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Trump has set his sights on Nigeria because the country plays a key role in imperialist control of the African continent. Washington seeks to maintain its influence, while China seeks to expand its own.

In a global landscape marked by the crisis of traditional U.S. imperialism and the rise of China, Africa is emerging as a battleground for influence. Within this power struggle, Nigeria — the continent’s most populous country with over 200 million inhabitants — stands at the center and has received threats of military action from Trump. What lies behind this latest attempt at imperialist interference?

The first point to note is that Nigeria’s situation is contradictory: While it seeks to expand its trade relations, becoming a partner member of the BRICS group this year and experiencing increasing Chinese investment, violence between armed groups and poverty persist, and its external debt rose to $46.98 billion in the second quarter of 2025. This move into new spheres of influence appears to worry the U.S. and EU most.

Recently, following conflicts in the northeast of the country perpetrated by jihadist groups present throughout the region, the Trump administration threatened military intervention, arguing that Christians were being killed. However, no official data or local media reports confirm that the attacks are specifically targeting Christians. The government of President Bola Tinubu responded in a statement affirming his commitment to working with the international community, including the United States, to protect individuals of all faiths.

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The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) confirmed on Sunday, November 23, 2025, that it had reportedly killed Haytham Ali “Abu Ali” Tabatabai, the de facto military chief of Hezbollah.

The strike hit the densely populated Haret Hreik neighborhood in the Dahieh district, a known Hezbollah stronghold. 'Israeli' officials say the operation specifically targeted Tabatabai, whom they identify as Hezbollah’s chief of staff and second-in-command after Secretary-General Naim Qassem.

Casualty figures are still being verified, with Lebanese health authorities reporting at least five deaths and some 25 injuries in the strike. However, neither Hezbollah nor independent Lebanese sources have yet confirmed whether Tabatabai himself died in the attack.

This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country whose military has undergone years of neglect.

The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s forces in the face of the perceived threat from Russia and a significant shift in US foreign policy.

The sweeping new reforms will see Germany attempt to boost its numbers to 260,000 soldiers, up from around 180,000 currently, in addition to an extra 200,000 reservists, by 2035.

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Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad
Nov 23, 2025

*On November 17, in an unprecedented move, the UN Security Council formally endorsed Trump’s neo-colonialist plan for Gaza, including the deployment of an international force that would fall not under the command the UN, but operate at the direction of private board controlled by Trump. This force, according to Trump, would be tasked with disarming the Palestinian resistance and demilitarizing Gaza in an effort to strip Palestinians of their right to self defense.

In the latest in Drop Site’s series on the Palestinian resistance since October 7, Palestinian resistance leaders reflect on the path that got them here. We conducted a series of in-person interviews with senior officials from Hamas and Islamic Jihad. They discussed the events that led up to the October ceasefire agreement, their position on disarmament and Trump’s Gaza plan, and described how they see the state of the Palestinian liberation struggle. This report from Jeremy Scahill and Jawa Ahmad is a long and detailed read, but we believe it is well worth your time. The failure of most Western media outlets to report on the perspective of the Palestinian resistance is journalistic malpractice and a disservice to public understanding.*

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Driscoll, who met with Zelenksyy, told a group of European ambassadors afterward that the continent couldn’t match the Russian defense industry’s output, so Ukraine won’t be able to claw back territory. The time for a settlement had arrived, he said, according to one diplomat, a European official in the room and a person familiar with the meeting. Some of Driscoll’s conversation, including his message about industrial capacity, has not been previously reported.

“No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,” Driscoll said, according to the European official at the meeting. U.S. armed forces “love” Ukraine and stand by its military, Driscoll said, but “the honest U.S. military assessment is that Ukraine is in a very bad position and now is the best time for peace.”

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By Hedaya al-Tatar in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
Published date: 22 November 2025 13:00 GMT

Two Palestinian boys lie next to each other at al-Wafa medical rehabilitation hospital in Gaza.

