV forms, investigators said, allowing Stefanski to buy them cheaply and resell them for a profit. In total, DMV investigators found that from 2015 to 2019, D&L sold 15 vehicles to an investment firm owned by Stefanski, who had worked for the agency since 1999 and was then a document examiner in the DMV’s main office. In one case, Stefanski bought a Cadillac for $1,000 and sold it for $17,500. The car was eventually sold by another company for $23,250. In 2020, DMV investigators recommended that Stefanski be criminally charged for the scheme they alleged made him thousands of dollars, and they completed an arrest warrant. A prosecutor decided not to file charges, however, citing “prosecutorial discretion” and “insufficient evidence to meet…

DN! Tuesday, November 25, 2025
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description: Tuesday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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Rising heat, failing kidneys: Climate’s hidden toll on migrant workers
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creator: Natalie Donback
date: 2025-11-25T09:30:00Z
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subject: toll
subject: Workers
description: Migrant workers return from Gulf countries with failed kidneys, victims of extreme temperatures, grueling labor, and a global system that leaves them unprotected.
encoded: The beeping of old dialysis machines at the National Kidney Center in Kathmandu never stops. Nurses in dark blue scrubs rush around tending to the 55 people having their blood cleaned at any given time while cleaners squeeze by carrying stained sheets and buckets of bloody catheters. The facility, located alongside a major thoroughfare in the Nepalese capital, runs three dialysis sittings daily. That’s as many as 165 patients every day. Most visit three times a week, and will do so for the rest of their lives. “Otherwise they will die,” said Dr. Rishi Kumar Kafle, the nephrologist who founded the clinic 28 years ago. Each patient sits snuggled in a blanket, one arm connected to a device the size of a small refrigerator that filters toxins from their blood, an essential task their kidneys can no longer perform. One of them is 30-year-old Surendra Tamang, who, like many young Nepalese men, left his family to work in the Persian Gulf. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=768 768w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1152 1152w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1536 1536w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&strip=all&w=160&h=90&crop=1 160w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Surendra-Tamang-30-years-2.jpeg?quality=75&…

Dismantling the Endangered Species Act will hurt a lot more than just wildlife
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creator: Sophie Hurwitz
date: 2025-11-25T09:15:00Z
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
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subject: will
description: The Trump administration's proposed rollbacks open the door for more drilling, mining, and logging.
encoded: For more than 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has saved thousands of animals and plants from threats like poaching, habitat loss, and pollution. It brought bald eagles back from the brink of extinction, reestablished grizzly bear populations on public lands, and safeguarded the redwood forests that play host to dozens of vulnerable animals. In total, it has prevented the extinction of 99 percent of the species it has protected. Last week, President Donald Trump announced that his administration is weakening or eliminating key provisions of the bedrock environmental law that protect vulnerable species from extractive activities like oil drilling. This isn’t the first time Trump has gutted the Endangered Species Act, or ESA. Back in 2019, his administration changed the act to make it easier to remove a species from the list, and to allow economic factors to be considered when determining whether to list a new species. Many of those changes were reversed during Joe Biden’s presidency, but may now be overturned once again. The new rollbacks were announced by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposed changes would also limit federal agencies’ ability to consider potential future impacts on a species — such as the impacts of climate change — when deciding which species to list. In addition, the so-called blanket rule, which bestows species listed as threatened with the same protections as those listed as endangered, would be canceled. (“Endangered” means a species is in danger of extinction, while “threatened” means it’s likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future.) “This is certainly of a piece with this administration’s drive to undermine conservation, undermine protection of federal lands and wildlife, and to benefit the extractive industries and stakeholders that certainly have this administration’s ear,” said Jane P. Davenport, a senior attorney at Defenders of Wildlife, an e…

Learning Little From History
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creator: Paul Atwood
date: 2025-11-25T06:59:41Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: When I was still shaped by my juvenile consciousness during the early Cold War and by the fact that my father was a wounded vet, I believed that he and all his fellows had saved us from the fangs of the venomous Japanese and Nazis. There was nothing in the “history” we were taught straight through high school that digressed from the official mantra. More The post Learning Little From History appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump is Melting Down: Is This the Beginning of the End?
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creator: Melvin Goodman
date: 2025-11-25T06:58:55Z
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description: The mainstream media have been concerned with the politics, policies, and propaganda of Donald Trump’s terms in office, but have virtually ignored the central question of his presidency: Is Trump psychologically fit to be president of the United States and commander in chief? More The post Trump is Melting Down: Is This the Beginning of the End? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The War of the AI Moguls on Climate Science
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creator: Juan Cole
date: 2025-11-25T06:57:50Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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description: In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops, and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage. That Category 5 storm’s unprecedented ferocity was driven by an More The post The War of the AI Moguls on Climate Science appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Trump, the Crown Prince and Killing Khashoggi
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-25T06:53:31Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: articles 2015
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description: The Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is at it again. Gulling, wooing, and grinning his way into the establishment of another country, he is greasing palms and making deals. Effusive and flattering of his host, this time US President Donald Trump, he received a state welcome on November 18 rarely afforded visiting dignitaries: a red More The post Trump, the Crown Prince and Killing Khashoggi appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon
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creator: Lindsay Koshgarian
date: 2025-11-25T06:53:11Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: The government shutdown ended with a failure to solve the problem of steeply rising health insurance premiums. The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashed programs like Medicaid and SNAP to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and a $1 trillion Pentagon, allows tax credits that reduce these health costs for ordinary people to expire at More The post Less for Health Care, More for the Pentagon appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Government is Open, Now it Needs to Get America Moving, Literally
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creator: Leeann Hall
date: 2025-11-25T06:53:10Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: Despite the government reopening, Americans are still suffering from the chaos of an administration that is out of touch with the needs of the people. Though federal workers are back on the job and agencies are resuming their work, countless essential programs are stalled or at risk, costing all of us by failing to invest More The post The Government is Open, Now it Needs to Get America Moving, Literally appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Palestinian Liberation, Not Imperialist “Stabilization”
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creator: Ron Jacobs
date: 2025-11-25T06:52:28Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: "stabilization"
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: imperialist
subject: liberation
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subject: palestinian
subject: sources
description: The arrogance of colonialists and imperialists never changes. One need only look at the recent “stabilization” plan for Palestine to understand what I mean. The plan, which was approved by a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) unanimous vote (with China and Russia abstaining) is nothing more or less than a twenty-first century version of the More The post Palestinian Liberation, Not Imperialist “Stabilization” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Unravelling the Mystery of the Murder of Charles Horman
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creator: Ariel Dorfman
date: 2025-11-25T06:50:24Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: charles
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description: At this perilous moment in which we are living, when men in masks command unmarked vans and snatch innocent people from the streets, homes, and workplaces of the United States, often without their families or friends able to ascertain where they are being held or even whether they are alive, other chilling events in the More The post Unravelling the Mystery of the Murder of Charles Horman appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Just Follow Orders or Obey the Law? What US Troops Told Us About Refusing Illegal Commands
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creator: Charli Carpenter – Geraldine Santoso
date: 2025-11-25T06:45:55Z
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description: As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic members of Congress issued a video on Nov. 18, 2025, telling the military “You can refuse illegal orders” and “You must refuse illegal orders.” The lawmakers have all served either in More The post Just Follow Orders or Obey the Law? What US Troops Told Us About Refusing Illegal Commands appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic members of Congress issued a video on Nov. 18, 2025, telling the military “You can refuse illegal orders” and “You must refuse illegal orders.” The lawmakers have all served either in the military or the intelligence community. Their message sparked a furious response on social media from President Donald Trump, who called the legislators’ action “seditious behavior, punishable by death.” One of the lawmakers, Sen. Elissa Slotkin, told The New York Times that she had heard from troops currently serving that they were worried about their own liability in actions such as the ones in the Caribbean. This is not the first time Trump has put members of the military in situations whose legality has been questioned. But a large percentage of service members understand their duty to follow the law in such a difficult moment. We are scholars of international relations and international law. We conducted survey research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Human Security Lab and discovered that many service members do understand the distinction between legal and illegal orders, the duty to disobey certain orders, and when they should do so. The ethical dilemma With his Aug. 11, 2025, announcement that he was sending the National Guard – along with federal law enforcement – into Washington, D.C. to fight crime, Trump edged U.S. troops closer to the kind of military-civilian confrontations that can cross ethical and legal lines. Indeed, since Trump returned to office, many of his actions have alarmed international human rights observers. His administration has deported immigrants without due process, held detainees in inhumane conditions, threatened the forcible removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and deployed both the National Guard and federal military troops to Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, Chi…

Fearless Benjamin: A History Lesson From Grownups of Integrity
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description: Ask the children. Chances are, I reckon, they’ll say Washington and Jefferson ought to have known better than to enslave people. And chances are, an adult will weigh in. The founding fathers can’t be judged by today’s standards; they were products of their time. But they did know—or ought to have known—better. George Washington’s library More The post Fearless Benjamin: A History Lesson From Grownups of Integrity appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-390940" class="wp-image-390940" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/may-be-an-image-of-studying-and-text.jpeg" alt="May be an image of studying and text" width="720" height="492" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/may-be-an-image-of-studying-and-text.jpeg 720w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/may-be-an-image-of-studying-and-text-680x465.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/may-be-an-image-of-studying-and-text-500x342.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/may-be-an-image-of-studying-and-text-600x410.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px" /> Photo credit: Martin Cohen Ask the children. Chances are, I reckon, they’ll say Washington and Jefferson ought to have known better than to enslave people. And chances are, an adult will weigh in. The founding fathers can’t be judged by today’s standards; they were products of their time. But they did know—or ought to have known—better. George Washington’s library included writings by the Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet (1713-1784). So did Thomas Jefferson’s. Benezet’s abolitionism was propelled by the work of an even earlier writer, Benjamin Lay (1682-1759). You know, the little person who walked into a Quaker meetinghouse and pierced a bible with a sword, so that the fake blood in a hidden container splashed out of the book and onto the wealthy slave holders in the front seats. A devout, third-generation Quaker, Lay could see quite clearly that slavery violated the Friends’ commitment to peace. And Lay was a consummate peace activist. <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="979" height="783" class="wp-image-390941" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390939-2.jpeg" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/word-image-390939-2.jpeg 979w, https://…

Notes From Lennox Hill Hospital
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description: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. – T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Man” The Rabbi on Saturday afternoon pledged to serve fresh lox at the Shabbos meal at the rehab center I was consigned to. I was lured to join 20 other residents around the tables, and I was More The post Notes From Lennox Hill Hospital appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. – T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Man” The Rabbi on Saturday afternoon pledged to serve fresh lox at the Shabbos meal at the rehab center I was consigned to. I was lured to join 20 other residents around the tables, and I was very glad I did. The lox was delicious and a clear improvement over the standard fare and boredom at the rehab center. My 100-year-old mother unexpectedly showed up. She sat next to me, Cathryn, and mom’s aide. I hadn’t seen mom in six weeks, and this was truly a joyous occasion. The Rabbi though, perhaps 45 years old, filled the cafeteria with bluster and pomposity; he didn’t stop speaking for at least an hour. He had his 6-year-old daughter lie down on the table in front of everybody, clasp her hands behind her back, and the Rabbi announced that he would now reenact the story of Abraham and Isaac from the Bible. Cathryn tuned out, and mom fidgeted in her seat as the Rabbi explained that Abraham was called upon by the Lord to prove his fealty to God by slaughtering his first-born son on the top of the Jehovah-jireh mountain. The Rabbi, who hadn’t stopped talking the entire time, walked over to a corner table, and picked up a knife and started walking back in the direction of his daughter. I called to the Rabbi as he walked past, “Put down that knife,” which he did. He then walked over to his little girl who might easily have been traumatized for life, sat her up on the table, and told the story of how an angel sent by God stopped Abraham at the last minute. All three patriarchal religions are based on this story, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, with some variation. The Rabbi asked if anyone had any questions and I responded, “How did these religions know that Abraham – which was my dad’s name – was actually listening to the word of God when he was about to slaughter his son and not to some delusional voice in his own head?” The Rabbi said, “Good question,” and then pathetically answered: “When…

