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Monday, March 31, 2025

Interesting and Informative reading and videos I came upon in the second half of March, 2025

 

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-trump-somaliland-sudan-somalia-575e03aaa0c487
 

AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza

 
 By  JOSEF FEDERMAN, MATTHEW LEE and SAMY MAGDY
 

Updated 11:22 AM EDT, March 14, 2025

JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for moving Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials told The Associated Press.

The contacts with Sudan, Somalia and the breakaway region of Somalia known as Somaliland reflect the determination by the U.S. and Israel to press ahead with a plan that has been widely condemned and raised serious legal and moral issues. Because all three places are poor, and in some cases wracked by violence, the proposal also casts doubt on Trump’s stated goal of resettling Gaza’s Palestinians in a “beautiful area.”

Officials from Sudan said they have rejected overtures from the U.S., while officials from Somalia and Somaliland told The Associated Press that they were not aware of any contacts..............

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https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/18/i-o-f-targets-refugee-camps/

  By Cara MariAnna  ... March 18, 2025

15 MARCH—Home demolitions surged in the northern West Bank governorates of Tulkarm and Jenin during the first week of March. On 6 March, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency reported that Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) destroyed 16 buildings in the camp of Nur Shams, located in the Tulkarm Governorate. Residents were given two and a half hours to vacate homes they had lived in for years, according to a Middle East Monitor report. The homes were demolished for a new road through the camp for military use.

This latest escalation of violence began on 21 January — timed for the day after Trump’s inauguration — when the I.O.F. launched a new military operation it named “iron wall.”

As the apartheid regime moves to annex the West Bank, it continues to target refugee camps with what is almost certainly the intent to destroy and empty them. This is a straight repeat of the Zionists’ operation as they emptied and destroyed the original homes and villages belonging to the grandparents and great grandparents of today’s refugees.

Operation “iron wall” coincides with Israel’s efforts to shut down all UNRWA facilities throughout Occupied Palestine. Without UNRWA, the camps will quickly collapse. The organization provides many of the services necessary to community and human life: education, primary health care, social services, infrastructure improvement and basic camp sanitation including overseeing water quality and garbage removal.

Destroying UNRWA is an effective way to erase the presence and existence of Palestinian refugees altogether. In effect, this renders U.N. resolution 194—which established a right of return for Palestinian refugees to the land and homes stolen during the Nakba—meaningless....................

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https://consortiumnews.com/2025/03/20/the-new-age-militarists/

By William Hartung  ... March 20

Alex Karp, the CEO of the controversial military tech firm Palantir, is the coauthor of a new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West.

In it, he calls for a renewed sense of national purpose and even greater cooperation between government and the tech sector. His book is, in fact, not just an account of how to spur technological innovation, but a distinctly ideological tract.

As a start, Karp roundly criticizes Silicon Valley’s focus on consumer-oriented products and events like video-sharing apps, online shopping and social media platforms, which he dismisses as “the narrow and the trivial.” 

His focus instead is on what he likes to think of as innovative big-tech projects of greater social and political consequence.

He argues, in fact, that Americans face “a moment of reckoning” in which we must decide “what is this country, and for what do we stand?”.........

 

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/03/how-the-usa-became-wedded-to-zionist-israel/#more-156998

How the USA Became Wedded to Zionist Israel From JFK to Donald Trump

There are many contrasts between the 35th president, John F. Kennedy, and the 45th and 47th president, Donald J. Trump. One extreme example is regarding U.S. policy toward Israel.

JFK and Israel/Palestine

Unknown to many people today, JFK supported Palestinian rights and sought a sustainable peace in the region.

In 1960, when JFK was campaigning to be president, he spoke at the convention of the Zionists of America. In his speech, Kennedy was complimentary about Israel but frankly said, “I cannot believe that Israel has any real desire to remain indefinitely a garrison state surrounded by fear and hate.” That warning, issued when Israel had only existed for 12 years, was ignored.

Kennedy did not just issue warnings. To the chagrin of the Israelis, JFK established friendly relations with Egypt’s President Nasser. The Kennedy administration provided loans and aid to Egypt......................

 

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 Video at link:   March 25..

