Wednesday, 16 April 2025 — New Atlas
The US is preparing to subject its own population as well as those of its supposed “allies” to immense long-term economic, social, and political pain. The cost-of-living crisis in the US will only grow worse. The US hopes that it can endure economic pain and disruption at home and abroad better than the emerging multipolar world can. Multipolarism’s survival will depend on proving otherwise.”
Wednesday, 16 April 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
🪖📰🇾🇪🇺🇸🇸🇦🇦🇪The Presidency Council, Yemen’s internationally recognized government backed by the United States, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, is amassing more than 80,000 troops for a major offensive to retake the western coastal port city of Hodeida from the Houthis, according to the Saudi-based Gulf Studies Center and several Arab media outlets.
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
What crimes do Israeli soldiers commit in Gaza?
In this video, real Israeli occupation soldiers speak out to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, revealing disturbing confessions about what they did during the war on Gaza. From brutal attacks on civilians to dehumanizing violence, these testimonies expose the horrifying reality of life under occupation in their own words.
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 — The Cradle
As Washington’s latest military campaign drags into its second month, Yemen’s battle lines remain firmly drawn—with growing questions over whether Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are next to be pulled into a war they can neither control nor win.
Photo Credit: The CradleThe US war on Yemen, now in its second round, has passed the one-month mark with no clear gains and no timeline for success. What’s emerging instead is the growing risk of escalation—one that could force regional players, particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE, into direct confrontation.
Tuesday, 15 April 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
There is indeed a new weapon out there; enriched uranium does not exist in nature: it is man-made (al Mayadeen English; illustrated by Batoul Chamas)
Dr. Chris Busby presents evidence that Israel used a Uranium-based bomb in the 2024 Beirut attack that assassinated Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, revealing airborne radioactive particles that pose long-term public health risks.
Monday, 14 April 2025 — BettBeat Media
Monday, 14 April 2025 — HART
In February 2025, a tense exchange unfolded in the Oval Office between UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US Vice President JD Vance. Vance challenged Starmer face-to-face, asserting that UK policies, like the Online Safety Act, infringe on free expression. Starmer swiftly countered, saying he was proud of the UK’s long-standing tradition of free speech, adding it “will last for a very, very long time.”
3 April 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Almost no one expected it, yet it was predictable: China has entered the global AI competition and intends to win.
China takes measurements
Chinese companies in the AI field aim to achieve success in the same way that Chinese companies in the electric car, renewable energy and biopharmaceutical sectors are conquering the market: by radically changing the economics of these sectors. In other words, they aim to outcompete their rivals by making AI adoption low-cost and large-scale, thus eliminating rivals that operate with high-cost, high-margin business models.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian (C) at an exhibition “National Day of Nuclear Technology”, Tehran, April 9, 2025 With the foreplay over and US-Iranian talks commencing in Muscat on Saturday, a constructive engagement has begun in right earnestness. The sure sign of it is that Iran’s currency rose nearly 6 percent on Sunday. The Tehran bazaar, the weathervane of Shia politics, has spoken.
Sunday, 13 April 2025 — Global Delinquents
On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government.
Sunday, 13 April 2025 — The Planning Motive
This is the final article for what was one of the most eventful weeks in the financial markets since the onset of the pandemic. At least then it was known the virus could kill, now nothing is known about what the Trump virus is up to. Trump has a proud record. Of the last ten most volatile days in the stock markets since the War, nine of them have occurred under his presidential watch.
Trump declared Liberation Day on the 9th April. The way things are turning out its more like Incarceration Day as accusations of insider trading swirls around his administration. The volatility driven by Trump’s on-off tariffs has created enormous speculative opportunities for his circle, for MAGA congressmen/women and for traders. (I will analyse bank profits further down the article but their trading desks reaped tens of billions in profits.) With so much power in one man’s hands, and with this man’s previous record, he was bound to cast a long shadow of corruption, even when the sun does not shine. Its all there in his book: The Art of the Grifter.
Saturday, 12 April 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to.
The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit.
Saturday, 12 April 2025 — The Chris Hedges Report
Legacy – by Mr. Fish
Saturday, 12 April 2025 – Al Mayadeen English
Wartime journalism: The choices we make and the price we pay (illustrated by Ali al- Hadi Shmeis to Al Mayadeen English)
This piece explores the contemplations and the moral duty of being a media worker in Gaza and Lebanon during wartime, when reporting under fire becomes a revolutionary act against colonial violence.
Saturday, 12 April 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
What we are witnessing, in Gaza and Palestine as a whole, is nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe—a stain on the so-called “rules-based international order”.
When will it stop, the unabated carnage?
Saturday, 12 April 2025 — Struggle / La Lucha
President of China Xi Jinping
Since U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February to impose a 10% tariff on all imports, the world has witnessed a confounding series of unilateral tariffs placed on both friends and foes of the U.S.. On self-declared ‘Liberation Day’, on 2 April 2025, Trump unleashed a series of ‘reciprocal’ tariffs on 57 countries, with China being amongst the hardest hit with an additional 34% tariff. A week later, Trump abruptly announced in a Truth Social post a 90-day reprieve of tariffs on countries that ‘have not, at my strong suggestion, retaliated in any way’, while those on Chinese goods soared to 125%. The tariff on China was then raised to 145% on 10 April 2025.
Wednesday, 9 April 2025 — Black Agenda Report
The Democrats’ HANDS OFF rallies included “HANDS OFF NATO” and excluded “HANDS OFF PALESTINE,” but not all rally goers got the memo.
On Sunday, April 6, the KPFA Radio-Berkeley Sunday Show opened with an hour on Saturday’s nationwide “HANDS OFF!” rallies, which had taken place in cities across the country. The first guest, University of San Francisco professor Rebecca Gordon, opened by saying she’d seen some great signage at the rally she attended, the first being, “Trump Has His Head So Far Up Putin’s Ass That He Can See Sarah Palin.”
Friday, 11 April 2025 — Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
Earlier this year, delegates from @theblackliberationalliance and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign visited Caracas for the Inauguration of President Maduro and World Anti-Fascist Festival.
The New Dark Age 