Tucker Carlson admitted that a lot of the tips he received about Hunter Biden were from Israeli intelligence. Cenk Uygur and Glenn Greenwald discuss on The Young Turks.
Archiv: Biden Administration 2021-2025
Wie im Gangster-Film: Firma will Ăberwachungskameras fĂŒr Geheimdienste manipulieren
(December 29, 2022)
Auch mit Deutschland soll es zumindest GesprÀche gegeben haben, geht aus den Haaretz vorliegenden Dokumenten hervor. Neben den USA und Australien soll es zudem Kontakt mit Singapur gegeben haben, einem nicht-demokratischen Staat. Ob die LÀnder tatsÀchlich Produkte von Toka einsetzen, ist nicht bekannt.
Der Markt fĂŒr vernetzte GerĂ€te wie Videokameras, KĂŒhlschrĂ€nke und Autos wĂ€chst seit Jahren kontinuierlich an.
Netanyahu‘s government to back Biden in bid to win Senate support for Saudi pact
(August 6, 2023)
In Israel, there‘s concern that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, might delay and consider pushing the U.S. agreement until after the 2024 presidential elections.
Israel has sent signals to Saudi Arabia emphasizing the advantages of forging ahead under the current Democratic regime. If a future Republican government, possibly under the leadership of former President Donald Trump, were to take over, bridging bipartisan support for the deal might become an uphill battle.
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Beyond a defense pact, the Saudis also have raised requests with the US for civilian nuclear capabilities, advanced weaponry, and beyond. Israeli agreement would be crucial for these components.
Report: Saudis want US alliance, nuclear program in exchange for deal with Israel
(May 23, 2023)
Amid reports that the US is mediating a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, Channel 12 reports on apparent Saudi and US demands for the deal to go ahead.
The report says that Saudi Arabia is demanding the Biden administration unfreeze several major arms deals, a military alliance with the US and a full nuclear program.
Gavin Newsom gambles on Joe Biden in hunt for 2028 presidential nominationâ but still has to clear the Kamala Harris hurdle
(June 23, 2026)
While other Democrats are distancing themselves from Bidenâs failed reelection bid and the political wreckage that followed, Californiaâs governor is leaning in. Newsom has praised Bidenâs presidency, defended his record, and positioned himself as one of the partyâs most visible Biden loyalists.
He has called the Biden presidency a âmasterclass of policymaking.â He has said he will never turn his back on Biden. And last week, he went further.
He hosted Hunter Biden on his podcast.
That matters.
American âOligarchyâ Decried by Biden Gained $1.5 Trillion in His Term
(January 16, 2025)
The very richest Americans are among the biggest winners from President Joe Bidenâs time in office, despite his farewell address warning of an âoligarchyâ and a âtech industrial complexâ that threaten US democracy.
The 100 wealthiest Americans got more than $1.5 trillion richer over the last four years, with tech tycoons including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg leading the way, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The top 0.1% gained more than $6 trillion, Federal Reserve estimates through September show.
Report: Netanyahu âin panicâ over new US-Iran Lebanon oversight mechanism; US official denies Israel excluded
US Vice President JD Vance said earlier today that a new âdeconfliction mechanismâ was established during yesterdayâs talks in Burgenstock. According to an earlier Channel 12 report, the new arrangement would replace the one brokered in 2024 under the Biden administration, which included Israel, Lebanon, the US, France, and the UN, with a new body being made up of the US, Iran, Lebanon, Qatar, and Pakistan.
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
The Miller Doctrine
(May 27, 2026)
Yet proposals that skirt the edges of international law didnât come out of nowhere. The U.S. under George W. Bush created legal mechanisms following the September 11th attacks to torture hundreds of people in CIA black sites and then at Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administrationâs targeted drone strikes were assassinations by another name. The Biden administration further eroded international norms and subverted its own policies by financing Israelâs genocide in Gaza, in violation of the Leahy Law, which prohibits foreign military assistance to nations that violate human rights.
âSeems like Miller is sort of taking what he was already willing to do during the first term and then combining that with what Israel has been doing in the way it has just been completely ignoring any kind of international law, Geneva Conventions, any of it in its conduct in Gaza and Lebanon, to then influence U.S. foreign policy,â Annelle Sheline, a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, said in an interview.
In other words, Miller and the Trump administration have been able to steamroll what was left of international law; they just had to figure out how to do it.
The Agony Around the Democratsâ Mysterious, Ridiculous Autopsy
(May 22, 2026)
Rarely has a document been at once as mysterious and anticlimactic as the Democratic National Committeeâs autopsy of what went wrong in the 2024 election, which, after much drama and angst, was finally published on Thursday.
The committeeâs chair, Ken Martin, promised a full audit of party operations when he was running for his seat, and again when he won it. Last July, officials said it would be out in the fall. Fall came and went, and in December, Martin said it wouldnât be released at all. By hiding it, Martin made the report an object of suspicion and fascination.