The Multipolarity Myth
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description: It’s no secret America’s reputation is declining. This is thanks largely to Donald Trump, the clown in chief whose weekly blooper reel could make a feature film. Polling shows that just 46% of people from 29 countries view the United States as a force for good. In context, even this seems high — especially given More The post The Multipolarity Myth appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-390921" class="wp-image-390921 size-medium" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-680x421.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="421" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-680x421.jpg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-1018x630.jpg 1018w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-768x475.jpg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-1536x950.jpg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-2048x1267.jpg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-500x309.jpg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/the-new-york-public-library-ZRBIWFV3ez0-unsplash-600x371.jpg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Image by New York Public Library. It’s no secret America’s reputation is declining. This is thanks largely to Donald Trump, the clown in chief whose weekly blooper reel could make a feature film. Polling shows that just 46% of people from 29 countries view the United States as a force for good. In context, even this seems high — especially given its perpetual warmaking and current aiding and abetting of Israel’s Gaza genocide. Yet it nonetheless lagged behind China’s modest but notable 49%. But reputation is one thing. Raw power is another — and America still has loads of it. The United States remains the big kid on the block. Everyone else is either too weak or cowardly to challenge them. For a while, statements like that were uncontroversial. America was the lone superpower — its power, beyond d…

Did Prescribed Burning Really Save Sisters, Oregon From a Wildfire?
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creator: George Wuerthner
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description: I frequently read anecdotes and even research suggesting that “active forest management” can successfully slow or stop wildfires. In my experience, many of these claims ignore the role of changing weather conditions in fire control. For instance, despite the efforts of over 10,000 firefighters, the 1988 Yellowstone fire was only extinguished by snowfall on September More The post Did Prescribed Burning Really Save Sisters, Oregon From a Wildfire? appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-391074" class="wp-image-391074" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Thinning-and-logged-sites-within-the-Milli-Fire-perimeter-George-Wuerthner-142417.jpg" alt="" width="680" height="680" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Thinning-and-logged-sites-within-the-Milli-Fire-perimeter-George-Wuerthner-142417.jpg 400w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Thinning-and-logged-sites-within-the-Milli-Fire-perimeter-George-Wuerthner-142417-200x200.jpg 200w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Thinning-and-logged-sites-within-the-Milli-Fire-perimeter-George-Wuerthner-142417-100x100.jpg 100w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photo: George Wuerthner. I frequently read anecdotes and even research suggesting that “active forest management” can successfully slow or stop wildfires. In my experience, many of these claims ignore the role of changing weather conditions in fire control. For instance, despite the efforts of over 10,000 firefighters, the 1988 Yellowstone fire was only extinguished by snowfall on September 11, which finally enabled control of the fire. The Milli Fire on Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest is a more recent example of how changing weather led to false claims that active forest management “saved” the community of Sisters, Oregon, from the wildfire. In 2017, the Milli Fire charred approximately 24,000 acres. It burned within 4 miles of Sisters, Oregon, where proponents of active forest management, including the Deschutes Collaborative and Forest Service, claim fuel reductions slowed the fire’s advance and “saved” the community. Local politicians, county commissioners, and even Oregon Senator Merkley now refer to the Milli Fire to justify increased federal spending on fuel-reduction projects. But, like so much happy talk from agencies and other organizations, there is more nuance to the ex…

Russia and China abstain on colonial US Gaza resolution
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Mark Levin’s stepson subverts State Dept for Israel
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Huckabee met secretly with literal traitor
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Why We Oppose Trump’s Plan for Ukraine
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description: Imperialist bullying is rarely so open and brazen. Donald Trump demanded last week that Ukraine accept his surrender plan for Ukraine by Thanksgiving Day, November 27, or lose what little remains of US support for Ukraine, which is the sharing of satellite intelligence about Russian military positions and the sale of arms to Ukraine via More The post Why We Oppose Trump’s Plan for Ukraine appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Imperialist bullying is rarely so open and brazen. Donald Trump demanded last week that Ukraine accept his surrender plan for Ukraine by Thanksgiving Day, November 27, or lose what little remains of US support for Ukraine, which is the sharing of satellite intelligence about Russian military positions and the sale of arms to Ukraine via European buyers. Trump stopped all other military and economic aid to Ukraine when he returned to office in January. Trump Always Chickens Out when it comes to threatened pressure on Russia. All the pressure has been on Ukraine to capitulate. Trump’s so-called “peace” plan gave him the excuse to not enact the secondary sanctions on countries buying oil from the Russian oil companies Lukoil and Rosneft that were scheduled to go into effect on November 21. Trump’s new plan is the fourth iteration of basically the same so-called peace plan that Trump has proposed this year. The plan supports Russian war aims and withdraws all US support from Ukraine. This version was negotiated between US and Russian representatives without Ukrainians present. It is being presented to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave-it done deal. Among the provisions in its 28 points are: – Ukraine disarms. Its military forces are cut back to 600,000, or 40% of its current forces. Russian forces in the Russia-occupied territories of Ukraine have no limits. – Ukraine can have no foreign troops on Ukrainian land. Russia’s deployment of North Korean and foreign mercenary forces in Russian-occupied Ukrainian lands is not restricted. – Ukraine can receive no arms and military assistance from outside Ukraine. Russia’s continuing receipt of arms from Iran and North Korea and essential components for military equipment from China is not restricted. – Russia’s war of aggression is rewarded with recognition by Ukraine and the US as Russian territory of lands taken by force, plus a bonus reward of 2,500 square miles of Donbas lands that are now under Ukrainian control. Unacknowledge…

Artist Sam Linguist on creating your own logic
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description: Let’s start by talking about your materials in the studio. You make ceramics, but painting is a strong element in your practice. What was this evolution of mediums like, and how do you think about it now?
encoded: Let’s start by talking about your materials in the studio. You make ceramics, but painting is a strong element in your practice. What was this evolution of mediums like, and how do you think about it now? Objects have always been central for me. Before ceramics, I started with sewing. I was thinking about objects and painting and how those things line up, and ceramics were the perfect combo. I also think about how they fit on a wall, which leads to weird infrastructural and architectural effects—the space that they’re in and how they hang on the wall, and how that adds to the experience of the medium. When I first started making things, I became really interested in work that was conceptually rooted, and so I felt like I should be making the same kind of thing. I did ceramics on the side just because I liked it, but eventually found a way to combine those two interests. The material became overpowering. Then I realized that I use ceramics because it’s almost eternal. It’s archeological; it feels timeless in the way that it won’t decay. I became really interested in how the pigment is literally baked into the surface to never erode, yet the piece is ultimately fragile and will break very easily if not cared for. Sam Linguist, three name movie theater, 2025, underglazed stoneware. Courtesy of Laurel Gitlen and the artist. Photo credit: Charles Benton. I began by making Korean moon jars—they start as two hemispheres that are then joined—because I had a wheel. I used to live down the street from this folk art potter who was pretty well known, which made me think, “I have to be really skilled and do all this stuff perfectly.” Then I realized that painting the surfaces was what I enjoyed the most, and all the artists who I was looking at that point were working in painterly ways on sculpture. I started making forms to paint on and flattening them into pie pans. Eventually I flipped them over and started painting on the back of the pans, and then it became a casserole dish…

COP30 ends with ‘extremely weak’ outcomes, says Pacific campaigner
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description: By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The United Nations climate conference in Brazil this month finished with an “extremely weak” outcome, according to one Pacific campaigner. Shiva Gounden, the head of Pacific at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said the multilateral process is currently being attacked, which is making it hard to reach a meaningful consensus on
encoded: By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The United Nations climate conference in Brazil this month finished with an “extremely weak” outcome, according to one Pacific campaigner. Shiva Gounden, the head of Pacific at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said the multilateral process is currently being attacked, which is making it hard to reach a meaningful consensus on decisions. “The credibility of COPs [Conference of Parties] is dropping somewhat but it can be salvaged if there’s a little bit of political will, that is visionary from across the world,” he said. READ MORE: Other COP30 reports “The Pacific has showed leadership in this quite a bit in the last few COPs.” Gounden said the outcomes of this COP and previous ones mean global temperature rise will not be limited to 1.5C — the threshold climate scientists say is needed to ensure a healthy planet. “There are parties within the system who are attacking the science and the facts that show that we need to really be lot more ambitious than we are. “If that continues there will be a lot more faith that’s lost by a lot of people across the world, and that can only be salvaged by political will and the unity of people across the world.” No explicit cutting of fossil fuels COP30 finished in Belém, Brazil, with an agreement that does not explicitly mention cutting fossil fuels. This is despite more than 80 countries pushing to advance previous commitments to transition away from oil, coal and gas. “I feel the [outcome] was extremely weak,” Gounden said. Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN) international policy lead Sindra Sharma said the outcome had not made much progress. “It feels like just a waste of time to be honest, that we haven’t been able to close the ambition gap in any significant way, when a lot of the two weeks was also spent on reminding us that we are in a really bad place. “We’re going to overshoot 1.5C and we need to do something about it.” The meeting did finish a call to a least triple ad…

‘Father of Timor Post’ – why Asia Pacific media legend Bob Howarth’s legacy will live on
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description: TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81. He was a passionate advocate for journalism who changed many lives with his extraordinary kindness and generosity coupled with wisdom, experience and an uncanny ability to make things happen. Howarth worked
encoded: TRIBUTE: By Mouzinho Lopes de Araujo The world has lost a giant with the passing of Australian media legend Bob Howarth. He was 81. He was a passionate advocate for journalism who changed many lives with his extraordinary kindness and generosity coupled with wisdom, experience and an uncanny ability to make things happen. Howarth worked for major daily newspapers in his native Australia and around the world, having a particularly powerful impact on the Asia Pacific region. READ MORE: Bob Howarth: Role of journalism in developing and protecting democracy Tribute to Bob Howarth: He touched the Pacific in ways words can barely capture East Timor’s Independente champions genuine ‘free press’ I first met Bob Howarth in 2001 in Timor-Leste during the nation’s first election campaign after the hard-won independence vote. We met in the newsroom of the Timor Post, a daily newspaper he had been instrumental in setting up. I was doing my journalism training there when Howarth was asked to tell the trainees about his considerable experience. It was only a short conversation, but his words and body language captivated me. He was a born storyteller. Role in the Timor-Post I later found out about his role in the birth of the Timor Post, the newly independent nation’s first daily newspaper. In early 2000, after hearing Timorese journalists lacked even the most basic equipment needed to do their jobs, he hatched a plan to get non-Y2K-compliant PCs, laptops and laser printers from Queensland Newspapers over to Dili. And, despite considerable hurdles, he got it done. Then his bosses sent Howarth himself over to help a team of 14 Timorese journalists set up the Post. The first publication of the Timor Post occurred during the historic visit of Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid to Timor-Leste in February 2000. A media mass for Bob Howarth in Timor-Leste Video: Timor Post In that first edition, Bob Howarth wrote an editorial in English, entitled “Welcome Mr Wahid”, accompanied by ph…

Photojournalist arrested at Miami immigration protest, gear seized
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date: 2025-11-24T20:42:41Z
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description: Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami, Florida, on Nov. 22, 2025. Decker was held in custody for ...
encoded: Freelance photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s deputies while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami, Florida, on Nov. 22, 2025. Decker was held in custody for more than 30 hours before being released on bond with two charges. Decker was on assignment to cover the protest for multiple outlets: Creative Loafing Tampa, an alt-weekly newspaper; News2Share, a collective that sells footage to news outlets; and Zuma Press, an independent press agency. The activist group Sunrise Movement organized the protest at the Krome North Service Processing Center. In a clip posted to the group’s Instagram, more than a dozen activists are seen sitting and standing in front of a gate into the facility while singing and holding signs. Decker told Creative Loafing that he was wearing National Press Photographers Association credentials around his neck and was photographing the protest. Once officers with the Miami-Dade Police and Florida Highway Patrol moved in, he began documenting the arrests of the protesters. “It just felt normal to do the work of photojournalism and document from the sides, to document the detainments as they were happening,” Decker said. He added that, without warning, an officer made eye contact with him and began placing him in flex cuffs. “I said, ‘Hey officer, I’m a member of the press.’ They said, ‘You were warned, you’re getting arrested,’” he recounted. Decker was able to speak with a Highway Patrol sergeant and identified himself as a journalist yet again, but said it was to no avail. “He said, ‘I don’t care about any of this.’ And he said, ‘You’re going to get arrested too,’” Decker said. “So he arrested me, and then he isolated me on another side of the road.” In footage captured by Decker, the photojournalist can be heard saying, “Oh my gosh, I’m not with them.” An officer then responds, “OK. Well, you’re here,” to which Decker replies, “I’m working.” “Anybody th…

Redactions or reckoning? Will we ever see the FULL Epstein files?
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creator: Taya Graham, Stephen Janis and Maximillian Alvarez
date: 2025-11-24T20:39:55Z
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The Epstein class has no party loyalty
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Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media
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creator: Kate Horgan
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description: In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss journalism as memory work, and the narrative as a battlefield upon which ever more advanced technology...
encoded: In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss journalism as memory work, and the narrative as a battlefield upon which ever more advanced technology takes aim at Palestinian voices and lived experiences. Laura frames journalism as a commitment - to people and their stories, and talks about how the chasing of headlines and by-lines in the 24-hour news cycle leads to extractive journalism, and how and why movement media can be the antidote. Next up, Economics PHD students Shakked Noy and Aakaash Rao discuss their recent report: The Business of the Culture War which links the contemporary “culture wars” to changes in media technologies as well as economic incentives for cable news. Shakked and Aakaash discuss how their research shows that the economic drive for viewership has incentivized corporate media to turn away from actual political news and towards sensational infotainment, and how the commodification of legitimate rage leaves us dumber and more divided than ever before. The post Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media appeared first on Project Censored. This content originally appeared on Project Censored and was authored by Kate Horgan.

