Tout d'abord, commentaires de Larchmonter
• L'ambassadeur américain auprès de l'OTAN a déclaré qu'il restait 90 jours. C'est également le délai politique imparti à Trump pour présenter sa politique aux républicains : la paix selon les conditions de Poutine ou la guerre selon les conditions de Zelensky. Trump n'a pas son mot à dire. Il doit simplement prendre une décision.
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: