Thursday, 13 March 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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GM Watch Daily Digest 13 March 2025
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — GM Watch
Unpacking EU’s food fight over new GMOs
At a standstill for months, the EU’s plan to free so-called new genomic techniques (NGTs) from GMO rules could move forward on Friday 14 March — delivering on efforts from Europe’s factory farm capitals to override opposition from countries concerned about small and organic farmers, as well as the proposed lack of health and environmental risk assessments.
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Why is the rivalry between Russia and the West intensifying?
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Rivalries between Russia and the West are on the rise, fueled by decades of mistrust, resentment, hybrid conflicts, and strategic divergences. What are the roots of this geopolitical tension?
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Twenty-Five Days of Debt-Service Payments Could Emancipate African Women from 40 Billion Hours of Water Harvesting: The Eleventh Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — The Tricontinental
Rocio Navarro (Mexico), Watering Day, 2024.Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the socialist movement. Most of the world now only calls 8 March ‘International Women’s Day’, excluding the word ‘working’ from its title. But work is a fundamental part of women’s daily lives. According to UN Women’s annual report Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, 63.3% of women worldwide participated in the labour force in 2022. However, due to the appalling state of social protections and labour regimes, by 2024 nearly 10% of women were living in extreme poverty. The same report warns that, at the current pace, it could take 137 years to eradicate extreme poverty among women. The goal of life should not be merely to exit absolute poverty but to emancipate people from the burdens of induced necessity.
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Labour’s arms exports to Israel exposed
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — Declassified UK
This week, Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) released new data showing how the Labour government licensed nearly £11m in arms exports to Israel during its first three months in office.
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Ukraine’s Kursk Collapse & Washington’s Rush to Freeze Conflict Under “Minsk 3”
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — The New Atlas
As Ukraine’s Kursk operations collapse and wider fears grow regarding the viability of Ukraine’s armed forces, the US is rushing to freeze the conflict, create a European-occupied buffer zone in Ukraine, and buy time to rearm and reorganize Ukraine’s forces for the next round of fighting.
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Ceasefire Without Political Settlement – Another Minsk Agreement?
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
Ambassador Chas Freemen with Prof. Glenn Diesen
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Ambassador Chas Freeman regarding the US-Ukraine deal for a 30-day ceasefire. The agreement does not provide any political solutions and would likely be used by the US and the Europeans to pump more weapons into Ukraine. Statements from the British suggest that they may use the ceasefire to place their troops within Ukraine. This is happening at a time that Ukrainian position in Kursk has completely collapsed. Zelensky and the Europeans argue that if Russia does not accept the ceasefire, then the US must respond strongly against Russia. This seems to be seen as an opportunity by Zelensky and the Europeans to win the US back over and return to a long war. However, is there more to this? Ambassador Freeman suggests that it could be a tactical move by the Trump administration to get Zelensky and the Europeans to at least accept the need for diplomacy and negotiations, and that this ceasefire is merely a starting position to negotiate with Russia.
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — Drop Site News
Khalil will likely stay at notorious ICE facility in Louisiana until at least March 17.
Guest post
Rally for Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil outside United States Federal Court House in New York City on March 12, 2025. Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images. Mahmoud Khalil was finally able to speak with his legal team after a judge in the Southern District of New York ordered the Department of Homeland Security to allow a call of at least an hour. Prior to that, the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestine organizer had no meaningful contact with his lawyers since Department of Homeland Security agents detained him and told him his green card had been revoked on Saturday night. Attorneys representing Khalil declined to give details of Wednesday night’s call, with another planned for Thursday.
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The EU’s Precarious Position: Awaiting the Trump Pendulum Effect
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
The European Union stands at a breaking point, grappling with internal discord and external threats that undermine its unity and global influence.
The EU is in tatters as the bloc’s leadership feigns solidarity with the tide rising against globalism. With a trade war looming between the EU and its biggest customer, the United States, heads in Brussels can be heard clanking together to stabilize a horrendous situation. A U.S. Russia reset and Donald Trump’s refocus on America’s problems first spell big trouble for a European confederation already on the ropes.
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The farcical fate of the corporate droid and their Cadmean victories
Monday, 10 March 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
By Kayla Carman
Even the biggest fire starts with a spark. So burn.
In 2018, David Graeber made the term ‘bullshit jobs’ famous, arguing that over half of societal work is pointless and becomes psychologically destructive when paired with a work ethic that associates productivity with self-worth. Now with the advent of AI and quantum computing, the need for human labour and, in fact, human cognition in the workplace, is in rapid decline. If this decline led to more freedom for humans to pursue their passions and talents and learn and grow without fear of the bottom rung of Maslow’s hierarchy being forsaken, then this could be an evolution not only for society but a spiritual enlightenment. A levelling up of human consciousness, fuelled by our newfound availability to ponder and philosophise. The reality is that we are still trapped within the old systems of scarcity, having to make ends meet, whilst being fed the lie that suffering through labour makes one virtuous. We’re at a crossroads, lacking clear direction and understanding of the future.