Kshama Sawant Wants to Start a ‘Political Earthquake’
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description: A former Seattle City Council member is bringing her revolutionary socialist politics and firebrand rhetoric to a Congressional primary in Washington State.
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Robert Reich Thinks Democrats Are On the Brink of a New Era (Finally) #politics #trump
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Wisconsin moves to modernize prisons—but not fast enough to save lives
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Rutte: Can Putin Be Trusted?
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-11-24T18:49:31Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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NATO Chief Mark Rutte: US Peace Plan Brings Kyiv & Washington Closer — But Can Ukraine Trust Putin?
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-11-24T18:39:53Z
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subject: Washington
description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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DN! Friday, November 28, 2025
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description: Friday Democracy Now! show for rebroadcast - HD
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ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
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creator: Mica Rosenberg
date: 2025-11-24T18:05:00Z
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description: The post ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record. appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: It was Friday, June 6, and the rent was due. As soon as she finished an errand, Imelda Carreto planned on joining her family as they gathered scrap metal to earn a little extra cash. Her fiancé, Julio Matias, and 15-year-old nephew, Carlos, had set out early, hitching a trailer to the back of their beat-up gray truck. Shortly after 8 a.m., Carreto’s phone rang. It was Carlos, telling her an officer with the Florida Highway Patrol had pulled over the truck on Interstate 4 near Tampa. The stated reason: cracks in their windshield. But Carreto was worried. She knew Florida police were collaborating with federal immigration authorities. Her fiancé was undocumented. She says she rushed to the scene and made it there just before the immigration officers. As she feared, Matias had been detained. But to her surprise, so had Carlos. He was just a kid. (ProPublica is only identifying Carlos by his first name because he is a minor.) Carlos was in high school. He’d been living in the United States for over two years and was working toward applying for legal status to stay long term. The government had given her, a legal resident, custody of him. Now he was in handcuffs. Why would they take him too? Carreto didn’t carry any proof that she had custody of the boy. She had left it in another car in her rush. She recalls officers saying her nephew would likely be released to her in a few days once she presented the proper documents. Before they drove him away, Carlos started to tear up. Carreto told him, “Don’t cry. I don’t know how, but I’ll get you back. Understand?” A cracked windshield, a waiting officer, a forgotten document: The new family separations often start in the most mundane ways. Seven years ago, during the first administration of President Donald Trump, children were taken from their families the moment they crossed the border into the United States. Under a policy of zero tolerance for illegal crossing, Customs and Border Protection officers detained adults while ch…

US-backed Ukraine peace plan amended to remove key Russian demands; British lawmakers question BBC over Trump interview edits – November 24, 2025
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creator: KPFA
date: 2025-11-24T18:00:00Z
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description: Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. US-backed Ukraine peace plan amended after complaints it favors Russia; British lawmakers question BBC over interview edits after Trum...
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Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
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creator: Joshua Kaplan
date: 2025-11-24T17:35:00Z
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description: The post Lawmakers Call for Probe of How Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Got Piece of $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: In recent days, five U.S. senators and two representatives requested documents from the Department of Homeland Security and a formal investigation into how a firm closely tied to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ended up receiving money from a $220 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign. The demands came in response to a ProPublica story this month that revealed that the Republican consulting firm had been secretly working on the ads, which star Noem. The company, called the Strategy Group, has long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. Its CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS. Under Noem, DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process when awarding the contracts — allocating the majority of the money to a mysterious Delaware LLC that was created days before the deal was finalized. The Strategy Group does not appear on public documents about the deal. “The public deserves to know that government officials are not using taxpayer dollars to enrich themselves and their friends on the backs of hardworking Americans,” four Senate Democrats on the homeland security committee wrote in a letter to the DHS inspector general. They called for the inspector general to investigate whether DHS officials had violated federal laws and contracting regulations “designed to prevent self-dealing.” The senators who signed the letter were Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.; Gary Peters, D-Mich.; Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.; and Andy Kim, D-N.J. Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., separately sent his own letter to the inspector general. In their own letter, Reps. Bennie Thompson and Robert Garcia — the ranking members of the House homeland security and oversight committees — demanded copies of all communications between Noem and her aides and “anyone associated with the Strategy Group” or the Delaware LLC. They wrote that they intended to investigate Noem for “lining your friends’ pockets at the taxpayer’s expense.” Other Democrats in Congress have also criticized No…

People are dying inside Wisconsin’s ’18th-century’ prisons
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creator: The Real News Network
date: 2025-11-24T17:18:41Z
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DRC journalist Michael Tenende threatened by mayor over governance coverage
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creator: CPJ Staff
date: 2025-11-24T17:17:16Z
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description: Kinshasa, November 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure the safety of Michael Tenende, who was threatened with arrest by a mayor after his reporting criticized her governance — the second time Anne-Marie Tshiabu has made such threats against a journalist. “Kabinda mayor Anne-Marie...
encoded: Kinshasa, November 24, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to ensure the safety of Michael Tenende, who was threatened with arrest by a mayor after his reporting criticized her governance — the second time Anne-Marie Tshiabu has made such threats against a journalist. “Kabinda mayor Anne-Marie Tshiabu’s repeated threats to have journalist Michael Tenende arrested are an alarming echo of similar threats she made last year against another reporter,” said CPJ Africa Director Angela Quintal. “Public officials in the DRC should support journalists in reporting on issues of public interest, not intimidate them.” On October 29, Tshiabu, mayor of Kabinda city in central Lomami province, phoned Tenende three times and sent him six messages threatening to have him arrested over his Victoirerdc.net report alleging that her official residence was unsanitary and a threat to public health, the reporter told CPJ. In her messages, reviewed by CPJ, Tshiabu insulted Tenende’s family and accused him of publishing “false information,” without evidence. On November 12, Tshiabu again called and threatened to have Tenende arrested after he reported on the evacuation of roadside vendors for the privately owned news sites Afrik-Info.CD and Victoirerdc.net, according to Tenende and a National Press Union of Congo (UNPC) official, who spoke to CPJ on condition of anonymity, citing fear of reprisal. Last year, Tshiabu threatened Radio Tokomi Wapi reporter Martin Kasongo, while another local official forcibly entered the studio of privately owned Top Lomami radio station and stopped Tenende’s broadcast. Tshiabu told CPJ via messaging app that Tenende had been working with unnamed politicians “spreading falsehoods, publishing unverified news against local authorities, even inciting the population to evade taxes.” “His file is already with the ANR [DRC’s National Intelligence Agency], and he knows very well that he will be arreste…

Exodus of illegal Bangladeshis from Bengal? No, viral video shows Kali idol immersion crowd in border village
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creator: Indradeep Bhattacharyya
date: 2025-11-24T17:09:06Z
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description: A video showing a huge crowd streaming through a barbed-wire border gate is widely viral on social media with the claim that it depicts the mass exodus of illegal Bangladeshis... The post Exodus of illegal Bangladeshis from Bengal? No, viral video shows Kali idol immersion crowd in border village appeared first on Alt News.
encoded: A video showing a huge crowd streaming through a barbed-wire border gate is widely viral on social media with the claim that it depicts the mass exodus of illegal Bangladeshis from West Bengal after the announcement of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state by the Election Commission. An X user, Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7), shared the video on X accompanied by a caption which claims “hordes of Bangladeshi Rohingya infiltrators are fleeing” from West Bengal post the SIR announcement. (Archive) ये दरिंदो की भीड़ देख रहे हो हिन्दुओं… ये तस्वीर बांग्लादेश भारत बॉर्डर की है… पश्चिम बंगाल से लगी सीमा की… जहाँ से झुण्ड के झुण्ड बांग्लादेशी रोहिंग्या घुसपैठिये SIR की घोषणा के बाद वापस भाग रहे हैं अभी तो पार्टी शुरू हुईं है.. आगे आगे देखो होता है क्या pic.twitter.com/MShzlaqKCs — Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7) November 9, 2025 The post has garnered around 127,400 views. Another X user, Baba Banaras (@RealBababanaras), sharing the same video, claimed that “reportedly” thousands of illegal Bangladeshis were going back to Bangladesh after SIR was ordered in West Bengal. (Archive) Reportedly thousands of illegal Bangladeshis are going back to Bangladesh after SIR ordered in different states of India including West Bengal. This is just the beginning. After NRC, more than 5 crore illegal Bangladeshi & Rohingyas will be thrown out of India. pic.twitter.com/apbslyNIa9 — Baba Banaras (@RealBababanaras) November 9, 2025 X users Ocean Jain (@ocjain4) and AsiaWarZone (@AsiaWarZone), too, have shared the video with similar claims. The posts have around 80,000 and 1,50,000 views respectively. Readers should note that X users liker Deepak Sharma (@SonOfBharat7), Baba Banaras (@RealBababanaras) and Ocean Jain (@ocjain4) amplify misinformation on a regular basis on social media. Alt News has previously debunked several misleading and false claims made by these accounts. The video is viral with similar claims on all social media platforms. A few of them can be s…

Lack of ICE oversight shows how Baltimore has long been at the mercy of outside powers
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creator: Kori Skillman
date: 2025-11-24T16:24:46Z
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UN News Today 24 November 2025
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creator: Katy Dartford
date: 2025-11-24T16:21:33Z
subject: Podcasts/UN News Today
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subject: UN News
subject: 2025
subject: News
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subject: today
description: UN human rights chief warns of risks from AI misuse, worker exploitation and rising corporate powerUkraine: UN notes civilian impact of Kharkiv strikesGaza: UN says aid missions denied and shelter conditions worsening under winter rainsMalari...
encoded: UN human rights chief warns of risks from AI misuse, worker exploitation and rising corporate powerUkraine: UN notes civilian impact of Kharkiv strikesGaza: UN says aid missions denied and shelter conditions worsening under winter rainsMalaria: Gavi–UNICEF deal cuts vaccine price, set to protect millions more children This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories and was authored by Katy Dartford.

Elon Musk vs. Dungeons and Dragons
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creator: Bill Berkowitz
date: 2025-11-24T16:17:06Z
subject: Dave Arneson
subject: de-geekification
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Gary Gygax
subject: J.R.R. Tolkien
subject: Lord of the Rings
subject: scientific racism
subject: Sources
subject: The Hobbit
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subject: dave
subject: dissident
subject: dragons
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subject: elon
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subject: gary
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subject: hobbit
subject: j.r.r.
subject: lord
subject: Musk
subject: Racism
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subject: tolkien
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description: I’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, but plenty of my family members do, and they consider it to be one of the world’s most engaging table top games; a game that also promotes community. And, like any game that has been around for more than fifty years, there’s bound to be changes. And, with changes, […] The post Elon Musk vs. Dungeons and Dragons first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: <img decoding="async" title="Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg" src="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/382803/story_image/Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg?1490644273" srcset="https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/382803/story_image/Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg?1490644273 1024w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/382803/lightbox/Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg?1490644273 768w, https://cdn.prod.dailykos.com/images/382803/large/Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg?1490644273 600w" alt="Dungeons_and_Dragons_game.jpg" width="505" height="378.6" /> I’ve never played Dungeons & Dragons, but plenty of my family members do, and they consider it to be one of the world’s most engaging table top games; a game that also promotes community. And, like any game that has been around for more than fifty years, there’s bound to be changes. And, with changes, comes angry voices in opposition. One of the angriest right now is Elon Musk. Writing for The Atlantic, Adam Serwer recently detailed Musk’s fury over changes to the game and the way Wizards of the Coast, the company behind D&D, has begun reckoning with its past Last November, on X, the billionaire tycoon Elon Musk told the toy company Hasbro to ‘burn in hell.’ Hasbro owns the company Wizards of the Coast, which produces the game Dungeons & Dragons. Wizards had just released a book on the making of the game that was critical of some of its creators’ old material. ‘Nobody, and I mean nobody, gets to trash’ the ‘geniuses who created Dungeons & Dragons,’ Musk wrote. The book acknowledged that some earlier iterations of the game relied on racist and sexist stereotypes and included ‘a virtual catalog of insensitive and derogatory language.’ After a designer at Wizards said that the company’s priority now was responding to ‘progressives and underrepresented groups who justly took offense’ at those stereotypes, and not to ‘the ire of the grognards’—a reference to early fans such as Musk—Musk asked, ‘How much is Hasbro?,’ suggesting that he might bu…

