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August 22, 2025
Neo-Nazi units kill retreating Ukrainian soldiers, forcing them to switch sides
Drago Bosnic
August 22, 2025
Millions of regular Ukrainians now have a very simple choice – the political West and the Neo-Nazi junta that want all of them dead or Russia that’s going out of its way to save them, even in this NATO-orchestrated war. Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly making it clear what choice they’ve made. We can only hope the entire NATO-occupied country will follow suit.
The Kiev regime’s deep-rooted connection with Ukrainian WWII-era Nazi organizations is an axiom at this point. Denying this is simply pointless, as many of its soldiers unashamedly display Nazi insignia, while the state-sponsored promotion of the cult of Nazi collaborators such as Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko, Roman Shukhevych and others of their ilk is a clear proof that this isn’t some idiosyncratic or spontaneous reaction of an extremist minority, but a carefully orchestrated policy.
In the last decade, there has been a systematic whitewashing of Nazism, with an entire generation of children and young people raised to essentially adore the aforementioned figures. Many soldiers of the Kiev regime who have been fighting in the last several years were just kids at the time when NATO organized the Maidan coup that brought the Neo-Nazi junta to power and pushed Ukraine into the ongoing bloodbath.
These children (many in their 20s now) were radicalized into thinking that the ideology that quite literally sees them as “Untermenschen” is something “good” or even “desirable”. They were never told anything about Hitler’s Generalplan Ost and that they would’ve almost certainly never even been born had Nazi Germany succeeded in its genocidal intentions of global proportions.
Worse yet, they’ve been convinced that the Russians, their closest kin (historically, genetically, culturally, religiously, you name it), are their “mortal enemy”. Not to mention the fact that the only reason there are Ukrainians nowadays at all is precisely the victory won by tens of millions of Russians and other peoples of the Soviet Union. This hard-fought triumph was paid in blood, with nearly 30 million people slaughtered in the most brutal ways imaginable, at least seven million of whom were from Ukraine.
Ironically, many of those now fighting under the banner of Bandera and his Nazi overlords are the descendants of people who actually fought in the Red Army, many of them for the entire duration of WWII. This includes the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky himself, whose grandfather Semyon Zelensky was a Red Army soldier, while his father and three brothers were killed by the Nazis. And yet, his grandson had no qualms about declaring Bandera a “Ukrainian hero”.
Thus, the live-action role-playing (or so-called “larping” for short) of Nazism by many Ukrainians is quite literally the ridicule of the sacrifice made by their ancestors and their closest kin in Russia and elsewhere in the former USSR. Still, one would think that the mindless emulation of that despicable ideology would be limited to mere formality. However, nothing could be further from the truth.
Namely, the Neo-Nazi junta is determined to follow its ideological forefathers to the letter, at every step of the way. This doesn’t only include the raising of what can only be described as its own iteration of the infamous Volkssturm, a military force effectively composed of civilians pressed into service virtually overnight, but also the emulation of Nazi German military strategy, one that led to its defeat on the battlefield (unfortunately, only on the battlefield, it would seem).
This now includes killing forcibly conscripted Ukrainian soldiers fleeing from the advancing Russian military. Namely, the so-called “barrier detachment” (also known as anti-retreat forces) are units deployed in the rear or just behind the frontline and are used to prevent regular troops from retreating. Unsurprisingly, these units are manned by the staunchest and most radical Neo-Nazis who officially belong to the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU).
They not only force regular Ukrainian soldiers to face the Russian military head-on (regardless of the risk or battlefield circumstances), but also have orders to shoot them in case of a retreat. This has become so common that it’s now a “normal” occurrence. Realizing they’re mere cannon fodder sent to certain death, forcibly conscripted Ukrainians have grown tired of this “highly unflattering” role, so they’re now actually fighting back.
Military sources report that they now regularly cooperate with the Russian military to get rid of these Nazi “barrier detachments”. There’s recent footage proving this, with one video from early August showing an incident during which the radicals opened fire at Ukrainian soldiers evacuating a trench that was just stormed by Russian troops. The video ends with the aforementioned Nazi “barrier detachment” targeted and neutralized by a Russian FPV kamikaze drone.
