Attorney General Pam Bondi has said the sanctioned vessel was transporting oil from the South American country and Iran | The US has seized an oil tanker allegedly transporting oil from Venezuela and Iran, Attorney General Pam Bondi has said. ● The action off the coast of Venezuela took place amid a buildup of US military activity in the region and strikes against what Washington describes as cartel boats.

She said the vessel had been sanctioned “due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations.” ● The video posted by Bondi shows heavily armed law enforcement officials descending onto the ship from a helicopter.

✅ Will CentCom Condemn This Blatant Act Of Piracy? (Moon of Alabama)

Moon of Alabama | To travel to China is now much easier than to travel to the ‘leader of the free world’. | During the 1990s and up to the year 2001 I had visited the United States more than a dozen times. I had touched down and traveled through 22 of its 50 states. About half of that traveling was part of my job, the other half was vacationing and visiting friends. ● After the 9/11 attacks the U.S. shut down. Coming in by air plane required to take part in some ridiculous security theater. The previously already annoying waiting in line and questioning by custom and immigration officials got worse. Travelers were no longer welcome. I canceled my already planned future visits. It now gets worse.

✅ The EU Is Tethering Itself to a Sinking Ship (Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial)
✅ The EU rolls up in its clown car to rob a bank ‘for Ukraine’ (Rachel Marsden)

John Leake [...] The European Commission President's Nov. 25, 2025 speech was animated by the same obstinate nonsense that compelled Napoleon to invade Russia in 1812 and Hitler to do the same in 1941. | Ursula is able to persist in making ruinous decisions for Europe because she is never held accountable for any of them. During the pandemic she had private discussions by text message with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla (see Did Ursula von der Leyen & Albert Bourla Mix Business with Pleasure?) to poison all of Europe with his mRNA shot. To this day, she has never been compelled to disclose these messages to the public. She also recently Likened Free Speech to an Infectious Disease. Now she wants to keep the war going in Ukraine and to continue sending EU taxpayer money to the corrupt, larcenist, money-laundering dictatorship in Kiev. [...] Increasingly, it seems to me that Europe’s “leaders”—Starmer, Macron, Merz, and von der Leyen—perceive that they need to keep the war with Russia going for their own political survival.

✅ They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank (Caitlin Johnstone) (11/08/25)

■ Ukrainian Armed Forces Losses During Conflict Exceed 1Mln People, Continue to Grow - Lavrov (Sputnik)

If Europe decides to go to war, Russia is ready for it right now. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, speaking at an embassy roundtable on resolving the situation around Ukraine. ● He added that Russia has no aggressive plans against NATO and EU countries and is ready to put such guarantees in writing.

The British again... | About two hours ago, Ukrainian unmanned boats attacked another civilian vessel. Three UAVs struck the tanker Dashan, flying the Gambian flag. The tanker is under sanctions as part of the so-called Russian shadow fleet. ● The group of UAVs set out from the Odessa region last night and headed towards the Eastern part of the Black Sea, bypassing the Crimean peninsula. ● The extent of the damage is still unclear. But there is one very significant detail: during the attack on the tanker, a British RC-135W reconnaissance aircraft was operating over the Western part of the Black Sea. ● Immediately after the attack, the aircraft headed for the tanker's location. It is now patrolling parallel to Sudak on the southern coast of Crimea. ● This is the fourth civilian vessel attacked by the enemy in the last two weeks. This incident shows once again that Ukrainian forces, supported by the West, have no intention of stopping their attacks on shipping. ● Such strikes are blows to our economy, just like the UAV raids on oil depots in various parts of Russia. BEKs are no longer as effective against coastal targets, so the Armed Forces of Ukraine have switched to targets that are easier to reach. And in the absence of adequate protection and countermeasures, it is only a matter of time before another ship is attacked. (DeepL)

Since World War II, the United States has been engaged and bogged down in several wars, including conflicts that are thousands of miles away and in regions many Americans have never heard of. However, despite the U.S.' military prowess, these wars end up as stalemates or in the recent case of Afghanistan, a strategic defeat. ● Of course, we're told it is the military industrial complex who is making the money, but there is more to this war profiteering than we have previously known. Who is really profiting and why? ● U.S. military veteran and whistleblower Matthew Hoh sits down J-Speak host Rick Sanchez to discuss why the U.S. can't win wars. He explains the failures in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now Ukraine.