Energy Affordability+, Not Energy Dominance
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creator: Ted Glick
date: 2025-11-24T16:14:04Z
subject: Beyond Extreme Energy
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Federal Power Commission
subject: Jamie raskin
subject: Richard Glick
subject: Rick Santorum
subject: Sources
subject: Activism
subject: affordability
subject: beyond’
subject: climate change
subject: commission
subject: Democracy
subject: dissident
subject: dominance
subject: Energy
subject: extreme
subject: federal
subject: ferc:
subject: glick
subject: global warming
subject: jamie
subject: not
subject: Power
subject: raskin
subject: Renewables
subject: richard
subject: rick
subject: santorum
subject: Solar Energy
subject: sources
subject: voice
description: Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of 2003. The 1968 date is the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. His killing pushed me to finally do something about racial injustice and the Vietnam War rather than just reading and […] The post Energy Affordability+, Not Energy Dominance first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Two of the most significant dates in my life as a progressive activist and organizer are April 4, 1968 and August of 2003. The 1968 date is the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed. His killing pushed me to finally do something about racial injustice and the Vietnam War rather than just reading and thinking about them. August of 2023 was when there was a brutal heat wave in western Europe which led to 70,000 deaths, primarily of elders. This was my wakeup call as far as the climate crisis, leading to several months of book-reading to understand how bad things were, which led to a decision later that year to begin working on this issue. Ever since it has been at the top of my list as far as where I put my energies and time as an organizer: locally, statewide, regionally and nationally. My primary focus on all those levels, since 2013, has been working and taking action to obstruct the buildout of fracked gas pipelines, gas compressor stations and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals. That work quickly led me to learn about FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the most important federal agency that most US Americans have never heard of. FERC is primarily the regulator of the US electrical grid. In 1977 when it was created by Congress, replacing the Federal Power Commission, it was also given the responsibility of regulating the methane gas industry, which in the 21st century has become primarily a fracked gas industry. How have they “regulated” it? By giving the gas industry over 99% of the permits that they apply for to build new pipelines, compressor stations to push the gas along and import (in the past) and export (now) LNG terminals along US coastlines, primarily in Texas and Louisiana. In 2020, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/LC65797/text#:~:text=In%20every%20way%20that%20we,rate%20for%20the%20energy%20companies." data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congre…

No Truth in the World – Part II
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creator: Sammy Attoh
date: 2025-11-24T16:00:45Z
subject: Cuban Revolution
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: Angola
subject: Cuba
subject: cuban
subject: dissident
subject: Embargo
subject: Fidel Castro
subject: george h w bush
subject: Imperialism
subject: Namibia
subject: Nelson Mandela
subject: part
subject: Politics
subject: Racism
subject: Revolution
subject: sources
subject: South Africa
subject: the
subject: Truth
subject: United Nations
subject: United States
subject: US Congress
subject: voice
subject: World
description: Read Part I. Truth today is not measured by justice but by geopolitical convenience. Nations are told who to admire and who to despise, and the contradictions are suffocating. Castro vs. Mandela: Contradictory Legacies Fidel Castro: After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the U.S. imposed an embargo in 1960, later tightened in 1962. Its original […] The post No Truth in the World – Part II first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: Read Part I. Truth today is not measured by justice but by geopolitical convenience. Nations are told who to admire and who to despise, and the contradictions are suffocating. Castro vs. Mandela: Contradictory Legacies Fidel Castro: After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the U.S. imposed an embargo in 1960, later tightened in 1962. Its original intent, according to declassified CIA documents, was to “bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of the Castro government.”1 Despite Cuba’s achievements in literacy and healthcare, Castro was vilified as a dictator. Yet in Havana in December 1975, he declared: “We shall defend Angola and Africa! The imperialists seek to prevent us from aiding our Angolan brothers. But we must tell the Yankees to bear in mind that we are a Latin-American nation and a Latin-African nation as well. African blood flows freely through our veins.”2 Nelson Mandela: Once branded a terrorist by the U.S. and UK, Mandela was later celebrated as a saint. After his release in 1990, he toured America, raising funds and political support. President George H.W. Bush welcomed him, and Congress honored him.3 Yet Mandela himself testified to Cuba’s decisive role: “The decisive defeat of the aggressive apartheid forces [in Angola] destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor. The defeat of the apartheid army served as an inspiration to the struggling people of South Africa.” In Havana in July 1991, Mandela proclaimed: “What other country has such a history of selfless behavior as Cuba has shown for the people of Africa?”4 This selective framing reveals that sainthood or villainy is often assigned not by moral struggle but by political utility. The Cubans who perished in Angola and Namibia—the young flowers of Cuba—remain largely unhonored in Western narratives, even though Mandela himself acknowledged their blood as part of his liberation. The Cry of Mourning The hundreds of Cuban youth who died in Southern Africa were not mercenaries b…

Oil exploration at the mouth of the Amazon forest and oil spills in Guanabara Bay
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creator: Human Rights Watch
date: 2025-11-24T16:00:11Z
subject: Human Rights Watch
subject: Sources
subject: amazon
subject: and
subject: bay
subject: exploration
subject: forest
subject: guanabara
subject: human
subject: mouth
subject: oil
subject: rights
subject: sources
subject: spill’s
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subject: watch
description: This content originally appeared on Human Rights Watch and was authored by Human Rights Watch.
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COP30 Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-24T15:59:10Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: Climate
subject: cop30
subject: deal
subject: Democracy
subject: excludes
subject: fossil
subject: fuel
subject: now
subject: phaseout
subject: sources
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Open and Shut
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creator: J.S. O’Keefe
date: 2025-11-24T15:51:33Z
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: plain English
subject: public defender
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: defender
subject: dissident
subject: English
subject: Fiction
subject: Language
subject: Law
subject: lawyers
subject: open
subject: plain
subject: public
subject: shut
subject: sources
subject: voice
description: “A straightforward case,” says the public defender assigned to me. “We’ll settle this easy. Don’t you lose a wink of sleep over it.” “That’s good to hear,” I say, “but it’s unsettling that the law I supposedly broke is identified only by symbols and numbers, not words.” He smiles. “No sweat, young fella. Welcome to […] The post Open and Shut first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: “A straightforward case,” says the public defender assigned to me. “We’ll settle this easy. Don’t you lose a wink of sleep over it.” “That’s good to hear,” I say, “but it’s unsettling that the law I supposedly broke is identified only by symbols and numbers, not words.” He smiles. “No sweat, young fella. Welcome to the 21st century; everything’s computerized now.” “Yes, I know about computers. But when a SWAT team wrestles you to the ground, the least you expect is an explanation. All they did was shout a string of numbers and symbols at me.” “I get it. That must have been frightening,” he says. “But the reform was overdue. We have soooo many laws on the books… and lotss overlap. That’s why it’s all symbols and numbers. Easier for the system to process than words.” “Maybe so, but shouldn’t they still explain each law in plain English?” “Of course, they should. Actually they do that. When I have some free time, I’ll look yours up and let you know.” Good man, my lawyer. He’s trying to reassure me, but I’m more worried than ever. The post Open and Shut first appeared on Dissident Voice. This content originally appeared on Dissident Voice and was authored by J.S. O’Keefe.

Trump-Mamdani Meeting at White House Was Full of Surprises
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-24T15:45:03Z
subject: Democracy Now!
subject: Sources
subject: (full
subject: Democracy
subject: house
subject: meeting
subject: now
subject: sources
subject: surprises
subject: trump-mamdani
subject: was
subject: white
description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Trump’s Whims on Tariffs and Trade Deficits
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creator: B.R. Gowani
date: 2025-11-24T15:35:12Z
subject: Commodore Perry
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
subject: commodore
subject: deficits,
subject: dissident
subject: donald trump
subject: History
subject: japan
subject: perry:
subject: sources
subject: tariffs
subject: trade
subject: trump’s
subject: voice
subject: whims
description: “Trump’s tariff formula explained: How rates were determined for each country” IMAGE/USA Today/Duck Duck Go Tariffs Tariffs are a tax imposed on imported goods to protect local industries in order to be self-sufficient and thus avoid being taken advantage of. For a very long time, Britain charged tariffs on many items, only in 1860 were […] The post Trump’s Whims on Tariffs and Trade Deficits first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Top U.S. & World Headlines — November 24, 2025
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creator: Democracy Now!
date: 2025-11-24T15:29:55Z
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subject: Sources
subject: 2025
subject: 24,
subject: Democracy
subject: headlines
subject: november
subject: now
subject: Politics
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subject: top
subject: u.s.
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description: This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.
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Australia’s Compulsory Voting System
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-24T15:11:46Z
subject: Annabel Crabb
subject: Anthoula Malkopoulou
subject: Dissident Voice
subject: John Forrest
subject: Nick Dyrenfurth
subject: Sources
subject: annabel
subject: anthoula
subject: Australia
subject: australia’s
subject: compulsory
subject: crabb
subject: Democracy
subject: dissident
subject: dyrenfurth
subject: Elections
subject: forrest
subject: john
subject: malkopoulou
subject: nick
subject: obligation
subject: sources
subject: system
subject: voice
subject: voting
description: There has been an insufferable degree of smugness of late in the chatting classes about Australia’s electoral system. A special for Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced by veteran journalist Annabel Crabb has done much to swell the heads of officials, politicians and pundits. But the production called Civic Duty has to be seen alongside a general […] The post Australia’s Compulsory Voting System first appeared on Dissident Voice.
encoded: There has been an insufferable degree of smugness of late in the chatting classes about Australia’s electoral system. A special for Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced by veteran journalist Annabel Crabb has done much to swell the heads of officials, politicians and pundits. But the production called Civic Duty has to be seen alongside a general sense of puffed-up worth on Australia’s singular compulsory voting system. From the outset, the nature of the relationship between citizens (we might say subjects, given that Australia retains as its head of state the British monarch) and polity is made clear: you do not have a right to vote but an obligation to. Not doing so entails penalties and tribal disapproval. Voting became compulsory through the Australian Commonwealth in 1924. The argument was a familiar one: people were simply not taking their electoral duties seriously enough. That voting was a right that might just as well be exercised by not voting was an argument few could fathom among the electoral moralists. With the gains of the Labour Party in the December 1903 elections, significant enough to eventually see them form a short-lived minority government, there was grumbling from the explorer turned politician Sir John Forrest. “What we have now,” he blustered in March 1904, “is government by minorities. The polling details of the December elections show that Australia is in the hands of minorities. That is all wrong.” As only majorities should rule, the electors had to be taught a lesson for their irresponsibility of choice. “If the people won’t use their voting privilege, then I think there should be compulsion.” Dullness is the default position of the compulsory voting exercise, and pundits are delighted with that fact. Extremists, the colourful and the idiosyncratic are whittled down by forcing people to the ballot box. “Compulsory voting,” political theorist Anthoula Malkopoulou crows, “is known as the great leveller.” It also dilutes right-wing …

"It’s a blatantly political prosecution": Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh speaks out
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Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Wealthy Nations Place Burden “On the Backs of the Poor”
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description: Global negotiations at the annual U.N. climate summit ended Saturday in Belém, Brazil, with a watered-down agreement that does not even mention fossil fuels, let alone offer a roadmap to phase out what are the primary contributors to the clima...
encoded: Global negotiations at the annual U.N. climate summit ended Saturday in Belém, Brazil, with a watered-down agreement that does not even mention fossil fuels, let alone offer a roadmap to phase out what are the primary contributors to the climate crisis. The COP30 agreement also makes no new commitments to halt deforestation and does not address global meat consumption, another major driver of global warming. “I’m angry at a really weak outcome. I’m angry at the fossil fuel lobbyists roaming the venue freely, while the Indigenous activists [were] met with militarized repression,” says Brandon Wu, director of policy and campaigns at ActionAid USA. “I have a special level of incandescent outrage at … the rich, developed countries of the Global North who come in to these conferences, and they act like they’re the heroes, when, in fact, what they’re doing is shifting the burden of a crisis that they caused onto the backs of the poor.” “The absence of the United States is critical,” adds Jonathan Watts, global environment writer at The Guardian. “The United States under Donald Trump is trying to go backwards to the 20th century in a fossil fuel era, whereas a huge part of the rest of the world wants to move forward into something else.” This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

From Affordability to Genocide, Trump-Mamdani Meeting at White House Was Full of Surprises
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description: After months of mutual animosity, President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met for the first time in a widely anticipated meeting late last week. But after the two discussed Mamdani’s plans to lower the cost of...
encoded: After months of mutual animosity, President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met for the first time in a widely anticipated meeting late last week. But after the two discussed Mamdani’s plans to lower the cost of living in New York City, where both men grew up, Trump said that he and Mamdani “agree on a lot more than I would have thought” and promised to work together once Mamdani takes office in January. The newly friendly relationship is likely temporary, but still “remarkable,” says Ross Barkan, who is writing a book about Mamdani’s rapid political rise. “If Trump is less antagonistic towards Mamdani, the idea is to have Trump do as little damage as possible to New York City,” Barkan says of Mamdani’s conciliatory approach to the meeting. “He’s not going to attack. He’s going to try to build coalitions.” Barkan also comments on the brewing intra-party conflict between the Democratic establishment and the more left-wing Democratic Socialists of America — whose members, including Mamdani, typically run for elected office as Democrats — as well as what Trump’s lack of challenge to Mamdani’s assertion that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza says about the shifting discourse on Israel-Palestine in the United States. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! and was authored by Democracy Now!.