Attacked on all sides, Ukrainian soldiers made the only logical choice – helping the Russian military pinpoint the location of the “barrier detachment”. And who could possibly blame them? These soldiers had no way to withdraw to a more defensible position, while only the Russian “enemy” offered them the possibility of survival.
Any remotely sane person would make the same choice. The Kremlin understands this very well, which is why it has established channels of communication with regular Ukrainian troops and is still offering them the possibility of avoiding the grim fate of nearly two million of their compatriots. In addition, the Russian military is directly targeting these Nazi “barrier detachments”. For instance, on August 8, Russian airstrikes destroyed two such units of the NGU’s 17th Poltava Brigade near the settlements of Orestopol and Alekseyevka in the Dnepropetrovsk oblast (region).
This was made possible because regular Ukrainian soldiers from the 31st Mechanized Brigade revealed the exact location of these two Nazi “barrier detachments” to the Russian military. Such occurrences have become quite common. Just days later, on August 14, the 60th Mechanized Brigade reported the whereabouts of the command post coordinating the operations of these Nazi units deployed near the settlement of Drobyshevo in northern DNR.
Once again, the Russian military responded with an airstrike, neutralizing the command post and, thus, saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers who would otherwise be sent to certain death. However, the Kiev regime is doubling down on this insane policy and is now expanding these “barrier detachments” with personnel from the police and intelligence services. This brutal approach is not giving any results, but the Neo-Nazi junta still insists on it.
The only logical conclusion is that its NATO overlords want to use the Kiev regime forces as a tool of genocide against Ukrainians. The horrendous losses can undoubtedly be explained (at least in part) precisely due to such tactics. Much unlike the Russian military, which seeks to preserve its troops, the political West sees regular Ukrainians as former Russians who can freely be used as cannon fodder.
As the Neo-Nazi junta is nothing more than a NATO proxy, it has no qualms about sending regular soldiers to certain (and pointless) death. Millions of regular Ukrainians now have a very simple choice – the political West that wants all of them dead or Russia that’s going out of its way to save them, even in this NATO-orchestrated war. Ukrainian soldiers are increasingly making it clear what choice they’ve made. We can only hope the entire NATO-occupied country will follow suit.
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US Military Budget Tops $1 Trillion
“In America—At This Restaurant Only One Person Is Served.” [Source: lambiek.net]By Jeremy Kuzmarov
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed off on the first-ever trillion-dollar military budget.
When the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its budget request for fiscal year 2026 in May, it included a base defense request of $892.6 billion, plus a $119.3 billion allocation of additional resources from the Republican-controlled Congress’s budget reconciliation bill.
On July 4, Trump signed the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” which, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, solidified the $1 trillion defense budget.
The act also cuts funding for Medicaid and food stamps, and mandates tax cuts for Corporate America and the wealthy, thus adding $3.4 trillion to the national debt, according to a Congressional study.[1]
Subsidizing “an emerging military and nuclear technology wish list,” the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” allocates $12.8 billion for Trump’s Golden Dome initiative, a promised missile defense shield modeled after Reagan’s ill-conceived Strategic Defense Initiative (ie. Star Wars).
$29 billion is further allocated to enhance Pentagon resources for domestic shipbuilding, $1 billion to secure the southern border, and tens of billions for autonomous weapons, and an expansion of nuclear-weapon modernization and space capabilities.
Additionally, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” allocates $12 billion to the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command, $2 billion for the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to improve the U.S. stockpile of critical minerals, $500 million for high-altitude surveillance balloons, and a $1.2 billion increase in funding for cruise missiles, among other things.
A new study issued by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, written by William Hartung and Stephen Semler, Profits of War: Top Beneficiaries of Pentagon Spending, 2020-2024, found that the U.S. government invested more than twice as much money in five weapons companies in that period as in diplomacy and international assistance.
The five companies that received $771 billion between 2020 and 2024 were: Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($81 billion).