■ Global arms industry hits record $679 billion revenue amid rising conflicts (Natural News)

⚡ To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment. | With the majority of the coalition of CDU and SPD, as well as the votes of the opposition AfD, the Berlin House of Representatives passed a comprehensive amendment to the General Security and Public Order Act (ASOG) on Thursday. The reform grants the police powers that deeply interfere with fundamental rights and cross previous red lines of the capital's security policy. While Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD) defends the law as a necessary update for the digital age and the fight against terrorism, critics see it as a disproportionate attack on privacy.

■ State trojans for criminal prosecution (freiheitsrechte.org)
■ "berlin: police can secretely enter homes for state trojan installation" (iAsk)(AI)

■ Israel's Ben Gvir wears noose pendant as he pushes death penalty bill for Palestinians (MEE)

Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazism in the Second World War [...] [...] [...]

express our intention to resolutely suppress activities aimed at glorifying the Nazi movement, rehabilitating former members of the Waffen-SS and their accomplices, and denying the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by them,

emphasize the importance of work among young people, above all in the information space, with a view to preventing the spread of the ideology of neo-Nazism and militant nationalism,

consider it necessary to make full use of all OSCE capabilities to combat the dissemination of ideas of racial superiority and manifestations of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance,

call upon the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and the heads of OSCE executive structures to give proper assessment to manifestations of neo-Nazism, as well as to acts of glorification and rehabilitation of Nazis and their accomplices,

propose to consolidate international efforts aimed at preserving the historical memory of the Second World War and at countering any manifestations of neo-Nazism.

‘There’s too many unknowns,’ Dr. Robert Redfield said. | COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna should be pulled from circulation, a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official said in a new interview. ● “I really would like to see the mRNA vaccine use curtailed, and personally, I'd like to see it eliminated, because I think there’s too many unknowns,” Dr. Robert Redfield told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” in an interview that will be released on Dec. 9. ● Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against COVID-19 utilize messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology. They were the first mRNA vaccines to receive clearance when regulators authorized them in late 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. ● Redfield, 74, was the director of the CDC from March 2018 through Jan. 20, 2021, the end of President Donald Trump’s first term. ● Redfield said he’s been treating patients who have so-called long COVID, as well as people suffering from vaccine injuries. He said he still favors a protein-based COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax but no longer advises receiving the mRNA shots even though he thinks they prevented deaths among seniors early in the pandemic.

Robert Bridge | The “bureaucratic monster” that has just fined X €120 million is wrapping its tentacles around free speech | The EU has once again strayed beyond acceptable boundaries, slapping Elon Musk’s social media platform X with harsh penalties for being in violation of new draconian EU digital laws that many say are code for censorship. ■ On Friday, the European Commission unleashed the billionaire tech mogul’s wrath after it fined X €120 million (about $140 million) for “breaching its transparency obligations” under the 2022 Digital Services Act, which sets standards for accountability and content moderation. The ruling by the 27-nation bloc called the platform’s blue checkmark system ‘deceptive’ and accused it of weak advertising transparency and failing to provide required data access. ■ In response, Musk had his own ‘X-it’ moment when he called for the abolition of the EU and the return of national sovereignty to its 450 million subjects. In a series of blistering posts on the weekend, Musk argued that “EU bureaucracy is slowly smothering Europe to death.”

[...] What does the future of social media look like in such a hostile and unpredictable environment? At the very least, holding innovators personally responsible for potential abuse of their tools would discourage the development of new technologies in the first place. At worst, it could spell jail time and other extreme penalties for those brave holdouts who fail to toe the state-sponsored line. In other words, we are facing very dark times for the world of social media, which threatens to be silenced into oblivion, that is, unless Mr. Musk gets his wish and the “bureaucratic monster” of the 27-member EU is rendered obsolete once and for all.

