Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
How was diplomacy criminalised as immoral, while war was celebrated as virtuous? Arguments that diplomacy meant “rewarding” Putin and “legitimising” Russian actions supported the objective of isolating Russia. As the Europeans weaponised diplomacy, war became the only solution and peace-building was outsourced to non-European powers.
Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Global South
Definitely not good news: From Jeff J Brown at Radiosinoland with transcript.
Featured Image: William Lai, head of Taiwan’s DPP party is trying to drive his people off a cliff.
Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Drop Site News
SANA’A, Yemen—On Saturday, Nasser Mohammed Saad was at a friend’s home celebrating iftar—the evening meal where Muslims break their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan—when he received a distressed call from his family. His house in the al-Jiraf area, north of Yemen’s capital Sana’a, had suffered significant damage from U.S. airstrikes targeting a house just 50 meters away. Rushing home, Saad encountered the aftermath of destruction. “The house’s windows were shattered, the doors were torn off, and the water tanks were hit by some shrapnel,” Saad, 45, told Drop Site News. His wife and two of his children were inside the house at the time of the attack.
Satruday, 15 March 2025 — RT
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant militant group in northwestern Syria, once presented itself as a local opposition force. Just over a month ago, the group was formally disbanded and became part of the Syrian Defense Ministry, yet its origins tell a far more sinister story. Born out of the ashes of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, HTS carries the same ideological DNA as the world’s most notorious terrorist network. While it has sought to rebrand itself for international legitimacy, its methods remain unchanged: Massacres, ethnic cleansing, and the systematic extermination of those who do not conform to its radical ideology.
Friday, 14 March 2025 — BBC News
While US President Donald Trump pushes Russia and Ukraine for a ceasefire, influential voices in Moscow are calling on the Russian authorities to adopt a hard line. Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested he is ready for a halt in fighting but says “there are nuances” – which he laid out talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin on Thursday.
From the start of this war, Putin has demanded the “demilitarisation” of Ukraine, which is anathema to Kyiv and its allies. The BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been speaking to political scientist and former Kremlin advisor Sergey Karaganov.
Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
By José Goulão
The transformation of Gaza, or at least its coast, into closed housing and tourist developments has already been tested and has been in place for almost a quarter of a century.
Sunday, 16 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Dmitri Polyanskiy, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, discusses diplomacy with the US. Polyanskiy argues that Russia is prepared to continue its military operation until its objectives are achieved through either military means or diplomacy. The US has accepted the key conditions in a peace agreement that must include restoring Ukraine’s neutrality, accepting territorial concessions, and no US security guarantees. However, a ceasefire without a political settlement would risk merely becoming an opportunity for the US and Europeans to rearm Ukraine.
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Global South
Pepe Escobar
With thanks to Quantum Bird
Postmodernism, with its cognitive relativism and other pseudo-philosophical artifacts, is the place where the West has gone to die. The Western cognitive degenerative disease has entered its terminal stage, and the signs are everywhere.
Friday, 14 March 2025 — Strategfic Culture Foundation
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — The Grayzone
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the Trump administration’s unconstitutional detention of Columbia U student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and the forces pulling the White House’s strings, as Israel lobby freak outs prompt the firing of Trump’s top hostage negotiator and withdrawal of a national security appointee. They will also cover the latest on Ukraine ceasefire negotiations, and the fallout from Syria’s sectarian bloodshed.
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Bett Beat’s Newsletter
In the annals of human depravity, the atrocities committed by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people stand as a testament to the darkest impulses of Western society — a grotesque amalgamation of capitalism, colonialism, and racism. A new United Nations report, spanning 49 pages of harrowing detail, lays bare the shocking extent of these crimes, revealing a systematic campaign of sexual, reproductive, and gender-based violence that has turned the occupied territories into a living hell.
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Saturday, 15 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is making a high-stakes bet, positioning Turkey as Europe’s security savior amid growing uncertainty caused by the Ukraine crisis.
How Erdoğan Is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Advance Turkey’s EU Ambitions
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Morning Star Online
NURSES are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned.
Ministers were given an “urgent reality check” as a survey showed 35 per cent have experienced bullying, harassment or abuse at work.
12 March, 2025 — Eurosiberia
The Berlin Congress of 1878 — where Russia’s battlefield triumphs were undone in a diplomatic ambush orchestrated by Britain, Austria-Hungary, and a coldly calculating Bismarck — repeats itself today as Trump plays the “impartial peacemaker,” ensuring that Ukraine’s fate is determined not by war but by the necropolitical calculus of empire, where survival is rationed, sovereignty is an illusion, and power belongs only to those who decide who must perish and who is permitted to persist.
Friday, 14 March 2025 — GM Watch
“Shocking abandonment of consumers’ right to information” – association of non-GMO food/feed sector |
Parliament must defend its demand for traceability and labelling
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Friday, 14 March 2025 — GM Watch
EU ambassadors back new GMOs deregulation: A dark day for farmers, consumers, nature |
“EU governments have voted on the side of a handful of big corporations’ profits, instead of protecting farmers and consumers’ right to transparency and safety” – Friends of the Earth Europe
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Friday, 14 March 2025 — Just Treatment
Yesterday we heard the bombshell announcement that the government is abolishing NHS England.
This means a MAJOR restructuring of our health service is coming. But is this really about ‘democratic control’, or a power grab that could accelerate privatisation? Here’s what we know and why alarm bells are ringing ⬇️
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Friday, 14 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack”
Why is the US bullying Panama, Canada and Mexico so outrageously? It’s an attempt by the new administration to reinstate its dominance over the American Hemisphere; ousting Chinese influence under a reinforced Monroe Doctrine (the statement of US dominance in the hemisphere in the 1800s). As it retreats from Europe and cuts other parts of its global dominance complex, while refocusing its efforts on China, it must make sure that its backyard is secure. (more…)
The New Dark Age 
