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UG Solutions, a US military subcontractor that guarded Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites, is ramping up recruitment for a new deployment as plans advance for 12 to 15 distribution locations to reopen in Gaza next month, Drop Site News reported on 19 November.
A former US Army officer, who spoke anonymously citing security concerns, said a UG Solutions recruiter told him in late October that the company “was going to need a lot more guys” for a Gaza operation expected to begin in early to mid-December.
The officer was offered $800 per day for static guard duty and $1,000 for mobile roles, plus a steady allowance of $180 per day.
Just Follow Orders Or Obey The Law?
November 22, 2025
Charli Carpenter and Geraldine Santoso, Scheer Post.
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Constitution, GI Resistance, International Law, US military
As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic members of Congress issued a video on Nov. 18, 2025, telling the military “You can refuse illegal orders” and “You must refuse illegal orders.”
The lawmakers have all served either in the military or the intelligence community. Their message sparked a furious response on social media from President Donald Trump, who called the legislators’ action “seditious behavior, punishable by death.”
Bolsonaro Arrested And In Preventative Detention
November 22, 2025
Brasil de Fato, People's Dispatch.
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Bolsonaro, Brazil, Coup Attempt, Prison
Former president Jair Bolsonaro was arrested on Saturday morning, November 22, by the Federal Police (PF). In a statement, the PF reported that it carried out “a preventive arrest warrant in compliance with a decision from the Supreme Federal Court.”
Under house arrest since August 4, Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) was taken to the PF Headquarters after being detained at his home around 6 am in Brasília.
According to authorities, Saturday’s detention is a precautionary measure and does not constitute the beginning of his 27-year and three-month sentence for which the far-right former president was convicted in the coup plot trial.
Palestinians Will Not Let The Genocide Kill Their Hopes
November 21, 2025
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
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Art, Children, Genocide, Palestine, Trauma
In the United Nations’ Humanitarian Situation Update #340 on the Gaza Strip (12 November 2025), there is a section on the distress experienced by more than 1 million Palestinian children in Gaza. The most common symptoms among children reported in the assessment are ‘aggressive behaviour (93 per cent), violence toward younger children (90 per cent), sadness and withdrawal (86 per cent), sleep disturbances (79 per cent), and education avoidance (69 per cent)’. Children account for about half the population in Gaza, where the median age is 19.6 years.
The United Nations Embraces Colonialism
November 21, 2025
Craig Mokhiber, Mondoweiss.
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Colonialism, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Trump Administration, United Nations
More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting to enforce international law, protect the victims, and hold the perpetrators accountable, it adopted a resolution that openly flouts key provisions of international law, disempowers and further punishes the victims, and rewards and empowers the perpetrators.
Most disturbingly, it hands control of Gaza and the survivors of the genocide over to the United States, a co-perpetrator of the genocide, and provides for the participation of the Israeli regime in decision making.
The Beat Of UK War Drums
November 21, 2025
Craig Murray, Consortium News.
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Maritime Law, Russia, The Sea, United Kingdom (UK)
In fascist lockstep, the entire British media, broadcast and print, corporate and state, is leading with a Ministry of Defence press release about a “Russian spy ship” inside “British waters.” No British media appears to have been able to speak to anybody who knows the first thing about the Law of the Sea.
Here are the facts.
The Exclusive Economic Zone extends 200 miles from the coastal baselines. The Continental Shelf can extend still further, as a fact of geology, not an imposed maximum.
On the Continental Shelf the coastal state is entitled to the mineral resources. In the Exclusive Economic Zone the coastal state is entitled to the fisheries and mineral resources.
US Calls On Ukraine To Make Concessions For Peace With Russia
November 21, 2025
News Desk, The Cradle.
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Peace Negotiations, Russia, Trump Administration, Ukraine
The US is requesting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept a US-drafted deal to end the war with Russia that includes Kiev giving up “territory and some weapons,” Reuters reported on 19 November. Citing two anonymous sources familiar with the matter, the news agency stated that the proposals included reducing the size of the Ukrainian military, among other things.
US President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is leading the US effort to draft the plan and is working closely with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev, a US official stated.
China Warns Of Severe Consequences If Japan Fails To Retract Threats
November 21, 2025
Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch.
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China, Japan, On China Policy, Taiwan, Wars and Militarism
China reiterated its demand that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi retract her statement threatening military intervention in the event that China tries to forcefully integrate Taiwan into the mainland. It warned of strong counter measures otherwise.
The “Japanese prime minister’s erroneous remarks on Taiwan have fundamentally eroded the political foundation of China-Japan relations and triggered strong outrage and condemnation from the Chinese people,” said official spokesperson of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning, in response to a question on Wednesday, November 19.
Brazilian Hosts Seek COP30’s Blessing For Biofuels
November 21, 2025
Clare Carlile and Maximiliano Manzoni, DeSmog.
