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Weeks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell evaded a sitting congressman’s questions about the central bank’s foreign gold holdings, the Fed has also declined to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for records about such holdings.
By Hannah Nightingale – The Postmillennial
On Sunday, CBS News’ 60 Minutes aired an episode featuring two people who purportedly lost their jobs in the USAID shutdown. However, the two people featured in the episode actually worked for an outside company, not USAID. CBS said that Kristina Drye and Adam Dubard had been “fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the US Agency for International Development, USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration.” Continue reading “60 Minutes featured former Biden USAID head’s speechwriter as worker fired during DOGE spending cut spree”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
The Israel Lobby wants the next multibillion dollar US aid package for the Jewish state to “span 25 years, rather than 10” in order to “insulate the relationship against future US political vagaries and uncertainties.” Continue reading “Israel Wants Next U.S. Aid Package to Span 25 Years”
Israel issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Continue reading “Israel advancing plans for 1,000 new settler homes in Bethlehem”
US Africa Command said in a press release that it launched an airstrike in northeast Somalia that targeted ISIS fighters, claiming that two were killed. Continue reading “US Launches Airstrike in Somalia’s Puntland, Says Two ISIS Fighters Killed”
By Armageddon Safari – Zero Hedge
Even before DOGE blew the lid off of USAID’s sleazy bankrolling of transgressive social engineering projects from Ireland to Zimbabwe, anyone with common sense who pays a modicum of attention to international affairs already knew what was up.
Now, we have all the proof we could ever want — and so do the nation-states victimized by the brutal neoliberal machine. Continue reading “Geopolitical Consequences: Deep State’s USAID Chickens Come Home to Roost”
By Brett Wilkins – Antiwar.com
Israeli authorities are planning to expand a Jewish-only settlement in the West Bank by nearly 1,000 homes, a Tel Aviv-based peace group said Sunday as Israeli soldiers and settlers escalated attacks on Palestinians in the illegally occupied territory. Continue reading “Israel Plans 1,000 New Settlement Homes as West Bank Raids Intensify”
By Ted Galen Carpenter – The Libertarian Institute
U.S. officials have a long history of portraying Washington’s allies and clients as democratic, even when their behavior is blatantly authoritarian. Such cynical hypocrisy was at its zenith during the Cold War, but it is surging again. Continue reading “America’s ‘Democratic’ Allies Are Becoming More Authoritarian”
By Cindy Harper – Reclaimthenet.org
Despite the narrative being about a threat from China, efforts to ban TikTok in the United States were largely stagnant until the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas reignited discussions around the legislation, according to former US Congressman Mike Gallagher. Continue reading “Washington’s TikTok Ban Heated Up Following Israel-Hamas War, Former Congressman States”
By Wyatt Reed and Oscar León – The Gray Zone
Continue reading “Argentina’s Milei faces impeachment for promoting crypto scam”
In a bold move, the legal counsel for CDSS (California Department of Social Services) has fired off a legally threatening letter to this reporter for the apparent “crime” of asking questions pertaining to the finances of a CDSS employee. Continue reading “California Department of Social Services Threatens Reporter for Asking Questions”
By Hannah Nightingale – The Postmillennial
Overnight, the leader of the “Ziz” trans terror cult Jack “Andrea” LaSota, also known as “Ziz,” and co-member Michelle Zajko were arrested in Maryland. Zajko has been on the run since the Inauguration Day killing of border patrol agent David Maland during a traffic stop in Vermont. Continue reading “BREAKING: Trans terror cult leader, member wanted for killing of Vermont Border Patrol agent arrested in Maryland”
Speaking to reporters alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Hamas must be “eradicated,” a goal that would require Israel to restart its genocidal war on Gaza. Continue reading “Visiting Netanyahu, Rubio Says Hamas Must Be ‘Eradicated’”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
A Jewish man in Miami on Sunday shot two Israelis after “mistaking them for Palestinians” and yet the media is reporting on the incident as an “anti-Semitic attack.” Continue reading “Florida: Jewish Man Shoots Two Israelis ‘After Mistaking Them for Palestinians’”
The extended ceasefire in Lebanon has just a couple of days left, and while Israel is maybe withdrawing from population centers, but keeping its military in southern Lebanon with new hilltop surveillance posts, the situation wasn’t less bloody this weekend. Instead, Israel continued attacking and killing Lebanese civilians at a heavy pace. Continue reading “Israeli Troops Kill Several, Including 13-Year Old Girl in Southern Lebanon, Capture Paramedics”
By Cindy Harper – Reclaimthenet.org
A shocking discussion on CBS News’ 60 Minutes has highlighted the stark limits of online speech in Germany, where oppressive scenes once thought to be relegated to history and dystopian fiction, show law enforcement has been conducting pre-dawn raids and confiscating electronics from individuals accused of posting content deemed as “hate speech.” Continue reading “Germany’s Shocking War on Online Speech: Armed Police Raids for Online “Insults,” “Hate Speech,” and “Misinformation””
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Israel’s Ministry of Defense on Sunday released video showing the arrival of a massive shipment of some 1,800 MK-84 2,000-lb bombs sent by the Trump administration. Continue reading “Israel Shows Off New Shipment of 2000-lb Bombs Sent by Trump Amid ‘Ceasefire’”
By KIT KLARENBERG – The Grey Zone
Continue reading “Secret terror blueprints for US NSC to ‘help Ukraine resist’ exposed”
By Hayden Cunningham – The Postmillennial
Google has cooperated with authoritarian regimes, including Russia and China, by complying with censorship requests and removing content critical of governments, according to an investigation by the Observer. Continue reading “Google complied with censorship requests from China, Russia, authoritarian regimes”
Europe is growing more hawkish in its rhetoric, seeing the need for a counterbalance against Trump efforts to secure lasting peace in Ukraine, which recently included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing that the US does not see future NATO membership for Ukraine as a realistic possibility. Continue reading “UK’s Starmer: I’m Ready To Put British Troops In Ukraine”