RACHEL MADDOW HAS A FIT, DISGORGING EMOTIONAL REACTIONS TO THE WAY RUSSIA IS TRYING TO DESTROY KIEV — EXCEPT RUSSIA IS NOT TRYING TO... RUSSIA WANTS TO MAKE A DEAL THAT PREVENTS THE WEST AND THE NAZIS IN YUCKRAINE FROM DESTROYING THE RUSSIAN CULTURE AND THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN PART OF UKRAINE FOR A LONG TIME.

THE WEST PROVOKED THE RUSSIAN MILITARY RESPONSE IN UKRAINE. THE AMERICANS HAVE LONGED FOR THIS WAR, WHICH THEY THOUGHT THEIR PROXY COULD WIN... WRONG. RUSSIA IS WINNING 100 TO ONE. TIME FOR A PROPER DEAL.

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The Dutch government is backing down — and it’s a major geopolitical embarrassment. After weeks of high-stakes tension with Beijing, the Netherlands is now preparing to relinquish control of Nexperia, the Chinese-owned chipmaker it had seized under a decades-old law. This comes after a wave of supply chain chaos that nearly crippled Europe’s automotive industry.

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is viewed as a potential “partner” by the Communist Party of Russia (KPRF), its deputy chairman has said.

Speaking to Kommersant on Thursday, MP Leonid Kalashnikov said Mamdani’s proposals to increase taxes on the wealthy closely resemble policies advocated by the party.

“He is indeed a communist in some respects, even though his movement is called the Democratic Socialists of America,” Kalashnikov remarked. Russian communists will observe Mamdani’s actual governance before forming a final opinion, he added.

Kalashnikov noted that both groups are linked through their association with the Sao Paulo Forum, a South American coalition of left-wing anti-imperialist parties, which, he said, makes Mamdani “our partner.”

Russia has no intention of violating its obligations under international agreements banning nuclear tests, but will resume testing if other countries do, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Peskov was responding to the controversy sparked by US President Donald Trump’s order last week directing the Pentagon to prepare to resume nuclear testing. Trump accused Russia and China of conducting “secret” nuclear tests – which both countries have dismissed.

Europe’s NATO member states should brace for a lasting rupture with Moscow, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has said, urging them to focus on supporting Kiev.

The Western nations have introduced multiple rounds of sanctions in an effort to economically isolate Russia since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022.

The measures have recently been followed by a wave of military buildup across Europe, with governments rearming in response to the alleged Russian threat.

“I firmly believe Sweden, Estonia, and the EU must prepare for a long-term isolation of Russia,”Kristersson said earlier this week after meeting with his Estonian counterpart Kristen Michal in Tallinn.

Like most of my colleagues in art history, English, history, modern languages, musicology, philosophy, rhetoric and adjacent fields, I am concerned about the current crisis in the humanities. Then again, as a student of the history of the modern university, I know that there haven’t been too many decades over the last 150 years during which we humanities scholars have not employed the term “crisis” to portray our place in the academy. 

Would We Rather the Humanities ‘Be Ruined Than Changed’?
Yes, the humanities are in crisis—but enough with the hyperbole already.

By Richard Utz

The Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and 36 other senior officials for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, according to Turkish media.

Israel launched its military campaign in response to the Hamas-led raid on October 7, 2023, which killed around 1,200 people. The retaliatory strikes and ground operations have since killed over 68,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health authorities.

Türkiye issues ‘genocide’ arrest warrant for Netanyahu
Ankara has accused dozens of Israeli officials of “systematic” crimes against civilians in Gaza

“The defense acquisition system as you know it is dead,” Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said in a major speech delivered to industry representatives Nov. 7 at the National War College in Washington, D.C.

The US government shutdown is inflicting “far worse” economic damage than had been estimated and could cut fourth quarter GDP growth in half, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett has warned.

The 38-day shutdown, the longest in US history, is hitting travel, hotel and construction sectors particularly hard, he told Fox Business in an interview on Friday.

”The impact on the economy is far worse than we expected because it’s gone on for so long,” he said.

The repercussions of the shutdown could slice 1% to 1.5% from US GDP growth in the October-December period, Hassett said, citing recent estimates from Goldman Sachs.

“We were going to have at least 3% growth in the fourth quarter… now we’re expecting something like half that,” he added.

Former prime minister (and journalist) Tony Abbott has published a political history of Australia.

Across 18 well-written chapters, he narrates the nation’s trajectory, starting with the establishment of a penal colony in 1788 and ending with the failed Voice referendum of 2023. Abbott’s aim is to restore national pride by showing that our past was “far more good than bad”.

Jane Lydon

On 7 March, Syrian security forces and affiliated armed factions perpetrated the massacre of more than 1,500 Alawite civilians, including many elderly, women, and children, in 58 separate locations on the Syrian coast.

Though the killings were executed by sectarian forces loyal to Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammad al-Julani), a former Al-Qaeda commander, the path to the massacre was paved by a covert Israeli strategy aimed at inciting an Alawite uprising. 

Pat Buchanan’s recent birthday leads me to speculate: how much better would we be today if he had been elected President in 1992 rather than George H.W. Bush? He would have avoided “Operation Desert Storm” against Iraq, with all its disastrous consequences for us ever since. He was wrong about tariffs, but, as Murray Rothbard always said, war is the most important issue, and Pat Buchanan was a strong non-interventionist. That’s why he supported Buchanan.

Friday Philosophy
Gunning for Kagan

David Gordon

[GUSNOTE: ROBERT KAGAN IS A VILE WARMONGER AND GUS DOES NOT ENDORSE THE PRAISE FOR KAGAN IN THIS ARTICLE.]

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump said on Friday that he intends to address the conflict in Ukraine, along with topics related to trade and energy, during his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the White House.

Trump, Orban Express Optimism About Ending Ukraine Conflict Soon

Meeting With Putin

US President Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility of a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Budapest.

“There’s always a chance,” he told reporters during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Trump noted that he intends to discuss with Orban the possibility of meeting with Putin.

It’s that time of the great proxy war crusade against Russia again. Someone in the mainstream West has woken up to, if not the facts about the politics of Ukraine, then at least a quantum of disquiet.

The last major wave of the likes of the Financial Times, The Economist, and the Spectator suddenly noticing – all at the same time, as if on cue – that Ukraine has an authoritarianism and corruption problem (and then some) took place less than half a year ago.

The West discovers Zelensky is not really a good guy
In a fleeting glimpse of lucidity, the mainstream media has noticed a tiny fraction of the corruption and authoritarianism in Kiev

BY Tarik Cyril Amar