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Epstein fallout claims another one: Larry Summers to resign as Harvard University professor

Daniel Arkin
NBC News
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:50 UTC
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© Victor J. Blue / Bloomberg / Getty ImagesLarry Summers, president emeritus and professor at Harvard University, during an interview in New York, on Sept. 17.
Summers' connection to Epstein was long established, but emails published by House lawmakers showed the two men were closer than had been publicly known.

Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and noted economist, announced Wednesday he plans to resign from his role as a tenured professor at Harvard University — a move that comes amid growing scrutiny of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic year," Summers said in a statement. "I will always be grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago."

"Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues," he added.

Summers also resigned from his leadership position as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University spokesman Jason Newton confirmed in an email.

Comment: Larry Summers has been in and around the halls of power for decades. What use did Epstein make of that particular venue of access?

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Declassified CIA files reveal chilling blueprint to manipulate Americans' minds through covert drugging with vaccines

Stacy Liberatore
Daily Mail
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:52 UTC
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A newly released CIA document reveals a chilling blueprint to manipulate minds through covert drugging experiments.

The report, added to the CIA's reading room in 2025, details the government's once top-secret Project Artichoke that ran from 1951 to 1956, focusing on behavior control, interrogation techniques and psychological manipulation.

The seven-page document, titled 'Special Research for Artichoke,' with an attachment labeled 'Suggested Fields for Special Research Relative Artichoke,' outlines proposals to develop chemicals capable of altering human behavior.

It discusses drugs designed for both immediate effects, like truth serums and long-term influence, potentially administered through food, water, alcohol or cigarettes.

Researchers also suggested that such substances could be disguised in medical treatments such as vaccinations or injections.

The CIA was also looking into methods beyond chemicals, listing hypnosis, sensory deprivation, gases and other psychological methods for interrogation and behavioral control.

Artichoke served as a precursor to the CIA's MKUltra program, which later broadened mind-altering experiments on a larger scale.

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"The Surgery of the World": Netanyahu arrives in Washington to deliver the final blow to diplomacy and ignite a major war

Mohammed ibn Faisal al-Rashid
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu gives US President Donald Trump the evil eye • Ultimatum
The Israeli Prime Minister's hasty visit to the White House is not a consultation between allies, but an armed intrusion into the negotiation process.

Under the guise of ensuring security, Netanyahu is demanding terms from Trump that Iran will never accept. The goal is singular: to bury any hope for a deal and drag the United States into yet another Middle Eastern bloodbath. Behind the façade of an "unbreakable friendship" between Washington and Tel Aviv lies a cynical spectacle where partners are ready to stab each other in the back for the sake of hegemony.

Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Washington, hastily rescheduled for February 2026, is not a matter of diplomatic etiquette but an act of desperation and aggression. The Israeli Prime Minister rushed to the White House with one objective: to destroy the budding dialogue between the US and Iran that had just begun to emerge in Oman.

He brought with him a dossier of intelligence, his well-honed skill of disregarding American diplomacy when it suits him, and the firm conviction that the US is on the verge of a deal that would leave Israel vulnerable. The meeting with Trump, originally scheduled for February 11th, was abruptly moved up a week and took place shortly after the start of US-Iran negotiations. This was no routine consultation between allies; it was an intervention in the affairs of another state.
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Iran strikes covert missile deal with Moscow in backchannel rearmament

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:45 UTC
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Iran is squarely in the Trump administration's crosshairs, and both Russia and China are to some degree coming to Tehran's aid with some significant arms deals meant to potentially stave off future attack.

Most significantly, the Financial Times is reporting that Russia will supply the Iranians with thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles in a deal worth 500 million Euros.

It's said to be part of a broader effort to rebuild Iran's air defenses, which were heavily destroyed and retarded by Israeli-US airstrikes in the last June war. Iran is also greatly limited given years of US-led sanctions targeting its defense and industrial sectors.

Though only coming to light this past weekend, the agreement was inked in Moscow in December, and commits Russia to deliver 500 "Verba" launch units and 2,500 "9M336" missiles over three years.

FT says it reviewed leaked Russian documents the UK publication obtained, which revealed the secretive deal for the Russian anti-air defenses.
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The Fani Files: Georgia prosecutor plotted Trump case closely with Biden DOJ, J6 Democrats: memos

John Solomon, Steven Richards
Just the News
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:04 UTC
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© Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP/KJNFulton County District-Attorney Fani Willis, Former US President Joe Biden
Secretary of State of Georgia Brad Raffensperger
Just the News and America First Legal win access to 8,000 pages of documents after extensive open records litigation. The memos include revelations on how Joe Biden waived Trump's executive privilege specifically to aid Georgia prosecutors.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis coordinated extensively with the Biden Justice Department and White House as well as Democrats on the House Jan. 6 investigative committee as she built a failed criminal case against President Donald Trump and his allies related to their challenge to Georgia's 2020 election results, according to a trove of internal communications obtained by Just the News.

The memos show that President Joe Biden's top White House lawyer personally opened the door for Willis' prosecutors to interview Trump administration officials by waiving claims of executive privilege, that federal prosecutors waived certain rights to allow the interviews to proceed before a state grand jury and that Willis's team spoke glowingly of the congressional efforts to expose Trump's involvement in the disputed election.
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Best of the Web: Israeli troops fired 900+ rounds at Gaza medics - report


RT
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:06 UTC
Red Crescent workers protest
© Getty Images/Anadolu/ContributorRed Crescent workers • April 2025
Hundreds of rounds were fired at aid workers during a March 2025 massacre at Tal as-Sultan, an independent investigation says.

Israeli soldiers fired over 900 rounds at a convoy of clearly marked emergency vehicles in Rafah in 2025, killing 15 Palestinian aid workers, some of them shot at close range, an independent investigation has found.

