Thursday, 27 February 2027 — Al Mayadeen English
The Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), a British intelligence cutout, covertly funds and orchestrates political destabilization and regime change efforts worldwide under the guise of democracy promotion.
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — MintPress News
The useful thing about President Trump is that he has an ability to package the dismantling of the United States Empire as the building of the American Empire. His administration’s decision to end the war in Ukraine is a transparent attempt to raid Ukrainian mineral resources, snap the European Union back into line, and draw Russia closer to US interests and thereby isolate China. It won’t work. The Biden administration’s self-destructive, hawkish policy in Ukraine has already forced Russia irretrievably into China’s orbit, and European institutions are dissolving in realtime as right-wing nationalist movements are attacking the framework of pan-European governance. Join us tonight on State of Play to examine this historic inflection point in detail. State of Play is fully funded by our viewers. To help us keep independent journalism alive, join us on patreon today
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — The Tricontinental
Cao Fei (China), My Future Is Not a Dream 05, 2006.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In his first month back in the White House, US President Donald Trump indicated his interest in annexing Greenland and brokering a peace deal for Ukraine that would include access to Ukrainian minerals and metals. It is important to note that Greenland has already been a point of contention around its vast holdings of rare earth minerals with such remarkable names as dysprosium, neodymium, scandium, and yttrium (there
are seventeen rare earth minerals that are central to any advanced technology). Given that Greenland is part of Denmark, it is therefore beholden to European Union (EU) rules. In 2011, the EU published a list of critical raw materials, which included these rare earth minerals. Then, in 2023, the EU passed the Critical Raw Materials Act, which urged domestic production of these critical minerals and metals and their import into the continent. Ukraine, meanwhile, has an enormous trove of rare earth metals (from apatite to zirconium) as well as reserves of lithium and titanium. Trump demanded at least $500 billion of these reserves from Ukraine as payment for the US’s support in the war. ‘I want to have security of rare earth’, Trump told reporters in early February, sounding like a character from the Lord of the Rings.
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Critical Stack
The only way a settler-colonial project can ensure its existence is by doing what it was founded to do: colonizing and settling.
In some cases, this succeeds better than in others. The United States, the Chief Imperialist in the world today, achieved coast-to-coast hegemony and, coupled with other colonies on the continent, it can now be said that the entirety of the Americas is presently colonized.
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Yves Engler
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Meeting supporters after release (photo Alex Tyrell)
After spending five days imprisoned, I was released without restriction on my ability to discuss the charges brought against me for criticizing Israel. It’s a small win for free expression and Palestine campaigning.
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — The Electronic Intifada
Author Yves Engler was released on Monday after spending five days in a Montreal jail.
Engler’s arrest and detention was “a shocking attack on free expression and democratic rights and criticism of Israel in Canada – a country that’s supposed to be a free, democratic society,” according to Alex Tyrrell, leader of the Green Party of Quebec.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2025 — In Defence of Marxism
Thursday, 27 February 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I had the great pleasure of being on Judging Freedom with Judge Napolitano to discuss the end of the American Empire. After decades of pursuing global primacy, the US has exhausted its resources and incentivised other great powers to balance the US collectively. For this exact reason, the US was traditionally an off-shore balancer seeking to avoid a physical presence on the Eurasian continent. There is at least a need to scale back and prioritise focus on the Western Hemisphere and Asia. This implies that Europe will no longer be a priority, which is a key reason why Trump wants to get the US out of Ukraine. After years of subservience, the Europeans are now building up political courage to reduce reliance on the US – although the key motivation is to continue the war in Ukraine. Realistically, there is no NATO without America as the main military power and European pacifier.
Weddnesday, 26 February 2025 — GM Watch
Monday, 24 February 2025 — The Mizrahi Perspective
A couple of days ago I uploaded a video to YouTube, in which I explained how the world-famous kiss on the heads of Hamas members, and the moment itself, symbolized Israel’s utter and complete failure in its genocide. The video was removed by the platform, and I realized I had to write this text
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 — Al Mayadeen English
Alex Lloyd reveals how the US is turning Kazakhstan into a military-biological testing ground, funding research on deadly pathogens under the Pentagon’s supervision.
Wednesday, 26 February 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
The EU continues to pursue policies that undermine its security, economy, political stability, and internal cohesion because it has failed to adjust to multipolar realities. The US is adjusting to multipolarity by demanding more loyalty from the Europeans, while similarly pivoting to Asia. Europe can recover by ending the expansionist bloc politics that redivided the continent and triggered a war, as its principal objective should be to restore economic competitiveness and political autonomy by pursuing economic diversification. However, the EU cannot change course as it has trapped itself in ideology and Manichaean narratives. The EU’s future depends on ending the proxy war in the Ukraine War, yet the Europeans are now the main opponents to negotiations and thus find themselves on the opposing side of the US, Russia, China, and the majority of Ukrainians.
Tuesday, 25 February 2025 – Al Mayadeen English
Dmitri Kovalevich examines how the West sabotaged the Minsk 2 agreement, pushing Ukraine toward war, dictatorship, and political repression.
The end of February marks three years since the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and 11 years since the ‘Euromaidan’ coup of February 2014. The coup was the main cause of the current military conflict.
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Tuesday, 25 February 2025 — Media Lens
In January 1961, in his farewell address, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower warned that, as a result of the Second World War and the ensuing Cold War, the United States had ‘been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions’.
Monday, 24 February 2025 — Drop Site
The first phase of the deal between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire and exchange of captives is set to expire on Saturday, March 1, after what is supposed to be the final exchange on Thursday of the bodies of four Israeli captives for the freedom of several hundred Palestinians held by Israel. But, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu engaged in an active campaign to sabotage the internationally brokered deal that officially went into effect on January 19, the future of the deal is anything but certain.
Monday, 24 February 2025 — MintPress News
In addition to opening fire on civilians with gunfire, the Israeli military also decided to launch airstrikes and artillery fire against Rafah. This occurred while Palestinians struggle to stay warm as the temperature dips, due to Israel violating the ceasefire by not allowing tents, caravans and other essential items into Gaza, three new-born babies have frozen to death, while five other cases of hypothermia have been confirmed amongst infants.
Monday, 24 February 2025 — GM Watch
Civil society groups warn new Asilomar conference: Scientists must not be allowed to self-regulate |
Open statement says some technologies pose “existential threats” to humanity
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Monday, 24 February 2025 — ColdType
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Sunday, 23 February 2025 — Venezuela Solidarity
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