Who is Thomas Crooks? pic.twitter.com/WwjvPGGRwS

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) November 14, 2025

■ After Tucker Carlson Exposé, FBI Director Patel Says Trump Rally Shooter Thomas Crooks Acted Alone (Zero Hedge)

Sheikh Hasina spoke to RT about the involvement of external forces in the uprising that ousted her in 2024 | Bangladesh’s interim government was “imposed” on the people following last year’s uprising, the South Asian nation’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina told RT in a written interview on Wednesday. ● Recalling the events of August 2024, when she was forced to resign as prime minister and flee to India, where she now resides, Sheikh Hasina argued that there is “forensic evidence” suggesting that “foreign mercenaries” were present at the protests, instigating the masses.

■ Soros, Clinton, USAID and Nobel laureate: Ex-Bangladeshi minister exposes forces behind GenZ regime change (VIDEO) (11/10/25)

Moon of Alabama | The Miami Herald says that the decision to attack Venezuela has been made and that strikes are imminent | Just a few days ago I stated that Trump is targeting Venezuela under the pretext of countering drug trafficking. But the real reasons for this are clear:

A few days ago the U.S. ordered the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to move from the Mediterranean towards Venezuela. The carrier is expected to arrive in early to mid November. I had expected that the U.S. would wait with any attack on Venezuela until the carrier force is in place. Until than it would continue its intimidation strikes on random fishermen at sea.

"Shoot first, ask questions later" | US War Department officials don’t know the identities of the 61 people who have been extra-judicially executed in US military strikes on boats in the waters near Venezuela and in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, POLITICO reported on Thursday, citing House Democrats who attended a classified briefing on the campaign.

💬 “The department officials] said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on these vessels to do the strikes, they just need to prove a connection to smuggling,” said Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA). “When we tried to get more information, we did not get satisfactory answers.”

While the Trump administration has cited overdose deaths in the US related to fentanyl to justify the bombing campaign, lawmakers were told in the briefing that the boats that have been targeted were allegedly smuggling cocaine, though the Pentagon has not provided evidence to back up its claims about what the vessels were carrying.

🚨 BOMBSHELL: New FOIA Documents Reveal the COVID Pandemic Was a DoD Operation Dating Back to Obama

"The Pentagon controlled the COVID-19 program from the very beginning and everything we were told was political theater to cover it up right down to the FDA vaccine approval" pic.twitter.com/TZwG6sD84L

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 11, 2023

The US president says he intends to expand his crackdown on "drug cartels" | US President Donald Trump confirmed on Wednesday that he has "authorized" CIA operations on Venezuelan soil. ● The New York Times earlier reported that the decision would allow intelligence operatives to carry out lethal operations against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whose government Trump has accused of running narco-terrorist cartels and "flooding the US with cocaine and fentanyl."

✅ The Monroe Doctrine is back – dressed up as a war on drugs (André Benoit) No drugs? Look for oil — If Washington’s “narco-state” story was built on shaky evidence, its interest in Venezuela’s oil is beyond dispute. The country holds the world’s largest proven reserves – roughly 303 billion barrels, nearly 18% of the global total – concentrated in the vast Orinoco Belt. That’s more than Saudi Arabia, more than Canada, more than anyone.

