February 2025
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
2008 Assessment Could Fill Critical Gaps in Most Recent 2021 Intelligence Estimate “There’s no secret stuff in here… Just good analysts working with publicly available information and applying good methodological tradecraft” Continue reading
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This month: Exploring Global Resistance and the Impact of Trump’s Second Term
Friday, 28 February 2025 — Transnational Institute In this month, we explore pressing global struggles, from border imperialism in the Maghreb to community resistance against extractivism in Ecuador. Additionally, we highlight crucial discussions on Palestine and the effectiveness of the BDS movement, featuring Francesca Albanese’s insights on historical injustices and Omar Barghouti’s analysis of Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 27 February 2025
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — GM Watch Company uses gene editing to create glow-in-the-dark rabbits A new startup called the Los Angeles Project aims to speed up that process with genetic engineering to make glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats and dogs, and possibly, one day, actual unicorns. The Los Angeles Project is the brainchild of biohacker Continue reading
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Britain’s Secret Overseas Meddling Machine
The Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), a British intelligence cutout, covertly funds and orchestrates political destabilization and regime change efforts worldwide under the guise of democracy promotion. Continue reading
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RAIDING UKRAINE: Trump’s Plan to Plunder Resources, End the War, and Isolate China
The useful thing about President Trump is that he has an ability to package the dismantling of the United States Empire as the building of the American Empire. His administration’s decision to end the war in Ukraine is a transparent attempt to raid Ukrainian mineral resources, snap the European Union back into line, and draw… Continue reading
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China Has Already Become the Leader in Advanced Critical Technologies: The Ninth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — The Tricontinental Cao Fei (China), My Future Is Not a Dream 05, 2006. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump indicated his interest in annexing Greenland and brokering a peace deal for Continue reading
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“Israel” attacks southern Syria; now the die is cast for Jolani and HTS
The only way a settler-colonial project can ensure its existence is by doing what it was founded to do: colonizing and settling. Continue reading
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Thank you to thousands who supported me: we won
After spending five days imprisoned, I was released without restriction on my ability to discuss the charges brought against me for criticizing Israel. It’s a small win for free expression and Palestine campaigning. Continue reading
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LIVE STARTING: Palestine crackdown hits Canada
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — The Electronic Intifada Author Yves Engler was released on Monday after spending five days in a Montreal jail. Engler’s arrest and detention was “a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada – a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society,” according Continue reading
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Germany: Merz takes the helm of a sinking ship
Friedrich Merz, leader of the right-wing Christian Democrats (CDU), will be Germany’s next Chancellor. On election night, he declared that a government should be in place by Easter, claiming that his mission is to unite Europe and that everything depends on leadership from Germany. Merz wants to be the ‘European Chancellor’ who will stand up… Continue reading
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Is American Empire Ending?
I had the great pleasure of being on Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano to discuss the end of the American Empire. After decades of pursuing global primacy, the US has exhausted its resources and incentivised other great powers to balance the US collectively. For this exact reason, the US was traditionally an off-shore balancer seeking… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 26 February 2025
Weddnesday, 26 February 2025 — GM Watch After trade dispute, Mexico officially bans the planting of GM corn Mexico’s lower house of Congress has approved a constitutional reform to ban the planting of GM corn, a move that could lead to more tension with the US after the resolution of a trade dispute. The initiative Continue reading
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Involuntarily Committed into the Zionist Asylum (for Being Normal)
The can be no overstating the scope and intensity of the sick experiment of trying to legitimize Zionism and all its abhorrent, clearly visible, pathological criminality Continue reading
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Kazakhstan as a new biological testing ground for US DoD
Alex Lloyd reveals how the US is turning Kazakhstan into a military-biological testing ground, funding research on deadly pathogens under the Pentagon’s supervision. Continue reading
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EU on the Brink: Will Europe Collapse or Adjust to Multipolar Realities?
The EU continues to pursue policies that undermine its security, economy, political stability, and internal cohesion because it has failed to adjust to multipolar realities. The US is adjusting to multipolarity by demanding more loyalty from the Europeans, while similarly pivoting to Asia. Europe can recover by ending the expansionist bloc politics that redivided the… Continue reading
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Three years of a cruel and destructive NATO proxy war in Ukraine
Dmitri Kovalevich examines how the West sabotaged the Minsk 2 agreement, pushing Ukraine toward war, dictatorship, and political repression. The end of February marks three years since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and 11 years since the ‘Euromaidan’ coup of February 2014. The coup was the main cause of the current… Continue reading
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Orange Peace
In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions’. Continue reading
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The Gaza “Ceasefire” Is at a Crucial Crossroads
The first phase of the deal between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire and exchange of captives is set to expire on Saturday, March 1, after what is supposed to be the final exchange on Thursday of the bodies of four Israeli captives for the freedom of several hundred Palestinians held by Israel. But, with… Continue reading
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Israel bombards Gaza’s Rafah city in another violation of the ceasefire agreement
Monday, 24 February 2025 — MintPress News In addition to opening fire on civilians with gunfire, the Israeli military also decided to launch airstrikes and artillery fire against Rafah. This occurred while Palestinians struggle to stay warm as the temperature dips, due to Israel violating the ceasefire by not allowing tents, caravans and other essential Continue reading
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Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate
In an open statement, civil society groups, scientists, and academics are challenging the democratic legitimacy of any conclusions or policy proposals that may arise from the 2025 Spirit of Asilomar and the Future of Biotechnology conference currently running from 23-26 February at Asilomar, California. Continue reading