February 2025
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Alice Weidel: Oligarch Tool
From the very start Hitler was financially supported and groomed by elements of the German establishment. As that establishment’s hold on the German people was challenged by the Great Depression they decided to move from liberalism (control the population through a hegemonic culture and false consciousness) to fascism. Hitler’s Nazi Party was very fully funded… Continue reading
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The Chagos Islands Were Never Britain’s to Give Away
Nigel Farage and the Conservatives are having a meltdown about Britain ‘giving up sovereignty’ of illegally occupied land. Britain’s foreign secretary David Lammy will this week meet his new US counterpart, Marco Rubio, to rescue Labour’s plan for the joint UK-US military base on the Chagos Islands. Continue reading
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Our Film is Going to the Oscars. But Here in Masafer Yatta, We’re Still Being Erased
arrest us, abuse us, and demolish our homes. Throughout the making of “No Other Land” — our documentary about the struggle and resilience of the Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta in the face of Israel’s efforts to expel us — one question persisted: Will anyone even watch this? Will anyone care? Continue reading
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Trump talks the talk with Iran, but needs to walk the walk
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, made a memorable speech to the stormy Labour Party annual conference in 2016, while per forma congratulating Jeremy Corbyn for winning the leadership election with an increased mandate but remaining sceptical that the party would be “trusted to govern again”. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 10 February 2025
Monday, 10 February 2025 — GM Watch US-funded “social network” attacking pesticide critics shuts down A US-funded “social network” attacking pesticide and GMO critics has shut down after an investigation by Lighthouse Reports in collaboration with The Guardian and others. The St Louis, Missouri-based firm, v-Fluence, said it’s shuttering the service that featured personal details Continue reading
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American Carnage and the Establishment of a Military Dictatorship
Immediate impeachment is the only option, but we must bring criminal charges against all the collaborating politicians, Democratic and Republican alike Continue reading
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Eurasia Rising
I was interviewed by Ab Gietelink about my book “The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order”. NATO expansionism was an important component of liberal hegemony as it was intended to cement the global primacy of the Political West as the foundation for a liberal democratic peace. Instead, it dismantled the pan-European security architecture and… Continue reading
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The racist roots of last Summer’s riots cannot be normalised
There are multiple signs, as documented in our regular calendar of racism and resistance, that a myopic narrative around the far-right-orchestrated racist riots of summer 2024 is in the making – that normalises racism and forecloses on any discussion of the organised violence of the far Right. Continue reading
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The Gaza ‘war’ was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told you
During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing Continue reading
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China: It’s time to lead – we’re done following
“For technologists, being followed is rewarding. Open-source is cultural, not just commercial. Giving back is an honour, and it attracts talent.” Quote: Founder Liang Wenfeng Continue reading
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Let Us Find Our Lost Diamonds: The Sixth Newsletter (2025)
Donald Trump returned to the White House with a loud thump. His staff threw executive order upon executive order on his desk, which he signed with a flourish and then got on the phone to bark orders at the Danes and the Panamanians and the Colombians, demanding this, that, and the other thing, that thing,… Continue reading
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US aid freeze: Analysts see South Africa being punished for dragging ‘Israel’ to ICJ
Trump has frozen US aid to South Africa, citing land confiscation and human rights concerns, but analysts see it as retaliation for South Africa’s ICJ case against “Israel” over genocide in Gaza. Continue reading
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AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
Artificial intelligence technologies, like chatbots, are attracting growing scrutiny for their voracious energy demands. However, energy consumption is only one part of their broader environmental impact. Continue reading
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Jabaliya Is Now a City of Rubble
Wednesday, 5 February 2025 — Drop Site Jabailya refugee camp in northern Gaza. February 4, 2025. Photo by Abubaker Abed. I saw northern Gaza for the first time in 15 months: debris and dust—that is all that is left. Abubaker Abed Guest post Continue reading
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Mr. Rubio keep barking because here we will remain
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yvan Gil Pinto slammed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, calling him “pathetically obsessive” after he labeled Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as “enemies of humanity.” Rubio’s remarks, made on Tuesday, blamed these nations for the region’s migration crisis. Continue reading
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Krynky: Very British Military Cataclysm
In November 2024, previously US-funded Ukrainska Pravda published a little-noticed investigation, documenting in frequently disquieting detail the catastrophic failure of Kiev’s long-running effort to capture the village of Krynky in Russian-controlled Kherson, October 2023 – June 2024. That it was to all intents and purposes a British operation, from deranged inception to miserable conclusion, was… Continue reading
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The Panama Canal Treaty Declassified
Continued U.S. control of the Panama Canal “looks like pure colonialism,” Henry Kissinger advised President Gerald Ford during a National Security Council meeting in May 1975, 50 years ago. “Internationally, failure to conclude a treaty is going to get us into a cause celebre, with harassment, demonstrations, bombing of embassies,” Kissinger warned, according to a declassified… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 3 February 2025
Monday, 3 February 2025 — GM Watch Lab-grown breast milk firm goes tits-up BIOMILQ — a startup culturing mammary cells to produce bioactives found in breastmilk — has filed for bankruptcy amid a protracted IP dispute with the ex-husband of one of the cofounders that she says rendered the firm “uninvestable and unacquirable”. Founded in Continue reading
The New Dark Age 