20 May, 2025 — The Cradle
Chinese military hardware stole the show, French ones lost their stock, India’s clout took hits, and Pakistanis crowed. Yet, ultimately, the brief, hot India–Pakistan war was a victory only for the Global North’s divide-and-rule project for the Global South.
Photo Credit: The CradleThursday, 22 May 2025 — Consortium News
Israeli airstrikes light up the streets of the Gaza Strip, sometime during the 2023- 2025 bombing campaign. (Jaber Jehad Badwan / Wikimedia Commons /CC BY-SA 4.0)
In early May, the security cabinet of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met and agreed that Israel would “capture” Gaza and remove its Palestinian population “to protect it.”
To achieve this policy of annexation of Gaza, the Israelis tightened their siege by preventing the entry of food, water, electricity and other humanitarian aid (they had already enforced a blockade of aid since March 2).
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — MintPress News
Israeli embassy employee gunned down in Washington previously boasted about Israel’s capabilities against Yemen’s Ansarallah
Yaron Lischinsky was a researcher at the Israeli Embassy in Washington. He was shot dead by a shooter citing the escalating Gaza genocide as his reason.
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
16,500+ children dead is not collateral damage. This is genocide.
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Thursday, 22 May 2022 — BettBeat Media
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — GM Watch
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The FloodGate podcast hears from Dr. Mimi Syed, who exposes the full scale of Gaza’s medical catastrophe under Israel’s ongoing genocidal war.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — NetPol
One of the only protest-related amendments to Labour’s Crime and Policing Bill, which is currently under scrutiny in the House of Commons, proposes the creation of a “statutory right to protest”.
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — Foxglove
Foxglove does a lot of work in the UK. We’re concerned about the direction of government tech policy. Keir Starmer’s team seem to be getting far too cosy with Big Tech companies, and aren’t taking enough care to ensure new technology works, is safe, and is in the public interest.
This week we’ve written about a couple of worrying recent developments…
The UK Home Office is boasting about a new “Chat-GPT-style software” trialled for use in asylum decisions – despite evidence that it’s dangerously flawed.
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — MintPress News
Last week, headlines lit up with a staggering development: Microsoft locked the world’s top war crimes prosecutor out of his email. Karim Khan, chief of the International Criminal Court (ICC), had dared to go after Israeli officials for war crimes and was instantly digitally silenced. His accounts were frozen. His name smeared. His power stripped.
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
In a stark display of racist arrogance, President Donald Trump derailed a recent meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa when he launched into a rant alleging that the government of South Africa is engaged in “white genocide.”
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — The Tricontinental
The art in this newsletter was produced by Tricontinental’s art department for our May dossier, Africa’s Faustian Bargain with the International Monetary Fund.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
At the start of 2025, Sudan registered an alarming debt-to-GDP (Gross Domestic Product) ratio of 252%. This means that the country’s total public debt is 2.5 times the size of its entire annual economic output. It is not hard to understand why Sudan is in such dire straits: as we outlined in last week’s newsletter, the country has been engulfed in a conflict for decades, which has severely disrupted any possibility of economic growth and financial stability. Yet, in a way, Sudan – one of the richest countries in terms of resources but poorest in terms of household income and wealth – is also representative of what has been happening on the African continent. As of 2022, the average debt-to-GDP ratio in Sub-Saharan countries was 60%, having doubled from 30% in 2013. This rise in indebtedness is shocking.
Thursday, 22 May 2025 — Jonathan Cook
[First published by Middle East Eye]
After 19 months of being presented with dissembling accounts of Gaza from their governments, western publics are now being served up a different – but equally deceitful – narrative.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — GM Watch
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Israel is starving Gazans to death and continuing its bombing attacks on civilians. Israel also specializes in personal revenge, targeting men, women, and children who might be the subject of international press attention and remind the world of that state’s sadistic nature. There are many accomplices to these crimes, but Joe Biden’s role in giving protection to a genocide cannot be forgotten.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha’
The previous analysis of “400 Boys” was a breakdown of the show’s major story beats and imagery. The following focuses on smaller details.
Tuesday, 20 May 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
The people’s struggle against colonialism and imperialism is a struggle of epic proportions, wherever it takes place. No liberation struggle is waged without involving all aspects of society. Bridges once burned due to the symptoms of imperialism (like racism and misogyny) are rebuilt stronger, made unmovable, connecting people to march together to fight the real enemy – the common enemy.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — MintPress News
In a televised interview on an Israeli channel, Moshe Feiglin, a former Likud Knesset member and Israeli politician, made a statement declaring that every child in Gaza is an enemy and asserting that true victory requires the killing of every single child.
Wednesday, 21 May 2025 — medConfidential
The NHS 10 year plan will be dragged by political priorities to focus on the first five years – what is easiest to be done in this Parliament for headlines.
Even assuming the best of intentions, the imposition of Palantir, the abolition of NHS England, the single patient record, and the transformation to digital solely with the NHS App are all about giving the Department of Health levers to change your care.
15 May 2025 — Carbon Brief
For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
The new analysis for Carbon Brief shows that China’s emissions were down 1.6% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025 and by 1% in the latest 12 months.
Electricity supply from new wind, solar and nuclear capacity was enough to cut coal-power output even as demand surged, whereas previous falls were due to weak growth.
The analysis, based on official figures and commercial data, shows that China’s CO2 emissions have now been stable, or falling, for more than a year.
However, they remain only 1% below the latest peak, implying that any short-term jump could cause China’s CO2 emissions to rise to a new record.
Other key findings include:
The New Dark Age 