 Whitney Webb talks to Kim Iversen on the influence of  billionaires and billionaire transnational group connected to Israel and their grip on the USA.

She also discusses recent statements made about her book, One Nation Under Blackmail, and how her findings on Epstein's network tie into key figures in Big Tech, some of whom now have significant political influence.

https://odysee.com/@UnlimitedHangout:a/2025-03-27:d

 

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Video:  Ryan Cristian brings us up to date on the shenanigans from the overlords ruling over us.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/trump-americans-el-salvador-israel/

 Trump Could Send Americans To El Salvador & Israel Commits “Largest Child Massacre In Its History”

 

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https://thegrayzone.com/2025/03/25/jeffrey-goldberg-bomb-yemen-signal/
 

Why did Jeffrey Goldberg leave the ‘bomb Yemen’ Signal chat?

 By Max Blumenthal·March 25, 2025
 

With momentum for a strike on Iran building within the Trump White House, Goldberg was apparently summoned to move the neocon message. And he wound up with more access than he could handle.

Atlantic Magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg has won the admiration of his Beltway peers for the conduct he displayed after being accidentally invited into a smoke-filled “bomb Yemen” Signal chat with Trump’s national security honchos and top advisors. “Props to Jeffrey Goldberg for his high standards as a professional journalist,” declared Ian Bremmer, the trans-Atlanticist foreign policy pundit on his Bank of America-sponsored GZero podcast. “When he realized the conversation was authentic he immediately left, informed the relevant senior official, and made the public aware without disclosing intelligence that could damage the United States.”

But what exactly did Goldberg do to deserve such high praise?...


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https://www.mintpressnews.com/betar-the-far-right-hate-group-helping-trump-deport-israels-critics/289301/

By Alan McLeod

A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants deported from the United States. Betar U.S. is known to have had several meetings with senior government officials and has claimed credit for the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of the nationwide anti-genocide student demonstrations that began at Columbia University last year.

Ross Glick, the group’s executive director until last month, noted that he met with a diverse set of influential lawmakers, including Democratic senator John Fetterman and aides to the Republican senators Ted Cruz and James Lankford, and that all supported Betar U.S.’ campaign to rid the country of thousands of “terror supporters.”

Shortly after Glick’s trip to Washington, D.C., Trump signed an executive order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism” that promises “the removal of resident aliens who violate our laws,” to “quell pro-Hamas vandalism and intimidation,” and to “investigate and punish anti-Jewish racism in leftist, anti-American colleges and universities.”

Trump himself announced that Khalil’s arrest, which made worldwide headlines, was “the first of many to come.” “We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump administration will not tolerate it,” he wrote on Truth Social. The 45th and 47th president has also stated that he plans to deport “Communists” and “Marxists” from the United States, even those who are citizens. As such, this marks an escalation in government-backed suppression of dissent not seen since the McCarthyist era of the 1940s and 1950s............

 

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 Video:  James Corbett and James Palado look at the crazy current state of our world.

 

 https://corbettreport.com/nwnw586/

 

Interview 1943 – Your DNA Is For Sale (And Wojcicki’s Bidding!) (NWNW #586)

by | Mar 28, 2025

 

 

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 https://responsiblestatecraft.org/massie-houthi-airstrikes/

Massie interview: Houthi strikes 'not America First'

Also said signal chats proved there was no clear 'urgency' and therefore Congress should have been notified

Key Takeaways From NYT's Secret History Detailing US 'Shocking' Involvement In Ukraine War

March 31

 

It is years too late and alternative and independent media had already done so much work on exposing the reality, including 600+ page books which have been published, but the New York Times on Sunday is out with a lengthy report on The Partnership: The Secret History of America’s Role in the Ukraine War.

Up until very recently, mainstream media gatekeepers wouldn't so much as admit that a proxy war has been unfolding from the very start of the conflict in Ukraine. This even after the so-called paper of record had earlier in Feb. 2024 acknowledged that the CIA had built 12 "secret spy bases" in Ukraine to wage a shadow war against Russia going back to 2014. 

