Thursday, 30 January 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
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Thursday, 30 January 2025 — The Tricontinental
Abdel Hadi el-Gazzar (Egypt), Popular Chorus, 1949.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
The idea of a ceasefire is as old as the idea of war. In old records, one reads of halts in firing for humans to eat or sleep. Rules of combat developed out of an understanding that both sides had to rest or refresh themselves. Sometimes, this understanding included the lives of animals. During the Easter Rising in 1916, for instance, the Irish rebels and the British troops stopped their shooting around St. Stephen’s Green in Dublin so that James Kearney, the park keeper, could enter and feed the ducks. It was this caesura, or pause, of gunfire that popularised the term ‘ceasefire’.
Thursday, 30 January 2025 — Global Delinquents
Editor’s Note: This investigation was originally published by MintPress News, a crusading independent media outlet well worth your time and consideration, to which I regularly contribute. It is reproduced here with kind permission.
Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’ – the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab and Muslim lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims this territory was promised to Jews by God. The mainstream media typically dismisses this concept as antisemitic conspiracy theory, or at most the fringe fantasy of a minuscule handful of extremist Israelis.
Wednesday, 29 January 2025 — Dangerous Ideas
Lee Camp
MSNBC anchor Kate Snow and Middle East correspondent Martin Fletcher admitted a revelation that shook the narrative surrounding Israel and Palestine, only to quickly retrace their steps. What did they uncover and why is it crucial for viewers to know? Why did MSNBC take back their statements? What does this mean for public perception? What does it mean for journalism and global reporting?
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Wednesday, 29 January 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
The commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is tainted by hypocrisy and ingratitude towards Russia, which liberated the camp in 1945.
Monday, 28 January 2025 — The Grayzone
22 January 2025 — Declassified UK
Major General Oded Basyuk (right) faces questions about war crimes on his trip to London, 22 January 2025. (Photo: Alex Morris / Declassified UK)
Tuesday, 28 January 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
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Monday, 27 January 2025 — X
Ali Abunimah (https://x.com/AliAbunimah/status/1883973368069906853): I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police.
Monday, 27 January 2027 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Musk continues to be overbearing with Europe
The billionaire proposed renaming the English Channel the George Washington Channel.
Sunday, 26 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Former US President Donald Trump suggested on Saturday a controversial plan to “just clean out” Gaza through the mass expulsion of its population to neighboring Egypt and Jordan, framing the proposal as a step toward “Middle East peace.”
Labeling Gaza a “demolition site” in the aftermath of the Israeli genocide, Trump revealed he had discussed the idea with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and planned further talks with Egypt’s leadership.
“I’d like Egypt to take people. And I’d like Jordan to take people,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
He estimated that “probably a million and a half people” could be moved, adding, “We just clean out that whole thing. You know, over the centuries it’s had many, many conflicts, that site. And I don’t know, something has to happen.”
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Indian Punchline
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty, Moscow, January 17, 2025
Russia and Iran, as two immediate neighbours and great powers with a glorious history, had a difficult, chequered relationship through centuries. It goes to the credit of Iranian pragmatism that it learned to live with the consequences of Tsarist Russia’s expansionism rather than getting locked in eternal enmity. In some ways, it also shared the plight of China at the hands of predatory powers. Such bitter experiences inevitably get embedded in a nation’s psyche.
Sunday, 26 January 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Donald Trump’s geopolitical strategy during his next presidency will reflect an overt attempt to reinforce US hegemony at the seas by entangling rival powers China and Russia.
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Global South
The Road to Chaos
The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940. The plot was always similar. Bing and Bob, two fast-talking con men or song-and-dance partners, would find themselves in a scrape in some country, and Bing would get out of it by selling Bob as a slave (Morocco in 1942, where Bing promises to buy him back) or committing him to be sacrificed in some pagan ceremony, and so forth. Bob always goes along with the plan, and there’s always a happy Hollywood ending where they escape together – with Bing always getting the girl.
Saturday, 25 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that some of the released Palestinian prisoners were brutally beaten by the IOF before their release.
This draws a stark contrast between the release of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli captives, who always seem in good shape upon their release.
The IOF also stormed the house of a freed Palestinian prisoner in Kafr Aakab today only a few hours after his release.
22 January 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
By Pepe Escobar
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”.
i January 2025 — Monthly Review
Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, Monthly Review Press (2016). Click here to buy now!
Friday, 24 January 2025 — GM Watch
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Jonathan Cook
[First published by Middle East Eye]
The decision by the Metropolitan Police to interview “under caution” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and leftwing MP John McDonnell for attending a peaceful protest in London against Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza is a decisive turning point.
Friday, 24 January 2025 — Statewatch
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