Representatives from Nvidia told Illinois representative Bill Foster that it would be technically possible to implement the anti-smuggling measures called for in the Chip Security Act, Foster told MIT Technology Review in an interview on Thursday, even while an industry group claimed they were “potentially infeasible.”
Foster, a Democrat who serves on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, is a cosponsor of the act, which would introduce geotracking requirements to verify the location of advanced AI chips in order to prevent their smuggling to China. It is one of three chip-security bills under consideration for inclusion in the Senate’s National Defense Authorization Act, each of which is drawing renewed attention after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation and reported affair with an alleged Chinese spy.
Mass smuggling of Nvidia AI GPUs could be the underlying cause of Jensen Huang’s departure, analysts claim — more than 1.5 gigawatts of banned chips tracked to China despite export controls
Anton Shilov
Fri, November 13, 2026 at 11:41 AM GMT
Leading semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis believes that Jensen Huang’s sudden departure from Nvidia may have been driven not only by revelations about his personal extramarital relationships, but also by widespread illicit exports of advanced AI accelerators to China. In its latest newsletter, analysts estimate that more than 1.5 gigawatts (GW) worth of restricted Nvidia hardware, which could be equivalent to up to 1.5 million GPUs, has reached the country despite U.S. export controls.
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Putin’s diesel tankers cast adrift after Trump deal hits the rocks
Iona Cleave
Thu, November 12, 2026 at 12:14 PM GMT
Hundreds of thousands of barrels of Russian diesel bound for the United States are drifting in the Atlantic with no willing buyers or a port to go to.
Such is the outcome of Donald Trump’s gambit of striking a deal with Vladimir Putin to lower fuel costs before the midterms.
Not one diesel tanker loaded in a Russian port has reached US shores since the Oct 9 agreement, which experts told The Telegraph is now effectively “dead in the water”.
The tanker billed as the first to carry Russian diesel to the United States under Donald Trump’s deal with Vladimir Putin has dropped New York as its destination. The Malta-flagged Agioi Fanendesleft Primorsk on October 22 with about 40,000 metric tons of ultra-low-sulfur diesel, due in New York on November 7. Lloyd’s List reported it idling off Skagen, Denmark, on October 26. Its tracking now shows “for orders,” meaning it has no declared port.
On October 27, Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote to Thanassis Martinos, managing director of the tanker’s Athens-based owner, Eastern Mediterranean Maritime. He demanded that the company recall the vessel if it intends to deliver to a U.S. port, and refrain from future Russian diesel deals.
Russia may have lost aircraft during an operation near St. Petersburg
Story by Fabio Villas Boas
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Russian Telegram channels mentioned three crews and seven military personnel, but the circumstances remain unclear. In the same early hours, a drone strike hit the Baltic port of Ust-Luga.
Russian channels that cover military aviation reported that Russia may have lost aircraft near St. Petersburg during an air defense operation on the night of November 10–11, 2026. The posts mentioned three crews and reported the deaths of seven military personnel. As of November 12, the sources consulted had reported no official confirmation of the losses from Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
In its November 11 report, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted an account from a Russian military blogger who claimed that the Russian Aerospace Forces had lost three helicopter crews. The institute also compiled conflicting accounts of what may have happened in the early hours of that morning.
Ka-52 and Mi-8 appear in the reports
According to the aviation news site Air Data News, one account mentioned two Kamov Ka-52 helicopters and one Mil Mi-8. Another mentioned a Ka-52, an Mi-8 and a MiG-31 interceptor. The types of aircraft involved remain unconfirmed, as does the number of helicopters that may have been lost.
The belief that Democrats will dismantle a system designed to serve the rapacious greed of the war machine and the ruling billionaire class is a mirage.
Power does not rest in the Congress. It does not rest in the courts. It does not even rest in the imperial presidency. It rests in the hands of Wall Street financiers, Silicon Valley, private equity firms, the fossil fuel industry, the predatory health care and pharmaceutical giants, agribusinesses and, most of all, the war industry.
No mainstream politician, including Bernie Sanders, dares utter a word against our entrenched militarism. If you do, you end up like Ralph Nader, who was turned into a pariah by a compliant media and our corporate-indentured political parties. Nader spoke the truth. He paid for his honesty.
We are about to witness the largest increase in war spending in American history with a proposed $1.5 trillion budget. The average taxpayer already shells out over $4,000 a year to the war industry as consumer and environmental agencies are dismantled, health care and education are defunded and programs such as Medicaid and food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) are slashed.
