Source: SFGate
“Firefighters worked to rescue a worker trapped for hours beneath the rubble of a medieval tower that partially collapsed during an ongoing 6.9 million euro (nearly $8 million) renovation in the heart of Italy’s capital on Monday, critically injuring another worker. Rescuers faced a complex task as the structure continued to give way as they tried to get near the trapped worker, who officials said was alive, through a first-floor window, forcing their retreat on telescopic aerial ladders in a cloud of smoke. Another approach on two ladders was also aborted, and a drone sent up in their stead. As dusk approached, firefighters lifted on a crane used giant tubes to suck rubble out of the second-floor window. They continued the work into the night. Rome’s top law enforcement official, Prefect Lamberto Giannini, said there were ‘signs of life’ from the trapped worker, and that firefighters had managed to give him some protective cover during an earlier rescue attempt.” (11/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/a-medieval-tower-in-central-rome-collapses-during-21134875.php
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn into office on Monday for her first elected term after winning a landslide victory in an election that set off deadly protests across the country. Hassan, who came to power in 2021 following the death in office of her predecessor, was declared the winner of last week’s election with 97.66 percent of the vote. … Hassan, 65, ran against only candidates from minor parties after her main challengers from the two biggest opposition parties were disqualified from the race. Violent protests erupted during last Wednesday’s voting …. As Hassan was inaugurated on Monday an internet blackout was still in place. The main opposition party said hundreds of people had been killed in the protests, while the UN human rights office said credible reports indicated at least 10 people were killed in three cities.” (11/03/25)
https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251103-tanzania-hassan-sworn-in-for-new-term-as-opposition-says-hundreds-killed-in-election-protests
Source: The Bulwark
“We Watched Trump’s 60 Minutes Interview. It’s Nuts.” (11/02/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSafCXk9HD4
Source: The Chris Hedges Report
by Chris Hedges
“The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.” (11/03/25)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-greatest-ally-is-the-democratic
Source: Semafor
by Ben Smith
“The only bipartisan consensus left in Washington is that America needs to reform how it buys weapons. Out with the clunky old 20th-century contractors making fighter jets, say Democrats and Republicans alike — and in with the venture-backed, slickly marketed, innovative new companies selling the silent drones, surveillance software, and cheap missiles of 21st-century combat. But this consensus has unexpectedly run into the teeth of the only conflict in America as deep as the divide between Republicans and Democrats. I am referring, of course, to the decades-old feud between Venture Capital dreamers and their elder cousins, by-the-numbers Private Equity tycoons, the rivalrous twin engines of the red-hot private capital markets.” (11/03/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/03/2025/its-pe-vs-vc-in-the-scramble-to-remake-americas-way-of-war
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“The military commander who has ruled Guinea since a coup four years ago has entered the presidential race, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government. Col Mamadi Doumbouya submitted his candidacy at the Supreme Court on Monday, flanked by soldiers and wearing black sunglasses. He did not make any public comment. Two of Guinea’s biggest opposition parties — RPG Arc en Ciel and UFDG — have been excluded from December’s contest. This has raised concerns about the election’s credibility. Guineans had reacted with shock last month when it was announced that presidential candidates would need to pay a deposit of 875m Guinean francs ($100,000; £75,000) to contest the election.” (11/03/25)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly10e87d08o
Source: Liberal Currents
“Radical Liberalism?” (11/02/25)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberalism-50-radical-liberalism/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ramzy Baroud
“Has Donald Trump’s sharp rebuke of Israel in his October 23 Time Magazine interview fundamentally changed the calculus in the Middle East? His comments immediately sparked two opposing views: for some, his position represents the clear demarcation of a genuine shift in US foreign policy; for others, it is nothing more than a political ploy designed to claw back credibility lost by the US during two years of Israeli genocide in Gaza.” (11/03/25)
https://original.antiwar.com/ramzy-baroud/2025/11/02/beyond-the-unbreakable-bond-is-the-us-reclaiming-the-wheel-from-a-self-destructive-israel/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“There was a time when the white coat symbolized courage. It meant that a physician stood between humanity and harm, guided not by decree but by conscience. We earned our knowledge through humility, not hierarchy; our oaths through suffering, not signatures. Somewhere along the way, that covenant was broken. Medicine ceased to be a vocation of service and became a system of obedience.” (11/02/25)
https://brownstone.org/articles/why-the-healers-had-to-rebel/
Source: SFGate
“One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi highway was shot and killed early Sunday by a woman who says she feared for the safety of her children. Jessica Bond Ferguson said she was alerted early Sunday by her 16-year-old son who said he thought he had seen a monkey running in the yard outside their home near Heidelberg, Mississippi. She got out of bed, grabbed her firearm and her cellphone and stepped outside where she saw the monkey about 60 feet (18 meters) away. Bond Ferguson said she and other residents had been warned that the escaped monkeys carried diseases so she fired her gun. ‘I did what any other mother would do to protect her children,’ Bond Ferguson, who has five children ranging in age from 4 to 16, told The Associated Press.” (11/03/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/mississippi-woman-kills-escaped-monkey-fearing-21134256.php