Their mother, Aya Abu Auda, speaks to them softly, but neither child reacts.

The brothers, Elias Abu al-Jibeen, 5, and Ismail Abu al-Jibeen, 8, were wounded during Israeli bombardment on their displacement camp in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood on 31 August.

The attack left Elias completely deaf and Ismail with severe hearing loss.

Just a year earlier, Abu Auda had fled her home in northern Gaza after Israeli missiles flattened it and killed her husband.

Sources in Gaza hospitals reported that at least 18 Palestinians, including children, were killed in various Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip.

A civilian car and four homes were amongst the targets of the military.

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In January 2004, Cyclone Heta pummeled the shores of the island nation of Niue, uprooting trees and flooding homes with 184 mile-per-hour winds and 164-foot waves. As dawn approached, after an intense night, the winds died down, and Coral Pasisi began to worry about her neighbors. The storm had been more violent than she’d expected — a tree had fallen on her roof, and the water was up to her ankles. It was 4 in the morning when she began her drive to check on her community.

Normally, when Pasisi drove down the hill of the western shore of the island, she saw the national museum with its familiar outdoor amphitheater where she’d watched so many traditional dance performances. But instead, there was a clear view of the ocean. The museum was gone.

“There was nothing left,” Pasisi said. “It looked like a war zone.”

Gone, also, were the island’s only hospital, its courthouse, and its fuel depot. Two people on the island died during the storm, then home to just over 1,700 residents, and damage was estimated to be nearly 48 million U.S. dollars — five times the nation’s annual gross domestic product. Two decades after the storm, the memory of the missing museum still brings her to tears.

“This is an unimaginable and irreparable and irreplaceable non-economic loss. One that cannot be remedied or restored,” Pasisi told the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, at The Hague in December 2024. “One that has robbed our children of their future inherent rights of traditional knowledge and cultural identity.”

Pasisi’s testimony was among more than 100 that would help propel the ICJ to issue a landmark advisory opinion that every nation on earth has a legal obligation to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Now, Pasisi is among many Indigenous Pacific advocates who are traveling to Brazil to attend COP30 — the annual intergovernmental gathering of U.N. member states — to try to ensure that world leaders adhere to that ruling.

“This is a different lens of clarity that we all have now going into COP30,” said Pasisi, who is now a director of climate change and sustainability at The Pacific Community, of SPC, a New Caledonia-based international development organization made up of Pacific nations and territories as well as global partners like the U.S. No longer are she and her fellow Pasifika advocates simply arguing that leaders have an ethical responsibility to save the planet, she said. “There’s nothing like a legal opinion to show what side of the law you need to be on.”

Pacific advocates at COP30 are demanding global leaders follow the ICJ’s ruling by phasing out fossil fuels and funding climate disaster recovery projects. Many are also calling for Indigenous peoples and traditional ecological knowledge to be included in climate decision-making and are pushing back on efforts to sacrifice Pacific seabeds for lucrative transition mineral mining operations. They argue the next COP should be held in Australia, where they hope to better convey how climate change is impacting their lands and waters.

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Department of Defense “contractors” landed on a Mexican beach and accidentally declared it United States territory in a bizarre incident on Monday.

A group of unidentified men hammered in six signs on Nov. 17, declaring that a beach near Playa Bagdad in Northeast Mexico was “Department of Defense property” and had been classified as a “restricted area” by “the commander.” The area is roughly twelve miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Heavily armed Mexican Navy personnel came to investigate the scene and discovered that the men had landed in Mexico by mistake and intended to plant the signs in South Texas. The situation was resolved without violence, and the Mexican Navy removed the signs. Pictures and videos of the incident circulated on social media over the following days.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The pilot of an Indian combat plane died after the aircraft crashed Friday during a demonstration flight for spectators at the Dubai Air Show, the Indian Air Force said.

The Indian HAL Tejas, a combat aircraft used in the Indian Air Force, crashed around 2:10 p.m. local time after the pilot had flown across the site of the biennial air show in Dubai several times.