The new Pentagon budget will hand $58.5 billion to artificial intelligence and military command-and-control centers and see the effective merging of the United States and Israeli military industrial complexes. Seventy-four percent of the increase in the proposed $1.5 trillion budget will go to private contractors, including those who are building massive data centers on military bases.
None of this is good for us or good for the planet. The Pentagon, powered by the fossil fuel industry, is the world’s largest institutional polluter, emitting an estimated 66 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2024.
Americans, meanwhile, struggle with rising prices — nearly 30 percent of people go into debt to buy groceries. An estimated114,174. Americans die each year due to lack of health insurance or inadequate health care while a single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and reduce annual health expenditures by $1.04 trillion, or nearly 20 percent. Twenty-five percent of Americans are functionally unemployed. The minimum wage remains frozen, despite Democratic Party promises to raise it, at $ 7.25 an hour.
The elites use war not only for personal enrichment, but to stifle class conflict.
War, as W.E.B. Du Bois said, diverts the poor from their real interests. It funnels national frustrations into the “heroic” battle against a common enemy. The nationalist cant, with its endemic racism, seduces those who are alienated or on the margins of society into feeling they suddenly belong. It entices them to sacrifice themselves for a “noble” cause. They becime the architects of their own enslavement. They march like sheep into war’s purgatory.
By the time they wake up, it is too late. They are cast aside, as so many of our veterans have painfully discovered, like human refuse.
But as a tactic to consolidate power and enrich the billionaire class, it is unbeatable.
Wars will only be curtailed, if not halted, when we nationalize the weapons industry and dramatically reduce the military budget. Until then, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change.
Indeed, things will only get worse.
No one in Congress — or any other branch of government — will do this for us.
The masters of war sitting in the boardrooms of Boeing, General Dynamics or Northrop Grumman are not praying for peace in the Middle East or coexistence with China and Russia. The generals — who build their careers by orchestrating wars and post military careers enriching themselves working for defense contractors — are not seeking a cessation of global conflicts. They are seeking hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars and government debt to fuel the self-defeating cycle of endless war.
The corporate vultures — especially the war makers — are, as I write, descending on Congress. They are meeting with Democratic Party leaders and holding out promises of millions in cash. They will corrupt, neutralize and compromise most. They will destroy the careers of the very few who refuse to do their bidding.
They hold the real power. They have no intention of surrendering it.
The manufacturing of weapons systems and the waging of war are the chief activities of the U.S. government. It is no longer one among other means of advancing the national interest. War and violence are how we speak to the rest of the world.
The “shadow world,” — as the author Andrew Feinstein calls it in his book on the global arms trade — is defined by staggering levels of corruption, deception and senseless death. It is lawless and unregulated. Its criminal activities, cannibalization of national budgets and secrecy are sanctified in the name of “national security.”
Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies), Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Leonardo, Airbus, Rheinmetall and ThyssenKrupp, along with Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Exxon, are the state.
We, including our political class, are the vassals.
The voters can send whoever they want to Congress, but until these corporations and the billionaire class are regulated, taxed and controlled, until their vast monopolies are broken up, until we stop squandering half of all discretionary spending on war, nothing will change.
Nothing.
Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They are disemboweled by an uncontrollable and unaccountable military that drains state budgets and plunges dying empires into one military debacle after the next. These decaying civilizations finally collapse from within.
This is where we are headed.
The corporations, and the billionaires who run them, buy and trade politicians, academics and journalists like Pokémon cards. Their lobbyists write the legislation. They own the media. They have stifled the academy, shutting down free speech and purging critics. Judges offer them unlimited power. To defy them — and I speak from personal experience — is to be cast into the wilderness.
The military-industrial complex, as Karl Liebknecht said of German imperialists on the eve of World War I, is the enemy within.
The authors estimate that $130 billion was made from arms exports by Western nations to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates during the war on Yemen and over $50 billion from Israeli foreign military procurements.
“RTX Chairman and CEO Christopher T. Calio made $18 million in 2024, after being appointed halfway through the year, while his compensation package surged to almost $25 million in 2025,” the authors note. “His predecessor, Gregory Hayes, was remunerated to the tune of nearly $22 million in 2023. Lockheed Martin CEO and former U.S. Air Force pilot Jim Taiclet, who was deployed in Saudi Arabia while serving during the Gulf War, earns an annual package of more than $23 million. Since his appointment in 2020 he has raked in more than $136 million in total Lockheed Martin compensation.”
