Reporting from Fallujah, Jacobin documents how US-made weapons laced with toxic metals and depleted uranium have turned cities razed by war into biohazards. Soil, bodies, and whole generations are being poisoned in their wake.
President Donald Trump's administration has warned that Europe faces "civilisational erasure" and questioned whether certain nations can remain reliable allies, in a new strategy document that puts a particular focus on the continent.
The 33-page National Security Strategy sees the US leader outline his vision for the world and how he will wield US military and economic power to work towards it.
Trump described the document as a "roadmap" to ensure America remains "the greatest and most successful nation in human history".
European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".
A formal National Security Strategy is typically released by presidents once each term. It can form a framework for future policies and budgets, as well as signalling to the world where the president's priorities lie.
The new document follows similar rhetoric to Trump's speech to the United Nations earlier this year, where he had harsh criticism for Western Europe and its approach to migration a
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President Donald Trump's administration has warned that Europe faces "civilisational erasure" and questioned whether certain nations can remain reliable allies, in a new strategy document that puts a particular focus on the continent.
The 33-page National Security Strategy sees the US leader outline his vision for the world and how he will wield US military and economic power to work towards it.
Trump described the document as a "roadmap" to ensure America remains "the greatest and most successful nation in human history".
European politicians have begun to react, with Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul saying his country did not need "outside advice".
A formal National Security Strategy is typically released by presidents once each term. It can form a framework for future policies and budgets, as well as signalling to the world where the president's priorities lie.
The new document follows similar rhetoric to Trump's speech to the United Nations earlier this year, where he had harsh criticism for Western Europe and its approach to migration and clean energy.
The new report doubles down on Trump's point of view, calling for the restoration of "Western identity", combatting foreign influence, ending mass migration, and focusing more on US priorities such as stopping drug cartels.
Focusing on Europe, it asserts that if current trends continue the continent would be "unrecognisable in 20 years or less" and its economic issues are "eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure".
"It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies," the document states.
It also accused the European Union and "other transnational bodies" of carrying out activities that "undermine political liberty and sovereignty", said migration policies were "creating strife" and said other issues included "censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence".
Conversely, the document hails the growing influence of "patriotic European parties" and says "America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit".
The Trump administration has fostered links with the far-right AfD party in Germany, which has been classified as extreme right by German intelligence.
The document says there must be a readjustment of "our global military presence to address urgent threats in our Hemisphere". To do this, the strategy calls for moving assets away from theatres which are less important to American national security than they once were.
This re-prioritising of military power can be seen already in the Caribbean, where the US military has a growing presence and has carried out repeated deadly strikes on boats which the government alleges are carrying drugs. The world's largest warship, the USS Gerald Ford, is currently based in the Caribbean along with its strike group.
Tens of thousands of students across Germany walked out of lessons to oppose the reintroduction of conscription, denouncing the government’s militarisation drive and the growing danger of a third world war.
The federal government says it is keeping a close eye on lethal strikes by American forces on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, while continuing with operations in the region.
Canada has conducted Operation Caribbe — an anti-drug trafficking mission in partnership with the United States Coast Guard — since 2006.
The Department of National Defence says that mission has nothing to do with the deadly strikes conducted by the U.S. Air Force.
This shift has left Canada and other allies in an impossible position, according to Rob Huebert, director of the Centre For Military, Security and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.
"I think the Canadian government is quite rightly being very cautious on its activities to ensure Canadians are not caught up in any kind of illegal activities, but at the same token trying to maintain this working relationship we have," Huebert told CBC News.
Tens of thousands of students across Germany walked out of lessons to oppose the reintroduction of conscription, denouncing the government’s militarisation drive and the growing danger of a third world war.
A few hundred people gathered in central Madrid, with thousands more rallying in nearly 80 cities across the globe. On Saturday, December 6, the Venezuelan diaspora responded to a call from Maria Corina Machado, the leading figure of the opposition to Nicolás Maduro's regime, ahead of the ceremony where she is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 in Oslo.
On Plaza España, Venezuelan flags mixed with placards condemning the government in Caracas. For a long time, the opposition wanted to show a united front as Washington increased pressure on Venezuela. "The Nobel is a huge step forward for us. It means there is no longer any disagreement about the criminal nature of Maduro's regime," said José Antonio Vega, Spain coordinator for Vente Venezuela, the party founded by Machado in 2012.