Again, it comes much too belatedly, but now with Ukrainian forces clearly losing the fight, the Times admits that the prior Biden administration was far more involved in being embedded on a military and intelligence level with Ukraine than was previously made public by official sources.

The report is a deep dive into the "extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology" that became Zelensky's "secret weapon" in countering Russia. It begins by describing that within two months of Putin sending his army across the border, Ukrainian generals in civilians clothes were being secretly whisked away for high-level war planning sessions at US bases in Germany........

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Friday, March 14, 2025

Interesting items I have read in the first half of March, 2025

 

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/03/02/the-monsters-arent-just-in-history-books-they-live-among-us-theyre-everywhere/

The Monsters Aren't Just in History Books.  They Live Among Us.  They're Everywhere

 

Walter Salles' new film on the disappearances of regime critics in 1970s Brazil is a powerful reminder that the ghouls who defend the slaughter in Gaza are biding their time

by | Mar 2, 2025

Walter Salles’ new film I’m Still Here is a moving, true-story, Oscar-nominated portrait of a middle-class, leftwing family in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s struggling to come to terms with the father’s disappearance – 25 years later confirmed as murder – by the Brazilian military dictatorship.

The mother and a teenage daughter spend time inside a regime torture camp too, before being released..........

 

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/trumps-tariff-wars-will-hurt-us-the-most.html 

Trump's Tariff Wars Will Hurt U.S. The Most President Donald Trump seems to believe that tariffs can help to bring manufacturing back to the States. Trump's tariffs have so far been aimed at four targets, the U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico, China and, soon to come, the European Union. During his first term Trump negotiated the U.S.M.C.A. with Mexico and Canada, a free trade zone covering the U.S. and its neighbors. He is now attempting to change the rules of it. But the way he does so is inconsistent. On January 21 Trump promised tariffs on Canada and Mexico. On February 1 he announced them. Three days later he delayed the implementation of those tariffs. On February 27 he said the tariffs would go into effect on March 4. On March 5 he was again forced to pull back (archived):...................................

 

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massie-reveals-how-much-campaign-cash-hes-hauled-since-trump-targeted-him-ouster-fundraising-record

 
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told Fox News Digital on Thursday morning that he had hauled in $261,000 in campaign donations in recent days since President Donald Trump targeted him for ouster for opposing a government-funding measure.

"In less than three days, I’ve received $261,000 through 3,203 individual donations, without sending an email, a text, or a phone call. It’s a fundraising record for me and it’s boosted my current cash on hand north of $1.1 million," Massie said in a statement.

After Trump took a swing at Massie in a Truth Social post on Monday night, the congressman responded in a tweet on Tuesday by soliciting campaign donations.......

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https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/flu-vaccine-exposed-shocking-nih-discovery-they-dont-want-you-know
 

Flu Vaccine Exposed: The Shocking NIH Discovery They Don't Want You To Know
Via The Vigilant Fox

Two decades ago, CBS aired a bombshell report on the flu shot, revealing a truth that health officials didn’t want to admit. Despite flu shot uptake among seniors skyrocketing from 15% to 65%, flu deaths continued to climb...................

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https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/11/sectarian-violence-sweeps-syria-as-western-backed-security-forces-rampage-in-alawite-towns/

Sectarian Violence Sweeps Syria as Western-Backed Security Forces Rampage in Alawite Towns
By The Cradle

At least 147 people have been killed in Syria in the past two days, as security forces from the country’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – led government carried out a series of massacres and extrajudicial executions against Alawites in the country’s coastal regions as part of a broader security campaign to target remnants of the former Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

Videos of many instances of extrajudicial killings have been posted to social media showing HTS militants from the government of Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former Al-Qaeda in Iraq commander, killing unarmed Alawites in cold blood.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), 69 of those killed were Alawite minority members executed by security forces. At the same time, the rest included government security personnel (of the Sunni sect), and members of the former Syrian army (of the Alawite sect), and civilians caught in the clashes.  

Among those killed were 15 Alawite men who were executed by HTS forces in the village of al-Muktariyya on 7 March. “It is not clear what or if any criteria were used for their execution,” Syria expert Joshua Landis wrote on the social media site X.....

