March 13, 2025
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How a secret police protocol gave special treatment to Warwickshire Hunt
In 2023, Warwickshire Police served a Community Protection Notice (CPN) on the Warwickshire Hunt due to the number of antisocial behaviour issues that the hunt had been causing for years on public roads. The hunt appealed the notice, and a court date was set — but then what happened next was nothing short of a… Continue reading
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Booked your ticket for This Is Repression yet?
Our first annual “State of Protest” report documents not just the expansion of restrictions and oppressive policing on the streets in Britain, but an alarming package of state-supported measures designed to impose social control on protests on a scale reminiscent of the ‘war on terror’ two decades ago. Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 13 March 2025
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — GM Watch Unpacking EU’s food fight over new GMOs At a standstill for months, the EU’s plan to free so-called new genomic techniques (NGTs) from GMO rules could move forward on Friday 14 March — delivering on efforts from Europe’s factory farm capitals to override opposition from countries concerned about Continue reading
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Why is the rivalry between Russia and the West intensifying?
Rivalries between Russia and the West are on the rise, fueled by decades of mistrust, resentment, hybrid conflicts, and strategic divergences. What are the roots of this geopolitical tension? Continue reading
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Twenty-Five Days of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women from 40 Billion Hours of Water Harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the socialist movement. Most of the world now only calls 8 March ‘International Women’s Day’, excluding the word ‘working’ from its title. But work is a fundamental part of women’s daily lives. According to UN Women’s annual report Progress on the… Continue reading
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Labour’s arms exports to Israel exposed
This week, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) released new data showing how the Labour government licensed nearly £11m in arms exports to Israel during its first three months in office. Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Kursk Collapse & Washington’s Rush to Freeze Conflict Under “Minsk 3”
As Ukraine’s Kursk operations collapse and wider fears grow regarding the viability of Ukraine’s armed forces, the US is rushing to freeze the conflict, create a European-occupied buffer zone in Ukraine, and buy time to rearm and reorganize Ukraine’s forces for the next round of fighting. Continue reading
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Ceasefire Without Political Settlement – Another Minsk Agreement?
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Ambassador Chas Freeman regarding the US-Ukraine deal for a 30-day ceasefire. The agreement does not provide any political solutions and would likely be used by the US and the Europeans to pump more weapons into Ukraine. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention
Mahmoud Khalil was finally able to speak with his legal team after a judge in the Southern District of New York ordered the Department of Homeland Security to allow a call of at least an hour. Prior to that, the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestine organizer had no meaningful contact with his lawyers since Department… Continue reading
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The EU’s Precarious Position: Awaiting the Trump Pendulum Effect
The EU is in tatters as the bloc’s leadership feigns solidarity with the tide rising against globalism. With a trade war looming between the EU and its biggest customer, the United States, heads in Brussels can be heard clanking together to stabilize a horrendous situation. A U.S. Russia reset and Donald Trump’s refocus on America’s… Continue reading
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The farcical fate of the corporate droid and their Cadmean victories
In 2018, David Graeber made the term ‘bullshit jobs’ famous, arguing that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates productivity with self-worth. Now with the advent of AI and quantum computing, the need for human labour and, in fact, human cognition in the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 