The attack took place on March 18, 2025 in the Tal as-Sultan area of southern Gaza, where local responders had been dispatched to collect wounded civilians. Fifteen Palestinian aid workers were killed, including medics from the Palestine Red Crescent Society and members of the Civil Defense.

The victims were traveling in five ambulances and one fire truck, all clearly marked and operating with emergency lights, when they came under sustained gunfire, according to a report released on Monday by independent research agency Forensic Architecture and audio investigation group Earshot.
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DOOMSDAY: The suicide pact nobody voted for

Gerry Nolan
The Islander Reports
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:57 UTC
Psychos at Number 10
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DOOMSDAY is the only word that fits — but let's name the madness with the surgical clarity this moment demands. On the fourth anniversary of a war they have already lost, London and Paris have apparently decided the answer is not negotiation, not dignity, not the elementary statecraft of knowing when you are beaten — but nuclear escalation into the abyss. We are well past the point of any strategy on NATO's part — there is only one word to describe the insanity, and that word is pathology.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Russia's SVR names the weapon with the kind of clinical specificity that cannot be dismissed as propaganda: France's TN75 miniaturized thermonuclear warhead, the crown jewel of the M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile — to be covertly dismembered, smuggled in components, transferred to Kyiv, and cosmetically disguised as a Ukrainian "indigenous development." A lie so architecturally transparent it insults every arms inspector, every treaty signatory, every breathing human being who has spent eighty years constructing the fragile scaffolding of nuclear non-proliferation. Kiev on cue calls it an absurd lie. Paris calls it blatant disinformation. London says there is "no truth to this." And yet not one of them has called an emergency press conference to repudiate. Not one has or will provide anything of material and consequence to clear their name. They have issued banal statements — the diplomatic equivalent of a man caught with his hand in the vault saying he was simply checking the lock.

And here is the question that neither London nor Paris can answer — because no democratic process on earth has ever asked it. No voter in France went to the polls to authorise the covert transfer of thermonuclear warheads to an active war zone. No British citizen marked a ballot for a policy that Russian doctrine formally classifies as a joint act of war against a nuclear power. No electorate in Europe or America — not one — was consulted on the decision to sleepwalk their children to the edge of the nuclear precipice. Power of this magnitude, exercised in this darkness, over consequences this irreversible, was simply taken — pocketed in the corridor of an intelligence briefing, ratified by no one, answerable to nothing.
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Hungary to deploy troops against potential 'Ukrainian attacks'


RT
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:55 UTC
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has ordered military units and additional police to guard energy infrastructure sites in his country's east, citing the threat of potential Ukrainian attacks.

Orban announced the deployment on Wednesday amid the continuing standoff between Budapest and Kiev over the Soviet-era Druzhba pipeline, which until recently carried Russian crude to Hungary and Slovakia via Ukraine.

The pipeline went offline in late January, with Kiev claiming it was damaged in Russian strikes, which Moscow has denied. Both Hungary and Slovakia have accused Ukraine of deliberately withholding supplies for political reasons, threatening retaliation.

Announcing the move, Orban cited intelligence obtained by the country's security services about the potential attacks and stressed that Hungary "cannot be blackmailed" by Kiev.

Comment: Hungary has an election coming up. The blocking of the oil pipeline by Ukraine with tacit EU support could cause tensions in Hungary, unfavourable to Orban's reelection. Putting troops on the border could be seen as a countermove which might swing support in favour of Orban who is one of the few in the EU who fights against the continuation of the war in Ukraine and the mindless arming and financing of Ukraine to the detriment of EU citizens.

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Critical Part Of Hungary & Slovakia's Russian Oil Flows Has Just Been Blown Up

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:37 UTC
Transneft oil pumping station in the republic of Tatarstan fire
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Ukraine's long-range drone campaign has reportedly once again struck at the heart of Russia's energy artery, igniting a fire at a key Transneft oil pumping station in the republic of Tatarstan early Monday.

Regional officials confirmed the incident after local media and Telegram channels first reported explosions near the strategic facility, with authorities announcing: "as a result of falling drone debris, a local fire broke out in an industrial zone."

No casualties resulted from the blasts which took place around 4am at the Kaleykino pumping station. A fire ensued after eyewitnesses reported hearing some seven explosions.

Comment: Hungary and Slovakia are now preventing emergency electricity and diesel fuel to Ukraine until the pipelines are repaired.

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As Epstein brokered Rothschild Bank deals, DEA ran secret probe Into $50M laundering scheme

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:30 UTC
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A newly uncovered DEA document from the DOJ's Jeffrey Epstein files release reveals that Epstein was the subject of a secret, 5-year investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on suspicions of laundering approximately $50 million through a web of illicit drug and prostitution networks - yet federal prosecutors pursuing his 2019 trafficking case had no idea.

The DEA investigation, code-named "Chain Reaction," was launched by the DEA's New York office on December 17, 2010, and targette4d Epstein (listed as "Target 4") - as well as 14 other individuals whose names have been redacted. Chain Reaction focused on "illegitimate wire transfers" suspected of funding "illicit drug and/or prostitution activities" in New York City and the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein owned his notorious Little St. James island.

Drawing from a multi-agency dragnet - including the DEA, FBI, ICE, CBP, FinCEN, and others - the memo compiles biographical data, border crossings, criminal histories, and financial red flags. It reveals roughly $50 million in suspicious transactions from 2010 to 2015, routed through accounts in Switzerland, France, the Cayman Islands, and New York. Epstein himself was flagged in seven Unified Suspicious Activity Reports (USARs) totaling $5.67 million, eight Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) amounting to $233,397, and three Unified Currency Transaction Reports (UCTRs) for $102,648 - some conducted on his behalf by associates.
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