The Amplification of Misinformation and Conspiracies on Social Media
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Full Interview: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku
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description: Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
encoded: Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her leadership in organizing, forcing British mining giant Anglo American to withdraw from Indigenous lands, including those of her people. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Full Interview: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku
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description: Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
encoded: Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. In 2023, she was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her leadership in organizing, forcing British mining giant Anglo American to withdraw from Indigenous lands, including those of her people. This content originally appeared on Democracy Now! Audio and was authored by Democracy Now!.

Headlines for November 24, 2025
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description: Israeli Airstrikes Kill at Least 24 Palestinians Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Israeli Airstrike on a Beirut Suburb Kills 5 People, Including Hezbollah’s Acting Chief of Staff, Trump Admin Set to Designate Maduro and His Gov’t Allies as Members of a Foreign Terrorist Organization, U.S., Ukrainian and European Officials in Geneva to Discuss U.S. Proposal to End Russia’s War on Ukraine, Trump Repeatedly Praises Mamdani During Oval Office Meeting, Democratic Lawmakers File Police Complaints After Trump’s Posts Accuse Them of “Seditious Behavior”, Trump Denied Federal Disaster Aid to Chicago Residents After Two Major Storms, ICE Agents in Oregon Violently Abduct 17-Year-Old High School Student on Lunch Break, SCOTUS Temporarily Restores Texas Congressional Map Declared an Illegal Gerrymander by Lower Court, 50 Students Escape After Gunmen Abduct Hundreds from Catholic School in Nigeria, G20 Concludes Summit in South Africa Boycotted by U.S., COP30 Climate Summit Concludes Without Agreement to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Brazil’s Former President Jair Bolsonaro Arrested After Tampering with Ankle Monitor
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Democracy Now! 2025-11-24 Monday
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description: Headlines for November 24, 2025; From Affordability to Genocide, Trump-Mamdani Meeting at White House Was Full of Surprises; “War Against Nature”: COP30 Climate Talks End Without Fossil Fuel Transition Plan
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Will Trump Seize His Hour and Push for His Admired Universal Health Insurance?
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description: By Ralph Nader November 24, 2025 When asked what they like most about Trump, fervent supporters often say, “He says what he thinks.” Well, not always. Donald Trump has long supported government-run universal healthcare – well before he had to deal with...
encoded: By Ralph Nader November 24, 2025 When asked what they like most about Trump, fervent supporters often say, “He says what he thinks.” Well, not always. Donald Trump has long supported government-run universal healthcare – well before he had to deal with a crazed Congressional GOP in his first term. The controlling Republicans repealed Obamacare… This content originally appeared on Ralph Nader and was authored by spicon@csrl.org.

DN! Thursday, November 27, 2025
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Four Killed In Russian Drone Attack On Kharkiv
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Long a Defender of States’ Rights, Embraces Trump’s Push to Expand Presidential Power
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description: The post Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Long a Defender of States’ Rights, Embraces Trump’s Push to Expand Presidential Power appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Just last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott joined a bipartisan chorus of governors in denouncing a Biden administration plan they said would strip states of powers guaranteed to them under federal law. The plan would have transferred Air National Guard units from six states to the U.S. Space Force, the newly created military branch, stoking concerns about federal overreach and the erosion of governors’ control over their own guard forces. Texas wasn’t among the affected states, but Abbott made his opposition unmistakable in an open letter to the president. He called the plan an “intolerable threat that would set a “dangerous precedent.” “I strongly oppose any attempt to sideline governors when it comes to their respective National Guards,” he wrote. A year later, Abbott helped Donald Trump do just that. He said that he “fully authorized” the president’s plan to send Texas National Guard members to Illinois and Oregon to protect federal law enforcement personnel who are executing immigration laws. Those states’ governors vigorously objected, saying such action was an unnecessary escalation that interfered with state sovereignty. Abbott defended the deployment on Fox News. The president, he said, has the authority to mobilize guard members to preserve public safety. “President Trump and I have a good, longstanding working relationship, and there is a substantive reason behind that,” Abbott said. He added that he and the president were “operating very closely aligned on ensuring that our country is going to be safe.” Abbott, the leader of the largest state led by Republicans, has emerged as one of Trump’s most important allies as the president tests the limits of executive power. While governors often align with their parties’ presidents, Abbott’s support for Trump’s expansion of federal powers is a striking departure from his own historical and ardent defenses of state sovereignty. That, constitutional experts say, sets a risky example that may be difficult to reverse. “W…

Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
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encoded: One by one, the prisoners — all immigrants — appeared briefly over video before a special panel of the Louisiana parole board. The August hearings were unusual in a state that, under Republican Gov. Jeff Landry, has made it increasingly difficult for most prisoners to get early release. Unlike normal parole hearings, the board didn’t grill the prospective parolees about their crimes — ranging from car theft to vehicular homicide — to gauge their remorse. Nor did it review their disciplinary records to determine if they posed a threat to public safety. And no one was present to represent or speak on behalf of their victims. In fact, most of the nine men, clad in black-and-white-striped jumpsuits or plain orange ones, did not say a word besides their names and inmate numbers. Only one was even eligible for parole. But in each case, the three-member panel voted unanimously for release after just a few minutes of consideration. “Today you’ve been paroled,” panel chair Steve Prator said at the end of every hearing, “to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation from the United States.” Some thanked the board. Others sat stone-faced or simply nodded. These days, a 100% grant rate is unheard of for the Louisiana Board of Parole. Where annual parole rates previously stood around 50%, in the two years since Landry became governor, less than a quarter of those eligible have been paroled. Landry, a former police officer and sheriff’s deputy who served as Louisiana attorney general until 2024, has blasted early release programs as an insult to crime victims, insisting that anyone who is convicted in Louisiana should serve the entirety of their sentence. He pushed Republican lawmakers to eliminate parole entirely for those arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and to impose strict eligibility requirements for those already in prison. But this year the same Legislature tossed all of that aside for one category of prisoner: immigrants without legal status. With mass deportations a ke…

Quiet, Piggy
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description: Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, pedophiles, tumbling polls, charming Marxists, almost everything he's done declared illegal and defia...
encoded: Whew. Last week was...a week. Enraging, astounding, often venomous, with flailing small dicktator energy all around. There were pigs, dogs, bonesaws, pedophiles, tumbling polls, charming Marxists, almost everything he's done declared illegal and defiant Democrats threatened with death for, um, defending the rule of law. Sen. Chris Murphy's message to those still complacent before the growing dangers posed by a cornered, venal, fascist loser: "Maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side." Over the last bungled weeks of a shambolic presidency that's transmuted America into ugly chaos, the wannabe king has suffered enough losses - electoral, legal, political, economic - some observers argue he's finally losing his mystifying "air of impenetrability," with polls showing him underwater on every issue, including immigration. As U.S. consumer sentiment falls over 7 points to record lows - thanks disastrous tariffs! - he has a lame 26% approval rating on the cost of living, 76% of Fox viewers say the economy is bad, and even cult members shopping for the holidays are reportedly starting to notice the dissonance between his gold ballroom and their unaffordable "groceries," even if he did invent the elegant word. Hell, they might even spot the idiocy of a guy who recently revealed he had an MRI, insisted it had "the best result," but when asked if it was for his brain raved, "I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well." They've also finally noted his stonewalling on what is evidently, universally unpopular pedophilia, with 80% of voters blasting his handling of his dead bestie predator's files and the "wonderful secret" they shared. Even as Congress voted to release the Epstein files and Trump signed off on it, he continues whining it's "time to move on" from "a Hoax" that just deflects from his "Great Success (with) Affordability (where we are winning BIG!)" and "gaining Trillions of Dollars of Investment" and "stopping Transg…

DN! Monday, November 24, 2025
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How to make data centers less thirsty
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description: There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
encoded: Data centers are notoriously thirsty. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that, in 2023, the facilities consumed roughly 17 billion gallons of water for their operations in the U.S. alone. But that’s only a small part of the picture: A much, much larger share of data center water-intensity is indirect, a byproduct of the facilities’ enormous appetites for energy. That’s because most power plants themselves require huge amounts of water to operate. This off-site, indirect water consumption amounted to a whopping 211 billion gallons in the Berkeley lab’s 2023 tally — well over 10 times the direct on-site usage. As Silicon Valley continues to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence and demand for data centers grows, these water needs are only going to grow in tandem. However, new research from Cornell University shows that there’s a way to mitigate both the climate and water footprints of these facilities: build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy. “Location really matters,” said Fengqi You, an energy systems engineering professor at Cornell and co-author of the new study. Where companies choose to locate their data centers could alter their combined environmental footprints by a factor of up to 100. In the course of their operations, data centers use water as a coolant. Energy-hungry servers generate substantial heat, and water circulates through cooling systems to prevent the equipment from overheating and breaking down. But substantial amounts of water are also used indirectly through the generation of electricity to run the facilities. Thermoelectric power plants, regardless of whether they use coal, gas, or nuclear material, use that fuel to generate heat that converts water into steam, which is then used to spin a turbine and generate electricity. And since hydroelectric plants typically store large volumes of water in reservoirs behind dams, there is water loss there as well, as water continuall…

How gas stations can become the best place to charge your EV
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description: Fuel retailers are betting that fast chargers, clean bathrooms, and tasty snacks will draw EV drivers — and keep their stations central to how motorists refuel.
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Illinois has few remaining wetlands. A Trump administration proposal could decimate what’s left.
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description: If the rule takes effect, more than two-thirds of Illinois’ wetlands could lose federal protections.
encoded: The Environmental Protection Agency calls wetlands “biological supermarkets” for the sheer abundance of food they supply to a broad range of species. Roughly 40 percent of all plants and animals rely on wetlands for some part of their lifecycle. These ecosystems also filter drinking water, blunt the force of flooding, and store vast amounts of carbon dioxide — functions that make them critical in efforts to combat climate change. But the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers are now moving to slash federal protections for the nation’s wetlands and streams, potentially leaving millions of acres of habitat in Illinois and the Midwest vulnerable to being dug up, filled in, or paved over. At the heart of the proposal announced last week is a new, stricter definition to the long-debated legal term, “Waters of the United States,” the federal guidance that determines which bodies of water are protected under the 1972 Clean Water Act. The proposal codifies a 2023 Supreme Court decision that limits federal protection to wetlands that are so inseparable from larger, relatively permanent bodies of water like streams, rivers, and lakes that you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins. Under the proposed rule, wetlands must contain water during the “wet season” and must be connected to a major waterbody during that season. Effectively, the new definition excludes seasonal streams and wetlands, which remain dry for much of the year. “We’re looking at up to 85 percent of the country’s wetlands losing their protected status under the Clean Water Act,” said Andrew Wetzler, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s senior vice president for nature. A 2025 analysis from the nonprofit environmental group found that approximately 70 million of the 84 million acres of wetlands across the country are at risk. Under the current regulations, developers must obtain a permit from the Army Corps of Engineers before destroying a wetland to ensure environmentally responsible practices. The new re…

