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The Nazis’ unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945, triggered a bacchanal across the West and parts of the East as millions poured into the streets to celebrate on the following day, singing, dancing, hugging, and famously, kissing. From Winnipeg to Warsaw, and Chicago to Copenhagen to Cape Town, the jubilation expressed on Victory in Europe Day-- or VE Day as it came to be known—represents a singular, unifying moment for the world community.
The Allies’ victory over fascism did not mean, however, that all fascism was banned, just fascism against white people, as the Algerians quickly discovered on the occasion of VE Day.
Trump Ukraine Plan AOA (Alive On Arrival)
December 4, 2025
Ray McGovern, Consortium News.
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Peace Negotiations, Russia, Trump Administration, Ukraine
Despite widespread rejection and ridicule in Western media of Donald Trump’s peace proposal on Ukraine being “dead on arrival” in Moscow, there was Trump’s envoy and his son-in-law discussing the “dead” document for five hours until midnight on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin.
Yury Ushakov, Putin’s chief aide on Ukraine, in the official readout, said the two sides discussed several options, including territorial issues, and agreed to continue contacts.
“We did not discuss specific formulations, specific American proposals, but discussed the very essence of what is embedded in these American documents.
US Lawmakers File Resolution To Block Trump’s War In Venezuela
December 4, 2025
News Desk, The Cradle.
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Congress, Trump Administration, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism
US lawmakers filed a resolution on 3 December that would block a US military attack on Venezuela unless it can win congressional approval.
The move, initiated by a group of Democratic and Republican Senators, came in response to repeated statements by US President Donald Trump in recent days claiming that a land invasion of the Latin American nation to combat drug traffickers would begin “very soon.”
The president claims, without evidence, that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro heads a criminal cartel trafficking drugs by boat to the US.
Honduras: Plot By The US-Backed Far Right Causes Political Crisis
December 4, 2025
Alejandra Garcia, Resumen English.
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Elections, Honduras, Politics, US Intervention
More than 6 million Hondurans went to the polls this past Sunday to elect the country’s next president in a process marked by irregularities, foreign interference, and coup attempts by the far right. Pre-election polls showed a wide lead for the candidate of the ruling Libre party, Rixi Moncada. However, today Honduras marks three days without knowing its president-elect, amid technical failures and an extremely tight count that keeps conservative candidates Nasry Asfura and Salvador Nasralla in a technical tie, in what Moncada describe as an electoral plot.
ICE Now Grabbing People Out Of Churches
December 4, 2025
Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik, People's World.
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Chicago, churches, ICE, Immigrant Rights
Chicago — ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), in an ever-expanding unconstitutional crime spree, is ushering in the Christmas season by launching immigration raids inside churches across the country. Trump’s holiday gift to the nation is the administration’s new policy that it is legal to enter churches as people worship and round them up in the immigration raids happening from coast to coast.
Not waiting for the fightback on the part of immigrants and their supporters that has already begun, ICE agents began their terror campaign here in Chicago on a recent Sunday.
High Court Trickery On Palestine Action
December 3, 2025
Jonathan Cook, Consortium News.
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Legal System, Palestine Action, Terrorism Act, United Kingdom (UK)
The High Court judge who granted a legal challenge to the government’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action — the first time in British history a civil-disobedience organisation has been declared a terrorist group, one now treated as on a par with Al-Qaeda — was removed at the last minute last week.
The judicial review hearing began without Justice Martin Chamberlain. He was replaced with a panel of three judges.
Justice Chamberlain did not suffer any timetabling conflicts. The Justice Ministry declined to offer any explanation for such a highly irregular change.
After Canadian Police Raid Homes, Six Peace Activists Face Charges
December 2, 2025
Pierre Lajeunesse, World Socialist Web Site.
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Canada, Israel, Ontario, Palestine, Peace, Repression, World Beyond War (WBW)
London, Ontario police carried out coordinated pre-dawn raids on November 25 against four homes across southern Ontario, targeting members of the anti-war and Palestinian-solidarity group World Beyond War (WBW). The raids bring to six the number of peace activists charged in relation to a protest of more than 100 people against the Best Defence Conference in London at the end of October, an arms-industry gathering attended by Israeli-linked weapons manufacturers and Canadian military officials.
The sweeping operation saw officers burst into homes at 6 a.m., frighten children, seize personal electronic devices and haul activists hours away from their communities.
Kremlin Slams NATO Call For Pre-Emptive Attack On Russia
December 2, 2025
News Desk, The Cradle.
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European Union (EU), NATO, Russia, Wars and Militarism
Moscow condemned on 1 December comments made by NATO's most senior military officer, threatening that Brussels might conduct a possible “pre-emptive strike” against Russia.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the remarks “an extremely irresponsible step, indicating the alliance's readiness to continue moving towards escalation.”
“We see in it a deliberate attempt to undermine efforts to overcome the Ukrainian crisis,” Zakharova said.
