From the Trenches World Report
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By Christina Maas – Reclaim The Net
Washington has finally found a monster big enough for bipartisan unity: the attention economy. In a moment of rare cross-aisle cooperation, lawmakers have introduced two censorship-heavy bills and a tax scheme under the banner of the UnAnxious Generation package. Continue reading “Congress Goes Parental on Social Media and Your Privacy”
By Chris Menahan – Information Liberation
Israel First GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson on Tuesday brought together former First Lady Hillary Clinton and dozens of high-powered Zionists for a conference in Manhattan touting Jewish power, influence and purported victimhood. Continue reading “Zionists Tout Power, Influence and Victimhood at Miriam Adelson’s Israel Hayom Summit in New York”
While Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are in Moscow working to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, a series of attacks on Russia-linked oil tankers unfolded both before and during their visit. Now, reports are also emerging of an explosion along the Druzhba oil pipeline.
On Wednesday morning, Kyiv Post cited sources in Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) that reported an explosion struck the Druzhba (“Friendship”) oil pipeline – one of Europe’s most important energy arteries, which moves roughly 1.2 to 1.5 million barrels per day from Russia through Belarus and Ukraine into Central Europe.
President Trump invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House in the “near future” during a call on Monday, according to a statement from Netanyahu’s office. Continue reading “Trump Invites Netanyahu to His Fifth White House Meeting”
NATO’s top military officer has floated the idea of the Western alliance conducting a “pre-emptive” strike on Russia, a comment that drew a sharp rebuke from Moscow. Continue reading “NATO’s Top Military Officer Floats Idea of ‘Pre-Emptive Strike’ on Russia”
By Cam Wakefield – Reclaim The Net
Let’s say you’re British and you go on vacation to Florida. You eat too many ribs, you get sunburned and, because it’s Florida, you end up holding a shotgun on someone’s porch like you’re auditioning for Duck Dynasty. Continue reading “British Man Arrested in UK Over Florida Vacation Gun Photo”
Continue reading “Trump pardons convicted narco-trafficking pol amid plot to rig Honduran election”
Given the controversy over mRNA jabs for children, the death would likely have been big news – if Moderna and the supposedly independent physicians involved with the trial had reported it. Continue reading “How Moderna hid the death of a child in a Covid vaccine clinical trial – even as it seemed to disclose the trial’s results”
U.S. natural gas futures spiked to their highest levels in nearly three years as models now show a frigid first half of December across the Lower 48. Several forecasters are also warning of a potential polar-vortex-driven Arctic blast event later this month, which could drive temperatures even lower.
Let’s begin with an unusual sight (for this time of year) of winter storm alerts across the Northeast on Tuesday morning.
Continue reading “US NatGas Hits Three-Year High As Forecasts Point To “Long, Cold Winter””
Early Friday morning, the Israeli military raided the town of Beit Jinn, in western Syria, sparking a clash and Israeli artillery shells and airstrikes against the town that left at least 15 dead and 20 wounded. Continue reading “Israel Mulls Escalation in Syria After Deadly Attack on Beit Jinn”
President Trump on Saturday declared that the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela is to be closed, a sign that he might soon launch an attack on the country with the aim of ousting President Nicolas Maduro. Continue reading “Trump Declares Closure of Venezuela’s Airspace”
By Ken Macon – Reclaim The Net
Starting November 30, 2025, people in Missouri will find the digital world reshaped: anyone wishing to visit websites containing “harmful” adult material will need to prove they are at least 18 years old by showing ID. Continue reading “Missouri Locks the Web Behind a “Harmful” Content ID Check”
By Kit Klarenberg and William Evans – The Grayzone
Continue reading “Files expose Britain’s secret D-Notice censorship regime”
Last year during sweeping British protests triggered by the stabbing murders of three young girls at a dance recital by the radicalized 17-year-old child of Rwandan migrants, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley threatened to have American citizens “arrested and extradited” to the UK for “stoking racial violence” (i.e. pointing out that third world migrants and often the children of third world migrants are a societal net negative and should be deported). Continue reading “UK Man Arrested For Posing With Gun In Photo Taken While In The US”
Israel continued with its attacks on southern Lebanon on Thursday. A year on from the ceasefire with Lebanon, the strikes show no signs of abating, and indeed come with persistent threats of further escalation by the Israeli military. Continue reading “Israel Pounds Southern Lebanon as Trump Issues Ultimatum”
The suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, DC, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, worked for a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” known as the Kandahar Strike Force (KSF) or the “03” unit, which has been implicated in war crimes against Afghan civilians. Continue reading “DC National Guard Shooter Worked for CIA-Backed Kandahar Strike Force in Afghanistan”
By Ken Macon – Reclaim The Net
European governments have taken another step toward reviving the EU’s controversial Chat Control agenda, approving a new negotiating mandate for the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation in a closed session of the Council of the European Union on November 26. Continue reading “EU Council Approves New “Chat Control” Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance”
Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, has submitted his resignation – the highest level official to fall amid the massive graft probe which has brought rare international embarrassment on the Zelensky government.
As a reminder, Andrew Korybko recently opined that Yermak’s removal could prompt some progress in peace talks:
He’s Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power, thus pressuring him into peace, especially if his warmongering grey cardinal is no longer pushing him to keep fighting.
A week and a half ago, the UN Human Rights Office issued a statement reporting that Israel had killed 114 civilians since the beginning of the ceasefire in Lebanon. Today, they updated that number to 127 confirmed civilians, entirely on the basis of a single attack. Continue reading “UN Calls for Investigations as Number of Lebanese Civilians Killed by Israel During Ceasefire Rises to 127”
More than 100,000 Palestinians have likely been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, according to a research team from the Germany-based Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). Continue reading “Study: Israeli Forces Likely Killed More Than 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza”
