October 2025
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The World Economy’s Centre of Gravity Shifts to Asia: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2025)
On the last day of October 2025, leaders from the 21 nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum will meet in the city of Gyeongju in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) for the organisation’s 33rd summit. Since its founding in 1989 in Canberra, Australia, APEC has promoted building a zone of ‘free and… Continue reading
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‘Passports on our faces’
As predicted, the toxic atmosphere unleashed by far-right mischief makers on social media, extremists on the streets and their appeasement via a Dutch auction between Labour and Tories as to which can ‘reduce numbers’ the fastest and the most, has led to unprecedented levels of racial harassment and attack. In this week’s calendar, among incidents… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 29, 2025
Wednesday, 29 October 2025 — Black Agenda Report The Shutdown and Never Ending Hostility to the Welfare State Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist The federal government shutdown is a fight between Trump and democrats, but it is also emblematic of the tenuous nature of the welfare state in the U.S. The duopoly Continue reading
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Purging Palestine solidarity from the NHS
The arrest was a clear case of political interference in the supposedly independent UK medical tribunals and licensing system, and only the latest sign of a wider purge of the National Health Service of solidarity with Palestinians. Continue reading
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Europe without microchips and Germany ignored by Beijing
As with energy, European industries have fallen into another American trap and now find themselves without microchips. Continue reading
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Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2025)
Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism. Yet they have often been coopted by entrenched social classes. Can their energy be channelled towards progressive ends? Continue reading
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A site Update
Thursday, 23 October 2025 — The New Dark Age I celebrated my 80th birthday in July and great fun was had by all. However, maintaining this site to the level I prefer has become a major headache for me, due largely to ongoing and extremely frustrating health issues. I have kept this site going, pretty Continue reading
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Zionism’s Cultivation of a Closed Heart
“Like other supremacist ideologies, Zionism in its dominant form does not merely kill; it teaches people to feel righteous about killing.” Continue reading
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36 Minute Trials and No Jury – Starmer’s Fascist Mass Courts
Those charged with terrorism for supporting Palestine Action will have no jury in trials limited to 36 minutes each, with prison sentences up to six months. These are the plans for Starmer Courts for mass trials of anti-Genocide protestors. Continue reading
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Genocide by Blockade: How the U.S. Empire Wages War on Cuba’s Right to Live
They call it an embargo. We call it what it is—economic warfare, a colonial siege dressed up as policy, and proof that the crisis of imperialism has become a war against life itself. Continue reading
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One Million Pounds and a War Without End: How Boris Johnson’s Intervention in Kyiv Changed the Course of the Conflict and Europe’s Future
When Boris Johnson flew to Kyiv in May 2022, peace in Ukraine was within reach. Three years and a million pounds later, Europe is paying the price for a corrupt man and a continent’s silence. Continue reading
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Fear of a Robotic Planet: Why Western Executives Are Shaken by Socialist Modernity
They built the machines to serve capital. Now the machines serve history. The empire that once automated the world for profit is trembling before a socialism that automates for survival. Continue reading
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Exclusive: Yemen Uncovers Massive CIA and Mossad Spy Ring Embedded in Pro-Democracy NGOs
While Yemen usually conjures images of conflicts with Israel and the Saudi-led coalition, a new dimension to the complex country and its people has emerged: Yemen’s secret war of spies. MintPress News delves into the largest CIA spy cell ever uncovered in Yemen, revealing a major security operation that apprehended its members and exposed American… Continue reading
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Pekka-philia: disgraced porn profiteer turned pro-Ukraine ‘disinfo expert’ could face legal action
Faux disinformation expert Pekka Kallioniemi gained notoriety by smearing critics of the Ukraine proxy war. Since being unmasked for peddling pornographic representations of minors, Kallioniemi has been caught promoting fraudulent KGB documents to slander a journalist as a Russian spy. Continue reading
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Expand or die: a system that can’t stop creating crises
Walk through Fort Worth, Texas, and you’ll see the story of a collapsing empire written in steel and concrete. Continue reading
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New analysis: climate impact of data centres
As part of Foxglove’s work to sound the alarm on the environmental impact of Big Tech’s dash to cover the UK in data centres, we’ve published some new analysis of data centres’ impact on the UK’s efforts to cut carbon emissions. Continue reading
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Your Party – Rally for Real Change – LIVE from Liverpool @ 7PM
Join Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana LIVE from St. George’s Hall in Liverpool for the Rally for Real Change, as they outline their vision for a mass, democratic movement. Continue reading
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Africa Will Be Free When the IMF Stops Colluding to Steal Its Wealth: The Forty-First Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 9 October 2025 — The Tricontinental Omar Ba (Senegal), Promenade masquée, 2016. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In February 2025, Senegal’s Court of Auditors released a report that found ‘anomalies’ in the management of public finances between 2019 and 2024, during the presidency of Macky Sall (2012–2024). Continue reading
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URGENT: UK about to cave to Trump & big pharma’s demands
It’s been reported this morning that the UK government is preparing to dramatically increase the price the NHS pays for medicines. Continue reading
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An End To Our Illusions
Earlier this year, Netpol and the Article 11 Trust published our State of Protest report, with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. We are currently collaborating on a new report for 2025 and it is hard to know what to call it this time. Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? Continue reading
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