Steve Ellner | Machado is not the godsend for the opposition portrayed by the media and her close supporters. But opposition leaders have more cause for hope than in the past. | [July 5, 2024] The Venezuelan government has disqualified Machado from holding public office for a number of reasons. The initial one was her acceptance in 2014 of a diplomatic position from the government of Panama enabling her to address the Organization of American States, where she called for foreign intervention in Venezuela. In June 2023, the National Controller reimposed the ban. [...] Machado’s Faithful Allies: Among the leaders of the Venezuelan opposition, Machado is Washington’s unmistakable favorite. The Biden administration backs her even though she expressed sympathy for Trump on the eve of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections. Certainly, from an ideological viewpoint, the centrist Biden has more in common with PUD leaders like Rosales and Capriles than with Machado. ■ Washington’s singular preference for Machado became particularly evident between January 26, when the Supreme Tribunal of Justice definitively ruled that she could not run for president, and April 19, when González became the opposition’s candidate. During that period, a journalist asked Francisco Palmieri, head of the U.S. mission for Venezuela located in Bogotá, if “any opposition candidate would satisfy the Biden administration.” Palmieri went straight to the point: “We have and will continue to support María Corina Machado as the candidate of the democratic opposition.” [...] First and foremost, given the attractiveness of other presidential candidates, Washington’s unconditional support for Machado is not only an intrusion in the internal affairs of Venezuela, but in the internal affairs of the Venezuelan opposition. Claudio Fermín, who ran for president on AD’s ticket in 1993 and is one of the 10 presidential candidates for 2024, said he has “never seen this degree of external intervention in a Venezuelan electoral campaign,” adding that it has received “exuberant approval” from some. ■ Washington’s unswerving support for Machado may be related to her extreme version of neoliberalism, which includes the privatization of the oil industry, and to her hard line on the Chavistas. During the Trump administration, Machado even urged Washington to call off efforts to establish a dialogue with Maduro, dubbing such an endeavor a “fraud.” Echoing allegations from Washington, she rejected “impunity” for Chavistas who she called “criminals and mafiosos who have utilized money coming from drug trafficking and the food of Venezuelans.” [Image: Charles Dharapak (AP)]

■ La opositora venezolana María Corina Machado, Premio Nobel de la Paz 2025 (El País)
■ Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado (Ground News)
■ Who Is Maria Corina Machado? Venezuelan Activist Who Beat Donald Trump To Win Nobel Peace Prize 2025 (TN)
✅ Nobel Committee, Fearing Trump’s Wrath, Hands Peace Prize To Regime Change Puppet (Moon of Alabama)

André Benoit | The Caribbean deployment is less about cocaine and more about control, reviving America’s oldest imperial playbook | President Donald Trump has hinted that US forces could soon move from sea to land operations in Venezuela, expanding what he called “a war on terrorist drug cartels.” ● Speaking at a Navy anniversary ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia, Trump said American forces had struck another vessel off Venezuela’s coast allegedly carrying narcotics. [...] According to Washington, at least four such strikes have taken place in the Caribbean in recent weeks, leaving more than 20 people dead. Trump also declared members of drug cartels to be “unlawful combatants,” a label he said allows the US to use military force without congressional approval. [...] In September 2025, the United States reinforced that campaign with a major build-up in the Caribbean: eight warships, a nuclear attack submarine, and about 4,500 troops, including 2,200 Marines. The force is backed by F-35 jets stationed in Puerto Rico and a fleet of maritime-surveillance drones. Officially, Washington calls it a counter-narcotics mission. In practice, it is designed to pressure Venezuela – the last Latin-American state still openly defying US power and the unwritten Monroe Doctrine.

Irakly Kobakhidze stressed that "some foreigners directly supported the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order" | Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze has stated that EU’s ambassador to Tbilisi Pawel Herczynski is to blame for the current unrest in Tbilisi. [...] A rally is underway in Tbilisi. Demonstrators gathered during the day to protest the municipal elections. Rally organizers later urged the demonstrators to move to the presidential palace, where unrest erupted. ● Georgia held local government elections on Saturday for city and municipal mayors, as well as city council members. Georgian authorities repeatedly warned the organizers of the election day rally that violations would be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Levan Khabeishvili, former head of the United National Movement party founded by former President Mikhail Saakashvili, and another party member, Tbilisi City Council member Zviad Kuprava, were previously arrested for calling for the overthrow of the government.

■ Georgian Interior Ministry Detains 5 Opposition Members for Calling for Coup (Sputnik)
■ Ex-President Saakashvili Tried to Stage 'Maidan' in Georgia (Sputnik)

Nord Stream (1224 km) and Nord Stream 2 (1200 km) are gas pipelines from Russia to Europe, running under the Baltic Sea, allowing gas supplies to bypass transit countries.

 ● Each pipeline consists of two strings with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The total design capacity of both pipelines is 110 billion cubic meters.

 ● Total project investment: €7.4 billion.

 ● Nord Stream: Construction began in 2010, with commercial deliveries starting in 2012. It provided reliable gas supplies to Europe for over 10 years. Deliveries were halted in late August 2022 when Gazprom identified malfunctions.

 ● German company Siemens was ready to repair the issues, but it was impossible due to Western sanctions.

 ● Nord Stream 2: Completed by September 2021, filled with gas but not launched due to Germany suspending certification.