âWhy are we talking about this?â: Democrats are furious that the Bidens wonât go away
Democrats want to move on from 2024. The Bidens wonât let them.
Gaza war and Israel go unmentioned in Democratsâ 2024 election autopsy report
Axios reported in February that the top Democrats who worked on the report concluded that Harris âlost significant support because of the Biden administrationâs approach to the war in Gaza.â
If thatâs the case, itâs not reflected in the document that CNN published on Thursday morning.
Read the DNCâs 2024 autopsy obtained by CNN
CNN is publishing a copy of a report into why Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election conducted at the request of Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin.
This version of the report â better known as the 2024 autopsy â was written by Democratic strategist Paul Rivera. The DNC withheld the report until presented with CNNâs reporting about much of its contents. The copy published by CNN includes annotations in red that the DNC added to its version of Riveraâs report. CNN has not modified the report and does not vouch for the accuracy of any statements within the report or the DNCâs annotations.
Israel Found the Hamas Money Machine Years Ago. Nobody Turned It Off.
(December 16, 2023)
Israeli leaders believed that Hamas was more interested in governing than fighting. By the time the agents discovered the ledgers in 2018, the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was encouraging the government of Qatar to deliver millions of dollars to the Gaza Strip. He gambled that the money would buy stability and peace.
Mr. Levy recalled briefing Mr. Netanyahu personally in 2015 about the Hamas portfolio.
Cuba confirms meeting with US officials on island, wants energy blockade lifted
(April 21, 2026)
The exchange was conducted „respectfully and professionally,“ he said, adding that the U.S. delegation did not issue any threats or deadlines as has been reported in some U.S. media.
„The elimination of the energy embargo against the country was a top priority for our delegation,“ GarcĂa del Toro said. „This act of economic coercion is an unjustified punishment of the entire Cuban population.“
Cubaâs collapse: From Obamaâs historic opening to Trumpâs crippling embargo
(April 20, 2026)
When President Trump took office in 2017, he reinstated the travel ban, upped sanctions and closed the U.S. Embassy in Havana that Obama had opened.
President Biden left most of Trumpâs restrictions in place. When Trump returned to office last year, he began what the White House has described as a âmaximum pressure campaignâ to force political and economic change in Cuba, including a near-total blockade on oil shipments that has sparked fuel shortages, price increases and prolonged blackouts on the island.
The Imperial Presidency Is Bigger Than Donald Trump
A future Democratic-controlled Congress should take up the job that Obama and the partyâs old guard abandoned: put strict limits on the use of drones that wonât simply be alternately loosened and tightened by whichever president comes to power, explicitly outlawing âtargeted killingâ and any other attempt at finding a loophole for the already existing ban on assassinations; finally repeal the 2001 Authorization of the Use of Military Force that has been serially abused by presidents to fight often secret wars all over the world; end mass surveillance, whether in the form of the National Security Agencyâs warrantless backdoor searches that Democrats actually expanded under Joe Biden, or in the warrantless spying that the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies now do through private data brokers; close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp that Trump is now trying to send migrants to; and embark on a twenty-first-century version of the Church Committee to investigate and lay bare national security abuses.
American âOligarchyâ Decried by Biden Gained $1.5 Trillion in His Term
(January 16, 2025)
The very richest Americans are among the biggest winners from President Joe Bidenâs time in office, despite his farewell address warning of an âoligarchyâ and a âtech industrial complexâ that threaten US democracy.
The 100 wealthiest Americans got more than $1.5 trillion richer over the last four years, with tech tycoons including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg leading the way, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The top 0.1% gained more than $6 trillion, Federal Reserve estimates through September show.
DNC faces pressure to release âautopsyâ reportedly blaming Gaza for Kamala Harrisâs defeat
(February 23, 2026)
Harris herself, in her memoir 107 Days, wrote that former President Joe Bidenâs appearance of having issued a âblank checkâ to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hurt her campaign. She also wrote that she pleaded with him to show more empathy for Palestinians, to little avail.
DNC Chair Ken Martin reversed course last year when he said in December that the Democrats would not release the autopsy examining the causes of Harrisâs defeat.
Suppressed DNC Autopsy Found Biden Adminâs Support for Gaza Genocide Cost Harris Votes
(February 23, 2026)
RootsAction, a progressive advocacy group that conducted its own analysis of Democratsâ 2024 loss, said in a statement that the DNCâs refusal to publicize its findings âundermines the goal of defeating Trumpism.â RootsActionâs autopsy, authored by journalist Christopher D. Cook, found âample evidence that Harris lost many voters, especially young voters, Arab-Americans, and critical support in Michigan and elsewhere, due to the campaignâs failure to shift or even signal a potential shift in policy on Israel and Palestine.â
The DNCâs official autopsy, said RootsAction, âshould be made public so Democrats can learn from past errors and win future elections.â
Democrats Not Publishing 2024 âAutopsyâ Sparks Outrage: âUnrealâ
(December 18, 2025)
DNC Chair Ken Martin opted against releasing the report. In a statement provided to Newsweek, Martin wrote that the party has âcompleted a comprehensive review of what happened in 2024 and are already putting our learnings into motion.â
âHereâs our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, itâs a distraction from the core mission,â he said.
