2025-12-02: Epstein Files Roundup

aljazeera.com (2025-12-02). LIVE: Israeli forces continue demolition, destruction around Gaza City Israeli forces carry out demolition and destruction on residential buildings behind the so-called yellow line in the eastern areas of Gaza City. | Israeli army vehicles have opened fire east of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

newsweek.com (2025-12-02). Donald Trump Gets New Warning Over US Attacking VenezuelaChuck Schumer warned in a speech on the Senate floor Monday that he will "immediately" file a bipartisan war powers resolution to block the use of American troops in Venezuela if President Donald Trump orders strikes targeting the South American nation.

english.palinfo.com (2025-12-02). Settlers uproot hundreds of grapevines and olive trees in southern al-Khalil A horde of extremist Jewish settlers destroyed hundreds of grapevines and olive trees in the Khilat al-Hums area, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank.

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nationofchange.org (2025-12-01). Hegseth order to "kill everybody" triggers war crimes alarms New revelations that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally ordered Special Operations forces to kill every person aboard a suspected narcotrafficking boat in the Caribbean have accelerated a political and legal crisis surrounding the Trump administration's covert maritime strike campaign.

wsws.org (2025-12-01). US war crime exposed, as Trump escalates assault on Venezuela "The order [from Hegseth] was to kill everybody." This was the first in a series of deadly missile strikes that have sunk at least 22 small boats and killed at least 83 people from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Trinidad.

english.palinfo.com (2025-12-01). Hordes of Jewish settlers defile Aqsa Mosque Scores of extremist Jewish settlers desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Jerusalem on Monday morning and later in the afternoon, amid restrictions on the entry of Muslim worshipers to the holy site.

dailysabah.com (2025-12-01). Venezuela accuses US of threatening to seize its oil with 'military force' Venezuela on Sunday appealed to OPEC and its members for support against what it called U.S. "aggression," claiming Washington has threatened to take control of its vast oil reserves through the use of military force.

amnesty.org (2025-12-01). Global: Assembly of States Parties must oppose, not appease, US sanctions on the ICC States must firmly oppose the US government's threats and sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) and protect the Court's ability to pursue its independent and impartial mandate, Amnesty International said today, on the beginning of the 24th Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute – the ICC's founding treaty – which runs until 6 December in The Hague.

apnews.com (2025-11-30). Israel's Netanyahu requests a pardon during his ongoing corruption trialNetanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial, after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three separate cases accusing him of exchanging favors with wealthy political supporters.

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Kate Horgan (2025-12-01). Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure. projectcensored.org This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, "Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press's Failures." We also delve into the increasingly problematic world of Artificial Intelligence, the challenges and threats AI poses, and the importance of critical AI literacy. Next, Mickey speaks to Brown University first year student James Libresco about his latest Dispatch on Media and Politics for Project Censored titled, "A Direct Attack on Freedom of Speech: Trump Takes on Higher Ed." Libresco addresses media freedom and the student press, as well as the massive pushback to…

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aljazeera.com (2025-12-02). Hegseth or Admiral Bradley: Who approved the second Venezuela boat strike? Experts have called the second attack – what in military jargon is known as a "double tap" strike – illegal. The strikes have drawn criticism not just from Democrats but from several Republicans in Congress, who have pledged to lead investigations into what happened.

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counterpunch.org (2025-12-01). Venezuela Isn't the Global Threat, Trump and Rubio Are U.S. warships and aircraft have gathered in the Caribbean as part of Washington's latest military buildup in a renewed effort to combat narcotics trafficking. Many analysts see a familiar mix of political posturing and regime-change ambitions rather than a serious security operation.

commondreams.org (2025-12-01). Amnesty Confirms What It's Plain to See: Israel's Genocide in Gaza Continues Amnesty International concludes that, over a month after a ceasefire was agreed upon in Gaza and all living Israeli hostages were returned, the Israeli authorities continue to pursue the textbook definition of genocide "by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction." Moreover, Israeli leaders continue openly to affirm that this course of action is intentional on their parts.

newsx.com (2025-12-01). What Is Two-State Solution? Pope Leo Says It's The Only Way To End Israel-Palestine Conflict Amid Gaza WarThis could end up being the only solution...

palestinechronicle.com (2025-12-01). US Attack on Colombia, Venezuela: Six Takeaways from Dan Kovalik's Interview Dan Kovalik, President Petro's attorney, breaks down Washington's political attack via sanctions, exposing the imperialist effort to crush Colombia's pro-Gaza leadership and undermine the revolutionary solidarity of nations like Venezuela.

truthout.org (2025-11-30). Trump Declares Venezuelan Airspace "Closed" in Latest Illegal Escalation Policy experts and advocates on Saturday denounced President Donald Trump's claim that he had ordered the airspace above and around Venezuela "to be closed in its entirety" — an authority the US president does not have but that one analyst said signaled a "scorched earth" policy in the South American country and that others warned could portend imminent airstrikes.

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