The opposition leader, forced to go underground in Venezuela, confirmed that she would travel to Norway in person to receive her award, despite the risk of
A few hundred people gathered in central Madrid, with thousands more rallying in nearly 80 cities across the globe. On Saturday, December 6, the Venezuelan diaspora responded to a call from Maria Corina Machado, the leading figure of the opposition to Nicolás Maduro's regime, ahead of the ceremony where she is set to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on December 10 in Oslo.
On Plaza España, Venezuelan flags mixed with placards condemning the government in Caracas. For a long time, the opposition wanted to show a united front as Washington increased pressure on Venezuela. "The Nobel is a huge step forward for us. It means there is no longer any disagreement about the criminal nature of Maduro's regime," said José Antonio Vega, Spain coordinator for Vente Venezuela, the party founded by Machado in 2012.
The opposition leader, forced to go underground in Venezuela, confirmed that she would travel to Norway in person to receive her award, despite the risk of being declared a fugitive by authorities. The Nobel Committee awarded her the distinction on October 10 "for her tireless work in support of the democratic rights of the Venezuelan people, and for her fight for a fair and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."
In Madrid and in dozens of cities around the world, opposition figures demonstrated unity as the Nobel Prize is set to be awarded to their leader on December 10 in Oslo, convinced that the collapse of Nicolás Maduro's regime is imminent.
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Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang.
Yao Zhang says she doesn’t have any friends, yet every week, thousands of her 175,000 YouTube subscribers tune in to her channel to listen to her live takes on Chinese current affairs.
“China isn’t a democratic country. Everyone suffers in that regime,” Zhang told Radio-Canada during an interview held somewhere between Montreal and Quebec City.
Concerned for her safety, the 39-year-old guards any information that could give away her location.
And for good reason: the Quebec YouTuber, who refuses to be silenced, has been the target of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government for over a year
Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang.
Yao Zhang says she doesn’t have any friends, yet every week, thousands of her 175,000 YouTube subscribers tune in to her channel to listen to her live takes on Chinese current affairs.
“China isn’t a democratic country. Everyone suffers in that regime,” Zhang told Radio-Canada during an interview held somewhere between Montreal and Quebec City.
Concerned for her safety, the 39-year-old guards any information that could give away her location.
And for good reason: the Quebec YouTuber, who refuses to be silenced, has been the target of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government for over a year.
“I have to be very, very careful,” she said. “I stopped all communications with the Chinese community because I don’t know who I can trust.”
[...]
Trained in accounting at McGill University, Zhang did a 180 during the pandemic and began offering news commentary on YouTube, which she continues to do today. The Communist Party of China and president Xi Jinping are often the subjects of her criticisms.
“I’m with Taiwan, I’m with the Uyghurs, I’m with Hong Kong. I’m against the Chinese government,” said the pro-democracy activist.
It was in September 2024 that Zhang first noticed sexually explicit AI-generated images of herself circulating online.
“It wasn’t just one photo. There were many, many of them,” she remembered with disgust.
Shared by anonymous accounts, the images were published on social media under posts of official accounts belonging to the Canadian government and then prime minister Justin Trudeau.
[...]
For the YouTuber, there was no doubt the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was behind what she was seeing. And she was right.
In March, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) released a statement blaming the PRC for a new "spamouflage" campaign using sexually explicit AI-generated images to target individuals in Canada. Zhang says the government told her she is the first documented case of the campaign.
“This new campaign employs various tactics to intimidate, belittle and harass individuals based in Canada who are critical of the PRC,” reads the statement.
Notably, Zhang and members of her family have been doxed. Her date of birth, phone and passport numbers all appear on a doxing website that labels her as a “traitor.” The site, which is still accessible to this day, also uses degrading language to spread defamatory sexually explicit statements about her.
[...]
Though the YouTuber benefits from a certain degree of protection in Canada, she can’t say the same for her family in China.
In 2024, after a trip to Taiwan to support the island’s independence, Zhang said China's national police put pressure on her aunt and grandmother living there in an attempt to silence her.
The strategy is a well known one, detailed in a report published earlier this year by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions.
