Monday, 19 May 2025 — Palestine Will Be Free
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Genocide in Gaza: The BBC’s Self-Inflicted ‘Trust Crisis’
Monday, 19 May 2025 — Media Lens
BBC News regularly proclaims its supposed editorial principles of fearless, independent, impartial, fair and accurate journalism. In a January 2023 speech to the Whitehall & Industry Group in London, then BBC Chairman Richard Sharp boasted that BBC journalism is the ‘global gold standard’ of credible news reporting.
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The Colonial past haunts French Military operations in Africa
Sunday, 18 May 2025 — MROnline
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa / French President Emmanuel Macron (Paris, June 23, 2023)Popular backlash against France’s brutal yet ineffective counter-terrorism operations is compelling President Emmanuel Macron to withdraw forces from across Africa. Last November, Senegal and Chad humiliated Macron by demanding base closures, only days after his personal envoy unveiled plans to shore up his slipping foothold.[1] Recently, the Ivory Coast ousted about 1,000 French soldiers, compounding the sense that France’s military strategy in Africa is in a state of crisis.[2]
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Propaganda From The Horses Mouth
Monday, 19 May 2025 — Geopolitics and Climate Change
A couple of years ago I wrote about my experiences at a Canadian academic conference on “disinformation” and how a Disinformation Industrial Complex (DIC) was being constructed to trash, restrict and even get banned anyone who dares stray from the establishment narrative provided by the mainstream media. A response to the internet serving to democratize information with the inevitable collapse in the legitimacy and reach of the mainstream media. I have also recently written about the extensive Western disinformation campaigns to sell the establishment narrative that supports the hegemonic culture used to help control the population, including the use of both fake “left” and fake “right” front groups, influencers, journalists, academics and content creators.
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The Zionist Genocide Against Palestinians Began in the 1880s—Not in 1947, and Not in 2023
Sunday, 18 May 2025 — Marginalia Subversiva
Jerusalem, Palestine c.1880’sA Long-Standing Genocide
The genocide against Palestinians is often framed as having begun in 1947–48 during the Nakba, when Zionist militias forcibly expelled over 750,000 Palestinians, massacred entire villages, and systematically destroyed more than 500 Palestinian communities. Others attempt to situate its origins even later, as an escalation in October 2023, when Israel launched its most devastating military assault on Gaza to date. However, these narratives, while acknowledging crucial moments of mass violence, erase the long history of systematic Zionist efforts to eliminate Palestinians. Framing the genocide as a product of either the Nakba or recent military offensives treats it as episodic rather than as part of a continuous, unfolding project of destruction that began well before 1948.
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Gaza and the logic of necropolitics: Sovereignty measured by killing
Sunday, 18 May 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
How necropolitics is applied to Gaza (Illustrated by Batoul Chamas; Al Mayadeen English)By
As Gaza’s death toll rises, the concept of necropolitics is explored, revealing a deliberate strategy of destruction and disposability, where “Israel’s” sovereignty is defined through the erasure of Palestinian life.
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Globalization or Nationalism: A False Choice?
Saturday, 17 May 2025 — Susan Rosenthal
Unworkable
We live in a system of competing nation-states immersed in a global economy. This is an unworkable combination. A global economy requires cooperation based on common interest, while competition among nations assumes conflicting interests.
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The New Dark Age
Saturday, 17 May 2025 — Chris Hedges Report
The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed.
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Why the wall of silence on the Gaza genocide is finally starting to crack
Friday, 16 May 2025 — Jonathan Cook
As Israel unveils its final genocide push, and mass death from starvation looms in Gaza, western media and politicians are tentatively starting to speak up
[First published by Middle East Eye]
Who could have imagined 19 months ago that it would take more than a year and a half of Israel slaughtering and starving Gaza’s children for the first cracks to appear in what has been a rock-solid wall of support for Israel from western establishments.
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Brilliant! Joe Sacco’s ‘War on Gaza’
Friday, 16 May 2025 — The Comics Journal
‘I’m doing the work I need to do to live with myself’: Joe Sacco on democracy, genocide, and drawing the truth
“Is it genocide, or is it self-defense? Let’s make everyone happy and say it’s both. In that case we’ll need new terminology. I propose “genocidal self-defense.” That should give both sides something to work with.”
