Thursday, 10 April 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
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Thursday, 10 April 2025 — GM Watch
Thursday, 10 April 2025 — The New Atlas
The Trump administration is posing as if its primary motivation is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons as part of a wider narrative regarding US leadership in maintaining peace and stability worldwide. In reality, this most recent escalation is part of a wider US policy spanning multiple presidential administrations aimed at dismantling Iran’s network of allies across the region, isolating Iran, before pursuing regime change operations against Iran itself.”
Thursday, 10 April 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
Thursday, 10 April 2025 — The Tricontinental
Boris Taslitzky (France), Insurrection à Buchenwald 11 avril 1945 (Insurrection at Buchenwald 11 April 1945), 1964.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Eighty years ago, on 11 April 1945, units of General George S. Patton’s 4th Armoured Division of the US armed forces drove toward the city of Weimar, Germany, where the Buchenwald concentration camp was located. Patton’s troops eventually took control of the camp, but soldiers’ statements, which were collected later by historians, suggest that the US tanks were not what liberated Buchenwald: the camp had already been seized by the organisation and courage of the prisoners who took advantage of the flight of German soldiers in the face of the Allied advance.
Thursday, 10 April 2025 — GM Freeze
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Thursday, 10 April 2025 — BettBeat’s Newsletter
In the pallid bureaucratic language that cloaks moral cowardice, Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has made his nation’s position clear: there is “no red line” that Israel can cross that would cause the Netherlands to alter its steadfast support. No war crime too heinous, no massacre too bloody, no humanitarian catastrophe too devastating will shake the Dutch government’s resolve to stand with the executioners rather than the executed.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Any “movement” that leads protest back to the Democratic Party is, by definition, dangerous. Criticism of Donald Trump cannot be a defining feature of change.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — Danny Haiphong
Trump is unleashing global chaos that threatens full-scale war as US & Iran reach a breaking point and tariffs bring Russia, China and Iran into a historic juncture in their global leadership. Former CIA analysts Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern join the show with geopolitical expert Glenn Diesen to break down the massive global shift shaking the US to its core on the way to WW3.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — NetPol
Nearly 300 people signed up to join us for the “This is Repression: the State of Protest in 2024” report launch!
A video replay of our launch event is now available. We were joined by an expert panel of activists, organisers and campaigners from Palestine Action, Reclaim the Power, and the Climate Action Support Pathway to discuss their recent experiences on the frontlines of protest policing.
“This is Repression” is the first annual State of Protest report from Netpol. You can read the exec summary and key findings at Netpol.org/StateOfProtest.
We’ll be surveying groups and campaigners annually to map the current trends and tactics used by police to target and disrupt social movements, making sure we can learn from and better resist oppressive policing.
If you find this type of action-focused research valuable, please consider making a donation to Netpol to help sustain this work. You can make a one-off or monthly donation at Netpol.org/Donate.
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Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — The Next Recession
Today, President Donald Trump implemented his new range of tariffs on US imports called reciprocal tariffs. In addition to those announced last Wednesday (Liberation day), Trump included an extra levy on Chinese imports in retaliation to China’s decision to impose a 34% tariff on US imports, which in turn was a retaliation against Trump’s 34% hike on Chinese imports proposed last week. So US imports from China now have a 104% tariff rate, in effect a doubling. And as I write, China has announced a further 50% hike on US imports, taking Chinese tariffs on US exports to 84% in this tit-for-tat retaliation war.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — The Grayzone
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — The Grayzone
By Wyatt Reed
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — Global Delinquents
Ever since March 15th, Washington has barraged Sanaa from the sky, killing and injuring countless innocent civilians while destroying vital infrastructure. For example, on April 2nd, US jets targeted a reservoir in western Yemen, cutting off access to water for over 50,000 people. Three days later, Donald Trump gloatingly posted a horrific video on social media of a tribal gathering being incinerated in a US airstrike – the President falsely claimed the individuals were in fact “Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack.”
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Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I spoke with Andrei Martyanov, a military expert and author, about the developments on the battlefield in Ukraine. Martyanov argues that Russia has won the war of attrition, and the situation goes from bad to worse for Ukraine and NATO. Martyanov discusses how the technological and tactical landscape has changed over the past three years. Martyanov is not optimistic about the possibility of a diplomatic settlement and believes Ukraine and NATO are heading toward a military defeat. Russia may consequently annex more territories, including Odessa. As the frontlines continue to collapse, the causality levels intensify. From a humanitarian and strategic (post-war stability) perspective, it should be a priority to find a political settlement.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — Geopolitics and Climate Change
As I have written before, the German Nazi party was both supported and actively aided by sections of the German oligarchy (a coalition of the bourgeoisie and the Junker large land owners created by Bismarck) during its early years to be maintained as a possible alternative to social democracy. With the 1929 Great Depression and the resultant threat to ruling class legitimacy, much greater support was given to the Nazi Party. When that failed to get the Nazi Party elected in the second election of 1932, when the Nazi Party vote actually fell (from 37.3% to 33.1%), the oligarchy quickly installed Hitler as Chancellor. The Industrielleneingabe, signed by 22 major representatives of the German oligarchy, was sent to President Hindenburg requesting the appointment of Hitler; as Hindenburg was himself a member of the oligarchy he obeyed his instructions. Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30th, 1933, he was never elected to that position.
Tuesday, 8 April 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
With the rollout of sweeping US tariffs aimed at nations worldwide, economists and geopolitical analysts alike are astounded by what at face value looks like irrational self-sabotage attributed to incompetence within the White House.
The New Dark Age 