Sunday, 19 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Maintaining stability between China and the US is an achievable goal. To say the least, fragile stability is still a much better scenario than constant turbulence. (more…)
Friday, 17 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
The nearly three years of the war have shown to all concerned that the Ukrainian authorities can carefully hide their military losses and failures but are unable to conceal a planned military operation ahead of time.
Saturday, 18 January 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
A peace agreement will be almost impossible to achieve. Russia considers itself to be fighting an existential threat from NATO and demands that Ukraine restore its neutrality and accept territorial concessions. Even if Trump accepts these conditions, it would be difficult to sell such a peace agreement to Washington, the Europeans and the Ukrainians. As NATO expansionism triggered the war, it is unlikely that even NATO security guarantees to Ukraine would be acceptable in any peace agreement. A peace agreement has more chance to succeed if it is based on the recognition that the Ukraine War is not only a conflict between Ukraine and Russia but primarily a conflict between NATO and Russia. A peace agreement attempting to resolve the destructive zero-sum European security architecture could produce a positive-sum approach to security that benefits Ukraine, Russia and the NATO countries.
Friday, 17 January 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Radio January 17, 2025
In this week’s segment, we discuss the incoming Donald Trump administration, why Trump was elected again, and what we may be able to expect in his term. But first, we begin with discussing a new history of Black people and the U.S. itself.
Dr. Gerald Horne is an author and historian who currently holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Dr. Horne is a prolific author, and he joins us from Houston to discuss his latest work, African Americans & A New History of the USA.
Dr. Anthony Monteiro is a Duboisian scholar and founder of the Saturday Free School for Philosophy and Black Liberation. He joins us from Philadelphia to discuss the upcoming inauguration of Donald Trump. There are already some changes in policy before he takes office, such as his role in bringing about a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. But as Dr. Monteiro explains, his election indicates changes in the political landscape.
Friday, 17 January 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
There can never be any doubt that the rise of terrorist government in Syria in 2024 was a well-thought-out plan.
Thursday, 16 January 2025 — CovertAction Magazine
Anti-immigrant cartoon from the early 1900s. The immigrants are depicted as rats. [Source: ncronline.org]
[This is the first of a two-part article.—Editors]
Immigration has been a “hot issue” in the United States for a long time. In the 1700s, Benjamin Franklin complained about the influx of German immigrants. In the mid-1800s, there was a strong nativist movement against European immigrants, especially Catholics and Jews. In the 1880s, it was the Chinese immigrants who were targeted and subjected to the Chinese Exclusion Act. They were too different in language and religion to become real Americans, and they took jobs away from others.
Thursday, 16 January 2025 — The Tricontinental
Aisha Khalid and Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), Two Wings to Fly, Not One, 2017.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Mark Rutte, the current secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), is not a poet. He, like other secretary generals of NATO, is a mediocre European politician who has been given the task of holding NATO’s reins for the United States (to be fair to Rutte, he has been the prime minister of the Netherlands for fourteen years, but mainly as a survivor rather than a leader). Yet, on 12 December 2024, Rutte gave a speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels (Belgium), a venue rebuilt in 1873 by Leopold II, the brigand king who looted the Congo as its sole owner from 1885 to 1908. This speech was then published on NATO’s website in a very curious form, as a poem rather than the typical bureaucratic prose. Most of the text is banal, but there are four stanzas that I wish to share:
Wednesday, 15 January 2024 — MintPress News
From California’s wildfires and the failures of capitalism to regime change in Syria, the weakening of Palestinian resistance, and rising U.S.-China tensions, this conversation unpacks the pressing global crises and their deeper implications.
Prashad also discusses his latest book, Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle (co-written with Noam Chomsky), the resilience of Cuba under U.S. sanctions, and lessons for the Global South.
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 — Drop Site News
Jeremy Scahill provides real-time analysis of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, examining the latest developments and their implications.
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The moniker “Genocide Joe” is well deserved and one that Joe Biden can never live down, along with any other names that describe the damage he brought to the country and to the world. His legacy is that in every position he held, he was a happy servant for imperialist and neo-liberal interests, like all of his white house predecessors.
Wednesday, 15 Januaryt 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
In a press conference, Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani announced the Palestinian and Israeli parties’ agreement to the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
Qatar’s PM said that the efforts are ongoing with both parties regarding the steps to implement the agreement adding that details of the second and third phases of the agreement would be revealed after the implementation of the first phase of the agreement.
The PM also said that Qatar has received increasing cooperation from the current and upcoming US administrations in order to reach the ceasefire deal.
The agreement will take effect this Sunday.
Wednesday, 15 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
The eleven clauses of the agreement constitute part of the first phase, which lasts six weeks in exchange for the release of 33 Israeli captives, both living and deceased.
During the second and third phases, negotiations will address the remaining 66 captives held in Gaza.
On the seventh day of the agreement, displaced persons from southern Gaza will return to the north without inspections following the occupation’s withdrawal from al-Rashid Street to the depths of the Netzarim corridor.
On the 22nd day of the agreement, the Israeli occupation will withdraw from all of the axes of Netzarim toward the east of Saladin Street.
Here are the terms: https://en.mdn.tv/8HqI
4 January 2025 — Left Berlin
Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Mary Shelley was born on August 30, 1797. Mary had the idea for Frankenstein—or the Modern Prometheus as it was known at the time—when she was 18, and she finished writing it when she was 19. This teenager, who was excluded from the kind of education her male peers enjoyed, created not one but two of the most enduring characters in fiction: the obsessive scientist and the monster he creates. For 200 years, Frankenstein has generated multiple stage and film adaptations across all genres, and it remains as firmly embedded in our culture as ever.
Tuesday, 14 January 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Atrocities are and always have been hardwired into the ZOF. After all, Zionism is dependent on ethnic cleansing, population displacement, and land theft
Monday, 13 January 2025 — The Grayzone
Monday, 13 January 2025 — Assange Defense
Julian Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton has shared an important letter with us:
In October, during his first public statement in years, Julian reminded us that, “The basic fundamental liberties which sustain us all have to be fought for.”
Incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby, who remains in solitary confinement conditions, says Texas state prison staff are inappropriately denying him access to members of the press and refusing to restore his phone privileges. He also says that staff has twice destroyed all of his personal property, including legal paperwork.
Monday, 13 January 2025 —New EasternOutlook
Sahel Alliance and Russia: successful joint fight against terror
The new joint successes of the Alliance of Sahel States and Russia once again confirm who is really fighting the terrorist threat and who was just pretending or – even worse – who actively encouraged terrorist groups and continues to do so.
Monday, 13 January 2025 — Statewatch
The New Dark Age 