[Source: mordorintelligence.com]The above companies have benefited from tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Israel and Ukraine, paid for by U.S. taxpayers. U.S. military aid to Israel was more than $18 billion in just the first year following October 7 2023; military aid to Ukraine has totaled $65 billion since 2022.
A surge in foreign-funded arms sales to European allies, paid for by the recipient nations—more than $170 billion in 2023 and 2024 alone—has provided additional revenue to arms contractors over and above the funds they receive directly from the Pentagon.
Annual U.S. military spending has grown significantly this century amidst the backdrop of the Global War on Terror and new Cold War.
The Pentagon’s discretionary budget—the annual funding approved by Congress and the large majority of its overall budget—rose from $507 billion in 2000 to $843 billion in 2025 (in constant 2025 dollars), a 66% increase. Additional supplemental funding that has raised the military budget to the $1 trillion mark pushes the increase to 99%.
According to Profits of War, the shape of what Dwight Eisenhower called the “military-industrial complex” is shifting as military technology companies are being awarded an increasing share of the Pentagon’s budget and gaining in political power.
Companies like SpaceX, Palantir and Anduril have been tapped for multi-billion-dollar contract awards from the Pentagon for communications, surveillance, targeting, unpiloted vehicles, anti-drone defenses, and hypersonic weapons, and should be pushed into the top ranks of Pentagon contractors in the near future.
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM are additionally splitting $10 billion for the Pentagon’s cloud-computing program.
Silicon Valley tech companies are transforming the nature of war through their development of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and robotic weaponry that reduces the human imprint and political costs of waging war.
The outsized influence of Big Tech companies is apparent in the appointment of SpaceX founder Elon Musk as de facto head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Vice President J. D. Vance’s close ties to Palantir founder Peter Thiel.
Stephen Feinberg, second-in-charge at the Pentagon, worked for Cerberus Capital, an investment firm which has a history of investing in the gun and military industries, and Michael Obadal, a senior director at Anduril, has been appointed Under Secretary of the Army.
Profits of War notes that the ongoing influence of the arms industry over Congress operates through tens of millions of dollars in campaign contributions and the employment of 950 lobbyists, as of 2024.
Further, military contractors shape military policy and lobby to increase military spending by funding think tanks and serving on government commissions.
While President Joe Biden touted the arms industry and its workers as the “arsenal of democracy,” a significant share of U.S. arms transfers, according to Profits of War, go to undemocratic regimes or nations at war.
Since 2019, U.S. arms were possessed by one or more parties to 28 conflicts, and 31 U.S. arms clients were deemed “not free” by Freedom House.
In 2022, the Biden administration approved arms sales to 57% of the world’s autocracies, based on data from the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, and the Varieties of Democracy project.
Under a new version of the “revolving door,” ex-military officers and senior Pentagon officials are increasingly taking up jobs with venture capital firms that invest in Silicon Valley arms-industry startups.
An investigation by Eric Lipton of The New York Times found that at least 50 former Pentagon officials went to work for military-related venture capital or private equity firms in the five years from 2019 to 2023.
Profits of War paints a damning picture of an ascendant fascism in the U.S., whose governing structure is thoroughly dominated by war profiteers and their agents.
The report concludes that there needs to be “greater congressional and public scrutiny of emerging weapons contractors” and that “the role of Silicon Valley startups and the venture capital firms that support them needs to be better understood and debated” as “the U.S. crafts a new foreign policy strategy that avoids unnecessary wars.”
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Via https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/08/21/u-s-military-budget-tops-1-trillion/
FBI raids John Bolton’s home in national security probe
FILE PHOTO: John Bolton. © Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesRT
Sources claim the operation is part of a high-profile investigation involving classified documentsThe FBI has raided the home and office of John Bolton, the renowned foreign policy hawk and a former national security adviser to US President Donald Trump, multiple outlets reported on Friday. The New York Post, which first broke the news, said the searches are part of a high-profile probe into the handling of classified documents.
