Tuesday, 14 October 2025 — The Grayzone
By Kit Klarenberg
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No comments on Pekka-philia: disgraced porn profiteer turned pro-Ukraine ‘disinfo expert’ could face legal action
Pekka-philia: disgraced porn profiteer turned pro-Ukraine ‘disinfo expert’ could face legal action
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Expand or die: a system that can’t stop creating crises
Saturday, 11 October 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
Lockheed Martin assembly plant in Fort Worth, Texas. The two factories that tell the story
Walk through Fort Worth, Texas, and you’ll see the story of a collapsing empire written in steel and concrete.
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New analysis: climate impact of data centres
Friday, 10 October 2025 — Foxglove
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.
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Your Party – Rally for Real Change – LIVE from Liverpool @ 7PM
Thursday, 9 October 2025 — Your Party
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.
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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). For instance, the court found that while Sall’s government had suggested that the budget deficit for 2023 was 4.9% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it was in fact 12.3%. The court went to work on this reconstruction of public finances because of a very significant accusation made by Senegal’s new prime minister, Ousmane Sonko, at a press conference in Dakar in September 2024. What the auditors found, and what the International Monetary Fund (IMF) validated, was that the actual debt ratio in 2023 was 99.7% of GDP – not 74.7% – and that the deficit had been underestimated by 5.6% of GDP (in August 2025, the debt ratio was revised to 111% of GDP).
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URGENT: UK about to cave to Trump & big pharma’s demands
Wednesday, 8 October 2025 — Just Treatment
It’s been reported this morning that the UK government is preparing to dramatically increase the price the NHS pays for medicines.
This is a direct result of months of pressure from Donald Trump and his mates in the pharmaceutical industry, who are seeking to boost their already inflated profits.
If this goes ahead, we will likely see even more precious NHS funds diverted away from care delivery and into the pockets of big pharma bosses. It could also have major impacts on availability and access of lifesaving medication.
Our movement needs to raise the alarm – immediately – about what is happening.
We have 4 different actions you can take – please spend a few minutes doing as many of them as you can today! ⬇️
1️⃣ Sign our petition to Keir Starmer, demanding that he stands up to
Trump’s attacks on our NHS rather than caving to his reckless demands.2️⃣ Share the petition with as many friends and family as possible, before we submit it in the coming days!
3️⃣ Write to Wes Streeting urging him to protect our NHS from big pharma greed in his ongoing negotiations with the industry.
4️⃣ Read our new briefing on what Trump and big pharma are up to, and
share it with your MP to urge them to act. We’ve provided a template
email at the bottom of the briefing that you can use!We will not sit back whilst the government
sells out our NHS to Trump and big pharma. We urgently have to pile on
the pressure to oppose this.More updates soon,
Diarmaid at Just Treatment
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An End To Our Illusions
Monday, 6 October 2025 — NetPol
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’?
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‘We will blow you out of existence,’ Trump’s Caribbean spectacle
Friday, 3 October 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel congratulates Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for his victory in the presidential elections. In August, the U.S. State Department raised its bounty for Maduro’s capture to $50 million. Photo: Prensa Latina On 23 September 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump delivered a dramatic address, explicitly threatening those allegedly involved in drug trafficking to the United States with being blown “out of existence”. This statement, taken as a blatant disregard for international law and due process, made reference to the latest escalation in the decades-long U.S. War on Drugs, a campaign historically used to justify U.S. foreign intervention in Latin America, and now, prominently aimed at Venezuela.
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Larry Ellison’s Spider Web
Friday, 3 October 2025 — Geopolitics And Climate Change
Stargate, CBS and CNN, TikTok, Marco Rubio, Tony Blair and Gaza!
Larry Ellison founded Oracle decades ago, and through that became a multi-billionaire. The latest estimate puts his net worth at US$344 billion, after he ramped Oracle stock with an utterly unbelievable deal with OpenAI to get Oracle stock that “AI” premium. Like so many of the new oligarchs that are as much stock pumpers and rentier monopolists as providers of any real beneficial products these days. Everything to keep the discourse of endless growth alive; without which their stock prices would be far, far lower.
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GM Watch Daily Digest 3 October 2025
Friday, 3 October 2025 — GM Watch
RIP Dame Jane Goodall
We were sad to hear of the death, at the age of 91, of the primatologist Dame Jane Goodall. She was a pioneer researcher into animal sentience, especially as it related to her beloved chimpanzees, which she observed in their natural habitat. She outraged the scientific and academic community by giving the chimps names and commenting on their personalities. In 1960 she was the first to document their use of tools – at the time, a skill that was frequently claimed to be unique to humans. Jane was also concerned about the effects of GM foods and pesticides on health and the environment. On pesticides, she said, “Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?” GMWatch
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Stop Starmer’s dangerous ID cards
Wednesday, 1 October 2025 — Goodlaw Project
Starmer’s desperate rush for ID cards is a recipe for repression. It won’t reduce migration, but it will put our rights at risk. We need to come together and fight back – are you with us?