French banks hold around 18 bln euros in Russian assets, which is the second-highest figure in Europe, Financial Times said | France, which supported the provision of a reparations loan to Ukraine, refused to include in it funds frozen in the republic's private banks, the newspaper wrote, citing sources. Private credit institutions are subject to different contractual obligations than the Belgian depository Euroclear, according to the publication. An unnamed official stated that French banks are unwilling to participate in discussions regarding the possibility of transferring Russian assets to Kiev.

■ The theft of Russian assets will harm Germany's interests (ПолитНавигатор) (The theft of Russian assets will harm Germany's interests, says a Bundestag member. The theft of Russian assets will only lead to a weakening of the euro, higher interest rates, and the loss of assets of European companies in Russia. German parliament member Stefan Keiter announced this from the Bundestag podium, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. " There is no 'Plan B' to seize Russian assets. This proposal is legally dubious, economically dangerous, and a direct attack on German interests. Current international law states that state assets abroad are subject to special protection. Renowned experts in international law say that such expropriation is unprecedented and would violate the principles of international law. We must also consider the economic risks. The Belgian securities depository Euroclear, which already holds around €183 billion in Russian assets, has warned the European Commission that such a measure would jeopardize the stability of European financial markets and further increase borrowing costs for all member states.)

12.04.2024 | US-born war correspondent and Sputnik regular contributor Russell Bentley, working in the Donbass, has gone missing in Donetsk on April 8, the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Friday. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic has issued Bentley's missing alert. Sputnik's editorial office is collaborating with law enforcement agencies in his search. [...] Texas-born American Russell Bonner Bentley, call sign "Texas", has been working in Russia’s special military operation zone as a war correspondent. ● Bentley, 64, joined the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) militia in 2014 and has been defending the region's freedom against Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces since then, first as a soldier, then as a war correspondent. ● Between 2014 and 2017 Bentley served in the Sut Vremeni (lit. "Essence of Time") combat unit, Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion. Side by side with Donbass volunteers he fought in such hot spots as Donetsk Airport, Spartak, Avdeyevka, and Yasinovataya. ● The war correspondent was baptized as an Orthodox Christian during the hostilities, and has raised funds and delivered humanitarian aid to Donbass civilians. ● Bentley previously told Sputnik that he was compelled to come to the Donbass because he admired the people's courage, steadfastness, and unwillingness to accept the US-backed illegitimate coup d'etat in Ukraine. ● Bentley considered the Russian special military operation as the beginning of the end of the Kiev regime's eight-year long war against Donbass, which he had firsthand knowledge of. The veteran repeatedly came under Ukrainian fire and emerged unscathed.

■ Фигуранты дела об убийстве журналиста Бентли в ДНР получили от 1,5 до 12 лет (TACC) (08.12.2025)
(The defendants in the murder case of journalist Bentley in the DPR received sentences ranging from 1.5 to 12 years)
■ Четверо подозреваемых в убийстве корреспондента Sputnik Рассела Бентли получили до 12 лет колонии. (VIDEO)

Depression, anxiety, PTSD and addiction soar as experts warn of long-term societal impact without urgent government action | Israel is facing a “mental health tsunami”, with two million people in need of support as addiction rates soar and families and communities fall apart, according to Yedioth Ahronoth. ● In an extensive report published on Friday, the news outlet said mental health professionals have raised the alarm over a sharp increase in people requiring support since "7 October 2023." ● Meanwhile, there is a severe shortage of therapists and support services, which experts warn could have catastrophic consequences. ● Last week, a coalition of eight major mental health organisations issued an urgent warning to the government, describing the country’s situation as an “outbreak of mental illness unprecedented in its depth and scope”. The groups called the crisis “catastrophic” and demanded immediate government intervention. According to the coalition, Israeli society is showing clear signs of widespread psychological distress.

