Saudi Arabia: Stop Investing in Genocidal Israel

Saudi Arabia’s ruling dictator, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), is investing the funds of the Saudi people in Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.

Please join us and call on Saudi ruler MBS to stop investing Saudi funds in people who oppose Palestinian freedom. 

Under MBS, Saudi Arabia’s national Public Investment Fund (PIF) has invested billions of dollars in people and ventures that promote Israel’s destruction of Palestinian communities.

The Saudi monarchy invested $2 billion in the private equity firm of Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Jared Kushner’s firm Affinity Partners then bought nearly 10% of Israeli insurance company Phoenix Financial.

Phoenix Financial invests in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories and provides services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli Police.

Kushner is a personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and has hosted Netanyahu in his home.

Kushner is one of the key individuals advancing Trump’s plan for Gaza, in which Trump is personally taking control of Gaza as chairman of a so-called “Board of Peace.”

Join us and call on Saudi Arabia’s dictator MBS to stop using the money of the Saudi people to fund opponents of Palestinian freedom.

Click here to take action.

Saudi Arabia's ruler should not be investing in Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.

Sincerely,

The Freedom Forward Team

Swiss Intel officer now attacked by EU over Ukraine

Col Jacques Baud explains that on December 12 he learned via Radio Free Europe that his name would appear on an EU sanctions list.

After contacting his embassy in Brussels (where he lives), he received no follow-up. On December 15 the EU formally published the sanctions, which served as the only notification. Since then, his bank accounts have been frozen and he is banned from traveling within the EU, preventing him from returning to his home country.

He says he is accused of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and disinformation, including allegedly promoting a conspiracy theory that Ukraine orchestrated its own invasion by Russia in 2022. He strongly denies this, stating that he merely quoted remarks made in 2019 by Oleksiy Arestovych, then an adviser to President Zelensky, about the risk of war if Ukraine pursued NATO membership. He emphasizes that quoting a Ukrainian official is being treated as evidence of acting as a Russian agent, despite his claim that he has no ties to Russia.

The speaker stresses that he was never warned, contacted, or given a chance to respond by EU, Belgian, or Swiss authorities before the sanctions were imposed. He argues the decision is political, not legal: there was no court ruling, no charges under any law, no right to defense, and no real avenue for appeal.

He further explains that he deliberately avoided appearing on Russian media, refused invitations from outlets like RT, and bases his work largely on Ukrainian and U.S. sources to maintain academic objectivity. He insists propaganda itself is not a crime under European law and says he has always tried to use precise, nuanced language in his analysis.

Overall, he presents his case as evidence of a serious erosion of democracy and free speech in Europe, arguing that objective analysis of the Russia–Ukraine war is being labeled “pro-Russian.” 

He describes the sanctions as effectively confiscating his livelihood without due process and says he is now struggling to meet basic needs, pending a possible humanitarian exemption to access limited funds for essentials like food.

Drone attack on Putin’s residence was done by Ukraine attempting to kill the Peace deal

Sputnik

“They do not consider it possible to step back and allow the situation on our border region to be stabilized. Therefore, they are making gradual attempts to torpedo the negotiation process,” military analyst Alexander Stepanov told Sputnik, commenting on the attack on Putin’s residence in Novgorod region by 91 drones Sunday night.

“We’ve seen this attitude in the openly-stated positions of key EU leaders. Now, we’re seeing it in the intentions of intelligence agencies, mostly likely British, who are clearly continuing to develop plans to launch terrorist strikes on strategically significant targets, to carry out targeted terrorist attacks against high-ranking Russian military personnel, de facto transforming the war into permanent proxy-hybrid mode using the tools of state terrorism,” Stepanov, an expert from the Institute of Law and National Security at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, explained.

Naturally, these efforts serve to further “delegitimize” the Kiev regime, Stepanov said. They make it clear that Ukraine’s authorities are “war criminals and, more broadly speaking, international terrorists, who have neither the right to govern this territory nor the right to control the lives of its citizens.”

Negotiating with such actors is “impossible, and does not fit into any normative framework of international relations,” the observer stressed.

Stepanov expects a “maximum reduction” in US-Ukraine military-technical and intelligence cooperation, including for navigation and targeting systems, in the wake of Sunday’s attack.

If US statements “are backed by real will, it would be possible to remotely disable the control systems of virtually all weapons supplied through Western channels, including American ones, and to end the presence of US military specialists who, at certain stages, support the operation of both sophisticated Patriot air defense systems and long-range HIMARS tactical systems,” Stepanov said.

Same goes for Starlink, which could leave Ukraine’s military blind “within a few hours.”

As far as Russia is concerned, Sunday night's attack on Putin's residence will "likely entail reclassifying" those held responsible "as terrorists, subject to capture or elimination," Stepanov believes.

