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Francesca Albanese’s Berlin Keynote on Gaza Genocide
Despite police intimidation and last-minute venue changes, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, delivered a historic speech in Berlin, at an event organised by DiEM25, Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East, Eye4palestine and the Gaza Committee Berlin. Continue reading
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Lavrov at G-20 in Johannesburg
Friday, 21 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium Includes Russia’s Greater Eurasian Partnership Initiative document Karl Sanchez Sergey Lavrov at least got to spend a night in one place as the G-20 Foreign Ministers Meeting is a several-days affair. Lavrov went from Moscow to Riyadh back to Moscow then on to Johannesburg and is always… Continue reading
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Dmitry Trenin: Russia’s long-term play Is much bigger than Ukraine
The reopening of US-Russia dialogue has triggered alarm, especially in Western Europe, where many see it as a potential repeat of Yalta — a grand power settlement taking place over their heads. Much of the commentary has been exaggerated. Yet, the pace of global change has clearly accelerated. The words and actions of US President… Continue reading
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Malcolm X’s Family Lawsuit Accuses the CIA, FBI and NYPD in Icon’s Assassination
In mid-November, three daughters of Malcolm X (aka el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz) accused the CIA, FBI, the New York Police Department and the Department of Justice with involvement in the 1965 assassination of the activist leader. Continue reading
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The Plot Against America
8 February 2025 — Notes form the Circus [Creepy stuff and if true, frightening! WB] How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America Mike Brock As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government. Inside the newly created Department of Government Efficiency… Continue reading
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By Drones And Mines – The British Naval War Against Russia In Ukraine
Since at least 2014 The United Kingdom has been a major participant in NATO’s proxy war against Russia. During the hot phase of the war it has directed a drone and missile campaign in the Black Sea. It is likely responsible for current attacks against Russia related sea transport. It is developing new naval drones… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 February 2025
Thursday, 20 February 2025 — GM Watch Joint letter to the EU Commission: Pseudo-science must not be an option for Europe! Today several civil society organisations (CSOs) – including GMWatch – and industry associations published a joint letter to the European Commission, demanding that they withdraw their proposal for deregulation of plants obtained from new… Continue reading
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We Want to Build Communities of Readers, Not Turn Readers into Commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 20 February 2025 — The Tricontinental Katsukawa Shunshō (Japan), Japanese Women Reading and Writing, c. 1776. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are days when the dusk of events settles heavily on me, and I try to find a way to retreat into a quiet corner and… Continue reading
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Remembering anti-racist stalwarts in threatening times
It is sadly ironic that, as we record the experiences of Professor Insa Koch and her young children of the hyper-securitisation of a society which she feels indicates a growing fascism in Germany, and as this week’s calendar reveals, the leader of the Tories, at an international hard-right gathering, echoes tropes about ‘some cultures being better than… Continue reading
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh. Such a time arrived this past weekend in Brussels and at the Security Conference in Munich. Though the big shots present were in no laughing mood—but in shock! Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 19 February 2025
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — GM Watch Divided Kingdom: Devolved nations and the Genetic Technology Act The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Act 2023 aims to deregulate gene-edited organisms (or, as the UK government misleadingly calls them, “precision-bred organisms, PBOs). As the government moves to implement secondary legislation that will make the Act operational by the… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report February 19, 2025
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — Black Agenda Report The Fall of Eric Adams Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Eric Adams has a multitude of legal and political problems that have ended any political ambitions he may have had. Donald Trump may have kept him from going to jail, but in seeking a… Continue reading
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Ben Norton Joins TONIGHT Feb 19th 9pm eastern 6pm pacific!
Wednesday, 19 February 2025 — Chronicles of Haiphong We talk the Truth About Trump’s Ukraine Peace Offensive and debate whether it’s a trap for Russia, China & the multipolar world as we review what’s transpired amid rapidly changing global conditions. Continue reading
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Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the defeat of Nazi Germany, Putin as the host and Xi Jinping as a top guest will be in town.… Continue reading
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I’m being charged for responding to anti-Palestinian hate on X
Today I received a phone call from a Montreal police officer by the last name of Crivello. She asked me to come to a downtown police station where I will be charged for harassment and indecent communication. Crivello said a complaint was submitted against me months ago by a legal firm on behalf of racist… Continue reading
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Thames Water ‘rewarded for years of mismanagement’ with £3bn emergency loan
THAMES WATER’S £3 billion bailout was approved by the High Court today, triggering outrage as campaigners warned of higher bills from sky-high interest payments. Continue reading
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THE KENDRICK COVID ENQUIRY (As I humbly call it)
Part One (a): Are the facts, facts? ‘The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate and contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.’ John F. Kennedy. I do not think that anyone can write about Covid without first recognising that the facts, may not actually be ‘the… Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Putin & China’s BRICS Bombshell DESTROYS Trump’s Plan, Europe HUMILIATED
Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar joins to discuss the chaos unleashed by the Trump administration as Russia-US talks kick off, Europe gets sidelined, and BRICS gears up as Trump’s declared war on the multipolar alliance begins. Continue reading
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Spring is in the air in US-Russia ties as Trump’s revolution gains momentum
What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine was a crisis engineered with great deliberation by the Anglo-American nexus per a pernicious agenda conceived by the neocon liberals wedded to globalism ensconced in the Washington and London establishment… Continue reading
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Donald Trump’s Reverse Kissinger Strategy
The United States, Hegseth told NATO, was not ‘primarily focused’ on European security, but on putting its own national interests first and foremost. The best that the European leaders at NATO could do was to demand that Ukraine have a seat at the talks, but there was very little said against the US pressure that… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 