New Research on Israel’s Forced Displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank
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Rights & Wrongs: Rerun – Protesting a Dictatorship in a Dictatorship
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Rights & Wrongs: Rerun – The Chalk Bicycle
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Musician Esther Rose on questioning your path and forging new ones
type: item
creator: Jeffrey Silverstein
date: 2025-11-24T08:00:00Z
subject: Sources
subject: The Creative Independent
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subject: creative
subject: esther
subject: forging
subject: independent
subject: Music
subject: Musician
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subject: one’s
subject: path
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subject: the
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description: You had a huge shift in perspective around your 28th birthday. What did that look and feel like?
encoded: You had a huge shift in perspective around your 28th birthday. What did that look and feel like? I’m so glad that you wanted to chat about that. It’s like a 10-year cycle completing because I’m 38. I’ve been looking back at that moment strongly and feel like I’ve had a way of speaking about it that was true to my understanding, but now I’m understanding it differently, which is that my story of being a late bloomer is in fact not true. I had this whole musical partnership with my ex-husband. I was learning how to tour, to be a collaborative musician, and I was not allowed to develop my ideas within this group. So, my ideas were not blooming. I would get little ideas, but they weren’t being nurtured or nourished by me or anyone that I was creative with. So, when it came to my Saturn return, 28, I had to oust myself out of the relationship and I did so because I felt like the promise of the music, the three songs that I had were enough. I’m like, “I need to investigate this and it’s worth everything in my life.” In a lot of ways, it was really clear to me. I didn’t give myself a plan B. It was like I am now on this path and having complete creative control for the first time, incredible. Do you relate to the person you hear on those early recordings? I think I do more than ever because for a while, I needed to just write and write and figure it out. But now looking back, the three songs that I had in my back pocket are my most listened to songs on Spotify. It makes me so fucking happy and validated that I placed that bet because it worked. There’s a lot of wondering, why did my friends take me on tour? I was figuring it out on guitar, but it’s impossible to understand reframing those circumstances, it doesn’t work that way. It’s like your essence, who you are is always who you are and continues to be. What did the music of Hank Williams unlock or demystify for you? The thing with Hank Williams might be he’s a great American composer and writer, and a lot of the people…

Fiji journalists condemn police over lack of courtroom security after another reporter attacked
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date: 2025-11-24T07:53:51Z
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subject: Media
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subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: Police
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subject: reporter
subject: Security
subject: sources
subject: Suva
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description: Pacific Media Watch The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has demanded better police protection after a journalist working for the state broadcaster Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) was violently attacked outside a courthouse In a statement today, the FMA again called for police to be more vigilant in managing security and threats outside the Suva High Court
encoded: Pacific Media Watch The Fijian Media Association (FMA) has demanded better police protection after a journalist working for the state broadcaster Fiji Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) was violently attacked outside a courthouse In a statement today, the FMA again called for police to be more vigilant in managing security and threats outside the Suva High Court in the capital after another Fijian journalist was violently attacked by a convicted murderer leaving under police guard. Journalist Apenisa Waqairadovu of the FBC suffered injuries to his arms and hands after he was attacked by Sairusi Ceinaturaga, who had just been convicted of murdering the one-year-old child of his de facto partner, the FMA stated. READ MORE: Convicted killer attacks FBC journalist outside Suva High Court Other Fiji media freedom reports After his conviction, Ceinaturaga walked out of the courtroom in handcuffs, followed a metre or two behind by a police officer who was outrun and scrambled to catch up when Ceinaturaga chased the journalist. Ceinaturaga threatened Waqairadovu, swore and ran after him before pushing him down the stairs. “This has been happening too often to journalists outside the courtroom, and we do not see any improved process despite our repeated calls for stronger security and protection,” the FMA stated. “We have been consistently calling for urgent action from police to protect media workers — even after another convicted murderer Tevita Kapawale tried to attack journalists outside the courthouse in August. ‘Physical threats every year’ “Journalists have faced physical threats every year while covering court cases, and the Fiji Police Force’s repeated failure to provide adequate security for media personnel is unacceptable. “The media plays a vital role in ensuring transparency and accountability in our justice system. Journalists have the right to report on matters of public interest without fear of violence or intimidation.” The FMA is now demanding the Fiji Police F…

Resolution 2803: How the UN Security Council Legitimized Palestinian Children’s Death-Worlds
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creator: Lama Khouri
date: 2025-11-24T07:00:48Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: 2803
subject: articles 2015
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subject: council
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subject: death-worlds
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description: Three days before celebrating children's rights (November 20, 2025, marked 36 years since the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child), the UN Security Council committed an act so obscene it defies comprehension. Resolution 2803 didn't just fail to stop the slaughter of 20,000 Palestinian children; it blessed it, legitimized it, and guaranteed its continuation forever. By granting Donald Trump control over Gaza's future through his "Board of Peace," we witness yet again what we already knew: the destruction of Palestinian children isn't collateral damage, isn't fog of war, isn't humanitarian crisis. It's policy. It's strategy. It's the international system working exactly as intended. More The post Resolution 2803: How the UN Security Council Legitimized Palestinian Children’s Death-Worlds appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Silenced Reports & Epstein Files: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women Still Don’t Make News
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creator: Laura Flanders
date: 2025-11-24T06:59:43Z
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subject: Reports
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subject: sources
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subject: women
description: Long before there was Jeffrey Epstein and his repulsive rape ring, there was the terror of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls. The MMIW crisis spans decades, arguably centuries, and involves 1000s of cases in the US and Canada, and yet, even as the Epstein story captures mass media attention and builds pressure for More The post Silenced Reports & Epstein Files: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women Still Don’t Make News appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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State-Sanctioned Jewish-Mob Terror in the West Bank
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creator: Jamal Kanj
date: 2025-11-24T06:59:37Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
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subject: CounterPunch+
subject: jewish-mob
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description: In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian villages have become open fields for illegal Jewish settlers operating under the protection of the Israeli army. In recent weeks, organized Jewish mobs, some armed with rifles and sticks, others carrying torches, have unleashed violence across occupied Palestinian towns and villages. It is not only that Israeli soldiers stand providing cover for the illegal Jewish mobs, the army blocks Palestinian farmers from accessing their farms for the annual olive harvest. More The post State-Sanctioned Jewish-Mob Terror in the West Bank appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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NYTs Calls Trump Strategy in South America “Pragmatic”
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creator: Melvin Goodman
date: 2025-11-24T06:59:05Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: america
subject: articles 2015
subject: calls
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Leading Article
subject: nyt’s
subject: pragmatic
subject: sources
subject: south
subject: strategy
subject: trump
description: There is nothing “pragmatic” about engaging in a conflict where only one side, the United States, is armed, and the factual basis for the conflict is created out of whole cloth. It wasn’t pragmatic to create false facts to justify the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War; the Vietnam War; or the Iraq War. And it certainly won’t be “pragmatic” to engage in a wider conflict with Venezuela. More The post NYTs Calls Trump Strategy in South America “Pragmatic” appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions
type: item
creator: Roger Harris
date: 2025-11-24T06:57:13Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: deaths
subject: hundred
subject: hundreds
subject: Politics
subject: Sanctions
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subject: siege
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description: Washington is targeting the Venezuelan people in an escalating regime-change offensive, combining open military violence with an economic siege that has quietly claimed far more lives. Most of the world looks on in disbelief at the now-routine murders on the high seas off Venezuela’s coast – serial killings that the newly minted War Department calls More The post Venezuela Under Siege: A Hundred Deaths at Sea – Hundreds of Thousands by Sanctions appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Montana’s Wildlife Moves Closer to Extinction as Trump Administration Targets Endangered Species
type: item
creator: George Ochenski
date: 2025-11-24T06:54:53Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: Administration
subject: articles 2015
subject: closer
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: endangered
subject: Extinction
subject: montana’s
subject: moves
subject: sources
subject: species
subject: targets
subject: trump
subject: wildlife
description: This week the Trump administration, with the most corrupt cabinet in the nation’s history, moved to gut the Endangered Species Act while the world is experiencing what’s been called the “Sixth Mass Extinction Event” with more than a million species facing extinction from human-caused impacts. Since Montana retains virtually all of the species that were here when Lewis and Clark’s More The post Montana’s Wildlife Moves Closer to Extinction as Trump Administration Targets Endangered Species appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Welcome Back, Inflation!
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creator: Mitchell Zimmerman
date: 2025-11-24T06:53:55Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: back
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: inflation
subject: sources
subject: welcome
description: In 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that “a vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper.” He vowed that prices “will come down fast, with everything” starting “on Day One.” Unfortunately, prices are moving in the other direction. In fact, grocery prices have reached record highs as foods like ground beef (up 13 percent), oranges (15 percent), and bananas More The post Welcome Back, Inflation! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli Policy
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creator: Binoy Kampmark
date: 2025-11-24T06:53:10Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: al-majd
subject: and
subject: articles 2015
subject: clandestine
subject: cleansing
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Europe
subject: gaza
subject: israeli
subject: Policy
subject: sources
description: According to its website, the mission of Al-Majd Europe, yet another odd charity organisation operating in the mash and rubble of Gaza, is “dedicated to providing essential humanitarian aid, educational opportunities, and sustainable development projects to Palestinian communities.” Leaving little by way of information, the charity was clearly one of the anointed, permitted by the Israeli Defense More The post Clandestine Cleansing: Al-Majd Europe, Gaza and Israeli Policy appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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The Economy After the September Jobs Report
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creator: Dean Baker
date: 2025-11-24T06:52:02Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: after
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subject: economy
subject: jobs
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description: The data nerds among us were happy to finally get their September jobs report fix, even though these data are somewhat stale now. However, we still learned a few things about the state of the economy. Before saying what we learned, it’s worth a few words on what we didn’t learn but people are saying More The post The Economy After the September Jobs Report appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-374307" class="size-medium wp-image-374307" src="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-680x510.jpeg" alt="" width="680" height="510" srcset="https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-680x510.jpeg 680w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-840x630.jpeg 840w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-500x375.jpeg 500w, https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/IMG_9444-600x450.jpeg 600w" sizes="(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px" /> Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The data nerds among us were happy to finally get their September jobs report fix, even though these data are somewhat stale now. However, we still learned a few things about the state of the economy. Before saying what we learned, it’s worth a few words on what we didn’t learn but people are saying anyway. First and foremost, this was not a strong report in any real-world sense of the term. To be clear, the 119,000 jobs reported for the month was stronger than most analysts had expected, including me. But this hardly implies robust job growth. We averaged 170,000 jobs a month in 2024, so now we’re supposed to be celebrating a report showing job growth that is 70 percent of last year’s average? But it gets worse. The prior two months’ data were both revised down. The average growth for the four months ending in September was less than 40,000. Furthermore, almost all the growth was in healthcare. Since May, the economy has added 174,000 jobs. The healthcare sector added 157,000 jobs, accounting for more than 90 percent of job growth over this period. The job growth number…

The Hardline Position on Taiwan of Japan’s Takaichi Threatens the Post-War Order
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creator: Jianlu Bi
date: 2025-11-24T06:34:37Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: hardline
subject: japan’s
subject: order
subject: position
subject: post-war
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subject: Taiwan
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subject: threatens
description: The recent diplomatic crisis sparked by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s assertive remarks on potential military intervention in the Taiwan Strait marks a perilous turning point for East Asia and global stability. Takaichi’s declaration—that a conflict across the Strait could constitute an “existence-threatening crisis” justifying Japan’s collective self-defense—did more than just cross a long-established diplomatic More The post The Hardline Position on Taiwan of Japan’s Takaichi Threatens the Post-War Order appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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Why Democrats Lost Voter Confidence
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creator: Bob Topper
date: 2025-11-24T06:20:52Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: articles 2015
subject: confidence
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: democrats
subject: lost
subject: sources
subject: voter
subject: why
description: Democrats are relieved by the outcome of the last election. They think that the people finally see the Trump administration for what it is, a fascist-leaning government that favors the rich and well-connected at the expense of the poor. The wins are impressive, but to move past the Trump era, there is much more work More The post Why Democrats Lost Voter Confidence appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
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“A House of Dynamite,” the “Failsafe” Film for 2025
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creator: Judith L. Hand
date: 2025-11-24T05:50:31Z
subject: CounterPunch
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subject: “dynamite
subject: 2025
subject: articles 2015
subject: CounterPunch+
subject: Film
subject: for
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subject: sources
subject: the
description: My interest in conflict and war goes back decades. In 1961, the film Failsafe starring Henry Fonda as the U.S. president presented a dire warning about the nuclear arms race taking off. It revealed our vulnerability: human error, miscommunication, and technological failure. The tragic ending was shocking. Film director Kathryn Bigelow’s new A House of More The post “A House of Dynamite,” the “Failsafe” Film for 2025 appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: My interest in conflict and war goes back decades. In 1961, the film Failsafe starring Henry Fonda as the U.S. president presented a dire warning about the nuclear arms race taking off. It revealed our vulnerability: human error, miscommunication, and technological failure. The tragic ending was shocking. Film director Kathryn Bigelow’s new A House of Dynamite is equally gripping, demonstrating to viewers the reality of our modern world, our closeness to global destruction. Failsafe was alarming. House of Dynamite is foreshadowing. In 1961, I was at UCLA earning a doctoral degree in evolutionary biology and studying animal behavior, including humans. My early interests included conflict resolution and gender differences. Decades later, after a period of writing fiction and promoting one of my novels, I was drawn back to the topic of war. Voice of the Goddess, a Bronze-age epic, told of a non-violent, non-warring, goddess-worshipping culture on the island of Crete and a warrior hero from the nearby mainland Mycenaean culture. To promote the book, I gave a talk entitled, “If women ran the world there would be no war.” During the talk, a woman in the audience challenged my book’s core message. She cited the work On Aggression by my academic forefather, Konrad Lorenz, arguing that aggression is an unchangeable part of human nature. With limited speaking time, I couldn’t explain why Dr. Lorenz was only partly right, particularly when it comes to the relationship of women to war. But the question did rattle my certainty that if women ran the world, war wouldn’t exist. I subsequently launched into two and a half decades of research to answer the questions: when did we start making war, why do humans make war, and could we stop? In my research, I determined that men have not been and will not be able to end war without significant shared leadership with women. The number of women who were able to break into powerful decision-making spaces was, to my knowledge, so few in 201…

