Friday, 18 April 2025 — Peoples Dispatch
The alliance between Trump’s expanding deportation campaign and Salvadoran President Bukele’s carceral authoritarianism has major implications for human rights and the future of democracy.
CECOT prison in El Salvador. Photo: Nayib Bukele/X
Saturday, 19 April 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
David Collieris the Zionist troll operative behind the intimidation of the BBC resulting in the removal of the documentary How to survive in a war zone. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustration by Batoul Chamas).
Internal Zionist infiltration and external Zionist pressure
So the BBC Director General, Tim Davie has agreed there should be an independent inquiry into the corporation’s coverage of what they will not call the genocide in Palestine.
Saturday, 19 April 2025 — MROnline
Even the most cynical observers knew this day would come.
Saturday, 19 April 2025 — Morning Star Online
CAMPAIGNERS accused social media giant Meta of turning the “migrant crisis into a marketplace” today.
A damning new report by Open Rights Group (ORG) reveals how Meta has profited from people seeking safety, enabling the government to target them with threatening campaigns and criminals with scams.
Friday, 18 April 2025 —
Monday Gboro stands in front of an oil spill in the Kegbara-Dere community, Rivers State, Nigeria. Photo by Luka Tomac/ Friends of the Earth International/Wikimedia Commons.
Critics say the company’s ignominious departure is aimed at avoiding legal responsibility for polluting the Niger Delta
I’ll never forget seeing the vast, charcoal wasteland left from a devastating oil spill in the village of Ebubu, in the heart of Ogoniland in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. The oil from a pipeline belonging to the Anglo Dutch oil group Shell had burst three decades before my visit, destroying the community’s streams and aquatic life. The contamination had not been cleaned up in 1999 and I could not fathom how locals could survive in an environment covered in tar. The waterways were still polluted and the village was eerily hollowed out.
Friday, 18 April 2025 — Danny Haiphong
7 PM: International affairs and security analyst Mark Sleboda joins on Russia’s NEW offensive and big moves coming with strategic partners China and Iran. Trump’s time is up to stall the surge of the multipolar world and this stream spills the details.
Thursday, 17 April 2025 — Pambazuka News
For centuries treaties have exploited Africa. From the Papal Bull, issued by Pope Nicolas V to the ICC Treaty, the West has played a significant role in dictating the terms of Africa’s international engagement.
Friday, 18 April 2025 — Global Delinquents
In recent months, Somaliland has become a subject of intense, unprecedented interest for the Western media. As Israeli and US officials scramble to find a destination to forcibly relocate Gaza’s population from their shattered homeland, the little-acknowledged, unrecognised breakaway statelet is increasingly viewed as an attractive option. Multiple mainstream media reports indicate officials in Tel Aviv and Washington are making discrete overtures to Hargeisa on the topic. On March 14th, the Financial Times revealed:
(more…)
Thursday, 17 April 2025 — See you in 2020
Friday, 18 April 2025 — Morning Star Online
I WANT to begin my second address as general secretary of the National Education Union by saying how proud I am to lead the largest education union in Europe and the third-largest union in the TUC.
Friday, 18 April 2025 — New Atlas
▪️As warned, the US predicated tariffs on “reindustrialization” to sell to a gullible public, but was always aimed as preparations for isolating and eventually warring with China;
▪️None of the actual measures needed to reindustrialize were even proposed let alone implemented (education reform, nationalizing industry, infrastructure investments);
▪️Nations the US has politically captured obediently accepted the tariffs and are now going to be organized into a united front a la Biden vs. Russia but against China – all as Trump dishonestly “seeks peace” with Russia;
▪️Recall US Sec. of State Rubio began ramping up pressure on China’s island province of Taiwan, rewriting the State Dept’s website, erasing admissions the US does NOT recognize Taiwan “independence;”
▪️Americans voted for Trump to end Biden policies – but got a super-sized continuity of agenda instead;
Thursday, 17 April 2025 —
Waqas Ahmed,Nicholas Rodelo, Ryan Grim, and Murtaza Hussain
Pro-Palestine protesters in front of Meta headquarters on November 3, 2023. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images.
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.
Thursday,16 April 2025 — The Tricontinental
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital, but it will also be home to women and men who are eager to develop China’s new quality productive forces and will be the centre of universities, hospitals, research institutes, and innovative technology companies, including high-tech farming. Xiong’an has the ambition of reaching ‘net-zero’ carbon dioxide emissions while using big data to harness social science to improve the quality of people’s everyday lives.
Thursday, 17 April 2025 — MROnline
A protest placard of Atul Gupta carried by two EFF members on either side of it at the Zuma Must Fall protests in Cape Town. (Photo: Wiki Commons) The world has an oligarchy problem. It threatens economic and social stability and accelerates planetary environmental destruction and global warming. While much has been written about Russian oligarchs, it has become clear that the West, particularly the U.S., has a similar and growing oligarchy problem. Thom Hartmann writes how ” The American Oligarchs Have Arrived to Destroy U.S. Democracy.” George Monbiot describes the UK’s oligarchy and how they “seek the destruction of oversight”, which has led to “UK bodies such as the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety Executive” to have been “comprehensively gutted.”
Wednesday, 16 April, 2025 — Global South
American political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein, though the son of Polish Holocaust survivors, has never been afraid to speak his mind about Israel. At a February 2025 event sponsored by CAIR Florida (the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations), Finkelstein delivered fiery comments about Israel’s in-your-face brand of genocide:
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Trump is not unique in the collective west. As the crisis of capitalism deepens, “democratic” states intensify repression and criminalize dissent.
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 — Foxglove
An influential committee of MPs has launched an inquiry into the long-term future of the UK’s water supply. This could be an opportunity for MPs to demand answers about the giant “hyperscale” data centres which Big Tech companies want to build across the country – Foxglove needs your help to get those MPs’ attention.
16 March 2025 — medConfidential
(first published on the medConfidential site)
Doctors and patients have spent a decade on the “exciting” end of a triple pendulum, living the random changes in direction that come from those incoherent pressures.
The New Dark Age 