 ● In 2018, former US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson opposed the Nord Stream 2 project, arguing that the pipeline would undermine Europe’s energy security. He believed that Moscow might use energy as a political tool. The US, according to Tillerson, would help Europe (particularly Poland) diversify energy sources by providing American liquefied gas.

 ● Before the explosions in 2022, Joe Biden threatened to block its operations in case of Russian “tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine.” American journalist Seymour Hersh reported that Biden viewed the pipelines as a tool Putin could use to weaponize natural gas.

 ● Donald Trump not only imposed sanctions on Nord Stream in 2019 but also accused Biden of approving the Russian pipeline to Europe. In an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson in 2024, Trump reminded that it was he who essentially destroyed the pipeline.

 ● Unlike the US, the German government under Angela Merkel supported the project.

100% US-engineered Color Revolution in Nepal.

Standard playbook seen dozens of times around the world — young brainwashed people burning down the parliament and residences of top politicians; leader likely fleeing the country etc.

Now watch an American puppet sworn in as the… pic.twitter.com/s9S2YQEiGd

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) September 9, 2025

■ Nepal lifts social media ban after protests result in 19 deaths (09/09/25)

After the start of the Russian special military operation, Google – operating under the patronage of US intelligence agencies – intensified its work aimed at destabilizing Russia. | What’s rarely discussed in the Big Tech-national security debate is how early Google’s Jigsaw tech incubator embedded itself in Ukraine’s info space, Zach Vorhies, former senior software engineer at YouTube and Google-turned-whistleblower, told Sputnik. ● He recalled that during the 2014 Euromaidan protests, Jigsaw launched the so-called Project Shield to keep Ukrainian media online and ensure platforms such as Facebook* and Twitter remained functional for organizing demonstrations. ● After the 2014 coup in Ukraine, Jigsaw didn’t pull back – it scaled up. By 2016, it was using AI to “enhance civic discourse,” effectively shaping narratives, according to the whistleblower. ● On the whole, he added, tools like Google Maps and Earth can track infrastructure and troop movements, while Google Cache servers offer deep access to local networks – potentially serving as forward cyber outposts

Larry C. Johnson: A monologue on the root cause of the War in Ukraine and discussed why Trump does not understand this critical point. It was published on Counter Currents yesterday, but I saved it for today… it is not time sensitive.

■ Russian Federation's proposals (Memorandum) to resolve the Ukrainian crisis (2 June 2025)
■ Treaty between The United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees (17 December 2021)

Jeffrey S. Kaye | Under the Shah of Iran, the CIA & Mossad shaped SAVAK into a torture & killing machine. One of its torture victims was current Iran Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei | A joint U.S.-Israel attack on Iran would be the culmination of a history of attacks on Iran going back to the U.S.-UK 1953 overthrow of Iran's elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, in a coup engineered by the CIA and England’s MI6 intelligence agencies. The CIA refused to admit its involvement in the operation for sixty years! The U.S. and the West have zero moral authority to tell Iran what to do or how to conduct itself. [...] While the Western press-cum-propaganda machine spins out stories about how the average Iranian man or woman in the street is opposed to Iran’s Islamic regime — and no doubt there are some, even many, in opposition — they practically never ask (especially in recent years) if any Iranians remember the previous regime’s reliance on the Shah’s society-wide political repression, courtesy of Western and Israeli intelligence services.

Bahram Moradi | As IAEA chief, Grossi is not worried about nuclear contamination in Iran | In an interview with CBS News, which was conducted on Friday and was set to be broadcast on Sunday, Rafael Grossi said,

These dangerous remarks by Grossi are extremely amazing. One thing is quite evident in his interview: he is not satisfied with the degree of the damage to the nuclear sites, and he is encouraging more.Instead of strongly condemning the strikes on nuclear sites, which are prohibited under international law, he is saying they are not completely damaged. Amazing!!!

The president assured that the authorities are seeking to avoid the use of force and are ready to ensure the citizens’ freedom, but will not tolerate "violence that destroys the foundations of statehood" | Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called on protesters to abandon their plans to completely block traffic in a number of cities, including Belgrade, on the morning of July 4.

Protesters are planning to hold a new rally on July 4. According to them, they intend to block traffic in the Serbian capital at 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. GMT).

