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The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health announced on Monday that the number of victims since the start of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon on October 8 has risen to 2,483, and 11,628 injured, the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported. Continue reading “Rising Death Toll in Lebanon amid Escalating Israeli Airstrikes – Over 2,400 Dead, Thousands Injured”
By Howard Altman – The Warzone
There are now nearly 11,000 North Korean infantry troops training in eastern Russia to fight in Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) told The War Zone Thursday afternoon. Continue reading “Nearly 11,000 North Korean Troops In Russia Preparing To Enter The Fight Says Ukraine’s Spy Boss”
Background: “AFCEA [Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International] Atlanta [Chapter] Homeland Security Conference on Critical Infrastructure, November 6-7, 2024, with a large scale cybersecurity exercise on November 5, 2024” (link in footnote) Continue reading “Breaking: Major National Cybersecurity Exercise on Election Day; What???”
Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has clarified that she does not believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after an incident at a rally suggested that she did. Continue reading “Harris Campaign Says She Denies Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Jordana Cutler, a long-time senior Israeli government official who advised Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud party, was hired by Meta to be their “Jewish Diaspora” policy chief and uses her position to “demand censorship of Israel’s critics.” Continue reading “Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Pushed to Censor Pro-Palestine Content, Internal Docs Reveal”
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday and announced a new $400 million weapons package. Continue reading “Austin Visits Ukraine, Announces New $400 Million Weapons Package”
By Didi Rankovic – Reclaim The Net
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus used the UN agency’s Summit 2024 to launch into yet another tirade against online “misinformation/disinformation.” Continue reading “WHO Chief Doubles Down on Free Speech Crackdown”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Kamala Harris should conscript young men into military service to give them “a sense of identity, community and patriotism,” according to the New York Times. Continue reading “NYT: Kamala Should Draft Young Men Into Military Service to Give Them ‘Purpose’”
The ex-CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch was arrested in South Florida on Tuesday morning and faces sex trafficking-related charges brought by federal prosecutors in New York, NBC News reported. This comes one year after former A&F CEO Mike Jeffries was accused of running a giant sex-trafficking ring that exploited young men who wanted to become models for the brand.
NBC said Jeffries’ associates, Matthew Smith of West Palm Beach, Florida, and James Jacobson of Wisconsin, were also charged in connection with the sex trafficking case. This news comes hours before federal prosecutors in Brooklyn plan to hold a press conference to announce the arrests of a “former CEO of a major company” and two others in a “sex trafficking and interstate prostitution case.”
By Thomas Stevenson – The Post Millennial
Kids in the city of Logansport, Indiana are reportedly being forced out of schools after the county’s population has expanded by 30 percent due to immigration. This comes amid the ongoing border crisis under the Biden-Harris administration. Continue reading “Students pushed out of schools after Haitian migrants increase Indiana county’s population by 30%: report”
By Rebecca English – Daily Mail
An Australian politician staged a foul-mouthed protest at a royal reception attended by the King and Queen today. Continue reading “King Charles is heckled by radical Australian politician Lidia Thorpe accusing him of ‘genocide’ and shouting ‘give us our land back… f*** the colony’ in ugly confrontation during his tour down under”
Former first lady Michelle Obama’s voter mobilization initiative is using drag shows and the promise of seeing rapper Cardi B perform to energize voters to participate in the election. Continue reading “Michelle Obama’s voter mobilization initiative is using drag shows and Cardi B to energize voters to pick Harris”
The Bishop Brady High School girls’ soccer team in Concord, New Hampshire, has joined the growing number of female athletes protesting the inclusion of biological males in female sports. Continue reading “Girls soccer team in New Hampshire forfeits game against team with trans player”
Alison Morrow (formally Westover), an accomplished journalist, found herself in the throes of a legal battle over her right to free speech. Represented by the Silent Majority Foundation, Morrow has filed a lawsuit against the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its top officials, citing wrongful termination after she was dismissed for airing an interview on her YouTube channel. The channel, a personal project crafted during her tenure as an environmental reporter at KING 5 in Seattle, became the subject of controversy following her post featuring a highly censored doctor, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, and his views on COVID-19. Continue reading “Fired for Free Speech: Alison Morrow’s Battle Against Government Censorship”
Late Sunday, the Israeli military began launching a series of airstrikes in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Dahieh and in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, targeting the branches of a bank. Continue reading “Israel Starts Bombing Banks in Lebanon”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Israel made a huge mistake by releasing video of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s final moments. Continue reading “Reuters: Gazans Revere Sinwar’s Defiant End – ‘How Heroes Die’”
60 Minutes has released a defensive statement after being caught deceptively editing their interview with Vice President Kamala Harris in order to make her appear intelligent. Continue reading “60 Minutes Defends ‘Deceitful’ Edit Of Kamala Interview, Still Won’t Release Transcript”
On Sunday, the two aviators that were operating an EA-18G Growler that crashed east of Mount Rainier in Washington State last week have been declared dead by the US Navy. Continue reading “US Navy pilots declared dead after plane crashes during training flight in Washington State”
What struck me last time I read 1984 was how much I had missed in it. It’s much much more than the images of brutal repression we tend to remember. Continue reading “No one cares if the boots exist…”
For over a year, the masters of war in Israel and the United States, abetted by the corporate media, have buried truth under the rubble of Gaza. The US mainstream media have acted as the hewers of wood and drawers of water for the empire. Continue reading “‘Burying the Truth under Rubble of Gaza’ – Israel Unmasked”