November 2025
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Europe Wants Soldiers, Not Solutions: Germany’s Draft and the Return of the War Economy
CNN dresses Germany’s new conscription regime as common sense, but its language reveals an empire preparing its young for war. Beneath the talking points lies a material crisis: collapsing legitimacy, labor shortages, and NATO’s hunger for bodies. Germany’s rearmament only makes sense when placed within Europe’s deeper imperial recalibration toward austerity and militarized governance. The… Continue reading
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Lobito and the Long Arm of Empire: Europe’s Green Transition Runs on African Land, Labor, and Life
How the EU’s “model corridor” revives the colonial blueprint under the banner of sustainability— and how African workers, communities, and global movements are fighting back. Continue reading
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Fascism, Terror, War and Genocide: The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism
Sociologist William I. Robinson speaks at the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee conference in Hartford, CT on Nov. 8, 2025. William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Affiliated Faculty, Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is… Continue reading
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A Looming Mexican Coup?
On November 15th, incendiary protests engulfed over 50 cities across Mexico. The Western media has universally adopted the narrative disaffected local “Gen Z” sought to vent their righteous rage against the government, over corruption, and the administration’s purported ties to drug cartels. Footage of law enforcement clashing with demonstrators spread like wildfire, and many outlets… Continue reading
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The Empire That Lost Its Voice: How The Guardian Turned a Search Engine Glitch Into a Geopolitical Ghost Story
A forensic dissection of imperial panic, narrative monopoly, and the dying breath of Western epistemic control in the age of multipolar meaning. A Weaponized Information excavation of how empires manufacture fear when their stories stop running the world. Continue reading
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What the UN Gaza vote revealed about the imperialist world order
A U.S.-drafted UN resolution endorsing President Donald Trump’s Gaza “peace plan” passed in the Security Council on Nov. 17. Palestinians responded immediately: This was not peace — it was a blueprint for foreign control. Continue reading
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Palestinians Will Not Let the Genocide Kill Their Hopes: The Forty-Seventh Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 20 November 2025 — The Tricontinental The Palestinian people continue to resist the inhuman Israeli occupation and genocide, turning art and culture into spaces of memory, dignity, and hope Pablo Kalaka (Chile and Venezuela), Under the Olive Tree, 2023. [Courtesy of Utopix and Artists Against Apartheid.] Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Continue reading
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‘Cumulative Impact’: What does this mean for protest?
Wednesday, 19 November 2025 — NetPol The Crime and Policing Bill currently moving through Parliament contains worrying new proposals to allow the police to ban or restrict protests based on the “cumulative disruption” they have, or may, cause. Continue reading
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Whose news is it — and who decides what we see?
Fidel Castro was one of the great communicators. He focused on the problems of raising the cultural level so that people could gain control of their own destiny. Continue reading
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🚨 Join me LIVE Nov 14th tonight w/ special guest PrJiang Xueqin @ 8:30pm eastern 5:30am pacific and 1:30am London!of.
Prof. Jiang will connect the dots of the recent Epstein email dump and the coming death of the American empire, and gives his geopolitical predictions and how they relate to the bombshells unveiled. Continue reading
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China Widens Tech & Education Gap with Outlaw US Empire
Productive planning versus casino capitalism Continue reading
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Data Center resistance: a good ground game can help stop the corporate AI offensive
Major tech companies–OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok)–are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence (AI) models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial… Continue reading
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Zohran Mamdani: From postcolonial legacy to the heart of empire
The new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, embodies a new political generation — but also a singular intellectual legacy: that of his parents. Continue reading
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Zohran Mamdani and the Contradictions of Socialist Governance in the Imperial Core
A victory born from crisis, constrained by capital, and tested by the global architecture of empire. Continue reading
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The United States Continues Its Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution: The Forty-Fifth Newsletter (2025)
Since early September, the United States has given every indication that it could be preparing for a military assault on Venezuela. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research partnered with ALBA Movimientos, the International Peoples’ Assembly, No Cold War, and the Simón Bolívar Institute to produce red alert no. 20, ‘The Empire’s Dogs Are Barking at Venezuela’,… Continue reading
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C-19 Inquiry Module 8 – Children and Young People: Damning evidence of multiple harms to children by school closures:
When Baroness Hallett published her original draft terms of reference, children did not even appear. Many of us wrote in to the consultation, and were granted with a 4 week module which has just concluded. As ever, BiologyPhenom has done an amazing job reporting almost every day and with clips which should be a ‘Must… Continue reading
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The November 2025 issue of ColdType is now online
Wednesday, 5 November 2025 — ColdType Read Issue 274 at https://coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType274Nov2025.pdf and at https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype_issue_184_-_nov_2025?fr=xKAE9_zMzMws —————————- BACK COPIES – All issues of ColdType (plus the original 6 tabloid versions) are available to read and download at https://issuu.com/coldtype and at www.coldtype.net/reader.html —————————- ColdType Continue reading
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How to Win Zohran’s Agenda
The prospect of a democratic socialist who has said billionaires shouldn’t exist becoming the mayor of New York City has the ruling class in a tizzy. But Kathryn Wylde, head of one of the city’s most powerful business lobbies, has a message for her rich friends: don’t worry so much. Continue reading
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Ofcom’s cunning plan to extend its censorship role
Back in 2020, Ofcom, the UK broadcasts regulator, performed a pivotal role in censoring dissenting voices opposed to the dominant covid narrative. Ominously – based on their June 2025 document titled, ‘Consultation: Online Safety – Additional Safety Measures’ – it is clear that the executives in charge of Ofcom are not satisfied with their current… Continue reading
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