PM hits back at PINA and PFF over Samoa Observer ‘ethics’ ban
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creator: Pacific Media Watch
date: 2025-11-24T03:26:15Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: La'aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt
subject: Media ban
subject: Sources
subject: and
subject: asia
subject: back
subject: ban
subject: Democracy
subject: ethics
subject: Featured
subject: hits
subject: Human Rights
subject: Indigenous
subject: Justice
subject: la'aulialemalietoa
subject: leuatea
subject: Media
subject: Media ethics
subject: Media Freedom
subject: new zealand
subject: observer
subject: over
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Media Watch
subject: Pacific Report
subject: pff
subject: pina
subject: polataivao
subject: Politics
subject: press freedom
subject: report
subject: Samoa
subject: Samoa Observer
subject: schmidt
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
description: Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF). In a statement issued by the Press Secretary, Nanai Lave Tuiletufuga yesterday, the office of the Prime Minister acknowledged
encoded: Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has defended his decision to ban the Samoa Observer in response to a joint letter from the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF). In a statement issued by the Press Secretary, Nanai Lave Tuiletufuga yesterday, the office of the Prime Minister acknowledged concerns raised by the PINA and the PFF, writing that the criticism was “respected and understood” but urged them “to seek full information before forming conclusions”, reports Sulamanaia Manaui Faulalo of the Samoa Observer. “This is not a ban on media freedom — it is a response to persistent unprofessional and unethical conduct,” the release said. READ MORE: RSF calls on Samoan PM to lift ‘unacceptable’ ban on Samoa Observer Regional Pacific student journalists condemn Samoa PM’s ban as ‘deeply troubling’ Samoa editor says media freedom under attack in response to PM’s ban Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise – Editorial Samoan PM bans nation’s only newspaper from government access JAWS quiet on ban, concerned over media control The PM’s wish and our promise – Samoa Observer editorial Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence Other Samoa media reports “The action taken relates solely to the Samoa Observer, following sustained unprofessional behaviour, breaches of industry ethics, and continuous inaccurate and misleading reporting over an extended period. “Samoa remains firmly committed to upholding media freedom, transparency, and open engagement with the media,” the statement said. “However, it is equally important to clarify the context and the basis of the government’s decision.” The release said that the move targets one media outlet and does not represent a broader clampdown. ‘Multiple opportunities’ According to the statement, the Samoa Observer was given “multiple opportunities for correction, dialogue, and improvement,” and that “No other media organisation in …

10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal
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creator: Zoya Teirstein
date: 2025-11-24T02:41:48Z
subject: COP30
subject: Grist
subject: Sources
subject: after
subject: agreement
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subject: cop30
subject: famous
subject: goal
subject: International
subject: it’s
subject: leaders
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subject: most
subject: paris
subject: Politics
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subject: World
subject: years
description: This year's U.N. climate negotiations crashed out on a hard truth: It’s all about the money.
encoded: On the first day of this year’s United Nations climate summit, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised attendees that this conference would be different. The 30th annual Conference of the Parties, or COP30, would be the “COP of truth,” he said. The Brazilian president’s forceful remarks at the outset of negotiations in the Amazonian city of Belém were meant to set the stage for a new chapter in international climate diplomacy. On the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the time had come, according to Lula, to stop arguing about what the historic agreement requires and instead focus on implementation — actually taking the steps required to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect countries against the coming economic and public health consequences wrought by climate change. In the same speech, Lula called for a “road map” for the world’s phaseout of fossil fuels. This was intended to make good on an international agreement made two years ago at COP28, when U.N. member countries reached consensus on the need to “transition away” from coal, oil, and gas. The so-called UAE consensus, named for the host country of that year’s conference, marked the first time a blanket transition away from fossil fuels was ever officially mentioned in the Paris Agreement framework. But the Brazilian delegation, which was responsible for overseeing COP30 negotiations and ultimately brokering a new deal, was confronted by a different truth than the president envisioned. The viability of the planet may come down to a few degrees Celsius of warming, but in Belém’s fluorescently-lit negotiating rooms, everything ultimately came down to dollars and cents. In the end, it may well have been a more honest COP than those that preceded it — just not in the way President Lula intended. The most substantial new agreement negotiated at the conference reflected this realism. The delegations agreed that, by 2035, the world would triple international funding provided to help d…

Potential Tonga PM candidate: ‘Low-hanging fruits available’ to improve people’s lives
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-24T02:14:27Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Caretaker government
subject: Lord Fakafanua
subject: Sources
subject: Tongan elections
subject: ‘low-hanging
subject: asia
subject: available
subject: candidate
subject: caretaker
subject: Elections
subject: fakafanua
subject: Featured
subject: fruits
subject: government
subject: improve
subject: lives’
subject: lord
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subject: people’s
subject: potential
subject: prime ministers
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subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: Tonga
subject: tongan
description: By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As Tonga’s 26 newly elected representatives turn to choosing a prime minister among them, one potential candidate is identifying economic development and raising the standard of living as necessary priorities for the next government and its leader. Lord Fakafanua was re-elected as a nobles’ representative for Ha’apai in
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As Tonga’s 26 newly elected representatives turn to choosing a prime minister among them, one potential candidate is identifying economic development and raising the standard of living as necessary priorities for the next government and its leader. Lord Fakafanua was re-elected as a nobles’ representative for Ha’apai in last week’s general election. He spoke to RNZ Pacific after the results were announced and outlined a range of areas he believed Tonga’s next prime minister and cabinet needed to focus on. READ MORE: Other Tongan election reports “There are a few low-hanging fruits available to Tonga, a few policy decisions that we don’t have to spend taxpayers’ money on — they can immediately show dividends and improve people’s lives, and especially lower the cost of living,” Fakanua said. “In the last few weeks, we’ve experienced a shortage of fuel, and I think a lot of people will be looking towards how a new government will handle energy security and [consistency of] supplies that people are getting the services that they require from the government. “And there’s always the issue of unemployment and job opportunities.” Fakafanua, who has held the position of Parliament’s Speaker since 2017, would not explicitly confirm whether he wanted to be prime minister, but also said he was not excluding himself from the race. Experience as Speaker Speaking to RNZ Pacific, he drew on his experience as Speaker when asked about his regional ambitions should he become prime minister. “I don’t want to pre-empt anything right now, but I just have to say that if given the opportunity, I think it would be important for the Pacific to stand as a unit, especially in this polarised world. “There are certain priorities that the Pacific holds dear, and climate change is one of them. And of course, that’s something that us in the Pacific hold as an existential threat. “So something like that is a commonality that we can find working togethe…

Potential Tonga PM candidate: ‘Low-hanging fruits available’ to improve people’s lives
type: item
creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-24T02:14:27Z
subject: Asia Pacific Report
subject: Caretaker government
subject: Lord Fakafanua
subject: Sources
subject: Tongan elections
subject: ‘low-hanging
subject: asia
subject: available
subject: candidate
subject: caretaker
subject: Elections
subject: fakafanua
subject: Featured
subject: fruits
subject: government
subject: improve
subject: lives’
subject: lord
subject: Pacific
subject: Pacific Report
subject: people’s
subject: potential
subject: prime ministers
subject: report
subject: RNZ Pacific
subject: sources
subject: Syndicate
subject: Tonga
subject: tongan
description: By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As Tonga’s 26 newly elected representatives turn to choosing a prime minister among them, one potential candidate is identifying economic development and raising the standard of living as necessary priorities for the next government and its leader. Lord Fakafanua was re-elected as a nobles’ representative for Ha’apai in
encoded: By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist As Tonga’s 26 newly elected representatives turn to choosing a prime minister among them, one potential candidate is identifying economic development and raising the standard of living as necessary priorities for the next government and its leader. Lord Fakafanua was re-elected as a nobles’ representative for Ha’apai in last week’s general election. He spoke to RNZ Pacific after the results were announced and outlined a range of areas he believed Tonga’s next prime minister and cabinet needed to focus on. READ MORE: Other Tongan election reports “There are a few low-hanging fruits available to Tonga, a few policy decisions that we don’t have to spend taxpayers’ money on — they can immediately show dividends and improve people’s lives, and especially lower the cost of living,” Fakanua said. “In the last few weeks, we’ve experienced a shortage of fuel, and I think a lot of people will be looking towards how a new government will handle energy security and [consistency of] supplies that people are getting the services that they require from the government. “And there’s always the issue of unemployment and job opportunities.” Fakafanua, who has held the position of Parliament’s Speaker since 2017, would not explicitly confirm whether he wanted to be prime minister, but also said he was not excluding himself from the race. Experience as Speaker Speaking to RNZ Pacific, he drew on his experience as Speaker when asked about his regional ambitions should he become prime minister. “I don’t want to pre-empt anything right now, but I just have to say that if given the opportunity, I think it would be important for the Pacific to stand as a unit, especially in this polarised world. “There are certain priorities that the Pacific holds dear, and climate change is one of them. And of course, that’s something that us in the Pacific hold as an existential threat. “So something like that is a commonality that we can find working togethe…

Scorching Saturdays: The rising heat threat inside football stadiums
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creator: Olivia McMurrey
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description: Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents at college football stadiums in the South could be a warning sign for universities across the country.
encoded: When Vanderbilt University football fan Douglas Dill set out with his son the morning of October 4 to watch their team play rival University of Alabama, he didn’t expect his game-day experience to include a gurney ride to a medical facility inside Bryant-Denny Stadium. But by the fourth quarter in Tuscaloosa, with the sun beating down on the upper decks, the 60-year-old needed medical help. “It was smoking hot up there,” said Dill, who traveled from Nashville for the game. “The sun was burning me through my clothes. I needed to get up and get some fluids in me or I was going to go down big time. I was starting to get light-headed.” Dill, who operates a courier service with his wife, said he drank water throughout the day but that he had none left by the middle of the fourth quarter. His son and a stadium paramedic helped him down the steep upper-deck stairs to where additional emergency medical personnel were waiting with the gurney. Paramedics treated Dill for dehydration as well as low blood sugar and monitored his blood pressure, which had climbed above normal. Dill has type 2 diabetes but does not usually have high blood pressure. While Dill missed the end of the game, he recovered enough for his son to drive him home. Dill is one of hundreds of fans who have fallen ill from extreme heat in recent years at college games in powerhouse stadiums in the Southeastern Conference. The SEC, a collegiate athletic association, represents programs across a dozen states and accounts for 9 of the country’s 13 largest football stadiums. <img decoding="async" src="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Tiffany-Dunn-nephew-on-UA-team-2048x1360-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcset="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Tiffany-Dunn-nephew-on-UA-team-2048x1360-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200 1200w, https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Tiffany-Dunn-nephew-on-UA-team-2048x1360-1.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=330 330w, http…

