Source: TomDispatch
by Juan Cole

“In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called ‘Godzilla’) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like splintering javelins, demolished municipal buildings and hospitals, snapped telephone poles like matchsticks, flattened crops, and dumped torrential floodwaters everywhere, leaving $8 billion in damage. That Category 5 storm’s unprecedented ferocity was driven by an overheated Caribbean Sea, produced by 275 years of industrial civilization that has spewed obscene amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually. The same week that U.N. officials spoke of an ‘apocalypse’ in Jamaica, American billionaire Bill Gates expressed a certain unease about officials and scientists concerned with climate change who, he thought, were being hysterical.” (11/24/25)

https://tomdispatch.com/the-hot-tub-of-death/

Source: The Atlantic
by Alexander C Kaufman

“For years, the idea of geoengineering — artificially lowering global temperatures through technological means — has been met with skepticism. Only a handful of dedicated and much-criticized scientists have argued for researching it at all, and when others weighed in, it was generally to trash the idea. This September, in a study published in the journal Frontiers in Science, more than 40 experts in climate change, polar geosciences, and ocean patterns warned that geoengineering was extremely unlikely to work and likely to have dangerous consequences. … As the actual predictions for Earth’s future have become more dire, scientists are starting to agree. More than 120 of them signed on to a response to the Frontiers paper that argued that more research into geoengineering was, in fact, ‘urgently needed.'” (11/24/25)

https://archive.is/IYgEB

Source: Brownstone Institute
by Ramesh Thakur

“Lawfare, when weaponised, can pose a double threat to democracies. Domestically, the rule of law is an integral component of the theory of liberal democracy, and it underpins the institutions and practices of democratic governance. The expansion of the role of the state in regulating an increasing range of individuals’ and private entities’ behaviour has led to a proliferation of lawfare that can frustrate the ability of governments to govern and, in turn, lessen their legitimacy. In its international dimension, the rule of law should tame the exercise of power by states and mediate relations between the strong and the weak and the rich and the poor. However, illiberal states have no scope for activists using law to rein in their excesses, and no effective checks can be exercised on the strong behaving badly.” (11/24/25)

https://brownstone.org/articles/weaponised-lawfare-as-domestic-and-international-threat-to-western-democracies/

Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone

“It should be against the law to use generative AI to deceive the public. I’ve got absolutely no problem with outright government censorship in this case, and I say this as an aggressive and outspoken proponent of free speech. AI products which deceive people should be illegal in the same way fraud is illegal. I want it to be illegal to knowingly circulate AI video footage and pass it off as real. I want AI companies to be severely penalized if they don’t prevent people from using their products to generate fake videos that get passed off as real.” [editor’s note: When you say you have “no problem with government censorship” in ANY case, you are by definition not “an aggressive and outspoken proponent of free speech” – TLK (11/24/25)

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/11/24/it-should-be-illegal-to-use-ai-to-deceive-people/

Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders

“The Fabian Society was founded in 1884 in London as a socialist organization committed to gradual change rather than violent revolution. It has served as the primary think tank of Britain’s Labour Party, which means it’s steeped in so-called democratic socialism. Their original logo is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The Fabian Society took its name from Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus, known for wearing down enemies through patient, deliberate tactics rather than direct attacks. The name is meant to reflect the society’s commitment to gradualism. No violence. No gulags. No famines. Just slow ‘permeation.’ But a wolf is still a wolf. And socialism is still a predatory project.” (11/24/25)

https://underthrow.substack.com/p/enchanted-by-socialism