“[The PRC] employs a wide range of tradecraft to carry out its activities, one of which is to use a person’s family and friends living in the PRC as leverage against them,” it reads.
[...]
Zhang says she’s received death threats against her and her family and is worried about retribution if she were to ever return to China.
“I’ll go to prison,” she said. “I’ll be like all those who have wanted to change China.”
[...]
Transnational repression is a “genuine scourge” in the country, concluded Marie-Josée Hogue, who presided over the public inquiry into foreign interference. The threat it poses “is real and growing,” adds the report.
The former Canadian ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, who occupied the function from 2012 to 2016, says budgets allocated to cracking down on dissent “increased substantially” after Xi came to power in 2012.
[...]
Notably, an Enquête investigation revealed that a Chinese dissident found dead in British Columbia in 2022, Hua Yong, was the target of an espionnage operation led by the Chinese secret police.
[...]
Zhang says she is at peace and hopes that more Chinese people in Canada and elsewhere in the world will speak out.
“I am using my life for something very important,” she says.
Chinese government circulated sexually explicit deepfakes of dissident Yao Zhang.
Yao Zhang says she doesn’t have any friends, yet every week, thousands of her 175,000 YouTube subscribers tune in to her channel to listen to her live takes on Chinese current affairs.
“China isn’t a democratic country. Everyone suffers in that regime,” Zhang told Radio-Canada during an interview held somewhere between Montreal and Quebec City.
Concerned for her safety, the 39-year-old guards any information that could give away her location.
And for good reason: the Quebec YouTuber, who refuses to be silenced, has been the target of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government for over a year.
“I have to be very, very careful,” she said. “I stopped all communications with the Chinese community because I don’t know who I can trust.”
[...]
Trained in accounting at McGill University, Zhang did a 180 during the pandemic and began offering news commentary on YouTube, which she continues to do today. The Communist Party of China and president Xi Jinping are often the subjects of her criticisms.
“I’m with Taiwan, I’m with the Uyghurs, I’m with Hong Kong. I’m against the Chinese government,” said the pro-democracy activist.
It was in September 2024 that Zhang first noticed sexually explicit AI-generated images of herself circulating online.
“It wasn’t just one photo. There were many, many of them,” she remembered with disgust.
Shared by anonymous accounts, the images were published on social media under posts of official accounts belonging to the Canadian government and then prime minister Justin Trudeau.
[...]
For the YouTuber, there was no doubt the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was behind what she was seeing. And she was right.
In March, Global Affairs Canada (GAC) released a statement blaming the PRC for a new "spamouflage" campaign using sexually explicit AI-generated images to target individuals in Canada. Zhang says the government told her she is the first documented case of the campaign.
“This new campaign employs various tactics to intimidate, belittle and harass individuals based in Canada who are critical of the PRC,” reads the statement.
Notably, Zhang and members of her family have been doxed. Her date of birth, phone and passport numbers all appear on a doxing website that labels her as a “traitor.” The site, which is still accessible to this day, also uses degrading language to spread defamatory sexually explicit statements about her.
[...]
Though the YouTuber benefits from a certain degree of protection in Canada, she can’t say the same for her family in China.
In 2024, after a trip to Taiwan to support the island’s independence, Zhang said China's national police put pressure on her aunt and grandmother living there in an attempt to silence her.
The strategy is a well known one, detailed in a report published earlier this year by the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions.
“[The PRC] employs a wide range of tradecraft to carry out its activities, one of which is to use a person’s family and friends living in the PRC as leverage against them,” it reads.
[...]
Zhang says she’s received death threats against her and her family and is worried about retribution if she were to ever return to China.
“I’ll go to prison,” she said. “I’ll be like all those who have wanted to change China.”
[...]
Transnational repression is a “genuine scourge” in the country, concluded Marie-Josée Hogue, who presided over the public inquiry into foreign interference. The threat it poses “is real and growing,” adds the report.
The former Canadian ambassador to China, Guy Saint-Jacques, who occupied the function from 2012 to 2016, says budgets allocated to cracking down on dissent “increased substantially” after Xi came to power in 2012.
[...]
Notably, an Enquête investigation revealed that a Chinese dissident found dead in British Columbia in 2022, Hua Yong, was the target of an espionnage operation led by the Chinese secret police.
[...]
Zhang says she is at peace and hopes that more Chinese people in Canada and elsewhere in the world will speak out.