The Holodomor: Stalin’s Deadliest Weapon
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description: November is a month when communities around the world commemorate the Holodomor–Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine that, in 1933, starved millions to death, the vast majority of them Ukrainians. Conservative estimates place the death toll at 3.9 million. During the famine, a death certificate listed the cause of death simply as "Ukrainian." In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine today, Vladimir Putin's KGB dictatorship revived the cult of mass-murdering dictator Joseph Stalin–producing propaganda textbooks, putting up Stalin statues, and outlawing acknowledgment of the fact that Stalin helped launch World War II by invading Poland two weeks after Nazi Germany, then holding joint military parades with the Nazis. Stalin monuments and billboards are today in regions of Ukraine under Russian occupation. Back in the early 1930s, as Stalin laid the groundwork for his man-made famine–a diabolically efficient way of killing millions before the invention of the atomic bomb–the New York Times praised his regime. Walter Duranty, the paper's Moscow bureau chief, won a Pulitzer for Soviet propaganda and went on to gaslight readers by insisting, "There is no famine." Challenging the media establishment, political elites, and industry leaders eager to profit from helping Stalin modernize his empire was a young Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones. Idealistic and courageous, he risked his life and career to become a vital independent witness to the genocide. His story is told in the film Mr. Jones and in the award-winning graphic novel In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones. The film was developed with support from historical advisors, including Timothy Snyder, whose classic Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin opens with Jones's story. To commemorate the Holodomor this year, we're sharing the audio from a video interview from September 2024 featuring In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones, which recently won a Ringo Award for Best N…
encoded: November is a month when communities around the world commemorate the Holodomor–Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine that, in 1933, starved millions to death, the vast majority of them Ukrainians. Conservative estimates place the death toll at 3.9 million. During the famine, a death certificate listed the cause of death simply as "Ukrainian." In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine today, Vladimir Putin's KGB dictatorship revived the cult of mass-murdering dictator Joseph Stalin–producing propaganda textbooks, putting up Stalin statues, and outlawing acknowledgment of the fact that Stalin helped launch World War II by invading Poland two weeks after Nazi Germany, then holding joint military parades with the Nazis. Stalin monuments and billboards are today in regions of Ukraine under Russian occupation. Back in the early 1930s, as Stalin laid the groundwork for his man-made famine–a diabolically efficient way of killing millions before the invention of the atomic bomb–the New York Times praised his regime. Walter Duranty, the paper's Moscow bureau chief, won a Pulitzer for Soviet propaganda and went on to gaslight readers by insisting, "There is no famine." Challenging the media establishment, political elites, and industry leaders eager to profit from helping Stalin modernize his empire was a young Welsh journalist, Gareth Jones. Idealistic and courageous, he risked his life and career to become a vital independent witness to the genocide. His story is told in the film Mr. Jones and in the award-winning graphic novel In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones. The film was developed with support from historical advisors, including Timothy Snyder, whose classic Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin opens with Jones's story. To commemorate the Holodomor this year, we're sharing the audio from a video interview from September 2024 featuring In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones, which recently won a Ringo Award for Best N…

CounterPunch.org 2025-11-23 18:33:30
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Elon Musk’s Influence on the Right to Free Speech
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creator: VICE News
date: 2025-11-23T13:00:03Z
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description: This content originally appeared on VICE News and was authored by VICE News.
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What Really Happens Inside Belarus Prisons: Former Women Inmates Speak
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creator: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
date: 2025-11-23T11:53:16Z
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description: This content originally appeared on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and was authored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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MOON LIVE CINÉMA ★ 2025 11 20 ★ MEYLAN Hexagone
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5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Leaders of a Minnesota Church Community Enabled a Child Abuser
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date: 2025-11-23T11:00:00Z
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description: The post 5 Takeaways From Our Investigation Into How Leaders of a Minnesota Church Community Enabled a Child Abuser appeared first on ProPublica.
encoded: Our investigation of a little-known church community in northeastern Minnesota started with something that has become depressingly familiar: child sex abuse. ProPublica and the Minnesota Star Tribune found that some members of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community in Duluth enabled Clint Massie, who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing young girls. Massie is currently in prison in Faribault, Minnesota. The Old Apostolic Lutheran Church — which has no affiliation with mainstream Lutheran denominations and is known as the OALC — is an insular community with many old-world traditions. There is no official count, but one academic study estimated 31,000 members worldwide as of 2016, with most in the United States. We examined hundreds of pages of criminal records, conducted more than a dozen interviews with alleged victims across the country, reviewed video and audio of police interviews with Massie, victims and church leaders, and attended a service at the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church in Duluth. Read More Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget. Daryl Bruckelmyer, an OALC preacher, declined to comment or answer a detailed list of questions for this story. But in a 2023 interview with a St. Louis County detective, he acknowledged knowing about Massie’s sexual abuse. He said at the time that it was up to victims to report the crimes to police, a clear misreading of the law for mandated reporters — doctors, teachers and others who are required to report crimes against children. “We don’t protect either one,” Bruckelmyer said of sexual abusers and their victims. You can read the investigation here, but here are five takeaways from our reporting: Church leaders knew about the abuse: Leaders of Bruckelmyer’s church didn’t report Massie to police though they knew he’d sexually abused girls for years and Bruckelmyer had been told by police that reporting it was their duty. It was an open secret in the congregation: Mothers …

Israel has lost social media battle over Gaza, says military ex-spokesperson
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date: 2025-11-23T10:14:36Z
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description: Pacific Media Watch Former Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari says Israel has “lost the war on social media,” describing the online space as the most dangerous and complex arena shaping global public opinion, especially among younger generations. Speaking at the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, DC, Hagari urged the
encoded: Pacific Media Watch Former Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari says Israel has “lost the war on social media,” describing the online space as the most dangerous and complex arena shaping global public opinion, especially among younger generations. Speaking at the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington, DC, Hagari urged the creation of a powerful new propaganda apparatus modelled on the capabilities and structure of Unit 8200, Israel’s elite cyber intelligence division, reports Middle East Monitor. He argued that Israel must now fight “a battle of images, videos, and statistics—not lengthy texts.” READ MORE: Other Israeli propaganda reports Other Gaza reports Hagari proposed establishing a unit capable of monitoring anti-Israel content across platforms, in real time and in multiple languages, supplying rapid-response messaging and data to government and media outlets. His plan also calls for the systematic creation of fake online identities, automated bot networks, and the use of unofficial bloggers — “preferably mostly young women” — to shape global perceptions. He warned that the decisive phase of this battle would unfold a decade from now, when students using artificial intelligence tools searched for information on the events of October 7 and encountered “two completely contradictory narratives.” Hagari, a former navy officer who served in sensitive military roles, became Israel’s top military spokesperson in 2023 before being dismissed from the position earlier this year. This content originally appeared on Asia Pacific Report and was authored by Pacific Media Watch.

Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-23T08:16:05Z
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description: Asia Pacific Report Māngere East community stalwarts and activists from across Tamaki Makaurau Auckland have gathered at the local Village Green to pay tribute to their popular ‘power couple’ and entertainers Roger Fowler and Lyn Doherty with their whānau. MC Emily Worman of Science in a Van summed it up best yesterday morning by declaring
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Māngere East community stalwarts and activists from across Tamaki Makaurau Auckland have gathered at the local Village Green to pay tribute to their popular ‘power couple’ and entertainers Roger Fowler and Lyn Doherty with their whānau. MC Emily Worman of Science in a Van summed it up best yesterday morning by declaring the event as the “perfect opportunity to show our aroha for both Roger and Lyn” after a lifetime or service and activism for the community. Fowler recently retired from his community duties at the Māngere East Community Centre and is seriously ill with cancer. READ MORE: Roger Fowler’s Kia Ora Gaza page The community presented both Fowler and Doherty with stunning korowai and their “main stage” entourage included Māori land rights lawyer and activist Pania Newton and former MP Aupito Sua William Sio. “This is the perfect place to acknowledge them,” said Worman. “Right in the heart of our community beside the Māngere East Community Centre which started out as Roger and Lyn needed after school care for their kids — so you put your heads together and started an after school programme in the late 1990s. “Right in front of the library that you campaigned to protect and rebuild back in 2002, over the road from the Post Shop which you organised the community to successfully fight to stop its closure in 2010. “Next to the Metro Theatre where the Respect Our Community Campaign, ROCC Stars, met with the NZ Transport Authority over 10 years ago now to stop a motorway from going through our hood. ‘Putting in the mahi’ “Next to Vege Oasis which would have been another alcohol outlet if it wasn’t for you and your whānau putting in the mahi! “Right here in this festival — where, in previous years, we’ve gathered signatures and spread the word about saving the whenua out at Ihumatao.” Worman said her words were “just a highlight reel” of some of the “awesomeness that is Roger Fowler”. “We all have our own experiences how Roger has supported us, o…

Showing their aroha for the activist ‘power couple’ of Māngere East
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creator: APR editor
date: 2025-11-23T08:16:05Z
subject: 'Aupito William Sio
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subject: Emily Worman
subject: Lyn Doherty
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subject: Roger Fowler
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subject: Multimedia
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description: Asia Pacific Report Māngere East community stalwarts and activists from across Tamaki Makaurau Auckland have gathered at the local Village Green to pay tribute to their popular ‘power couple’ and entertainers Roger Fowler and Lyn Doherty with their whānau. MC Emily Worman of Science in a Van summed it up best yesterday morning by declaring
encoded: Asia Pacific Report Māngere East community stalwarts and activists from across Tamaki Makaurau Auckland have gathered at the local Village Green to pay tribute to their popular ‘power couple’ and entertainers Roger Fowler and Lyn Doherty with their whānau. MC Emily Worman of Science in a Van summed it up best yesterday morning by declaring the event as the “perfect opportunity to show our aroha for both Roger and Lyn” after a lifetime or service and activism for the community. Fowler recently retired from his community duties at the Māngere East Community Centre and is seriously ill with cancer. READ MORE: Roger Fowler’s Kia Ora Gaza page The community presented both Fowler and Doherty with stunning korowai and their “main stage” entourage included Māori land rights lawyer and activist Pania Newton and former MP Aupito Sua William Sio. “This is the perfect place to acknowledge them,” said Worman. “Right in the heart of our community beside the Māngere East Community Centre which started out as Roger and Lyn needed after school care for their kids — so you put your heads together and started an after school programme in the late 1990s. “Right in front of the library that you campaigned to protect and rebuild back in 2002, over the road from the Post Shop which you organised the community to successfully fight to stop its closure in 2010. “Next to the Metro Theatre where the Respect Our Community Campaign, ROCC Stars, met with the NZ Transport Authority over 10 years ago now to stop a motorway from going through our hood. ‘Putting in the mahi’ “Next to Vege Oasis which would have been another alcohol outlet if it wasn’t for you and your whānau putting in the mahi! “Right here in this festival — where, in previous years, we’ve gathered signatures and spread the word about saving the whenua out at Ihumatao.” Worman said her words were “just a highlight reel” of some of the “awesomeness that is Roger Fowler”. “We all have our own experiences how Roger has supported us, o…

COP30 Shows How Corporate Power Is Derailing Climate Justice
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creator: Jawad Khalid
date: 2025-11-23T06:59:15Z
subject: CounterPunch
subject: Sources
subject: Climate
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subject: corporate
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subject: derailing
subject: Feature Articles
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subject: Justice
subject: Power
subject: shows
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description: Analysis from the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition shows more than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. That means one in every 25 participants represents the industry that is accelerating climate chaos. Lobbyists from ExxonMobil, BP, TotalEnergies, and major trade associations roam freely while delegates from the ten most climate-vulnerable nations combined are vastly outnumbered. Indigenous peoples and civil society activists are squeezed to the margins, sometimes literally, as protestors blockaded entrances to be heard. Meanwhile, fossil fuel executives are in the rooms where decisions or the lack thereof will shape our collective future. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post COP30 Shows How Corporate Power Is Derailing Climate Justice appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Analysis from the Kick Big Polluters Out coalition shows more than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to COP30 in Belém, Brazil. That means one in every 25 participants represents the industry that is accelerating climate chaos. Lobbyists from ExxonMobil, BP, TotalEnergies, and major trade associations roam freely while delegates from the ten most climate-vulnerable nations combined are vastly outnumbered. Indigenous peoples and civil society activists are squeezed to the margins, sometimes literally, as protestors blockaded entrances to be heard. Meanwhile, fossil fuel executives are in the rooms where decisions or the lack thereof will shape our collective future. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post COP30 Shows How Corporate Power Is Derailing Climate Justice appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Jawad Khalid.

Divining the Future
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creator: Stephen F. Eisenman
date: 2025-11-23T06:56:00Z
subject: CounterPunch
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description: Divining the Future Stephen F. Eisenman The Dowsers Society To get to Norwich Market from our flat opposite Pulls Ferry, you walk north along River Road to Bishop’s Bridge and then go west across the River Wensum. The bridge was built in the middle of the 14th century and is one of the oldest in […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. More The post Divining the Future appeared first on CounterPunch.org.
encoded: Divining the Future Stephen F. Eisenman The Dowsers Society To get to Norwich Market from our flat opposite Pulls Ferry, you walk north along River Road to Bishop’s Bridge and then go west across the River Wensum. The bridge was built in the middle of the 14th century and is one of the oldest in […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access here In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. The post Divining the Future appeared first on CounterPunch.org. This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org and was authored by Stephen F. Eisenman.

Max Blumenthal wipes smile off US official’s face
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creator: The Grayzone
date: 2025-11-23T04:36:47Z
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description: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.
encoded: This content originally appeared on The Grayzone and was authored by The Grayzone.