Leo Hohmann | Army says it's part of a plan to tap commercial technology resources that will increase 'efficiencies' on the battlefields (i.e. killing fields) of the future. | Top executives from tech giants Meta, Palantir, and OpenAI are being sworn into the Army Reserves at the rank of lieutenant colonel. That’s an officer’s rank typically reserved for someone who has served for years and has led thousands of men into combat. Known as Detachment 201, the new “Executive Innovation Corps” will be responsible for the military’s tech transformation, integrating new technologies such as AI-powered drones and humanoid robots, the Army announced on June 13. Patrick Wood, editor in chief of Technocracy.News and an expert on the global technocracy movement, said the move is unprecedented.

✅ The Key Nuclear Allegation that started the Iran-Israeli War was Coaxed from a Palantir Counter-Intelligence Algorithm (Alastair Crooke)

Daniele Ganser is a historian with a focus on contemporary history since 1945 and international politics. His main research focuses on peace studies, geostrategy, covert warfare, resource conflicts, and economic policy. Dr. Ganser discusses Operation Gladio, the stay-behind mission of NATO's secret army to fight on after a possible Soviet invasion. The secret army and hidden weaponry outside of public scrutiny enabled violent terror against Europe to ensure the correct political forces would have the power.

The US president has ordered an investigation to examine whether unelected aides effectively governed during his predecessor’s term | US President Donald Trump has ordered a sweeping investigation into his predecessor’s administration, directing the Department of Justice to examine whether unelected aides effectively governed the country during Joe Biden’s presidency. ● The probe into Biden’s final acts in office will scrutinize the use of autopen signatures on official documents, including the commutation of 37 death sentences and pardons granted to family members and political allies, according to an executive directive published by the White House on Wednesday.

Jack Poulson and Lee Fang | The overt replacement for the CIA’s foreign political action funding has transitioned back to covert funding, using ‘duty of care’ as a rationale | The National Endowment for Democracy, a U.S.-government backed nonprofit designed to influence the domestic politics of countries across the globe, says its efforts are part of a campaign to promote "open and transparent government." ■ The group, funded by Congress and working in tandem with the State Department, has backed activists and civil society groups across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to push for greater disclosure among government entities. For instance, a recent NED report argues that “enhancing transparency” is vital for building trust in institutions and democratic governance, and urges the adoption of new disclosure laws for countries in the Balkans.

After Large Explosion at Port of Bandar Abbas, Iran now seeing fires/explosions at multiple other sites | As many of you may already be aware, an accidental fire involving a fuel tank at the Port of Bandar Abbas, triggered a very large explosion in a nearby Chemical Storage building yesterday. Today, more (ahem) "accidents" are happening. A steel Plant - miles away - has now also gone up in flames, as has the Bandar Abbas Electric Generating Station - also miles away. Tonight, miles away from all the other situations, the "Persian Gulf Star Refinery" is now also burning. It is the largest gas condensate plant in the entire Middle East.

■ Death Toll in Blast in Iran’s Bander Abbas Port Rises to 25 People (RT)

 ■ The seven countries that the U.S. continues to meddle with and antagonize have a shared history and connection: For decades Israel and the Zionists who pushed for the Jewish state have wanted them to be destabilized, weakened, or eliminated.

 ■ Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development. Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18).

 ■ Alison Weir is the founder of If Americans Knew and president of the Council for the National Interest, which works for “U.S. Middle East policies that represent the highest values of our founders and our citizens and that work to sustain a nation of honor, decency, security, and prosperity.” Weir is also author of the book, Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel .

Невероятно. Не прошло и 11 лет, как ЕСПЧ признал вину Киева в убийстве в Одессе - в трагедии в Доме профсоюзов. Людей жгли, а пожарные 40 минут отказывались ехать. | TXTЕвропейский суд по правам человека (ЕСПЧ) признал Украину виновной в бездействии и неспособности предотвратить массовое убийство 2 мая 2014 года в Одессе, когда погибло 48 человек. В своём постановлении суд подчеркнул, что украинские власти могли предотвратить насилие и спасти жизни, но не сделали этого.