Phebe Novakovic, the CEO of General Dynamics, has a net worth estimated at $420 million, up $270 million since 2020.
But it is not only the CEOs who profit.
Members of Congress and their families traded between $24 million and $113 million worth of Pentagon contractor stocks in 2024.
Representative Josh Gottheimer from New Jersey — a Democrat — is a former Clinton speechwriter and a close ally of House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. Gottheimer, who is heavily funded by the pro-Israel lobby and an ardent Zionist, traded $22 million worth of stock in the top 100 Pentagon contractors, including Microsoft — which received $414 million from the Department of Defense in 2023 for software and cloud computing services — Northrop Grumman and IBM.
Gottheimer serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Financial Services Committee. He is well placed to know which defense companies are enriched by government contracts and which are not.
Former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is not any better. She made an estimated $38.6 million profit in one year from her stock trading, the most of any lawmaker, in 2024.
These politicians run the Democratic Party. They carry out the same illegal insider trading and have the same conflicts of interest as the Republicans and the Trump White House. Hunter Biden is no less odious than Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.
“Honeywell — which provides sensors and guiding devices to assist the Israeli military in airstrikes in Gaza — is the most commonly held arms company stock among members of Congress, followed by RTX, the company that makes missiles for Israel’s Iron Dome, among other weapons systems,” the authors write.
Members of Congress, they report, “made more than 13,300 trades totaling over $635 million in 2025.”
The arms trade, the authors illustrate, has created an unelected, shadowy cabal of foreign policy, corporate and military officials, along with academics, who — no matter who is in the White House or the Congress — feed the military beast.
This cabal, many parked in think tanks funded by the defense industry and given prominent platforms on cable news channels, preach endless war. They ensure the fabrication of bombs, missiles, warplanes, drones, ships, tanks and guns. They ship these weapons around the globe. They sustain the interconnected network of cutting-edge, high-tech systems of information warfare and surveillance, powered by data processing centers, cloud technologies and artificial intelligence.
Once these weapons and tools of surveillance are tested on Palestinians or Yemenis, they are brought back to manage and surveil us — an imperial boomerang abolishing what is left of our civil liberties and freedom.
The tyranny empire imposes on others, as Thucydides reminded us, it finally imposes on itself.
The choice, as Rosa Luxemburg pointed out, is socialism or barbarism. If we do not dismantle global capitalism, if we do not free ourselves from the tentacles of the war industry, we will descend into the Hobbesian world of totalitarian capitalism, failed states, mass migrations, endless war, ecocide and permanent immiseration.
Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills six people including doctor and child
Story by Associated Press Reporters
An Israeli airstrike hit one of the main hospitals still operating in the Gaza Strip killing six people, including a surgeon and a 13-year-old boy, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
The Israeli military said the strike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Thursday was targeting a Hamas commander and other militants, without providing evidence.
The commander it identified was not among the dead.
An Israeli air strike targeting the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has killed six people and wounded at least a dozen more, Gaza’s health ministry said.
The strike hit the hospital’s surgical wing, the ministry and witnesses said.
Footage showed several wards and operating rooms heavily damaged or destroyed, with debris scattered across hospital beds and equipment and rebar dangling from holes in the ceiling.
Zelensky: “The Russians have taken thousands of Ukrainian children from our land, and now we see something even worseịỊi
According to the Ukrainian president, Russia has already started sending some of these children into the Russian army.
These are children who were taken from Ukraine and have grown up over the years of this war.
“This is horrible. And it must stop.”
Putin sends Ukraine’s stolen children to military training at special camps
The abducted children are sent to indoctrination centres linked to Russia’s biggest oil companies, Gazprom and Rosneft
March 27, 2026 12:39 pm (Updated 3:40 pm)
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An image shared by Yale researchers in their report showing a military event hosted at a Russian camp. A child, thought to be Ukrainian, can be seen in military fatigues shooting a pistol. (Photo: via Yale HRL)
Thousands of children abducted from their homes in Ukraine and forcibly taken to Russia during the conflict have ended up at military training camps linked to two of the country’s leading oil companies, Gazprom and Rosneft.
Now, the scale of the Russian mechanism behind the child abductions has been laid bare, with the country’s leading oil companies found to be facilitating the transportation and re-education of more than 2,000 children between 2022-2025.
The UK has sanctioned both firms as part of efforts to choke off revenues that go into funding Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Rosneft has denied all of the allegations included in Yale’s report and described the findings as “misinformation”.
