Source: Jerusalem Post [Jerusalem]
“Convicted Israeli-American spy Jonathan Pollard said that his meeting with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee at the American Embassy in Jerusalem was a ‘personal’ conversation to express gratitude, not a political exchange, in a phone conversation with The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. ‘The meeting, simply put, was a personal affair. That’s it,’ he said. ‘The reason I wanted to meet him was to express my deep and sincere appreciation for everything he had done to help me when I was in prison.’ According to Pollard, the meeting was ‘misinterpreted’ and used by certain figures, both within the US Embassy and the Trump administration, to try to remove Huckabee.” (11/20/25)
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-874623
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Rational Review News Digest / Freedom News Daily
Source: Freedom’s Phoenix
“Trevor Kraus (Managing Editor for Students For Liberty and the Learn Liberty YouTube channel) comes on the show to discuss youth and liberty, predictions, education, etc.” (11/20/25)
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Media/387380-2025-11-19-2025-11-20-ernest-hancock-interviews-trevor-kraus-managing-editor.htm
Source: New York Times
“Is There an A.I. Bubble? And What if It Pops?” (11/20/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEPqrCdwi9o
Source: Reason
by Veronique de Rugy
“American industry has been getting a lot of hands-on direction from Democrats and Republicans for quite some time now. Every few years, someone looks at the underwhelming results of this economic maneuvering and insists that real ‘industrial policy’ has never been tried. The truth is that the left’s call for a ‘mission-oriented’ state and the right’s yearning for a nationalist industrial revival may sound different, but they share the same conceit: that their own intentions can finally succeed where decades of intervention have failed.” (11/20/25)
https://reason.com/2025/11/20/there-is-no-such-thing-as-good-industrial-policy-but-republicans-and-democrats-keep-trying/
Source: Semafor
by Burgess Everett & Eleanor Mueller
“The rifts between Trump and the rest of the GOP are piling up. Indiana Republicans are declining to rewrite their congressional maps at the behest of the president, sparking a wave of redistricting regret on Capitol Hill. Trump’s pitch to eliminate Affordable Care Act subsidies is also drawing skepticism within the party, as is his bid to jam a moratorium on state AI regulations into a must-pass defense bill. Republicans spurned Trump’s plans to import Argentine beef and shunned suggestions like a 50-year mortgage. Then there’s the nearly unanimous bicameral vote to compel the Trump administration to release Jeffrey Epstein files and the Senate’s rejection of Trump’s personal appeal to gut the filibuster. … the fresh GOP resistance marks a new phase for a party that muscled through much of Trump’s agenda this summer with zero Democratic votes and quickly confirmed his Cabinet.” (11/20/25)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/20/2025/trump-stops-getting-everything-he-wants-from-fellow-republicans
Source: The Anarchist Experience
“Rich and Lori discuss the distance at which masking to prevent illness is effective, how sick can you get someone without violating the NAP, and the troll chimes in once again to misunderstand and misinterpret everything that is said.” (11/20/25)
https://theanarchistexperience.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/the-anarchist-experience-555/
Source: LP Alliance
“Your source for stories inside the party, across the country, and around the world!” (11/20/25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCTy_753QtM
Source: Foreign Policy In Focus
by John Feffer
“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)
https://fpif.org/us-military-is-no-answer-to-narcotraffickers/
Source: US News & World Report
“Bulgaria has arrested 35 people linked to a criminal network involved in large-scale trafficking of cultural goods across Europe, BTA news agency reported on Thursday, quoting the head of the country’s anti-organised crime unit. … international raids were carried out on Thursday, led by Bulgaria and coordinated with the Europol and Eurojust agencies, during which cars, safes and other items were seized. The criminal network had been operating for over 16 years in Western Europe, the Balkans, the United States and elsewhere, Sofia Deputy City Prosecutor Angel Kanev told the media briefing.” (11/20/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-20/bulgaria-arrests-35-in-large-scale-trafficking-of-cultural-goods