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Big Ag, climate crisis, COP30, Food and Agriculture
With the clock running down at the COP30 climate talks, the Brazilian hosts are working hand-in-hand with industry groups to secure backing for biofuels in the final text – despite fears that scaling production will drive deforestation and violate Indigenous rights.
National delegations are at loggerheads over a proposal to include language backing the use of “transitional fuels” – which could be read as an open door for biofuels – in a draft Just Transition Work Plan to guide a fair and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.
A Xipai Journalist On Attending COP30
November 21, 2025
Wajã Xipai, The Guardian.
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climate crisis, COP30, Environment, Indigenous culture
I feel as if I’ve been swallowed. And in the creature’s stomach, I walk with the sensation of being drowned. My nose hurts, with the same pain we feel when we are struggling to breathe. That’s my perception of the blue zone of Cop30, the official area for the negotiations. The architecture makes me think of the stomach of an animal.
My eyes hurt, seeing so many people coming and going through the main corridor. This is the scene of a makeshift forest. On the walls are large paintings of a jaguar, a monkey, an anteater and a lizard. In the middle of the corridor are plants that resemble açaí palm trees, and below them, small shrubs. The place of nature within the blue zone is ornamental.
How The United Nations Reduces Its Legitimacy More Than Global Emissions
November 20, 2025
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, Black Agenda Report.
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Brazil, climate crisis, COP30, Ecocide, Enviornmental Justice, United Nations (UN), Wars and Militarism
Belem, Brazil - The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP) held this year in Belem, Brazil - a nation where 56% of the population identifies as Black or brown, global Black/Afro Descendant movements believed there could have been opportunities to center and prioritize the specific and nuanced ways the climate crisis impacts their communities. A study conducted by Brazilian based, Geledés - the Black Women’s Institute and the Center for Applied Research in Law and Racial Justice at the Fundacao Getulia Vargas School of Law indicates, “The specificity of the Afro-descendant experience in the Americas lies at the intersection of structural racism, colonial legacies, and erasure attempts through ideologies of miscegenation and racial democracy.”
Israel Attacks UN Peacekeepers In Lebanon
November 20, 2025
Aseel Saleh, People's Dispatch.
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Hezbollah, Human rights violations, Israeli aggression, Israeli Imperialism, Israeli Occupation, Lebanon, Sovereignty, UN Security Council (UNSC), United Nations (UN), UNSC
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said in a press release on Sunday, November 16, that some of its troops were targeted by Israeli artillery shelling earlier that day inside the Lebanese territories.
The peacekeeping mission clarified that its personnel escaped the offensive unharmed, after asking the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) to stop the assault through liaison channels.
The UNIFIL considered the incident, which marks the third Israeli attack on its troops in the last three months, a serious violation of the Security Council resolution 1701, which was adopted in 2006 to resolve the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z Rebellion’ Exposed As Viral Right-Wing Plot
November 20, 2025
Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg, The Grayzone.
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Atlas Network, Claudia Sheinbaum, Drug War, Gen Z, Mexico, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Nepal, Right-Wing
Violent demonstrations which erupted in over 50 cities across Mexico on November 15 were secretly financed and coordinated by an international right-wing network and amplified by bot networks, a new report by public fact-checking platform Infodemia has concluded.
Those findings were amplified by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has questioned what role Mexico’s cartel-linked opposition parties and foreign meddling may have played in inflaming so-called “Gen Z” protests on November 15. The demonstrations left around 120 people injured – over 100 of them police officers, according to a statement from authorities.
Corporate Media Parrot Dubious Claims Used To Justify War On Venezuela
November 20, 2025
Ricardo Vaz, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
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Corporate Media, Media, the Caribbean, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism
Since August, the US has been amassing military assets in the Caribbean. Warships, bombers and thousands of troops have been joined by the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, in the largest regional deployment in decades. Extrajudicial strikes against small vessels, which UN experts have decried as violations of international law, have killed at least 80 civilians (CNN, 11/14/25).
Many foreign policy analysts believe that regime change in Venezuela is the ultimate goal (Al Jazeera, 10/24/25; Left Chapter, 10/21/25), but the Trump administration instead claims it is fighting “narcoterrorism,” accusing Caracas of flooding the US with drugs via the Cartel of the Suns and Tren de Aragua, both designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
Power Play In Kiev And Chaos At The Front
November 20, 2025
Moon Of Alabama.
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Peace Negotiations, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism
The situation in Ukraine is becoming even more complicated.
The war on the frontline is going bad for Ukraine as is the war on infrastructure deep behind the contact line.
A corruption scandal is used to neuter President Zelenski. New power structures are set to evolve to further the execution of the war. President Trump is attempting to impose another peace effort while Europe finds that it lacks the money to finance Ukraine and the war.
There are at least seven cities which are falling or are destined to fall within the next few month.