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.
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.
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — 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.
Wednesday, 5 March 2025 — The Grayzone

By Ann Garrison
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
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.
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy & Climate Change
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).
Monday, 3 March 2025 — Indian Punchline
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, 2025The 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.
Tuesday, 4 March 2025 — Drop Site
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.
Friday, 27 February 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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.
Monday, 3 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
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.

Monday, 3 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
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
Monday, 3 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’ Substack
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Karin Kneissl and Alexander Mercouris about Europe’s decline and tendency to double down on failed policies. Kneissl is the former Foreign Minister of Austria. We discussed why NATO’s defeat in the Ukraine proxy war will fragment the alliance, why the Europeans are no longer capable of engaging in diplomacy with Russia, how strategic thinking was replaced with ideological slogans, why unity and democracy within the EU is weakening, and why the economic decline will be difficult to reverse. Removingthe dividing lines in Europe and restoring peace with Russia, as the largest state in Europe, would be an important part of reversing Europe’s growing irrelevance. However, the Europeans appear to be preparing for a showdown against Russia instead.
26 February 2025 — Declassified UK

Starmer signed a 100 year deal with Ukraine last month. (Photo: Capital Pictures / Alamy)
Monday, 3 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I spoke with Pascal Lottaz about the clash in the Oval Office. The US demands that Zelensky agree to ending the war on the terms being negotiated between the US and Russia: No NATO membership, accepting territorial concessions, and no US security guarantees. This is a terrible deal for Ukraine, yet it is the best possible deal as more men and territory will be lost at an accelerating rate. The Europeans have no realistic alternatives, and it is also feared that they will seek to disrupt the peace process. The US is therefore putting immense pressure on Ukraine and will likely have Zelensky replaced if he does not fall in line.
Monday, 3 March 2025 — HART

Was taking the Covid vaccine Worth a Shot? A new book by Caroline Pover, written on behalf of Brianne Dressen who lives in the USA, chronicles the horrific story of how she was severely injured by the Covid vaccine after enrolling on the AstraZeneca trial in November 2020. (more…)
Sunday, 2 March 2025 — The Next Recession
Michael Roberts
Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when he was the boss in the TV show, the Apprentice, he thinks he is running a business and so can employ and fire people at his whim. He has a board of directors who advise and/or do his bidding (the American oligarchs and former TV presenters). But the institutions of the state are a hindrance. So Congress, courts, state governments etc are to be ignored and/or told to carry out the instructions of the CEO.
Sunday, 2 March 2025 — The New Atlas
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Sunday, 2 March 2025 — Geopolitical Economy

The fight that broke out in the White House between US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, on February 28 was a stark symbol of the colonial relationship between the two countries.
Sunday, 2 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Gilbert Doctorow about America’s efforts to end the Ukraine War and reduce its presence in Europe. The British and French are the main countries that can disrupt America’s plans, and Trump thus hosted both Macron and Starmer in Washington. While the Europeans want US security guarantees to get the US entangled and prolong the war, Trump has aimed to soften the position of the UK with an offer of a possible trade agreement. An agreement has to be reached with Russia soon as the Ukrainian army is collapsing, and then Russia will be in a much more favourable position. Trump offers an end to NATO expansion, territorial concessions, and no security guarantees for Ukraine because the war has been lost. Russia seemingly prefers a political agreement with the US that addresses the cause of the war, which was the failure to reach a mutually acceptable post-Cold War settlement to replace aggressive bloc politics.
Saturday, 1 March 2025 — Geopolitics And Climate Change
The leaders of the European vassals, including the British Starmer, have been utterly blindsided by the change in the balance of power among the US oligarchy. The latter have decided to move on from Ukraine to focus on the main “enemy” China, while the Euro vassal leaders have dug themselves in deep supporting the previous US oligarch position. Many of them, like so many of the US courtier administrative, political and think tank class, are now surplus to US oligarch requirements. So just as the US courtier class is being replaced with those that align with the new US oligarch position (dump Ukraine and move on to China, while extracting more from the vassals), the vassal leaders will be replaced unless they get in line. The whole Euro elite class is shocked because they have become utterly Atlanticist in the past decades and simply cannot believe that their boss is turning on them, even though they have been so dutiful and obedient. They are finding, just like mafia underlings, that when the boss changes his strategy anyone can be expendable. Best to get in line quickly before getting whacked.