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Starmer’s Powellite gambit: why Labour’s far-right turn will backfire
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — Morning Star Online
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking during a press conference on the Immigration White Paper in the Downing Street Briefing Room in London, May 12, 2025
ON May 17 1933 Adolf Hitler, then three months into his burgeoning Nazi dictatorship, addressed a Reichstag already purged of its Communist representatives.
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The assisted dying Bill is back – and if anything, it’s worse
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — Morning Star Online
Protesters from the Glasgow Disability Alliance demonstrating outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, May 13, 2025ASSISTED suicide returns to Parliament on Friday. Separate Scottish legislation passed its first stage at Holyrood this week.
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UK doctor suspended over Gaza posts
Wednesday, 14 May 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
For nearly 19 months, Israel, with financial, technological and political support from the US and Europe, has attacked every single hospital in Gaza.The Israeli military has destroyed every aspect of Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure; executed paramedics and threw them into mass graves; and hunted, threatened, kidnapped, tortured and killed medical workers, skilled physicians and hospital directors.
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Thousands Flee in Gaza City After Israel Issues Mass Displacement Orders and Vows to Attack ”With Great Force”
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — Drop Site
The scenes of mass displacement on Wednesday were like a slow-moving human flood flowing through destroyed streets.
The Israeli military is on an escalated killing rampage in Gaza. Since dawn today, over 100 Palestinians have been killed in airstrikes across the enclave. At least 77 were killed the day before. Massacres of over 50 Palestinians at a time, nearly half of them children, are being conducted. Hospitals are being openly bombed. Journalists assassinated.
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Breaking news and analysis on day 587 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
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A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World: The Twentieth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — The Tricontinental
Dahlia Abdelilah Baasher (Sudan), Untitled, n.d.Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Over the past weeks, international focus has no doubt been on the escalation between India and Pakistan, which we will write more about once the dust settles. Though none of the armies crossed the border or the Line of Control, concern is nonetheless understandable: both countries wield nuclear weapons in their arsenal. Now, there has effectively been a return to the ceasefire of 1948, which has lingered in the decades since without a proper and full peace treaty. International attention has also rightly remained on the genocide in Palestine, with Israelis tightening the total siege on Gaza, perhaps as vengeance for Palestinians’ return to northern Gaza on 27 January 2025 in total defiance of the genocidal war.
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British Intelligence: A Law Unto Themselves
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — Global Delinquents
On May 1st, The Times reported that Britain’s Intelligence and Security Committee, a parliamentary body intended to supervise and appraise the work of London’s assorted spying agencies, was facing a funding “crisis” so severe it may be forced to cease functioning outright. Moreover, in a remarkable statement, current ISC chair Lord Beamish fulminated that the Committee’s work was “being undermined by continued interference by the Cabinet Office,” the British government’s most powerful component, within which the ISC is based, but also meant to scrutinise:
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Negotiations or Political Theatre in Istanbul?
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Prof. Glenn Diesen on MOATS with George Galloway
How will the war end? The position of Ukraine and NATO continues to go from bad to worse, yet there is still a reluctance to engage in genuine discussions. There is subsequently a growing possibility that there will eventually be a collapse of the government in Ukraine, which would allow Moscow to dictate the political settlement. Yet, even as the situation goes from bad to worse, the Europeans and Ukraine are reluctant to engage with Russia in genuine negotiations. Part of the problem is evidently the extent of demands from the Russian side, although the Russian demands will only grow as the war drags on.
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UK: We’re no island of strangers
Thursday, 15 May 2025 — Refugee Legal Support
Earlier this week, the UK government launched its immigration white paper. The prime minister warned of Britain becoming “an island of strangers” and referred to the period of increased migration as a “squalid chapter”. We don’t recognise the country described here. Nor will anyone who has lived alongside, worked with, or supported people seeking safety or opportunity here. We stand with our friends, colleagues, neighbours, family and everyone else who feels a little less safe and a bit less at home this week.
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The New Dark Age 