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.
Friday, 21 March 2025 — MintPress News
The Turkish friendship hospital, located near the recently re-invaded Netzarim corridor that intersects northern and central Gaza, was blown up without any justification by Israeli forces.
Thousands of cancer patients in the Gaza Strip are refused access to treatment outside and are deprived of the medical care they need inside the besieged coastal enclave.
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The New Atlas
SITREP
BBC – ‘Everything is finished’: Ukrainian troops relive retreat from Kursk (Mar. 17, 2025): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q…
Precedent
National Security Archive, George Washington University – NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard (Dec. 2017): https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-bo…
Guardian – US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (Nov. 2004): https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…
Stars and Stripes – U.S. forces help Georgian army make ‘big changes’ (2005): https://www.stripes.com/news/2005-06-…
Reuters – Georgia started war with Russia: EU-backed report (Sep. 2009): https://www.reuters.com/article/idUST…
RFE/RL – After Meeting Russian Foreign Minister, Clinton Hails Fresh Start (Mar. 2009): https://www.rferl.org/a/After_Meeting…
Friday, 21 March 2025 — Coldtype
Welcome to the Spring issue of MediaNorth.
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The Spring issue has a review by veteran UK journalist Paul Routledge of The Art of Class War by Nick Jones. The front page is on the Covid Inquiry and mentions the role of Tory grandee Michael Gove’s role in supporting James Dyson for a VIP lane contract. Just as we went to press Gove appeared before the inquiry and lost his temper: https://www.thenational.scot/news/24996761.michael-gove-hits-good-law-project-uk-covid-inquiry/
And former editor of The Journalist Tim Gopsill writes about the controversy over the BBC pulling the Gaza documentary.
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Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The Tricontinental
Alejandra Laprea (Venezuela), El acuerpamiento de las mujeres es nuestra estrategia de defensa (Women’s Embodied Solidarity Is Our Defence Strategy), 2022.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In 1945, when the United Nations Charter was drafted, its authors and those who first adopted it carefully crafted language on how to deal with armed conflict in the world. Between the signing of the charter in June and its coming into force in October, the United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities: Hiroshima, on 6 August, and Nagasaki, on 9 August. It is hard to digest the fact that as the charter’s solemn preamble was being formalised, setting out to ‘save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind’, the United States armed forces were preparing to destroy two civilian cities in a country already on the brink of surrender.
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
A study done by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) revealed that the Opiates epidemic, alongside overdose deaths in the US, rose by 500% as a result of US intervention in Afghanistan between 2000 and 2016.
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — Kalibrated
Brian Berletic from @TheNewAtlas Joins me to discuss the recent phone call between Putin and Trump on ending hostilities in Ukraine. Is this just another another stall tactic trying to buy Ukraine time and space or is this a geunuine move to resolve the conflict.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack
I was on SaltCubeAnalytics to discuss why narrative control and propaganda are key components of war. Framing conflicts as a struggle between good and evil is beneficial to mobilise public support for war, although it makes it near impossible to accept a workable peace.
Topics Covered:
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 —
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Showdowns between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary will determine the fate of everyone in the country, including whether the government has the right to send U.S. citizens to jail in other countries. The last veneer of democracy is now at risk.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — GM Watch
Wednesdday, 19 March 2025 — MintPress News
President Trump, our ersatz “anti-war candidate,” has chosen to escalate U.S. airstrikes in Yemen, bombing some of the poorest people on Earth while squandering vast sums on obscenely expensive naval air operations. Such is America’s way, it seems. Rather than leveraging diplomatic and economic pressure to compel Israel to facilitate aid access—thereby halting Houthi retaliation and restoring freedom of navigation for the global supply chain—Donald “Art of the Deal” Trump is exploiting this moment to isolate the Houthis from Iran’s weakened Axis of Resistance. His apparent aim? To force them into accepting terms more favorable to the U.S. in a future Nuclear Deal.
Wednesday, 19 March 2025 — Global Delinquents
On March 15th, Yemen was battered with airstrikes, described as a “wicked” act of Anglo-American aggression by spokespeople for AnsarAllah. The blitzkrieg, which overwhelmingly targeted residential areas, killed at least 31 civilians and injured over 100 more. In a characteristically bombastic outburst, US President Donald Trump declared the “decisive and powerful military action” was launched in response to “relentless assaults” on Western shipping and “American vessels.” He pledged Washington would continue to “use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.”
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — The Mizrahi Perspective
My horror and rage at the renewed mass murder, and about one particularly vicious instrument that allows Israel to continue the slaughter without international resistance
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.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Here’s the straight edited translation of the Kremlin’s readout of the second publicly acknowledged phone chat between Presidents Putin and Trump. One publication says the call lasted three hours:
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — Drop Site News
GAZA CITY—I woke up at 3 a.m. on March 18th to the sound of a massive explosion above my head, shattering the silence of the night. For a moment, I felt like I had died.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — BettBeat Media
The skies over Gaza have darkened once again with the smoke of destruction. What we are witnessing is not warfare but the methodical erasure of human existence – a calculated annihilation that defies description yet demands our witness. Israel has unleashed what can only be called an apocalyptic nightmare upon Gaza, fulfilling the chilling promise made by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich weeks earlier. This is genocide unfolding before our eyes, again —Israel’s torture, rape and death machine will not and cannot stop.
The New Dark Age 