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Best of the Web: Macron to go full "Ministry of Truth" with new censorship powers

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:22 UTC
Macron
© Karwai Tang/Getty ImagesFrench President Emmanuel Macron
French President Emmanuel Macron is facing fierce pushback from conservative voices within France over his renewed drive to grant the state sweeping new censorship powers, Barron's reports.

On Friday, Macron once again raised the alarm about so-called "disinformation" spreading on social media, insisting that parliament grant authorities the ability to immediately block content deemed "false information." As if the existing arsenal of censorship tools weren't enough, the left-wing president now wants to establish a "professional certification" system that would effectively create an official, state-approved class of media outlets — separating those that toe the government's ethical line from those that refuse to do so.

France's right-wing press has reacted with outrage, with Vincent Bolloré's Journal du Dimanche denouncing Macron's "totalitarian drift" on free speech and warning of "the temptation of a ministry of truth."

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Stop the drive to war with Venezuela

Ryan McMaken
Mises Institute
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00 UTC
Flags USA Venezuela
© APA ImagesFlag of USA • Flag of Venezuela
On October 23, the Trump administration announced to Congress that it is planning "land attacks" within Venezuelan territory. Such attacks, of course, would be acts of war, and there are no plans for Congress to declare war on any foreign state.

Moreover, on Tuesday, Trump declared that any country deemed by the administration to be making drugs for US markets is a possible target for US military attack. Trump also stated that military strikes on Venezuela territory would "start very soon."

Meanwhile, the administration has been using the US military to engage in extrajudicial killings of persons in the Caribbean alleged to be "narco-terrorists." The administration admits it doesn't actually know who these people are. The US military is simply killing people without any evidence of actual crimes or of a military threat. Nor has the administration attempted to offer any evidence. The justification for the killings is simply — to use a phrase from meme culture — "trust me, bro."

The attacks are also meant to serve as a provocation and a threat to the Venezuelan regime, and to serve as an "example" of what will be done on Venezuelan territory if the current Venezuelan president does not go into exile.
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After the Ceasefire: What next for global solidarity with Palestine?

Shatha Abdulsamad
Mondoweiss
Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:00 UTC
Pal protesters
© Michael Kuenne/Prescov via Zuma Press Wire/APA ImagesPro-Palestinian protesters rally in Berlin • April 2023
The global Palestine solidarity movement is at a crossroads as traditional forms of advocacy have become too easy for governments to ignore. Moving forward, the movement must shift from reactive protests to building lasting political power.

Despite Hamas and Israel agreeing on a ceasefire on October 10, the genocide in the Gaza Strip has only slowed down.

United States President Donald Trump's "peace plan" does not address the Israeli structural violence that still exists against Palestinians, and there has been no real movement or action from governments to hold the architects of the genocide accountable for their crimes. Although the daily massacres - averaging about 100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip - have lessened, the mechanisms of oppression are still firmly in place: the territory remains blockaded, and Israeli aerial and artillery attacks persist with minimal resistance from world governments.

In the absence and failure of institutional change, the international pro-Palestine solidarity movement must sustain its momentum. It must continue to pursue direct and effective actions that challenge the foundations of Israeli dominance and the complicity of those who enable it.
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Five Ukrainian brigades encircled in Donbass town - Bild


RT
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:10 UTC
Soldier
© Stanislav Krasilnikov/Sputnik/FileWhat lies ahead
Russian forces have cut off supply lines to soldiers trapped in Dmitrov, the outlet reports.

Five Ukrainian brigades are virtually encircled in the town of Dmitrov (known as Mirnograd in Ukraine) after Russian forces captured the nearby city of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), a Ukrainian soldier on the ground told the German outlet Bild.

The Russian army has effectively cut off all supply routes to the 1,000 Ukrainian troops trapped in the city, Bild reported on Tuesday, citing the soldier.

"To be honest, the situation is critical," the Ukrainian serviceman said, adding that his group is only being supplied through drone deliveries. He added that Russian soldiers have taken control of "almost every single building" between Dmitrov and the parts of Donbass still controlled by the Ukrainian military.

The soldier criticized the actions of his commanders, which he said deployed "many units" to the area but still failed to retain control over supply routes leading to Dmitrov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Kiev was trying to regain control over Krasnoarmeysk to relieve Dmitrov "at any cost" by sending newly formed and inexperienced units virtually to their deaths.
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Israel and Lebanon hold first direct talks in decades


RT
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:15 UTC
Naqoura UN vehicles
© File/Getty Inages/Anadolu/Contributor
The meeting comes under a US-brokered ceasefire between West Jerusalem and Hezbollah that has been in effect since November 2024.

Israel and Lebanon have conducted their first direct talks in decades as part of a US-brokered ceasefire that ended the war between the Jewish State and the military group Hezbollah.

Civilian representatives from both sides met on Wednesday at the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force in Naqoura, Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said, as cited by media. The meeting, held under a mechanism set up after the November 2024 truce, was the first to include civilian officials instead of solely military officers.

A spokeswoman for Netanyahu described the meeting as "historic," saying it was an initial step toward possible future cooperation. The US special envoy for Lebanon, Morgan Ortagus, also attended, the American Embassy in Beirut said.

