Hegseth Says He Did Not See Survivors of Boat Attack Clinging to Wreckage

(What gets me is the fact that all of a sudden its the double tap that folks are upset about, not the fact that it's murder in the first place. Even IF they were hauling fentanyl into the U.S., which they weren't, you can't just murder them with drones or airstrikes or cruise missile attacks. That's murder pure and simple. We are a lawless state and the propagandists are conditioning us to ignore it with tactics like this one. Double tap bad but straight up murder is OKAY? Bullshit.) 

from the NYT

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that he had not noticed survivors in the water during U.S. military strikes that killed 11 people in the Caribbean in September.

His remarks, at a cabinet meeting at the White House in which he cited the “fog of war,” were the latest from Trump administration officials meant to address questions about whether the U.S. military committed a war crime when it launched a second strike on a boat on Sept. 2, killing two survivors of the initial attack who were clinging to the burning wreckage.

Mr. Hegseth had said that he watched the operation live on video before he “moved on” to his next meeting. But following news reports about the second U.S. strike, Mr. Hegseth said he “didn’t stick around” to see it.

The defense secretary said Adm. Frank M. Bradley, the commander of the operation, “made the right call,” in ordering the second strike...

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The Israel lobby is melting down before our eyes

from Mondoweiss

Last month, a top staffer at the Jewish organization J Street who had worked for Obama and Harris explained that Congress’s tradition of backing Israel “no matter what” was imposed by a “well-funded group of… Jews.” 

“A small, organized and well-funded group of American Jews treated the issue as a threshold question in elections, and most candidates decided it wasn’t worth antagonizing them,” Ilan Goldenberg wrote.  

Not long ago, such attacks on the Israel lobby (including my own) were dismissed as antisemitic conspiracy theories. Now, a leading Jewish organization publishes them.  

That’s because the American Jewish community is today in open crisis over its historic support for Israel. Prominent Jews are finally attacking the lobby, a political structure created 60 years ago by leading Jewish groups to make sure there was no daylight between the Israeli and U.S. governments... 

...

Rahm Emanuel brought the sad news to the largest Jewish organization, the Jewish Federations, last month. Noting that Obama toured Israel before he announced his presidential campaign in 2007, Emanuel, who is running for president, said that in 2028, no Democratic candidate will dare follow the traditional playbook.  

“Nobody is leaving America to travel to Jerusalem. That’s the politics.”

And not only Democrats. Emanuel said that all young people, left and right, are turning on Israel. 

“Look where Israel stands in America with people under 30,” he said. “Forget party. It is a political risk today to take a [pro-Israel] position. Israel is extremely unpopular—I want to drive this point home for all of us who support a Jewish state– today, Israel for a generation under 30, the last two years will be as seminal a definition as what the Six Day War was for [an earlier] generation. But we have to be honest about the task we have here.”...

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Damascus rejects legitimacy of Israeli presence in Golan

from al Mayadeen English

The Syrian Foreign Ministry has affirmed that Damascus’ engagement in any "talks related to technical matters that may affect the security of Syria and the region" does not signify "the abandonment of Syria’s firm right to the occupied Golan."

In an official statement, the ministry reiterated that "the Golan will remain Syrian land, and there is no legitimacy for the Israeli occupation there."

The Foreign Ministry expressed its deep gratitude to the countries that voted in the United Nations General Assembly in favor of "ending the Israeli occupation of the occupied Syrian Golan." It described the international support as a reflection of global commitment to "international legitimacy and its resolutions, which affirm the Syrian people’s right to their occupied land."

In a related development, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Tuesday that any potential negotiations with Syria would depend on Damascus agreeing to create what he described as a demilitarized zone extending from the Syrian capital to the southern slopes of Jabal al-Sheikh [Mount Hermon] in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

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Mass wedding of Palestinian couples defies despair in Gaza

'Life will find a way' 

from Daily Sabah

Dozens of Palestinian couples walked hand-in-hand through the shattered streets of southern Gaza on Tuesday for a mass wedding ceremony that offered a rare moment of joy after two years of Israel's genocidal war and devastation.

Eman Hassan Lawwa was dressed in traditional Palestinian prints and Hikmat Lawwa wore a suit as they walked hand-in-hand past the crumbled buildings of southern Gaza in a line of other couples dressed in exactly the same way.

The 27-year-old Palestinians were among 54 couples to get married Tuesday in a mass wedding in war-ravaged Gaza that represented a rare moment of hope after two years of devastation, death and conflict.

"Despite everything that has happened, we will begin a new life," Hikmat Lawwa said. "God willing, this will be the end of the war," he said...

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Netanyahu pushes for Israel-controlled ‘buffer zone’ in Syria between Golan Heights, Damascus

from PressTV

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated territorial demands in Syria, calling for a mandatory demilitarized “buffer zone” stretching from the fringe of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

Netanyahu issued the demand in a statement released by his office on Tuesday, delivered after visiting Israeli forces wounded during a recent incursion into Syrian territory.

The raid targeted the town of Beit Jinn, where Syrian media say at least 13 civilians, including women and children, were killed. The Israeli regime claimed the operation was directed at “militants,” but offered no verified evidence for the identities of those killed.

In his address, Netanyahu insisted the zone had to include approaches to Mount Hermon, including its summit, framing the expansion of Israeli military control as a non-negotiable “security principle.”...

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Conspiracy Realism 101 - Ukraine part 1

 

 This talk is about the history of Ukraine as it stands today. It's about the color revolution, the neo-Nazis we used to carry it out and installed to run the country, the neoliberalization of the nation and how it was all done by President Peace Prize Barack Obama.

Color Revolution Ukraine https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/search/label/Color%20Revolution%20Ukraine 

CIA and FBI Setting Up Death Squads in Ukraine is “thuggism, it’s rogue state-ism” (archive)

(archived from  May 4, 2014)

by Scott Creighton

Yesterday I wrote about our puppet technocrat in Ukraine taking his marching orders from the IMF and setting up death squads, what he calls “territorial defense battalions”, which will be made up of “trained” military assets (probably the Greystone Limited mercs) and “patriots” like the fascist neo-Nazi Right Sector thugs who have already been murdering and terrorizing the people of eastern Ukraine.

I pointed out that many times in the past, the CIA has been there to help brutal dictators repress the opposition of their own people by setting up death squads, watch-lists, arranging kidnappings, torture and generally terrorizing the indigenous population into complicit submission to the will of the Masters of the Universe.

A new report out of Germany suggests they are up to their old bloody tricks, “the worst sort of behavior” in Ukraine.

The history of the CIA and repression is well documented.

U.S. Sending Vulture Technocrats to Neoliberalize Ukraine (archive)

(archived from March 4, 2014)

by Scott Creighton

While the MSM focuses on demonizing Vladimir Putin or dramatically asks what happened to our standing as the world’s sole dictator of what everyone else's domestic/economic  policies should be, the masters of the universe are making haste in the process of chopping up Ukraine’s public resources and their banking system, making them ready for our oligarchs to profit off them just as soon as they can.

It’s mergers and acquisitions on a nation-sized scale. It’s vulture capitalism. And make no mistake, it’s the entire point behind our latest color revolution.

This statement discussing the full aid package for our new puppet regime is from the White House (see full statement at the end of the article) makes the entire point of all of this very clear:

Critical assistance with economic reforms, including by cushioning their impact on vulnerable Ukrainians: The U.S. Administration is working with Congress and the Government of Ukraine to provide $1 billion in loan guarantees aimed at helping insulate vulnerable Ukrainians from the effects of reduced energy subsidies. At the same time, the United States is moving quickly to provide technical expertise to help the National Bank of Ukraine and the Ministry of Finance address their most pressing challenges. The United States is dispatching highly experienced technical advisors to help the Ukrainian financial authorities manage immediate market pressures. The United States will also provide expertise to help Ukraine implement critical energy sector reforms.

The hypocrisy is obvious. Every statement from President Obama’s administration touts their efforts to simply help the Ukrainian people decide their own course of action; their own fate. But that is obviously not the case while we are currently shipping neoliberal economic hit-men into the country like so many pallets of subsidized GMO corn. We are imposing a brutal and unfair economic model on a nation on behalf of the IMF and various billionaire masters of the universe (like Glenn Greenwald’s new sugar daddy) and making no real attempts to hide that fact.

AI is just plain Stupid

by Scott Creighton

Literally 60 seconds apart these two searches produced completely opposite results and I have the video to prove it.

 

And here is the video

 

and the only reason they age restricted it is because I am talking negatively about a corporation's product 

Ukraine's Neo-Nazis and Israel Keeps Killing and Starving Palestinians

Ukraine's Neo-Nazis and Israel Keeps Killing and Starving Palestinians 

Malnutrition report https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/12/malnutrition-persists-as-winter-sets-in.html

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