In these camps, the abducted Ukrainian children are indoctrinated into a pro-Russian mindset, with some turning their backs on their families. These camps often serve as accommodation, and some provide the children with military training.
In their report, the researchers at Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab said that one Gazprom subsidiary, Gazprom Transgaz Ekaterinburg, posted images and videos of children being given army training in August 2022.
“At the event, children reportedly performed military drills, hand-to-hand combat, grenade throwing, and rifle shooting,” the report stated.
At least 2,158 children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia were taken to at least six camps that were owned by Gazprom subsidiaries, sponsored by Gazprom and Rosneft subsidiaries, or their trade union organizations since 2022, the researchers found.
“This study can conclude that Gazprom and Rosneft, under the leadership of executives financially and politically tied to Putin, willingly aids the Kremlin’s agenda to engage in widescale Russification of Ukraine’s children,” they found.
Children rescued and brought back to Ukraine have been found to carry physical and mental signs of trauma, with specialist therapy required to help them recover. Some have recounted alarming experiences, including being stripped naked by their captors and physically searched.
“This study is the first public demonstration that these companies’ have integral involvement in Russia’s systematic campaign of child deportation and indoctrination,” said Nathaniel Raymond, executive director at the Lab.
The revelation comes after US sanctions on Russian fuel were temporarily lifted by Donald Trump to ease the energy supply crunch sparked by the US-Israel war with Iran. But the effect has been that Gazprom and Rosneft are the first known Russian Federation-affiliated companies linked to Putin’s alleged war crimes, which are now profiting from another conflict.
However on Thursday, the US said it would provide $25 million (around £18m) in new funding to identify, return, and rehabilitate Ukrainian children.
Zelenskyy says SpaceX’s Starshield restrictions have returned—disrupting Ukraine’s drone defenses
Story by Siladitya Ray, Forbes Staff
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that restrictions on its military’s use of Elon Musk’s Starshield satellite communications service have returned, disrupting its combat operations and allowing Russian drones to strike targets in the country, a month after similar restrictions triggered a diplomatic dispute involving the Ukrainian government, President Donald Trump’s administration and Musk’s company SpaceX.
White House counsel Will Scharf vowed Wednesday that the Trump administration is prepared to fight “tooth and nail” against congressional Democrats who launch what he called “inappropriate” investigations into the president and his officials.
Appearing on Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt Tonight, Scharf defended his warning letter to incoming House Oversight Chair Robert Garcia (D-CA), which suggested Democratic investigations into the administration could “cross the line into blatant criminality.”
“What we’ve seen in the last week is this explosion by new Democrat members of Congress, by existing Democrat members of Congress, and they’re talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes,” Scharf claimed.
“I thought it was very, very important that just at the outset we set the tone,” he continued. “If there’s going to be an investigative process here, it should be a dignified, lawful investigative process.”
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Scharf went on to accuse Democrats of reviving the “lawfare” President Donald Trump faced before returning to the White House.
“I would have hoped that the Democrats would have learned a lesson from that,” he said. “The only thing they achieved was putting President Donald J. Trump back in the White House where he belongs.”
The White House lawyer insisted “the Constitution and the law are absolutely on our side” before laying out what he considered improper uses of congressional oversight.
“They can’t investigate for the purpose of inflicting pain on government officials; they can’t investigate things for their own self-aggrandizement. These are blatantly inappropriate uses of Congress’s power,” Scharf argued.
“We’re gonna see what happens in January, but we’re ready to fight tooth and nail here if that’s the road they want to go down,” he warned.
His remarks came after Garcia rejected the White House’s warning, accusing Trump of attempting to intimidate Congress ahead of Democrats taking control of bothchambers in January.
“We are a co-equal branch of government and will not be deterred by baseless threats from a weaponized DOJ or from the President’s lawyers,” Garcia declared.
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig also dismissed the administration’s suggestion that Democrats’ threats of investigations could constitute criminal conduct.
“No, this is not anything even remotely close to a crime,” Honig said Wednesday.
Meet Will Scharf, Trump’s New White House Counsel Who Shares an Interesting History With the President
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Scharf served as a personal lawyer to Trump during the election interference case
Scharf, who hails from New York and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2011, has served as a federal prosecutor and a clerk for two federal judges.
When announcing Scharf’s new appointment, Trump acknowledged that the conservative lawyer had also previously represented him in “numerous cases, including at the Supreme Court.” Scharf was Trump’s personal lawyer from 2023 to 2025, as Trump faced a series of criminal and civil cases in-between his two stints in the White House.