“I am using my life for something very important,” she says.
Governments that partner with the United States on counternarcotics efforts should join other nations that have publicly objected to the Trump administration’s unlawful strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats.
Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to New Delhi arrives at a moment when India is navigating intense pressure from both Washington and Moscow, juggling oil diplomacy, defense demands, and strategic autonomy.
1988 bildades Önneköps Byaförening med personer från Önneköp och hela Långaröds socken i Hörby kommun som medlemmar. Syftet är att föreningen ska främja medlemmarnas intressen.
A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report.
The treatment involves precisely editing the DNA in white blood cells to transform them into a cancer-fighting "living drug".
The first girl to be treated, whose story we reported in 2022, is still free of the disease and now plans to become a cancer scientist.
Now eight more children and two adults with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia have been treated, with almost two thirds (64%) of patients in remission.
Are you sure? That would mean reprinting a lot of books..
Patient: What is the latest, doc?
Doctor: I have good news for you after the biopsy, you have aggressive and incurable blood cancer!
P: *confused and crying*
D: It is very curable!
T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia was and is one of the most curable cancers, even before the advent of stem cell transplantation, up tp 80% of people had a good prognosis. There's a reason this therapy has been used in such a small number of people, it costs the GDP of a micro state so it's usually reserved for extremely complicated cases. The principle is roughly the same as the Berlin patient but the cells are your own edited cells rather than matched donors.
For those on the trial, chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants had failed. Apart from the experimental medicine, the only option left was to make their death more comfortable.
And costs go down when you treat more people. There is considerable risk so it makes sense to only use it on patients when it's a choice of a more comfortable death or cure.
In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.
Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.
Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
Israeli Raid on UNRWA Compound Slammed as 'Dangerous Precedent' | Common Dreams
Dec 08, 2025
In late 2024, Israeli lawmakers approved a ban on UNRWA in Israel over disproven allegations that some of its staffers were Hamas members who took part in the October 7, 2023 attack. Those accusations led to numerous nations suspending financial support for UNRWA, although most of the countries have since restored funding. Israel has also sought to ban UNRWA from Gaza since early 2024.
Israeli forces have killed more than 370 UNRWA staff members since October 2023 and destroyed or damaged over 300 of the agency’s facilities in Gaza. Lazzarini and others have also accused Israeli forces of torturing UNRWA staffers in a bid to force false confessions of Hamas involvement.
"This latest action represents a blatant disregard of Israel’s obligation as a United Nations member state to protect and respect the inviolability of UN premises," said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini.
The Honduran election has been overshadowed by naked imperialist intervention, with Trump vowing there would be “hell to pay” if the country failed to elect his chosen candidate.
The NSW Resources Regulator’s November 25 “Investigation information release” neither explains what caused the tragedy nor makes any recommendation for how to stop more workers being killed.
The crowd at an annual Christmas festival in Guatemala City, Guatemala cheered for President Donald Trump on Sunday. Unfortunately for the president, they were cheering as they watched him burned in effigy along with the devil.
The European Commission said it will “make sure” it receives money owed by Elon Musk’s X after the company was fined €120 million for failing to meet transparency rules.
The Commission on Friday said X has breached transparency and deceptive design obligations under the EU's platforms regulation, the Digital Services Act, and issued the €120 million penalty.
The decision set off a cascade of accusations of censorship from U.S. officials, Musk and his supporters, with some suggesting the company should refuse to pay the fine.
If eventually fines do get calculated on their total income (which is possible, they can issue fines up to 2% of total yearly income if I remember correctly) and these fines are starting to come in more frequently it gets quite expensive really fast.
The EU does this already. And I agree, $140million is not much, EU-wide. Last I heard it was just 1 member state who issued a similar fine - times 27 that would already hurt a little.
All the dumber that Musk is making such a stink about what is really less than peanuts to him.
It is peanuts to him but I think his hissyfit is not so much about the money but the fact that the EU has the capacity to regulate his company. As an billionaire in the US he is very much used to doing whatever he wants with no consequences or constraints from regulatory agencies.
