American liberal internationalism, Chinese authoritarianism with “socialist characteristics,” Russian civilizational nationalism, and Indian strategic autonomy represent incompatible visions of domestic and international order. There is no shared ideology to suppress, and no common understanding of what constitutes legitimate governance.
Full article: https://asiatimes.com/2025/11/world-doesnt-need-congress-of-vienna-2-0-it-needs-statesmen/
The previously unreported intelligence, described by the former officials as among the most startling shared with top US policymakers during the war, pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics that contrasted sharply with Israel’s public stance defending its actions.
At a conference in Geneva, signatories to the Minamata Convention on Mercury – aimed at protecting humans and the environment from mercury pollution – called time on mercury amalgams.
Nations agreed “to end the use of dental amalgam by 2034, marking a historic milestone in reducing mercury pollution”, the conference announced in its closing statement.
Full article: https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3332022/no-more-mercury-your-mouth-toxic-metals-use-tooth-filling-end-2034
NSW Police revealed the demonstration had actually been allowed – with the state’s top cop admitting there had been a communication “breakdown” between police and the government over the rally.
More than 60 members of the neo-Nazi organisation, known as the Nationalist Socialist Network (NSN), demonstrated outside parliament shortly before 10am on Saturday, holding a large sign reading “Abolish the Jewish lobby”.
Dressed in dark clothing and sunglasses, the members chanted slogans used by the Hitler Youth.
Vanguard Britannica’s engagement with the Patriot Front will fuel fears that the British group could bring the extreme tactics used by American neo-Nazis to streets of UK cities, including flash demonstrations that incorporate smoke bombs, flares and anti-Semitic chants.
Last July, masked members of the Patriot Front descended on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, while holding American flags and chanting “Sieg Heil”. Members are also required to engage in weekly on-the-ground activism or face expulsion.
The group has previously blamed Jews for the migrant crisis and called for Britain to be free from “Jewish usury, media control, and non-white immigration”.
Full article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/11/08/british-fascists-american-white-supremacists-terror-attack/
For nearly two decades, the deputies roamed Rankin County at night, beating, tasing, and choking suspects in drug crimes until they admitted to buying or selling illegal substances. Their reign of terror continued unabated until 2023, when the deputies were finally exposed.
“Rankin County has always been notorious,” says Garry Curro, one the Goon Squad’s many alleged victims. “They don’t follow the laws of the land. They make their own laws.”
Full article: https://revealnews.org/podcast/mississippi-goon-squad-drug-crimes-torture-police/
The leaked emails and Epstein’s personal schedules show the financier acting as a key intermediary between Barak and Ivorian leaders in 2012 and 2013, facilitating meetings, smoothing negotiations, and pushing forward Israeli security proposals, as reported by Drop Site on Friday.
Epstein’s communications reveal his enthusiasm for monetizing regional turmoil. “With civil unrest exploding […] and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you,” he wrote to Barak.
The former Israeli premier replied: “You’re right [in] a way. But not simple to transform it into a cash flow.”
That “cash flow,” according to the documents, took the form of Israeli surveillance contracts and intelligence-sharing agreements with the Ivorian government.
Full article: https://alethonews.com/2025/11/07/epstein-helped-broker-israeli-intelligence-projects-in-africa-documents/
Leo Strauss
Political philosophy
In the 20th century, the American conservative political philosopher Leo Strauss and his neo-conservative adherents adopted the notion of government by the enlightened few as political strategy. He noted that intellectuals, dating from Plato, confronted the dilemma of either an informed populace “interfering” with government, or whether it were possible for good politicians to be truthful and still govern to maintain a stable society—hence the noble lie necessary in securing public acquiescence. In The City and Man (1964), he discusses the myths in The Republic that Plato proposes effective governing requires, among them, the belief that the country (land) ruled by the state belongs to it (despite some having been conquered from others), and that citizenship derives from more than the accident of birth in the city-state. Thus, in the New Yorker magazine article “Selective Intelligence”, Seymour Hersh observes that Strauss endorsed the “noble lie” concept: the myths politicians use in maintaining a cohesive society.
Shadia Drury criticized Strauss’s acceptance of dissembling and deception of the populace as “the peculiar justice of the wise”, whereas Plato proposed the noble lie as based upon moral good. In criticizing Natural Right and History (1953), she said that “Strauss thinks that the superiority of the ruling philosophers is an intellectual superiority and not a moral one … [he] is the only interpreter who gives a sinister reading to Plato, and then celebrates him.”
Continue Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism
On the night of Monday, November 3, 60 Tulane students and community members gathered for a noise demonstration to protest the first stop of a national “Combat on Campus Tour” of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers. The IDF event was hosted by Tulane Students Supporting Israel (SSI) at the Chabad Center of Louisiana near Tulane University’s campus.
Protesters, called together by Together United Louisiana Students for a Democratic Society (TUL SDS), banged pots, pans and drums to disrupt the two IDF soldiers who came to share “their firsthand stories from October 7 and the war that followed.”
web https://popularresistance.org/tulane-students-disrupt-idf-event-resist-police-repression/
At first, the bourgeois world subordinated nature to its industrial laws; then, it subordinated culture to itself. The spectacle has annihilated history. “The end of history provides a sigh of relief to all existing authorities.”
https://attackthesystem.com/2025/11//guy-debord-is-dead/
