“On November 22, 1895, Eugene V. Debs was released from Woodstock Jail, where he had been imprisoned for six months for his leadership of the 1894 Pullman strike. Later that day, before a large crowd of supporters at Battery D in Chicago, he spoke on the topic of ‘Liberty’. Debs was a great orator, and ‘Liberty’ is a brilliant speech, powerfully evoking both ‘the spirit of liberty’ as heralded by the Declaration of Independence, and the promise of a freedom yet to be redeemed by American workers in thrall to plutocratic government. As Nick Salvatore noted in his classic biography, Eugene V. Debs, Citizen and Socialist, this speech marked an important moment in the evolution of Debs from a radically republican labor activist to the country’s leading socialist.” (11/22/25)
“A Houthi-controlled court in Yemen’s capital convicted 17 people of spying for foreign governments and sentenced them to death in the latest development in a yearslong Houthi crackdown on local staff from foreign agencies. The Specialized Criminal Court in Sanaa handed down the verdict on Saturday, according to the Houthi-run SABA news agency. The people convicted were part of ‘espionage cells within a spy network affiliated with the American, Israeli and Saudi intelligence,’ said the court, which handed down a death sentence by firing squad in public. The court also sentenced a man and a woman to 10 years in prison, while another defendant was acquitted. Saturday’s verdict can be appealed, said Abdulbasit Ghazi, a lawyer representing some of the defendants who were convicted.” (11/23/25)
“Good old (very old) Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi got filthy rich doing ‘public service.’ Weird how that works out for politicians, isn’t it? One of the few people older than Pelosi is Warren Buffett, and while he is considered to be almost clairvoyant when it comes to the market, Nan puts him to shame – she ‘has generated a cumulative return of 816% from her investments, beating the S and P 500 by a whopping 559 percentage points.’ That’s almost impossible, and would be impossible if she hadn’t had access to insider information that would land a mere mortal in prison for using. It can be very beneficial if someone knows which government contracts are coming down the line or which industries are on the verge of getting massive subsidies, etc., and Pelosi had her finger right on the pulse of that for decades. Or should I say she had her finger on the scales.” (11/23/25)
“Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped and have been reunited with their parents, the Catholic Church and Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said on Sunday. But around 253 of the kidnapped children, along with 12 staff members and teachers, are still with the kidnappers, said CAN Chairman Bulus Yohanna, a Catholic Bishop who is also the proprietor of the school. In a statement, Yohanna said the pupils escaped on Friday and Saturday. Parents rushed to the school in Niger state, to the west of the capital Abuja, after hearing that some children were free.” (11/23/25)
“Prosecutors introduced a new mental-state theory in court Thursday as they prepare to retry a former UC Davis student in the 2023 Davis stabbing spree that left two people dead. Carlos Reales Dominguez is accused of stabbing 50-year-old David Breaux, 21-year-old UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm and 64-year-old unhoused resident Kimberlee Guillory. Breaux and Abou Najm were killed; Guillory survived with three stab wounds. The attacks occurred within a week in April 2023 and sent fear through the Davis community. Dominguez’s first trial ended in a mistrial in June. During a motion hearing on Thursday, KCRA-TV reported that Judge Samuel McAdam acknowledged prosecutors’ newly stated position, asking: ‘Is this an entirely new theory for the people?’ Assistant Chief Deputy District for Yolo County Attorney David Wilson sought permission for a new psychiatric evaluation to assess whether Dominguez experienced cannabis-induced psychosis.” (11/21/25)
“In mid-September, I wrote a moderately optimistic piece for the Prospect, taking stock of the various elements of resistance, most notably courts and elections. Many readers felt I was being a little too hopeful. Since Election Day, however, there has been a notable shift. And each aspect feeds on the others. They include: * A Democratic wave election that is likely to be repeated and intensified in 2026; * Lower courts becoming even bolder in striking down Trump’s excesses; * The Supreme Court likely to overturn three key Trump cases: tariffs, his efforts to fire Federal Reserve governors, and birthright citizenship; * At least some states, such as Indiana and Kansas, resisting Trump’s redistricting demands: * The continuing fallout from the Epstein files; * Republican defections.” (11/21/25)
“Rooting out terrorism and antisemitism was the supposed reason that plainclothed ICE agents arrested doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk on a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, after she coauthored an op-ed calling on Tufts University to divest from companies with ties to Israel due to the killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians. There is an international movement to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel, but in the United States, President Donald Trump is imperiling the freedom even to publicly discuss such ideas, which should, in effect, be considered a test case for his larger attack on free speech. So far, the test is going well for Trump. In what seems a long time ago, in 2024, the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, released a blueprint for what it called ‘a national strategy to combat antisemitism’ by addressing what it described as ‘America’s virulently anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and anti-American pro-Palestinian movement’.” (11/20/25)
“Ecuador, once one of the most peaceful countries in Latin America, is now one of its most dangerous. The murder rate in 2020 was 7.7 homicides per 100,000 people. That was roughly comparable to the United States where it was 6.4 that year. In nearby Brazil, on the other hand, it was 22.3. By 2023, Ecuador’s homicide rate had leapfrogged over its neighbors to an astounding 46 per 100,000. In a mere three years, the number of murders had increased six-fold. The reason: narco-traffickers. Ecuador had become a convenient transshipment hub, and various gangs were warring over territory, particularly in coastal cities. In 2023, in a presidential election that featured the assassination of one of the candidates, Ecuadorians voted in Daniel Noboa, an undistinguished but telegenic conservative politician who promised an iron-fist approach to fighting drug kingpins. His tactics boiled down to unleashing the military to attack specific gangs.” (11/20/25)
“Sensible people already know that medicalizing children in the name of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ is not only experimental, it’s barbaric. Now, a peer-reviewed study, commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, reports that the evidence used to back such practices as hormone therapy for kids is flimsy at best. There just isn’t enough known to justify such drastic medical interventions for young people. Back in January, President Trump slammed the brakes on the medicalization of minors with his Executive Order 14187, restricting ‘the maiming and sterilization’ of patients under 19, and ordered a study to look at the standards of care. First released in May, the report has been affirmed by 10 researchers and groups who found no fault with the findings — and advised that doctors treating minors with gender dysphoria should focus on psychotherapy until more is known about medical interventions.” (11/19/25)
Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Ricardo Vaz
“Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers, and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, in the largest regional deployment in decades. Extrajudicial strikes against small vessels, which United Nations experts have decried as violations of international law, have killed at least 80 civilians (CNN, 11/14/25). Many foreign policy analysts believe that regime change in Venezuela is the ultimate goal (Al Jazeera, 10/24/25; Left Chapter, 10/21/25), but the Trump administration instead claims it is fighting ‘narcoterrorism’, accusing Caracas of flooding the US with drugs via the Cartel of the Suns and Tren de Aragua, both designated as foreign terrorist organizations. Over the years, Western media have endorsed Washington’s Venezuela regime-change efforts at every turn, from cheerleading coup attempts to whitewashing deadly sanctions.” (11/20/25)