The ambiguous "charges" seem like a "we don't like you" fine, rather than a fine for anything X does. It seems like google and reddit should have that kind of fine for making ads that sit where posts or search results should be moreso than anything X did. Everybody who uses the service knows that they take a payment for the blue check. They were pretty vocal about it. Maybe Google and Reddit paid the fines and just kept up business as usual and the EU is happy because they got their money. I don't like X or musk, but I don't think they should pay the fine.
*"The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers" *- Seriously? Okay. So openly arbitrary that I know you yourself would be up in arms about it if you didn't hate Musk. I am all for hurting Musk, but this is an obvious subversion of justice.
Yes. Seriously. And if x wants to operate in the EU then it has to follow EU law.
Consumer protection still exists and what x is doing with it's 'verified' badges is just straight up deception. The only thing it verifies is that that account has paid x money.
Second, relating to transparency in advertising. Hybrid warfare is a major threat to the stability of Europe's society, institutions and democracy. A major vector for that is propaganda carried out through Facebook and X. Both through fake users and adverts.
The EU should very much take this seriously and I'm glad that they are.
[X] hasn't replied to POLITICO’s repeated requests for comment.
lol
Not the main point, but I found this interesting:
Regnier also justified the Commission’s continued use of X as a platform for corporate communications, despite the severity of anti-EU comments posted by Musk over the weekend and the platform’s decision to suspend the Commission’s account for paid advertising.
The EU executive uses 15 social media platforms and hasn't made a decision to suspend its use of X, Regnier said.
All these platforms are ways to "get in touch to citizens, stakeholders, to do some outreach work, to precisely speak about what we are doing in the EU," he said.
Statements comparing the EU to Nazi Germany are "part of the freedom of speech that we very much praise in the EU," which "allows even for the craziest statements that you can imagine," Chief Spokesperson Paula Pinho said.
The Commission stopped "using paid advertising or any paid services for X" in 2023 and its regular account remains open, Regnier said.
So why is the EU this interested in defending spreading lies and propaganda? It comes off to me like a complete lack of a backbone. Like a pacifist who believes so intensely in pacifism that they'd rather let a nation commit genocide, than stopping it with force. Which, after writing that, also seems to apply to the EU...
You could take a dime from a millionaire and they would cry about it forever. It's not about the money it's about the conversion of money to power, it's a loss of power they're upset about not necessarily the actual money or what it could be used on.
Oddly enough, I think this would be an effective thing.
Musk, like all bullies, just doesn't want any accountability whatsoever. Yes, the amount is trivial given his means, but as we saw in South America, he is perfectly willing to back down when a challenge is meaningful, culturally if not materially.
Right, just like Florida Senator Rick Scott didn't get wealthy committing the largest Medicaire fraud in history, after pleading the 5th over 185 times in his trial. The blame was the company that he owned, and was the CEO. The company paid a massive fine, but he kept his stolen government money, and went on to run for Governor of Florida, where he continued his campaign of stealing from the government, doubling his net worth, and is now a Florida Senator, where he was recently caught on video railing against talk of abolishing insider trading for Senators, whining that "Democrats want to keep people from earning money!"
No, you penis with ears, making a living is fine, but you are using a method that would put any of the rest of us in prison for years, and that happens all the time. We just expect YOU to live by the same laws as US.
He HATES it when people post these reminders of how his entire fortune is build on taking money from the government, as he rails against Career Politicians, and runs on term limits, which he never introduces once he's on office.
Rep. Nancy Mace has ripped Speaker Mike Johnson for the way he has run the House of Representatives in a New York Times op-ed, the latest sign of discontent among Republicans with the speaker.
Mace, a former moderate who moved hard to the right who is now running for governor, criticized Johnson and House leadership for closing the lawmaking process and concentrating it among themselves.
“Would opening up the floor lead to more conservative bills passing or more bipartisan ones? The honest answer is: It would do both,” she wrote.
“Some Republican priorities would finally get a vote. So, too, would common-sense bipartisan measures. The point is to do more and let voters see where their representatives stand. What we have now is the worst of all worlds: little accountability, transparency and results.”
Good politician is generally taken to mean good at corralling the other politicians into passing your agendas, at least how I usually see it use. Like how people call McConnell a "good" politician . Idk tho
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in reply to SLVRDRGN • • •It's true, Europe should crush troll farms, shut down political parties funded by foreign fascists, and break up media monopolies.
Of course, none of these actions is what Trump wants.