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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Some Posts on the X platform with news worth reading ......... Dec 21 - 31, 2025

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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

News gleaned from the X platform ........... Dec 11 - 20, 2025

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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Informative videos I watched to catch up on news that our controllers try to keep under lock and key........ Christmas week 2025

 

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Friday, December 19, 2025

Meaningful articles and videos from anti-war activists we should take to heart ......... December 19, 2025

  

 Video at link. 

https://original.antiwar.com/mbenjamin/2025/12/17/extrajudicial-killings-from-barack-obama-to-donald-trump/ 

Extrajudicial Killings From Barack Obama to Donald Trump

If Obama could kill a 16-year-old American boy without accountability, why wouldn’t Trump believe he has the same power to snuff out the lives of civilians with no due process?

by | Dec 18, 2025 | 46 Comments

In May 2013, as President Barack Obama delivered a major foreign-policy speech in Washington, I managed to slip inside. As he was winding up, I stood and interrupted, condemning his use of lethal drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia.

“How can you, a constitutional lawyer, authorize the extrajudicial killing of people – including a 16-year-old American boy in Yemen, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki – without charge, without trial, without even an explanation?”

As security dragged me out, Obama responded, “The voice of that woman is worth paying attention to.” Perhaps my questions touched a chord in his conscience, but the drone attacks did not stop.

Just before that incident, I had returned from Yemen, where a small delegation of us met with Abdulrahman’s grandfather, Nasser al-Awlaki – a dignified man with a PhD from an American university, someone who genuinely believed in the values this country claims to represent. He looked at us, grief etched into his face, and asked, “How can a nation that speaks of law and justice kill an American child without apology, without even a justification?”

Under Obama, drone strikes killed thousands of people. Entire communities lived under the constant terror of buzzing drones – never knowing whether a flash in the sky meant death for them, their children, or the neighbors who ran to help.........

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https://ronpaulinstitute.org/julian-assange-sweden-broke-own-laws-with-nobel-prize-to-venezuelas-machado/

Julian Assange: Sweden broke own laws with Nobel Prize to Venezuela’s Machado

by , | Dec 18, 2025

The Swedish government violated its own laws by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition figure Maria Corina Machado, according to an explosive legal brief filed by Julian Assange, the Wikileaks co-founder and former political prisoner who was hounded across the globe, confined in harsh conditions, and subjected to physical and psychological torment over the course of a decade by the US and its allies.

The Nobel committee’s decision to award Machado the Peace Prize — and the 11 million Swedish Kroner ($1.18 million USD) reward which accompanies it — means that “there is a real risk that funds derived from Nobel’s endowment have been or will be… diverted from their charitable purpose to facilitate aggression, crimes against humanity, and war crimes,” Assange stated.

The Wikileaks founder pointed to the “ample public statements… showing that the U.S. government and Marรญa Corina Machado have exploited the authority of the prize to provide them with a casus moralis for war,” adding that the explicitly stated purpose of the war sought by Machado and her wealthy Latin American backers would be “installing her by force in order to plunder $1.7 trillion in Venezuelan oil and other resources.”

The Nobel Foundation stands accused of a number of violations of Swedish criminal law, including breach of trust, misappropriation and gross misappropriation, conspiracy, crimes against international law, as well as financing of aggression, facilitation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, and breaching Sweden’s stated obligations under the Rome Statute, to which Stockholm says it is “deeply committed.”........

 

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/12/confusion-at-nato-rutte-russia-and-delusions-about-trump/

Confusion at NATO: Rutte, Russia, and Delusions about Trump

by Binoy Kampmark / December 18th, 2025

It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal. It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace. It was also delivered with a note of profound self-denial: the US administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy had belittled Europe’s efforts in terms of ensuring its own security, not least of all its claims to civilisational supremacy. President Donald Trump has tirelessly insisted that the continent bloat the military industrial complex and confront its demographic problems.

From the opening, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte reflects on a piece of the Berlin Wall kept in NATO headquarters. “It was a barrier to keep people in, and ideas out. Now it is a monument to the force of freedom, a reminder of the power of unity, and a lesson that we must stay strong, confident and steadfast.” He might have gone further to explain how the collapse of the Berlin Wall was also a chance to stabilise Europe and temper the tensions with the then ailing Soviet Union. Assurances by NATO members and respective US administrations that eastward expansion toward Russia would be eschewed, were never honoured. NATO became Washington’s spear of hubris, a post-Cold War entity of triumphalism. It would only grow, making Moscow ever more anxious.

The message is one of foaming agitation. Russia and “the dark forces of oppression” again coming to the fore. The mission of the alliance reinvigorated. Claiming that NATO was “to stop a war before it starts”, he proceeded to fan the flames. “We are Russia’s next target, and we are already in harm’s way.” Russia, a country bleeding in war, burdened by sanctions, with an economy hovering in size between Canada and Italy, would seemingly wish to plunge a continent into an infernal maelstrom................

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 Time to refresh our memories as the Epstein documents are supposedly being made transparent today.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2019/08/investigative-series/mega-group-maxwells-and-mossad-the-spy-story-at-the-heart-of-the-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/

 

Mega Group, Maxwells and Mossad: The Spy Story at the Heart of the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal

The picture painted by the evidence is not a direct Epstein tie to a single intelligence agency but a web linking key members of the Mega Group, politicians, and officials in both the U.S. and Israel, and an organized-crime network with deep business and intelligence ties in both nations.
 
byWhitney Webb
August 7, 2019

As billionaire pedophile and alleged sex-trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein sits in prison, reports have continued to surface about his reported links to intelligence, his financial ties to several companies and “charitable” foundations, and his friendships with the rich and powerful as well as top politicians. 

