Thursday, 14 August 2025 — The Tricontinental
Burkina Faso has been trapped in neocolonial underdevelopment for nearly all of its post-independence history – can the new government of Ibrahim Traoré follow in Thomas Sankara’s footsteps and change course?
Warren Sare (Burkina Faso), Ancient Fighters 2, 2014.
Thursday, 14 August 2025 — Michael Roberts Blog
A recent article in the UK’s Financial Times got very excited about the rise of intangibles. The author Tek Parikh said that “50 years go, the assets held by top 500 US companies were predominantly ‘tangible’ — factories, equipment, inventory et cetera. But today, it is estimated that most of their assets are ‘intangible’ ie. intellectual property (knowledge and software), branding value and marketing networks.” In the US, spending on intangible assets surpassed tangible investments as a share of GDP in the late 1990s and the gap has widened ever since.
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Thursday, 14 August 2025 — Media Lens
Anas al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Qreiqeh (photo credit: Al Jazeera)
Late last Sunday, a targeted Israeli attack killed prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif alongside several colleagues. They were in a tent outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital. Also killed were Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, together with freelance cameraman Momen Aliwa and freelance journalist Mohammed al-Khalidi. Al-Sharif was previously part of a Reuters team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2024.
Wednesday, 3 August 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Of course it’s all about Alaska. Here’s what’s in play. But it’s the shadowplay that’s even more exciting.
Across the world, for those who grew up in the Cold War Swingin’ Sixties, the temptation is irresistible to cast Donald Trump as Goldfinger (but who would play Oddjob? Hegseth?)
Wednesday, 13 Auugust 2025 — Sputnik
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 — MintPress News
The Hind Rajab Foundation has named Israeli Air Force commander Tomer Bar as responsible for the killing of Anas al-Sharif and four Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza.
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran’s Nuclear Negotiation Team. Prof. Marandi outlines Iran’s concerns with the recent US-negotiated peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which includes US control over Syunik Road for 99 Years – on Iran’s border. WIll this be used for economic containment or another military strike on Iran?
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 — Owen Jones Battlelines
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 — Defend Our Juries
• Following the arrests of over 700 people for holding signs to call on the UK government to Lift The Ban on Palestine Action and to end their complicity in Israel’s genocide, Defend Our Juries have announced a mass action in London on September 6th 2025.
• Please join an Open Call on Tuesday 19th of August at 6:30pm for full details and to make a commitment to action. The link below will go live shortly before the Open Call begins – please refresh your browser.
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 — Jonathan Cook
[First published by Middle East Eye]
If you thought western capitals were finally losing patience with Israel’s engineering of a famine in Gaza nearly two years into the genocide, you may be disappointed.
Wednesday, 13 August 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
The date passed from one member of the author’s family to another. Asem Alnabih
It’s just a date. A single, four-centimeter piece of dried fruit. But here in Gaza, where nothing comes easily and everything holds meaning, even a date becomes a symbol of endurance, sacrifice and love.
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 — Craig Murray
Yvette Cooper has continually lied about Palestine Action in a panicked attempt to defend the proscription of a direct action protest group which is opposing a Genocide in which Cooper’s government is deeply complicit.
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 — Jonathan Cook
How is it possible for a BBC reporter to have made the following obscene observation in his segment on Israel’s murder at the weekend of Al-Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif: “There’s the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?”
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Tuesday, 12 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
In the days when the world remembers the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, it is important to recall another event from World War II in the Pacific theater and the U.S.-Japanese confrontation—the 1945 U.S. bombing of civilian neighborhoods in Tokyo.
31 July 2025 — Weaponized Information
This is the first of our Losurdo book review series. Read the second review on “Liberalism: A Counter-History” here.
By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information
tuesday, 12 August 2025 — Palestine is still the issue
Monday, 11 August 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Radhika Desai discusses how neoliberalism has financialised and de-industrialised Western economies. The economic war to reverse the decline of the West has instead intensified the decline, and BRICS has become an important institution to construct an alternative post-neoliberal economic system. Russia’s shift from Europe to Eurasia is at the centre of the new international economic system.
Monday, 11 August 2025 — Danny Haiphong
Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump are set to meet in a matter of days, and the panic has already begun over Russia’s overpowering hand. Former CIA Analyst Larry Johnson & former Chief of Staff and US Army Colonel Lawrence join the show to discuss who really has the upper hand in these talks and what they expose about the realities of the Ukraine war.
The New Dark Age 