■ Melanie Phillips convey but one message: Israel will always be at war (11/28/25)

Holocaust “survivor” Claims he was in Auschwitz in his Imagination pic.twitter.com/kaFWzfnQew

— HistoryRecap (@HistoricalWWII) November 22, 2025

Israel is in the process of erecting a new 13-mile-long separation fence in the Jordan Valley. The wall will isolate Palestinian villages and cut off farmers from their land. | According to Haaretz, the IDF is in the advanced stage of building the barrier. Last month, Israel informed several Palestinian families that their land in the southern Jordan Valley would be seized, and they must destroy any structures on the property.  ● The outlet notes that the new fence will significantly restrict Palestinians’ freedom of movement throughout the Jordan Valley. The wall will cut shepherds off from grazing areas. Additionally, the wall will include roads for the IDF and embankments. The total land seized is about 270 acres. ● Israel has already erected over 400 miles of separation barriers across the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The walls wind between Palestinian cities and Israeli settlements, creating significant restrictions on Palestinians’ ability to move within the West Bank. ● Palestinians who need to cross the barriers are forced to cross checkpoints manned by Israeli soldiers. The Palestinians are frequently humiliated, harassed, and killed at the checkpoints. ● Human rights groups and international bodies have criticized the separation walls for harming the Palestinian economy, dividing communities, and creating the conditions for Israel to annex the West Bank.

✅ Israel adopting apartheid Bantustan model for Palestinians (Wayne Madsen) (01/11/13)

The manufactured "scientific consensus" | For years, questions surrounding the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) have been met with censorship, propaganda and outright deception from top U.S. health officials. Now, damning evidence confirms what many have long suspected: Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), engaged in a deliberate cover-up to suppress the Wuhan lab-leak theory—despite privately acknowledging its plausibility.

■ Fauci involved in ‘massive’ COVID-19 origins cover-up, FDA chief Marty Makary tells ‘Pod Force One’ (New York Post)
■ Fauci’s Lies Are Catching up with Him (Brownstone) (January 2024)

The tech mogul lashed out at the “bureaucratic monster” after his platform X was slapped with a huge fine | US-based tech billionaire Elon Musk has called for the dissolution of the European Union after the bloc fined his social media platform X. ● On Friday, the European Commission fined X €120 million ($163 million) for “breaching its transparency obligations” under the 2022 Digital Services Act, which sets standards for accountability and content moderation. The ruling called the platform’s blue checkmark system ‘deceptive’ and accused it of weak advertising transparency and failing to provide required data access. ● In a series of posts on Saturday, Musk, who often accuses Brussels of imposing excessive regulations, argued that “EU bureaucracy is slowly smothering Europe to death.”

Musk, who also owns Tesla and SpaceX, has previously described the EU as a “giant cathedral to bureaucracy,” arguing that over-regulation suppresses innovation. ● US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the ruling as “an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments.” US Vice President J.D. Vance said the EU had targeted X for “not engaging in censorship.”

Ousting the review judge in the appeal against Palestine Action's proscription, and replacing him with three new judges, is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Starmer's outlaw government.

My latest: https://t.co/r84WPOfAT4 pic.twitter.com/ace8CbDIZv

— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) November 26, 2025

✅ The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms (Jonathan Cook)

The Goal of Merz and Leyen is to Involve as Many Accomplices as Possible | The head of the European Central Bank, Lagarde, explains how the scam with the theft of Russian frozen assets can end for the EU countries:

But Euroband does not abandon its insane attempts to carry out a robbery. The instigators are German Chancellor Merz and European Commission President Leyen. However, they don't want to be responsible alone if something goes wrong (and it will!). Now they are trying to involve the Prime Minister of Belgium in their scam, who, apparently feeling that the matter smells very bad, is somehow in no hurry to join their gang. Ursula von der Leyen and Friedrich Merz once again failed to persuade him to steal frozen Russian assets.

