January 2025
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The age of interplanetary exceptionalism
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”. Continue reading
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An Ecological Civilization Will Have to Be Socialist
Ian Angus is editor of the online ecosocialist journal Climate & Capitalism and a founding member of the Global Ecosocialist Network. He is the author of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System (Monthly Review Press, 2016) and, most recently, The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 24 January 2025
Friday, 24 January 2025 — GM Watch Brazil says soy shipments to China from five firms halted due to contamination China, the world’s biggest soybean buyer, has stopped receiving Brazilian soybean shipments from five firms after cargoes did not meet plant health requirements, according to a statement from the Brazilian government. The Brazilian agriculture ministry Continue reading
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Gaza protest: How Starmer and the Met have joined forces to quash all dissent
The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza is a decisive turning point. Continue reading
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Statewatch Bi-weekly bulletin: issue 25/01
Welcome to the year’s first edition of the Statewatch Bulletin.You may have already noticed, but 2025 has brought several changes to Statewatch. You can find explanations of these changes along with our regular newsletter content below, now in a friendlier format.As always, if you appreciate what we do, you can support us with a donation. Every… Continue reading
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NOT SO MUCH ‘GOD SAVE AMERICA’ AS GOD SAVED TRUMP TO SAVE AMERICA
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — The Planning Motive THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TRUMP THE MAGALOMANIAC This article will deal with Trumps inaugural address first and then with his first Executive Orders. Trump’s 30 minute political address whose predominant theme was that under his rule the USA would be reborn was the equivalent of a born Continue reading
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Why we must challenge divisive ‘grooming gangs’ narratives
Less than six months after the far-right orchestrated racist riots that targeted asylum accommodation and mosques, comes a new bout of dog-whistle Islamophobia, fomented by Elon Musk who reposted forty tweets on the UK’s child sexual exploitation and ‘grooming gangs’ in 24 hours, also calling for the release of jailed far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Conservative… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 23 January 2025
Thursday, 23 January 2025 — GM Watch ACTION ALERT: Keep GMO food regulated and labelled! Sign the petition urging the European Commission and EU national governments to take a strong stand against any attempts to exclude new GMOs from the existing EU GMO legislation and to uphold mandatory safety checks, transparency and labelling for all Continue reading
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The Promethean Aspirations of the Darker Nations: The Fourth Newsletter (2025)
For decades now, there has been a clear understanding that the models of development proposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Washington Consensus – debt, austerity, structural adjustment – simply have not worked. The long history of adversity experienced by the former colonial countries remains intact. A glance at the numbers from the… Continue reading
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Trump vows to ‘expand’ US territory, invokes Manifest Destiny, hints at military force in Panama & Greenland
At his inauguration, US President Donald Trump promised to “expand our territory”, invoked the colonialist “Manifest Destiny”, and vowed to take over the Panama Canal (falsely claiming China runs it). Continue reading
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Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part II
President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and their key operative in the White House, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, hopelessly underestimated President-elect Donald Trump’s quick reflex action to demolish their demonic plot to kickstart a war with Iran by attacking its nuclear installations just before the new president’s inauguration. Continue reading
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Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part I
My one-week visit to Tehran to observe the presidential election last June came as an eye-opener. I could sense beyond doubt that Iran was on the cusp of profound changes. The country, which I had known professionally for decades ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, was heaving with high expectations of a radical change… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report January 22, 2025
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — Black Agenda Report Trump Keeps His Promises While Democrats Must Be Abandoned Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Trump begins his term delivering on promises, but compromised and colluding democrats have ready excuses for betraying their voters. Continue reading
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“TikTok is back”, but minus free speech
Accounts have been reporting censorship on TikTok following it brief ban and return after seemingly being purchased by another company. According to the new TikTok, “free Palestine” is hate speech. The original ban was proposed by Congress members on the payroll of the Israel Lobby, the goal being to censor what Americans can say and… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 22 January 2025
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — GM Watch There is no “magic threshold” for new GMO safety Testbiotech has published a new backgrounder summarising recent research showing clear evidence that the EU Commission proposal for the future regulation of plants obtained from new genetic engineering (new genomic techniques, NGT) is inadequate. It would be outdated before Continue reading
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Gaza’s Priceless Gift to Humanity
Wednesday, 22 January 2025 — BettBeat Media Through their unbearable sacrifice, Palestinians have given us the Great Unmasking of the West: revealing how crimes against humanity aren’t aberrations but core features of Western ‘civilization’. Indomitable Palestinians: A Beautiful People Who Refused to Kneel. The genocide in Palestine isn’t just another ‘Middle Eastern’ conflict – it’s Continue reading
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It’s Official: US Abandoning Ukraine
On January 19th, TIME magazine published an astonishing article, amply confirming what dissident, anti-war academics, activists, journalists and researchers have argued for a decade. The US always intended to abandon Ukraine after setting up the country for proxy war with Russia, and never had any desire or intention to assist Kiev in defeating Moscow in… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 21 January 2025
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 — GM Watch Poland’s gene editing gamble leaves EU Member States baffled Poland’s bid to end an EU impasse on new gene-edited crops has flopped after its much-anticipated patent proposal was met with confusion from other member states. Poland’s proposal was meant to unite the bloc and secure a deal before Continue reading
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Watch: What the Hell is That?
The United States is building a massive megastructure in Lebanon, a country with the area and population of Yorkshire or Connecticut and just a tenth of the economy. It is called an Embassy but plainly it is not. No western media is doing this kind of reporting from the Middle East. We urgently need financial… Continue reading
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Scott Ritter & Pepe Escobar: Trump’s SHOCKING Executive Orders–Putin, Iran & China BRACE for War
Tuesday, 21 January 2025 — Danny Haiphong BREAKING: Trump returns to office with a huge snub of Ukraine and a series of moves that are sending shockwaves across the geopolitical landscape. In this must-see LIVE program, Scott Ritter returns to react to the realities of the Ukraine conflict and what Trump’s recent moves say abut Continue reading
The New Dark Age 