Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“After the devastation of Hurricane Helene, the town of Marshall, North Carolina, stands at a crossroads. Imagine adopting this beleaguered town and applying innovative ways to ensure its renaissance.” (12/02/24)
Source: TomDispatch
by Rebecca Gordon
“‘I never realized before that men hate us so much.’ That was the lesson drawn by one of my fellow organizers in Reno, Nevada, the morning after the 2024 general election. She’d turned 21 during the campaign, a three-month marathon she approached as a daily opportunity to learn as much as she could about everything she encountered. ‘Of course, they hate immigrants, too,’ she added, ‘and I’m both!’ That morning of November 6th, I sat down with her and four other women to face the election results.” (12/01/24)
Source: NDTV [India]
“An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Monday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Imran Khan, his wife Bushra Bibi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and 93 others in a case related to last week’s protests in Islamabad by his party supporters. Khan, who has been incarcerated since 2023, had on November 13 issued a ‘final call’ for nationwide protests to be held on Nov 24, demanding the restoration of the PTI’s electoral mandate, the release of detained party members, and the reversal of the 26th Constitutional Amendment. The main protest in Islamabad ended in clashes in which 12 PTI supporters were killed, according to the party, while hundreds were arrested.” (12/02/24)
Source: The Bulwark
“Who Is Kash Patel? Serial Liar Even Trump Loyalists Fear (w/ Elaina Plott Calabro).” (12/02/24)
Source: Antiwar.com
by Daniel Larison
“The incoming Trump administration seems determined to wage as many economic wars as it can. The president-elect reportedly plans to pursue another ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Iran with the goal of ‘bankrupting’ the country. Now he is threatening new trade wars with Mexico, Canada, and China at the beginning of his second term. Trump has favored using broad sanctions and tariffs as weapons to try to force other states to give in to US demands, and coercion seems to be the only approach that he understands. As one Trump foreign policy adviser said to The Wall Street Journal, ‘His whole worldview is maximum pressure, it’s that simple.’ Economic wars can be just as devastating as armed conflicts in some respects, and sometimes they can be worse.” (12/02/24)
https://original.antiwar.com/daniel_larison/2024/12/01/trumps-senseless-economic-wars/
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Al-Qaeda affiliates with a history of receiving western funding have reactivated in Syria along with Turkish-backed fighters to recapture significant amounts of territory in the war-ravaged nation. It’s hard to say exactly what’s happening in the moment, but I will say it’s mighty convenient how Russia being tied up in Ukraine and Hezbollah being decapitated by Israel leaves Syria once again exposed to the longstanding regime change agendas of the same western empire who’s been backing both of those proxy conflicts. … Syria is more complicated and harder to understand than Gaza, but if you look into it you’ll find mountains of evidence that for many years the US and its allies and partners have been actively fomenting violence, chaos and destruction in that nation to effect regime change.” (12/01/24)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/12/01/they-lied-about-gaza-and-theyre-lying-about-syria/
Source: US News & World Report
“The U.S. Transportation Security Administration said it screened 3.08 million airline passengers on Sunday, the highest number ever on a single day. The record travel coincides with the peak day of the Thanksgiving travel season. Airlines for America had projected U.S. carriers would fly more than 31 million passengers over the holiday period, up from nearly 29 million passengers during the same period in 2023. This is only the second time the agency has screened more than 3 million passengers in a single day. The TSA earlier said it expected to screen a record 18.3 million people from Nov. 26 to Monday, up 6% over 2023.” (12/02/24)
Source: New York Post
“A New Yorker who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 was confirmed dead on Monday, according to the Israeli military. Omer Neutra, 21, had long been assumed to be alive, but was actually killed during the terrorist attack, with his body taken to the Gaza Strip by Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces said. Neutra, of Plainview, Long Island, had been serving as an IDF tank commander. … Israeli authorities say there are still 62 hostages alive in Gaza. Hamas is also holding the bodies of 35 hostages who were murdered — either on Oct. 7 or while they were in captivity. In total 251 people were abducted from Israel during the terrorist attack last year.” (12/02/24)
Source: Reason
by Eric Boehm
“When the new session of Congress opens on January 3, the clock will already be ticking toward the most important set of fiscal decisions lawmakers will make this decade. Decisions made through the end of 2025 will determine the fate of literally trillions of Americans’ dollars. Will they remain in wallets, bank accounts, and retirement portfolios, or will they flow to the U.S. Treasury to fund wars and welfare? This ‘fiscal cliff’ is eight years in the making.” (12/02/24)
Source: Amnesty International
by Mark Dummett
“Shortly before midnight on December 2, 1984, a terrible cloud, consisting of tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate (MIC), along with other chemicals, began to leak into the atmosphere from the storage tank of the U.S. multinational corporation Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)’s pesticide plant on the outskirts of Bhopal in central India. The immediate consequences of the mass poisoning were catastrophic. As many as 10,000 people are believed to have died within three days of the leak. As the world marks the 40th anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, what lessons should we take from what happened on that awful night? I think perhaps there are at least three important ones. Firstly, and perhaps most obviously, is that a single tragic event can have consequences that last generations.” (12/02/24)