Ken Klippenstein

What there seems to be plenty of doubt about is what U.S. personnel are even in Syria and where. The U.S. government hates talking about its military footprint throughout the Middle East. When three U.S. troops were killed in Jordan earlier this year, many Americans were surprised that there was even a base near the Syrian border. The U.S. government had never before officially acknowledged the base, nor the mission. Secrecy over American military deployments is out of control and prevents the American public from meaningfully participating in discussion of our foreign policy.

kenklippenstein.com/p/assad-fl…

**Biden’s Last-Minute Gift To Corporate Lawbreakers**

>the Biden Justice Department announced it could be handing corporations a get-out-of-jail-free card, even if they have committed multiple crimes, earned significant profit from their wrongdoing, and failed to self-disclose the misconduct — as long as the companies demonstrate they “acted in good faith” to try to come clean.

levernews.com/bidens-last-minu…

*Matt Taibbi*

>Unless you think the FBI really believed Trump was in league with Russia (and as the “Bell Tolls” article explains, the record leaves little doubt the Bureau knew early on that premise was nonsense), there’s no other explanation for its conduct in the Trump era. A massively empowered national police organization that considers the elected head of the Executive Branch to be a criminal target in need of “disrupting” and “discrediting,” the way Hoover went after the Revolutionary Action Movement or the Nation of Islam, is by definition an illegal/subversive organization that needs to be dismantled and rebuilt with a much narrower mission. That’s a priority everyone should believe in, irrespective of political belief. My guess is it will take time for most Democrats to see this

racket.news/p/note-on-the-fbi

#FBI #RussiaGate #BlueAnon #uspol

*Brandon Novick*
**The Progressive Case for RFK Jr.**

>Americans should ask ourselves whether the pick pharmaceutical companies support—who have paid billions in settlements for illegal behavior harming and killing Americans—would fight more for us than Kennedy. The answer seems clear: Within the context of a Trump Administration, Americans should strongly support Kennedy's nomination as he is the best chance of reigning in corruption and corporate power while prioritizing public health over profits.

newsweek.com/progressive-case-…

Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal

Sebastian Gorka: British intelligence asset?

Sebastian Gorka’s involvement with British intelligence cost him a security clearance in Hungary. His longtime mentor is a UK spook currently engaged in covert operations against Russia.

thegrayzone.com/2024/11/25/seb…

**Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska**

>Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.

boltsmag.org/alaska-measure-2-…

#RankedChoiceVoting #RCV #IndigenousRights

**Israeli snipers ‘shoot Palestinians for sport’**

>Eyewitness accounts reveal Israeli snipers are systematically targeting unarmed civilians, including children, using tactics that point to deliberate genocidal intent and a chilling policy of terror designed to annihilate a people, not just wage war.

thecradle.co/articles/israeli-…

#Palestine #genocide

(this article was published in June, 2024; the film is now streaming on Apple)

**Local Seneca-Cayuga Nation director debuts first feature film ahead of major release**

>Friday marks the debut of the first-ever wide-release feature film to highlight the Cayuga, or Gayogohó:nǫˀ, language prominently. It is the first feature film for local director Erica Tremblay, an Ithaca resident and herself a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation.

>“Fancy Dance” stars recent Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone as a Native American woman urgently trying to solve the mystery of her sister’s disappearance while also protecting her niece, played by co-lead Isabel Deroy-Olson. Tremblay co-wrote, directed and produced the film.

ithacavoice.org/2024/06/local-…

#CayugaNation #MMIW #IndigenousRights

You can get hundreds of carrots out of a tiny space; they will produce beautifully when thinned to just an inch between the seedlings in a band sowing. I like to sow three bands in a three foot wide bed, each band is around 3 or 4 inches wide.

#garden #gardening

The lying New York Times outed itself for covering up its malignant fake news.

Ali Abunimah:
"Oopsie. A @nytimes reporter accidentally cc’d an email to @intifada revealing how the newspaper killed an investigation that would have exposed the truth about the violence in Amsterdam: It was Israeli hooligans who started a violent rampage"

electronicintifada.net/blogs/a…

#propaganda #NYTimes

McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event

Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.

consortiumnews.com/2024/11/19/…

#whistleblowers

Pffft!

** Top pollster Ann Selzer to retire after bombshell Iowa poll ended in huge miss **

Her "poll" was trumpeted on every legacy corporate media outlet around.

cnn.com/2024/11/17/media/iowa-…

#uspol

Somebody likes apples! I hope our dogs do not meet up with our new friend!

#garden #gardening

Xi to Biden:

>"great power competition should not be the theme of the era; unity and cooperation are needed to overcome difficulties together. 'Decoupling and breaking chains" is not the solution; mutually beneficial cooperation is the path to common development. 'Small yards with high fences' is not befitting of great powers."

Xi outlined 7 lessons he wanted the Americans to learn from.

xcancel.com/RnaudBertrand/stat…

*Caitlin Johnstone*

**"America First" Means Stomping Out Free Speech In The US In Order To Help Israel**

>Trump literally standing before an Israeli flag and vowing to kill free speech for the advancement of Israeli information interests makes a lie of everything the so-called “MAGA movement” has ever claimed to stand for and exposes it for the scam it has always been.

caitlinjohnst.one/p/america-fi…

Yesterday members of the Downtown Berrigan Collective, based in #Ithaca, NY, and other upstate peace activists went to the #Syracuse Federal Building to demand access to the offices of our US Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in order to exercise our right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. We wished to impress upon them the urgency of cutting off offensive weapons for Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples. When we were denied access we staged a sit-in in the security checkpoint area of the building. We were eventually dragged out of the building by Federal Marshals, and we continued our action outside the doors. One of us, Ellen Grady, was arrested by the Federal Department of Homeland Security Police.