Scharf was part of the team that put forth arguments to the Supreme Court in 2024 over whether Presidents should have immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in Office.
Scharf celebrated the ruling, calling it a “tremendous win for the Constitution” and for Trump, in a statement to the Kansas City Star. He said it had been an “honor” to represent Trump in the matter.
Scharf made an unsuccessful bid for Missouri Attorney General in 2024
After serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Missouri from 2020 to 2022, Scharf launched a bid for the Republican candidacy of Missouri’s Attorney General, going up against the incumbent Andrew Bailey in 2024.
Pointing towards the work he carried out as a federal prosecutor assigned to the Violent Crimes Unit as well as his “instrumental” role in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court Justices, Scharf honed in on his D.C. experience as he mounted his campaign.
“I’ve put hardened criminals in prison, and I’ve put constitutional conservatives on the Supreme Court. I’m ready to fight back against the woke left and out-of-control federal government to defend our rights and liberty,” read a statement from Scharf in a campaign prospectus.
In a campaign ad, Scharf claimed that then-President Biden and his legal team were “wrecking” the American legal system and “doing everything they can to stop President Trump and the MAGA agenda.” Scharf said it was time for a Missouri Attorney General “who will return fire” as he pretended to fire a grenade launcher at boxes of depicted legal documents and evidence against Trump.
In a candidate survey, Scharf said that “fighting for President Trump” was one of the three things he wanted voters to remember about his goals for office, should he be elected.
Scharf lost the Republican primary to Bailey, receiving just 37% of the vote.
Scharf was pivotal in securing Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans
Trump appointed Scharf as the at-large commissioner to the National Capital Planning Commission in July 2025.
The President appointed several members of his Administration to the Commission as he sought overview of the renovations to the Federal Reserve building under former Fed chair Jerome Powell.
In the position, Scharf has played a pivotal role in bringing Trump’s controversial White House ballroom plans to life.
Trump has faced widespread criticism for demolishing the East Wing of the White House to make room for the grand ballroom design.
Scharf defended the project in April, insisting “the only constant in the history of the White House is that practically every change, every modification, every addition, and indeed every feature that we now celebrate as an iconic aspect of the White House was roundly and viciously condemned in its day.”
“Any argument that relies on the idea that the White House is unchangeable or should be unchangeable flies in the face of the very history of the structure such critics claim they are trying to protect,” he added.
Despite the Commission’s arguments, the construction of the $400 million ballroom—a space Trump insists is essential for security purposes—continues to face legal challenges.
A federal appeals court on Aug. 7 ruled that the construction of the ballroom could not continue without congressional authorization. Trump has said he intends to appeal the matter to the Supreme Court.
Denver Riggleman reminds us of the text he uncovered from Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows on January 5th, 2021. See Riggleman’s book ‘The Breach’.
Jim Jordan sent this text to Mark Meadows on January 5th, 2021 at 11:27PM. This text was a “copy paste” from a document draft authored by Joseph Schmitz, the former Inspector General of the Department of Defense. Read that again.
Here it is. Again, sent at 11:27PM on January 5th, 2021.
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. No legislative act, wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916). Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.”
This was criminally underreported and I flagged this as absolutely key to understand how deep this went. “Coup-like movements.” It’s as important as the Ginni and Clarence Thomas participation. Also, ignored except by the counterterrorism specialist who understood it. Like me.
I would know. I’m that guy. It’s in my book. It’s in public record. It’s validated. It’s my team.
A former DoD IG worked with a congressman to overthrow a free and fair election. Treasonous. That congressman was Jim Jordan.
November 10th, 2026
Jim Jordan OSU Scandal Explained as Representative Elected Minority Leader
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Nov 10, 2026 at 07:18 PM EST
Republicans elected Ohio U.S. Representative Jim Jordan on Tuesday to lead their House conference when the party enters the minority next year, bringing renewed attention to allegations from 2018 that Jordan knew about sexual misconduct by Ohio State University team doctor Richard Strauss while the GOP lawmaker served as assistant wrestling coach.
An independent university-commissioned investigation found Strauss sexually abused at least 177 male student-athletes and other students during his years at the school. Jordan has consistently denied knowing of sexual abuse while he coached at Ohio State.
His spokesman at the time, Russell Dye, said in 2025 that “Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it.”