The plane appeared to lose control and dive directly toward the ground just prior to crashing inside the grounds of the airfield.

Tejas is India’s indigenous fighter aircraft, built by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The lightweight, single-engine jet is expected to bolster India’s depleted fighter fleet as China expands its military presence in South Asia, including by strengthening defense ties with India’s rival Pakistan.

The Indian government signed a deal with HAL in 2021 for 83 Tejas aircraft. Deliveries, expected last year, have been delayed largely because of shortages of engines that must be imported from the United States.

Israeli Channel 14 reported on Wednesday evening that a delegation from Israel will soon visit several countries to study the “optimal way” to carry out the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners accused by Tel Aviv of planning or carrying out attacks against the state.

The private broadcaster said a delegation, from the Ministry of National Security, headed by Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir along with representatives from Israel’s Prison Service, will travel to several nations that still apply capital punishment, such as the United States.

Its purpose is to examine how best to impose the death penalty, to learn from counterparts how the law is applied, and to identify the proper method for carrying out the sentence.

How do you do, fellow gen-zers?

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Abdel Qader Sabbah
and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Nov 20, 2025

GAZA CITY—The Israeli military carried out one of the deadliest attacks on Gaza since the “ceasefire” took effect last month, killing over 30 Palestinians, the majority of them women and children, and wounding dozens more in a series of airstrikes late Wednesday and early Thursday. The dead and wounded arrived at hospitals in an endless stream, children were covered in dust and blood, men carried small bodies wrapped in shrouds, and wails of grief rose in the air

These horrific scenes, a daily feature of the past two years of Israel’s acute genocidal assault, had returned again. “The war has returned to the Gaza Strip,” Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, told Drop Site inside a hospital tent at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City as the casualties were being brought in. The wounded arrived every few minutes, brought in by ambulances, cars, motorized rickshas—or carried on foot. The dead were wrapped in blankets and sheets.

Ryanair has previously attributed the suspension of its Israel flights to two main factors: the lack of approved slots for the summer 2026 season at Ben-Gurion Airport and uncertainty over the continued operation of Terminal 1, Maariv reported.

The airline stressed that without regulatory clarity on slot allocation and terminal usage, it could not plan its medium-term activity in the Israeli market.

The freeze ahead of winter 2025–2026 led to the cancellation of about 22 direct routes and the loss of roughly one million seats that had been planned for that season, according to the report. That decision significantly reduced low-cost options on several popular European routes from Tel Aviv, adding pressure on the remaining carriers.

Ryanair’s latest step follows months of escalating tension with Israel’s aviation authorities. In late September, The Jerusalem Post reported that the airline would not resume Tel Aviv operations for the winter, saying slot delays and the closure of Terminal 1 had made its Israel program unworkable, while Ben-Gurion Airport rejected that claim and accused the airline of mismanaging its own schedule.

The latest US/Israeli plan for Gaza has just been approved by the UN Security Council. Russia and China could have blocked it but chose to abstain. The former senior UN official, Craig Mokhiber, has accurately described it as a ‘colonial outrage.’

It reads like a cut-and-paste job taken from how the British ran East Africa in the 19 century and the French in Algeria, with some input from the extermination of Indian tribes by white settlers in what became the USA.

The ‘stabilization’ of Gaza will rest in the hands of a ‘Board of Peace’ chaired by Donald Trump; other members yet to be named but thought likely to include another genocidalist, Lord Blair of Iraq.

An ‘International Stabilization Force’ will be mobilized to enforce the peace. In truth, this ‘stabilization’ force will be an occupying force and its soldiers legitimate targets for the resistance.

The US had supplied the weapons and political cover for Israel and paid the price when, in April 1983, a suicide bomber sheared the wing off the US embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people. In October, suicide bombers blew up the US and French marine barracks, killing 299 men.

These precedents should make any government think twice about putting the lives of its soldiers at risk to protect the continued occupation and corporatized takeover of Gaza, arranged by the US and Israel.

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