Wednesday, 26 March 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
On 25 March, Lavrov provided information about the negotiations with Team Trump in an interview with Channel One, Moscow. The Kremlin followed later in the day with two press releases that provided additional details. We’ll begin with Lavrov:
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are trying to re-engage disaffected voters who are rightly disengaged from the Democratic Party. Big rallies can’t hide the fact that the Fighting Oligarchy Tour leads misguided people right back to oligarchy.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 — The Next Recession
The UK government’s Spring statement on spending was as expected – really awful. First, Chancellor Rachel Reeves had to accept that the 2025 real GDP growth estimate will be half the rate previously forecast, halved to 1% from 2% by the government’s official forecaster, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). In addition, Reeves had to admit that the government’s inflation target rate of 2% a year would not be met until 2027 – and that assumes that Trump’s tariff measures don’t drive up costs in the meantime.
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy
Wednesday, 26 March 2025 —
“What this has evoked is a deep questioning amongst people who must ask themselves, where do they stand on the question of evil? Because I believe that what we’ve seen in Gaza is evil. You cannot describe it in any other way.”
Esteemed Palestinian author and academic, Dr Ghada Karmi, calls on the world to rise up to end Israel’s genocide and systematic oppression of the Palestinian people—to end its apartheid, ethnic cleansing and colonialism once and for all.
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Edward Curtin
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power.
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 —
Amid Zionist genocide and war crimes in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, the “Israeli” regime is publicly allying itself with Nazis and fascists, making clear the nature of the “state” and the Zionist movement. This public and visible alliance is leading to even more cracks inside the Zionist project, as leading Zionist organizations and figures pull out of a conference being hosted this week in occupied Palestine by the so-called “Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Confronting Antisemitism.”
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 — ColdType
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Tuesday, 25 March 2025 — MintPress News
Israeli forces openly admitted to carrying out an attack against the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. The strike assassinated Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau who had nothing to do with armed activities. In order to kill him, which could have been carried out at any time as he has never been in hiding, Israel chose to bomb a hospital. The BBC made this story seem as if what happened was a legitimate targeting.
Tuesday, 25 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I had a conversation with Michael von der Schulenburg, a German member of the EU Parliament who was previously a UN diplomat for 34 years in positions that included Assistant Secretary General of the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs.
Michael von der Schulenburg warns his colleagues in the EU Parliament that the reluctance to embrace diplomacy and accept a negotiated settlement to the war is resulting in economic decline, possible war with Russia, and alienating the US. The EU and Zelensky may end up going against the US and Russia. The militarization of Germany would eventually fuel concerns among other European states. The EU’s decline can be reversed, but then it is necessary to end the proxy war against Russia that started in 2014.
22 March 2025 —
Lord of the Flies – by Mr. Fish
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. The Palestinians will be forced to choose between death or deportation. There are no other options.
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Palestine Chronicle
Monday, 24 March 2025 — Global South
From the Russian MFA.
On March 24, 1999, the North Atlantic bloc started bombing Yugoslavia. The “military operation” against a sovereign state became a tragic milestone in the life of the Serbian people and delivered a devastating blow to international law.
Saturday, 22 March 2025 — The Next Recession
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants to end the Ukraine-Russia conflict so he can concentrate US imperialist strategy on the ‘Western hemisphere’ and the Pacific, with the aim of ‘containing’ and weakening China’s economic rise.
Monday, 24 March 2025 — See you in 2020
There is no stopping the social trend that Luigi Mangione represents, because he’s the kind of person who emerges in a situation of tremendous class-based injustice. This is something we need to understand about the conditions we’re now in: it’s inevitable that these conditions will produce a wave of political unrest, comparable to the “Years of Lead” which happened in Italy from the 1960s to the 80s. And though communists can’t adopt the adventurist tactics that this trend represents, we also must recognize why so many of the people have sided with Luigi, one of the trend’s first initiators. And we need to translate this popular sentiment into workers struggle, which can only be done when we grasp what the masses are looking for.
Sunday, 23 March 2025 — NetPol
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Sunday, 23 March 2025 — Global Delinquents
March 17th marked the 80th anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian National Committee. With the Red Army rapidly advancing on Berlin, Nazi officials released Ukrainian ultranationalist military units from their command, and recognised the Committee – and a newly-formed National Army under its control – as the legitimate government of Ukraine. It was hoped the UNC would continue Hitler’s crusade against the Soviet Union following Berlin’s rapidly impending defeat in World War II, which occurred two months later.
Saturday, 22 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
The European Union’s push for militarization is facing widespread public backlash, as citizens across social media platforms reject its aggressive defense policies and question its leadership.
Friday, 21 March 2025 — The Grayzone
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss Netanyahu breaking the Gaza ceasefire to resume Israel’s assault on the besieged enclave as Trump launches a war on Yemen to protect Tel Aviv’s shipping. They will also cover Trump’s declaration of a de facto state of emergency at home to escalate deportations and repression of Palestine solidarity activism.
17 March, 2025 — NetPol
A new report authored by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) says the aggressive police use of new anti-protest laws, coupled with a growing portrayal of protesters as alleged threats to democracy rather than a vital part of public participation, has grown so routine and so severe that it now amounts to state repression.
The New Dark Age 