Monday, 17 February 2025 — Russia Observer
Patrick Armstrong
Well, “Fuck the EU” she said, and here we are.
Vance’s speech was a bombshell. Left them weeping, it did. Gotta say though, if Zelensky is where you find your “values and principals” these days, I think you should look somewhere else. We can only hope that Vance’s lecture has killed this sanctimonious and hypocritical values talk. Or reduced it a bit, anyway.
Tuesday, 18 February 2025 — MintPress News
There are many controversial characters inside Washington, but few have had a career quite as destructive as US government official, Victoria Nuland. From her earliest days helping to rip apart the Soviet Union and paving the way for gangster capitalism in Russia, to helping to oversee the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, to engineering a coup in Ukraine, Nuland has been at the forefront of aggressive US foreign policy for over three decades.
MintPress highlights some of her darkest moments.
Monday, 17 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Today in Moscow, FM Lavrov held talks with Serbian FM Marija Djuric followed by a joint press conference that lasted 45 minutes and consisted of lengthy remarks by Lavrov about the status of Russian-Serbian relations. However, when it came to the Q&A, the interest wasn’t about the state of relations but about Lavrov’s upcoming mission to Saudi Arabia and his appraisal of the Munich Security Conference, and that interest is clearly shared by many. What follows are selections related to those two items:
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Monday, 17 February 2025 — Global Delinquents
‘Operation Gladio’ is the collective name for a notorious Cold War-era program whereby Anglo-American intelligence services and NATO, in conjunction with mafia elements and fascist paramilitaries, constructed a pan-European nexus of clandestine “stay behind” armed resistance units. Their ostensible purpose was to remain ever-poised to respond to potential future Soviet invasion. In reality, these guerrilla factions carried out false flag attacks, assassinations, robberies, mass casualty bombings, and other incendiary acts to discredit the Western left, while fomenting a “strategy of tension”. Their objective was simple:
Monday, 17 February 2025 — Geopolitical Economy Report
Why has the price of gold been increasing so fast, breaking records? Economist Michael Hudson explains the politics of the precious metal, and the dynamics of the US dollar system. He is interviewed by Ben Norton.
Saturday, 15 February 2025 — The Grayzone
Sunday, 16 February 2025 — karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
The awaited phone conversation initiated by Rubio with Lavrov has occurred. Here’s the MFA’s readout:
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Saturday, 15 February 2024 — Ukraine Watch
🔘 Putin and Trump may meet in Saudi Arabia at the end of February, Bloomberg reports, citing sources
The publication states that senior officials from the US and Russia will meet next week in Saudi Arabia to lay the groundwork for a potential summit between the leaders at the end of the month to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Saturday, 15 February 2025 – Al Mayadeen English
The suspension of USAID funding to Ukraine by the new U.S. administration has exposed the extent of Western financial influence on Ukrainian media, government, and nationalist movements.
Friday, 14 February 2025 — Michel Chossudovsky
[This article titled The “Demonization” of Muslims and the Battle for Oil by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky was originally published by Global Research. Click here to read the article on GR.]
Throughout history, “wars of religion” have served to obscure the economic and strategic interests behind the conquest and invasion of foreign lands. “Wars of religion” were invariably fought with a view to securing control over trading routes and natural resources.
Friday, 14 February 2025 — GM Watch
Editor’s note: We apologise for the auto-correct-generated typo in yesterday’s Daily Digest item, the title of which should have read “GM trees promoted as potential future solution to citrus greening disease – but is the (non-GM) solution already out there?” Auto-correct, in its wisdom, changed the title to “circus greening disease”, and your editor didn’t notice. This joins an entertaining list of auto-correct-generated bloopers in the GMOs and pesticides arena, including substituting “transgender” for “transgene” and “shipmate pathway” for “shikimate pathway”. Just in case you were put off by the item’s title because you are not interested in diseases affecting circuses, we’re reposting the news item in question at the foot of this Daily Digest.
Wednesday, 12 February 2925 —
A major Canadian company’s US subsidiary received $9 million USD from the US Department of Defense (DOD)’s for a ‘social deception’ contract, a review of grants reveals.
The specific funding agency? The secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Friday, 14 February 2025 — Foxglove
Are Big Tech’s plans to build hundreds of massive new data centres around the UK going to cause water shortages for the rest of us?
Foxglove has conducted new research which reveals the staggering amount of water used by data centres to keep their computers cool. We’ve found a worrying lack of plans to ensure building more data centres doesn’t lead to water shortages for UK homes and businesses.
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — GM Watch
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — HART
Reproduced in full, with kind permission from UK Medical Freedom Alliance Feb 10, 2025
On 4th February 2025, members of the People’s Vaccine Inquiry team held a 3 hour press conference in London, to give their assessment of the Covid Public Inquiry Module 4 Hearings – held in London from 14th-31st January – and to present unasked and unanswered questions and vital evidence not covered by the Inquiry.
Thursday, 13 February 2025 — The Tricontinental
Chitra Ganesh (United States), Sultana’s Dream, 2018, a series of 27 linocuts published by Durham Press, © Chitra Ganesh.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Lost in a colonial fog of inferiority, writers across Asia imagined a world that was beyond the reach of colonialism’s devastation.
Wednesday, 12 February 2025 — Black Agenda Report
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
When Nazis appear in public they must be quickly dispatched. The people of a Black town in Ohio did just that and then acted to arm and defend themselves.
Tuesday, 11 February 2025 — Edward Curtin
A Review
Much has been written in the alternative press over the past year about the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians and its other war crimes in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc. This has often been viewed within the historical context of the self-declared Zionist Israeli state’s founding in 1948 up to the present day. But far less has been said about the Zionist’s racial-nationalist-settler-colonialist movement’s history of terrorism to seize Palestine and kill and drive the Palestinians into exile that goes back for more than a century
The New Dark Age 