Erica Kirk endorses J. D. Vance for next prez

Sabby says, 'Here's the problem....' 

Our economy is not good, and look at what Vance focuses on.

Vance is part of the crew that has paid to keep the people divided. 

Erica's Turning Point USA is a Israel-first zionist funded voter recruitment front-group peddling the interests of Wall Street, warmongers and Israel. 

Sabby concludes with "I don't understand really why people are falling for this bullshit."

In between her two quotes above there is a lot more to hear.

Lula on Trump's war against Venezuela

Brazil’s Lula says South America 'haunted' by US military presence.

War in Venezuela would be 'humanitarian catastrophe for hemisphere, dangerous precedent for world'.   

Systemic torture inside Israeli prisons

Beside the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Israel is carrying out a silent genocide behind prison walls.

More than 9,300 Palestinian detainees are subjected to torture, starvation, medical neglect, and daily violent raids inside Israeli prisons.

Through routine abuse, the weaponization of food, beatings, dog attacks, exposure to extreme cold, and enforced disappearances, Israel is operating a mass detention system that constitutes collective punishment and systematic torture against Palestinians.

China has taken the gloves off....

China has the world's largest solar farm

Sovereignista

Beijing slammed the recent US weapons package for Taiwan as ‘a major breach of the One China principle’.

China placed retaliatory measures against 20 US defense industry companies for arms sales to Taiwan, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. This is a hammer blow against the US military industrial complex. Some details:

The sanctions target key players in the American defense industry working in the fields of UAVs, electronic warfare, maritime unmanned platforms, AI, and combat management systems:

• Northrop Grumman
• L3Harris Maritime Services
• Boeing’s division in St. Louis
• Gibb & Cox
• Advanced Acoustics Concepts
• VSE Corporation
• Sierra Technical Services, Inc.
• Red Cat Holdings
• Teal Drones, Inc.
• ReconCraft
• High Point Aerotechnologies
• Dedrone
• Area-I
• Dive Technologies
• Vantor
• Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc.
• Epirus
• Rhombus Power
• Lazarus Enterprises Inc.
• Blue Force Technologies

What the package of measures includes:

• freezing of all assets in China;
• a complete ban on any commercial and cooperative ties with Chinese entities;
•  personal sanctions against company executives, including Palmer Luckey (founder of Anduril);
• a ban on entry to China, including Hong Kong and Macau.

As backdrop, Taiwan’s two main opposition parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), used their combined majority to pass a resolution to impeach President Lai Qing-de. The vote on this resolution will take place on May 19, 2026. Society is deeply polarized. Taiwan’s current ‘democratic’ administration is pursuing martial law and a military dictatorship.

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China did not forget about the EU. China is imposing temporary duties of up to 42.7% on certain dairy products imported from the EU. Milk and cream, as well as cheese, including processed cheese, are but the beginning of this list, walloping France!

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China also did not forget about Japan, and at least 50% or more flights to Japan have been cancelled, along with warnings on all media urging the Chinese NOT to visit Japan. Tourist revenues for Japan are tanking.

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Thailand and Cambodia agree to a ceasefire effective 27 December — local media. Malaysia and China active in the negotiations. We wait on this one.

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Besides rank and file Israelis abandoning Israel, their companies and technologists are running. Israeli tech companies flood Europe – According to EIT Hub Israel, around 30k specialists are employed by them throughout the continent, mostly in the UK, Ukraine and Germany.

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Will Schryver@imetatronink reports that the fleeing Bella1 tanker was seized in the last hours.  "The US forcibly boarded and seized the VLCC Bella 1 today. The United States under President Donald Trump has become an out-of-control rogue nation.”

There are a number of objectives here. The bigger objective is to forcibly impose an embargo against the oil trade of Russia, China, and Iran. Venezuela is a starting point but also meant to be the crowning glory of empire strength for Marco Rubio. This will not end well.  

Sunday song

Seymour Hersch: 'We are a country of enormous violence'

Now playing on Netflix

MB and I watched this new documentary last night. It's a block buster about the professional journalistic life of Seymour Hersch.

The film covers the intrigues of his work on Watergate, My Lai massacre in Vietnam, CIA foreign assassinations, MK Ultra (the mind control program brought to America by former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip), U.S. Army Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq, U.S. destruction of Nordstream pipeline, and far too many more stories to recount.

You won't regret viewing this film. It's an American classic for sure.

It tells a sad but real truth about our nation and it's only getting worse by the day. Largely because CBS TV, New York Times, Washington Post and the rest of the corporate owned media won't report on these stories any more. They are bought and paid for by Mr. Big.

It's a media desert now.

Bruce

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