Wednesday, 26 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
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US VP JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain
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The Party’s Over: Zionism Must Be Dismantled
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 —
“What this has evoked is a deep questioning amongst people who must ask themselves, where do they stand on the question of evil? Because I believe that what we’ve seen in Gaza is evil. You cannot describe it in any other way.”
Esteemed Palestinian author and academic, Dr Ghada Karmi, calls on the world to rise up to end Israel’s genocide and systematic oppression of the Palestinian people—to end its apartheid, ethnic cleansing and colonialism once and for all.
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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Edward Curtin
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.
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Zionists and Nazis Meet amid the Genocide in Occupied Palestine
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 —
Amid Zionist genocide and war crimes in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, the “Israeli” regime is publicly allying itself with Nazis and fascists, making clear the nature of the “state” and the Zionist movement. This public and visible alliance is leading to even more cracks inside the Zionist project, as leading Zionist organizations and figures pull out of a conference being hosted this week in occupied Palestine by the so-called “Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Confronting Antisemitism.”
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The April 2025 issue of ColdType is now online
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 — ColdType
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The BBC describes a war crime committed against a hospital as if it was a targeted operation
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 — MintPress News
Israeli forces openly admitted to carrying out an attack against the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The strike assassinated Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who had nothing to do with armed activities. In order to kill him, which could have been carried out at any time as he has never been in hiding, Israel chose to bomb a hospital. The BBC made this story seem as if what happened was a legitimate targeting.
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The EU’s Downfall: Proxy War, Economic Decline & Geopolitical Obscurity
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
MEP Michael von der Schulenburg with Prof. Glenn Diesen
I had a conversation with Michael von der Schulenburg, a German member of the EU Parliament who was previously a UN diplomat for 34 years in positions that included Assistant Secretary General of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
Michael von der Schulenburg warns his colleagues in the EU Parliament that the reluctance to embrace diplomacy and accept a negotiated settlement to the war is resulting in economic decline, possible war with Russia, and alienating the US. The EU and Zelensky may end up going against the US and Russia. The militarization of Germany would eventually fuel concerns among other European states. The EU’s decline can be reversed, but then it is necessary to end the proxy war against Russia that started in 2014.
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The Last Chapter of the Genocide
22 March 2025 —
Lord of the Flies – by Mr. FishIsrael has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.
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Authoritarian Crackdown on Palestine Advocacy Meets Legal Challenges
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Palestine Chronicle
A pro-Palestine encampment at UCLA. (Photo: Niashervin – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152019039) Although there is now a growing set of legal challenges to the ongoing assault on First Amendment rights, the campaign to stifle free speech is manifesting itself in so many ways beyond deportations and propaganda.
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On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic bloc started bombing Yugoslavia
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Global South
From the Russian MFA.
On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic bloc started bombing Yugoslavia. The “military operation” against a sovereign state became a tragic milestone in the life of the Serbian people and delivered a devastating blow to international law.
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From welfare to warfare: military Keynesianism
Saturday, 22 March 2025 — The Next Recession
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict so he can concentrate US imperialist strategy on the ‘Western hemisphere’ and the Pacific, with the aim of ‘containing’ and weakening China’s economic rise.
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Our ruling oligarchs have made class war inevitable, & the response to Luigi shows where the masses will side in this
Monday, 24 March 2025 — See you in 2020
There is no stopping the social trend that Luigi Mangione represents, because he’s the kind of person who emerges in a situation of tremendous class-based injustice. This is something we need to understand about the conditions we’re now in: it’s inevitable that these conditions will produce a wave of political unrest, comparable to the “Years of Lead” which happened in Italy from the 1960s to the 80s. And though communists can’t adopt the adventurist tactics that this trend represents, we also must recognize why so many of the people have sided with Luigi, one of the trend’s first initiators. And we need to translate this popular sentiment into workers struggle, which can only be done when we grasp what the masses are looking for.
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Thank you GBC!
Sunday, 23 March 2025 — NetPol
Green & Black Cross (GBC) is an independent grassroots project providing legal support for protesters and social movements. GBC volunteers work incredibly hard to support people facing the police. We’re collecting messages of appreciation from people who’ve been supported by GBC, to pass on some appreciation for the people working behind the scenes.
If you’ve been helped by a legal observer at a demo, attended a Know Your Rights training or you’ve called the Protest Support Line to get help around policing then we want to hear from you! Send your message of appreciation to lyndsay@gatherwithus.co.uk.