✅ Ukraine's Whitewashed Odessa Massacre Report (Stephen Lendman)(09/11/14)
✅ US regime-change operation in Ukraine exposed in leaked diplomatic phone call (Patrick O’Connor)(02/07/14)

Kit Klarenberg Britain served as the inspiration, headquarters and training ground for all Europe’s “stay behind” secret armies throughout the Cold War | ‘Operation Gladio’ is the collective name for a notorious Cold War-era covert program whereby Anglo-American intelligence services and NATO, in conjunction with mafia elements and fascist paramilitaries, constructed a pan-European nexus of clandestine “stay behind” armed resistance units. Their ostensible purpose was to remain ever-poised to respond to potential future Soviet invasion. In reality, these guerrilla factions carried out false flag attacks, assassinations, robberies, mass casualty bombings, and other incendiary acts to discredit the Western left, while fomenting a “strategy of tension”.

💬 “You were supposed to attack civilians, women, children, innocent people from outside the political arena. [This would] force the public to turn to the state and ask for greater security…People would willingly trade their freedom for the security of being able to walk the streets, go on trains or enter a bank. This was the political logic behind the bombings. They remain unpunished because the state cannot condemn itself.”

The billionaire recalled Senator Chris Murphy’s admission that Washington helped to usher in “regime change” in 2014 | Many Americans have forgotten that it was the US that helped overthrow the legitimate Ukrainian government in 2014, plunging the country into turmoil for years to come, Elon Musk has said. ● On Monday, Musk responded to a clip of US Senator Chris Murphy discussing Washington’s role during the 2013-2014 Maidan protests in Kiev which led to the ouster of then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich. ● The video featured the Democrat admitting that the US had “not sat on the sidelines” during the unrest. Murphy also recalled that “we have been very much involved,” with top US lawmakers and officials attending the protests on the Maidan square.

■ The Road to War: How the Ukraine War Began (03/04/25)

✅ Russian President Vladimir Putin Bursts the Bubble of Western “Perception Managers” (Mark Taliano)
✅ 11 Years Ago: The US Carried Out a Coup d' Etat in Ukraine (Harold Turner)

Glenn Diesen | My Encounter with these “NGOs” ■ USAID, NED and other NGOs also operate in countries allied with the US to prevent dissent and preserve bloc discipline. The Ukraine Crisis Media Centre wrote an entire article smearing me in its project of “shady horses of Russian propaganda”, which listed false accusations such as being a “defender of Russia’s aggression”. The evidence for the absurd accusations included my conversations with Professor John Mearsheimer and former US Senator Ron Paul, which are labelled Kremlin “mouthpieces” by this NGO.[2] The Norwegian government (my own government) is also listed as a donor to this project of intimidation and smears. ■ The US foreign ministry, the National Endowment for Democracy, and my own government also finance the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, another “human rights NGO”, which has pursued a project of systematic intimidation against me for the past 4 years. Their tactics against me include regular smear pieces in the media, almost weekly tweets labelling me a propagandist for Russia, letters and phone calls to the head of my university to end my position as a professor, calls on other academics to go against me, efforts to cancel me from events where I have been invited to speak, etc. After successfully whipping up hatred in the public, the police advised me to hide my address and phone number. At this point, an employee at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee published a picture of my house on social media. These are the activities that my own government finances under the guise of supporting an “NGO” that promotes democracy and human rights. In response to the purge of academic freedom, I am now in the process of acquiring another citizenship to relocate to a country where civil society is not outsourced to fake NGOs pushing war propaganda and censorship.

Prime minister viktor orban has announced plans to disclose foreign funding to organizations that undermine his government. | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has declared that he will implement measures ensuring the transparency of aid from the United States to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and media outlets critical of his government. Speaking on state radio on Friday, Orban emphasized the need to “eliminate these foreign networks” that meddle in the country’s domestic affairs, referencing US Agency for International Development (USAID) programs. ● An ally of US President Donald Trump, Orban highlighted the Trump administration’s plan to integrate USAID into the State Department, aligning it with the “America First” policy.

Moon of Alabama | What is the meaning of 'independent' in English language? | Following the recent revelations that many outlets and journalist are financed directly or indirectly by U.S. government organization like USAID or NED the mainstream media have set out to redefine the meaning of 'independent'. 'Independent' now seem to be anyone how gets his paycheck from the U.S. while producing reports or rumors designed to fit U.S. policy narratives.