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https://www.mintpressnews.com/professor-columbia-university-scandal-former-israeli-spy/289231/

By Alan-Macleod
Professor at Center of Columbia University Deportation Scandal is Former Israeli Spy
he professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal.

Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests......

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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/europe-defense-spending/
 
By: Almut Rochowanski

European militarism on steroids is not good, either

Lacking in any strategic thinking, a new bellicism has swept up the elites and gone into cataclysmic overdrive in recent weeks
U.S. security experts and leaders have been telling European NATO allies to increase their defense spending for at least a quarter century, initially as a gentle nudging, later more insistently, rising to a deafening din after Trump’s election.

The infamous White House press conference with President Volodymyr Zelensky on March 1 finally shocked Europeans out of their complacency and opened their purse-strings, according to American analysts, who seem very pleased with themselves.

But this approach puts the cart of military-spending-as-share-of-GDP before the horse of a dynamic assessment of the threats European countries actually face. Going on a spending spree to reach some arbitrary share of GDP or random number of billions of euros, to buy weapons systems favored by lobbyists but of dubious relevance, is a poor replacement for a comprehensive strategy for European security.....



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https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/11/chris-hedges-trumps-christian-fascists-and-the-war-on-palestine/

Chris Hedges: Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine

Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump — 80 percent voted for Trump in the last election according to a voter survey by the Associated Press — have mounted a concerted campaign calling on the White House to back Israel’s annexation of the West Bank and Gaza.

This campaign includes visits to Israel by prominent leaders, including Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins and Mario Bramnick, petitioning the White House, lobbying Congress and calls for annexation at Christian conferences, including a resolution of support for Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank adopted at the most recent Conservative Political Action Conference. The National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Convention in Dallas, in March, gathered over 200 signatures from pastors and right-wing religious leaders from across the United States calling for the annexation of “Judea and Samaria” — the purported biblical name for the West Bank —and declaring the two state solution “a failed experiment.”...........

 

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https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/03/13/were-1-in-selling-weapons/

We’re #1 in Selling Weapons!
American Exceptionalism Defined

by William Astore | Mar 13, 2025

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.

We’re #1 (once again) in selling weapons! Amazingly, the USA now accounts for 43% of the world’s trade in deadly weaponry. No country beats more plowshares into swords and pruning hooks into spears than America, which is also, obviously, the most Christian nation in the world.

Let’s take a look at a useful chart from Stephen Semler (be sure to check out his blog on Substack):....


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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/03/when-dissent-becomes-a-crime-the-war-on-political-speech-begins/
 

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: The War on Political Speech Begins

by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead / March 13th, 2025
You can’t have it both ways.

You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.

You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.

You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.

There’s always a boomerang effect.

Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America great again—rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.

Arresting political activists engaged in lawful, nonviolent protest activities is merely the shot across the bow.

The chilling of political speech and suppression of dissident voices are usually among the first signs that you’re in the midst of a hostile takeover by forces that are not friendly to freedom.

This is how it begins........... 

 

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https://ronpaulinstitute.org/my-weekend-in-moscow/
 

My Weekend in Moscow

by Andrew P. Napolitano

When an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the renowned Professor Alexander Dugin to visit them in Moscow arrived in my inbox, it was actually the culmination of a series of emails and telephone calls from Russian-American friends giving me a heads up. Still, it startled me.

So, last week, I flew to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and from there to Moscow. The sanctions President Joe Biden imposed on Russian persons and businesses — and kept in place by President Donald Trump — bar, among much else, direct flights to Russia from the West............

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

News and Opinions from journalists ......... mid Feb to Feb 28, 2025

 

https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/24/with-troops-and-tanks-israel-gives-the-gaza-treatment-to-west-bank-camps-expelling-40000-palestinians/

Juan Cole: Israel Gives the Gaza Treatment to West Bank Camps, Expelling 40,000 Palestinians

February 24, 2025
 

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The BBC reports that Israeli forces have invaded three Palestinian refugee camps in the Palestinian West Bank — Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams — and expelled their inhabitants. The ghost towns will be occupied by the Israeli military for the next year, according to Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that the residents would not be allowed to return.

The Israeli operation against the camps began January 21, virtually as soon as Trump was inaugurated.

