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March 9, 2025

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Hands Off Mahmoud Khalil!
Sunday, 9 March 2025 — Peoples Forum

Last night, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, from his home. Khalil and his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them. The agents initially refused to identify themselves, instead asking Khalil to confirm his identity before detaining him without explanation. Khalil is now in ICE detention.

TOMORROW WE TAKE TO THE STREETS!

We demand the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil. Hands off our students! ICE off our campuses!

📅 Tomorrow, Monday, March 10

🕓 4PM

📍Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, NYC

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March 9, 2025

No comments on BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups

BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups
Sunday, 9 March 2025 — Droop Site News

Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained on Saturday, is being held at an ICE detention facility.

Janine AlHadidi

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Meghnad Bose

Columbia University security officers speak with Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University on Thursday, March 6. Photo: Janine AlHadidi

NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this week it would begin revoking visas of “Hamas sympathizers,” specifically citing Columbia University students. The detention followed a two-day targeted online campaign against Khalil by pro-Israel groups and individuals, including Columbia’s high-profile pro-Israel professor, Shai Davidai.

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March 9, 2025

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The AUKUS chickens are coming home to roost, already
Friday, 7 March 2025 — Pearls & Irritations

By John Menadue

In its response to AUKUS with its objective of militarily confronting China in the South China Sea, we should not be surprised by Chinese naval vessels sailing around Australia to pick up some intelligence or at least showing us their growing naval power.

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Australia, China
March 8, 2025

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Ukraine’s forces surrounded in Kursk
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — New Atlas

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Forces Are at Center of Ukraine’s Kursk Area of Operation According to Pro-Ukrainian Map

▪️Russia has been steadily grinding down Ukrainian positions/shrinking their area of operation in Russia’s Kursk region since the senseless incursion began;

▪️Now pro-Ukrainian Live UA Map indicates Russian forces are present even at the very heart of this area which includes the town of Sudzha, as video evidence of retreating Ukrainian forces emerge;

▪️The Ukrainian conflict is one of attrition Russia has been winning for 3 years, the collapse of Ukraine’s presence in Kursk is inevitable as is the collapse of Ukraine’s defenses along the line of contact;

▪️This is why the US is desperate to freeze, not end the conflict, before a complete collapse takes place across the entire line of contact and why the Trump administration has begun threatening Russia if it doesn’t submit to a ceasefire in a conflict Russia is now decisively winning;
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March 8, 2025

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Former IOF Chief held secret UK media meetings to spin Gaza war coverage
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — Declassified UK

A Declassified UK investigation has uncovered secret meetings between former IOF Chief Aviv Kohavi and top British media executives, including editors from The Guardian, BBC, and Financial Times. Backed by “Israel’s” military and foreign ministry, these talks aimed to shape Western coverage of “Israel’s” war on Gaza as global outrage over the Israeli atrocities grew. Documents revealed a calculated effort to “influence influencers” and sway public opinion to bolster the Israeli narrative, particularly at a time when Israeli military actions were drawing widespread international criticism for human rights violations and acts of genocide.
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March 8, 2025

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Climate protest ruling ‘another nail in the crucifixion of Justice’
Saturday, 8 March 2025 — Morning Star Online

Just six years cut from 41-year jail sentence for Just Stop Oil activists

Extinction Rebellion activists protest outside the Royal Courts of Justice against the long sentences handed out to climate activists, March 7, 2025

THIRTY people turned their backs on judges today to reveal T-shirts reading “corruption in court,” after it was announced that only six years would be shaved off a 41-year prison sentence for climate protesters involved in peaceful action.

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March 7, 2025

No comments on Germany Tosses The Austerity Bullshit For War Spending

Germany Tosses The Austerity Bullshit For War Spending
Friday, 7 March 2025 — Geopolitics And Climate Change

Roger Boyd

For many decades Germany has trodden the path of internal deflation relative to other EU nations, racking up huge trade surpluses that heavily contributed to the European Debt Crisis of the early 2010s. Greatly aided by the inability of the other Euro nations to devalue given the single currency, and the neoliberal policies that suppressed German real wages. The country was also central to the EU decision to limit national government deficits to 3% of GDP and imposed upon itself a “debt brake” (the balanced budget amendment) that restricts annual structural government deficits to 0.35% of GDP. Germany’s current account surplus averaged 3.3% of GDP from 1980 to 2023, with a high of 8.9% in 2016. (more…)
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March 7, 2025

No comments on Britain returning to ‘bad old days’ of the Birmingham Six

Britain returning to ‘bad old days’ of the Birmingham Six
- Friday, 7 March 2025 — Morning Star Online
Photo: Andy Aitchison

BRITAIN has returned to the “bad old days” of the Birmingham Six, with corrupt judges and police swapping Irish people for black and Muslim communities, top defence lawyers have said.

