February 2025
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GM Watch Daily Digest 24 February 2025
Monday, 24 February 2025 — GM Watch 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 Continue reading
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The March 2025 issue of ColdType is now online
Monday, 24 February 2025 — ColdType Read Issue 267 at https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/CT267_March2025.pdf And at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype_267_march2025?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype and at www.coldtype.net/reader.html Continue reading
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IN-PERSON Socialism or Barbarism – Arise Dayschool 2025
Sunday, 23 February 2025 — Venezuela Solidarity IN-PERSON Socialism or Barbarism – Arise Dayschool 2025 In-person, Central London, Saturday, March 29, 10.30am. Get tickets here // Share here // Invite here // RT here John McDonnell MP // Grace Blakeley // Marwan Yaghi, Palestinian Embassy // Richard Burgon MP // Ian Byrne MP // Pat Cullen MP, Sinn Fein // Rudo Pastor, ex Honduran Minister // Cat Continue reading
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USAID Exported CIA Balkan Terror to Haiti
On December 19th, James Foley, US ambassador to Haiti 2003 – 2005, published an explosive op-ed in rabidly anti-Communist Miami Times. He lamented how the country had become a “ticking time bomb”, with hundreds of thousands of refugees threatening to emigrate Stateside, “mounting gang violence”, withdrawal of “humanitarian relief organizations” due to “threats”, and “criminal”… Continue reading
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Lessons From The 1960s Global Revolt
The global revolt of the 1960s offered hope for liberation from capitalism, a hope that was not fulfilled. To succeed this time, we must address four questions: Continue reading
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Covid Inquiry Module 4 revisited
It was appallingly apparent from the very first day of the much anticipated Module 4 of the UK Covid Inquiry, that this never intended on being an honest, open examination into what happened during the pandemic to ensure the harms endured by reckless public health policies could never again be repeated. Continue reading
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The BBC deleted its own documentary about Gaza following pressure from the Israel Lobby in the UK
Saturday, 22 February 2025 — MintPress News The documentary, that is narrated by a child in the Gaza Strip, takes the viewer through a journey on surviving the Israeli onslaught. However, the Israel Lobby and Zionist activists began immediately accusing the BBC of publishing “Hamas” propaganda. In order to appease the powerful lobby, the BBC Continue reading
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Exposing the big con: The false promise of Artificial Intelligence
The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all. And to this point they have been surprisingly successful in capturing investor money and government support, making their already wealthy owners even wealthier. However, that success doesn’t change the fact that their… Continue reading
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Francesca Albanese’s Berlin Keynote on Gaza Genocide
Despite police intimidation and last-minute venue changes, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, delivered a historic speech in Berlin, at an event organised by DiEM25, Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Eye4palestine and the Gaza Committee Berlin. Continue reading
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Lavrov at G-20 in Johannesburg
Friday, 21 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium Includes Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership Initiative document Karl Sanchez Sergey Lavrov at least got to spend a night in one place as the G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting is a several-days affair. Lavrov went from Moscow to Riyadh back to Moscow then on to Johannesburg and is always Continue reading
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Dmitry Trenin: Russia’s long-term play Is much bigger than Ukraine
The reopening of US-Russia dialogue has triggered alarm, especially in Western Europe, where many see it as a potential repeat of Yalta — a grand power settlement taking place over their heads. Much of the commentary has been exaggerated. Yet, the pace of global change has clearly accelerated. The words and actions of US President… Continue reading
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Malcolm X’s Family Lawsuit Accuses the CIA, FBI and NYPD in Icon’s Assassination
In mid-November, three daughters of Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and the Department of Justice with involvement in the 1965 assassination of the activist leader. Continue reading
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The Plot Against America
8 February 2025 — Notes form the Circus [Creepy stuff and if true, frightening! WB] How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America Mike Brock As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government. Inside the newly created Department of Government Efficiency Continue reading
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By Drones And Mines – The British Naval War Against Russia In Ukraine
Since at least 2014 The United Kingdom has been a major participant in NATO’s proxy war against Russia. During the hot phase of the war it has directed a drone and missile campaign in the Black Sea. It is likely responsible for current attacks against Russia related sea transport. It is developing new naval drones… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 February 2025
Thursday, 20 February 2025 — GM Watch Joint letter to the EU Commission: Pseudo-science must not be an option for Europe! Today several civil society organisations (CSOs) – including GMWatch – and industry associations published a joint letter to the European Commission, demanding that they withdraw their proposal for deregulation of plants obtained from new Continue reading
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We Want to Build Communities of Readers, Not Turn Readers into Commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 20 February 2025 — The Tricontinental Katsukawa Shunshō (Japan), Japanese Women Reading and Writing, c. 1776. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are days when the dusk of events settles heavily on me, and I try to find a way to retreat into a quiet corner and Continue reading
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Remembering anti-racist stalwarts in threatening times
It is sadly ironic that, as we record the experiences of Professor Insa Koch and her young children of the hyper-securitisation of a society which she feels indicates a growing fascism in Germany, and as this week’s calendar reveals, the leader of the Tories, at an international hard-right gathering, echoes tropes about ‘some cultures being better than… Continue reading
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh. Such a time arrived this past weekend in Brussels and at the Security Conference in Munich. Though the big shots present were in no laughing mood—but in shock! Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 19 February 2025
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — GM Watch Divided Kingdom: Devolved nations and the Genetic Technology Act The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 aims to deregulate gene-edited organisms (or, as the UK government misleadingly calls them, “precision-bred organisms, PBOs). As the government moves to implement secondary legislation that will make the Act operational by the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 19, 2025
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — Black Agenda Report The Fall of Eric Adams Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Eric Adams has a multitude of legal and political problems that have ended any political ambitions he may have had. Donald Trump may have kept him from going to jail, but in seeking a Continue reading
The New Dark Age 