Source: Common Dreams
by Melissa Garriga
“Next year, an estimated 5 million people will be priced out of health insurance in the United States. I am one of them. When I went to renew my family’s policy, I was shocked to discover my premium had gone up to $2,600 per month, a price my household of four simply cannot afford. For the first time in my adult life, I will be uninsured, joining the millions who have navigated this risky reality for years. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, especially when health insurance already makes access to healthcare costly with extremely unrealistic deductibles and high out-of-pocket costs. Yet, as a woman in my 40s with a family history of breast cancer, going without coverage is a gamble with my life. After some number-crunching, we concluded that we could afford to carry insurance for only 2 of the 4 of us.” (11/25/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/warfare-over-healthcare
Source: CBS News
“China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station. The Shenzhou 22 will be used sometime in 2026 by the three astronauts who docked on the Tiangong space station on Nov. 1. … The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft – the damaged one, which for now remains in space – will be brought down to Earth later and assessed, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The space program determined it didn’t meet safety standards for transporting the astronauts.” (11/25/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-launches-spacecraft-to-bring-3-stranded-astronauts-back-from-space-station-sometime-next-year/
Source: Heartland Institute
“The Rise of Zohran Mamdani and Socialism in America.” (11/24/25)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/the-rise-of-zohran-mamdani-and-socialism-in-america-heartland-on-the-lars-larson-show/
Source: Washington Monthly
by Tamar Jacoby
“The world appears to have dodged a bullet. Donald Trump and team are walking back from their latest and most outlandish proposal for peace in Ukraine. American and Ukrainian negotiators meeting in Geneva are working to revise the plan, and U.S. and European officials have agreed to meet separately to discuss its implications for NATO and the European Union. The outcome of these talks is unknown, and it’s hard to imagine a deal that will satisfy all parties — the Russian, Ukrainian, and European positions remain starkly at odds. But whatever the result, some things are already clear — including three lessons for the U.S. and Europe.” (11/25/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/11/25/trump-ukraine-plan-three-lessons/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Brandt Burleson
“What do the highest echelons of government, media, corporations, entertainment, and academia all have in common? Many of them may signify the systematic total moral degradation of our society. Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Prince Andrew, Ghislaine Maxwell, Bill Gates, Alexander Acosta, Noam Chomsky, Steve Bannon, Les Wexner, Bill Richardson, Alan Dershowitz, Laurence Kraus, and many more may represent an oligarchy of evil. I speak of course of course of these leaders’ various degrees of connection to notorious pedophile and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Notions that would have been dismissed as the ravings of a conspiracy addled mind wrapped in tinfoil a decade ago now appear considerably more plausible after recent revelations. Best case scenario, many incredibly influential individuals making decisions that impact hundreds of millions of people are ineffectual idiots who failed to see what was happening right under their noses: the horrific and disgusting trafficking over 1,000 women and girls.” (11/25/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/see-no-evil-epstein-israel-and-looking-the-other-way
Source: SFGate
“The U.S. government imposed visa restrictions on Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council, accusing him of supporting gangs and other criminal organizations in a move expected to deepen the country’s political instability. The U.S. did not name the person it sanctioned in its announcement late Monday, but Jean confirmed it was him, telling The Associated Press on Tuesday that he rejected those accusations. The U.S. also accused Jean of obstructing Haiti’s fight against ‘terrorist gangs,’ without details. Gangs control 90% of Haiti’s capital and swaths of territory in the center of the country, where they extort businesses, kill civilians and fight for territory, using military-grade weaponry. Haiti is due to hold elections by Feb. 7, when the nine-member council is supposed to step down.” (11/25/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/us-sanctions-high-ranking-haitian-official-and-21207107.php
Source: The New Arab [UK]
“Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, amid ongoing military raids and settler violence in the occupied territory. The Palestinian health ministry announced the death of Abdelraouf Ishtiyeh, 30, from Tell near Nablus, whose body is still being held by Israeli authorities. Israeli troops besieged Ishtiyeh’s house in Nablus Monday night, triggering armed clashes. Troops reportedly fired anti-tank missiles at the building where Ishtiyeh was hiding, resulting in his death. He had been wanted since May 2024 after Israel said he was behind a car ramming that killed two Israeli soldiers.” (11/25/25)
https://www.newarab.com/news/palestinian-killed-nablus-israel-raids-west-bank-village
Source: (Re)Imagining Liberty
“A New American Reconstruction (w/ Andy Craig and Shikha Dalmia).” (11/24/25)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/094-a-new-american-reconstruction-w-andy-craig/id1614436300?i=1000738161438
Source: CounterPunch
by Elias Khoury
“The United States remains the big kid on the block. Everyone else is either too weak or cowardly to challenge them. For a while, statements like that were uncontroversial. America was the lone superpower — its power, beyond debate. Lately, however, a chorus of voices has assembled to challenge that notion. Commentators, typically of the political Left, are increasingly using the word ‘multipolarity’ to describe a supposedly emerging world order. … the events of this past week tell a different tale. On November 17th, Donald Trump’s ‘peace plan’ for Gaza came before the United Nations Security Council. With the prospect of the most naked imperialism of this century becoming international law, ‘anti-imperialists’ Russia and China did nothing. Such blatant American criminality going unchallenged like that contradicts the idea we are headed for a multipolar globe.” (11/25/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/25/the-multipolarity-myth/
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Marcus Stanley
“Among certain foreign policy mavens, the year is always 1938, and the location is always Munich. Thomas Friedman gives the latest example. This weekend, he awarded Trump the ‘Neville Chamberlain Prize’ for proposing the parameters of a negotiated settlement to the bloody and seemingly endless Russia-Ukraine war. Not only would the execution of Trump’s plan, he claims, lead to the modern equivalent of World War II and put all of Europe ‘under Putin’s thumb,’ it would mean that ‘Thanksgiving will no longer be an American holiday.’ It would ‘become a Russian holiday,’ a day of thanks for Trump’s delivery of a Russian victory in Putin’s misbegotten war. Losing all of Europe and having to refight WWII is bad enough, but losing Thanksgiving? The perfidy of Putin and Trump knows no bounds!” (11/24/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-neville-chamberlain/
