By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com
December 3, 2025
If Present Trends Continue: A Long-Term Prognosis for Human Civilisation
Introduction: The Question Behind the Question
When we ask about humanity's long-term prognosis, "if things continue as they are," we're really asking: What happens when multiple unstable systems destabilise simultaneously while we remain locked in the political and economic patterns that created the instability?
By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org
December 3, 2025
You might deem it self-evident that words should have meanings, but a growing number of people believe words can mean anything the speaker wants. It seems we now inhabit the fictional world imagined by Lewis Carroll, where, as Humpty Dumpty said, any word "means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less." In the recent "what is a woman" debates, some argued that the word "woman" means whatever anyone feels the word woman should mean.
By William J. Astore
TomDispatch.com
December 3, 2025
It's been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America's nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF).
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
December 3, 2025
Just as the news breaks that Trump has issued Maduro an ultimatum to leave Venezuela immediately if he wants to escape with his life, the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal has published an amazingly brazen war propaganda piece titled "How Venezuelan Gangs and African Jihadists Are Flooding Europe With Cocaine."
"Venezuela has become a major launchpad for huge volumes of cocaine shipped to West Africa, where jihadists are helping traffic it to Europe in record quantities," the article begins, going out of its way to note that "the Trump administration's pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro - who it asserts is heavily involved in drug smuggling - has brought global attention to the country's role in the drug trade."
By John Leake
Courageous Discourse
December 3, 2025
Malcolm Muggeridge was a talented journalist who lived in Moscow in 1933, working for the Manchester Guardian. Though attracted to communism in his youth, the experience of being in Stalin's Russia and observing what was going on caused him to become disillusioned. Especially disturbing was his realization that Stalin's army and police were-as part of their collectivization program-starving millions of landowning peasants (known as kulaks) by confiscating their grain.
Moon of Alabama
December 3, 2025
As it is becoming obvious that Ukraine is losing in the proxy war against Russia, the ideas European governments are are throwing around are getting more crazy.
Some are now eager to 'pre-emptively' attack Russia in 'retaliation' for alleged 'hybrid attacks' against European countries. Those 'hybrid attacks' are mostly pure fantasies.
Politico was first to report this nonsense:
By Charles Hugh Smith
OfTwoMinds.com
December 3, 2025
If each of these is not a part of any 'reform,' than all that is being done is pouring money into a monopolizing cartel, just in a slightly different way.
Unbeknownst to those of us with little inside knowledge of the complex financial plumbing of the US healthcare system, healthcare is in a death spiral that will surprise everyone but insiders who grasp the system's unsustainability.
La pilule que doit avaler Kiev est amère, pourtant la Russie a fait quelques modestes concessions.
Source : Responsible Statecraft, Mark Episkopos, Marcus Stanley
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises
Les efforts visant à trouver une solution diplomatique à la guerre en Ukraine ont suivi un cours tortueux au cours des derniers mois. Après une période d'optimisme en août avec le sommet Trump-Poutine en Alaska, l'administration Trump, irritée de ne pas pouvoir obtenir un cessez-le-feu immédiat, en est revenue à des sanctions plus intenses et à des menaces sur le plan militaire.
Par Caitlin Johnstone, le 2 décembre 2025
Alors que l'on apprend que Trump a lancé un ultimatum à Maduro, lui enjoignant de quitter immédiatement le Venezuela s'il veut sauver sa peau, le Wall Street Journal, propriété de Murdoch, publie un article de propagande de guerre des plus éhontés intitulé "Comment les gangs vénézuéliens et les djihadistes africains inondent l'Europe de cocaïne".
Par Noor Alyacoubi
Une attaque israélienne contre son refuge a entraîné l'amputation des deux mains de Nibal, la privant ainsi de ce qui lui était le plus cher : la possibilité de tenir sa petite fille dans ses bras. Son histoire est celle de centaines de femmes amputées à Gaza.
Lorsque Rita, âgée de deux ans, pleure la nuit, sa mère, Nibal al-Hissi, ne peut que l'appeler depuis son matelas. Sans mains, elle ne peut ni soulever sa fille, ni la réconforter, ni lui donner à boire.
Natalia Melentyeva tells the story of Daria Dugina as a philosophical and spiritual revolt against the disintegration of the modern world.
Life in the modern world demands enormous effort from us-and not only in everyday affairs or outward actions. What is at stake is an effort of the mind, of thought, of intellect. In monastic practice among the Holy Fathers this was called "intelligent doing" ("noetic work").
Suppressed News, 30 novembre 2025.- Mohammed et Mahmoud al Balboul, deux frères palestiniens originaires de Bethléem, sont détenus depuis des années par Israël en détention administrative, c'est-à-dire sans inculpation ni procès. Ils ont été arrêtés de nouveau par Israël en novembre 2025. EXIGEONS LEUR LIBÉRATION, ainsi que celle des autres otages palestiniens enlevés sans inculpation par Israël.
Mouvement de la jeunesse palestinienne, 1er décembre 2025.- Il y a quarante-trois ans, le soir du 16 septembre 1982, les forces israéliennes assiégeaient les camps de Sabra et Chatila à Beyrouth. Les 48 heures qui suivirent furent un épisode tragique de notre longue lutte contre le sionisme, l'impérialisme occidental et les puissances réactionnaires arabes. Loin d'être un acte de barbarie isolé, cette atrocité illustrait parfaitement la logique structurelle de l'impérialisme américain et du projet colonial sioniste : l'élimination des populations autochtones n'y est pas un simple fait, mais un élément central du maintien de la domination politique et économique.