Bolton, notorious for his advocacy of regime change as a US foreign policy tool, served under Trump for 18 months during his first term before being fired in September 2019. Trump later called him a “nutjob,” “loser,” and “very dumb person,” and described hiring him as one of his “biggest mistakes.”
Trump has said that he knew nothing about the raids and only learned of them from television news.
Reports say FBI agents searched Bolton’s home in Bethesda, Maryland, and his Washington, DC, office early on Friday. Footage circulating online showed agents in what appears to be his front yard and outside his office, loading items into vehicles. Bolton was reportedly seen in his office lobby speaking with two individuals wearing FBI vests.
The investigation reportedly centers on whether Bolton still possesses classified documents from his time in office, particularly those linked to his 2020 memoir, The Room Where It Happened. The US Justice Department (DOJ) under Trump tried to block the book’s publication, claiming it contained classified material. A federal judge eventually allowed its release, and the Biden DOJ dropped both the criminal and civil cases in June 2021.
Bolton has not been detained and has not yet been charged, according to reports, and neither his spokesperson nor the White House reportedly have commented.
While the DOJ has not issued an official statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X early on Friday: “America’s safety isn’t negotiable. Justice will be pursued. Always.” She was responding to FBI Director Kash Patel’s cryptic message: “NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission.” FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also reposted Patel’s comment, adding, “Public corruption will not be tolerated.” Patel previously listed Bolton as part of the US “Deep State” in his 2023 book.
Bolton has frequently clashed with Trump over foreign policy. On his first day back in office this year, Trump revoked the security clearances of over 40 ex-intelligence officials, including Bolton, and stripped him of his security detail.
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America’s Divide: US Battle Over Abortion
America’s Divide: The US Battle Over Abortion
RT (2022)
Film Review
https://odysee.com/@RTDocumentary:4/Abortion_America%E2s-Divide
This is the first of two RT documentaries about the abortion debate. Filmed just prior to the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v Wade, it highlights states’ increasingly restrictive abortion laws, as well as profiling aggressive campaigns on both sides of the issue.
It starts with the Texas 2021 Heartbeat Act. This bans abortion after six weeks pregnancy and allows no exceptions for rape or incest. The new Texas law triggered massive protests in Washington DC and many other US cities.
The filmmakers interview several pro and anti-abortion advocates, including a woman who sought abortion after being raped at 13. They also highlight a significant increase in illegal abortions in states that restrict access to abortion.
For some reason, the anti-abortion campaigners seem mainly concerned about late term abortions. The latter, comprising 1-2% of abortions, nearly always occur to save the mother’s life.
The documentary also points out that the Republican party has made restricting access to abortion one of their major planks to win votes from evangelical Christians. My mother, a life long Republican, always supported abortion because it reduced the number of unwanted children on the welfare rolls, as well the number of intellectually impaired children born to women forced to carry unwanted pregnancies who were incapable of restricting their use of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs.
Likewise the Democrats have increasingly made Roe v Wade a campaign issue as they abandon traditional policies beneficial to the working class. A favorite ploy has been to guilt-trip populist activists who vote for third party candidates, blaming them for the success of Republican presidents who add conservative judges to the Supreme Court.
Democratic support for abortion has always been extremely feeble: witness their refusal to enshrine abortion rights in legislation instead of relying on a revocable Supreme Court finding. Since 1977 and the passage of the Hyde Amendment (which Democratic presidents like Clinton, Obama and Biden refused to overturn), only well-to-do women have enjoyed a right to abortion. The Hyde Amendment bans states from using Medicaid funding to pay for abortions.
August 21, 2025
Trump’s Plan to Invade Venezuela and Abduct “Narcoterrorist” Maduro
By Kurt NimmoThe Trump administration, through its attorney general Pam Bondi, announced on August 7 it has doubled a reward—from $25 million to $50 million—for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. According to the administration, Maduro is in cahoots with drug cartels, specifically Cártel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns).