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March 6, 2025

No comments on Black Agenda Report March 5, 2025

Black Agenda Report March 5, 2025
Thursday, 6 March 2025 — Black Agenda Report

Liberals Want War in Ukraine, Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But All Agree on Death in Gaza

Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist

Donald Trump’s efforts to normalize relations with Russia, and to end the fighting in the Ukraine proxy war are logical and sensible. But years of whipped up anti-Russia hatred make logical solutions difficult to achieve, with democrats trying to fight his change of course. While Russia is a hot button issue, there is silence and bipartisan consensus about continuing Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.

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Black Agenda Report
March 6, 2025

No comments on The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)

The Global North Has Nine Times More Voting Power at the IMF Than the Global South: The Tenth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 6 March 2025 — The Tricontinental

Dear Friends,

Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Yes, the headline of this newsletter is accurate.

As far as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned, each person in the Global North is worth nine people in the Global South. We get that calculation from IMF data on voting power in the organisation relative to the population of the Global North and Global South states. Each country, based on its ‘relative economic position’, as the IMF suggests, is given voting rights to elect delegates to the IMF’s executive board, which makes all of the organisation’s important decisions. A brief glance at the board shows that the Global North is vastly overrepresented in this crucial multilateral institution for indebted countries.
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Tricontinental
March 6, 2025

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Asylum seekers – pawns in the defence review
Thursday, 6 March 2025 — Institute of Race Relations

As Starmer increases spending on defence, asylum seekers have once again emerged as pawns in a spending review that will ultimately pit asylum seekers against the poorest in the Global South.

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March 6, 2025

No comments on Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime Between Trump and Zelensky?

Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime Between Trump and Zelensky?
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Edward Curtin

Edward Curtin

Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first step; it proves nothing.

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March 5, 2025

No comments on Billionaire-backed Global Citizen whitewashes Kagame’s invasion of DRC

Billionaire-backed Global Citizen whitewashes Kagame’s invasion of DRC
Wednesday, 5 March 2025 — The Grayzone

By Ann Garrison

John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.

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March 4, 2025

No comments on Putin’s Endgame in Ukraine

Putin’s Endgame in Ukraine
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack

Prof. Glenn Diesen with Judge Napolitano

Glenn Diesen

I had the great pleasure to discuss with Judge Napolitano the efforts by Trump to pressure Zelensky into starting negotiations to end the war. Trump is challenging the legitimacy of Zelensky and even cutting military support to push him to the negotiation table. It is very possible that Trump will also start to mount pressure on the Europeans as they are seen to also oppose his peace plan. By cutting military spending, Trump hopes to also deprive Zelensky and the Europeans of the alternative to keep the war going. The war summit in Paris organised by the Europeans demonstrates that they are not able to mobilise the political will and unity required to replace the US. The Europeans also do not have the money or military power to continue the war, yet they do not have the political imagination beyond doubling down on a failed war. If the Europeans continue to resist Trump’s peace efforts, then NATO itself could end up being dissolved.
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March 4, 2025

No comments on Tariff Mania: Let the Tariff Games Begin …

Tariff Mania: Let the Tariff Games Begin …
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy & Climate Change

Roger Boyd

US corporations and US investors have based their business strategies on the fundamental belief that the US state will always use its power to force open other nations to free trade, while at the same time generally practising free trade itself. A belief that has proven correct since WW2, and has been the basis upon which they have built global supply chains (helping to decimate the real living standards of the majority of Americans) and huge global sales based mostly upon localized production (e.g. Tesla, Starbucks, Apple in China).