I suppose there isn’t any point in bringing it up, given the determination of United States and other major powers to bestow impunity on the extremist Netanyahu government, but article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 says, “Individual or mass forcible transfers, as well as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory to the territory of the Occupying Power or to that of any other country, occupied or not, are prohibited, regardless of their motive.”

The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli tanks rumbled their way into the Jenin camp Sunday evening, in the biggest escalation of Israeli military violence against Palestinians since 2002 during the second Intifada or uprising.

Operations in the camps at Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas left 61 Palestinians dead according to the Pelestinian ministry of health, in addition to the displacement of tens of thousands and the broad destruction of property, houses and infrastructure.


 

 

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https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/17/milei-impeach-crypto-scam/

Argentina’s Milei faces impeachment for promoting crypto scam

 

The Argentinean president branded himself as an edgy economic genius to ride a wave of financial discontent to power. Now he’s implicated in one of the biggest scams in history, wiping out over $4 billion in market cap in a few hours, leaving Argentineans wondering if they’ve also been rugged.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has been accused of fraud, and is likely to face impeachment charges, after he promoted a sham cryptocurrency token which allowed a handful of con artists to dupe crypto owners out of hundreds of millions of dollars in a single day. The scam is believed to be the first cryptocurrency “rug-pull” to have been orchestrated with the help of a sitting president. While the exact number of victims is unknown, around 75,000 people are suspected to have been swindled, and a judge has been appointed to investigate after at least 100 criminal complaints were filed against Milei in Argentina in the days since...........

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https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2025/02/17/ron-paul-on-bibi-to-rubio-lets-attack-iran/

Ron Paul on Bibi To Rubio: ‘Let’s Attack Iran!’

by | Feb 17, 2025

On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, long-known for his attachment to Israel, was in the country over the weekend for a visit with Israeli PM Netanyahu. Perhaps buoyed by Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, Bibi decided to push one step further, announcing that the US and Israel need to “finish the job” against Iran. Will Trump’s pledge of “no new wars” be able to withstand Bibi’s demands?................................

 

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/fiendish-experiments-trumps-guantanamo-bay-migrant-detentions/

Fiendish Experiments: Trump’s Guantánamo Bay Migrant Detentions

Guantánamo Bay has been a fiendish experiment in US law for decades. The fiendishness lies in the subversion. Operating as a naval base in Cuba, this contentious facility has been the site and location for the cruelties of paranoia and empire, a place where such laws as due process are subverted, and the presumption to innocence soiled. In this contorted way, the civilian and military branches have mingled and corrupted, the result proving a nightmare for legal authorities keen to ensure that such a facility does, at the very least, observe that sad, dusty relic known as the rule of law.

Legal sharpshooters have been baffled by the latest experiment with the facility, this time from the Trump administration and its efforts to use it as a detention centre for unwanted migrants.................

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https://corbettreport.com/how-to-get-eggs-for-free/

How to Get Eggs for Free!!! – #SolutionsWatch

by | Feb 26, 2025 | Solutions Watch, Videos

Are you concerned with the price of eggs? Well, as I see it, there are two options. Either you could participate in the slave suggestion ritual known as voting for a political candidate in the hopes that your preferred candidate will take office so that they can start pressuring the central bank (that shouldn’t exist) to tighten the money supply in the hopes of curbing monetary inflation while simultaneously easing regulatory burden on corporate farmers (who we shouldn’t be buying food from) so that they will be  .......................

 

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https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/27/caitlin-johnstone-an-empire-being-honest/

Caitlin Johnstone: An Empire Being Honest

 

Monday, March 3, 2025

Videos that tell the happenings of the last month ............. Feb 1 - Feb 28, 2025

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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Articles and opinions covering Feb 10 - 22, 2025

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/fire-the-washington-war-party/

Fire the Washington War Party

by | Feb 22, 2025

President Donald Trump gets a lot of things wrong. Chief among them is his crazy plan to ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from the smoking ruins of Gaza.

But he also gets some very important things very right.

