Tuesday, 26 August 2025 — Jonathan Cook
Israel’s intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBC
[First published by Middle East Eye]
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No comments on How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
How western media helped turn Israel’s genocide into ‘fake news’
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Israel kills MEE journalists in double-tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser hospital
Sunday, 25 August 2025 — Middle East Eye
A man holds the equipment used by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri who was killed along with other journalists at the Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on 25 August 2025 (Reuters/Hatem Khaled)
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How ‘Human Rights’ Became a Western Weapon
Sunday, 25 August 2025 — Global Delinquents
August 1st marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords’ inking. The event’s golden jubilee passed without much in the way of mainstream comment, or recognition. Yet, the date was absolutely seismic, its destructive consequences reverberating today throughout Europe and beyond. The Accords not only signed the death warrants of the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact, and Yugoslavia years later, but created a new global dynamic, in which “human rights” – specifically, a Western-centric and -enforced conception thereof – became a redoubtable weapon in the Empire’s arsenal.
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Paper Tiger in the Strait: How London Is Trying to Establish Itself in the Asia-Pacific
Monday, 25 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Since the early 2020s, Britain has been dreaming of a place on the Asia-Pacific stage again. Britain creates the illusion that its navy is still capable of something, but this is not the case.
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“The World Race, Red-Baiting, and the Wilsonian Century” Anievas
Monday, 25 August 2025 — Geopolitics & Climate Change
This is a review of a chapter in the edited volume “A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War” that Alexander Anievas has made available online here. The introductory paragraph:
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Open Letter to the Macedonian President
Sunday, 24 August 2025 — Savage Minds
Politics conducted with eyes wide shut will not justify delayed tears or regrets
The President of North Macedonia, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova, at her inauguration ceremony in Skopje, on 12 May 2025. Photo credit: Ognen Teofilovski
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Children of War: How Gaza Became a Graveyard for Human Rights
Sunday, 24 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
More than 1.5 years have passed since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal operations in Gaza, under the veneer of eliminating Hamas. Israel has been unable to inflict any major blow to Hamas but has devastated the civilian population of the Gaza Strip.
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The Bloody Trail of Netanyahu: How Israel Turned into a Genocide Machine Against the Palestinian People
Saturday, 23 August 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Genocide Live: The World Is Silent While Gaza Dies Despite International Condemnation, the Israeli Government Continues to Harden Its Policy
Oh world, wake up! Can you not see? Can you not hear the cries of the innocent echoing from beneath the ruins of Gaza? The accusations of genocide against Israel are no longer just the whispers of Palestinian victims—they have burst into the halls of international tribunals, into the hearts of millions around the world! And the most shocking thing? Even within Israel itself, there are brave souls daring to challenge their government’s lies!
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Pepe Escobar: Putin’s Peace BOMBSHELL Breaks Trump, Ukraine’s Defeat Now Inevitable
Wednesday, 22 August 2025 — Danny Haiphong
Putin’s wins keep piling up as Trump’s Alaska Summit reveals the extent of Ukraine’s defeat at the hands of Russia says geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar. This video breaks down the significance of the summit sending shockwaves across the world as the Ukraine war winds down.
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Books: AI Is a Total Grift
12 August 2025 — Tribune
Ai-Da Robot, the world’s first ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, appears at a photo call in a committee room in the House of Lords on October, 2022. (Credit: Rob Pinney via Getty Images.)Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.
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Police Facial Recognition at Notting Hill Carnival
Friday, 22 August 2025 — NetPol
Every year there are rumblings from the Met Police and concerned politicians about the need to clamp down on Notting Hill Carnival.
Police targetting of Black-led community events like Carnival has a long history, and Netpol has previously been involved in community monitoring of racist policing around the event.
In 2024 a hand-wringing dossier was produced by the Metropolitan Police Federation following Carnival, with police officers warning that the event was characterised by “utter lawlessness” and complaining that police feel “practically powerless to police this event… It’s a war zone we are sent into year after year”.
This year, police intend to deploy live facial recognition technology at the event. Facial recognition technology is infamously unreliable when it comes to tracking racialised people, and it will be accompanied by a heavy police presence and the use of stop and search to target individuals.
If you’re going to Carnival, make sure you’ve read our guide to facial recognition technology and checked our rough guide to filming the police during a stop and search.
For more information on stop and search, StopWatch have excellent resources covering what to do if you’re stopped, bystanding a stop and search, and resources for parents and young people.
Check out the StopWatch materials now.
Global Majority Copwatch have also put out some resources on looking out for each other and keeping safe amidst facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnvial, which you can find here.
StopWatch guides and resources Guide: Facial recognition
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They Shall Not Pass: Our Call against Fascism: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2025
Thursday, 21 August 2025 — The Tricontinental
Alexander Alexandrovich Deineka (Soviet Union), Defence of Sevastopol, 1942.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
A walk through the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression in Beijing makes one despise war and everything about militarism. The museum is not far from the Marco Polo (or Lugou) Bridge, where the Chinese people began their war to liberate their country from the Japanese occupation in the north. The most striking parts of the museum are those that demonstrate the ugly violence of Japanese militarism, such as the Nanjing Massacre (1937–1938); the horrendous biological and chemical warfare and unspeakable human experimentation conducted by Unit 731 in the northeastern city of Harbin (1936–1945); and the prisons for ianfu (‘comfort women’) that the Japanese military established to hold sex slaves for their soldiers.
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Trump-Europe-Ukraine Meeting: Selling Division of Labor and Strategic Sequencing
Thursday, 21 August 2025 — The New Atlas
“Following the recent meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska and the following meeting of European leaders, the Ukrainian president and President Trump in Washington, a predictable US policy had begun to take shape.
As stated as early as February of this year by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, speaking to European leaders at the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, Europe was tasked with taking over Washington’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine by ramping up NATO spending, arms production, and the transfer of material support to Ukraine, allowing the US to pivot to the Asia-Pacific prioritizing the containment of China there…”
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — Climate & Capitalism
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils.
Ecosocialist Bookshelf is a monthly column, hosted by Ian Angus. Books described here may be reviewed at length in future. Inclusion of a book does not imply endorsement, or that C&C agrees with everything (or even anything!) it says. Climate & Capitalism has received review copies of some of these books, but we do not receive any payment for reviews or for reader purchases.
(Apologies for skipping July and for this late post in August: I will try to resume my regular schedule in September)
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Trump Putin Summit Aftermath | Containing China ft Brian Berletic and Carl Zha
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — Carl Zha
Carl Zha speaks to Brian Berletic about the aftermath of Putin Trump Summit in Alaska, how it will shape the Ukraine conflict endgame and US goal of pivoting to Asia to contain China
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 August 2025
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — GM Watch
Regulators use double standards when evaluating scientific evidence indicating harm
UK, US and European regulatory institutions have for many years been repeatedly subjecting evidence of possible harm from constituents of our food supply to severe critical scrutiny, while accepting seemingly reassuring studies and data uncritically, a new peer-reviewed article shows. Drawing on the details of regulatory debates over four key issues, including the sole GM maize variety that’s approved to grow in the EU (MON810) and glyphosate, the authors document regulators’ consistently asymmetric treatment of evidence (more commonly known as “double standards”), which has served to benefit commercial interests to the detriment of consumer protection. GMWatch
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The police pulled over my car. The lack of a reason should worry us all
Wednesday, 20 August 2025 — Jonathan Cook
The government and police appear keen to expand the ‘hostile environment’ policy for immigrants to encompass the British public – and deter political dissent on Israel’s genocide
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What really happened in Alaska
Monday, 18 August 2025 — Global South
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The New Dark Age 