Scott Horton

Putin Lives by a Code Trump Doesn’t Understand Where Trump sees a deal, Putin sees submission.

This is a naïvely charitable formulation from Andrew Ryvkin: “Trump sees everything as a deal, and for Putin, any deal is a revelation of weakness. Trump is a creature of the Manhattan-real-estate world; Putin grew up amid the rubble of postwar Leningrad. Those Soviet courtyards formed him”

The UN has passed a resolution calling on Russia to return the thousands of Ukrainian children it has kidnapped. Putin and his closest allies voted "no."
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Former deep-cover Russian spy leads Moscow campaign to co-opt Indian tech Russia is hoping to use India’s booming tech sector to challenge the West and China for IT supremacy.

The Americans, an update. "Andrei Bezrukov, the Russian spy whose double life in Boston as business consultant Donald Heathfield became the inspiration for the TV show The Americans. Bezrukov now serves as the head of the Russian Association for the Export of Technological Sovereignty, an RIS front.

Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo If it is built, it will probably benefit Russia rather than ordinary Congolese

In Africa, Russia plays a classic neo imperialist game that includes mercenaries, regular troops, huge amounts of violence and a stream of broken promises to local governments not yet, quite, under its control. A planned oil pipeline in Congo may not even be built—let alone benefit ordinary people

No one mouthes the messages of Russian influence operations more loudly or consistently than Elon Musk. And note how he refuses to talk about his regular direct talks with Vladimir Putin, which as a top secret security holder he is obligated to report to USG, but does not—ever.

This year has had the highest layoffs since 2020.

YouTube video by Legal AF Trump Insider BLOWS THE ROOF OFF Trump's Inner Circle

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen described in detail Trump's extensive and highly successful "catch and kill" operations aimed to spiking any press reporting about Melania and her ties to organized crime groups, which according to Cohen quite extensive and on two continents.

Fifa is the most notoriously corrupt organization in the sporting world. But US media haven't got a clue about any of that, and most major US outlets never reported on the corruption scandal, because they view "soccer" as something uninteresting to Americans.

All across Europe, as well as in Japan, Korea and Taiwan, US allies are reading Trump's national security strategy and realizing that it was authored by people who view them as enemies while idolizing Vladimir Putin and plagiarizing from his recent speeches.

Dennis Goris

The photo of the day. Donald Trump plays Gollum in a performance for Fifa.

Like the NSDAP Volkskirche, the whole idea of Trumpist "Christian Nationalism" is to leave actual Christianity toothless and incapable of challenging a stream of morally depraved policies. Hard to believe that Ross Douthat is as stupid as he comes across in this piece.

When Russia heavily censors Twitter, Rubio is perfectly okay with that. When the EU levies a fine against Twitter for deceptive advertising and fraudulent content because they allow marketing by fake Twitter accounts that scam Twitter consumers, Rubio goes through the roof— who calls the shots here?

Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets

A former Dulwich college pupil who claims a teenage Nigel Farage told him “that’s the way back to Africa” has said he felt compelled to speak out after the Reform leader’s attempt at “denying or dismissing” the hurt of his alleged targets. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump news at a glance: list of countries under US travel ban set to grow US Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem says list will expand to more than 30 countries

Trump greatly expands his list of "shithole" countries to include those where a majority of the population is non-white. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief Defense secretary defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to go

Hegseth defiant but allegations of war crimes and blistering watchdog report increase calls for him to go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

valley's floor. Schmitt is next to the lunar rover parked at the southeast rim of Shorty Crater, z location near the spot where geologist Schmitt discovered orange lunar soil. The crew returned with 110 kgs of rock and soil samples. Recent polling shows that 37% of Republicans believe this is a hoax

Apollo 17 at Shorty Crater: Dec 1972, Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt spent about 75 hrs on the Moon exploring the Taurus-Littrow valley, while colleague Ronald Evans orbited overhead. This snapshot from another world was taken by Cernan as he and Schmitt roamed the lunar

The waxing gibbous moon rises above Earth’s blue atmosphere in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on Oct. 3, 2025, as it orbited 263 miles above a cloudy Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Québec, Canada.

of AI is essential to the preservation of the dignity and rights of humans. As usual, the US media has totally ignored his remarks, but the tech bros haven't. They understand that Leo is, alongside the EU regulators, their key enemy.

Pope Leo's remarks on AI delivered yesterday in Rome are remarkably well informed, nuanced, and certain to completely infuriate the tech bros. In sum, he argues that the careful regulation www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

relationships with others. Recognizing and safeguarding what characterizes the human person and guarantees their balanced growth is essential for establishing an adequate framework to manage the consequences of artificial intelligence.

Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally, and enter into authentic www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

The editorial values of NYT are clear enough.

The CO₂ data for Nov 2025 was just released by NOAA, and the 3-year mean rate of atmospheric CO₂ growth hit yet another new record high, at 7.93 ppm per 3 years. That dip in the early 1990's is due to Mt. Pinatubo.

Daniel Boris

Michael de Adder, Globe and Mail

Freed by Trump, a $200 Million Fraudster Started a New Scam Eli Weinstein promised to reform — but after his release he took on an alias and started another Ponzi scheme.

Eli Weinstein was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in a $44 million Ponzi scheme. He was released after Trump commuted his sentence but within six months, Weinstein started up a new scam. The path through which Weinstein procured his pardon and how much he paid for it remain unclear

Jair Bolsonaro backs son Flávio to lead Brazil’s rightwing movement Markets fall on jailed ex-president’s decision ahead of possible election showdown against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Among neo-fascists in Brazil, a consensus that the country needs a system to replace democracy... like dynastic succession. www.ft.com/content/6890...

The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East This administration’s transactionalism marks a departure in America’s approach to Israel, Palestine and the rest of the region

Has American foreign policy in the Middle East been a parade of dim-witted failures stretching over several decades? Yes, that's about the size of it. And no one demonstrates better than Biden and Trump how easily he US is manipulated by its "friends" in the region.