Bondi accused Maduro of heading up one of the world’s most notorious drug trafficking operations. She said his alleged involvement in the drug trade is a threat to the national security of the United States. Trump’s AG said Maduro utilizes “foreign terrorist and criminal organizations,” including the Tren de Aragua gang, the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, in addition to Cartel of the Suns, to traffic cocaine in the United States.
“He is one of the largest narco-traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security. Therefore, we’ve doubled his reward to $50 million,” Bondi said in a video posted on X.
While there is little compelling evidence of Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade, it is known that the Venezuelan National Guard and military began to buy, store, transfer and distribute cocaine in the mid-2000s. Prior to direct involvement, the Venezuelan military extorted narcos in the transfer of drug shipments.
“According to InSight Crime, a theory as to what may have motivated this move is that Colombian narcos began to pay the military in drugs rather than cash. This forced the Venezuelans to seek markets of their own,” writes intelligence analyst Javier Sutil Toledano.
Venezuela might not have become involved in the drug trade if not for the multi-billion-dollar Plan Colombia security program signed with the United States. Billed as an anti-narcotics effort, the real purpose of the plan was to eradicate guerrilla movements aligned against corporate petroleum and mining activities. Colombia Plan maintained a close relationship with death squads and organized paramilitary forces, notes Noam Chomsky.
Plan Colombia’s war on guerrilla movements forced FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) to move operations to the border with Venezuela and corrupt officials became involved in the drug trade. The narrative claims FARC is a major distributor of cocaine. This is, however, an exaggeration.
“In standard US terminology, the FARC forces are ‘narcoguerrillas,’ a useful concept as a cover for counterinsurgency,” writes Chomsky. “It is agreed—and FARC leaders say—that they rely for funding on coca production, which they tax, as they tax other businesses.”
Klaus Nyholm, at the time head of the UN Drug Control Program, believes “the guerrillas are something different from the traffickers,” while Andean drug specialist Ricardo Vargas argues the guerrillas were “primarily focused on taxation of illicit crops,” not trafficking. Moreover, FARC called for “a development plan for the peasants” that would “allow eradication of coca on the basis of alternative crops.” Vargas added that Colombian peasants grow cocoa plants “because of the crisis in the agricultural sector of Latin American countries, escalated by the general economic crisis in the region,” a crisis exacerbated by neoliberal trade policies.
In 2013, it was reported that FARC, while in the process of demobilization, was taken over piecemeal by the Gaitanistas (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia, aka Clan del Golfo), described as a rightwing Colombian neo-paramilitary group and the largest drug cartel in Colombia. It is believed the group is comprised of either reservists or retired professional soldiers. Colombian General Leonardo Alfonso Barrero Gordillo worked with Clan del Golfo and its paramilitary groups, according to human rights organizations.
“Although Maduro was not among the early Venezuelan officials tied to narco-trafficking during the previous Hugo Chávez presidency, a federal indictment filed in New York shows his rise through the ranks of the Cartel of the Suns,” claims the Miami Herald.
The news outlet mentions an indictment that claims Maduro and the cartel aimed “to flood the United States with cocaine and inflict the drug’s harmful and addictive effects on users in this country.”
CIA Runs Cocaine to Fund Black OpsThe Trump administration is less interested in the “harmful and addictive effects” of cocaine on Americans than the ongoing US effort to overthrow the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and destroy the Bolivarian Revolution initially led by the late former President Hugo Chávez. If Trump and crew were sincerely interested in stopping the importation of cocaine, they would turn their attention to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Joël van der Reijden, an independent Dutch researcher, believes CIA involvement in the drug trade is one of the most important covered up conspiracies of all time. The CIA inherited the drug business from Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (SDECE), a now defunct French intelligence agency. The operation was “upscaled” with heroin in Vietnam and later a similar template was used in South America with cocaine. It is said US intelligence was involved in drug trafficking with Cosa Nostra (the Sicilian Mafia) before the establishment of the CIA in 1947. The Southeast Asian “Golden Triangle” of heroin production and distribution included early CIA notables, including Frank Wisner, Paul Helliwell, Claire Chennault, William Pawley, and Tommy Corcoran.