While Part I and Part II of this series, “The Jeffrey Epstein Scandal: Too Big to Fail,” have focused on the widespread nature of sexual blackmail operations in recent American history and their ties to the heights of American political power and the U.S. intelligence community, one key aspect of Epstein’s own sex-trafficking and blackmail operation that warrants examination is Epstein’s ties to Israeli intelligence and his ties to the “informal” pro-Israel philanthropist faction known as “the Mega Group.”

The Mega Group’s role in the Epstein case has garnered some attention, as Epstein’s main financial patron for decades, billionaire Leslie Wexner, was a co-founder of the group that unites several well-known businessmen with a penchant for pro-Israel and ethno-philanthropy (i.e., philanthropy benefiting a single ethnic or ethno-religious group). However, as this report will show, another uniting factor among Mega Group members is deep ties to organized crime, specifically the organized crime network discussed in Part I of this series, which was largely led by notorious American mobster Meyer Lansky.

By virtue of the role of many Mega Group members as major political donors in both the U.S. and Israel, several of its most notable members have close ties to the governments of both countries as well as their intelligence communities. As this report and a subsequent report will show, the Mega Group also had close ties to two businessmen who worked for Israel’s Mossad — Robert Maxwell and Marc Rich — as well as to top Israeli politicians, including past and present prime ministers with deep ties to Israel’s intelligence community. 

One of those businessmen working for the Mossad, Robert Maxwell, will be discussed at length in this report. Maxwell, who was a business partner of Mega Group co-founder Charles Bronfman, aided the successful Mossad plot to plant a trapdoor in U.S.-created software that was then sold to governments and companies throughout the world. That plot’s success was largely due to the role of a close associate of then-President Ronald Reagan and an American politician close to Maxwell, who later helped aid Reagan in the cover-up of the Iran Contra scandal. .......................................

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Monday, December 15, 2025

A couple of articles worth reading ............ December 15, 2025

https://phantompain1984.substack.com/p/the-doctrine-of-pressure

 By Phantom Pain 

THE DOCTRINE OF PRESSURE

From Kennedy to Kirk: Sixty Years of Retaliation, Silence, and the Architecture of Influence

The Wound at the Center of the Alliance

It is one of the most extraordinary statements ever uttered by a former American ambassador to Israel — and all the more shocking because it came from David Friedman, a figure whose ideological loyalty to Israel was once considered absolute. In an attempt to counter Tucker Carlson’s arguments at the 2025 Doha Forum — arguments we will return to in a later section — Friedman made a confession that detonates the mythology of the U.S.–Israel alliance at its root. He said:

“The US imposed an arms embargo on Israel from 1948 until 1962. Israel begged three US presidents — Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy (the latter for 2 years) — for weapons and was rebuffed.” — David Friedman, former American ambassador to Israel.

What Friedman disclosed — perhaps without grasping the enormity of what he was admitting — is that the arms embargo he described did not merely strain the early relationship. It ended in 1962, the final full year of John F. Kennedy’s life. And in 1963, within months of Kennedy escalating his demands for unfettered inspections at Dimona, he was assassinated — an event followed almost immediately by Lyndon Johnson’s reversal of Kennedy’s Middle East policy. The shift was not gradual, not debated, not contested. It was instant. A 180-degree transformation in U.S. posture toward Israel occurred in the space between Kennedy’s coffin leaving Dallas and LBJ’s first months in office. Pressure evaporated. Nuclear oversight died. The embargo regime Friedman referenced disappeared forever.

U.S.–Israel relationship was born not in mutual trust, but in mutual suspicion. Washington viewed early Israeli militarization as a spark that could ignite a wider regional war; Israel believed American restraint threatened its survival.

This investigation follows the line they never wanted connected: Kennedy’s showdown with Dimona; the retaliatory ethic later declared openly by Mossad leadership; Charlie Kirk’s unprecedented break with major donors just 48 hours before his death; and Tucker Carlson’s Doha confrontation with Israel’s dominant Western narrative, a moment that forced the entire architecture of political pressure into the open. Together, these moments reveal a single, continuous mechanism of power — one that has shaped U.S. policy for sixty years and is now impossible to ignore.............................

 

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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/rebranding-genocide

 By Chris Hedges

Rebranding Genocide

The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.

 

 

 

 First, it was Israel’s right to defend itself. Then it was a war, even though, by Israel’s own military intelligence database, 83 percent of the casualties were civilians. The 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, living under an Israeli air, land and sea blockade, have no army, air force, no mechanized units, no tanks, no navy, no missiles, no heavy artillery, no fleets of killer drones, no sophisticated tracking systems to map all movements, or an ally like the United States, which has given Israel at least $21.7 billion in military aid since Oct. 7, 2023.

Now, it is a “ceasefire.” Except of course, as usual, Israel only abided by the first of the 20 stipulations. It freed around 2,000 Palestinian captives held in Israeli prisons — 1700 of whom were detained after Oct. 7 — as well as around 300 bodies of Palestinians, in exchange for the return of the 20 remaining Israeli captives.

Israel has violated every other condition. It has tossed the agreement — brokered by the Trump administration without Palestinian participation — into the bonfire with all the other agreements and peace accords concerning Palestinians. Israel’s extensive and blatant flouting of international agreements and international law — Israel and its allies refuse to abide by three sets of legally binding orders by the International Cout of Justice (ICJ) and two ICJ advisory opinions, as well as the Genocide Convention and international humanitarian law — presage a world where the law is whatever the most militarily advanced countries say it is.

The sham peace plan — “President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” — in an act of stunning betrayal of the Palestinian people, was endorsed by most of the U.N. Security Council in November, with China and Russia abstaining. Member states washed their hands of Gaza and turned their backs on the genocide..................................



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Friday, December 12, 2025

News from Tweets on X .......... December 1 - 10, 2025

 

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