The Senate will vote this week on blocking $20 billion in weapons to Israel.

Here is our statement:
**No More Weapons to Israel! Stop Arming Genocide!**

Israel has repeatedly and systematically targeted civilians in Gaza using US-supplied weapons, destroying civilian infrastructure including homes, schools and universities, hospitals, mosques and churches, and temporary shelters in so-called "safe zones" in Gaza. In addition, Israel's deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war, alongside its denial of water, electricity, and medical supplies, constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law. Now, expanding its relentless bombardment, it has killed more than 2,400 Lebanese people, carrying out massacres and mass forced displacement in Lebanon, and dragging the entire region into full-blown war.
It is against US law to send a single weapon to any country grossly violating human rights. 61% of Americans say they want to cut off weapons to Israel. Our tax dollars must not be used for another illegal, immoral weapon giveaway to Israel!
For the first time in U.S. history, there will be a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel. Senators Bernie Sanders (VT), Peter Welch (VT), Jeff Merkley (OR), and Brian Schatz (HI) have introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to stop a $20 billion weapons shipment approved by the Biden administration. 

We have come to the James M. Hanley Federal Building today to urge, even implore, New York's US Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to support the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would block the sale of offensive U.S. weaponry to Israel. The vote on these resolutions is imminent. The JRD is the only mechanism available to Congress to prevent these arms sales and we believe it is the Senators' legal and moral imperative to support and vote for the resolutions.

#uspol #Palestine #SavePalestine

Ben Norton runs down Trump's gallery of genocidal ghouls:
**Trump picks hawks & neocons to run US foreign policy: Meet his warmongering cabinet**

youtube.com/watch?v=iwsrUUkDBW…

#uspol

*Harold J. Krent*
**How Biden can make pardons a stamp on his legacy**

>The United States has placed more people behind bars than any other country in the world. The pardon authority vests in the president the august power to rectify past injustice. Obama focused principally on nonviolent drug offenders, an admirable step, but Biden can choose to deploy the pardon power more widely, whether to benefit those whose convictions were tainted by racism, non-violent offenders serving lengthy sentences, or those who committed crimes because of addiction.

thehill.com/opinion/white-hous…

#uspol

I'm making my yearly vegan kimchi (no fish sauce) today. As before using this wonderful recipe/procedure:
minimalistbaker.com/easy-vegan…
The cabbage is the "Red Dragon" variety from Fedco Seeds.

#garden #gardening #fermentation

The Electronic Intifada is hosting a livestream today.

1900 Palestine time / 2000 Amman time / 1700 GMT / 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 11 am CT / 12 pm ET / 9 am PT

>As soon we the program starts, you’ll be able to watch on all these platforms using the links below:
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>It’s been 293 days since the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Israel to halt all killing and other genocidal acts against the Palestinian people.

>And it was 177 days ago that the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, two of the Israeli leaders directly responsible for the genocide.

>But Israel is only accelerating its extermination of Palestinians through continued bombing and starvation and expanding its attack on Lebanon, while the ICC has failed to issue any arrest warrants.

>After the news brief from Nora Barrows-Friedman, we’ll talk to Craig Mokhiber about why all paths to accountability for Israel appear to be blocked. We’ll also discuss what a second Trump administration might mean for Palestinians.

>Mokhiber is the senior human rights official who resigned from the UN more than a year ago over the world body’s inaction to halt the genocide.

#Palestine #IndependentMedia

Jill Stein:
"As expected, the Biden-Harris admin's 'warning' to Israel to stop blocking aid to Gaza or face consequences was just empty words from habitual liars.

Israel is STILL blocking aid & Biden-Harris arming the genocide is STILL illegal under US law.

We demand a weapons embargo NOW!"

*Caitlin Johnstone*
**Biden's Legacy Is Genocide, War, And Nuclear Brinkmanship**

>Biden spent his entire career promoting war and militarism at every opportunity, and then spent the twilight years of his time in Washington choosing to continue supplying an active genocide that is fully dependent on US-supplied arms.

>He refused off-ramp after off-ramp to the horrific war in Ukraine that has burned through a generation of men in that country, which he knowingly provoked by amassing a military proxy threat on Russia’s border in ways the US would never tolerate being amassed on its own border.

caitlinjohnst.one/p/bidens-leg…

I accidentally dropped a tomato seed on the floor of my greenhouse, and now it's a huge, sprawling medusa, 7 feet tall and wide. Also an accidental red amaranth nearby.

#garden #gardening

The sleazoids in the Democratic Party funneled $400,000 to the Uncommitted Movement to buy them off.

**US elections 2024: Uncommitted movement splits after taking money from PAC supporting Harris**

>The Uncommitted National Movement, which promised to leverage constituents' votes to force the Democratic Party to change its position on Israel, received more than $400,000 from a Democratic-aligned PAC that explicitly prevents beneficiaries from endorsing a candidate other than Kamala Harris, Middle East Eye can reveal.

middleeasteye.net/news/us-elec…

#Democrats #uspol

*Ryan Grim*
**In Internal Email, LA Times Owner Cites Gaza Among Reasons He Decided Not to Endorse Harris or Trump**

>“Has there ever been a time in our history,” he writes, “when our nation is knowingly providing arms to another nation using those weapons to kill children, women, innocent people and target the press, doctors and medical workers? And policies enabling this are supported it seems by both candidates?
“We can and must acknowledge concerns for democracy and the Jan 6 episode and the horific [sic] Oct Hamas attacks,” he continued. “But how do we ignore the counter issues of the innocents being killed now? Do we accept that indeed genocide is happening and that we stand as a country of willing arms suppliers and yet remain silent?”

dropsitenews.com/p/los-angeles…