James O'Keefe OUT From Project Veritas, After Being Placed on Paid Leave By the Board

Federal Appeals Court Reinstates $656 Million Judgment Against Palestinian Authorities Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times, A federal appellate court has agreed to reinstate a $656 million judgment against Palestinian authorities for Americans killed or wounded in attacks by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority while in Israel. The ruling from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was issued in the wake of a Supreme Court decision authorizing such suits for victims of international terrorism in a legal saga that’s been ongoing since the mid-2010s. “We conclude...

Lebanese officials have reportedly proposed direct peace talks with Israel as a way to end the ongoing Israeli invasion, and sought help from the US in brokering such discussions, but were apparently rebuffed, with US envoy Tom Barrack reportedly saying there was “nothing to discuss.” Israel has been attacking Lebanon on a virtually daily basis […]

We Want One Solution, But One Solution Can't Solve Our Polycrisis Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via Substack, Whatever the problem, our minds seek one solution--preferably a simple one--to escape the trackless wilderness of complex, inter-connected problems. Problem-solving boils down to identifying the key problem and finding a fix that’s easy to understand and straightforward to apply. Our minds rebel when confronted with polycrisis, a knotted mess of inter-connected problems, and so we apply solutions we already have in hand. As I explained in previous Musings, this leads us to modify our...