In the 1980s, the CIA oversaw Nicaraguan Contra arms and cocaine trafficking. The operation was revealed when American commercial airline pilot Barry Seal was investigated for working with the Medellin Cartel in Colombia. Seal had a relationship with the CIA.
“Barry Seal was a veteran of both the drug trade and the intelligence business,” write Jeffrey St. Clair and Alexander Cockburn. “Seal’s first contact with the CIA came in the 1960s while he served as a pilot for the US Army’s Special Forces division. He left the army in 1965 to become, at the age of twenty-six, a pilot for TransWorld Airlines, and it’s apparent that Seal continued his relationship with the Agency during his employment with the airline.”
According to van der Reijden,
“It is virtually certain that both [George H.W.] Bush and [Bill] Clinton, the latter as governor of Arkansas, were shielding Seal’s operations from law enforcement… the [CIA director] Casey-Bush-North alliance destroyed the DEA’s operation aimed at bringing down the entire Medellin Cartel when they decided to leak the Contra sting operation of their asset Barry Seal to the media,” thus allowing Reagan to accuse the Sandinista government of drug trafficking and force Congress to end the ban on US military aid to the Contras.”
CIA cocaine distribution in the United States was exposed in the 1990s by journalist Gary Webb in a three-part series published by the Mercury News. The newspaper series documented how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s was siphoned to the Contras, the CIA mercenary army attempting to overthrow the Sandinista government.
Additionally, in 1993 the Justice Department investigated “allegations that officers of a special Venezuelan anti-drug unit funded by the CIA smuggled more than 2,000 pounds of cocaine into the United States with the knowledge of CIA officials,” The New York Times reported.
Panama Invasion Redux?“CIA ties to international drug trafficking date to the Korean War. In 1949, two of Chiang Kai-shek’s defeated generals, Li Wen Huan and Tuan Shi Wen, marched their Third and Fifth Route armies, with families and livestock, across the mountains to northern Burma. Once installed, the peasant soldiers began cultivating the crop they knew best, the opium poppy.”
In December, 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered the US military to invade Panama City. The invasion was codenamed Operation Just Cause, and the supposed just cause was the arrest of Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, a long time CIA asset, on drug trafficking charges. Noriega received protection from DEA investigations due to his “special relationship with the CIA” (see Cockburn and St. Clair, Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs, and the Press, 1998). He was instrumental the effort to launder drug money while also receiving financial support from drug dealers. According to Gary Webb (Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, 1999), Noriega was involved in the CIA effort to smuggle cocaine into the United States.
After Noriega was exposed in The New York Times as a participant in the Iran-Contra scandal, Reagan tried to have the Panamanian leader step down, but he refused to do so. The notorious Elliot Abrams and the Pentagon agitated for an invasion of Panama. Reagan declined, afraid it would hurt the upcoming Bush presidential campaign. However, after his successor assumed office, the plan to get rid of the exposed CIA asset Manuel Noriega became more urgent, especially after the press called George H.W. Bush a “wimp” for not going after Noriega. The new president was berated after he called for hunting down major drug dealers and then not acting on Noriega.
27,684 US troops and over 300 aircraft invaded on December 20. Explosions and fire ripped through the heavily populated El Chorrillo neighborhood in downtown Panama City.
“El Chorrillo was invaded, destroyed, burned, and desecrated on that fateful day,” writes Argelis Wesley. “Thousands fled barefoot and terrified, many watched as their homes collapsed under the flames and disappeared in the chaos. Others witnessed point-blank executions and the violation of fundamental rights. Some chose to leave the place they had called home since birth.”
She writes that years later,
“We still do not know how many people died or how many bodies were buried in mass graves. Nor do we fully understand how this brutal incident affected the mental health and well-being of El Chorrillo’s generations, from children to adults.”
On January 3, 1990, Noriega surrendered to US forces. He was convicted of drug trafficking, racketeering, and money laundering, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was subsequently extradited to France, and then back to Panama, where he died during surgery to remove a brain tumor.
