Muhammad Hamid ad-Din,

Plus d'un an après la chute du régime de Bachar al-Assad, la paix et la souveraineté pour la Syrie restent des illusions inaccessibles.

Au lieu de la reconstruction, le pays est devenu un terrain d'expérimentation pour la stratégie ouvertement coloniale d'Israël, qui bénéficie du soutien total et inconditionnel des États-Unis.

par Laurent Brayard

Depuis quelques semaines la France et le Royaume-Uni parlent beaucoup d'un «corps de volontaires» pour l'Ukraine, qui dans les médias a déjà été mis en scène. Ce corps franco-britannique a déjà une existence réelle, du moins sur le papier et se place dans le contexte où les deux gouvernements veulent absolument imposer l'idée d'un cessez-le-feu en Ukraine, avec l'envoi immédiat de troupes sur le territoire de Kiev.

par Pierre Duval

Sous le titre «Comment la Pologne et l'Allemagne peuvent défendre l'Europe», Die Welt confirme la nouvelle orientation militaire et politique de Berlin en Europe : la nouvelle domination allemande de l'Europe centrale en retrouvant sa domination militaire sur ses anciens territoires.

Depuis la réunification des deux Allemagnes, le pouvoir allemand s'est peu à peu remis en place à Berlin en reconstruisant l'ancien centre politique et militaire allemand qui existait durant le Troisième Reich.

Raphael Machado

The German liberal order resorts to totalitarianism to preserve the hegemony of its elites.

Mentioning "totalitarianism" in Germany quickly forces our minds to associate it with the Nazi period in that country's history. 12 years during which Germany was under the command of Hitler and his party; a command that culminated in the Second World War and the greatest military hecatomb in human history.

Giulio Chinappi

Nel bel mezzo della transizione tecnologica, il Vietnam rafforza due assi complementari: con Singapore, parchi industriali di "seconda generazione", energia verde e finanza; con l'Indonesia, 70 anni di relazioni e rotta verso i 18 miliardi di dollari in scambi bilaterali.

Nel contesto di un'ASEAN attraversata da nuove tensioni (in particolare quelle tra Thailandia e Cambogia) e da trasformazioni tecnologiche accelerate, il Việt Nam sta consolidando due assi strategici complementari: con Singapore, attraverso la traduzione industriale della transizione verde e digitale; con l'Indonesia, rafforzando una relazione che celebra settant'anni di storia e che oggi punta a un salto di qualità economico e politico.

By Ron Paul, MD
The Ron Paul Institute 

December 30, 2025

President Trump recently signed an executive order changing marijuana's Controlled Substances Act classification from Schedule I to Schedule III. Schedule I is supposed to include especially dangerous drugs that are likely to be abused and have no medical purpose. Whatever one thinks of the wisdom and morality of using marijuana, the fact is it is less addictive, and quite possibly safer, than alcohol.

By Karen Kwiatkowski 

December 30, 2025

Many years ago, a budding decentralist and anarcho-capitalist suggested to a pair of highly paid Pentagon area specialist contractors that instead of what we were doing in the horn of Africa, we might gain credibility by recognizing Somaliland, which at the time was peaceful, free trading, and a rare example of an organic government, not at war, nor seeking war.

By Mark Keenan 

December 30, 2025

Freedom is not usually lost all at once through force. It is more often weakened first through forgetting.

As one year ends and another begins, many people sense that something essential has been lost in the way modern life is organized - not through catastrophe or coercion, but through gradual forgetting.

This essay argues that the greatest threat posed by automation is not overt control, but the quiet erosion of judgment-and that freedom survives only where judgment is actively exercised.

By Ron Unz
The Unz Review

December 30, 2025

Connecting the Missing Dots in Major Historical Events

Earlier this month I'd published an article laying out the surprisingly strong case that a tumultuous love affair with a beautiful young actress had been a central cause of World War II, the greatest military conflict in all of human history.

The War of Goebbels' Czech Mistress
Ron Unz • The Unz Review • December 8, 2025 • 6,700 Words

By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Cirsd 

December 30, 2025

Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating. From the nineteenth century to the present, Russia's security concerns have been treated not as legitimate interests to be negotiated within a broader European order, but as moral transgressions to be resisted, contained, or overridden.

By George F. Smith 

December 30, 2025

Human life began with people scratching the world they lived in for food and shelter. They traveled as nomads, then after someone invented the rudiments of agriculture they settled down. As producers they were subject to raids from bands who confiscated their produce. Eventually the invaders figured they could make their thieving lives easier by settling among the victims and serving as their protectors - in exchange for life support.

By Michael Snyder
End Of The American Dream 

December 30, 2025

I think that nearly the entire population of the world would like to see peace in 2026, but global events just continue to drag us toward war. I honestly do not understand why more people are not upset about this. The drumbeats of war seem to get louder with each passing day, and we are getting dangerously close to a point of no return.

If they weren't concern-trolling about "globalize the intifada" they'd make up some other excuse to express their concern, and they know it.

By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com

December 30, 2025

It's such an insult to our intelligence how Israel supporters pretend it's the WAY pro-Palestine protests are happening that they object to, and not the protests themselves. Like if protesters were saying different chants they'd be totally cool with opposition to Israel's crimes.

By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack

December 30, 2025

The New York Times Sunday top-right front page lead story on 28 December 2025 - headlined "For DOGE, Big Disruption Returned Meager Savings, had been posted online on December 23rd under the headline "How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little ? The group's biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings."

Ukrainian deserters crossed the border through a gas pipeline to flee the country.

By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
InfoBrics

December 30, 2025

The desperation of Ukrainian soldiers to escape certain death on the front lines is becoming increasingly evident. Ukrainian citizens risk their lives to get rid of military service - aware that life expectancy on the front lines is extremely short. Recently, it was revealed that Ukrainian deserters crossed the border into a neighboring country via a gas pipeline, proving the dangers these recruits are willing to face to escape the war.

By Milan Adams
Preppgroup

December 30, 2025

One of the oldest forms of commerce in human society is the barter system, and it was considered the norm for a majority of human existence before the advent of currency. While it is not used as our primary method of obtaining goods and services in today's modern society it is still alive and well in small ways through smaller groups of people, small towns, and in less developed areas of the world.

Moon of Alabama 

December 30, 2025

Yesterday's negotiations between U.S. President Donald Trump and the acting President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelenski about a peace agreement with Russia went nowhere (archived):

Two weeks ago we were expecting this outcome:

A big win for Russia during this round of negotiations is that Trump has rejected the ceasefire which Zelenski and his European supporters have tried to impose to then prepare for a new round of fighting:

par Christelle Néant

Suite à l'appel du chef du Parti Populaire Européen (PPE), Manfred Weber, d'envoyer des troupes arborant le drapeau européen en Ukraine, le chef du Parti français «Les Patriotes», Florian Philippot, a réagi vivement sur X, en déclarant que les soldats français ne porteront jamais le torchon bleu à étoiles au lieu du drapeau français.

Comme le souligne Thierry Laurent Pellet, géopolitologue, le moment choisi par Weber pour faire cette déclaration n'a rien de fortuit, puisqu'elle a lieu quelques jours avant une nouvelle rencontre entre Donald Trump et Volodymyr Zelensky.