Earlier this week, the American people were “reliably” informed by the left-wing press that the full grand jury that indicted disgraced former FBI Director James Comey did not see the final indictment.

“Judge grills government over apparent lapses in Comey indictment,” ABC News’ Peter Charalambous, Alexander Mallin, Katherine Faulders, and Nicholas Kerr wrote on November 19. According to the quartet, U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan “told a judge … that the full grand jury that indicted Comey did not see the final indictment — only the foreperson and another grand juror did.”

As I wrote some months ago, if you don’t like this administration’s policies, wait 15 minutes. In the sort of off-the-cuff statement that leads policy, President Donald Trump told a press gaggle Sunday that the U.S. might be back to talks with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro: “We may be having some discussions with Maduro, and we’ll see how that turns out, but they would like to talk.”

On Venezuela, Trump Should Take the Money and Run
If this is in fact just a “pressure campaign,” let’s take the concessions and call it.

BY Jude Russo

As a very difficult decision is looming for Zelenskyy, the weight of history is making the choice for him. Carry on fighting and lose more territory [at a rate of 1,200 DEAD soldiers per day] — or go with Donald Trump 28 points plan for peace and accept the losses. Honest observers and serious military experts cannot expect a return to 1991. According to some expert:

1991 — Ukraine has a population of 55 million

2014 — Ukraine has a population of 44 million

2025 — Ukraine has a population of 19 million

In 2022, FOUR oblasts have chosen to return to Russia after a 100 year (say since 1922) errant in Ukraine.

Crimea voted to re-join the Russian Federation in 2014 after a 60 year (since 1954) errant in Ukraine.

These cannot be changed without WW3 — and WW3 would not change the situation.

Ukrainian opposition MP Aleksey Goncharenko has published the text of a purported peace plan reportedly presented to Kiev by the US administration this week.

The lawmaker posted on social media what appeared to be screenshots of a Ukrainian-language electronic document detailing the 28-point peace plan to end the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev.

Earlier in the day, Vladimir Zelensky’s office confirmed the US presented Kiev with its new draft plan. The Ukrainian administration did not elaborate on its contents, only expressing a willingness to discuss it and stating that “in the American side’s assessment” the plan “could help reinvigorate diplomacy.”

Here’s the full text of the post:

1. Ukraine’s sovereignty will be confirmed.

“Shanda fur die goyim”—a shame before the nations—was once a quiet warning among Jews: do not let our failings and actions, even sins of omission, which are often the greatest sins, become fuel for hatred from non-Jews. Yet today, the disgrace does not hide itself; instead, it broadcasts in high definition.

Benjamin Netanyahu: “Shanda fur die Goyim”— Shame on Jews, Shame on Me!

Henry Kamens

France’s top general, Fabien Mandon, is facing backlash after saying the country must be ready to “lose children” in a potential conflict with Russia. Moscow has dismissed Western speculation that it has any plans to attack the EU or NATO as “nonsense.”

Mandon, who was appointed chief of staff in September, made the remarks at an annual gathering of mayors in Paris this week. He urged officials to prepare citizens “to accept suffering in order to protect who we are.”

The general, who previously suggested that France could be at war with Russia by 2028, argued that the country has the economic and demographic power to “deter” Moscow, but lacks the “strength of spirit.”

Private capital will not build Australia a world-class science system. Only the public sector can do that. And it must do so at a scale that matches the challenges ahead.

The looming loss of hundreds of CSIRO scientists has been greeted with the usual talk of “budget pressures” and managerial decisions. But this framing obscures the real story. What is happening to CSIRO is not a sudden failure of governance. It is the culmination of much deeper, longer-term failures — failures that reach back through the entire history of Australian capitalism.

Stewart Sweeney

Japan and China both have legitimate security concerns. But an informed debate needs major media outlets to stop systematically erasing the historical context that shapes how the region understands current events.

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament that a Chinese military move against Taiwan could constitute a 存立危機事態 (sonritsu kiki jitai, “survival-threatening situation”) for Japan, some big Western media outlets uniformly framed China’s furious response as irrational overreaction.

Fred Zhang

It's a tradition for German heads of government to at least briefly attend United Nations climate conferences. Former Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his predecessor Angela Merkel did so, and current Chancellor Friedrich Merz from the conservative Christian Democratic Union(CDU) was no exception.

Don Reynolds is a name forgotten to history, though he appears to hold a key to understanding who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

On November 22, 1963, the morning that Kennedy was killed, Reynolds was testifying in a closed-door session of the Senate Rules Committee about a kickback scheme he was involved in on behalf of Lyndon B. Johnson

Reynolds’ testimony was going to lead to Johnson being dropped from the 1964 Democratic ticket and potentially going to jail.

Obscure Insurance Agent From Silver Springs Maryland May Very Well Hold Clue to JFK Assassination

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

Two of the EU’s most powerful and controversial officials, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the bloc’s Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas, are struggling for control of the EU’s diplomacy and intelligence services in a confrontation “worthy of ‘Game of Thrones’,” the French newspaper Le Monde has reported, citing sources.

Von der Leyen killing Kallas in EU ‘Game of Thrones’ – Le Monde
The two top officials are reportedly struggling for control over the bloc’s diplomatic and intelligence services

If you've ever walked past a newsstand, if you subscribe to Libération, if you listen to the radio, or if you have a TV, you know that in 2020, China employed 500,000 slaves in the cotton fields of Xinjiang (1).

The only proof lay in the sheer repetition of the information.

Perhaps you've seen, because the news is entertaining, that the Chinese are manufacturing humanoid robots capable of performing somersaults.

But here's the scoop that may have escaped the media sledgehammer in our country: "They" are also manufacturing robot tractors that plow, analyze soils, sow, and harvest.

       Théophraste R., author of the forthcoming pamphlet: "Xinjiang, 500,000 Uyghurs Reduced to Unemployment."

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete control over our destiny and have no need to evolve. Even though lots of people believe this, it’s not true. 

If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving

BY Michael A. Little

Danny [Daniel Davis] explains that after years of stalled efforts, there are now real signs that the Russia-Ukraine war might be moving toward a negotiated settlement. A secret 28-point U.S.–Russia peace proposal is reportedly being drafted, inspired by Trump’s earlier ceasefire framework used in the Israel–Hamas conflict. The plan reportedly covers four broad categories:

ending the war,

security guarantees for both sides,

a new European security structure, and

future U.S.–Russia and U.S.–Ukraine relations.

The reason for cautious optimism, he says, is that Russian officials—for the first time—indicate the U.S. may be seriously acknowledging Russia’s position, which has not happened in previous years.