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Via https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-plan-invade-venezuela-abduct-narcoterrorist-maduro/5898569
Google Expands Age Verification to Search
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Google is extending its AI-driven age estimation system beyond YouTube and into its flagship search engine, raising renewed concerns over user surveillance and the growing reliance on opaque algorithmic profiling.The technology, supposed to predict a user’s age by analyzing massive amounts of behavioral data such as search queries and watch history, has already triggered significant backlash.
Users are now encountering age verification prompts within Google Search.
One individual described to Reclaim The Net being asked to verify their age while watching a video on YouTube, only to face a similar prompt during later Google searches.
This suggests that once a user is tagged for age checking, the requirement may be enforced across their entire Google profile.
While sightings of the feature on Search are still limited, users have noticed the demands for more data across the European Union. The full extent of the deployment is still unclear.
Integrating this system into search could have broad consequences that go even further than more behavioral profiling. Routine access to information could now be gated by requests to confirm one’s age, turning one of the most widely used tools on the internet into a more restrictive experience.
Google Search has already undergone major changes with the introduction of AI-generated summaries, a shift that has drawn both usability concerns and competitive attention. The potential for further disruptions and the fact that Google is now more openly profiling users may drive more users toward privacy-conscious alternatives.
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Via https://reclaimthenet.org/google-age-verification-ai-expands-to-search
Let’s talk about…looming war in Venezuela?
Kir Knightly
The US Navy is sending at least three destroyers and various other craft to the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, allegedly on a mission to combat drug cartel activity.
In response, Maduro has mobilized 4 million members of the national militia. Trump “hasn’t ruled out” boots on the ground, but in fairness, he can hardly say anything else when asked.
It’s all come out of nowhere, considering it was only a few days ago Trump was eagerly pursuing his Nobel Peace Prize with the Putin summit in Alaska followed by the Zelenskey et al. meeting at the White House.
Only a few weeks ago, Maduro’s government renewed its oil license with Chevron and agreed to an exchange of political prisoners.
Then, suddenly, the Trump administration issued a statement increasing the reward for Maduro’s arrest and accused the Venezuelan President of leading the Cartel of the Suns.
Venezuela has responded by accusing the US of kidnapping 66 Venezuelan children during recent deportations.
Why the escalation? What changed?
The discussion amongst what you could call the old-fashioned anti-war crowd is already focusing on Venezuela’s oil reserves, the biggest in the world, but is that vintage cliche still applicable?
Just like other conflicts, anything that erupts between Venezuela and the US needs to be seen in the post-Covid context.
Venezuela took full part in the Covid lie. Testing, lockdowns, masks and vaccines. All of it. Alongside that, Maduro’s government used the “emergency” to reverse Chavez’s rejection of the IMF and take out a $5billion “emergency” loan.
They are compromised, part of the international government cooperation, and therefore any conflict is likely just as real as Covid was.
[…]Via https://off-guardian.org/2025/08/21/lets-talk-about-looming-war-in-venezuela/Bolivian President: US masking attempt to control Latin America with ‘drug war’
FILE PHOTO: President of Bolivia Luis Arce Catacora © Getty Images / Agencia Makro / ContributorRT
Luis Arce slammed the recent deployment of American armed forces in the southern Caribbean Sea
Washington is using the so-called war on drugs as a cover for seeking political and economic domination of Latin America, Bolivian President Luis Arce claimed on Wednesday. He strongly criticized the US military deployment to the southern Caribbean, calling it an attempt to control the region rather than genuinely combat narcotics trafficking.
The US sent air and naval forces to the southern Caribbean Sea earlier this month in what the White House called part of a broader campaign against drug trafficking groups operating in Latin America, particularly those linked to Venezuela.
“We know that behind this failed international war on drugs lies the real objective to geopolitically control Latin America for its natural resources and to dismantle organized peoples, so that we cannot follow our own sovereign path,” Arce said, speaking via video link at the 13th Extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America.
The Bolivian leader also called on the US government to address the root causes of drug trafficking at home, urging it to curb domestic demand for narcotics and dismantle the arms industry and the shallow culture that, he argued, sustains the drug trade.