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March 4, 2025

No comments on US puts firewall to protect Ukraine deal with Russia

US puts firewall to protect Ukraine deal with Russia
Monday, 3 March 2025 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) gave a highly public show of support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) greeting the Ukrainian president on the steps of No. 10 Downing Street, walking towards him and immediately throwing his arm around him. Inside No. 10, Starmer told Zelenskyy he has “full backing across the United Kingdom.” London, March 1, 2025

The verbal shootout at the Oval Office last Friday brought out President Vladimir Zelensky’s fury that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are very close to a deal on Ukraine, while the conclave in Lancashire House in London on Sunday involving 18 European leaders messaged that Zelensky is in good company.

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March 4, 2025

No comments on Archiving Gaza: The Race to Save Evidence of War Crimes and Mass Destructio

Archiving Gaza: The Race to Save Evidence of War Crimes and Mass Destructio
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Drop Site

Inside the dangerous effort to dodge censorship and document the horrors of Israel’s war against Gaza.

Lila Hassan

For 17 months, the world has stood by asPalestinians in Gaza have documented, largely on social media, a war of annihilation being waged against them by Israel with the full backing of the U.S. government and most Western nations. More than 200 media workers have been killed since October 7, almost all of them Palestinians. Israel has blocked unembedded journalists from entering the besieged Strip. As the people of Gaza have fought against insurmountable challenges in their effort to document and broadcast the horrors to the world, they have faced not only bombs and bullets, but pervasive censorship by social media companies resulting in the erasure of their documentation of this war. Despite these challenges—and the sporadic and unreliable access to the internet in a Gaza under siege—Palestinian archivists, media workers, historians, and others have fought diligently to not only store vital evidence but to preserve memory. And they do so while trapped in a killing cage.

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March 3, 2025

No comments on Baltic/Black Sea Power Games and Red Lines Intersect in a “Strange War”

Baltic/Black Sea Power Games and Red Lines Intersect in a “Strange War”
Friday, 27 February 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation

Pepe Escobar

Strategic waters: Sweden and Finland’s accession to NATO positioned Russia as the only non-member bordering the Baltic Sea.

No one ever lost money betting on the batshit crazy “policies” of the ferociously yapping Baltic chihuahuas. Their latest power play of sorts is a drive to turn the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake.

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March 3, 2025

No comments on A verbal and gestural combat sport at the Oval Office: for what are the results?

A verbal and gestural combat sport at the Oval Office: for what are the results?
Monday, 3 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook

Mohamed Lamine KABA

The conversation in the Oval Office turned out to be a deal-breaker for Ukraine, an embarrassment and the expulsion of the Kiev politician from the White House.

In a tense exchange at the top of the diplomacy of the anti-Russia Western alliance, Zelensky, the emblematic figure of the Ukrainian decline, sees his status waver in the face of Trump and Vance. A shock of a few minutes was enough to upset the transatlantic diplomatic balance and to cut off the last hope of the warmongering Europe.

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Ukraine, USA
March 3, 2025

No comments on Unsustainable Spoilt Brat Diplomacy meets Inglorious End

Unsustainable Spoilt Brat Diplomacy meets Inglorious End
Monday, 3 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook

Simon Chege Ndiritu

In a botched February 28th meeting, Trump and Zelensky engaged in what can be described as spoilt brat diplomacy, as each hoped to get the best of the other, with no room for concessions or compromises.

A shouting match in the Oval Office

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BOYCOTT TWITTER & FACEBOOK

The richest 1% owns more than TWICE as much wealth as 6.9 billion people and the super-rich one percent of the world’s population has accumulated twice as much wealth as the remaining 90 percent, global charity Oxfam said in a newly-released report. The world’s richest 1% emit double the carbon of the poorest 50%, the 2020 Oxfam study found.

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Just six years cut from 41-year jail sentence for Just Stop Oil activists

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John Legend’s concert in Rwanda signaled global elite support for Paul Kagame amid his bloody invasion of the DRC. The event was organized by Global Citizen, a pseudo-activist NGO backed by corporations hungry for Africa’s resource wealth.

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Prof. Glenn Diesen with Judge Napolitano

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Inside the dangerous effort to dodge censorship and document the horrors of Israel’s war against Gaza.

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