February 2025
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The Second Phone Call: Rubio-Lavrov
The awaited phone conversation initiated by Rubio with Lavrov has occurred. Here’s the MFA’s readout: Continue reading
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Top officials the meet next week to prepare Trump-Putin Summit
🔘 Putin and Trump may meet in Saudi Arabia at the end of February, Bloomberg reports, citing sources The publication states that senior officials from the US and Russia will meet next week in Saudi Arabia to lay the groundwork for a potential summit between the leaders at the end of the month to discuss… Continue reading
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Black day for Ukrainian nationalism: USAID programs suspension hits Kiev war regime hard
The suspension of USAID funding to Ukraine by the new U.S. administration has exposed the extent of Western financial influence on Ukrainian media, government, and nationalist movements. Continue reading
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The “Demonization” of Muslims and the Battle for Oil
Throughout history, “wars of religion” have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. “Wars of religion” were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 14 February 2025
Friday, 14 February 2025 — GM Watch Editor’s note: We apologise for the auto-correct-generated typo in yesterday’s Daily Digest item, the title of which should have read “GM trees promoted as potential future solution to citrus greening disease – but is the (non-GM) solution already out there?” Auto-correct, in its wisdom, changed the title to Continue reading
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Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink?
Are Big Tech’s plans to build hundreds of massive new data centres around the UK going to cause water shortages for the rest of us? Foxglove has conducted new research which reveals the staggering amount of water used by data centres to keep their computers cool. We’ve found a worrying lack of plans to ensure… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 13 February 2025
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — GM Watch GM trees promoted as potential future solution to circus greening disease – but is the (non-GM) solution already out there? Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have developed genetically engineered trees that create a protein that forms holes in the gut of Continue reading
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People’s Vaccine Inquiry Press Conference
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — HART The Silenced Witnesses Critique Module 4 Hearings Reproduced in full, with kind permission from UK Medical Freedom Alliance Feb 10, 2025 On 4th February 2025, members of the People’s Vaccine Inquiry team held a 3 hour press conference in London, to give their assessment of the Covid Public Inquiry Continue reading
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Clean Waters and Green Mountains Are as Valuable as Gold and Silver Mountains: The Seventh Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — The Tricontinental Chitra Ganesh (United States), Sultana’s Dream, 2018, a series of 27 linocuts published by Durham Press, © Chitra Ganesh. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Lost in a colonial fog of inferiority, writers across Asia imagined a world that was beyond the reach Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 12, 2025
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 — Black Agenda Report The Power of Black Self-Defense in Lincoln Heights Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves. Continue reading
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Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged An Apartheid State From River to Sea By Thomas Suárez
Much has been written in the alternative press over the past year about the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and its other war crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc. This has often been viewed within the historical context of the self-declared Zionist Israeli state’s founding in 1948 up to the present day. But far less… Continue reading
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Labour ‘bans MPs from criticising government’ after Waspi embarrassment
LABOUR MPs have been banned from publicly criticising government policies in a new clampdown by the beleaguered Starmer regime, it was revealed today. Continue reading
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Geopolitics of Capitalism – State of Power 2025
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 — The Transnational Institute Geopolitical rivalry is reshaping our world, as reactionary nationalists rise to power and global tensions mount. Our 13th State of Power report explores the shifting global order—questioning whether we are witnessing the decline of US imperialism and the rise of a Chinese empire, how nationalism is reshaping neoliberal Continue reading
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Lives for Guns – Former UK official blows the whistle on his nation’s weapons sales to Israel
Ex-policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Mark Smith, penned an op-Ed for the Guardian in which he stated “I was responsible for assessing whether the UK government’s arms sales adhered to legal and ethical standards under domestic and international law.” He resigned from his position in August of 2024, now blowing… Continue reading
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Media Silent Over Israel’s Use Of The ‘Hannibal Directive’ on 7 October 2023
In an interview with Israeli television last Thursday, Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister, confirmed that the so-called ‘Hannibal Directive’ was implemented by Israeli military forces on 7 October 2023, the day of attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian fighters. Continue reading
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GM WAtch Daily Digest 11 February 2025
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 — GM Watch GMO deregulation threatens breeders, farmers, and the organic and non GMO sectors in the EU European countries must protect farmers, small- and medium-sized seed breeders, and the organic and GM-free sectors from threats to their business posed by the deregulation of new GMOs, warns Greenpeace and more than Continue reading
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UN censures London for misuse of terrorism laws to silence pro-Palestine voices
The UK has used its Terrorism Law to detain journalists and activists expressing critical views of its foreign policy toward Israel Continue reading
The New Dark Age 