If you’ve not encountered GBC yet, then check out the Green and Black Cross website to find a wealth of information. You can see:
- Key advice for going on a demonstration
- Common laws used at protests and Know Your Rights Guides
- Upcoming training and workshops
- Bustcards for the UK with key legal support numbers
GBC also operate a 24 hour protest support line, where groups can call for advice and support. You can reach the protest support line on 07946 541 511. Save this number!
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Stepan Bandera’s Sinister MI6 Alliance Exposed
Sunday, 23 March 2025 — Global Delinquents
March 17th marked the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee. With the Red Army rapidly advancing on Berlin, Nazi officials released Ukrainian ultranationalist military units from their command, and recognised the Committee – and a newly-formed National Army under its control – as the legitimate government of Ukraine. It was hoped the UNC would continue Hitler’s crusade against the Soviet Union following Berlin’s rapidly impending defeat in World War II, which occurred two months later.
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Silence! We Will Build Our EU Wehrmacht, Like It Or Not
Saturday, 22 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
The European Union’s push for militarization is facing widespread public backlash, as citizens across social media platforms reject its aggressive defense policies and question its leadership.
Europe’s leadership has gone stark raving mad. We all watch in awe as the elusive Fourth Reich emerges from an otherwise peaceful confederation of states. Interestingly, few realize that the European Commission is advertising and spreading propaganda on social media to sell the most significant arms race in history.
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A state of exception – The Grayzone live
Friday, 21 March 2025 — The Grayzone
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Netanyahu breaking the Gaza ceasefire to resume Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave as Trump launches a war on Yemen to protect Tel Aviv’s shipping. They will also cover Trump’s declaration of a de facto state of emergency at home to escalate deportations and repression of Palestine solidarity activism.
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New report reveals protest crackdown in England & Wales is now so severe, it amounts to state repression of people’s human rights
17 March, 2025 — NetPol
PRESS RELEASE
A new report authored by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) says the aggressive police use of new anti-protest laws, coupled with a growing portrayal of protesters as alleged threats to democracy rather than a vital part of public participation, has grown so routine and so severe that it now amounts to state repression.
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Israel blows up the sole cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip
Friday, 21 March 2025 — MintPress News
The Turkish friendship hospital, located near the recently re-invaded Netzarim corridor that intersects northern and central Gaza, was blown up without any justification by Israeli forces.
Thousands of cancer patients in the Gaza Strip are refused access to treatment outside and are deprived of the medical care they need inside the besieged coastal enclave.
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US Lays “Minsk 3” Ceasefire Trap for Russia as Europe Prepares “Peacekeepers” The New Atlas 283K subscribers
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The New Atlas
- The US proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing, prompting urgent attempts to impose a ceasefire on Russia;
- This includes a European-led “peacekeeping” mission into Ukraine to freeze the conflict and create a bufferzone preventing Russia from neutralizing the threat the US has created on its border;
- The fact the US is openly declaring its needs to pause the conflict in Ukraine to pursue the exact same type of conflict with China in Asia demonstrates a complete lack of sincerity regarding genuine peace;
- Current US actions fall within a decades-spanning pattern of encroachment, reaching an impasse, then desperately needing to “reset” relations to rearm and reorganize ahead of the next round of hostilities;
SITREP
BBC – ‘Everything is finished’: Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk (Mar. 17, 2025): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q…Precedent
National Security Archive, George Washington University – NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard (Dec. 2017): https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-bo…
Guardian – US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (Nov. 2004): https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…
Stars and Stripes – U.S. forces help Georgian army make ‘big changes’ (2005): https://www.stripes.com/news/2005-06-…
Reuters – Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report (Sep. 2009): https://www.reuters.com/article/idUST…
RFE/RL – After Meeting Russian Foreign Minister, Clinton Hails Fresh Start (Mar. 2009): https://www.rferl.org/a/After_Meeting…
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The Spring 2025 MediaNorth is now online
Friday, 21 March 2025 — Coldtype
Welcome to the Spring issue of MediaNorth.
You can read it here:
https://medianorth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/MediaNorth_March2025WEBV2.0.pdf
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The Spring issue has a review by veteran UK journalist Paul Routledge of The Art of Class War by Nick Jones. The front page is on the Covid Inquiry and mentions the role of Tory grandee Michael Gove’s role in supporting James Dyson for a VIP lane contract. Just as we went to press Gove appeared before the inquiry and lost his temper: https://www.thenational.scot/news/24996761.michael-gove-hits-good-law-project-uk-covid-inquiry/
And former editor of The Journalist Tim Gopsill writes about the controversy over the BBC pulling the Gaza documentary.
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