Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
Though von der Leyen, Jolani and those other flawed specimens of humanity must answer for their own crimes, so also must we answer for our own sins of omission and commission.
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No comments on NATO’s Adolf Hitler defence for Syria’s Einsatzgruppen does not cut it
NATO’s Adolf Hitler defence for Syria’s Einsatzgruppen does not cut it
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Strategic Culture Foundation
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Putin peels off the masks of the ceasefire kabuki
Friday, 14 March 2025 — Strategfic Culture Foundation
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response.
The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka.
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Watch: Shalom, the occupation’s home
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — The Grayzone
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the Trump administration’s unconstitutional detention of Columbia U student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and the forces pulling the White House’s strings, as Israel lobby freak outs prompt the firing of Trump’s top hostage negotiator and withdrawal of a national security appointee. They will also cover the latest on Ukraine ceasefire negotiations, and the fallout from Syria’s sectarian bloodshed.
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History’s Most Evil People Turn Genocide Into Rape Orgy
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Bett Beat’s Newsletter
New UN report details accounts of Palestinian women and children subjected to the most heinous forms of sexual abuse, filmed and shared online by Israeli soldiers for their own gratification.
In the annals of human depravity, the atrocities committed by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people stand as a testament to the darkest impulses of Western society — a grotesque amalgamation of capitalism, colonialism, and racism. A new United Nations report, spanning 49 pages of harrowing detail, lays bare the shocking extent of these crimes, revealing a systematic campaign of sexual, reproductive, and gender-based violence that has turned the occupied territories into a living hell.
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Erdoğan’s Bet: Europe’s Savior – EU Membership as the Price
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — New Eastern Outlook
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is making a high-stakes bet, positioning Turkey as Europe’s security savior amid growing uncertainty caused by the Ukraine crisis.
As the United States under Donald Trump distances itself from European security commitments, Erdoğan is seizing the moment, offering Turkey’s military might in exchange for EU membership. But will Europe accept?How Erdoğan Is Using the Ukraine Crisis to Advance Turkey’s EU Ambitions
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‘This should send shockwaves through the NHS, government, and society’
Saturday, 15 March 2025 — Morning Star Online
RCN warns nurses are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing
NHS workers on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital, London, May 1, 2023NURSES are leaving the NHS due to shocking levels of racist abuse and understaffing, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned.
Ministers were given an “urgent reality check” as a survey showed 35 per cent have experienced bullying, harassment or abuse at work.
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Necropolitics, Ukraine, and the Trump-Brokered Negotiations
12 March, 2025 — Eurosiberia
The Berlin Congress of 1878 — where Russia’s battlefield triumphs were undone in a diplomatic ambush orchestrated by Britain, Austria-Hungary, and a coldly calculating Bismarck — repeats itself today as Trump plays the “impartial peacemaker,” ensuring that Ukraine’s fate is determined not by war but by the necropolitical calculus of empire, where survival is rationed, sovereignty is an illusion, and power belongs only to those who decide who must perish and who is permitted to persist.
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“Shocking abandonment of consumers’ right to information” – association of non-GMO food/feed sector
Friday, 14 March 2025 — GM Watch
“Shocking abandonment of consumers’ right to information” – association of non-GMO food/feed sector
Parliament must defend its demand for traceability and labelling
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EU ambassadors back new GMOs deregulation: A dark day for farmers, consumers, nature
Friday, 14 March 2025 — GM Watch
EU ambassadors back new GMOs deregulation: A dark day for farmers, consumers, nature
“EU governments have voted on the side of a handful of big corporations’ profits, instead of protecting farmers and consumers’ right to transparency and safety” – Friends of the Earth Europe
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🚨 NHS England ABOLISHED!
Friday, 14 March 2025 — Just Treatment
Yesterday we heard the bombshell announcement that the government is abolishing NHS England.
This means a MAJOR restructuring of our health service is coming. But is this really about ‘democratic control’, or a power grab that could accelerate privatisation? Here’s what we know and why alarm bells are ringing ⬇️
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The US Retreats While Attempting to Increase Its Grip on its “Backyard”
Friday, 14 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack”
The New Muscular Monroe Doctrine
Why is the US bullying Panama, Canada and Mexico so outrageously? It’s an attempt by the new administration to reinstate its dominance over the American Hemisphere; ousting Chinese influence under a reinforced Monroe Doctrine (the statement of US dominance in the hemisphere in the 1800s). As it retreats from Europe and cuts other parts of its global dominance complex, while refocusing its efforts on China, it must make sure that its backyard is secure. (more…)
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How a secret police protocol gave special treatment to Warwickshire Hunt
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 — NetPol
This is a guest post from West Midlands Hunts Saboteurs.
In 2023, Warwickshire Police served a Community Protection Notice (CPN) on the Warwickshire Hunt due to the number of antisocial behaviour issues that the hunt had been causing for years on public roads. The hunt appealed the notice, and a court date was set — but then what happened next was nothing short of a scandal.
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Booked your ticket for This Is Repression yet?
Thursday, 13 March 2025 — NetPol
Booked your ticket for the launch yet?
Our first annual “State of Protest” report documents not just the expansion of restrictions and oppressive policing on the streets in Britain, but an alarming package of state-supported measures designed to impose social control on protests on a scale reminiscent of the ‘war on terror’ two decades ago.
Join us on 19 March as we launch our new report, “This is Repression: the State of Protest in 2024”.
Wednesday 19 March 1pm – 1.45pm
Register now to join us on zoomWe hope you can join us live for the launch and a Q&A. A replay will be available after the event. As you’re part of the Netpol mailing list, you will recieve a PDF copy of the report when we launch.
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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.
The New Dark Age 