Arce also decried Washington’s latest steps against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as an insult to regional sovereignty and a direct attack on a democratically elected leader.
Last month, the US administration expanded its crackdown by designating the Venezuela-based Cartel de los Soles as a criminal organization, alleging that it is personally led by Maduro and includes other senior officials in his government and military.Maduro, who was indicted on federal drug charges by a US court in 2020 during Trump’s first term, has consistently denied the accusations, calling them politically motivated and part of Washington’s broader campaign to topple his government.
Earlier this month, tensions escalated further after the US Justice and State Departments announced a doubling of the reward for information leading to Maduro’s arrest, raising it to $50 million, while also claiming the Venezuelan leader is now collaborating with the Tren de Aragua and Sinaloa cartels.
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Via https://www.rt.com/news/623371-us-latin-america-control-bolivia/
German neo-Nazi changes gender to serve sentence in women’s prison
Sven Liebich, July 2025. © Getty Images / picture alliance / Contributor
RT
Convicted far-right extremist Sven Liebich reportedly took advantage of a recent law prior to being incarcerated
A German neo-Nazi will serve his sentence in a women’s prison after taking advantage of a new law permitting registration under a different gender, media have reported.
Sven Liebich, a former member of the banned far-right group Blood and Honor, was convicted in 2023 on multiple counts, including incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. He appealed the sentence and lost.
However, late last year, Liebich registered as female under Germany’s Self-Determination Act, a reform passed during Olaf Scholz’s government that came into effect in November. The law allows people to change their gender and first name at a registry office without a court ruling. Critics have warned the reform could be open to abuse.
According to German daily FAZ, he has now been ordered to serve 18 months at Chemnitz women’s prison in Saxony. Liebich appeared in court wearing a leopard-print top, a large hat, make-up and carrying a handbag.
Now officially listed as Marla-Svenja, Liebich argued the change was necessary to avoid “discrimination” in a male facility. He has since appeared in public in women’s clothing while still sporting a moustache.
Sven Liebich and his lawyer, June 2024. © Getty Images / picture alliance / Contributor
Liebich was convicted on multiple counts, including incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. Domestic intelligence services in Saxony reportedly classify him as a far-right extremist active both locally and nationwide. He has been photographed wearing a Nazi-style armband at rallies where black-clad demonstrators marched with red, white and black flags. The armband carried the slogan ‘Sicherheits-Abteilung,’ or SA, echoing the abbreviation of Hitler’s stormtrooper division.
FILE PHOTO: Sven Liebich. © Getty Images / SOPA Images / Contributor
According to media reports, the 53-year old previously burned Pride flags and described transgender people as “parasites,” raising questions over the motives behind his transition.
The chief public prosecutor said prison officials would determine whether Liebich’s placement threatens security and order. If so, he may be transferred to another facility.
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Via https://www.rt.com/news/623373-neonazi-germany-gender-change-prison/
August 20, 2025
Documenting Ukrainian War Crimes in Kursk
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Directed by Olga Kiriy (2025)
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This film follows Russian troops as they search the village of Sudzha (near Kursk) for civilian atrocities committed by Ukrainian forces prior to their withdrawal in March 2025.
The filmmakers who accompany them provide stark footage of a village that has been totally destroyed, as well as interviewing survivors about the atrocities they witnessed.
The Ukrainians ransacked nearly every house, torturing, raping and killing residents who failed to evacuate in time and stealing phones, video machines, diesel and gasoline. In several instances, they lobbed grenades into cellars where residents crowded for shelter. The requisitioned nearly every other house for weapons and stored food.
Many elderly villagers froze to death, with no food, water, heat and with all their windows broken.
The Ukrainians took 100 civilians hostage when they withdrew. Following negotiations the Red Cross returned 25 to their families.
The film includes an interview with a Ukrainian POW captured as his unit retreated. He talks about participating in he gang rape of a young girl after being ordered to do so by squad leaders. He also talks about systematically going house to kill all the men they find and rape and execute the women.
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