US President Joe Biden has said that he supports Venezuela holding a new round of elections, as a number of countries have rejected the results of the latest vote in the South American nation. Caracas, in response, has accused him of intervening in Venezuela’s internal affairs. 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro officially won the country’s presidential election last month, securing a third term in office. However, while countries such as Russia, China and Caracas’ regional allies have congratulated the incumbent on his victory, the Venezuelan opposition, most Latin American states and the G7 nations have refused to recognize the results, expressing “serious concerns” about the integrity of the electoral process.

[NOTE — YouTube has banned Judge Napolitano for one week. Bastards!! You can follow him at BitChute. Please spread the word.]

Queue up Auld Lang Syne, I think we are seeing signs that Ukraine’s not-so comedic genius is going to hit the skids. One of my loyal readers and supporters (Dave, you know who you are) flagged last night’s Wall Street Journal article for me — A Drunken Evening, a Rented Yacht: The Real Story of the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage. You know you are dealing with real “professionals” when you have a group that is mixing a booze blast with high explosives (allegedly).

Israel’s token rape arrests, more cunningly, are part of a strategy to fend off genocide and war-crimes charges. Israel has become adept at narrative, repeating mantras about its unsurpassed morality. One lie embedded deep in the lattice of lies that is Israel is that, contrary to most criminal enterprises and individuals, a spectacular democracy like Israel has the absolute ability to investigate itself ~ilana.

Take Australian taxpayers’ money, ship it overseas and build groundbreaking capabilities for foreign corporations to export around the world, all at the expense of Australian innovation and jobs. Rex Patrick reports on the quantum betrayal.

On April 30 this year, almost exactly a year after the Albanese Labor Government released its National Quantum Strategy “to grow the quantum industry in Australia,” Industry Minister Ed Husic announced we were shipping just short of a billion taxpayer dollars to a US Company, Palo Alto based PsiQuantum, to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer in Brisbane.

What will it take to give whistleblowers the kind of protection they deserve? When will women like Roxanne Mysko be saved from “a pile-on by rich white men?” Andrew Gardiner reports.

Australia’s weak whistleblower protection laws claimed another victim this morning, when Adelaide grandmother and former truck safety compliance officer Roxanne Mysko turned herself in to police in Adelaide’s north. That followed an arrest warrant yesterday issued by the South Australian Supreme Court.

I keep seeing liberal commentators like George Takei trying to frame Kamala Harris as the best candidate to bring peace to the middle east, despite her coming directly out of the administration which has been lighting the region on fire with its insane warmongering.

So let’s be clear here: Peace is not on the ballot in November. Americans are voting for Red War or Blue War. That’s it. Those are the choices.

• CAITLIN JOHNSTONE 

Support among Russians for the special military operation is at a high as Western governments scramble to cover up the United States' increasingly sloppy crimes.

Two decades from the outset of the United States’ war in Iraq a 2023 opinion survey found 61% of Americans disagree with the decision to launch the ill-fated invasion.

BY JOHN MILES

Today something really weird happened that has me scratching my head. Here's how it came about.

Earlier, my husband, Ark, posted a new blog that you can see here: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: The Unsung Path to Innovation

Give the blog post a once-over. Notice the image of Isaac Newton. Ark obtained this image and a second one further down by asking ChatGPT to generate them. But notice, please, that the image of Shakespeare was one he had to obtain from free web sources. It seems that ChatGPT was not able to generate an image of Shakespeare.

The political press demonstrated daily that it has zero self-respect. It is fawning over the "momentum" and gravitas of Kamala Harris while the candidate has refused to do interviews or press conferences for weeks.

When X owner Elon Musk announced a digital fireside chat on the app with former US president and current Republican frontrunner Donald Trump, at least one EU official promptly went ballistic. 

EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton reacted to the online promotion of the exclusive event with a threat – the kind of thing that goes over far better on an official company letterhead (the European Commission’s in this case) than, say, in a whispery, untraceable phone call. 

Here’s who the EU is really afraid of (and it’s not Trump or Musk)
The biggest risk that Brussels faces after the pair’s fireside chat is that Europeans might start learning some inconvenient truths from each other

Serbia should pick BRICS over Brussels, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said in an interview with Russian media.

The largest republic of the former Yugoslavia applied for EU membership in 2009 and has been a candidate since 2012, but the bloc has recently demanded recognition of the breakaway province of Kosovo as a condition for membership.

“BRICS does not ask anything of Serbia and offers more than we could want. The EU asks of us everything, and I’m no longer sure what it has to offer,” Vulin told RIA Novosti on Monday.

Hey, electric cars? It’s obvious that they’ve come into their own now that Tesla’s Elon Musk has once again been granted his (no, this is not a misprint!) $44.9 billion pay package by that company’s shareholders after a Delaware judge all too unreasonably tossed it out last year.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Ukraine's offensive in Russia's Kursk region will do nothing to achieve peace in the ongoing conflict, US Congressman Paul Gosar said in a statement to Sputnik on Tuesday.

“Ukraine’s suicidal cross border incursion will do nothing to end the horrible war that has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers," Gosar said. "I once again call for peace."

On Monday, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said that the United States continued to have discussions with Ukraine about its military operation in the Kursk region but had no further updates.

The newspaper, one America’s top dailies by readership and respectability among the political establishment, has been criticized relentlessly by libertarians, Trump-brand conservatives and independents for its biased and selective coverage, and the fact that it’s owned by major US government and military contractor Jeff Bezos.

Washington Post White House reporter Cleve Wootson Jr. is taking flak from conservatives, media impartiality and free speech activists after a controversial exchange with WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre apparently urging the federal government to “stop” the spread of “misinformation” relating to the 2024 campaign and beyond.

Zainab al-Jaabari, 79, sits a few dozen meters in front of the scene of the massacre. She is waiting for her family members to return from checking for her seven sons and grandchildren, who were in the prayer hall praying Fajr at the time it took place.

Her family members arrived to see the reality of the massacre with their own eyes: more than a hundred people were killed, and their bodies were now scattered and mixed in the prayer hall in the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City. It is possible their delay in returning now is due to their horror at what they found, or perhaps because they can’t imagine how to tell Zainab that her seven sons and grandchildren have been killed.