Earlier in the day, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam told reporters that any future economic cooperation with Israel could come only after a peace agreement. "We are still far from that," he said.
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Israeli army shells east of Gaza Strip, detonates buildings despite ceasefire


Middle East Monitor
Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:31 UTC
Rafah, Gaza on May 06, 2024
© IDF – Handout/Anadolu AgencyIsraeli tanks are seen by the border as the Israeli army announced that it has taken control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing in Rafah, Gaza on May 06, 2024
The Israeli army carried out airstrikes and home demolitions in the military-controlled yellow zone across the Gaza Strip early Sunday, Anadolu reports.

Israeli aircraft struck several areas in Rafah, while naval vessels fired shells toward the city's coastline, local sources and witnesses told Anadolu.

Israel's military vehicles stationed near the Morag Axis, northeast of Rafah, conducted sweeping operations and heavy gunfire in the area.

Israeli artillery shelled eastern Khan Younis, and helicopters launched fire on buildings amid home detonations in the area, according to witnesses.

An Israeli airstrike hit east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, an Anadolu correspondent said.

Comment: Israel will most likely never stop attacking the Palestinians. There is not enough world resistance to hold Israel to account for it's crimes.

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Trump To Roll Back Biden-Era Fuel Standards, Admin Says It Will Save Americans $109 Billion

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:35 UTC
US highway traffic
© Ben Birchall/PA
President Donald Trump will eliminate fuel standard regulations imposed by President Joe Biden when he signs an executive order on Dec. 3 in the Oval Office.

His directive will reduce the number of miles a vehicle must travel on a mile of gasoline, a move that will mitigate car price increases of about $1,000 and save Americans approximately $109 billion, according to administration officials.

Representatives from Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis are expected to join the president for the signing ceremony.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a division of the Department of Transportation, oversees the Corporate Average Fuel Economy regulations — enacted by Congress in 1975 to reduce fuel consumption by setting miles per gallon standards for vehicles.

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EU disunity resurfaces - German and Polish leaders clash over WWII reparations


RT
Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:15 UTC
Tusk and Merz
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hold a joint press conference in Berlin, Germany on December 1, 2025.
Polish PM Donald Tusk reiterated that Warsaw is still waiting for Berlin to pay compensation for the war.

The longstanding issue of reparations for WW II crimes cast a shadow over a meeting between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday. In what is a highly sensitive historical grievance, Tusk restated Polish demands for compensation, a request Merz rebuffed.

At a joint press conference, Tusk reiterated that "Germany is adhering to the formal diplomatic agreement from the 1950s" but "those who know history know that... Poland had no say in the matter".

"The renunciation of reparations by the Poles at that time is not seen as an act in accordance with the will of the Polish nation," he said.

Tusk was referring to Berlin's position that Poland waived its rights in a 1953 agreement with East Germany and that the 1990 treaty on German reunification settled the matter. Germany has acknowledged responsibility for Nazi crimes but has refused to reopen the question of reparations.
"We must keep memories alive, even painful ones," Merz said alongside Tusk. "I hope that we can do this in a way that does not divide us, but brings us closer together."

Comment: Some countries are trying to use the Zelensky method of repeatedly begging for money.


Comment: "A house divided against itself cannot stand" (Abraham Lincoln).

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Justice Department weighs pursuing new indictments against James Comey, Letitia James

Alex Nitzberg
Fox News
Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:12 UTC
comey james letitia
Letitia James and James Comey
Last week, a judge dismissed indictments against Ex-FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James

In the wake of a federal judge's moves last month to dismiss separate indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, the Department of Justice is considering possibly pursuing new indictments against the two figures, according to Politico.

The outlet reported that two individuals familiar with the cases indicated that the DOJ is seriously thinking about refraining from appealing the dismissals and is instead seeking new indictments against Comey and James.

Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ, which did not provide comment.

Comment:

Clinton-era fed judge voids James Comey, Letitia James indictments

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Trial by jury on the chopping block: UK thinks it must destroy the village to save the village

Oliver JJ Lane
Breitbart
Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:56 UTC
david lammy britain
© GettyUK government’s justice minister David Lammy
The UK government's justice minister David Lammy launched into a full-throated defence of his plans to deprive suspects of a chance to be judged by 12 of their peers, insisting he has a superior understanding of Magna Carta and that the "emergency" justifies doing away with ancient rights.

The justice minister set out his plan to cut the backlog in pending legal cases before the crown court by reducing the quality of justice on offer on Tuesday, announcing new "swift courts". Stepping back only slightly on what he soft-launched in the media last week as the abolition of trial by jury in almost all cases, Lammy nevertheless said the government is to go much further than a justice report's recommendation by placing thousands of suspects in front of a single lawyer wearing at once the hats of judge, jury, and metaphorical executioner.

His opposite number on the Conservative benches, shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick, responded to the change by warning that if it was allowed to go ahead, it would be "the beginning of the end of jury trials" and lambasted the left-wing government for being so solicitous of the rights of illegal migrants while dismissing the ancient rights of Britons as historic curiosities of no relevance.

Comment: UK goes full Kafka: The terrifying case of Natalie Strecker

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