Hours before airtime last Sunday, CBS News' “60 Minutes” pulled a planned story on Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.
For some, the end of the world did not come through a Great Flood, but through a traditional Christmas bombing strike, pretexted by way of saving Christians in Nigeria.
This Sokoto State is right on the border with Niger, one of the Sahel States. Nigeria thanked the US Africa Command for the strikes in a long, flowery note that the US Africa Command itself may have written, since it contains every word in the lexicon of a Rules-Based International Order.
Nigeria pays, and there is plenty left to stuff the pockets of the African plantation managers. My expectation is that West Africa will be set on fire, as Captain Ibrahim Traoré warned, calling it an approaching Black Winter.
Nigerian voices are now arising: Consumed by desire to contain China, Trump is sending message that Nigeria’s still within the US sphere of influence.
Themba Godi tell RT 'Americans right on our throats, it’s all about economic interest,’ says the former member of the National Assembly.
While originally scheduled for later release, we have chosen to bring it to audiences early with the blessing of those featured, driven by the urgent need to challenge the misinformation surrounding Mahmoud, the student movement, and all who feel the moral duty to stand against genocide.
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Martin Luther King - Reflections on Jesus
He was born in an obscure village, the child of a poor peasant woman. And then he grew up in still another obscure village, where he worked as a carpenter until he was thirty years old.
Then for three years, he just got on his feet, and he was an itinerant preacher. He didn't have much. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family. He never owned a house. He never went to college. He never visited a big city. He never went two hundred miles from where he was born. He did none of the usual things that the world would associate with greatness. He had no credentials but himself.
He was 33 when the tide of public opinion turned against him. They called him a rabble-rouser. They called him a troublemaker. They said he was an agitator. He practiced civil disobedience; he broke the laws of the day. And so he was turned over to the people in power, and went through the mockery of trial.
Nineteen centuries have come and gone, and today, he stands as the most influential figure that ever entered human history. All of the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, and all the kings that ever reigned put together have not affected the life of humanity on this earth as much as that one solitary life. Even today I can hear them talking about him. Every now and then somebody says, `He's King of Kings'. And again I can hear somebody saying, `He's the Prince of Peace.'
Somewhere else I can hear somebody saying, 'In Christ there is no east nor west, in him no south and north, but one community of love throughout the whole wide earth.'
He didn't have anything. He just went around serving.
Best wishes to all.
Bruce
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| I love shoveling snow |
18 inches of snow in last 24 hours in Brunswick, Maine.
Lost electric power for about 12 hours or so.
When we lost power I just put everything that was in the freezer in bags and put it outside the door. No problem.
Bruce
Pepe Escobar joins to analyze how Russia is sending a stark message with one of its most powerful weapons and no one is talking about it except the panicked European backers of Ukraine's dying regime.
Meanwhile, Trump is escalating an oil tanker war against Venezuela and the Western hemisphere that is already backing him into a corner that won't end well for the flailing US empire.
Pepe, reporting from Sicily, also discusses on NATO expansion and Germany's plans for massive rearmament aimed at Russia.
The Islander
Britain’s ruling class loves to cosplay as a titan. From the podium, it’s Churchillian thunder: prepare for war, deter Russia, stand tall, lead the free world. Back in the engine room, it’s Whitehall with a calculator, sweating through its suit because the numbers simply don’t work.
The Financial Times reports Starmer has delayed the Defence Investment Plan over “affordability,” kicking it into 2026, because the military’s wish list collided with the Treasury’s reality. Translation: the rhetoric is premium, the balance sheet is bargain-bin.
And then, because the universe has a sense of irony sharp enough to cut steel, enter Ajax; the £6-plus billion armoured vehicle program that has become the British state’s spirit animal. Trials paused again. Fresh safety concerns. Soldiers injured. Crews sickened by vibration and noise. Endless reviews. Endless “lessons learned.” Endless press lines insisting this is all somehow progress.
If you want to understand modern Britain, don’t read strategy documents. Watch a procurement program that cannot stop hurting the people it is meant to protect.
Ajax was meant to be the backbone of Britain’s future armoured forces, a next-generation reconnaissance and strike platform designed to replace ageing vehicles and restore credibility to the British Army’s manoeuvre capability. Instead, it has become a case study in institutional failure: spiraling costs, years of delay, fundamental design flaws, and a safety record so poor it forced repeated trial suspensions. Soldiers were not merely inconvenienced; they were physically harmed in testing, suffering hearing damage, sickness, and long-term health concerns.
This is not a marginal technical glitch. It is the predictable outcome of a system where industrial capacity has been hollowed out, accountability diffused, and procurement reduced to a paper exercise optimized for contracts, not combat. Ajax does not fail because Britain lacks engineers or soldiers. It fails because Britain no longer possesses a state machinery capable of translating ambition into functioning hardware at scale.
This is the farce at the heart of the Atlantic security sermon.
Britain speaks about Russia the way a fading aristocrat sneers at a rising industrial superpower... condescending, dismissive, utterly uncurious. For years we’ve heard the same insult recycled like a nervous tic: Russia is a “gas station,” a crude petro-state propped up by fumes and nostalgia. Yet here we are.
Russia the “gas station,” under the most comprehensive sanctions regime in modern history, has been forced—by Western institutions themselves, into an inconvenient admission: Russia now ranks as the fourth-largest economy in the world by purchasing-power parity.
So let’s pause and ask the question Britain’s elites refuse to face. If Russia is a glorified gas station, what exactly does that make Britain? A country that cannot publish a defence investment plan on time. A state that cannot field a functioning armoured vehicle without injuring its own troops. An economy that cannot sustain rearmament in spite of private finance gimmicks and accounting contortions. A political class that cannot reconcile its war talk with its industrial capacity.
If Russia is a gas station, Britain increasingly resembles a heritage museum complete with a gift shop, living off past glories while subcontracting its future.
Now let’s move to where the illusion truly collapses, production.
Wars are not won by hysterical speeches, theatrical bravado, summits, or moral pronouncements. They are won by output — steel, shells, access to critical minerals, drones, logistics, and the brutal arithmetic of throughput. On this front, the West has been dragged, kicking and screaming, into recognition of a reality it tried to meme out of existence.
Greta Thunberg was arrested in central London at a demonstration in support of Palestine Action.
The Prisoners for Palestine protest group confirmed Greta had been arrested at a demonstration in support of the Palestine Action members on hunger strike in prison - some of them now over 50 days without food.
Free Palestine!
Bruce Gagnon, the coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space joined me [Regis Tremblay] for an emotional discussion that ranged from Trump’s role as Captain Hook in Pirates of the Caribbean, the psychotic partner of Netanyahu in the genocide in Palestine, to the fake 28 Point Peace Plan, to Trump’s Golden Dome and the Space Race.
We analyzed the role of Witkoff and Kushner in Trump’s plans for an Atlantic City Casino, resort, and golf course on the bones of Palestinians, and the role of those two real estate shysters in the “peace plan” talks with Vladimir Putin.
We mocked Trump’s coveting of the beautiful, warm Crimea bordered by four oceans! Gotta think it’s a sign that Witkoff and Kushner are discussing how Trump could build another casino, resort, golf course, and a Mar-a-Lago mansion a few kilometers from the famous Livadia Palace here in greater Yalta when the war in Ukraine ends.
Private equity is collapsing—and now they want your retirement savings to bail them out.
President Trump’s team just leaked a potential executive order that would unlock $12.2 trillion in 401(k) assets for risky private equity investment.
These are the same firms sitting on a $3 trillion pile of toxic, unsellable debt.
Harvard and Yale, with nearly 95% of their endowments in these same funds, haven’t been able to sell off $8 billion worth of PE for eight months. And their returns? A weak 5–7% over 4 years—while the S&P 500 soared 95%.
Now they want YOU to buy in—with your retirement.
This is not about access. It’s a setup.
It’s a billionaire bailout dressed as opportunity.