DNC Votes Down âOverwhelming Popular Positionâ Calling for Arms Ban to Israel
(August 26, 2026)
The resolution had been met with resistance from DNC Chair Ken Martin, despite polls showing overwhelming opposition to Israelâs military actions in Gaza from Democratic voters. The weapons ban resolution was put forward by a first-time DNC member to represent the views of younger party members.
âWhile itâs disappointing that DNC leadership wasnât able to recognize that this is an overwhelming popular position, a 90-10 issue within its base, it started a conversation,â the resolutionâs author, 26-year-old DNC member Allison Minnerly, told The Intercept. âAs we approach 2026, itâs not going to go away, the more we delay having a hard conversation like this one.â
The Idiocy (Both Moral and Strategic) of the Democratic National Committee
(August 28, 2026)
It did vote for a resolution essentially restating the Biden administrationâs position on the war: calling for a two-state solution, for the release of hostages, for an end to the conflict. That resolution said nothing, however, about Americaâs ongoing provision of the arms with which the Netanyahu government is waging its war.
The resolution that was adopted was authored by DNC Chair Ken Martin. The one that was squelched was authored by Allison Minnerly, a 26-year-old DNC member from Florida whoâs a voter mobilization organizer. Her resolution was backed by most of the DNCâs young members, including the leaders of the College Democrats of America and the High School Democrats of America.
ICE‘s killing in Minneapolis shows American empire has come home
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created in the shadow of the so-called Global War on Terror that followed the attacks of 11 September 2001.
It became a key pillar of the architecture of repressive surveillance and militarised tactics that emerged during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
ICE itself was specifically designed to pursue „national security threats“ within the United States, granting agents sweeping discretion over who could be deemed to „pose a threat to public safety or national security“.
Since then, it has come to represent a rogue operation, its reputation clouded by harrowing stories of abuse, impunity and a near total lack of oversight.
Its close association with Palantir, a surveillance firm accused of helping generate kill lists for Israel, has also further embedded it within the US military-industrial complex.
Scalawag Magazine described Palantir‘s partnership with ICE as „one of the many links comprising the military-industrial surveillance connections between ICE and Israel Defense Forces“.
These links, it wrote, illustrate the ideological and practical ties between the two bodies, as they work to advance the militarisation of policing through the weaponisation of surveillance technology.
ICE has also participated in several exchanges with the Israeli military, and during the student protests for Gaza, it lifted names from the blacklisting website Canary Mission to identify and arrest protesters.
Videos released in Epstein files raise fresh questions about jail footage
Specifics about what cameras were and were not operating comes mostly from a 2023 report by the Department of Justice‘s Office of the Inspector General.
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Among the files released by the Justice Department on Dec. 24 were more than 400 one-hour clips of surveillance videos from MCC. The footage spans non-sequential, seemingly arbitrary time periods dating back to July 5, 2019, more than a month before Epstein‘s death.
According to internal DOJ emails included in the disclosure, the surveillance system was configured to retain only 30 days of footage. That raises an immediate question: Why do videos from July 5 exist at all?
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The new cache of video also includes footage from five more cameras inside the prison. Most notably, the release includes several hours of footage from a camera previously described as non-recording. It provides an unobstructed view of the primary entrance to the SHU and the stairs leading to Epstein‘s tier.
The four non-sequential one-hour videos from this camera are all dated Aug. 12, 2019 â two days after Epstein‘s death. However, Department of Justice correspondence states that the surveillance system stopped recording on July 29 and was not repaired until Aug, 14.
American âOligarchyâ Decried by Biden Gained $1.5 Trillion in His Term
(January 16, 2025)
The very richest Americans are among the biggest winners from President Joe Bidenâs time in office, despite his farewell address warning of an âoligarchyâ and a âtech industrial complexâ that threaten US democracy.
The 100 wealthiest Americans got more than $1.5 trillion richer over the last four years, with tech tycoons including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg leading the way, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The top 0.1% gained more than $6 trillion, Federal Reserve estimates through September show.
Experte zu Gaza-Abkommen „Es ist elementar, dass Trump am Ball bleibt“
(October 13, 2025)
tagesschau.de: Ist es denkbar, dass Israel die KampfaktivitĂ€ten wieder aufnimmt? Beispielsweise dann, wenn die Waffen jetzt doch nicht so abgegeben werden, wie ursprĂŒnglich seitens der Hamas zugesagt.
Busse: Ich sehe ein Risiko, dass dieser Krieg wieder fortgesetzt werden könnte durch Israel. Und ich glaube, dass Teile dieses Plans von Trump auch so formuliert worden sind, dass man dafĂŒr, wenn man das möchte, einen Vorwand finden kann.
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)
this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words
(December 9, 2023)