March 2025
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Silence! We Will Build Our EU Wehrmacht, Like It Or Not
The European Union’s push for militarization is facing widespread public backlash, as citizens across social media platforms reject its aggressive defense policies and question its leadership. Continue reading
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A state of exception – The Grayzone live
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Netanyahu breaking the Gaza ceasefire to resume Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave as Trump launches a war on Yemen to protect Tel Aviv’s shipping. They will also cover Trump’s declaration of a de facto state of emergency at home to escalate deportations and repression of Palestine solidarity activism. Continue reading
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New report reveals protest crackdown in England & Wales is now so severe, it amounts to state repression of people’s human rights
A new report authored by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) says the aggressive police use of new anti-protest laws, coupled with a growing portrayal of protesters as alleged threats to democracy rather than a vital part of public participation, has grown so routine and so severe that it now amounts to state repression. Continue reading
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Israel blows up the sole cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip
The Turkish friendship hospital, located near the recently re-invaded Netzarim corridor that intersects northern and central Gaza, was blown up without any justification by Israeli forces. Continue reading
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US Lays “Minsk 3” Ceasefire Trap for Russia as Europe Prepares “Peacekeepers” The New Atlas 283K subscribers
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The New Atlas The US proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing, prompting urgent attempts to impose a ceasefire on Russia; This includes a European-led “peacekeeping” mission into Ukraine to freeze the conflict and create a bufferzone preventing Russia from neutralizing the threat the US has created on its border; The Continue reading
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The Spring 2025 MediaNorth is now online
Friday, 21 March 2025 — Coldtype Welcome to the Spring issue of MediaNorth. You can read it here: https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MediaNorth_March2025WEBV2.0.pdf —————————- INSIDE The Spring issue has a review by veteran UK journalist Paul Routledge of The Art of Class War by Nick Jones. The front page is on the Covid Inquiry and mentions the role of Tory Continue reading
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Unilateral Coercive Measures and the War on Women: The Twelfth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The Tricontinental Alejandra Laprea (Venezuela), El acuerpamiento de las mujeres es nuestra estrategia de defensa (Women’s Embodied Solidarity Is Our Defence Strategy), 2022. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1945, when the United Nations Charter was drafted, its authors and those who first Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar : Trump, Yemen, and Iran.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Judge Napolitano – Judging Freedom Continue reading
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Global War for Opium Poppy
A study done by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) revealed that the Opiates epidemic, alongside overdose deaths in the US, rose by 500% as a result of US intervention in Afghanistan between 2000 and 2016. Continue reading
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“Trump/Putin Phone Call” Kalibrated Live #142 with Brian Berletic
Brian Berletic from @TheNewAtlas Joins me to discuss the recent phone call between Putin and Trump on ending hostilities in Ukraine. Is this just another another stall tactic trying to buy Ukraine time and space or is this a geunuine move to resolve the conflict. Continue reading
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Ukraine War and Media Manipulation, who controls what you see?
I was on SaltCubeAnalytics to discuss why narrative control and propaganda are key components of war. Framing conflicts as a struggle between good and evil is beneficial to mobilise public support for war, although it makes it near impossible to accept a workable peace. Continue reading
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From East to West: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report March 19, 2025
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Black Agenda Report Will Trump Send U.S. Citizens to El Salvador? Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Showdowns between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary will determine the fate of everyone in the country, including whether the government has the right to send U.S. citizens to jail Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 19 March 2025
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — GM Watch EFSA proposal to weaken risk assessment for “new GM” animals threatens animal welfare GeneWatch UK has submitted a response to the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA’s) consultation on its “Draft scientific opinion on new developments in biotechnology applied to animals: an assessment of the adequacy and sufficiency of Continue reading
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From ‘No More Wars’ to Bombing Yemen: Trump’s Broken Peace Pledge
President Trump, our ersatz “anti-war candidate,” has chosen to escalate U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, bombing some of the poorest people on Earth while squandering vast sums on obscenely expensive naval air operations. Such is America’s way, it seems. Rather than leveraging diplomatic and economic pressure to compel Israel to facilitate aid access—thereby halting Houthi retaliation… Continue reading
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Exposing Britain’s Covert War On Yemen
On March 15th, Yemen was battered with airstrikes, described as a “wicked” act of Anglo-American aggression by spokespeople for AnsarAllah. The blitzkrieg, which overwhelmingly targeted residential areas, killed at least 31 civilians and injured over 100 more. In a characteristically bombastic outburst, US President Donald Trump declared the “decisive and powerful military action” was launched… Continue reading
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How we got here: the terrible lie of antisemitism
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — The Mizrahi Perspective My horror and rage at the renewed mass murder, and about one particularly vicious instrument that allows Israel to continue the slaughter without international resistance Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Kursk Collapse & Washington’s Rush to Freeze Conflict Under “Minsk 3”
13 March 2025 — The New Atlas 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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Putin-Trump Phone Chat #2
Here’s the straight edited translation of the Kremlin’s readout of the second publicly acknowledged phone chat between Presidents Putin and Trump. One publication says the call lasted three hours: Continue reading
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“I couldn’t tell whether we were alive or dead and buried under the rubble”
GAZA CITY—I woke up at 3 a.m. on March 18th to the sound of a massive explosion above my head, shattering the silence of the night. For a moment, I felt like I had died. Continue reading