■ Germany's Merz postpones Norway trip for crisis talks on Russian frozen assets (Anadolu)
■ All EU countries should share Belgium’s risks regarding Russian assets — Merz (TASS)
■ ‘You are not even in the game’ – Russian negotiator to Merz (RT)
■ Why EU Overestimates Its Ability to Confiscate Frozen Russian Assets (Sputnik)
■ European Commission’s plans on asset seizure contradict EU norms — Russian mission (TASS)
■ Jeffrey Sachs: Confiscation of frozen Russian funds will bankrupt Europe (TopWar.ru)

A Venezuela F-16 Has Shot Down U.S. Drone | Reports are coming in claiming the United States routed three Surveillance drones over Venezuelan territory, seeking to locate Chinese JY-27 radar. The reports go on to claim the JY-27 radar picked-up the surveillance drones and locked-on to them. Venezuela then reportedly scrambled F-16 fighter jets, one of which obtained weapons-lock on one of the drones, fired upon it, and destroyed it. The other US Drones were then flown out of Venezuelan air space.

Simplicius | The EU cabal is experiencing some serious setbacks, not to mention blows to the tattered drapes of its credibility. | First there was the fact that Belgium has officially rejected its piracy plans of stealing Russian assets, which came as a major slap in the face of EU apparatchiks. Now Belgium is too a ‘Russian asset’, as can be seen by the risibly tired script. The Belgian prime minister revealed in an interview that Russian ‘threats’ apparently gave him cold feet.

Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has resigned as rector of the College of Europe amid a fraud probe, she said in a statement on Thursday. | The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) this week accused Mogherini and two others of procurement fraud and corruption. It has said the investigation concerns suspected fraud related to EU-funded training for junior diplomats. Mogherini's lawyer said she denied any wrongdoing and was cooperating with the investigation. Senior EU diplomat Stefano Sannino, another suspect in the case, said in an email seen by Reuters on Wednesday that he will retire early this month, adding that he does not consider it appropriate to continue amid the probe. He said he was "confident that everything will be clarified". He has not responded to requests for comment made by Reuters.

Dmitry Medvedev (Russian Security Council) | There was a movie about British hitmen who were hidden in a small European town in Belgium. It was released in our theaters under the title “In Bruges.” This is exactly what Ms. Mogherini did (the former EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy) after retiring from her career as rector of the College of Europe in Bruges. It appears that she was exposed through her contracts with the college. ■ What is curious here, is that a lady who held such a position retired in a hurry. Apparently, there was not enough money in the position of foreign minister of the united Europe. I remember this lady, she was actually more decent than the two current nasty thieves and Russophobes - Ursula von der something and Kaja Kallas. Those two are simply unbeatable. They didn't wait for their pensions. One stole an insane amount of money on vaccines during the pandemic. And the second one's husband unjustly profited from contracts with Russia, so she immediately turned into an anti-Russian bitch in order not to arouse suspicion. ■ While Russia and the US are negotiating an end to the conflict, frigid Europe, led by the half-mad old women Ursula and Kaja, is pushing hard for war until the last dead Ukrainian. We can only hope that the two crazy witches will soon follow in Ms. Mogherini's footsteps. Or end up like the two heroes of the aforementioned film. Which is what I sincerely wish for them. (Trans.: DeepL)

CJ Hopkins | As many of you are aware, my original prosecution is still under appeal at the German supreme court. I had assumed their decision, however it turns out, would finally be the end of this nightmare. | Three armed Berlin police officers arrived at my door this morning with a warrant to search my apartment. They conducted the search, interrogated me and my wife, and confiscated my computer. ● The search warrant was issued in connection with a new criminal investigation of me by the Berlin State Prosecutor. Once again, as in 2023, I am accused of disseminating pro-Nazi material, the pro-Nazi “material” in question being my book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich: Consent Factory Essays, Vol. III (2020-2021). ● Unlike the previous charges against me, which were based on two Tweets featuring the cover artwork of the book and opposing the so-called Covid measures, this new criminal investigation is based on my publication and distribution of the book. [...] This new investigation, the search of my home, and confiscation of my computer are blatantly unconstitutional, a brazen violation of my rights as an author and publisher under Germany’s Basic Law (Grundgesetz). I will of course be taking legal action to defend those rights.