“The people making such statements should be aware of the risks and possible consequences, including for the alliance members themselves.”
Defending Rights And Dissent Weighs In On Terrorism Definition
December 2, 2025
Chip Gibbons, Defending Rights & Dissent.
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Free Speech, State Repression, Terrorism, United Nations
Since the 1980s, defending the right to political expression has increasingly meant challenging the use of counterterrorism powers to stifle political speech. In 1999, we published Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. Written by two eminent legal scholars, David Cole and James Dempsey, it analyzed how counterterrorism laws and mandates were being used to abridge core rights to political expression. This work was necessitated by continuous revelations throughout the 1980s and 1990s as to how in the U.S. counterterrorism authorities were used to monitor domestic political speech, as well as the dramatic implementation of new counterterrorism laws in the 1990s that criminalized speech and humanitarian activities formerly understood to be protected by core expressive rights.
On Trans Care, WaPo Rejects Experts And Invents ‘More Neutral’ Center
December 2, 2025
Julie Hollar, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
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health, Media, Transgender Rights, Trump Administration, Washington Post
President Donald Trump, having campaigned heavily on anti-trans fear mongering, issued an executive order within days of taking office that banned federal support for gender-affirming care. That same order commanded the secretary of Health and Human Services to produce a report on “best practices” for the care of trans youth.
When the report was released in May, exactly zero people were surprised that its conclusions echoed the executive order’s anti-trans stance—condemning gender-affirming care and instead recommending “exploratory” therapy—and were grounded in ideology, not science or medical expertise.
Campaign To ‘Free Palestinian Hostages’ In Israeli Jails Gains Momentum
December 1, 2025
Elis Gjevori, Middle East Eye.
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Israel, Palestinians, Prisoner Solidarity, Prisons, Torture
Thousands of demonstrators filled central London on Saturday as part of the “Free Palestinian Hostages” campaign, demanding the release of more than 9,100 Palestinians held in notorious Israeli prisons, including over 450 women and children.
Waving Palestinian flags and wearing red ribbons to signify detention without charge, protesters denounced Israel’s routine use of torture, rape, arbitrary arrest and inhumane treatment.
Protesters accused Israel of running a system rooted in apartheid and genocide, and calling for an immediate end to mass incarceration.
UN Report: Israel Maintains ‘De Facto State Policy Of Organized Torture’
December 1, 2025
News Desk, The Cradle.
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Crimes against humanity, Human Rights, Israel, Palestine, Prisons, Torture
The UN Committee Against Torture has released a new report accusing Israel of employing a “de facto state policy” of torture in an “organized and widespread” manner.
The report highlights how Israel does not have any legislation criminalizing torture, adding that Israeli law protects officials from culpability.
“The committee was deeply concerned about reports indicating a de facto state policy of organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment during the reporting period, which had gravely intensified since 7 October 2023,” the UN report said.
Trump Commands Venezuela’s Heavens Closed
December 1, 2025
Roger D. Harris, Popular Resistance.
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Coup Attempt, Hybrid Warfare, President Maduro, Trump Administration, Venezuela
US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29.
Yet the US has as much legal and moral authority to shutter the skies over Venezuela as the Venezuelans have to close the putting greens at Mar-a-Lago. Yes, that’s ridiculous – but not any more so than Washington’s phony pretext of drug interdiction for their deadly regime-change offensive against Venezuela.
To date, the Yankee military has murdered over 80 people in alleged “drug boats” in the southern Caribbean and eastern Pacific but has yet to confiscate a single milligram of narcotics from Venezuela. The Venezuelan authorities, in contrast, have seized 64 tons of cocaine this year that were being transited through their country and have done so without killing a single person.
Honduran Elections 2025 Preliminary Results Released
Honduran National Electoral Council released its first preliminary results after closing ballot boxes, but the Freedom and Refoundation Party quickly raised fraud alarms. The electoral day on November 30 in Honduras culminated with the National Electoral Council‘s disclosure of initial preliminary presidential results. These figures, representing 34.25% of processed ballots, immediately stirred intense nationwide expectation.
Pre-election polls focused on the candidacies of former Defence Minister Rixi Moncada (FREE Party, LIBRE in Spanish) and the right-wing contenders: former Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura (National Party) and television host Salvador Nasralla (Liberal Party).
Don’t Believe The Simulated Coup D’État In Guinea-Bissau
December 1, 2025
The Black Alliance for Peace.
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coup, Democracy, Elections, Guinea-Bissau, Neo-Colonization
It is important that African (Black) people around the world not fall for the latest amateurish attempt by the neo-colonialist puppet government in Guinea-Bissau, led by President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, to subvert the democratic will of the Bissau-Guinean people. Before completing the country’s November 23rd election process, military leaders loyal to Embaló suspended it and seized “total control” of the country, claiming to have done so to prevent election manipulation.
The Black Alliance for Peace’s (BAP) Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) unite with the assessments and positions of our member organizations.