Survivors of Dr. Richard Strauss say Ohio Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan knew about the sexual abuse the student-athletes suffered, according to HBO’s new documentary, “Surviving Ohio State.”
Jordan declined to be interviewed for the documentary, but his name is frequently brought up by former Ohio State wrestlers and a referee. The documentary came out last month. Over the years, Jordan has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of the abuse.
“To say that (Jordan) knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat out lie,” former Ohio State Wrestler Dan Ritchie said in the documentary.
Strauss sexually abused at least 177 male victims between 1979 and 1996 during his time as a physician for Ohio State’s Athletics Department and at the university’s Student Health Center, according to an independent investigation commissioned by Ohio State University.
Strauss retired from Ohio State University in 1998 and died by suicide in 2005 when he was 67. Jordan was an Ohio State assistant wrestling coach from 1987 to 1995.
“Chairman Jordan never saw or heard of any abuse, and if he had, he would have dealt with it,” said Russell Dye, spokesperson for Jordan.
At one point in the documentary, Ritchie said Jordan claimed, “If (Strauss) ever did that to me, I’d snap his neck like a stick of dry balsa wood.”
In the documentary, wrestling referee Fred Feeney shared his experience with Strauss sexually assaulting him in the shower after a wrestling match.
He said he told then Ohio State Wrestling Coach Russ Hellickson and Jordan that Strauss was masturbating beside Feeney in the shower.
“Jim Jordan looked at me straight in my face and said, ‘It’s Strauss. You know what he does,’” Feeney said in the documentary.
Jordan turned to politics after coaching — serving in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2000 and the Ohio State Senate from 2001 to 2006 before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents Ohio’s 4th Congressional District. He is up for reelection next year.
Former Ohio State wrestler Mike Schyck said he thought Jordan would help the Strauss abuse survivors.
“Jim Jordan is a pit bull,” Schyck said in the documentary. “And so I figured why in the hell wouldn’t this guy step up for us?”
An extract from West Point historian, Terrence Goggin, Substack Nov 10th 2026
Miller’s new post is the second most powerful job in Washington. Why? Because Richard Nixon allowed his aide H.R. “Bob” Haldeman to create the office of Chief of Staff (COS) to consolidate Presidential power in a single aide to direct not only the White House staff but the Executive Branch as a whole to see that the President’s decisions and intention were carried out. Every Administration since then has kept the model.
Anyone who wished to see or talk to the President would have to go through the COS. Subsequent Administrations have continued to use the Haldeman staffing system which gave the White House staff the ability to tell cabinet secretaries and other officials “the President wants this to happen”. This enables the President through his COS to circumvent the legal chain of command, diluting the power of cabinet secretaries and “improve efficiency”. It also gives the COS power to implement his own agenda by interpreting the President’s intent broadly.
Miller should study Bob Haldeman. In early 1973 Haldeman was called by the Senate to testify under oath and did not claim Executive Privilege nor did he take the 5th. He testified in blatant defense of the Administration and Nixon personally. He denied all wrong doing and specifically denied participating in the Watergate coverup. He was contradicted by other witnesses and the White House tape recordings. Haldeman was eventually fired after the testimony. He was indicted and after a jury trial, spent years in prison for his actions, loyal to the President to the last. An interesting tip for Miller, Haldeman had called Nixon before Nixon resigned as President to request a pardon. Nixon refused to take his call.
Ukrainian officials said Russia dropped multiple bombs in an attack targeting a school where aid was being distributed to residents in Komyshuvakha, Zaporizhzhya region, on November 2.
Russia hit a town in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya region with at least 10 bombs in a “double-tap” strike on November 2, killing at least 31 people in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy describedas “a vile, terrorist strike” that targeted a school where humanitarian aid was being distributed to residents.
Zelenskyy said the settlement of Komyshuvakha, which lies between the city of Zaporizhzhya and the front line in the southeastern region, had been hit by bombs several times since morning.
“After the first aerial bomb strike, there was a double-tap strike with nine more bombs, specifically targeting the shelter where people were taking cover,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X that included footage of smoking ruins. He said rescuers were continuing to search for people.
Four of the dead were police officers and two were rescue workers, the State Emergency Service said in a Telegram post. It said five people remain hospitalized.
The regional military head said on November 3 that nearly 50 people were still missing following the attack.
“The Russians could not have been unaware that every week, local residents who had remained in Komyshuvakha received humanitarian aid at that very location. And this is further proof that Russia wants no de-escalation and no real justice,” Zelenskyy said.
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