Trump managed to end the longest war in US history, Afghanistan, by cutting off the money that fueled this absurd conflict. Without Trump’s forceful intervention, this conflict could have dragged on for another decade and cost yet another $2 trillion. None of the generals or politicians involved had the guts or sense to end this pointless war.

Now, it appears that Trump may be doing it again in the other pointless war, Ukraine. The US has lavished at least $175 billion fueling the Ukraine War. Given that some of the US aid is hidden or obscured, the true figure may be over $200 billion – this by the US which is deep in hock with a monster debt of $36 trillion which it can’t pay back.................................

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https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/a-left-behind-europe-and-ukraine-will-fall-into-chaos.html#more

A Left Behind Europe (And Ukraine) Will Fall Into Chaos

Tuesday's talks (not yet 'negotiations') between the Foreign Ministers of the United States and the Russian Federation went well. More will follow. The readouts and interviews from the U.S. and Russia were all positive.

Embassies and Consulates of both sides, shut down for absurd reasons during the Obama and Biden administration, will be reopened and restaffed. Normal diplomatic relations will resume. That in itself is a huge step forward.

There were no negotiations yet about the war in Ukraine. Envoys and delegations will be named to crack that nut. It will be a challenge. The process will take some time.

Meanwhile discussions on other issues will resume and expand. Russia put out some bait. It offered cooperation in economic fields of bilateral interest. U.s. companies may get (re-)invited to explore Russian oil and gas fields,  especially in the Arctic..................

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https://candaceowens.com/video/becoming-brigitte-candace-owens-x-xavier-poussard-ep-6/

 Becoming Brigitte: Candace Owens x Xavier Poussard | Ep 6

February 17, 2025

My in-person interview with Xavier Poussard, the journalist who exposed the secrets of the mysterious individual who has become "Brigitte

 

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https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/22/weve-seen-this-horror-show-before/

We’ve Seen This Horror Show Before

Joe Biden quietly sought to ethnically cleanse Gaza; Bill Clinton and George W. Bush deported millions; Clinton tried to shrink the state and Steve Bannon warned in 2019 what Donald Trump would do

 There are periods in history… epochs, distinctive periods in time marked by notable events, that in many instances signal change.

Columbus stumbling upon the Americas where Indigenous peoples had been living for thousands of years. The French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the invention of the semiconductor, WWII, the Civil Rights era, etc.

In many instances, one may not realize that they’re living in the historic moment. It’s only upon reflection that you realize the significance of the time.

There are other periods, I call them Oppenheimer moments, where you know that you are in the moment. The first atomic bomb was tested on July 16, 1945. The bomb, nicknamed “Gadget,” released 18.6 kilotons of power...............

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https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/02/20/anyone-who-wants-the-ukraine-war-to-continue-is-a-monster/

 Anyone Who Wants The Ukraine War To Continue Is A Monster

If you want Ukrainians to keep dying in this war against the will of the Ukrainians themselves while you sit safe at home eating snacks and posting on the internet, you’re a monster.


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https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/19/forced-displacement-of-palestinians-from-occupied-west-bank-largest-since-1967/

 

Forced Displacement of Palestinians From Occupied West Bank ‘Largest Since 1967’

February 19, 2025 

By The Cradle

The mass displacement carried out by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank is the largest since 1967, according to experts cited by the New York Times (NYT) on 17 February. 

“What makes this moment unprecedented is not only the scale of the displacement but also the accompanying discourse, which increasingly normalizes the idea of permanent forced displacement,” said Maha Nassar, a Palestinian historian at the University of Arizona.

“This represents a significant escalation in the longstanding conflict, one that threatens to fundamentally alter the political and demographic landscape of the region,” she went on to say. 

At least 55 Palestinians have been killed since the Israeli army began its operations in the occupied West Bank last month – which were kicked off by a massive assault on Jenin and its refugee camp that remains ongoing. 

The operation quickly expanded to include other cities and towns, including Tulkarem, Tubas, and Nablus. 

In Jenin and Tulkarem alone, at least 26,000 Palestinians have been uprooted from their homes. Israeli forces have been destroying houses and wiping out infrastructure. Homes that have not been destroyed are being emptied out, taken over by occupation forces, and transformed into military posts. .............

