Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 11/26/25
Source: Antiwar.com
“Study: IDF Has Killed More Than 100,000 in Gaza, US Flies More Bombers Near Venezuela, and More.” (11/26/25)
Author: Thomas L. Knapp
This Thanksgiving, We’re Being Served “Fake China Threats”
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Joseph Solis-Mullen
“As a long-time critic of Washington’s obsession with the so-called ‘China threat’ — and having written an entire book debunking it, The Fake China Threat — I could not in good conscience allow this year’s Report to Congress of the U.S. — China Economic and Security Review Commission — to pass without comment. If anything, the 2025 edition is an even more sweeping reiteration of the assumptions and exaggerations I have challenged for years. Page after page, the report presents an alarming narrative about Beijing’s intentions and capabilities, while simultaneously insisting that every corner of the globe — and every sector of American life — now constitutes a frontline in a zero-sum geopolitical struggle.” (11/26/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/this-thanksgiving-were-being-served-fake-china-threats
Ukraine war: Kyiv agrees to peace proposal, with only “minor details” to settle, official says, but no word from Russia
Source: CBS News
“A U.S. official told CBS News on Tuesday that Ukraine’s government had ‘agreed to a peace deal’ brokered by the Trump administration to stop Russia’s nearly four-year assault. The American official and Ukraine’s national security adviser Rustem Umerov said a common understanding on a proposal had been reached, with details still to be worked out. Umerov voiced optimism that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy could travel to the U.S. before the end of November to finalize an agreement. … The news came as U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll was in Abu Dhabi to meet with Russian officials …. The president said he directed his envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and that Driscoll would meet with the Ukrainians. … There was no immediate reaction from Russia, the invading force, to what was agreed to in Abu Dhabi, and there were no details from U.S. or Ukrainian officials about what is in the latest proposal.” (11/26/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-war-peace-deal-trump-driscoll-abu-dhabi-talks-latest/
We Need to Do Better Than Another Enlightenment
Source: Brownstone Institute
by David Bell
“The average person of the Enlightenment era, it seems to me, was not sitting around in salons sharing the free flow of ideas, but being oppressed and kicked around by their enlightened compatriots or invaders. There were some good ideas and far better art and music than much of the soulless fare of today — but this arose not from a flourishing paradise but closer to, for many, a living hell. Perhaps it was poverty and harsh reality that opened Handel’s mind and inspired Rembrandt’s brush, and we now miss something that this makes us see. But this better be by choice. Looking back to former times is a good way to learn and understand, and a person ignorant of history is like a scrap of paper blown in the wind. But history was written by the literate elite and should not be confused with a destination.” (11/25/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/we-need-to-do-better-than-another-enlightenment/
Rising, 11/25/25
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave gives his radar on the new X feature that allows user to see what country an account is based in, and how it could expose problems with the platform’s revenue sharing program.” (11/25/25)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/5621769-rising-november-25-2025/
Australia: Teenagers ask High Court to block social media ban
Source: Reuters
“A constitutional challenge against Australia’s social media ban on children younger than 16 has been filed in the nation’s highest court, two weeks before the world-first law is set to take effect. A campaign group called the Digital Freedom Project said on Wednesday it launched proceedings in the High Court of Australia in a bid to block the law, with two 15-year-olds, Noah Jones and Macy Neyland, as plaintiffs in the case. More than one million accounts held by teenagers under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia when the ban on platforms including YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram starts on December 10. In a statement on Wednesday, the Digital Freedom Project said the ban ‘robs’ young Australians of their freedom of political communication, an implied right in the constitution.” (11/26/25)
You Must Refuse Illegal Orders. If This Be Treason, Make The Most Of It.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“It’s been 40 years since I spent the summer in San Diego becoming a US Marine. I’m sure things have changed since then, but I doubt they’ve changed so much that anyone graduates any armed forces boot camp without receiving instruction in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. A summary, from memory, on the section (Article 92) concerning orders: You must obey lawful orders. You must not obey unlawful orders. … If it’s ‘treason’ or ‘sedition’ to state that fact, then every instructor in every basic training class on military law is a traitor who’s been teaching treason and preaching sedition to every recruit since 1950, when the UCMJ was adopted … and probably long before that.” (11/25/25)
Over 8% of Bitcoin changed hands in week
Source: CoinTelegraph
“A historic shift in Bitcoin ownership unfolded during the latest market downturn, while the broader crypto market remained tied to uncertainty over a possible US Federal Reserve rate cut in December. Over 8% of the total Bitcoin supply changed hands in the past seven days, making the current market decline ‘one of the most significant onchain events’ in Bitcoin history, according to Joe Burnett, analyst and director of Bitcoin Strategy at Semler Scientific. During previous significant Bitcoin supply movements, Bitcoin traded at about $5,000 in March 2020 and around $3,500 in December 2018, said Burnett in a Tuesday X post. Both occasions marked a local bottom ahead of an accumulation phase that ultimately led to new all-time highs. Still, up to half of the current Bitcoin supply movement may be attributed to a Coinbase Wallet Migration announced on Saturday, added Burnett.” (11/25/25)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-supply-migration-fed-rate-decision
Localism, Not Nationalism, Will Cure What Ails Rural America
Source: Persuasion
by Jeffery Tiler Syck
“The collapse of rural towns, small industrial cities, and remote farms has coincided with the decline of local cultures. A local identity brings with it pride of place and a certain willingness to live with the disadvantages endemic to the location. When people feel that their locality serves a purpose—that it is embedded within a larger whole — they are willing to tolerate or even embrace its remoteness, slower pace of life, and faulty infrastructure. Rural Americans once thrived on a belief that for all their region’s faults, they were the backbone of the nation. But [JD] Vance’s concept of the nation does not restore this sense of local pride. Instead, it substitutes a globalized vision of tradition for a local one.” (11/25/25)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/localism-not-nationalism-will-cure
Brazil: Bolsonaro ordered to start serving 27-year prison sentence for coup plot
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered that right-wing former president Jair Bolsonaro begin serving his prison sentence of 27 years and three months for plotting a coup after he lost the last election. Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Tuesday ruled that the case had reached its final judgement and that no further appeals were possible. Bolsonaro, 70, was found guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He will begin serving his sentence in a federal police jail cell in the capital, Brasilia, where he has been detained since Saturday after being deemed a flight risk and removed from home detention.” (11/25/25)