Email Starmer now We’re already seeing a crackdown on our freedoms. With the far right on the rise, a national database like this could be weaponised for authoritarian control.
We can’t allow this half-baked scheme to become law. Our fundamental rights are on the line.
I’ll email Starmer now The more of us that take action, the harder it’ll be for Starmer to ignore. It’s time to come together and defend our hard-won rights. In solidarity,
Charlene, Good Law Project
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Israel Is Committing Genocide in the Gaza Strip: The Fortieth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 2 October 2025 — The Tricontinental
Sliman Mansour (Palestine), The Sea Is Mine, 2016.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
7 October 2025 will mark the second anniversary of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The World Health Organisation’s data page on Palestinian casualties, regularly updated using figures from the Palestinian Health Ministry and UN agencies, shows that around 66,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza over the last two years – 30 out of every 1,000 people who were living in Gaza (these numbers, however may be too low, as the ministry has often admitted that it has no capacity to keep up with the flow of death and does not know how many people are buried beneath the tonnes of rubble).
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US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year
Tuesday,30 September 2025 — FAIR
This Herblock cartoon (Washington Post, 3/29/50) is the first recorded use of the word “McCarthyism.”
The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” made the case for unity to colonists wanting independence from Great Britain. Thomas Nast exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall; when Tweed attempted to escape justice, he was identified from a Nast cartoon. It was political cartoonist Herblock who coined the term “McCarthyism” in a 1950 pieceattacking the Republican Party platform.
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US Sows Chaos Across Asia as it Aims for China
Tuesday, 30 September 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
The United States is escalating its confrontation with China under the guise of “deterring aggression,” while in reality reorienting its global strategy toward maintaining hegemony over Asia through destabilization, political manipulation, and military buildup.
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How MI6 Fabricated Iran Nuke Fraud
24 September 2025 — Global Delinquents
On September 19th, the UN Security Council voted to reimpose savage economic restrictions on Iran over its nuclear program. European leaders have in recent months repeatedly accused Tehran of refusing to abide by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s terms. A core, repeated claim is the Islamic Republic has collated a uranium stock over 40 times the level permitted under that deal. No supporting evidence for the charge has been provided, and the source of this information isn’t clear.
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Single Patient Record (and ID cards…)
Friday, 26 September 2025 — medConfidential
The Health Secretary has told his friends that the first part of his “Single Patient Record” will be rolled out by the end of the year.
We expect this rollout will be a “pilot” of the now-merged Department of Health in England (i.e. DH and the “abolished” NHS England) using government powers to impose decisions on the NHS frontline – not a pilot of a real ‘patient record’, nor real patient choice.
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Watch: “I have survived genocide”
Thursday, 25 September 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
1900 pm Palestine time/ 1900 Amman time / 1600 GMT/ 1700 UK / 1800 CET / 12pm ET / 11am CT / 9 am PT
Ahmed Abu Artema is a Palestinian writer, poet and journalist. His vision of a nonviolent mass movement in Gaza to challenge Israel’s siege and blockade of the territory inspired the 2018 Great March of Return.
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EMPIRE IN DECLINE: US Desperate as China, Russia Show ECONOMIC, MILITARY MIGHT | Danny Haiphong
Thursday, 25 September 2025 — Rachel Blevins
Global tensions continue to rise, as the Trump Admin supports more endless war, with the U.S. continuing the proxy war against Russia, supporting genocide in Palestine, planning for war against Iran and China, and also apparently plotting regime change in Venezuela and a return to Afghanistan.
But while a slew of countries have announced that they are moving to recognize a Palestinian State, they are doing so by condemning Hamas and supporting an unrealistic two-state solution that the U.S. continues to stand against.
Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst Danny Haiphong noted that the aggression we are seeing from the U.S. right now is indicative of an empire in decline, and Washington can’t see past its goals of control and domination to realize why so many countries are attracted to the SCO and BRICS alliances, and the partnerships they offer.
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The October 2025 issue of ColdType is now online
Thursday, 25 September 2025 — ColdType
Read Issue 273 at
https://www.coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/ColdType273Oct2025.pdf
and at
https://issuu.com/coldtype/docs/coldtype273oct2025?fr=xKAE9_zMzMw
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Over a Billion People in the World Suffer from Mental Health Ailments: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 25 September 2025 — The Tricontinental
Yayoi Kusama (Japan), Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
I first heard the word ‘depression’ when I was about sixteen. My mother took me to the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) in Bengaluru, India, to be seen by a professional for what I had just considered to be nightmares and difficult afternoons. I was lucky. Today, only 9% of people in the world receive treatment for depression. The doctor spoke to me for a long time, and I spent several days at NIMHANS being treated by this and other doctors. It was clear to me that my problems largely stemmed from a traumatic incident that took place a few years earlier, when I was raped in my school.
The New Dark Age 