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https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/18/chris-hedges-the-purge-of-the-deep-state-and-the-road-to-dictatorship/

Chris Hedges: The Purge of the Deep State and the Road to Dictatorship

February 18, 2025 

The Trump administration’s war with the deep state is not a purgative. It is not about freeing us from the tyranny of intelligence agencies, militarized police, the largest prison system in the world, predatory corporations or the end of mass surveillance. It will not restore the rule of law to hold the powerful and the wealthy accountable. It will not slash the bloated and unaccountable spending — some $1 trillion dollars — by the Pentagon.

All revolutionary movements, on the left or the right, dismantle the old bureaucratic structures. The fascists in Germany and the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union, once they seized power, aggressively purged the civil service. They see in these structures, correctly, an enemy that would stymie their absolute grip on power. It is a coup d’état by inches. Now we get our own.

Rearguard battles — as in the early years of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany — are taking place in the courts and media outlets openly hostile to Trump. There will be, at first, pyrrhic victories — the Bolsheviks and the Nazis were stalled by their own judiciaries and hostile press — but gradually the purges, aided by a bankrupt liberalism that no longer stands or fights for anything, ensures the triumph of the new masters......

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https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israel-false-flag-bibas-doge-lying/

 

Israeli False Flag, Israel Uses Bibas Family To Sabotage Ceasefire & DOGE/Elon Caught Lying Again

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/are-you-denying-that-russia-invaded-ukraine/#more-156069

 “Are You Denying that Russia Invaded Ukraine?”

As I noted the other day, most Americans remain unaware that President Barack Obama initiated the war in Ukraine in February, 2014 with the Euromaiden Coup in Kiev. Those with an ounce of integrity who followed subsequent events, understand that every Russian entreaty for peace was ignored and that Russia’s red line was crossed when the US opened the door for Ukraine to join NATO. Politically, Putin has no choice but to intervene.

This is the critical missing context every time the official mantra “Russia invaded Ukraine” is incessantly repeated in the mainstream media. And the Deep State and its minions will go on resisting peace and undermining improved US-Russia relations...........................

 

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https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/02/yves-engler-arrested-for-criticizing-israel/#more-156138

Yves Engler Arrested for Criticizing Israel

Speaks to Media before Detention

On Thursday morning, as scheduled, author and activist Yves Engler was arrested by the Montreal police for his social media posts criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza. Before turning himself in to Montreal Police at 980 Guy Street, Engler addressed the media, denouncing the politically motivated charges against him and the broader crackdown on those speaking out against Israeli violence.............

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https://corbettreport.com/nwnw582/

Interview 1932 – Meet the Zizians (NWNW #582)

by | Feb 21, 2025

 

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https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2025/02/17/can-we-really-cut-half-of-the-military-budget-you-bet/

Can We Really Cut Half of the Military Budget? You Bet!

The wailing sound you heard last Thursday was the chorus of the Beltway warmongers shrieking in despair at President Trump’s suggestion that there was no reason for the United States to be spending one trillion dollars on “defense.”

“…[O]ne of the first meetings I want to have is with President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia, and I want to say let’s cut our military budget in half. And we can do that, and I think we’ll be able to do that,” the President told reporters.

With this statement, President Trump blew up one of the biggest myths of our time, particularly among Republicans, that spending more on the military is essential to keeping us safe. There is a vast and well-funded network of political and industrial interests that depend on maintaining that myth, from the weapons manufacturers to the mainstream media to the think tanks and beyond. Why? Because most of what is called “defense spending” has little to do with defending this country and a lot to do with enriching the politically well-connected..............

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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/02/investigative-reports/trumped-2025-school-choice-corporatization-social-impact-finance-and-the-dismantling-of-the-department-of-education/

TrumpED 2025: School Choice Corporatization, Social Impact Finance, and the Dismantling of the Department of Education

In alignment with Project 2025, Trump pledges to eliminate the Dpt. of Ed and replace it with “school choice.” Rather than end federal control of education, Project 2025 education policy threatens to expand both government and corporate control of schooling in order to streamline ed-technocracy for the 4IR.

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Some tweets from X ... Feb 1 - 10, 2025

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