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Collapsing Empire: ‘NATO is Dead’
Wednesday, 12 March 2025 — Global Delinquents
On March 3rd, Timothy Ash of elite British state-connected ‘defence’ think tank Chatham House made a series of startling proclamations in an interview with Bloomberg. His topline message was stark – “NATO is dead.” He spoke following the very public February 28th Oval Office fallout between Volodomyr Zelensky and Donald Trump. The impact of that debacle reverberates today, with questions abounding over continued US aid and intelligence sharing with Kiev, pending the Ukrainian leader’s signoff on a White House-endorsed minerals for security agreements deal.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers, March 12, 2025
Wednesday, 12 March 2025 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Nawfal, Larry C.Johnson and Andrew Napolitano, Moscow, March 12, 2025
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On Trump-Russia Negotiations: Is the US-Europe Division on Ukraine Real?
Wednesday, 12 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
The West is likely dividing itself into smaller parties that can present potentially endless demands to keep the Ukraine-Russia conflict going, while enabling Donald Trump to pose as a peace-maker.
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Thames Water poisons our rivers, steals our money!
Wednesday, 12 March 2025 — Good Law Project
Thames Water is in court, defending a £3bn bailout. Its profit-hungry owners have let the water network rot while they’ve racked up alarming debts. And now they want customers to pick up the tab through ever-rising water bills.
But there’s a way out. Steve Reed, the environment secretary, must stop the bailout and put Thames Water into special measures. Together we can put him under pressure and make him act. It only takes two minutes.
Write to Steve Reed now
If you want your money to be used to fix the problem, not to reward greed, let Steve Reed know he can be part of the solution.
Stand together and bring the curtain down on Thames Water’s failed financial experiment.
Thanks for all your support,
Katrina, Good Law Project
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Thousands reported killed in Syria as HTS-allied forces attack, execute Alawites
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 — The Grayzone
Editor’s note: Sectarian Sunni forces linked to the new HTS-led government of Syria have massacred over 1300 Alawites in the past week, according to a conservative estimate. The Grayzone has spoken to staff from a Western aid organization currently on the ground in Syria who say the death toll is much higher than the official count. They told us that over 4000 Alawites have been killed, thousands are wounded with little access to medical assistance, and some 200,000 are internally displaced, in hiding from sectarian death squads that have destroyed entire villages and conducted widespread looting. A source from the aid organization said the violence erupted when Alawi self-defense militias with no loyalty to the former Assad government attacked HTS forces, causing over a dozen casualties this March after withstanding three months of regular attacks and abuses. Calls for the genocide of Alawites quickly grew within pro-HTS Sunni sectors of Syria which eerily resembled those by Jewish Israelis baying for the blood of Palestinians after October 7.
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A Muslims Zionism and the massacre of Syria’s minorities
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
The situation will never improve until the people break out of the spell of hating their own neighbours, who have lived, fought and died alongside each other for centuries. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustration by Batoul Chamas)
Robert Inlakesh examines the rise of Sunni Nationalism in Syria, comparing it to Zionism and exposing its role in fueling sectarian violence and Western-backed destabilization.
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Rapid Collapse of Ukraine’s Kursk Area of Operation
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 — New Atlas
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Rapid Collapse of Ukraine’s Kursk Area of Operation (via pro-Ukrainian map)
▪️This was the inevitable result of Russia’s strategy of attrition grinding down overextended Ukrainian forces in Kursk as well as weakening Ukrainian defenses across the rest of the line of contact;
▪️Despite the US posing as “ending support” for Ukraine, most of it has been shifted to Europe, some of it is still provided by the US (Starlink) – the problem was never a will to supply support, it was the fact there was nothing left to supply that could make a difference;
▪️As Secretary Rubio claims he wants Ukraine to make concessions, the only real concession that actually truly ends this conflict for Russia is in regards to the threat NATO poses, which is a decision only the US can make – it has chosen to expand it instead;
▪️Russia’s choice is either to continue operations or agree to what is essentially Misnk 3.0;
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The background of Ukrainian-American talks in Jeddah: Koshchei’s needle of the Kiev junta
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 — Global South
Featured image: The Death of Koschei the Deathless, a Russian Fairly TaleElena Panina : https://russtrat.ru/
Everything that is happening now in Saudi Arabia can be assessed from different process levels and several angles. The deepest cut is the general confrontation of globalist elites and the American Deep State with the national forces that came to power in the USA. The next level is the pushing through of their goals by these national forces. And on the very surface is the wriggling of the “Zhmerinka diplomatic school”.
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The Trump Administration’s Silent Complicity as Syrian Death Squads Slaughter Alawites, Christians
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 — The New Atlas
- Western media reports that hundreds if not thousands of civilians are being slaughtered by US-European-Israeli-Turkish-backed death squads sweeping through ethnic/religious minority villages in Syria;
- The Trump administration has remained silent and despite having carried out air strikes across Syria since taking office, refuse to strike the known location of the terrorist installed into power in Damascus by the previous Biden administration;
- During President Trump’s first term in office, he played an equal role in aiding terrorists in the overthrow of the Syrian government precipitating this current catastrophe, including through military strikes, sanctions, and the continued illegal occupation of Syrian oil and wheat fields by US troops;
- Silence and inaction are complicity and another example of continuity of agenda under the current Trump administration, just as it continued under his previous administration;
- The Trump administration via US Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues pressuring China and Thailand over Uyghur terror suspects and alleged “genocide” that is not taking place while ignoring ongoing genocide appearing on camera all along Syria’s coast – perpetrated in part by these very Uyghur terrorists;
The New Dark Age 